| From: | Lurch lurch@****.net |
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| Subject: | SR3 Flavor Suggestion (WAS: insiders: cannon companion due?) |
| Date: | Wed, 01 Mar 2000 13:11:49 -0600 |
Instead of everyone whining about what we don't have (Shadowtalk, item
art, and general setting atmosphere), why not make a coordinated effort
to make our wishes known to FASA as a unified whole? If enough people
showed interest (read: sales potential) to warrant the printing
costs/time involvement, I imagine they could be persuaded to produce one
or more books dealing solely with atmosphere. Such a product could:
a) compile & reprint the "missing" material from older books like FoF,
Shaowtech, etc. (not *too* hard to do IMO, since it all exists already)
so everyone who *really* needs to can see just what their oral dartgun
looks like;
b) add/update artwork, Shadowtalk, etc. for the items recently added or
updated in SR3 (a little more work for those involved, granted, but if
the payoff is happier customers I think it's worth it in the long run);
c) a general flavor/atmosphere overview to set the tone of what its
*really* like to live day-to-day in the Awakened world of the 2060's,
whether you're a wageslave, a runner, a corp exec or a burned-out
chiphead in the gutter.
A book like this could make for a constant reference for players and
GM's alike; players could use it as an easy visual reference ("OK,
that's what a DocWagon ambulance looks like"), while GM's would have a
wealth of plot hooks to throw at players ("So SMG "X" breaks down
completely after 1000 rounds of AP ammo, eh? Interesting...")
As I see it, just about everybody wins this way: players who don't miss
the atmospheric content don't have to buy the book, and players who do
want it only have to purchase one more product (again, possibly more
depending on space) to get it all back and then some. (BTW, I've never
seen a copy of HTLL so I can't comment on how close to the mark it comes
to what I'm suggesting.) The only possible downside I can see at this
time (other than the possibility of buying another book), is you'd have
to look in one book for the description/stats, and another book for the
picture; personally, that's an inconvenience I'm willing to deal with if
it means more usable product overall (not to light fuses, but the
difference between RBB and R2 is a good example of what I mean -- sure,
the pictures in RBB were a nice reference, but I can do more IMC with
the expanded rules on remote rigging in R2 than I can with a picture of
a car. I'm by *no* means rich, but I'm willing to buy [or ignore, at my
option] a separate artbook if it means getting more "meat" in my
rulebook).
Feedback?
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