| From: | Paolo Marcucci thatpaolo@****.com |
|---|---|
| Subject: | SR Narrowing of focus |
| Date: | Sun, 15 Aug 1999 12:13:12 -0700 |
> FASA saying that if you want to be able to use the new materials without
> extensive editing of the books and having to look over everyone's houlders
> during character creation to make sure they don't grab somehting
> that isn't
> availalable yet. I don't know about anyone else, but think forcing
> time-line acceleration on players and GMs alienates people to
> varying degrees.
> Kevin Dole, aka CyberRaven, aka IronRaven, aka Steel Tengu
Ok, no one forces you to follow FASA's timeline. You don't like it, you
scrap it. But the big thing in Shadowrun is that it's not a fixed world
<cough>Cyberpunk 2020</cough> and it evolves. Clearly, given that's not the
real world, there has to be somoeone that decides how this evolution is
happening and where it's going. In this case it's FASA.
And I very much like having an evolutionary world setting than a fixed one.
Don't forget that the focus now is on releasing the set of beginners and
advanced rules for 3rd edition. Once this will be done (CC, M&M, Matrix, RR)
we'll start to see more atmosphere books. After all, how do you call RA:S? A
rule book? And later this year there will be Year of The Comet and related
products, next year Survival of The Fittest and related products....
--Paolo
