| From: | Max Rible slothman@*********.org |
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| Subject: | New Products |
| Date: | Thu, 08 Jul 1999 16:29:18 -0700 |
>Is it my imagination or has the production of
>new products for Shadowrun slowed down since
>it came out. Lately there has been nothing
>new except the rewriting of older books.
Let's see: in the timespan of the books that you list, they've come
out with Blood in the Boardroom, Cyberpirates, Dunkelzahn's Secrets,
Mob War, the Shadowrun Companion, Renraku Arcology: Shutdown, and many
more books. That doens't sound like "nothing new" to me; you're probably
just imagining things.
>Street Samurai - Street Samurai 2
>Grimoire - Grimoire 2
These two were just updates of SR1 books for SR2; those were closer
to being reprints than new editions.
>Awakenings - Magic in the Shadows
Magic in the Shadows is an SR3 recap and update of the Grimoire and
Awakenings. If you have MITS, you don't need the other two books.
There is plenty of new material in there, too.
>Rigger Black Book - Rigger 2
More goodies for riggers, with lots of rules expansions and an entire
vehicle design system. How many years passed between the publication
of the first book and the second one? Rigger 2 isn't really a rewrite
of Rigger 1-- some of its material supercedes Rigger 1's system, but
the relationship is much more like that of Awakenings to the Grimoire:
extra goodies to make things more interesting. Rigger 1 is mainly
a vehicle catalogue, anyway, and that's still useful with the new rules.
>Virtual Realities - Virtual Realites 2
An overly complicated system to make deckers into NPCs, which replaces
an overly complicated system to make deckers into NPCs. :-)
>Seatle Sourcebook - New Seatle
An SR3 update of an SR1 book, with lots of new material.
>Corporate Book (?) - Corporate Download
The first book focussed on the economics of corporations; the second one
focusses more on the megas themselves. I see them as complementary, not
one as the rewrite of another.
>I know the need to update the material, but
>there seems to be a lack of new material. So
>what are other opinions on this topic?
I find there to be plenty of new material in the new FASA books.
You might want to try re-reading the old and new ones at one sitting
to pay attention to the differences.
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