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Message no. 1
From: jacob hawkins <HAWKINSJ@********.WA.COM>
Subject: The Crow!
Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 18:04:14 +0200
Hoi chummers!
Just saw "The Crow" this weekend and I'm ready to see it
again. Good stuff, Maynard!

That was the best combat I've seen in a long, long time.
Combat the way it should be done - heavy gunfire to industrial music.

As I watched the movie, I got to thinking about some of the
things in terms of SR. This started when at one point in the movie
he's wearing a black longcoat and carrying a guitar: he looked very
much like a wicked elven rocker/bounty hunter of mine. So as I
watched, I tried to figure out what type of 'ware he'd need (as
living not as a supernatural dead dude.) Draven (the Crow) had good
reflexes, but not superhuman, nowhere near wired (as is shown in the
main firefight where he's getting blown to hell.) But I figure he's
gotta have some BIG TIME pain dampers and some doubletime, super-quick
platelet factories. When it comes down to it though, no shadowrunner
could get cyber to match the boy.

And actually, the folks who were more like the shadowrunners
you and I know were the baddies that Draven was killing - folks with
shadowrun-esque names like "Tin-tin" and "Funboy".

Great flick. Go see it. Violent? Yes. Very. Very good.


Snakebait
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Message no. 2
From: "Bill P. Flint" <claymore@******.DIGEX.NET>
Subject: Re: The Crow!
Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 13:53:18 -0400
Here an interesting note Take the name 'Draven' and cut off the first letter.

Interesting...

--Claymore
Message no. 3
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: Re: The Crow!
Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 13:39:14 -0500
I have not yet seen this movie, but judging from the reviews I've seen
it's a very good film with a lot of the artistic scenery such that you
saw in Blade Runner, Batman and Darkman. Sorta that film noire look.
(of course, Blade Runner is always the best :-)

Siskel and Ebert split on it for the review, and obviously the death of
Brandon Lee during production has helped to swing some reviews. I'm
planning to see it this week some time.

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Message no. 4
From: Adam J <fro@***.AB.CA>
Subject: The Crow
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 18:18:29 -0700
Wow! A semi on topic post for me. First in a long time :)

I assume most of you have seen 'The Crow', read the comics, or the book
version. Anyone tried or even sucessfully converted it into a run, or even
a full campaign? I think it may be able to save my gaming sanity, since
all the members of my former group love the movie..
I suppose some plot elements will need to be twisted. A whole group of
people will have to be brought back to life, and the crow provide a bit
less protection, or else it would fit the munchkin properties of my group
well :)
So, if anyone has done or attempted this before, let me know :):)
BTW, is there a directors cut of the movie at all?:)

-Adam
Message no. 5
From: Ray & Tamara <macey@*******.COM.AU>
Subject: Re: The Crow
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 11:29:24 +1000
> I assume most of you have seen 'The Crow', read the comics, or the book
> version. Anyone tried or even sucessfully converted it into a run, or
even
> a full campaign? I think it may be able to save my gaming sanity, since
> all the members of my former group love the movie..

I haven't actually planned on using, or making a campaign out of it, but
this is what I figured out. The guy that comes back is actually a free
spirit (maybe a vigilante type Shadow), not the real 'ghost' or 'spirit' or
whatever of the person (unless the GM wants otherwise), and also not a new
race or something like that. It obviously has hidden life in a crow, which
gives it regeneration in it's manifest forms, unless the crow is killed.
As with the movie, I guess you could limit or stop the regeneration if the
crow is hurt.

Have fun,

Ray
Message no. 6
From: Midn Daniel O Fredrikson <m992148@****.NAVY.MIL>
Subject: Re: The Crow
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 21:00:51 -0500
> Wow! A semi on topic post for me. First in a long time :)
>
> I assume most of you have seen 'The Crow', read the comics, or the book
> version. Anyone tried or even sucessfully converted it into a run, or even
> a full campaign? I think it may be able to save my gaming sanity, since
> all the members of my former group love the movie..
> I suppose some plot elements will need to be twisted. A whole group of
> people will have to be brought back to life, and the crow provide a bit
> less protection, or else it would fit the munchkin properties of my group
> well :)
> So, if anyone has done or attempted this before, let me know :):)
> BTW, is there a directors cut of the movie at all?:)

There are several sets of rules for the crow for the WW systems. I don't
know, but it seems to fit that enviroment a little better...
Message no. 7
From: Mark McLaughlin <mmclaugh@*******.EENG.DCU.IE>
Subject: Re: The Crow
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 09:12:07 -0800
Adam J wrote:
>
> Wow! A semi on topic post for me. First in a long time :)
>
> I assume most of you have seen 'The Crow', read the comics, or the book
> version. Anyone tried or even sucessfully converted it into a run, or even
> a full campaign?

I do know that the film is quiet easy to run using the Wraith world and
system as a few friends tried it but I havent heard of it ever done in
SR.

Mark

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