So as to keep the feel and get the pictures. You know, so the players know what their weapons look like. Also, if I don't really have the stat, I can't convert it.

Thanks and tchau!

I thought about it, but some of my friends had really bad experiences with SR's dice pool system, like rolling 14 dice to beat a TN 6 and not scoring a single success.

Tchau!

Sadly, you'll not find many pictures of use in the CC. For stats, I think you could just use the Character Generator program found here as it has all the important stats. The fluff books are really good, IMO. Sprawl Survival Guide, Dragons of the Sixth World, Corporate Download, SoNA, and the State of the Atrs books (hell even New Seattle) were really better than the new rule books which don't detail much more than the rules... at all.

And that's a bad thing?

Unfortunately, I use an iMac.

Yes, it resulted in a TPK. Good times...

TchaU!

Where did you get this book? I want one!!!

Well, the fluff is still there, but the whole thing is free, so you might as well download it.

This link will download the WitchCraft core book PDF (it's around 7 Mb). It's classic Unisystem, but in order to turn it into Cinematic, you just need a broader skill list (similar to SR 1st edition), fixed damage (the number between parenthesis in the damage codes), Drama points and a few streamlined rules, like combat. RPGnet has several threads comparing the two versions.

If you have any other questions, feel free to ask.

Tchau!

Sorry, that was a typo. But a friend of mine and I did send a proposal for that book years ago. We never heard from Fasa though. Anyway, there's a few sample animals in my webpage (the link is in my sig). Now, you can have fun with the Headless Mule, the Giant Snake, the Ipupiara, the Lesser River Drake etc. There are also three Amazonian corporations for your delight. JUst so you can make sense of the write-ups, we assumed that the Amazonian coup took over most of Brazil down to Rio de Janeiro, but São Paulo state was defended by the massive concentration of corporate forces, thus creating the São Paulo Corporate State (SPCS). The three southern Brazilian states seceded, becoming a new country.

Let me add that such a thing as Metropole (I understand it's a Rio-São Paulo sprawl) would very difficult to have, considering there's a whole range of mountains between them.

TchaU!

Actually the range runs parallel to the coastline and though large stretches of the area are currently uninhabited it is entirely plausible that the urbanization you are seeing today along the two main highways linking Rio to São Paulo might link up (especially given the combined population of the two cities plus migration from overgrown areas of the Brazilian heartland). In fact I've been told it'll happen in the next ten years. Also, it is highly unlikely the Metropole sprawl is one single continuous densely populated urbanization, but rather contiguous urban nexi spreading along those highways between the two great cities interspersed with undeveloped areas, farming, and even wilderness areas (not unlike the way the Seattle sprawl includes Snohomish and Fort Lewis) - which is partially why Metropole is described as being bi-polar.

The other reason why it is bipolar is summed up in an old Carioca/Rio joke where two men, a hard-working Paulista (São Paulo) and an easy going Carioca (Rio), find a magic lamp, call up the genie and each gets a wish. The Paulista goes first and asks the genie to put up a huge wall around São Paolo to keep out the riff-raff, especially the Cariocas. Then the Carioca gets his go and asks the genie fill the wall with water. Nah, no love lost there... and yeah it sounds funnier in Portuguese.

I believe it is covered in Shadows of North America - Alaska is split into Trans-Aleut Polar and Athabaska, I believe.