From:	Skye Comstock <bilbo@****.NWLINK.COM>
Subject:	Re: SHADOWRUN, 3rd EDITION!
Date:	Wed, 2 Jul 1997 18:07:06 -0800

>Everyone should have heard by now the Shadowrun Card Game will be the big SR
>release of GEN-CON this year. What you may not of heard is the big GEN-CON
>release of NEXT year: SHADOWRUN, 3rd EDITION!

Woot. I will now be spending massive amounts of money on my car and on
Shadowrun! ;) That's what a job is for... (Still looking... ;)

>It's been five years since Shadowrun's last edition in '92 and FASA felt it
>was time for Shadowrun to be updated to go for another ten years. The main
>rulebook is going to be cleaned up and the rules updated to reflect the many
>changes to Shadowrun in the past few years, including the new decking system
>from VR 2.0 and the new vehicle rules from the Rigger Black Book 2.0. The
>existing rules will also be cleaned up and, hopefully, made more clear so the
>game will be easier to run and play for new players and experienced
>SR-players alike.

I was talking to various people on IRC and I thought there should be a
boxed-set type of thing if a 3rd edition came out. With all the new
information about the Matrix, Magic, Rigging, etc. I was thinking that
to include all of it, it would have to be broken up... Of course, the
cost of such a thing would be rather high. Thoughts?

>I have the privilidge of working on parts of the 3rd edition with Mike
>Mulvihill and the FASA team and I'm really psyched about it. FASA has always
>put out the cutting edge in game product. The stuff they did with Shadowrun
>in '89 and '92 redefined how companies presented role-playing games. The new
>edition of the game will be no exception.

And Mike said it was highly unlikely... Hrmph. Bet Bull knew before us. :P

>So... now you know why I need to know what people think needs to be fixed in
>the Shadowrun magic system, since it will be my main contribution to the new
>edition. If there are any other Shadowrun rules you think are broken, post
>them, and I will compile the information for when the time comes to make some
>decisions on the 3rd ed. rules. Only one caveat: this is a new edition, not a
>new game. The game rules will be cleaned up and clarified, broken rules will
>be fixed, but the game will remain Shadowrun. So, please, no suggestions
>about fixtures of the Shadowrun world, just the rules of the Shadowrun game.

I knew you were up to something when you asked the first time!

-Skye, "Still waiting for TUCAS..."