Shadowrun War! "Arbeit Macht Frei!"

fanboy2000

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So a friend of mine just alerted me to a new Shadowrun supplement called War!. Anyways, part of the book is supposed detail various mercenary hot spots. One of those is in Poland, and the book has a section in the polish section called "Arbeit Macht Frei!" where the characters have to kill the ghosts of jews who died at Auschwitz to get Nazi treasure.

What were they thinking? This is in such poor taste, I'm having trouble believing it's true.
 

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So a friend of mine just alerted me to a new Shadowrun supplement called War!. Anyways, part of the book is supposed detail various mercenary hot spots. One of those is in Poland, and the book has a section in the polish section called "Arbeit Macht Frei!" where the characters have to kill the ghosts of jews who died at Auschwitz to get Nazi treasure.

What were they thinking? This is in such poor taste, I'm having trouble believing it's true.


Unbelievable.
 

Doing a bit of research, I have figured out:

  1. It sounds like I need to buy SR 4Ed soon because the company doesntt sound healthy.
  2. There is a review- in English!- of War on the German site SR Nexus confirming this idiocy AND details others besides. (No link due to language, but type in a search for this thread's title and you'll find it.)
 


I find this very offensive.

My mother's grandparents were murdered by the Nazi beasts, and it shudders me to think about a group of under-age munchkins desecrating my grand-grandparents' memory for a bunch of nuyen all while drinking soft drinks, munching on a cheap Pizza and making stupid jokes.

I must say that I have no problem with WWII and even the Nazi war-crimes depicted in an RPG, but this should be done in a way *RESPECTFUL* to the innocent victims. And killing the victims' ghosts is *HORRIBLY DISRESPECTFUL*.
 
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Is there anyone with a copy of the book in question to confirm questionable content?

This is Internet. Things tend to get overblown here.

Regards,
Ruemere
 

I have seen it. The death camp bit is a fairly insignificant in size compared to the bulk of the book. About half a page. I can post a scan or type out the text of the page in question if mods/fair use allow it.

Basically there's a column or so on how horribly haunted and dangerous Shadowrun-Auschwitz is, and there's a short adventure suggestion/plot hook that has basically no detail at all regarding plot, enemies (though given the site writeup, the only possible opposition here is the spirits of the murdered death camp victims), location layout etc, and boils down to the PCs going into Auschwitz to recover the scalpel of a Mengele-type Nazi doctor which has become imbued with power and haunted by its victims. There is a stat line for the scalpel, and though I don't know the system, the writer seems to assume that the statline is significant enough that the PCs will want to keep it in order to wield themselves. It has a market value of 10000 nuyen.

I haven't read much more of the module, but the whole business seems incredibly tasteless, poorly concieved, very poorly written, and of limited actual in-game usefulness. Neonazi? It doesn't really jump out at me. It doesn't promote or deny the holocaust, just treats it rather blandly as a historical fact. Most players I know, however, would have SERIOUS ISSUES with having their PC running around wielding MENGELE'S FRIGGING SCALPEL, much less actually going on a shadowrun to especially to retrieve the thing...
 
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