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Message no. 1
From: bluewizard@*****.com (Steven A. Tinner)
Subject: SRII vs. STORYTELLER
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 15:04:41 -0500 (EST)
Here's another fun one for you all.

The college I run my SR campaign at has an open gamin night for any GM
willing to play.
On the same night my team plays Shadowrun, there is another team playing a
mixture of White Wolf's Storyteller games (Vampire, Werewolf, et. al.)
Their GM and I were tossing ideas back and forth, and came up with the
notion of a team vs. team adventure.
Don't have any real hard and fast notions yet about how to do this. We're
planning on transferring all the PC's into a neutral system, like GURPS,
then letting them go at it from opposite ends of a shadowrun.
I think it'll be a blast, but there is still a lot of work to do before this
goes down.
Any ideas or input would be welcome.
Currently my main problem is how to handle WW's Delerium - a madness
inflicted on normal humans when they see a werewolf's true form. I think the
SR PC's should just make a surprise test, but we'er undecided.
Feedback welcome.



The Way of the Hero

In each truly heroic struggle there is a time of commitment.
A time when human energies fail, yet more is required . . . and more is given.
Few are equal to that task.
Often that effort ends in failure, for victory is not always for the brave.
But where a man might falter, these ones do not, not while life and spirit
endure.
Not until the last measure is given.
To transcend the man, become the hero.
Message no. 2
From: Rick Jones <rick@******.COM>
Subject: Re: SRII vs. STORYTELLER
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 14:12:52 -0500 (CDT)
Steven A. Tinner wrote:

> Don't have any real hard and fast notions yet about how to do this. We're
> planning on transferring all the PC's into a neutral system, like GURPS,
> then letting them go at it from opposite ends of a shadowrun.
> I think it'll be a blast, but there is still a lot of work to do before this
> goes down.

<shudder> I originally tried to run Shadowrun using the WEG Masterbook
rules, and it was something of a disaster. The biggest problem was the
magic system. Even though Masterbooks "Special Effects" rules has a
system for spell design, it ended up with the mage nuking everything from
orbit even more than normal. Magic is always going to be the bugaboo.

But, if you have to crossover systems, I'd reccomend getting "Nexus:The
Infinate City" and use their systems. It also provides a way for the
characters to all meet. It's a pretty simple system, and has rules in the
back for converting systems into Nexus and back. (For those who've seen
Feng Shui, Nexus uses the same system, though it's not as "cinematic".)

> Any ideas or input would be welcome.
> Currently my main problem is how to handle WW's Delerium - a madness
> inflicted on normal humans when they see a werewolf's true form. I think the
> SR PC's should just make a surprise test, but we'er undecided.

Well, the Delerium is due to the Werewolves prehistoric attacks on
humanity in the World of Darkness, so I'd rule that Garou transported to
the Sixth World (or Shadowrunners transported to the World of Darkness)
would be immune to the Delerium. If you're running something like the
"World of Future Darkness" (a series of articles in WW magazine crossing
over the WOD and Cyberpunk 2020), then I'd say Mages and Adepts are
immune, and heavily cybered folks would get benefits to their Willpower
roll not to flee.

--
Rick Jones Do you know people who think God must have built Epcot
rick@******.com Himself, because no mortal being could possibly put
Meyrick@***.com that much fun in one place?
http://www-ece.rice.edu/~rickj/ --Joe-Bob Briggs [apparently about me]

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