From:	Jonas Gabrielson <m94jga@*******.TDB.UU.SE>
Subject:	Re: The Enemy vs the true Cyber feeling
Date:	Thu, 1 Jun 1995 17:43:43 +0200

On Thu, 1 Jun 1995, Lindblom Fredrik, Training wrote:

> Hello there!
>
> I'm kinda new on this mailing-list-thing, chummers, so don't flame me for
> raising an issue which might have been settled a long time ago, ok?

Welcome aboard! (You actually use telias e-mail service?) Kul att
se ett nytt svenskt ansikte i krokarna!

> Any of you guys GM'ed Harlequin's Back? Yes it is wierd, but also original.
> Actually some people might argue that it is _too_ original. To be honest, I
> will scream the day windlings and T'skrang walk the streets of Seattle. What
> I'm talking about is FASA's Earthdawnization of SR. Nobody who knows what
> Earthdawn is all about could have missed the _striking_ similarities between
> the Horrors and the Enemy. Now the question is: Where will they stop? (FASA,
> that is) Is there anyone who has written them a line saying: "Please no more
> Earthdawn in Shadowrun!" ? I've been thinking a lot about emailing them
> about it but I haven't had the motivation lately.

Get on it! They wanted the feedback, remember?

> Actually, if there ARE any wierdoz out there who would actually _like_ to
> have horrors and obsidimen in SR, I'd like to hear about it. I'd like to
> hear a good argument why?

I like Horrors, because they provide me with an excuse for more
psychological Horror-style :) adventures when used in extremely small
quantities. Too much, and it turns into A*&*.
Obsidimen and such would have to wait, I think. Perhaps in really
weird one-shot adventures on the metaplanes, or in a hundred years or so.

-Jonas