| From: | dghost@****.com dghost@****.com |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Why Shadowbeat both rocked and sucked |
| Date: | Wed, 17 Feb 1999 01:01:07 -0600 |
<bluewizard@*****.com> writes:
>> 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? :)
>IMO, Shadowbeat was a double edged sword.
>For GM's the book utterly rocked.
>All the rules needed for Rockers, Sports, Media and more in a well
written,
>useful book.
>What more could you ask for?
Well written? I'm not sure about that. I'd say decently written and
poorly laid out (or at least sub-par layout).
>For players however, Shadowbeat offered very little.
>A few average archetypes, and still no real reason to play a Rocker or
>Reporter who also runs the shadows.
>Very little gear/tech.
>Not a lot of "fluff" fiction.
>
>Unless you are planning on using this info in a campaign as a GM, it's
kind
>of a waste.
>In fact, even as a GM, unless I have a player who is a Rocker or Media
star
>(which has been a total of TWICE in the last 10 years!) I don;t even
bother
>to bring the book to gaming sessions.
>
>If you're a GM or SR-Zombie who just likes to read about the Sixth
World,
>then Shadowbeat is an awesome purchase full of nifty facts and useful
data.
>If you're a player who tends towards physads, merc, mages and sammys -
>there's not much here for you.
I think the lifestyle section is pretty useful for deckers and can be
good BG gear for other characters. My partially cybered PhysMage had a
large field holophone put into her High lifestyle apartment. For those
of you without Shadowbeat, the large-field holophone lets you see and
send full-body holo images during calls. If you've read Technobabel, one
was used to talk to Leonardo. That was a more advanced (read expensive)
version. I think of the more common version as being akin to what was
used in Star Wars to communicate from the Star Destroyers (didn't Darth
Vader use one to talk to the Emperor? or was it an Admiral talking to
Darth Vader?).
--
D. Ghost
(aka Pixel, Tantrum, RuPixel)
"You, you're like a spoonful of whoopass." --Grace
"A magician is always 'touching' himself" --Page 123, Grimoire (2nd
Edition)
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