From:	Twist0059@***.com Twist0059@***.com
Subject:	SR Future Products and Such
Date:	Wed, 11 Aug 1999 04:14:33 EDT

In a message dated 8/11/99 1:32:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
iscottw@*****.nb.ca writes:

> ] What? NO updates to Shadowbeat? What about Tir Tairngire? Lone
> ] Star? How about those Paranormal Animals? AUGH!
>
> The essence of Shadowbeat, I think, was the "flavour," the little
> touches like sports and rock & roll that helped players envision the SR
> world that much more clearly. I'd think this sort of thing would be
> covered in The Awakened World, or whatever that last one on the list
> was (second to last, really). Also, the SOTA releases would likely
> cover a lot of that sort of thing.


Mike has said in chats before that he truly, truly, vehemently hated
Shadowbeat. And he doesn't seem very fond of atmosphere books either
(whether that's because they don't sell well or because they don't add
directly to the business of shadowrunning, I don't know; I always liked them).
What would be very cool, I think, is a kind of Shadowrun Tonight book. (Pun
on Entertainment Tonight.) A book touring the world of SR, from
entertainment to daily living toys to junk foodies to fashion to celebrities
to book of the month club selections (oh, I'd love to see a pun on The Rules,
:-). Something which really lets you feel what it's like to live in
Shadowrun's world. (Truthfully, what we've really seen so far is either
Place books -describing some locale- or tech books -describing new ways to
kill people-. Now if you look at our own society, you wouldn't get the
picture of what it's like to live in any one place by reading gun magazines
and travel brochures.) What I'd like is for Shadowrun to do the
"chromebooks" idea one better.






-Twist