| From: | Gurth gurth@******.nl |
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| Subject: | Starting a new Campaign |
| Date: | Tue, 3 Oct 2000 10:46:39 +0200 |
was...
> I'm new to the list and have not yet read the FAQ so if I'm asking any
> stupid questions that are asked all the time and answered in the FAQ
> please set your flamers on private.
Do read the FAQ, it will save you a lot of trouble later if you're of the
"reply before quote" or "quoting? what's quoting?" school of e-mailers
:)
BTW, could you set up your mailer to word-wrap at around 72 or 76
characters? Your paragraphs are all on one long line, which can be hard to
read in some mailers.
> I think I will run the game under third edition rules only. I guess I
> will use the third edition SOTA also. Though I think I'll start my time
> line at 2050. Any comments?
Starting in 2050 is cool, because it means you can do two things: 1) make
the players see/be involved in the major events of the SR world of the
past 10+ years, and 2) start the players off with only the equipment and
things that were available back then, and introduce all the rest when the
game timeline reaches the point at which books like the SSC or FoF were
introduced.
I ran a similar campaign for about two years in which we played the FASA-
published adventures in chronological order, and it worked pretty well.
> Has anyone already converted the stats for the old adventures to third
> edition? I have almost all of them.
You don't really need to convert things, I feel. The basic stats remain
the same anyway, so all you really need to do is change over a couple of
skills and update weapon and vehicle stats. Those last two you can do on
the fly by grabbing the relevant book when necessary (that is, if you
can't remember the SR2/SR3 damage code for a typical weapon of the type an
NPC is using) while updating skills can follow the simple guideline that
the NPC has all the skills into which an SR1/SR2 skill was split in SR3.
For example, if it says "Firearms: 3" just assume the NPC has a skill of 3
in all skills such as Pistols, SMGs, Rifles, and so on. If that's too
broad for you, you can rule that the NPC has the relevant skills for all
the weapons he or she is carrying at that level.
> What are your opinions on the FASA adventures?
See http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/shadowrun/7300.html for my opinions on
most of the ones I own :)
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