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Official Announcements / Re: Upcoming books in the Sixth World!

« Last post by Boneguard on <03-16-24/1856:01> »

Black Book Edition's Néo-Révolution is incredible for having revolutionized (pun intended) running in France, and particularly, in Paris.

Agreed that they did a fantastic job of making France (in general) and Paris (in particular) a distinct and interesting place to run in. I really suggest that anyone who can struggle through in French (directly or through Google translate) give it a shot.  I'll also note that their translations of newer books generally have some added content, often France related, so that the French lore/adventures is advancing between their full publications.

Yeah for sure, knowing one of the two main authors of Neo-Revolution who is also Freelancing for CGL, there is really an attempt to make Paris more than "Seattle with a Beret and a baguette" as well is harmonizing the changes in France with the official English line. And yeah as much as possible they do offer some extra content (often a small scenario) to most of their translation which really make France quite an interesting option to play in (and google translate/Deepl can be your friend here).

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Official Announcements / Re: Coming Next Week!

« Last post by Boneguard on <03-16-24/1849:35> »

yeah, basically they were still using the old chronology progression of 1 year in real life = 1 year in game time not realizing/not having been informed that it had been changed to 1 year in real life = 6 month in game time.

Which caused the German timeline to be in early 2084 instead of early 2083 as per the later supplement (Wild life and Falling point).

Considering how fast some aspect of the Shadowrun timeline can move that can be quite significant.

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Official Announcements / Re: Coming Next Week!

« Last post by Beta on <03-15-24/1205:07> »

I think it's a joke regarding the real life problems that Scotophobia messed up books that had already been published by Pegasus Press (i.e., they're about six-twelve months ahead in the timeline and didn't know about the coming "week of death").
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Ah, thank you -- that is context I didn't have.

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Official Announcements / Re: Coming Next Week!

« Last post by FastJack on <03-14-24/1805:06> »

If Europe is not a myth, apparently it is a far off and isolated land, only reachable brave sailing ships or something.  Scotophobia says at one point "Trying to get information out of Europe right now is becoming almost impossible."  Perhaps with luck some early steam ships are running and we'll have more fulsome news in a few weeks

(I get it, they have a word count, so can't cover everything in detail.  It was just that line that cracked me up.  After all, Europe is part of the matrix, connected to the same hosts, etc.  Multiple Jackpointers from Europe, and many of the rest have contacts there.  So why would it be harder to get information from there than anywhere else?)

ETA: to be clear, I love Scotophobia overall, it is one of my favourite ShadowRun books as a GM.  But I can love it, and still see some little issues.

I think it's a joke regarding the real life problems that Scotophobia messed up books that had already been published by Pegasus Press (i.e., they're about six-twelve months ahead in the timeline and didn't know about the coming "week of death").

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Official Announcements / Re: Coming Next Week!

« Last post by Beta on <03-14-24/1720:31> »

If Europe is not a myth, apparently it is a far off and isolated land, only reachable brave sailing ships or something.  Scotophobia says at one point "Trying to get information out of Europe right now is becoming almost impossible."  Perhaps with luck some early steam ships are running and we'll have more fulsome news in a few weeks

(I get it, they have a word count, so can't cover everything in detail.  It was just that line that cracked me up.  After all, Europe is part of the matrix, connected to the same hosts, etc.  Multiple Jackpointers from Europe, and many of the rest have contacts there.  So why would it be harder to get information from there than anywhere else?)

ETA: to be clear, I love Scotophobia overall, it is one of my favourite ShadowRun books as a GM.  But I can love it, and still see some little issues.

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Official Announcements / Re: Coming Next Week!

« Last post by Boneguard on <03-14-24/1202:04> »

Europe is a myth, just like Australia. They sound like nice, but we all know there is not such thing as a nice place 

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Official Announcements / Re: Coming Next Week!

« Last post by FastJack on <03-14-24/0651:11> »

I've seen a useful short bit of recap in an upcoming book, but not allowed to say which one and what, on account of the CGL HTR squad ready to bust down my door if I post it.

Ooo... I bet it has something to do with Europe?

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Official Announcements / Re: Coming Next Week!

« Last post by Michael Chandra on <03-14-24/0144:13> »

I've seen a useful short bit of recap in an upcoming book, but not allowed to say which one and what, on account of the CGL HTR squad ready to bust down my door if I post it.

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Official Announcements / Re: Coming Next Week!

« Last post by Wakshaani on <03-09-24/1218:40> »

I like how they recap a few relevant bits of the metaplots, since these groups tie into those here and there. Definitely can use these.

I'd love to see more of those in future books, personally. *hugely* helpful.

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Official Announcements / Re: Coming Next Week!

« Last post by Beta on <03-07-24/1633:46> »

I like how they recap a few relevant bits of the metaplots, since these groups tie into those here and there. Definitely can use these.

Agreed, I liked that part.  I have those books, but not everyone will, so that context would be important for some.  Even having read those books, the summary was nice as a "out of that big book, what is the game focusing on, moving forward."