From:	"Brennan M. O'Keefe" <bmokeefe@**.com>
Subject:	Re: Space - The Final Frontier
Date:	Sat, 21 Sep 1996 22:44:36 -0500

> From: Steven Ratkovich <chaos@*****.com>
> Subject: Re: Space - The Final Frontier
> Date: Saturday, September 21, 1996 10:25 PM

> Well, I have been hearing about rumors regarding A Japanese sourcebook
and
> an Australian one. Since the Japanese play such a large part of the
> shadowrun culture, I think this would be widely accepted. And australia,
as
> described in the novels, is an unstable and highly magically active
place.
> It could lend itself to some interesting adventures. If the do more Srea
> Source Books, though, they should design them more like Paradise Lost.
> Maybe throw in a half dozen rough adventures based iun the area, and then
a
> decent background on the place.

Oh no, not again... Admittedly, I haven't seen Paradise Lost itself, but I
have both of the NAN sourcebooks, and HATED the way FASA included
adventures in those. The first half of each volume was the sourcebook
material, and the second half an adventure. Okay, maybe part of the problem
was that each volume split up coverage between for regions. Also, the
adventures were rather disjointed attempts to give the PCs a whirlwind tour
of all four nations. Still, I would have much rather bought just the source
material, and then decided whether to get the adventures on their own
merits (or lack thereof).

Having only just joined the list, I don't know how much hate mail to expect
if I mention that other FASA game. Still, I like the idea of having a good,
full sourcebook or sourcebox of background material on an area, and a
separate collection of adventures set in the area.