[The Big Peat]

To talk about the book...

Disclaimer: I'm not a great expert on SR metaplot, to say the least. Nor am I likely to ever be.

So I daresee there's all sort of hidden details in the stories I didn't pick up on. I read up to Thorn's one finding them fairly interesting then they didn't grab me after that. The Six Times I Died... yeah. Maybe I'm being unfair, as weeklong insomnia and night shifts will do bad things to a man's patience, but didn't do it for me.

Its a very lopsided selection. Lots of awakened, not many technos. Lots of elves, not many dwarves/trolls/orks. A lot more men than women too. Call me shameless, but eye candy never goes amiss. But, basically, it all felt samey when browsing through.

While I like the character of Thorn in some ways, I buried my head in my hands when I saw the Irish Patriot With A Gun wearing the turtleneck. I guess we've all done the stereotypes, but... eh, well. Winterhawk struck me as overly British too, but then I like that about him in some ways. My local biases show.

Anyways, I generally approve of this book, as it made me want to play. Admittedly... it made me want to use PCs riffing off the ideas, rather than the NPCs per se, but it still wanted me want to play. It gives me ideas. Just that next time I'd like a more diverse set of ideas, assuming there is a next time.

I'd also be interested in seeing how several of these big bad wolves would have looked at just entering the big league 400bp people, back in the day before they got famous... but thats another story.

[Catadmin]

I shouldn't even be here, but I am going to bang my head against the wall and ask anyway. Has anyone read the non-dossier stories?

Okay, just finished the rest of the book. And can I just say WTF is Damien Knight even THINKING??

I find myself enjoying comments like that. May I take it as a compliment? @=)

Of course, this all fits in perfectly with my home campaign now...

Really??? Fantastic!! I love making people's home campaigns fun.

[Frankie the Fomori]

Amazing last short story, our GM introduced somthing very similiar to these new "bio ware" enhancements ( he used symbiants) that when he showed the changes I was going shit, shit, not good, shit while reading it. Well written and look forward to anything you add in future SR work Catadmin.

Overall I am extremly happy with the product,

Cons: I have said it once, will say it again SR crew missed an amazing opportunity of giving us different racial mix with this book. I know why it was done and respect it, but I still wish there were trolls and dwarves at the least.

I feel that there could have been one or two Street Sam's in tue book. The three shooters seemed more like merc and shooter specialists. It would have been nice to see an Argent or Ghost style street Sam.

Some stats did not survive layout it looks like, but this is not really all thy bad because we have allot of freelancers support.

That is really all my cons.... Not much really.



Pros: the short stories rocked.

Stats were written in away that if I needed to enhance stronger PC like lugh I had a great base line to start from.

PC bios were all well written, interesting and provided me with new insight to the world, especially life as a fixer/mr Johnson.

In having active and knowledge skill written out I got to see how NPC that are considered professional and above have there dice pools and skill sets. I love making strong combat PC's but I also do not want to make one demensional PC, having this comparison allows me to balance out my PC with my limited play experience.

Overall I see this product as a work of love by it's writers, and if we have seen a couple responses on this board that points the truth to this. Though some people have there grips about certain aspects of the book I find myself already turning back to it's stories and entries for enjoyment even though it is still a new book. So for those writers out there I want to say thanks, this is somthing that will never grow old for me (like my realms hall of hero's book has for
about 15+ years).


(side note: my replys may be overly positive, I tend to desire this in my life. I am a medically  retired Army SGT and tend to avoid negative thinking as much as possible. Thank you for understanding)

[Catadmin]

Amazing last short story, our GM introduced somthing very similiar to these new "bio ware" enhancements ( he used symbiants) that when he showed the changes I was going shit, shit, not good, shit while reading it. Well written and look forward to anything you add in future SR work Catadmin.

Thank you. That's the best review I've had of any of my writing, including SR and non-SR stuff.

[Critias]

(side note: my replys may be overly positive, I tend to desire this in my life. I am a medically  retired Army SGT and tend to avoid negative thinking as much as possible. Thank you for understanding)

No one should ever feel like they have to apologize for being too positive.  Ideally, no one should feel like they have to apologize for any sort of rational, thought-out, product review, but the atmosphere of a forum or thread should especially never make someone nervous to be too positive.

Your input is appreciated, Frankie, at least on my end it surely is.  I'm glad you enjoyed Street Legends, and I wish you many more hours of reading and appreciating it.

[Neurosis]

(side note: my replys may be overly positive, I tend to desire this in my life. I am a medically  retired Army SGT and tend to avoid negative thinking as much as possible. Thank you for understanding)

No one should ever feel like they have to apologize for being too positive.  Ideally, no one should feel like they have to apologize for any sort of rational, thought-out, product review, but the atmosphere of a forum or thread should especially never make someone nervous to be too positive.

Your input is appreciated, Frankie, at least on my end it surely is.  I'm glad you enjoyed Street Legends, and I wish you many more hours of reading and appreciated it.

Ditto.

[Patrick Goodman]

Your input is appreciated, Frankie, at least on my end it surely is.  I'm glad you enjoyed Street Legends, and I wish you many more hours of reading and appreciated it.

What he said.

[raben-aas]

Hell, we'd all pay to see an IE killed off.

I'd even pay to see them ALL be killed off. 

[Charybdis]

Hell, we'd all pay to see an IE killed off.

I'd even pay to see them ALL be killed off. 

I'd pay more money to BE one....

[Stahlseele]

Hell, we'd all pay to see an IE killed off.

I'd even pay to see them ALL be killed off. 

Fry-Face
Not sure if Troll . .
Or just Humanis..

*runs like hell*

[KarmaInferno]

*twitch twitch*
i read amalgam.
i still can't believe aquaman "won" against namor <.<;,

King of the Seas, remember?




-k

[CanRay]

Don't make Aquaman slap a slitch!

[Chrona]

Don't make Aquaman slap a slitch!

"Outrageous!"

[Catadmin]

Don't make me slip Namor and Aquaman jokes into SR. Just don't.

It would be BAD...

@=)

EDIT: FYI, I  liked amalgam.

[Stahlseele]

Namor is an Asshole.
But at least, he's honest about that.