From:	MC23 <mc23@**********.COM>
Subject:	Re: FASA's On/Off Course?
Date:	Tue, 5 May 1998 18:46:23 -0400

Once upon a time, losthalo wrote;

>_Exactly_. There are how many zaibatsus in SR? How many products coming
>from Asia? Not to mention all the -Pacific- trade done in Seattle (the
>home ground for SR). I think Japan is more important than a Germany
>sourcebook, or even a Great Britain sourcebook. Look at the treatment both
>the Tirs received... Japan is irrelevant? Hardly. Renraku, Mitsuhama,
>Fuchi. The electronics industry. The Yakuza. 'Nuff said.

Why we won't see many area sourcebooks.

It's simple, FASA painted themselves in a corner with Shadowrun in
that everything happens in your home city. Why would the general player
of Shadowrun buy a book on Japan when all his character's career is going
to be in Seattle? Until FASA changes the direction of how Shadowrun
adventures work (basically to involve traveling) then don't expect to see
anything on other cities unless you look for them on the net.
Keeping things in a Western mind set for magic all these years on
the other hand upsets me. Oh well, next book O' magic ought to have the
Chinese magician (Underworld Sourcebook) and social adepts (BitB) in it
since the lid of that Pandora's Box has just been cracked opened.

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