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Any speculation on why they pulled it?

Troll: Beat me to it. I was just about to link to/comment on the same thing. I've been striving mightily hard not to condemn CGL but do they just not CARE about the segment of the player base who is at the very least extremely put off by this entire thing? I wouldn't think Coleman would be at the ve...

I don't allow laptops at my table when GMing way too distracting, except for me (TO reference PDFs, and to track initiative/health during combat), and even then "nothing not related to the game on the screen, not even minimized" is a fairly firm rule.

The whole situation is freaking insane, not even a fucking a wrist slap for stealing 1 million dollars? From outsider perspective, It seems almost certain that other members of the company are involved or they're gullible morons. To be honest I am leaning towards the latter, you've got to be a fuck...

I've yet to meet anyone who has actually, seriously ran an adventure off of a PDF on a laptop, so we're going to gloss over that option.

I have. In only one case was it 'pirated' though, and even then it was more like abandonware.

Wow guys, that was a pretty heated argument about fucking unicorn cops. Anyway here is a real life story about mounted police. I went to a liberal arts state college which had an annual concert/music festival which brought in massive quantities of people from off campus to do massive quantities of d...

Yoink to the power of yoink. Those maps/breakdowns are excellently detailed and the lone star station seems like an incredibly likely location to come up and will be invaluable for any future Shadowrun campaigns I run after my current one, which is winding down to its final adventure. Thanks for 'e...

The problem is entirely that choosing those character options dooms you to an unplaytested realm of rules written by Aaron that no one bothered to even run through simple comparisons or subject to calculator analysis. The subject of math qua balance is incredibly fascinating to me and one I'd like ...

How do you avoid this? Which part do you remove? I mean besides the 'mortals sit on the sidelines' part. If you don't have the crisis, then there is (relatively) little going on except criminals doing crimes to make money which is not the most compelling narrative in-and-of-itself. But I'd rather r...

FTR Adam I wasn't saying anything bad about those books, don't know if I've even seen them, just replying to Tycho. @kzt: Well if you run the numbers on Native Americans vs. not in GENERAL on that level it doesn't make sense that the Natives won/that the NAN was formed. Don't know what you mean by &...

I like random generation but I think I'll keep my random generation and my Shadowrun separate. Shadowrun is (to me) all about carefully planning to defeat an organized security system.

I do like the gray goo nanodungeon idea just not in my SR.

Skimmed your proposal, pretty awesome ideas, although I hope that they don't use it, not because it is bad (in fact they may well come up with something far worse) but because I don't want to have spoiled for myself a lengthy adventure that I may well wind up PCing. However, in so skimming I did not...

Wut. That sounds like something you would have to handle very, very carefully as a writer. (If Immortal Elves were of the viewpoint that shit should be solved just by capping someone in the head, the original Harlequin would have been a much simpler adventure.) I'd ask you to tell me more but I don'...

The world-spanning metaplots need to stop. SR needs smaller, interesting, near-future sci-fi/fantasy mashup adventures that can be easily tailored to a single locale or region not ZOMG EVENTS BLAOWIE!!!. At the end of the day these big event campaign books are piles of fluff that never affect the P...

The Layout is horrible, sometimes about 1/3 of a page is just plain white. The Cover Art and Layout of the front- and backcover of Corp Guide just don't fit with the other books, because they used a BT scheme. The Books are flawed by mistakes, in grammar and spelling as well background wise. Sounds...

Too generalist. If you're going to have specialist casters you shouldn't have a "Wizard" or "Mage" you should have shit like "Beguiler" and "Warmage". Your summoner and Mage-Knight look okay (though I'm not convinced the game needs another mage knight. Thats ...

I think Ghostwalker's influence outside of Denver is being overestimated pretty hard by calling him the second dragon president. I'm beginning to think that Shadowrun has hit the end of its shelf-life. Cyberpunk is dead as a genre. There's been an influx of post-humanist thought in the most recent e...

Never before have I learned so much about something I care so little about.

Well the money has been turned into a very large house, apparently, so the image of people waking up to find all their roof and walls gone one morning is pretty funny, but no, I don't think it's practical so you're forgiven if you don't do that. Technically it would be a "structure hit" :...

what the fuck on so many levels what the fuck

Schwarz-> Note my comment regarding "omni" gamers. There are people who like all sorts of games - but this is only a small segment. Most prefer to stick to a few game types. Not that this really disproves what you're saying, but IIRC they had never tabletopped before. It was pretty clear-...

Well one thing I can think of immediately is that the world would being nuked would DEFINITELY create a Background Count.

So there's your built-in magic nerf and it's 100% fluff appropriate.

I love post-apocalyptic and I love Shadowrun but I think combining them ruins them. Of course then again I ran...SOMETHING...that was essentially more or less set in the Seventh World, or what (wasn't) left of the Sixth after the Horrors came. Which was not totally dissimilar. But it was (literally)...

So Rob (and yourself) are done with Shadowrun as a whole?

What happened to Rob Boyle in all this?