From:	Chris Ryan <chrisr@*******.FIT.QUT.EDU.AU>
Subject:	Re: What's next?
Date:	Mon, 21 Jun 1993 14:51:40 EST

Dylan Northrup replies to:

> > And how about the important stuff - where's the Oz sourcebook? :-)

with this:

> Or even a book on the South Pacific. Oz would not be as large a book as
> London or Tir Tairngire and a little info on the islands surounding that
> fair nation would not be a bad thing at all. Maybe throw in some info on
> Asia as well (India, the whole of Southeast Asia, China). Japan would not
> be a good thing to include as it would need [IMHYetOmniscientO :)] an entire
[I'll greet you when you get there :-)]
> book unto itself to give it the treatment it would deserve.

I agree that Japan deserves an entire book, but must disagree on the statement
concerning Oz not requiring a book as large as London/TT. This is a problem I see
prevalent in many game systems around - just because Australia has a lower
population (hence less 'market') there is this desire to sweep stuff on Oz 'under
the carpet', so to speak. I guess this also happens to Africa a good deal as well.

The writers of an Australian sourcebook would have to be very incompetent not to be
able to fill (with useful stuff) a TT size sourcebook. There's a number of cities
that could be fleshed out; there's the rumoured mana storms in the outback; the
outback itself after the Awakening; Goblinization effects in Oz; the Natives;
Corp influence; Tourism; Resources; Magic/Shamans/Totems; etc. And that's just a
few quickly thought points (pickled in this head, dispensed upon request, er,
anyway... :-) ). There's also a need to do Paranormal Animals of Oz - the
vicious Drop Bears etc. :-)

Enough of my ramblings...

Chris