From:	Patrick Goodman pgoodman13@************.com
Subject:	Mike Mulvihill on STATE OF THE ART
Date:	Sat, 28 Oct 2000 09:12:51 -0500

From: "Lee Decker" <leedecker@******.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 7:47 AM

> I for one loved the shadowtalk and story lines in each book. Many were
> used as plot hooks at one time or another. I used to reread books looking
> for ideas to use against my players. The new stuff I picked up, read once.
> Made a note of the new rules and put it on a shelf.

The next several books down the line are *all* storyline books (with the
occasional adventure), with the exception of RIGGER 3, which is the last of
the rules upgrades.

But the next three or four books, off the top of my head, are world and
storyline books, not rules supplements. TARGET: MATRIX (a small percentage
of which I wrote), YEAR OF THE COMET (an even smaller percentage of which I
wrote, due to a couple of cosmic and karmic misunderstandings on my part),
TARGET: AWAKENED LANDS, SHADOWS OF NORTH AMERICA, TARGET: WASTELANDS...this
is all storyline stuff, with minimal rules.

> I understand and have understood Fasa's need to spread its player base.
> But I know my gaming group has since fallen apart and moved onto other
> things besides SR partly due to this shift.

You have, of course, brought this to the attention of the people who can fix
it, that being Mike and Rob at FASA, right?

Patrick