| From: | "Jeremy \"Bolthy\" Zimmerman" <jeremy@***********.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: FASA's On/Off Course? |
| Date: | Tue, 5 May 1998 16:16:57 -0700 |
> From: MC23 <mc23@**********.COM>
> To: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
> Subject: Re: FASA's On/Off Course?
> Date: Tuesday, May 05, 1998 3:46 PM
>
>
> 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.
I suppose you have a point there. With the shift in focus in SR, it does
seem as though area sourcebooks are going the way of the dodo. Now that I
think about it, I can't really think of any area sourcebooks that have come
out since Aztlan, unless you count Cyberpirates. Which has me sorta
bummed, since I really enjoyed the books.
I guess what I would ultimately _love_ to see come out is just a quick
review of what is going on in the rest of the world. Really. I mean, they
give a vague mention of it in the main rules, but that's it. I sorta know
what's going on outside of the continental US. But not really. Unless
they put something in one of the books that came out during my hiatus, all
I know about asia is that Japan is an Empire, the Phillipines are
oppressed, and that's about it. I know Africa's in the cyberpirates book,
but from what I've heard that isn't saying much. I have yet to sit down
and read it. My big moment of joy was finding out there's stuff about the
carib league out. Europe? As far as I know There's England, TNN (the
nashville network?) and Germany. You could maybe construe some stuff if
you were really into the novels, but that's about it. You can maybe get
something from comments made in FoF and PAoE, but not really. Eastern
Europe? Russia? The middle east? I have no fraggin' clue.
I would be just ecstatic if they put out one big book with a quick summary
of most major governments and what's going on, so that if I'm running a
campaign, and my players decide to skip off to, of all places Italy or
something, I won't have to either contrive something off the top of my head
despite the fact I know squat about Italy, or else end the session, dig out
my copy of Black Madonna, and try and get a feel for Italy from a rereading
of that. White Wolf's done it twice, with one of them being what I
consider to be pretty successful. I should think it would be a fairly
simple thing to do for FASA.
*pant* *pant*
Wow, dunno what just came over me. =)
