From:	"Paul J. Adam" <shadowrn@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:	Re: SHADOWRUN, 3rd EDITION!
Date:	Sat, 5 Jul 1997 01:09:40 +0100

In message <199707031430.KAA05372@www.ctghub.com>;, Drekhead
<drekhead@***.NET> writes
>If you ever had an extended stay in a hospital after a surgery, you
>would realize that 250k is pretty close to realistic. All I can say
>is I'm glad I have insurance.

I still praise the Lord for the National Health System: flawed or not,
it works.

>On a similar note, a better explanation of the lifestyles. I would
>like to see more of the perks or lack of that are available to each
>lifestyle category. Have the lifestyle mean something other than a
>maintenance cost, and a roleplay hook. Perhaps social modifiers, or
>availability modifiers, or some such.

Yep. Split it out a little, too, so at Medium lifestyle you can trade
off apartment size or neighbourhood quality in order to uprate your
"routine" car from a Jackrabbit to a 295X-Terminator Turbo sports bike:
and a few more pointers about pushing the envelope of your lifestyle at
any level (like the way every teenager on that street knows you as "the
dude with the kewl bike").

>I would like to see an update to everyday life in 2058 (2059 by this
>is out, I guess). Entertainment, personal electronics, like trid,
>simsense, etc. I would like to finally find out just what a telecom
>is, does, and looks like.

Yup. Still, since Shadowrun proposed the pocket secretary seven years
before the Nokia Communicator, we can cut them _some_ slack...

--
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and
praiseworthy...

Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk