| From: | Brett Borger <bxb121@***.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: FASA's On/Off Course? |
| Date: | Tue, 5 May 1998 16:31:46 EST |
> Vinci was a human being that Ehran the Scribe knew personally, and
The da Vinci thing was cleaned up in Technobabel, one of the best
parts of the novel, IMHO.
> History doesn't tend to have a direction-- it just keeps going, and
> you react to it. You can see the chain of events fairly well:
> Aztlan leads to Harlequin's Back leads to Dunkelzahn's Secrets leads
> to Blood in the Boardroom, and I like seeing these chains of
> causality. The direction they're taking is obvious: advance time,
However, recently SR has given a linear chain. Election. Portfolio.
Mob War. Corp war. Ho-hum. I much prefered a dynamic world that
had different things happening at once. You can certainly do that
now...but we're getting less of that impression.
> problems; I'm looking forward to an official errata. The SOTA rules
> in the Shadowrun Companion seldom make sense (it gets harder to set
My complaints about SOTA have always been the same...the standard
against which everything is measured, the (meta)human body, does not
change. This is why pistols do lousy damage base...their numbers
have been compensated for because of armor SOTA.
> and Azania and Amazonia, and with all the Japanese megacorps, I'm
> amazed there hasn't been a Japan sourcebook, or one for eastern
> Asia.
FASAMike has directly stated that he sees no need or use for a
Japan sourcebook. While most of us may disagree, that's the way it
is. Me, I plan on putting my requests on all my product cards.
-=SwiftOne=-
