| From: | losthalo <losthalo@********.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: Damn books (was Re:Mo' bettah Cyberdoodads) |
| Date: | Tue, 5 May 1998 14:51:53 -0400 |
>Then again, there's.... there's... 6-port multi-datajacks? Munchie.
You could always just get six datajacks, tho' I can't figure what you'd
need them all for. I have given a character -two- before, and that seemed
sufficient...
>Extendable finger digits? Munchie.
I can't understand why this is munchy. A little odd perhaps, but so is
replacing a meat limb with a meatl and plastic one ("My hands are never
going to feel the same again"). Think if you were rebuilding some part of
your body to be better, stronger, more useful, wouldn't you want to be able
to palm something bigger than a basketball? :) Cyber is there to offer
abilities that didn't exist before... Frankly, I think CP does a better
job in some places of offering cyber that people would really buy, because
it's interesting and useful. SR has a habit of only presenting the things
you'd see on a runner, or from a runner's POV. Think for a minute, if you
will, on what you can actually -do- with a computer in SR. How much memory
does a word-processing/desktop publishing prog use? What all can one
actually do with a wrist comp? Apparently they are only there to hold
datasteals. :)
>You can have a pretty damn good book without those GIJoe squared-jaw
>supermodel-shadowrunners-of-death-and-destruction (i.e. Neuromancer,
>Count Zero). Please, SR writters, if you give a damn... can't you write
>something that remotly ressembles the game we play? Last time I checked,
>I couldn't play a drake... I haven't found a drake in the paranormal
>books, or Awakenings, or the Grimmy, or... ya get it.
Yes, I think scale is a problem for SR nowadays. While it is interesting
to have novels which give some glimpses of the really powerful folks, the
emphasis of SR early on was the -street-. Runners, while perhaps sometimes
wealthy, were still street-level criminals. They might have an impact on
the city, but they weren't shaking the world. Now, I realize some people
run campaigns with earth-shaking events based on the characters' actions,
but I think it far from the rule. I think the novels would be best if they
concentrated on characters that you might see in your average Saturday
night SR game. They might actually be Shadowrun novels, then.
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