From:	"Jeremy \"Bolthy\" Zimmerman" <jeremy@***********.COM>
Subject:	Re: Vampires ( & Mages )
Date:	Mon, 4 May 1998 15:45:06 -0700

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> From: Erik Jameson <erikj@****.COM>
> To: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
> Subject: Re: Vampires ( & Mages )
> Date: Monday, May 04, 1998 3:17 PM
>
> Okay, I don't know much about White Wolf's games and truthfully, don't
> really care.
>
> BUT it was mentioned by Robert Nessius earlier that he used several items
> from that gaming series to provide culture references for Shadowrun,
> specifically mentioning Vampire and Mage.
>
> I'm somewhat curious to tell the truth now. If I were only to purchase
one
> book for Vampire info and one book for Mage info, what should I buy?
> Especially if I didn't want to deal with a lot of game mechanics
nonsense,
> just background materials that could be mined for Shadowrun purposes.
>

You're going to buy one of each, right? The best thing I could recommend,
I suppose, is to just buy the main rules for each of them. You can, in
theory, get a good feel for the game universe for each of them from just
reading the core rules. It has a big section in the front with their
history. Unfortunately, they're a good 25-30 bucks a whack. Definitely
would recommend searching used book stores for a copy of them. It's
sometimes amazing what you kind find. A few weeks ago I found a hard cover
SRII in good condition for only 15 bucks. =)