| From: | Mongoose m0ng005e@*********.com |
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| Subject: | DRAGONS Available |
| Date: | Wed, 17 Mar 1999 19:43:41 -0600 |
:Just because they've been releasing books doesn't mean anyone's been
buying
:them in great numbers. They haven't been dead for years in a literal
:sense. Figuratively however, they've been dead since they started and
they
:started dragging Shadowrun with them with all those "kewl" crossovers.
:(>) ARKHAM
Now I think I understand you:
Nobody bought the (poorly promoted) ED
books, and incorporating any ideas derived from those books must have
reduced sales of the (comparatively well promoted and in any case longer
selling) SR
books.
ED, despite being created by its authors before they even contacted
FASA about publishing, was intentionally derivative from SR.
And of course, it was foolish of Tom Dowd, excellent SR author and
line developer that he was, to leave control of Shadowrun development
entirely in the hands of Lou Prosperi, who couldn't even do his own job
well.
That is what you seem to be implying happened, at least figuratively
speaking. Its just not the whole truth, is the only problem.
Not that I care much what you think on the matter one way or the
other- my enjoyment of ED and my enjoyment of SR never really crossed
paths. The games seem very distinct, in MY mind,
despite the fact that I play both. If I want an opinion on ED vs.. SR, I
have better and more realistic sources to go to, as well.
I just don't like getting mail the sole purpose of which is spreading
deceptive umbrage on one of my favorite games and its creators. IE's
in SR genuinely suck, but that is hardly the fault of anybody involved
with ED,
or ED players like myself.
If you had trouble playing SR the past 4 years because IE's took
control of your games plots, the problem is yours, not FASA's. If
published SR materials focused on the wrong aspects of SR's gameworld, the
problem was SR's, not ED's.
Mongoose
"I've said all I've said, I won't say no more. I don't need no one to
understand..."
>Sisters of Mercy
