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Oh shit, I didn't think the current SR team was vindictive enough to still lurk here. Am I still on the haters list? Do I need to renew my membership or something? Oh, can I republish the private conversations I had with Jason Hardy when he tried to smear AH on Dumpshock? https://jpst.it/MFve He's a...

An optional tactical combat system , with rules for using miniatures, rules for combat that operate like 3rd Edition or 4th Edition in that they remove DM adjudication of things like cover, and expanded, basic combat options to allow for forced movement, tanking, and so forth, as options any charac...

Without hard data everyone is playing darts in the dark. So let's stick with anecdotal data. I went to two local game stores on different ends of MI this weekend and found that both had pretty healthy 5e crowds. At least, healthy as far as traditional table top games went. Mostly younger folks (<30)...

WotC hate is easy, but they make it so. My group has been jonesing for an SRD since we're switching from Pathfinder (goodbye you beautiful, tragic mess) to 5e (it smells like 2nd edition in here!). And now that WotC takes that step, they fuck it up completely. So completely that I really don't think...

That PrC is... well, not great. Lackluster, specialized and difficult to level is not how want to start. D&D 5e is fun enough, if you don't take it too mechanically serious. I've paid zero dollars for it and had a good enough time playing. I'm liking it better than Pathfinder right now, and thos...

I wonder if it hurts that the material being released on Shadowrun4.com is better edited than the products being released for Shadowrun 5?

Nice, my crafting cohort just became a large lightning elemental for 18 hours out of 24.

Unless there are any better suggestions for a lawful good wizard using Summon Monster V?

That is some amazing cheese, we're supposed to use it with this right?: http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/metamagic-feats/scouting-summons-metamagic Might as well grab Scared Geometry as well since we're dealing with two metamagics. Boom, I'm a monster for 2 hours/level and I only had to blow a couple l...

Okay so I misremembered and it wasn't slots it was lists but anyway the FAQ I was talking about is here . It's the one that fucked up Improved Eldritch Heritage(Arcane) shenanigans. On the other hand, any MC who's gonna pull that shit on you could much more easily point out that Bonded Spirit by RA...

A little while ago a made a quick and shitty list of pass boosters in 4th ed. and what they cost in BP or karma at start. If my math is right it's a good way to see what the different methods cost you when you gotta go fast. https://docs.google.com/document/d/14yF3fNekAd4y7631J5Bxw3VafHK8Wr_UpA2nzj8...

I think they mostly kept it in 5th but fucked it over with limits You think ? Have you actually read or played 5th edition ? I played it when it was called SR4A, before Coleman told Hardy and his Hackforce he wanted something new to sling to idiots at Gen Con. I also don't willingly pirate garbage;...

This all sounds like the sneaking stuff from the Pathfinder thread, but the mechanics here seem even shittier... This is Shadowrun, the most shitty ruleset ever devised. What do you expect ? :bored: At least this edition makes Matrix actually playable, or for better wording, gives tools to make the...

This all sounds like the sneaking stuff from the Pathfinder thread, but the mechanics here seem even shittier...

Really? I thought adult expression for orks and trolls was a one-time deal in 2021, and the spontaneous expressions since then occurred at puberty ? During puberty was my understanding too. Was there ever an adult expression? I know there was for the Comet is '63, but I thought goblinization was bi...

Really? I thought adult expression for orks and trolls was a one-time deal in 2021, and the spontaneous expressions since then occurred at puberty ? During puberty was my understanding too. Was there ever an adult expression? I know there was for the Comet is '63, but I thought goblinization was bi...

Guns for show, knives for a pro.

Shadowrun plays well in space, too. Especially if your group isn't 95% awakened, which seems to be my local meta. I once made a technomancer whose parents were space pirates. There's enough lore about space stations and shit that I figured there must be something up the well like Zion Cluster. And a...

A simrig records physical and emotive experience data, which is sort of abbreviated bullshit science. Based on their use of the word physical I'd say it's a stretch to think it would give you anything astral. Which is a bummer cause I normally go in for stretches of the rules like that. Further it's...

Honestly? The RPG market is sustained by Stockholm Syndrome. He who has the license makes the game, you want to play the game you play (literally) by their rules. Many people seem to convince themselves they like it. I'd love to see more honest assessment is places other than The Den, but it isn't g...

In Pathfinder, my group usually allows the paladin to follow a specific deity rather than the default good guy dynamic. Under those rules you are basically living your life in the service of the deity and their personal philosophy, as long as you keep it in those guidelines you're fine. I like the i...

You can't trust internet buzz about roleplaying games. People will praise anything with the right branding or because they want to help out. They make excuses; like how War! was fine and you don't need a map, the whole concentration camp thing was really very setting appropriate too. Your most vocal...

why do they have hands? x.x Because weapons? I don't even. If anyone is curious about the oversight on the garbage being churned out at CGL just recall the environment a few years ago when things went down. Jason Hardy pulls some stupid shit, AH calls him on it and AH gets kicked out of the freelan...

CGL is all about spending the remaining cred of the setting and riding as far as the good will of the few remaining crews will take them. In the end the table top version of Shadowrun will die a lonely death when even the most diehard and clueless refuse to pay for Hardy's scraps and finish his job ...

Keeping things simple is your best approach to starting out. Keep everyone to the main book to start out and then bring the sourcebooks in later after everyone can handle the basic rules.

You sick fuck. Printing that would be a crime against humanity.