pantomime
Aug 1 2007, 04:18 AM
How's every one doing? What SR4 sourcebook contains info on Insect spirits, also what books from other editions has information regarding them? Thanks.
Ol' Scratch
Aug 1 2007, 04:20 AM
In SR4 it's pretty much all focused in Street Magic. From past editions, there's a huge list of them, both in sourcebooks and adventures. Any specific information you're looking for about them?
Strobe
Aug 1 2007, 04:25 AM
Bug City is nice to get an idea how they behave.
-Strobe
FrankTrollman
Aug 1 2007, 04:54 AM
Every Threat book has the latest Insect Spirit tirade.
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But yeah, to really get a handle on what you're after, I'd have to know more information. It's a little bit like asking what the best sourcebook for reading about humans or orks in Shadowrun. There's a bunch of different groups who are up to a bunch opf different schemes.
-Frank
MITJA3000+
Aug 1 2007, 10:03 AM
| QUOTE (FrankTrollman) |
It's a little bit like asking what the best sourcebook for reading about humans or orks in Shadowrun. There's a bunch of different groups who are up to a bunch opf different schemes.
-Frank |
It would be pretty cool if we could get a Shadowrun version of the Races of Earthdawn-books.
pantomime
Aug 1 2007, 01:36 PM
I want to do a sort of survival horror/ mystergame. Players will be part of there own go-gang trapped in a quarinted area of Chicago. All of the gangs will be competing for the same resources and trying to figure out how they got into and how they will get out of this predicament. Yes I sort of ripped the story from Digital Devil Saga . . . but it just fits Shadowrun really well.
FrankTrollman
Aug 1 2007, 05:19 PM
| QUOTE (pantomime) |
| I want to do a sort of survival horror/ mystergame. Players will be part of there own go-gang trapped in a quarinted area of Chicago. All of the gangs will be competing for the same resources and trying to figure out how they got into and how they will get out of this predicament. Yes I sort of ripped the story from Digital Devil Saga . . . but it just fits Shadowrun really well. |
Well in that case even if you're playing it with SR4 you'd want to read through Bug City as it details the events of the Chicago Quarantine. Also you'd want to pick up Street Magic as it has the Insect Spirit rules. Interestingly, you'd want Magic in the Shadows if you were going to do it in SR3 so that's pretty similar.
In any case, the quarantine zone is pretty cut off from news, so with the main book, street magic, and Bug City you'd be totally set. Characters wouldn't be getting influxes of new equipment or cutting-edge cyberware any time soon.
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An important note to keep in mind: as of the Chicago incident, insect spirits called upon their magicians and queens to influence merges to True Form, so Flesh Form merges were extremely rare. The advent of hives which influenced inhabitation tests towards Flesh Form was later when some of the hives began taking sides with human organizations and human organizations started taking sides between hives.
Also important to note while reading Bug City is that back then the nomenclature between "hybrid form" and "flesh form" was extremely confused. All hybrids and flesh forms were called "flesh forms" collectively and what we now call Flesh Form inhabitations were called "good merges". By 2070 the nomenclature has been ironed out but during the Chicago incident there was a lot of overlapping descriptions because noone really knew what was going on.
-Frank
pantomime
Aug 1 2007, 06:05 PM
I appreciate the info =). I'll see if I can pick it up.
Dashifen
Aug 1 2007, 06:33 PM
I think Bug City is available as a PDF online. Otherwise, eBay is probably your best bet.
ThreeGee
Aug 1 2007, 06:56 PM
Bug City is worth finding even if your not into bugs. One of those sourcebooks that's worth reading even if you never intend to use it.
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