| From: | Mongoose m0ng005e@*********.com |
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| Subject: | New Products |
| Date: | Fri, 9 Jul 1999 03:29:31 -0500 |
:new products for Shadowrun slowed down since
:it came out. Lately there has been nothing
:new except the rewriting of older books.
It is your imagination- or rather, its your lack of attention. In fact,
over the years, production has picked up (slightly?) frequency-of-release
wise, I think- if just because products are not usually released quite as
late as they used to be.
:Example:
:
:Street Samurai - Street Samurai 2
:Grimoire - Grimoire 2
old, Old, OLD news... those are Sr1 > Sr2 products!
:Awakenings - Magic in the Shadows
Awakenings is not comparable to MiTS. Awakenings and G2, almost, but still
not quite, cover the same amount of rules as MiTS. Admitedly, its not all
new (conceptually) if you have the old stuff, but its a damn nice package,
and a great addition to Sr3. And some of it IS brand new- I just started
playing a wu-jen character, for example.
:Rigger Black Book - Rigger 2
:Virtual Realities - Virtual Realites 2
Both are so amazingly overhauled as to be unrecognizable except as books
with similar topics, and contain large amounts of new info.
:Seatle Sourcebook - New Seatle
:Corporate Book (?) - Corporate Download
Corp Download is nothing like Corp Shadowfiles, again, except in genral
topic.
You also forgot, just in the past few years, PoAD, Underworld Sourcebook,
T:UCAS, T:SH, Cyberpirates, Threats, Cybertechnolgy, and a decent number of
adventures. Among those were R:AS, Mob War, and Blood in the Boardroom-
like them or not, both conatined a fair bit of "new material" as far as
world events go. "Bug City" comes somwhere early in there, too...
Going back further, there's Lone Star, Corporate Security Handbook, Germany
Sourcebook, London Sourcebook, Tir xxxxxx, and more, plus LOADS of
adventures.
I think if you looked at every SR product released in the past 5 years,
you'd not find that the majority were "re-hash".
: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?
Very few sourcebooks and no adventures have gone through "re-write", and
those have fairly constistanly composed about 1/2 of the SR line each year.
For any gameline, In a year where a new edition comes out, there's obviously
going to be revised versions of other books. I think FASA has done a good
job of keeping the ball rolling on totally new products in the past few
years, and will pick that up with renewed vigor as soon as they have thier
"core" sourcebooks (which, if MiTS is a indicator, are very good) lined up.
Mongoose
