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I'm planning to in the near future. But, no, haven't played it yet.

The people who keep attacking AH in the speculation thread are mostly low-participation types who are often recent joiners, I suspect imports from the BT side of things as I understand people are not allowed to discuss the situation there. I know two are recent additions to the SR freelancer pool a...

BeeRockxs wrote:On the BT side of things, NDAs have been regular for longer than that.

It's never been a big secret that BT gets more love and attention from IMR than SR.

I do know that CGL isn't in the habit of revealing metaplots to people without NDAs. Wrong. NDAs only became regular practice about a year and a half ago, approximately the time I started writing with the Missions team. It was after Frank dropped the bomb, the mass resignations became news, and reg...

I actually find the concept that Jason is still out of the loop on that puzzling and terrifying. Assuming he isn't flatly lying, it basically means that he was put in charge of "developing" the Artifacts saga and the followup Harlequin's Gambit without actually reading the plot arc. From ...

Panzerfaust 150 wrote:they acted like made men in "Goodfellas"

Nerd-thugs?

But despite the fact that there is all kinds of cool stuff in space, actually getting there hasn't been well explained. No one has written up the step by steps of you as a corporate espionage specialist would get to Mars or whatever. And so people default to thinking in 2010 terms: which means that...

I don't think I've ever seen that tossed out. Considering Lifestyle costs it must be quite a lot, but based on what (little) I know about organized crime that would still put the SR payouts much higher than known values. It wouldn't need to be a realistic value, just playable within the terms of th...

I'm still not sure though. My brain might just be stuck in fantasy RPG mode where players are expected to become tougher than the swarms and win that way. I think you just hit on something that's been perpetually overlooked by developers and misunderstood by newer players. SR isn't a hack-n-slash c...

My ICs state payment is due 45 days from PDF publication. I'm curious as to what the dead tree writer ICs have as a payment due date. If it's from date-of-printing I would agree that that's a shitty deal. The publisher is already bringing in cash off of a writer's work when the pre-print PDF goes on...

Untrained (Professional Rating 0): The grunts in this group are untrained and unfamiliar with combat situations. They tend to react clumsily, slowly, and without a plan. If more than a quarter of the group members are removed from the combat, the group will flee in panic. Examples: Street mobs, ren...

So yes, the pure e-book publication is a way to attempt to squeeze some amount of money out of peoples' writing without actually paying for it. There is ample precedent for this, and it really should not surprise anyone at this point. As someone who works exclusively on Shadowrun eBooks, I have bee...

Psychic Robot wrote:

I love Grand Theft Auto. Make something like THAT into an MMORPG.

You rang?

If that game delivers what its promising, I'll definitely play.

I am not against MMORPGs. I find the concept intriguing. Hell, build a holodeck or the Metaverse and I'll hang out in it. However, I've never found an MMORPG that I actually wanted to play as I find the traditional fantasy genre dull and the sci-fi entries to the online multi-player arena are lacklu...

At the opposite extreme though... there's Android. Let us never speak of that damn game again. Hmmm. Glad I received that game as a gift then. People asked for flaws in Frank's argument, so here you go. I'm reluctant to engage in this, but there are some rather defamatory things said about me, and ...

So what books are being held up / may not see print? I'm still upset about corp war not being released. - Corp Guide Frank mentioned. - Sixth World Almanac , which is supposed to be a mash-up of the Shadows of... series for the 2070s. - A thematic sequel to Fields of Fire. Basically a merc campaign...

HERESY: Rule books should be walls of beautiful typography. No spot illustrations unless it's a graphic to accompany a specific race, class, monster or organization. No padding out the pages by slapping in a random OMG FIGHTIN' THE BEHOLDER CHECK OUT THE ELF TITTIES illio to fill space. Save the tit...

So Marvel Girl of the X-Men in a fantasy setting? A good class name depends on the flavor; if the world-warping powers are internal (psionic) or external (magical) would determine that. But since you asked:

Telekine, Flayer, Cerebralist, Esper, Occultist, Hexer.

Starmaker wrote:The Topps logo image is still named bottom_wizkids.png.

That's a common lazy website designer tactic; scale a new image down to the size of the one to be replaced and give the file an identical name. It's a bad coding practice but not unusual.

Comics and Games Retailer used to get this information from polling (until their profits were too low and their parent company, losing money, pulled the plug). Diamond did not do this first, or even think up the system they use. -Crissa True. True. But unless something happens in the comics distrib...

How could they? You've hit a very huge flaw in the P&P gaming business and I've never understood why it hasn't been corrected. Diamond Shipping is the sole distributor for the comic book industry and it does track sales of individual titles to retailers. It's actually publicly available informa...

Damn. Sorry for the double post.

I've dealt with teenage girls less catty than Funkenstein. When he isn't pulling a passive-aggressive bitch fest he's in full-on petty-rage mode, of which I've been the brunt of in the past. How some get permabanned from boards but this loser and others don't baffles my mind. So I've been grinding t...

According to the folks at Wildfire, Cthulhutech is out of print pending contract negotiations, and they are actively looking at getting a new publisher. So this is technically true that no Cthulhutech books have had stop orders put on them. But there also are no books to put stop orders on, so it's...

Now, the punchline: Bull told me afterwards that if I don't change my post style that he will permanently ban me. "Forget it, Jake. It's Dumpshock." they kept the money and a bunch of people never got paid. It's always the same song but no one ever seems to pick up on it. The End of the B...