| From: | IronRaven cyberraven@********.net |
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| Subject: | SR2 v. SR3 [was: Re: Deciper press release link] |
| Date: | Fri, 10 Sep 1999 10:32:12 -0400 |
> since the systems in the Shadowrun 2 book are obsolete.
Obsolete by who's definition. I like Rigger 1/SR 2 vehilce rules, and the
basic rules work for the Matrix for our purpose.
> nuts. Magic is one big mess, only the super-cyber-sammies like the
> initiative system, and most groups have about 30 house rules to fix all
For the Initiative, they GOT IT RIGHT. He who shoots first shoots last.
For magic, thier engine needs a little help, but there are things that are
fundamentally screwed up in the roleplaying aspect by FASA cannon. If what
I call the Dreamtime is what they call the Astral, then they boned it
entirely. And they didn't talk to anyone who is a practicing shamanist
about how Spirits and thier humans, and practitioners, work, nor did they
get spirit interpritations very correct. (Anyone who calls Raven a coward
is welcome to make that mistake with me- once. FYI, Wolf and Grandmother
are either sisters or differnt faecs for the same person.) They should
have spent 20 bucks for a book, read it, and then started with what the
Spirits mean.
(Don't ask me to explain this stuff, becuase unless you've experinced it,
you won't have a common frame of refernce. I grew up with it, and I didn't
understand 0.001% of it until I experinced it.)
> Don;t play with SR3 if you don;t want to. But whether the few of you that
> don't like SR3 agree or not, it WAS necessary.
OK, simple question: could you have lived with SR2? I'm will to be you
did for a number of years. SR2 works fine for most things. And I'm
willing to bet that at least half of the groups out there are using it.
Kevin Dole, aka CyberRaven, aka IronRaven, aka Steel Tengu
http://members.xoom.com/iron_raven/
"Once again, we have spat in the face of Death and his second cousin,
Dismemberment."
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in
your philosophy."
