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Message no. 1
From: shadowrn@*********.com (George S Waksman)
Subject: Target: Awakened Lands or Target: Australia
Date: Fri Jan 4 17:50:01 2002
Ok, here's a Target: Awakened Lands debate topic to make you happy Adam.

Is Target: Awakened Lands an apropriate name or would something else like Target:
Australia or Target: Outback be better? And if you think there are better names, what?

-George Waksman
Message no. 2
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Tommy Lindner)
Subject: Target: Awakened Lands or Target: Australia
Date: Sat Jan 5 05:55:01 2002
Hi Everybody!

Buying Target:Awakened Lands I was really disappointed to see that it covered Australia
almost exclusively and nothing else. I hoped to see some of the regions covered that
are of some interest for playing a Seattle based campaign like Amazonia or some update on
the NAN similar to Target UCAS. But instead I bought another book to sit on my
shelve and never be read again. I really hope that Threats 2 and the other new books will
have more input on my gaming world than T:AL.

A Happy New Year Tommy
Message no. 3
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Adam Jury)
Subject: Target: Awakened Lands or Target: Australia
Date: Sat Jan 5 06:10:01 2002
At 03:39 05/01/2002, Tommy Lindner wrote:
>Hi Everybody!
>
>Buying Target:Awakened Lands I was really disappointed to see that it
>covered Australia almost exclusively and nothing else. I hoped to see some
>of the regions covered that
>are of some interest for playing a Seattle based campaign like Amazonia or
>some update on the NAN similar to Target UCAS.

The various NAN nations will be covered in Shadows of North America.

Amazonia is on Rob's list of "Cool places that we'd like to do but didn't
think we had enough room left in T:AL for after the Australia writeup got
bigger than we originally bargained for."

Seattle? Well, I'd certainly like to see it given some more focus before
the end of 2003. . .now I just need to convince Rob ;-)

Adam
Official Shadowrun Page: www.shadowrunrpg.com | adam@************.com
Message no. 4
From: shadowrn@*********.com (BD)
Subject: Target: Awakened Lands or Target: Australia
Date: Sat Jan 5 11:35:01 2002
> Buying Target:Awakened Lands I was really disappointed to see that it
covered Australia almost exclusively and nothing else. I hoped to see some
of the regions covered that are of some interest for playing a Seattle
based campaign like Amazonia or some update on the NAN similar to Target
UCAS. But instead I bought another book to sit on my shelve and never be
read again. I really hope that Threats 2 and the other new books will have
more input on my gaming world than T:AL.
>

Getting out of Seattle is a great way to liven up a campaign, man, so
maybe it'll come in handy in the future when your players are dead bored
with the same-old-same-old, or you're missing two people, or some such
thing and you want to try something new. Whoa, long sentence.

Otherwise, there's plenty of uses for the book. The bits on magic in the
beginning are useful anywhere (there's no canon police saying that
alchara[sp?] can't be found elsewhere) and the bits at the end DO contain
some things on Aztlan, NAN, and a couple spots in Europe (and really, if
you're going to travel, why not drop in on Oz?).

Also, there's nothing that says your cahracters have to go to
Australia... have Australia come to them, in the form of a government's
diplomatic mission, or a bounty-hunting Aboriginal shaman, or a truckload
of Drop-Bears gotten loose in Redmond.

So hopefully you'll re-examine it and find you can use the darn thing.
Personally, I like it better than YotC.

====-Boondocker

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