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From:	Angelkiller 404 angelkiller404@**********.com
Subject:	Sourcebook issue
Date:	Sat, 21 Aug 1999 21:10:16 -0400

Message no. 1 This is going to sound really stupid, but am I the only one who would
appreciate more pictures of the equipment we're using? And to make
sure that those same pictures actually make some sense? I thought the
Ranger Arms SM-3 looked like a H&K PSG-1 for the longest time before I
picked up BBB1.

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From:	Schizi@*.com Schizi@*.com
Subject:	Sourcebook issue
Date:	Sat, 21 Aug 1999 21:15:28 EDT

Message no. 2 In a message dated 8/21/99 9:10:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
angelkiller404@**********.com writes:

> This is going to sound really stupid, but am I the only one who would
> appreciate more pictures of the equipment we're using? And to make
> sure that those same pictures actually make some sense? I thought the
> Ranger Arms SM-3 looked like a H&K PSG-1 for the longest time before I
> picked up BBB1.
>
Yeah, this came up a while back on the message boards at AOL.
I would like some pictures also, though of course many people feel it is a
waste of space and money (gotta pay for them pics :-)
I liked the layout in Cybertechnology, with ore than one item per
picture/page.

From:	Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject:	Sourcebook issue
Date:	Sun, 22 Aug 1999 11:41:33 +0200

Message no. 3 According to Schizi@***.com, at 21:15 on 21 Aug 99, the word on
the street was...

> I would like some pictures also, though of course many people feel it is a
> waste of space and money (gotta pay for them pics :-)

"I found that a weapon I couldn't visualize rarely if ever showed up in my
games."
-- from the intro to the "Ultramodern Firearms" sourcebook for
Millennium's End.

I've found I agree with that; pictures of equipment help you very much in
actually getting the item used in the game. Much more equipment from the
SSC gets used in my games than from the SR3 main book, where similar items
exist in both books, anyway (there's not much alternative for a white
noise generator, for example). If you ask me, it's because the SSC has
pictures, so players can see their characters carrying around the items,
while a "faceless" item from SR3 is much harder to picture in their
characters' hands.

> I liked the layout in Cybertechnology, with ore than one item per
> picture/page.

Absolutely. The size of the pictures in the SSC (and FoF) could have been
much smaller, and still give a good impression of what each item is like.
Three or four items per page should have been easily possible, even with
all the pictures.

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From:	Twist0059@*.com Twist0059@*.com
Subject:	Sourcebook issue
Date:	Sun, 22 Aug 1999 05:55:24 EDT

Message no. 4 In a message dated 8/22/99 5:41:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time, gurth@******.nl
writes:

> > I liked the layout in Cybertechnology, with ore than one item per
> > picture/page.
>
> Absolutely. The size of the pictures in the SSC (and FoF) could have been
> much smaller, and still give a good impression of what each item is like.
> Three or four items per page should have been easily possible, even with
> all the pictures.
>

Definitely a good idea to give the weapons each their own illos. While not
having a picture with the gun may make sense given space restrictions and
that all guns of a certain type tend to fall into a profile trend, not having
the illustration makes the descriptions seem tedious (kind of like reading
the list of Totems at the back of MitS; nice and all, but you gloss over
important details when you keeping having to read +2 dice for Combat spells,
-2 for illusion spells and +2 for detection spells, -2 for Combat spells and
+2 for Combat spells, -2 for detection spells.....argh!).

And Mike Jackson is the guy to call for weapon and cyber illustrations.

-Twist

From:	Bruce gyro@********.co.za
Subject:	Sourcebook issue
Date:	Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:03:55 +0200

Message no. 5 From: Twist0059@***.com <Twist0059@***.com>
Date: 22 August 1999 11:56
Subject: Re: Sourcebook issue

>In a message dated 8/22/99 5:41:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
gurth@******.nl
>writes:
>
>> > I liked the layout in Cybertechnology, with ore than one item
per
>> > picture/page.
>>
>> Absolutely. The size of the pictures in the SSC (and FoF) could
have been
>> much smaller, and still give a good impression of what each item
is like.
>> Three or four items per page should have been easily possible,
even with
>> all the pictures.
>>
>
>
>Definitely a good idea to give the weapons each their own illos.
While not
>having a picture with the gun may make sense given space restrictions
and
>that all guns of a certain type tend to fall into a profile trend,
not having
>the illustration makes the descriptions seem tedious

>And Mike Jackson is the guy to call for weapon and cyber
illustrations.

I absolutly agree. Mike Jackson does the best guns n gear stuff I have
yet seen in SR.

Give the man a permanant job FASA!

- + - BRUCE <gyro@********.co.za> -

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