From:	"Jeremy \"Bolthy\" Zimmerman" <jeremy@***********.COM>
Subject:	Re: FASA's On/Off Course?
Date:	Wed, 6 May 1998 16:35:51 -0700

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> From: Nexx <nexx@********.NET>
> To: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
> Subject: Re: FASA's On/Off Course?
> Date: Wednesday, May 06, 1998 4:23 PM
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> > From: Adam J <fro@***.AB.CA>
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> > While I could have worded my statement alot better, I stand by it --
> Magic
> > isn't all that makes Shadowrun Shadowrun.
>
> True, but its a major ingredient in what makes our Shadowrun our
> Shadowrun. You take it out, and it tastes like a cake where someone
> forgot the baking soda.

I feel this deserves a Cthulhu analogy. =)

FASA taking magic out of Shadowrun (and with it all the metaraces, given
the SR cosmology) would be like Chaosium taking everything supernatural out
of Call of Cthulhu. Just *fwink*, one day they're all gone. No one knows
why. Sure, you could still play the game using just deranged mass murders,
obscure-yet-pointless cults, spooky-but-empty houses, but what would really
be the point? Sure, it's the same world, but without that horror beyond
human comprehension, you might as well be playing... Well, I don't even
know what game it would be. It wouldn't be CoC. Similarly, SR wouldn't be
SR without magic.