From:	Mark Fender markf@******.com
Subject:	SR Narrowing of focus
Date:	Mon, 16 Aug 1999 17:04:23 -0500

> > I get sick of
> > 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.
>
Beg to differ, but CPunk was throwing out some changes in their world at the
tail end of 2020. There was that whole corp war thing. Granted, it was
probably too little too late, but it was there.

Besides, what's wrong with a fixed world? Our old SR game took place in
Seattle, wherein our GM ignored every sourcebook that ever came out. It was
fun. It didn't advance according to SR's timeline, but it was fun.