From: | Avenger <Avenger@*******.DEMON.CO.UK> |
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Subject: | World Map |
Date: | Mon, 31 Mar 1997 23:32:00 +0100 |
<fdelirium@*******.COM> writes
> Does anybody have a world map for Shadowrun? Does FASA have a world
>map?
No Fasa do not have a world map for Shadowrun. They do however have a
map of North America. Not a good one, but it does exist. (back of SRII
hardback manual - don't know about the softcover.)
I guess the reason there hasn't been a map yet, is that the sourcebook
writers and developers would have to actually agree with each other on
what has happened to the world in 2058. If you want some maps of the
world (albeit in some cases _radically_ changed) you could consider the
Rifts series of books, all of which contain detailed maps of the areas
concerning the sourcebook.
>Where the hell are all these little elven nations that I hear about all the
>time (the one that starts with the 'A' in particular). How much land does
>Japan own in Shadowrun?
As far as little elven nations... Sorry I don't care. Elven nations
indeed, they're part of society, we already have two "superpowers" in
Nan-Og and Tairngire, more would put me right off the game entirely.
Damn elves.
<grumble, grumble, groan, moan, mumble.>
Japan owns Japan, Korea owns Korea, and China is still China, until FASA
finally get their act together and stop hinting at things, and produce
some material that speaks of other parts of the world. Unfortunately
the next book due out is an "Art of", yeah like there's been some art
recently worth sticking in a book. :( Alternatively you might want to
consider the PAC RIM sourcebook for Cyberpunk (though that recently
received a hammering from people in the areas it mentioned),
alternatively for Japan, you could pop over to Gen-ichi Nishio's web
site, where some Japanese shadowrun players are assembling the
unofficial Japan sourcebook, after the "official" release was publicly
slammed by players. (It was massively contrary to the hints made by
FASA - making it out to be a world utopia and all round nicey nicey
place).
(I'm sure there's a link on Paolo's Archive -
http://www.interware.it/users/paolo/ )
Excuse my sour reaction, but this is one of my major gripes with SR, the
complete lack of decent maps that let people know how the world is
organised, the effective borders, areas that are inaccessible, and what
countries still exist. A massive lack of updated information that lets
us know what has happened in the world over the four years since SRII,
it all starts in 2054, it's now 2058, and the entire world has stagnated
into "nothing happening" except of course the UCAS, where everything
happens.
My other gripe is the lack of available material for foreigners.
Americans have access to area and city maps free through the AAA, the
rest of the world pays through the nose, and in some places, forget
getting them at all. The city maps that are provided, are faint, poorly
defined and mean little to people outside the area. Until I was finally
able to track down a decent map of Seattle, I had no idea what the damn
place looked like, where were the streets mentioned in the book, where
was the damn space needle and what did it look like?
OK, somewhen in the next 20 years we'll get Australia and Africa, maybe
a decent book on Asia and the Far East, and something to cover the
Russian Federation and Europe, however, for the moment, you'll have to
find a different source, or make one up yourself. Sorry, but FASA don't
seem to like to actually commit themselves to something solid, prefering
to leave things like this to ambiguous comments and shabby hints.
</gripe>
<Going away and eating coffee in an attempt to calm down>
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