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[DocTaotsu]

Yeah, I'm sure if you're a gay, half black, half latino, Muslim (with a Jewish mother), troll... Life sucks a special sort of hard for you.

I also find it very easy to believe that people who have a problem with people who look roughly equivalent to them will have a problem with people who have horns or are undying soulless pointy eared creatures... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Megu]

Suoq has a point, though. We're thinking in a purely North American/UCAS context, but outside that I'm sure there are places where things are quite different. First of all, his comparison to homophobia today...it's getting better here, but look at attitudes towards gay people in Africa or the Middle East. Secondly, in Shadowrun, there's plenty of places where metatype is a lesser issue than other things. In India nobody gives a damn if you have horns if you're a Brahmin. In Sarajevo, it's whether you're a Serb, a Croat or a Bosniak, and all other considerations are on the back burner; ethnicity outweighs metatype in Russia and Southeast Asia as well. A francophone troll is higher up on the totem pole than an anglophone human in Quebec. In much of the NAN, metatype attitudes are better, but the Native/Anglo divide is quite real. It's not all Seattle anymore.

[suoq]

Actually, my comment was based off a recurrent meme in the books running commentary. A good number of the characters express disbelief/confusion over how bad it was. The book gives the impression that metahumans are considered normal and acceptable. The protesters are a thing of the past. Heck, one of the stories has a character shaking a ghouls hand. Soon, it seems, ghouls will have equal rights, play soccer, and work in the mail room.

"Hate the virus not the person!" - 5th ed version.

[Doc Chase]

Actually, my comment was based off a recurrent meme in the books running commentary. A good number of the characters express disbelief/confusion over how bad it was. The book gives the impression that metahumans are considered normal and acceptable. The protesters are a thing of the past. Heck, one of the stories has a character shaking a ghouls hand. Soon, it seems, ghouls will have equal rights, play soccer, and work in the mail room.

"Hate the virus not the person!" - 5th ed version.

The dude was pretty squicked out by doing so, though.

And they did eat his companion. Granted he was a deep-cover assassin, but they did eat him.

[Adam]

Adam, I love you. I may not be an iPad fan, but when you do things like that, I don't even care. =)

You're welcome. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

My group is about to start a new Pathfinder game, and I look forward to keeping as much of the reference stuff as possible iPad only.

[Sengir]

The German shadowhelix wiki has released a first blank prototype of their map project, which (contrary to the 6WA) looks like a map and not like google earth, has gridlines, corrected border-/coastlines and is available in a freely scaleable format. Kudos to the makers (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

http://shadowhelix.de/Datei:Weltkarte_2072...nk_mercator.svg
http://shadowhelix.de/Datei:Weltkarte_2072...k_mollweide.svg
http://shadowhelix.de/Datei:Weltkarte_2072_blank_platt.svg
http://shadowhelix.de/Datei:Weltkarte_2072...nk_robinson.svg

[Bob Lord of Evil]

Any cities on those maps?

[Sengir]

Nope, so far the blank prototype is a blank prototype (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

But it already has something the "official" map is severely missing, a grid. If I know where to put them, I can mark places myself.

[Bob Lord of Evil]

Seems like a lot more work to get to point B...when you already have point B. But hey, whatever floats your boat.

[Sengir]

Seems like a lot more work to get to point B...when you already have point B.

Unless that point B is a national capital or maybe one of the major cities you won't find it on a world map, anyway. That's why grid lines are important, they allow the user to find their backwater village without having to actually show every backwater village (and turn the map into a scatter diagram).

[suoq]

I'll admit it. I'm lost. If you want detail for an area, why not grab a current detailed map and draw any major shadowrun lines on it?

For example, I've got this lovely UCAS/NAN border based on time zones running through the middle of Nebraska. It's not that hard to grab a map of Nebraska, draw the jagged line on it. Modify the map to remove dead towns, add new towns, landmarks, zones of control/influence, etc.

The 4 other choices are nice and if someone hasn't bought 6th world in PDF form, they're pretty useful, but that's about it. They're not so good that I feel the desire to use them instead of the map I have.

[kjones]

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this already, but in the picture on p. 15, does the graphic on the sign (beneath where it says "100 Yen") remind anyone else of the Laughing Man from Stand Alone Complex?