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<blockquote data-quote="Gnostic Goblin" data-source="post: 9535867" data-attributes="member: 7048243">I'm putting this in Geektalk and Media because of its content.I read Ready Player One. It is brilliant. For a generation who remembers the 80s and uses multi-user 3D social media platforms such as SecondLife or any of the video games which have that faculty, its a major history piece. Don't miss out on it. I saw the movie. It took me four times. I could not get into it until after reading the book.One of the first RPG's I got into is Shadowrun. I have FASA's first edition hardcopy. It is where the name 'the Matrix' came from, you possibly saw some of those movies.The biggest criticism I heard repeated by everyone who knows Shadowrun is that any Character jacked into the Matrix is having an entirely different adventure than the ones who aren't. It can be a nightmare for the GM to run it and boring for the players, as it involves a lot of waiting around before players can join in the action.When I first read the description of what the Matrix is in SR, was before we had VR, before we had the internet. The description mentioned how it uses the Deckers brain and memory and imagination to generate the visual imagery with their mind, wrapped around a simple structure (comparable to a simple d&amp;d dungeon layout; guard room, puzzle, treasure room, etc), which other people can also jack into to experience and share that environment. I might be the only person I ever heard of who played it that way. Everyone else seems to think it is Tron.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gnostic Goblin, post: 9535867, member: 7048243"] I'm putting this in Geektalk and Media because of its content. I read Ready Player One. It is brilliant. For a generation who remembers the 80s and uses multi-user 3D social media platforms such as SecondLife or any of the video games which have that faculty, its a major history piece. Don't miss out on it. I saw the movie. It took me four times. I could not get into it until after reading the book. One of the first RPG's I got into is Shadowrun. I have FASA's first edition hardcopy. It is where the name 'the Matrix' came from, you possibly saw some of those movies. The biggest criticism I heard repeated by everyone who knows Shadowrun is that any Character jacked into the Matrix is having an entirely different adventure than the ones who aren't. It can be a nightmare for the GM to run it and boring for the players, as it involves a lot of waiting around before players can join in the action. When I first read the description of what the Matrix is in SR, was before we had VR, before we had the internet. The description mentioned how it uses the Deckers brain and memory and imagination to generate the visual imagery with their mind, wrapped around a simple structure (comparable to a simple d&d dungeon layout; guard room, puzzle, treasure room, etc), which other people can also jack into to experience and share that environment. I might be the only person I ever heard of who played it that way. Everyone else seems to think it is Tron. [/QUOTE]

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