Seattle Sourcebook

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Seattle Sourcebook is a supplement published by FASA in 1990 for the near-future dystopian role-playing game Shadowrun .

Contents

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Seattle Sourcebook is a campaign setting supplement which details the neighborhoods, government, economy, and main corporations of Seattle in the year 2050, and how they interconnect with each other.[1]

Publication history

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Seattle Sourcebook was written by Boy F. Petersen, Jr., with a cover by Dana Knutson, and was published by FASA in 1990 as a 176-page book with a foldout map.[1]

Shannon Appelcline noted that in the early 1990s, "Shadowrun was supported by over a dozen supplements each year—some of which were quite well-received, such as Seattle Sourcebook (1990), one of the first extensive RPG descriptions of a modern city, and Nigel Findley's adventure, The Universal Brotherhood (1990)."[2]: 74 

Reception

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In the November 1992 edition of Dragon (Issue #187), Allen Varney thought that the material in this book "expands spectacularly on the skimpy material included in the [original] Shadowrun rulebook." He concluded "[The book describes its] city in detail unprecedented outside of fantasy RPGs."[3]

Reviews

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Awards

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In 1991, Seattle Sourcebook won the Origins Award for Best Graphic Presentation of a Roleplaying Game, Adventure, or Supplement of 1990.[5]

References

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