From:	Angelkiller 404 angelkiller404@**********.com
Subject:	SR Narrowing of focus
Date:	Sat, 14 Aug 1999 19:20:55 -0400

>Ok. Even it's not a narrowing. If it's just a focus. The question is
still
>there.
>The awakened world of 2060 has so much potential, even for non
criminals.
>But there is a definite focus on the criminal in most products.
>
> And even Shadowrunners don't need to be criminals. There are other
types.
>There are outlaws like the Robin Hood motif or Bubble Gum Crisis.
>Technically criminals, but heroic ones.
> There are the legal options. I'm surprised Companion didn't cover
running a
>detective agency...
>
> And so on.


This might sound a bit crazy, but has anyone ever tried a Scooby
Doo/A-Team-esque campaign? Y'know get some players, pack 'em into a
Roadmaster or something, then have them wander around UCAS like a
bunch of beatniks with mil-spec weaponry? I think that'd be kind of
fun...not having to wait for a Johnson, you just find a town with a
ghost that looks a lot like a troll under a tablecloth... Seriously,
though, that'd put more of an 'adventuring' aspect into the game
rather than a 'surviving in the metroplex' kind of thing, you know?

But on the 'criminal element' focus of Shadowrun, I don't like it,
nosiree. Shadowrunners don't need to be criminals. Why not go for
the vigilante aspect, or as Arcady said, detectives?

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>> ] Straw poll time here.
>> ]
>> ] Is anyone out there satisfied with the narrowing of focus down
>> to criminals
>> ] only?
>>
>> Maybe I missed something, but apart from the rather silly Rocker
and
>> Reporter archetypes in Shadowbeat, hasn't every edition of
Shadowrun
>> focused on the character as criminal (heck, even the Rocker and
>> Reporter had their criminal side, otherwise they wouldn't be very
>> useful characters). Granted, some adventures/novels had runners
>> portrayed as do-gooders, but it all boiled down to the same gruel:
>> runners are criminals. How is Mike's involvement a change?