| From: | Twist0059@***.com Twist0059@***.com |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Thoughts: sourcebook ideas |
| Date: | Sun, 11 Jul 1999 17:39:11 EDT |
kawaii@********.org writes:
> > In a message dated 7/11/99 12:53:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Schizi@***.
> com
> > writes:
> >
> > > Actually, few of them have been, for instance;Human Nation, Alamos
20K,
>
> > the
> > > Black Lodge, Winternight (may have heard mention of it somewhere, but
> > > nothing
> > > concrete) Tutor
> >
> > The Black Lodge was mentioned more than once in MitS, I believe. Alamos
> 20K
> > has been around forever. Human Nation is mentioned in Psychtrope.
> > Winternight was in Cyberpirates, or at least their god-chip was. I
forgot
> of
> > Tutor though! Wait until Koke's next novel, when we find out it's
really
> > Lofwyr, prefaced by a dozen sex scenes with Nadja Daviar.
> >
> >
> >
> > -Twist
> >
> >
> >
>
> Wow, you are pretty bitter about this, aren't you? =)
>
> IMO, they have so far always prefaced each sourcebook as being rumors and
> such from shadowland, which means that you can always just say, "No,
> that's not what they are." At risk of using another gaming company as an
> example, White Wolf has regretted the writing of "Dirt Secrets of the
> Black Hand " extremely, since most GMs will slice and dice it up for spare
> parts and ignore it completely otherwise. =) That's what I felt that
> Threats was for. Paranoia carried to the next level. "There are world wide
> conspiracies out there, man!" type of thing. Maybe true, amybe not, maybe
> I'm Dunklezahn's reincarnted human-nbody. I figure that since it is my
> world, I can decide such things. I figure most GMs do the same thing.
> YMMV.
>
> Ever lovable and always scrappy,
> kawaii
>
I am pretty bitter about the Dragon Heart Saga. I thought the
writing was very bad and the characters lifeless. (Not saying Koke is a bad
guy, just that I don't like his work.)
The problem really with these official storylines is that you try and
come up with your own plots, like who or what was really behind Dunk's
assassination, and you end up with players telling you that isn't the way it
happened. Sure, you can say it's my game, take it or leave it, but in the
end it means you can never really have an accurate game that follows the
major plots. Even the mention of having a group of shadorunners along with
Mercury in the Dragon Heart Saga creates that alternate history timeline.
It's cool to be able to shoehorn in your players to such epic events, but
depressing to know it never really happened that way in FASA's Shadowrun
universe. So you end up feeling like a kid who lost that damn boxcar racing
tournament in the Boy Scouts and whose parents bought him a trophy from a
store.
-Twist
