| From: | Gurth <gurth@******.NL> |
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| Subject: | Re: Sprawl Sites (was Re: Feeling old) |
| Date: | Wed, 6 May 1998 21:57:20 +0100 |
> I don't like Sprawl Sites. Archetypes and contacts are almost the sames as
> in the SR2 screen
Yeah, that's cause FASA reprinted the contacts section of Sprawl Sites and
the archetypes from a nmber of books that didn't make it into SR2 in that
contacts booklet... Before the SRII GM screen came out, Sprawl Sites was a
good thing to own for the extra contacts and archetypes. (And also part of
the reason why I never bothered to buy the GM screen until I found one
cheap on a second-hand games stand at a con.)
> I never heard of this one. What is the detail level of maps ? Do they all
> fit in a 205* environment ? Is there anything in addition to maps ?
Assuming "this one" means the Millennium's End GM's Companion I referred
to, the maps are very high quality, with a semi-3D effect that shows how
high things are -- unlike in Sprawl Sites where you have to guess -- and a
good description of what's where.
Naturally it's all aimed at the ME game, which is set in the modern world
(more or less -- it's slightly more chaotic) but almost all the maps are
usable for Shadowrun, IMHO. Picking a few randomly: large bar, trendy
restaurant, convenience store, art gallery or museum, large office
building, international airport, modern villa, corporate compound,
terrorist training camp, bunkers, luxury yacht, and a lot more.
About 1/3rd of the book is devoted to the maps. The rest has generic GMing
advice (the kind all these books give), adventure elements and ideas
(useful for SR as well), computer networks (not really useful for SR),
NPCs (again not useful for SR except for general ideas), lists to give
names to NPCs (good idea, but <plug> I prefer GameName
http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/pw/gameprogs.html </plug> :) organization
diagrams of various, well, organizations (could be useful in SR), and a
short list of movies relevant to the ME game world. All in all if you play
ME then this is a very good resource, for SR I find it quite handy mainly
because of the maps, but then I play ME as well so I have it on my shelf
anyway. I suggest you look through it in a game store before making up
your mind.
> >we'll have to write a net.book with encounters like that...
>
> Good idea. We should classify them by locations. The first group would be
> the security rating (AAA to Z) and the second the place where it takes
> place : Street, Bar, etc.
> I'll think about some ideas and will report it.
And we need to keep it simple -- Sprawl Sites has half-adventures, not
encounters. Hmm... is this an idea for the next PW book?
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