From:	Twist0059@***.com Twist0059@***.com
Subject:	Thoughts: sourcebook ideas
Date:	Fri, 9 Jul 1999 08:30:57 EDT

In a message dated 7/9/99 8:11:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time, cpenta@*****.com
writes:

> Ok...After going through my limited sourcebook collection, I can't help
> but think of ideas for new sourcebooks, either from FASA or as a
> net.book:
> DEFINITELY from FASA:
> Knight Errant sourcebook:
> OK, they DID Lone Star. That was a good book.
> I personally want a book of the same basic type for Knight Errant, the
> other major security organization in SR....In general, we hear a LOT
> about KE, but only in bits and pieces, which personally gives me trouble
> in using it. I'd LOVE to know more.
>
> Target (or Neo-As guide to...): Middle East
> <cue Ordinary>Land of God, land of oil....land of shadows and daggers
> </Ordinary> This SB would cover the Middle East and North Africa: From
> Algeria to Iran, Turkey to the edges of the Arabian Peninsula. Covering
> Israel, the Palestinian areas, and I guess Iraq especially...Should
> also, as a side note, cover what's happened to religion since 1999-2000.
>
> Target:Europe: Covering the Old Country. They've done London and Germany
> (though I'm told the latter was kinda twinked out). Now it would help if
> they'd do the REST of the continent, so that we don't have to rely on
> contradictory and sometimes plain WEIRD novels.
>
> Also, offbeat idea:
> Whatever DID happen to Antarctica?
>
> John


The Lone Star book was one of FASA's worst selling SR books, so I think a KE
book is unlikely, but you can piece together info on them from adventures
where they are featured (like Queen Euphoria) and mentions in other books
like Corp DL.

I'd love to see any new SR book under the Neo-Anarchists header, but that's
just me.

Place books by themselves seem to have flatlined in SR. Now they all need
hooks like Smuggler's Havens or Cyberpirates, where the places showcase new
shadowrunning opportunities. Good or bad? <shrug> I loved Aztlan and felt
bored by CalFree, so I'm not sure how much I'll miss straight-forward place
books. If all the further place books were like NAGNA, I'd die a happy gamer.






-Twist