From:	Rand Ratinac docwagon101@*****.com
Subject:	New Products
Date:	Thu, 8 Jul 1999 17:50:53 -0700 (PDT)

<Snippola(TM)>
> >Seatle Sourcebook - New Seatle
> >
> We've had 10 years of plot and major changes to the city.
personally, I look at this as a Story update book, rather than a simple
"new edition". You want to get a feel for all the major storylines that
have happened in SR over the last few years (Corp War, Mob War,
Election, Renraku), this book can give you the basics, and how they
relate to the "Core" city setting for Shadowrun, Seattle. Once again,
an update book that was badly needed. I haven;t even looked at the old
Seattle Sourcebook in 3 or 4 years, it was so out of date.
<Snippage(TM)>
> Bull

Bravo, Bull!

I don't care to comment on the rest of what was said here - at this
time - as I haven't read the previous posts yet (silly Yahoo mailer,
y'know). But I've seen a lot of people bagging New Seattle because it
"doesn't have the maps" and it "doesn't have the detail" of the old
one. What Bull said is what I've been trying to tell them for ages. New
Seattle is NOT meant to replace the Seattle Sourcebook. It's NOT a
place setting in the vein of Tir Tairngire or London or Germany. It's
designed to UPDATE a current setting, covering all the different
happenings that've gone on over the last ten years. You can't look at
it in the same way as you do the Seattle Sourcebook. If you have any
experience with BattleTech, look at the "Thirty Year Sourcebook" (I
believe that's what it was called). That book compiled all the major
changes to the BattleTech setting in the last thirty years into one
place. THAT'S what New Seattle is trying to do for the most part. And
it does it well.

Meanwhile, it includes enough details on the different parts of the
city and how the different players operate and, for that matter,
certain individual, interesting sites, that's its easy for a starting
SR GM to pick it up and make Seattle come alive. If you really need
more details, there's always the Place Index in the back. Not as much
detail as the Seattle Sourcebook, sure, but how many times do I have to
say this? That's NOT what New Seattle was intended to provide in the
first place!

Think I'll stop now.

*Doc' presses the <end rant> button. After a moment his face stiffens
in horror and he punches it again and again. "God, no! It won't turn
off! NnNNNNnnnnNnNOOOOoooOOooooOOOOOOoOoOoOOOoooOOOOoooooOOOOOO!!!!!"*
==Doc'
(aka Mr. Freaky Big, Super-Dynamic Troll of Tomorrow)

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