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post Oct 3 2004, 09:15 AM
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Since Rob has gone on the record & said it will come out next year, can anyone give some intel on which nations will be covered in the book?

Great to see another part of the world getting some attention........

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post Oct 3 2004, 11:53 PM
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QUOTE (Blue eyes)
Since Rob has gone on the record & said it will come out next year, can anyone give some intel on which nations will be covered in the book?

Great to see another part of the world getting some attention........

I knew it was coming out for some time, although I had heard through B&N that it was planned for November.

I'm wondering if any of the Japanese proposals were accepted? Synner?
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post Oct 3 2004, 11:55 PM
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To my knowledge the list is not definite yet. But you can be certain that Japan will be covered.
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post Oct 4 2004, 01:47 AM
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and probably China, Korea and Tibet. The question will be how much detail on Indochina and will it include India and Afghanistan.
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post Oct 4 2004, 02:20 AM
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Shadows of Asia seems pretty straightforward as a title.
Expect Asia to be covered ;) (look at the geographical definition of Asia to know what I mean).
Now, there have been a lot of small info given on Asia since the beginning of Shadowrun, especially about troubles and wars, so I guess lots of new states and the disappearance of some current ones is to be expected too.
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post Oct 4 2004, 02:49 AM
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yeah, there are a ton of 'stans to cover, not to mention all of the various ex-Chinese states. SoA is gonna be one big book, if each country gets as much space as they did in SoE and SoNA.
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post Oct 4 2004, 02:51 AM
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When I mean Japanese proposals, I mean proposals from Japanese Shadowrun gamers. There was a big thing about a month ago (or at least I made it a big thing) that, unlike SoE with it's British, French, and German contributors, SoA didn't have any Asian writers (or better yet, writers living in Asia). I notified the Japanese SRML and I believe a couple of them went to work writing proposals. I'm just wondering if they got them in, were any of them accepted, etc....

That said SoA is supposedly going to cover Japan, the Chinese states, HK, Australia, (probably) an update on the Philippines, and go into the Middle East.
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post Oct 4 2004, 03:23 AM
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Australia got a ton of coverage in Target: Awakened Lands.
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post Oct 4 2004, 07:16 AM
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To lay some inquisitive minds at rest, locals are involved.
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post Oct 4 2004, 07:22 AM
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Ahhh, finally, a chance to bitch about how badly where I live gets screwed (and how badly the local writers fragged up)! :D
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post Oct 4 2004, 02:29 PM
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It's a local-foreigner joint effort. We'll frag it up together. :grinbig:
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post Oct 4 2004, 02:33 PM
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QUOTE (Snow_Fox @ Oct 3 2004, 08:47 PM)
Afghanistan.

It'd be interesting to see what reasons they pull out of the air for Afghanistan being significant enough for inclusion (if it is), given that for the most part Shadowrun has shied away from real-world drugs.

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post Oct 4 2004, 02:51 PM
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QUOTE (toturi)
Ahhh, finally, a chance to bitch about how badly where I live gets screwed (and how badly the local writers fragged up)! :D

Y'all know you could always submit something yourself. No guarantees that all, or even any of what you send will be used, but there's no harm in submitting a properly formatted proposal, according to Shadowrun guidelines.

If ya don't, y'all got nobody to blame but yourself. ;) :D
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post Oct 4 2004, 02:53 PM
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QUOTE (Kagetenshi)

It'd be interesting to see what reasons they pull out of the air for Afghanistan being significant enough for inclusion (if it is), given that for the most part Shadowrun has shied away from real-world drugs.

If anyone at FP MENTIONS awakened poppy plants....
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post Oct 4 2004, 02:55 PM
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QUOTE (Zenmaxer)
If anyone at FP MENTIONS awakened poppy plants....

Maybe they'll got the magical compound equivalent of Jazz/Kamikaze.
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post Oct 4 2004, 03:08 PM
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QUOTE (Young Freud)
That said SoA is supposedly going to cover Japan, the Chinese states, HK, Australia (probably) an update on the Philippines, and go into the Middle East.

The Middle East? Whilst I'd love to have more information on that area, that just strikes me as a little odd that they'd consider putting it in this book. I'd much prefer that it got it's own one and they simply concentrated on places like China/SE Asia/the surrounding area in this one. :/
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post Oct 4 2004, 03:10 PM
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Maybe they'll got the magical compound equivalent of Jazz/Kamikaze.


or maybe it'll just be a dumb excuse to include afghanistan.

I'm with Flak-o. Gimme pure hard data on the true east and screw the bombed-out familiar deserts of the middle east.
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post Oct 4 2004, 04:24 PM
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*Kicks Zenmaxer in the shins*

I'd say that I'd probably actually prefer a book about the Middle East more than Asia, the only thing that brings Asia back into the running is possible information about Hong Kong and the Chinese warlord states. :)
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post Oct 4 2004, 05:20 PM
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:: laughs and hobbles around :: Okay okay, point made. Take it either way, but don't do both in one book.
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post Oct 4 2004, 10:19 PM
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I agree that the Middle East should be done in its own book, along with Afghanistan and whatever else is still around. Leave SoA to China, Japan, SEA (Burma, Thailand, etc..), Mongolia, Yakut/Awakened Siberia, the Phillipinnes, and other countries that are in the geographic area. The Middle East is too big and interesting to be crammed into some other book. Who knows maybe sometime next year there could be a book called `Sot Me' ;)
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