34. "RE: Memories of games gone by..."
In response to message #18
>Well... that's fine, I suppose, in a fictional world where electrical >engineering never developed as a profession and people still think >electricity is a magical fluid that affects that luminiferous >æther in various unintuitive ways. Which, given that >Shadowrun is set in the Sixth World, I suppose it could be over >there. That doesn't excuse Cyberpunk 2020, though. :)
Point, Ben. :)
In minor defense of Cyberpunk 2020, it was to me the only tabletop RPG that really nailed the lethality of firearms. Character death wasn't so much a case of overly nasty GM as simple mechanics.