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But the second party (sammy+mage+rocker) do NOT need to find useful skillsets for the rocker if youre running a sandbox, because he (the rocker) will shine naturally on the out-of-mission parts. It's great and all that the Rocker has a niche to fill, but, well, what exactly would his player be doin...

I'm a fat, white, first-world, male Christian and I have no fucks to give for anyone who slanders or defends any aspect of me online.

Can we go back to hating on CGL now?

Let's hope for their sake that the real corrected PDF exists...

Cyberdecks were fun when cellphones were the size of briefcases and only worked downtown. A game system has to at least address serious questions about technological discrepancies when they base their history in our world. I liked the idea that smaller wireless matrix devices were the norm in SR4, i...

So I read Hardy's blog post about wireless rules, and it hits home because I'm working on a matrix rewrite myself. I just can't get over how pants-on-head retarded his "solution" is. To solve a complex issue that is causing one character type to be ineffective he's opted to create essentia...

robbypants shared this link on bg (thanks man): http://www.seankreynolds.com/rpgfiles/misc/featpointsystem.html hilarious. Oh my fuck, has this man ever played Pathfinder? He has to be trolling with those numbers because they make no fucking sense. Glancing over the list I see him making Combat Cas...

Beg to differ there. Blades and clubs function fairly differently to do their intended purpose, which is significantly different in each case. First Aid and medicine are meant to be the difference between a doctor in a hospital and an EMT. While they both ostensibly heal people in one fashion or ano...

The rules in RPG books are not the only rules of the game. To make it simple, RPG rules normally do not limit what you can say as a character - your options are infinite. It does not mean that in actual games you can insult other players just because the rules in the book allow it. The manifesto is...

Yeah, you basically got it. But he is right in that if you play a GOO game and someone min-maxes and you feel it ruins the collaborative story telling experience and you had no fun, you could hold up the manifesto as justification that players were the problem and not the fact that X rule allowed th...

I once rode three other reasonably sized gentlemen in a barely road worthy Geo Metro Evocative, but maybe not the thread for that :biggrin: On topic, telling someone who just purchased your RPG that if the rules don't work they can ignore them and just tell stories is kind of insulting. They could ...

The microwave analogy is apt in it's simplicity; they obviously didn't mean it to say that their product may be bullshit and won't necessarily preform the function your purchased it for, but it does effectively say that and could have been handled better. It could have been handled better. However,...

I enjoyed BESM and on the whole never really had an issue with GOO products, even if I never expected over much from them. Maybe it was the simplicity that appealed to me? Anyway I have to stand by Frank's reading here and agree that the manifesto should not appear on a product in that form. I've ma...

My brother recently started a Pathfinder game with this concept at it's heart. I tried to warn him off the idea because Pathfinder CR mechanics are already fuckoff useless. In the end he decided to move forward on the hopes that the players would take the opportunity to place roleplaying and coopera...

It's not terrible, but it's kinda busy. I guess it's a progressive thing that they dropped traditional art on the cover in favor of Poser work, less of a shock when that's all you see inside.

Way to go all out for the core book, CGL!

So, figured I'd get some constructive help on the SR forums and posted what I'm doing so far. Not terribly heartening; and I'm told point-blank that I should use Runner's Companion (especially KarmaGen), halving skill costs breaks the game, I shouldn't think about using house-rules for my first tim...

they simply don't have the manpower Where did you get that info from? :rofl: Seriously. Freelance work for hire is the closest thing to slavery they can get away with and apparently they can still rope a few hired keyboards together when the boss comes around and they have to pretend someone gives ...

The question is if they are going to rehash the existing rules and release what is essentially the last edition with a page layout change or if they are going to overreach and really hang themselves.

Looks like they are going for the extra rope.

I'm grateful for the review, and sorry if you spent money for that product. At this point houserules are really the way to go with Shadowrun. I've been cooking my own in prep for a fully custom post '72 game I'm planning on running. Just completely ignore everything CGL has done in the last two year...

I don't understand why studios are lining up to be abused in the same way Wildfire and Posthuman were. From my understanding, there is no real business relationship between SRR, SRO and CGL. Yes, they all do games based on the SR license, owned by Topps (and to some degree by Microsoft). Each is do...

Anyone else feel like this is just a bunch of pre-failed kickstarter projects lumped together with a limp-dicked attempt at SR5? I mean no disrespect to the teams being brought on to make SR licensed product, I just question why they would want to work with Catalyst. These guys are known crooks. Eve...

Vision is the problem. The core property is being squandered by a fanatical but dedicated crew that is completely hamstrung by leadership that can't be bothered to leverage the property they are stewards of. More product = More money Higher quality = More money I know things are more complicated tha...

I'd be happy just to see development move on to a new publisher who started work right away on a fifth edition. Put the game on a hiatus and restart 4th ed style at the correct date from start. Make up some shit to put a layer of soil on the Hardy years and see what grows. It'll take vision, but if ...

I pointed her at the threads here and on Dumpshock. On a better week I would have been able to give her better details.

My heart still jumped a little when I first saw that someone was writing about the table top game. Too bad it was more a cry for justice than real fanboy glee.

Hey Frank and AH, you got a mention. http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/shadowrun-line-developer-wants-you-to-see-the-tabletop-rpg-for-what-it-is-n I saw that PAR was doing a piece on Shadowrun and sent an email to the author. I'm glad she followed up on it, but I wish it was a little ...

I've only messed around with it, but I don't recall token movement being limited to the GM. I believe players can move token they add.