| From: | Gurth gurth@******.nl |
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| Subject: | Sourcebook issue |
| Date: | Sun, 22 Aug 1999 11:41:33 +0200 |
the street was...
> I would like some pictures also, though of course many people feel it is a
> waste of space and money (gotta pay for them pics :-)
"I found that a weapon I couldn't visualize rarely if ever showed up in my
games."
-- from the intro to the "Ultramodern Firearms" sourcebook for
Millennium's End.
I've found I agree with that; pictures of equipment help you very much in
actually getting the item used in the game. Much more equipment from the
SSC gets used in my games than from the SR3 main book, where similar items
exist in both books, anyway (there's not much alternative for a white
noise generator, for example). If you ask me, it's because the SSC has
pictures, so players can see their characters carrying around the items,
while a "faceless" item from SR3 is much harder to picture in their
characters' hands.
> I liked the layout in Cybertechnology, with ore than one item per
> picture/page.
Absolutely. The size of the pictures in the SSC (and FoF) could have been
much smaller, and still give a good impression of what each item is like.
Three or four items per page should have been easily possible, even with
all the pictures.
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