| From: | John E Pederson <lobo1@****.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: Target: UCAS |
| Date: | Sat, 27 Dec 1997 00:13:37 -0500 |
<<Ehh. I still have .. really long talks, let's say, with other SR
players about place-books in general (and the Boston part of T:U in
particular -- 'swhere I live, that's all).>>
I don't know. They haven't done one on this place, and I'd be surprised
if they ever did (Although... Louisville *could* be interesting), and, as
little as I get out, I'm not sure that I would know what they got right
and what they got wrong :/ But, I'm quite sure there'd be stuff they got
wrong, no matter who they asked (unless they talked with almost
*everybody* in the city). That's the shortcoming inherent in this kind of
thing: it's written by one person.
<<T:U was far too general, but that was a result of the medium -- the
book was, what, less than a hundred pages?>>
Truly: I've seen adventures for as much that were longer. I know neither
NAN book cost as much and they were at least as long.
<<But, maybe worse, it dealt too much with *current* events -- that is,
1990s event, not 2058.>>
The feeling I was left with was one of great, and wasted, potential: I
think each section could have been expanded to fill an entire book very
easily. Unfortunately, they live much to be desired when left so ...
condensed. The current events had to be covered to provide a base of
information from which to work. I think they may have been better served
with a broader outline of those events, though.
<<When it's not out and out wrong, it's an okay guide to where Boston is
at now; I want to know (or at least hear soemone else's opinion on) what
Boston will be like 60-odd years from now. No, I wouldn't expect it to
change *that* much, but, uh, with the Awakening, the Stock Exchange
moving in, and other current events, I expected at least some weirdly
interesting hooks.. and instead, there was a poor rehash of the Ork
Underground, a nice laugh about how bad Boston Harbor is, and not much
else.>>
Well, I like the idea of the Catacombs, I got a sufficiently different
picture of them to make it interesting. It seemed to me like a good place
to stage meets, hideouts, bugs, houngans ("Mama" seems to me like a
mambo...). And the gangs seemed interesting. But there just wasn't much
else there, it seemed. Sort of a "Let's take the 'cool' stuff, and ignore
the rest" kind of thing. I'd have gotten more out of a travel guide.
<<Sigh! If only Kenson had done a RFC with T:U, not just Seattle 2!>>
That would have taken more time than Mike apparently had to spare on this
one...
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John Pederson Canthros, shapeshifter-mage
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