From:	Todd Montgomery <tmont@****.WVU.EDU>
Subject:	Corp. Shadowfiles
Date:	Fri, 27 Aug 1993 13:20:25 -0400

I found this on rec.games.frp.cyber today. I know some do not have
USENET access so I am sending it out.

BTW: Anyone else who has it want to give their review?

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Subject: Corporate Shadowfiles
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OK: Here is a vague review of Corporate Shadowfiles, a supplement for SRII

First, like most SRII supplements that aren't modules, it has few to no new
rules, and is therefore usable with any system. (I prefer SRII of course <G>)

Again, like most supplements, it is brought to you by the Neo-Anarchists via
shadowland. It consists of a little history, bringing the reader up to the
current juncture in history, then gets into info. The meat starts with a
chapter called Megacorp Primer, all you ever wanted to know about the basics of
corporate dirty dealing. The next chapters include more depth on the subject.

We have Doing business, with such subtopics as Marketing, Pricefixing, and
Taxation and reporting. From what I remember of my Econ class, the economic
theory presented is sound, even if the market-raping is enough to make a robber
baron sick. Next is Competition, mainly concerned with the lack thereof, or
the huge amount, depending on how you look at it. Includes a section on corp
war, and why it's never really happened.

The next section is about the Zurich-Orbital habitat, and it's inhabitants,
public and private. An interesting side note is that the base hardware went up
to LEO as space station Freeedom. (Let's hear it for NASA!)

After that is a section on how you rate the activities of the corps, and how
your characters do (they don't generally.) It's mostly guideline, waiting for
the GM to flesh it out.

Finally, in the best use of color plate that I have seen in a FASA book, is a
full color portfolio of the Big 8 corps, the ones who have reps on the corp
court. The only dissapointment for me was the relatively hard to read print in
a few of the entries (wasn't printed well.) Also, the Aztech entry is almost
nonexistant. Well, gotta go, I'll follow up in a day or so after I've read it
better.