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Shadowrun works well in that regard. Except for the extremely low payment that I see in official publications. It makes no sense at all for highly professional experts to do jobs only they can do for a payment which is just barely enough to cover the costs for the run and a few months of living. Now...

Here is a Dumpshock thread with a collection of spacey official material.

http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=37473

On another note, I recently found the "SR Online Steam Early Access" video. Apparently they screwed up so hard, they had to start over at some point, some people from their "staff" "disappeared" and all the usual problems that plague a professional venture. Here is the...

My personal problem with technomancers was, that my GM introduced them as some "cool" Neo-wannabes. I therefore assumed that they were only implemented to get the Matrix fans into SR. Then I read Gibson's books and noticed the technomantic ideas in them. I realized that technomancy could b...

I view this as a sort of backpedaling as he starts to face the reality that the new rules are not fitting together at all in any coherent way. Because of the new costs of cyberware in terms of essence and money, used is looking like a great option, esp concerning things like the implanted cyberdeck...

FrankTrollman wrote:Jason wanted to do a thing about how communism was bad or something, and absolutely insisted that there be no brain hacking or electronic mind control of any kind because reasons.

If your first big idea for a scary plot about corporate capitalism is that a corporation becomes communist...

Lago PARANOIA wrote:I thought the official Shadowrun slogan was 'Geek the mage first'.

True, that would be the other one.
They got that one right btw.

SR5, page 62: Watch your back! Shoot straight! Conserve ammo! Never deal with a dragon! What? It should be: And never, ever, cut a deal with a dragon. HOW COULD THEY DO THIS WRONG??? It's been that way since SR1! Yes, it's nitpicking. I know that. But of all the bad things in that book, this just bl...

hmm, skillwires . . wait . . essence went up with level usually . . so, with skill-lvel 12, how much essence does that thing now cost? it's been pointed out to me, that skillwires only go to level 6 now . . They go up to lvl 6 and cost 0.1 per rating. But you need a skilljack too and that's also 0....

Regarding the payment... They suggest quite specific numbers this time. Of course, these are so low that you cannot even pay for basic cyberware at rating 1 after the prime run on the Wildcats they give as an example. This is also because they increased the prices of decades old ware like muscle rep...

I saw this about the Leadership skill: http://forums.shadowrun4.com/index.php?topic=11389.msg212554#msg212554 I think they're taking the "everyone has a role in combat" shtick too far, and slowly turning SR into some sort of MMO clone like D&D4. The Leadership skill stat-block stinks ...

Even an intense social scene is mostly roleplaying and any character can participate in those regardless of his skills or attributes or cyebrware, because it's pure roleplaying. In the SR games I've GMed and am GMing, combat does occur pretty frequently, but not moreso than social scenes (and wtf, ...

I've found a first review of SR5:
http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=39005

Seems like the devs don't like their mundane characters very much.

So think of all the unopposed tasks that seem like having better equipment might be helpful. Risky driving? Picking locks? Climbing walls? Deactivating bombs? Under the new "hit cap" system of equipment, having superior equipment does not affect your success rate for any of that shit! Thi...

No idea why it takes them longer than us germans . . but eh, we go the errata first and only too ^^ I bet so hard that the adept's ork poser quality in the German quickstart rules was a fix. They probably took the picture of an ork and slapped it on a human char. Someone in Germany noticed that and...

From the log: [19:31] <+JasonMHardy> @NotW: We're trying to emphasize the flavor of the traditions a little more, but the biggest magic change is probably the addition of preparations, which allow you to imbue spell qualities into some sort of object for later triggering. And how exactly is this dif...

I just found this and my curiosity told me to pick it up. Apparantly it's a guideline to create random HnS dungeons, which can be played without a DM. Has anybody tried this? I really wonder how well this works. I mean, random tables are nothing new to me. But we never randomized everything and ever...

I heard Karmagen will become the new standard chargen in SR5. Imho, that's good, I always liked Karmagen better.

The question is: Will it be Karmagen with 750 or 1000 Karma?
I just realized what a fabulous fail the latter would be.

Fixed refresh schedule for Edge is an improvement. The power of Edge in 4e depends strongly on GM generosity. True, we tried lots of refresh systems until we found one that fits our playstyle. The SR5 version doesn't sound so bad. One Edge per 8 hour rest reminds me of D&D, but whatever, it's g...

Preview #2 is up: http://www.rpgnow.com/product/114622/Shadowrun%2C-Fifth-Edition-Preview-%232 Just read it. It's bad, trust me. In fact, it's just SR4 with SR3 initiative rules and "limits". And the limits suck. One example in the PDF states how some guy has a high physical limit because...

Technomancers were essentially magic. I mean, different people tried different ways to put it - evolved humans, the infringement of a mathematical plane of information, AI brain-crafting a la Mona Lisa Overdrive - but it boils down to HEY, THESE GUYS DON'T NEED DECK. And that's the long and the sho...

Technomancers are not a cool new idea from SR4, just a rename. I know for a fact Otaku were in SR3. Possibly in older editions, but I didn't play before that. This is true. The Otaku are older than SR4. Still, most newcomers to Shadowrun think that Technomancers were inspired by Neo from the Matrix...

(An HEV suit will be better against a fireball than a stunball I think ) The fun thing is: Given how magic works in Shadowrun, the HEV suit (with full helmet) would block LOS and you would not be able to harm the guy inside with your stunball or any other direct spells like all the shiny mind fucki...

The point is: Why do these archetypes need to be that awesome in combat? I'm going to go out on a limb, and guess "because that's what people do at the table"? But I've never played SR, so who knows. Maybe the whole game is planning, and you handwave the actual ops. But I doubt it. It dep...

This kinda shows how superfluous the hacker as an active team member is. If you don't add shit for him to do artificially, he has nothing to do and/or contribute. Hackers play their own game even more than mages. Just admitting it and moving on would be better than this shit is now. Just focus on d...