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DragonChild wrote:With people like him in charge I can't imagine how dumpshock became a place full of idiots who like to talk about rape way too much.

he's no mod or admin at dumpshock anymore.

Game design 101 by Bull (topic: a PC can only fire a once per round now in SR5. A mage can cast a spell once per round now, as long as it's an attack option. If he casts a spell that is no attack, he's able to cast more) Maybe. But as I said, there are a million exceptions. Does casting an Illusion ...

Preview #2 is up: http://www.rpgnow.com/product/114622/Sh ... eview-%232

The task before the designers of a new edition of Shadowrun is to bring cybercombat off the battlefield and into the skirmish. To give an individual cybercombatant something to do in a small units tactics scenario. [...] The obvious things to do for Shadowrun would be to have the Hacker be a buff/d...

Thanks for the review (Even though I would like to read your ramblings when tearing apart the books content).

Onyx Path Publishing is a shovelware company that uses kickstarter and a license agreement with the Icelanders (who almost completely liquidated their print production staff in October of 2011) to get nostalgic White Wolf fans to pay them money in advance to "keep lines alive". Basically,...

Onyx Path Publishing is a shovelware company that uses kickstarter and a license agreement with the Icelanders (who almost completely liquidated their print production staff in October of 2011) to get nostalgic White Wolf fans to pay them money in advance to "keep lines alive". Basically,...

Not a bad move, though.

Here's a review by hermit, posted at dumpshock.com I finally finished the book and compiling my notes into something vaguely coherent. This is my review. Brace yourselves, it has a lot of text. And not all of it is nice. So this is Stormfront. The mini-game promised mixed blessings at best, and it w...

Stahlseele wrote:as awesome as robot-samurai may be, i think it's kinda silly . .

SR needs more close combat drones!

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Fucks wrote:

kzt wrote: Accuracy might work, depending on they do it.

Seeing J. Hardys track record as LD so far...

Ahem . .!

Too subtle for you?

kzt wrote: Accuracy might work, depending on they do it.

Seeing J. Hardys track record as LD so far...

FrankTrollman wrote: Increasing the hard cap on skills is good. 4th edition has a hard cap that is too low. Making it "very expensive" means that they fundamentally don't understand the high karma game and how it fucks with mundane characters and rewards magic characters.

Care to elaborate?

Stahlseele wrote: they simply don't have the manpower

Where did you get that info from?

FrankTrollman wrote: "Mysterious Places" may not be about anything or provide any real information, but it is literally five times longer in terms of actual text than a first edition oWoD book.

That calls for a review!

If they get a single net hit on you, you go down. So you go down. It's really simple. It's really simple. And really bad game design. what's the problem. Every action and counter-action is resolved with a dice pool coming from two sources. Only resisting magic is usually resisted with by a dice poo...

low willpower is bad if you have an enemy with lower attribute(willpower) spell. you have problems resisting and every time it's harder and once you hit 0 willpower you are basically paralyzed if i remember correctly. That is meaningless. Anyone who really cares about eliminating enemies with spell...

Next up, the Zombie Upriding. The Shedim are evil spirits that can only manifest in our world by possessing dead bodies. Once in the mortal world, they attack people and eat brains. This is totally different from the Loa Zombies, Ghouls, Corps Cadavres, and Wendigo that Shadowrun already had. Which...

Juton wrote:Is Earthdawn exclusively Savage Worlds now, or are they just selling the campaign setting for some extra cash?

The latter- there will be conversions to both SW and Pathfinder in addition to a revised edition of ED3.

Breakup of the team? Wtf?

Windlings: female to male ratio 1-10 or so. Mating for life. And they usually have only one kid per marriage. Yeah, whoever wrote that shit had no clue about mathematics. There would have been no windlings after a few generations, even without any horrors to contend with. Polygamy/clan marriage. Th...

Conspiracy Theories is nice, but confims that James Meiers can't write interesting Shadowrun stuff (he's good on spy-related topic, though) and lacks a Game Information chapter. To make matters worse, here's a statement by Patrick Goodman: There, I've said it, the cat's out of the bag: There's no Ul...

It's available: http://www.battlecorps.com/catalog/images/CAT26450_ArtifactsUnbound220.jpg Four artifacts have been found. Some of the most powerful people in the Sixth World have been after them, and many people have died in the globetrotting hunt to bring these objects together. Now that they have...

At this point, what are you expecting? It's not like they are suddenly going to get their shit together and start producing quality product. They've had a year and more to do that and now we're in a sea of colorful but ultimately lacking PDF releases and a book of poorly crafted stats for set piece...

Stahlseele wrote:For example, one of the writers seems to not have gotten the memo that enhanced artwinculation does not work like it did in SR3 anymore . .

If that's the major complaint you have about the adventure...