Well we know the book being made
http://shadowrun.tumblr.com/upcoming
it being call "Untitled Technomancer E-book"
Slow clap for the name btw.
the critter book is the same, the name will come out closer to the time
Would have been better if the had used [REDACTED] or [CENSORED] instead of untitled so people would all be trying to guess what the title was.
I have no particular use for games when it comes to running the tumblr.
There will be descriptions, but I ran out of time last night and I code the HTML by hand. I get very particular.
Echoes and Mirages was the title I saw flying around in the german community a few months ago. Sounds pretty cool IMO, but who knows what name will be the final pick.
I think I've only seen this name mentioned here.
On another note: What is a Sourcebook Expansion in comparison to a Core Expansion like Rigger 5?
Is it one of these 75% Fluff - 25% Crunch Expansions like Hard Targets? I wouldnīt mind, since I think TMīs are neglected fluff-wise just as well. But at least 30+ Pages of serious, usable Crunch (+ maybe some bold fixes for the existing concepts) should be the bare minimum if they really want to make this Archetype work again.
These would be books like Digital Grimoire, Shadow Spells, the whole Para- line (including Aetherology) and splatbooks (Gun Heaven 13, the vehicle books). Basically, it's a nice euphemism for "miscellaneous."
There's no formal name for certain types of books, but the closest I could come to what they are is sourcebook expansionse-books that expand on sourcebook material from both core rulebook expansions and other sourcebooks (deep shadows, plot and setting books, etc.). But I'm not putting the word "splatbook" on something that has Catalyst's imprimatur on it. I may just call them Sourcebooks.
The TM handbook was listed as a core expansion on
http://shadowrun.tumblr.com/tags, but I'm not sure whether it is or isn't since Data Trails is the Matrix core expansion. In the end, it will be whatever Jason says it will be.