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[SR5] Howling Shadows

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« Reply #45 on: <05-25-16/0651:37> »
So it has to be asked... pet rules?
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« Reply #46 on: <05-25-16/0829:59> »
DriveThru at least has a preview of the contents page!  Got Drake rules which is what I have been waiting for!
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« Reply #47 on: <05-25-16/0835:07> »
Yey, the Stirr-up for bio-drones is back - and also mundane critters. Shapechange here I come.
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« Reply #48 on: <05-25-16/0913:59> »
So who wants to be the first to post a review?

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« Reply #49 on: <05-25-16/1139:44> »
I was expecting to see quite a lot of jubilation now that drakes are back but ... Nothing? :/

Also, no regeneration on Juggernaut? Buuuuuh^^
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« Reply #50 on: <05-25-16/1212:58> »

First off a few words to the writers..


Damn you all.
I was planning to NOT get this right away, had my eye on another purchase I wanted and would pick this up a little later.

Then I saw it had sections, not just a single entry or two, on Infected, technocritters, critter ware, drakes, and more.

So guess what I just bought instead of that other thing? :P

Well played writers, well played indeed......

Also, no regeneration on Juggernaut? Buuuuuh^^
   Juggie never had regen in any of it's incarnations so not sure why you are unhappy.
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« Reply #51 on: <05-25-16/1348:40> »
How's the editing?

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« Reply #52 on: <05-25-16/1420:51> »
That's going to take a bit to go through.

But it has a well laid out TOC that you can click and jump to things with.  Yes, I know it should be standard, but you know how things go sometimes.   ;)

There are few indexes at the end of the book, including one for critter powers and weakness listing where to find them both in this and previous books so that is handy if you are needing to find a particular critter power/weakness, Another one lists critters by habitat, again listing those in this book and previous books,  which is handy when the GM wants to throw something relevant to the region at the players.



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« Reply #53 on: <05-25-16/1433:34> »
I'm torn between wanting this now, and waiting for a dead trees version.  I presume that there is no word on when the latter will be? (I'd guess there will be a push to have at least some by GenCon timeframe?)

I was happy I waited on the Rigger book, because I found it a great book to read through in swathes and to flip through and find bits that catch my eye, enjoy the art, etc.  Street Grimoire I'm glad I have in pdf, because more often than not I'm searching for some term (sometimes sorting out one thing requires looking up two others ....).  But I probably still haven't read some parts of it, because I find .pdf painful to just sit and read through for more than a few pages at a time.

Would be interested, once people have looked through this a bit, where they think this would fall on that sort of spectrum?

( I'm guessing more towards the Rigger end of things, but I'm open to being surprised.)

Other than a character imminently learning the shapechange spell, I could wait, if it makes for a better experience.

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« Reply #54 on: <05-25-16/1533:54> »
What is the in-game date for Howling Shadows? (There's no JackPoint page, but includes runner commentary.)

With a quick scan through
+1 for adding mentor spirits to the mundane animals section
+1 for the update SR5 core mundanes animals to fit the book
+1 for the Trivia-verse side bars
+100 for drop bears
+1000 for including scientific names (Johnson's sound so much more knowledgeable when they first ask for a D. praegrandis hide.)
+1 for the "New Changes" section concerning Infected.
+1 for Toxic/Mutant section
+1 for the Extraplanar Travelers section
+1 for Technocritters section
+1 for Drakes section (I'm not particularly big on them, but they're such a collective favorite that it behooves me to give it credit :) )
+1 for Chimerics
+1 for critter augmentation sections
+1 for the powers/weaknesses table
-1 for the critter habitats (I'd have preferred geographical region, like "North American South West" or "Amazonian Basin" for most rather than "Desert" - there's more than one kind of desert, etc.)
-1,000,000 for no JackPoint page/In-game date.

So throwing out the extremes, overall looks like it's going to be a great read!

But I ask again, what is the in-game date for Howling Shadows? (There's no JackPoint page, but includes runner commentary.)
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« Reply #55 on: <05-25-16/1546:44> »
IIRC, sometime in June 2078. Will double-check, but that's what is in my head ATM.
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« Reply #56 on: <05-25-16/1636:20> »
Forgot to get exact date, but can confirm June 78.
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« Reply #57 on: <05-25-16/1638:45> »
Forgot to get exact date, but can confirm June 78.

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« Reply #58 on: <05-25-16/1812:15> »
I'm not sure where I picked that up. Maybe in the first books and stories about shrugging off and seemingly instantly healing rotary-autocannon damage ...

The Piasma did lose its Boost Strength ability but it isn't useful for it anyway. Instead it gained paralysis and fear.

Just to clarify; I'm very positive about this book so far. Love the art and the large amount of Mentor spirit - Welcome back, Raccoon! Now go play with Spider over there^^

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The karma cost for drakes functions a bit like the infected, I assume, so you go into karma debt if you use the priority / sum-to-10 system?
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« Reply #59 on: <05-25-16/1947:20> »
From Tumblr, the cover art, by Victor Moreno: