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From: Rand Ratinac docwagon@*******.com
Subject: SR Books Online
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 18:28:33 PST
>Starrngr@***.com writes:
>> In a message dated 99-02-16 05:41:38 EST, you write:
>> > BTW, if Shadowbeat is made out to be the "holy grail" so often on
this
>> > list, how come it only got rated 6.9 in the survey? :)
>
> I've noticed that Shadowbeat is one of those love/hate books.
>Some people think it's the holy grail, and others think it's a pretty
>silly book. I've talked with people who have read it over the years,
>and a surprising number see it just as the rocker/reporter PC book,
>kind of like the SSC is the Street Samurai Book, VR is the Decker
>book, RBB is the Rigger book, and Grimoire is the Magician book.
>(And, unfortunately, some of them think that the idea of a rocker PC
>is really stupid. :( It's a real PITA when half the party doesn't
like
>you because their players don't like your character, not because the
>characters don't.)
> I've never run into a GM that hasn't liked the book though... :)

<BigSnip(TM)>

That's it! That's why it got such a low rating. You bastards who voted
are all pinko, player traitors!!

*Doc' pauses in his rant. "Wait a minute. I voted too..." Doc' shuts
up...*

Doc'

.sig Sauer


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