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Sprawl Sites
Sprawl Sites contains Location Archetypes, Sprawl Encounters, Archetypes & Contacts, Sprawl Law, Credsticks and Ids. A supplement for Shadowrun.
136 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1991
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October 25, 2024
SPRAWL SITES isn't one of my favorite books in the Shadowrun line but it gets props for the fact that it contains dozens of short adventure hooks that would be more useful than 90% of all supplements if you are lacking material for the evening. It also contains a bunch of generic building maps that I didn't find very useful plus ten pages of blank notes in the back. Still, I give props to any book that contains a bunch of racist anti-meta villains you get to shoot up.
November 28, 2015
A Collection of Floor Plans
3 May 2013
Well, I will try to get in a commentary for a book before I have to jump on my plane from Sydney to Melbourne. Yep, I am sitting at the Domestic Terminal at Sydney airport drinking tea and paying close attention to the announcements as it is currently 12:30 and my plane leaves at 1:10 pm. Mind you, as I make my way around here I just cannot help but think that I prefer Hong Kong airport much more, but maybe that has something to do with the fact that when I catch a plane out of Hong Kong I try to arrive there three hours prior to departure (or four) which means I have a lot more time. Also, there is no such thing as a domestic airport in Hong Kong because all flights out are international.
Anyway this book is a book of maps, or more precisely building plans, and I actually found that it is quite useful. There are actually less words in this book than there are in Street Samurai Catalog, which is probably because everything in this book is self explanatory. Want a map for a fast food restaurant – got one. Want a map for a shopping mall – got one. Want a map for a penthouse apartment – got one. Mind you, you probably don't need this book because, well, every shopping centre that I have been to is different. For instance the ones in Australia tend to have wide malls, and large open areas, but the ones in Hong Kong do not (and the ones in China are even tighter, especially the one in Shenzen).
Okay, as I said I liked this book, but the more that I think about it and the more that I write here, the less of a need I actually feel that this book has. Simply put, having a map of a small, medium, or large shop may be helpful but not necessary. How many times do you actually go into a shop like that, and if you want to know what is out the back you can probably find something on the internet. As for apartments, even penthouse apartments, you can find floor plans quite easily on the internet.
Well, yes, this book was released before there was any real definable internet, but even then you could get floor plans from newspapers, and as I mentioned before, how many times do you walk into a shop. If you don't know what is out the back of your local supermarket you can always ask one of your friends who actually works in one (that is if you have any friends who have jobs, or if you have any friends, but if you do still roleplay in a group, I suspect that you do).
3 May 2013
Well, I will try to get in a commentary for a book before I have to jump on my plane from Sydney to Melbourne. Yep, I am sitting at the Domestic Terminal at Sydney airport drinking tea and paying close attention to the announcements as it is currently 12:30 and my plane leaves at 1:10 pm. Mind you, as I make my way around here I just cannot help but think that I prefer Hong Kong airport much more, but maybe that has something to do with the fact that when I catch a plane out of Hong Kong I try to arrive there three hours prior to departure (or four) which means I have a lot more time. Also, there is no such thing as a domestic airport in Hong Kong because all flights out are international.
Anyway this book is a book of maps, or more precisely building plans, and I actually found that it is quite useful. There are actually less words in this book than there are in Street Samurai Catalog, which is probably because everything in this book is self explanatory. Want a map for a fast food restaurant – got one. Want a map for a shopping mall – got one. Want a map for a penthouse apartment – got one. Mind you, you probably don't need this book because, well, every shopping centre that I have been to is different. For instance the ones in Australia tend to have wide malls, and large open areas, but the ones in Hong Kong do not (and the ones in China are even tighter, especially the one in Shenzen).
Okay, as I said I liked this book, but the more that I think about it and the more that I write here, the less of a need I actually feel that this book has. Simply put, having a map of a small, medium, or large shop may be helpful but not necessary. How many times do you actually go into a shop like that, and if you want to know what is out the back you can probably find something on the internet. As for apartments, even penthouse apartments, you can find floor plans quite easily on the internet.
Well, yes, this book was released before there was any real definable internet, but even then you could get floor plans from newspapers, and as I mentioned before, how many times do you walk into a shop. If you don't know what is out the back of your local supermarket you can always ask one of your friends who actually works in one (that is if you have any friends who have jobs, or if you have any friends, but if you do still roleplay in a group, I suspect that you do).
August 16, 2009
Useful collection of locations for use with any RPG.
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