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Runner  Group: Members Posts: 3,314 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Lisbon, Cidade do Pecado Member No.: 185  |
Btw- You missed:
- IE : Harlequin, Tir Tairngire, Tir Na nOg, Imago, Black Madonna (novel), Harlequin's Back, Worlds Without End (novel), SoNA - Corp War : PoaD:Dunkelzahn's Secrets, Blood in the Boardroom, Corp Download, Corporate Punishment and the minor: - Here there be Dragons : PoaD:Dunkelzahn's Secrets², DidS2 (German release), Survival of the Fittest, Dragons of the Sixth World - Rise of the Otaku : Denver boxset, Virtual Realities 2, Matrix, Target: Matrix |
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Apr 22 2004, 12:52 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,759 Joined: 11-December 02 From: France Member No.: 3,723 |
Thanks, I added them with credits. I also realized I forgot the space race metaplot (M&M², YotC, WotC and T:WL) and Corporate Punishment and Wake of the Comet in the books list.
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Apr 22 2004, 11:01 PM
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Would you count Psychotrope, Technobabel, and the very tertiary discssion of them in Aztlan as relevant to Rise of the Otaku?
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Apr 22 2004, 11:06 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,759 Joined: 11-December 02 From: France Member No.: 3,723 |
Maybe for the novels, but I never read them so I can't really tell (time to go hunting for summary on the web). From what I remember of the Aztlan SB, some otaku shows up, but we don't really learn anything about them, so I wouldn't count it. If you intend on playing a campaign based on the Otaku, that ain't a landmark. EDIT: after a check, yeah, the two novels should count. |
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Apr 22 2004, 11:16 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
Psychotrope has fallen into the Hell of Apparent Non-Canon Literature, unless you subscribe to the logic of MPAIT.
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Apr 23 2004, 12:31 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 194 Joined: 24-January 04 Member No.: 6,013 |
What is MPAIT?
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Apr 23 2004, 12:39 AM
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Well, I meant more along the lines of the discussion the cabal is having re: Leo and the otaku in the chapter where they speculate on the Aztechnology board members and a possible AI, and wow... Is that random and grasping at threads which may not exist. IOW, I'm an idiot. |
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Apr 23 2004, 01:08 AM
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Beetle Eater Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,797 Joined: 3-June 02 From: Oblivion City Member No.: 2,826 |
Shouldn't the Rise of the Otaku also include RA:S, Brainscan, and Threats 2? I think Aztlan does count, too, but only just.
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Apr 23 2004, 01:14 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
Multiple Personality AI Theory. Anywho, I already summed up the Otaku/AI/Crash of '29 metaplot in my Echoes File. |
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Apr 23 2004, 01:25 AM
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Yeah, but the vampiric otaku child of a megacorp director turned empress of Japan is kewl!
Actually, I did like the backstory for Red Wraith. Dark Father was cool, too. And I agree on the Renraku books. T2 is on there, though. |
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Apr 23 2004, 05:15 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,451 Joined: 21-April 03 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 4,488 |
Quick formula if you want to know what date something happened in the metaplot: Take the publishing date, and add 59 years and 6 months. In most cases, this gets you the date in the Shadowrun timeline (fudged a month or three backwards or forwards as needed).
Just as a postscript, I love the metaplot and probably wouldn't have gotten into Shadowrun without it. It's probably the only game world that moves in real time (one year in the real world = one year in the game world) and at the time I got into it, it was one of the few game worlds that had a detailed metaplot (except BattleTech, another FASA product and my intro into RPGs). The Abstruse One |
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Apr 26 2004, 03:32 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,028 Joined: 9-November 02 From: The Republic of Vermont Member No.: 3,581 |
Battletech ran at 1:1, too, 1040 years ahead of real time, except for the disjunction produced by the 20 Year Update, which just jumped everything up to 1060 years ahead of real time. That seems to have fallen apart since the release of Clickwarrior, though. |
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