@ Critias
Could You please explain why 4 Traditions that are in SR4A where omitted in the SR5 Street Grimoire only to be printed in the Shadow spells PDF ?
For Me as an outstanding Person this looks exactly like CGL has been withholding some of the Material just to make extra Cash with this PDF.
From what I've read from You I consider you as a sincere Person and Freelancer and If you say that the two branches ( E-Books and Standard Books) are working seperately I take your Word ! But from my Point of View this looks extremely either like Money grubbing or extreme lack of communicating between those two departments and more than just a coincidence that exactly those 4 Traditions that are missing in Street Grimoire now apppear in Shadow Spells....
with a wary Dance
Medicineman
You guys remember how Commanding Voice showed up in both
Stolen Souls and
Street Grimoire? That's an example of how the various mini-branches of the game company don't always coordinate very well. It is, in part, evidence of the lack of communication between groups working on different projects. One could also point to, for instance, the general chaos of the last few years. There's thread after thread of problems that have erupted due to a lack of communication, coordination, and cohesion within the game line. It is, in fact, a little ironic to me, here, that
I'm now having to point out this sort of thing to
some of you.
We've had thread after thread about Jackpointers posting after their death, powers being replicated in more than one book, pieces of gear that immediately make other gear obsolete, and dozens -- maybe hundreds -- of similar SNAFUs due to a lack of communication within the company...and yet here we are, suddenly, with folks insisting I prove that there's a
lack of communication within the company. I hope the cometragedy of that isn't lost on everyone but me.
What
may have happened, believe it or not, was the e-book line developer trying to improve on all that, and coordinating with the main line developer, basically saying "Hey, has anyone called dibs on _____ yet? Have you got the word count for it in your book? No? Okay, I'll add it to mine." Peter got in a little work on
Grimoire, as I understand it, and that would've given him the opportunity to keep an eye on that book's progress, see what material was going into it and what wasn't, and then to try and squeeze what he could into his e-book. This would be a sign of improved communication, one of those changes Jason promised a few months ago, arguably when these errors and inconsistencies were at their worst, amidst the chaos of convention season.
Print books have limits on space that e-books flatly don't, and the e-book line -- in general! -- exists specifically to pick up that slack (it's how
Way of the Adept got written, not to mention
Land of Promise; they're cheaper to produce, we get paid less to write them, they don't have printing costs, artwork's often recycled and as such free, etc, etc). Something
not making it into a print book is not the same thing as
something being cut from that print product; Jason's not in the habit of green-lighting folks to write stuff, and then not using it.
You're free to disbelieve me if you want. My name's not in the credits of either book, I didn't have anything to do with 'em, directly (and I think the costs of Adept Ways kind of
show you I wasn't writing them). I'm just telling you how the line has worked, traditionally (hardly anyone took a look at my e-books before they were published, unless you count me coordinating with
myself between
Land of Promise and
Elven Blood, a Missions product).
You're free to think there's a well-coordinated conspiracy going on in CGL, where our editor's got the time to go through and snip stuff out of one book to include it in another, where we've got multiple design teams working together so smoothly that we're seamlessly cutting material from one book and creating another, whole-cloth, in order to get extra money from you (all just a few weeks after us tripping on our dicks and putting one power, in two very different forms, into two completely unrelated books).
Think what you want to think. Just make it clear you're only sharing your personal opinion when you do so. I'm just doing what I can to clear things up, and ask you to
at least state it's your opinion, not describing it matter-of-factly, when you have no evidence of such wrongdoing (and when, in fact, writers and line developers are trying to be open with you about the design process).
Being a PDF e-book though, this would not be Missions legal correct?
Unless something has changed, it's specifically the "Options" line of e-books that are, well, optional (and as such not Missions-legal). Not every e-book.
