[Sichr]

And IIRC more than a few historical decisions and developement of North Atlantic civilization in at least last 1500 years was influenced by a country the size of Wisconsin.

That's so cute.

A sourcebook adding nearly as many great dragons as were introduced for the entire world all in your backyard is bullshit, regardless of the country.

OK. This wasnt meant to be pissing contest. Ive just reacted on theat "snowflake" post the way I see appropriate.

[The Wyrm Ouroboros]

Honestly, Sichr, you can say the same thing about England ... and Norway ... and Denmark ... and France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Poland, Portugal, yadda yadda go get the alphabetical list.  The Germans did go overboard with the book, I have to agree.  And your comparison with Seattle is radically incorrect - Glow City is relatively small and was only because of a partial meltdown, the SCIRE had neither nuclear meltdown nor detonation, none of the Big 8/10 have a headquarters in Seattle (only local HQs, and IIRC only one 'North American headquarters', but I may be wrong on that one), and the Underground is a real modern place, making a metahuman-dominated sector actually realistic.

Seriously - the Germans really did throw any even vague nod towards realism right out the window while doing 80, then stopped and did a few 360's on top of it before burning rubber for good measure.  Even just with the amount of toxic/irradiated zones, most of the nation would be uninhabitable ...

[Sengir]

The thing about DidS is not that other places make more sense, it's that DidS desperately tried to one-up everything else in existence. And it shows

[Ursus Maior]

Honestly, Sichr, you can say the same thing about England ... and Norway ... and Denmark ... and France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Poland, Portugal, yadda yadda go get the alphabetical list.  The Germans did go overboard with the book, I have to agree. 

Yes, and quite a few Germans would agree. Especially ideas like "gangs of highwaymen" racing the autobahn and robbing everyone they come across, seem idiotic. It evokes an image of Mad Max and supposedly revives late medieval "Raubrittertum" (knights that essentially became highwaymen, because the landed gentry impoverished in that era). The point is that with a 100 percent coverage of BuMoNa (DocWagon for Germany) and Germany being a densly populated transit country, there is no place for highwaymen. Not on the autobahn or major highways anyway.

The Austria-sourcebook ("Walzer, Punks & Schwarzes Ice") is even weirder than DidS ever was. Austria is basically portrayed as Germany on LSD with Falco as soundtrack. Thankfully the Sourcebook for the German southwest and Switzerland ("Chrom & Dioxin") was not that bad and actually had several nice ideas. The München sourcebook ("München Noir") was a big step backwards, however. Basically Munich is portrayed as Seattle, New York and Frankfurt in one place. With dragons, AAAs and the Feds all in one place. While this closely resembles Munichs self-image, nobody else shares that.

But let's just say that Fanpro's authors had a knack for overdoing it during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Than god that's over. The rise in numbers of German publishers has nothing but a benefit to the quality of products.

[The Wyrm Ouroboros]

To be fair, the Germany sourcebooks had to follow up the London sourcebook, which was exactly the same thing - 'our shite is better over here', for which I roundly condemn the author, who is one of my Deadly Pair.  The information is somewhat interesting, but like DidS &c., it pulled from the RIFTS books of 'everything that follows has to be bigger, badder, better than the last.'  Standard SR has mostly gotten past that.

[Sengir]

The München sourcebook ("München Noir") was a big step backwards, however. Basically Munich is portrayed as Seattle, New York and Frankfurt in one place. With dragons, AAAs and the Feds all in one place.

Hmm, they put a Renraku arcology into Munich, but apart from that I don't consider München Noir that bad...