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General Discussion / Did the new core rulebooks fix the game?

« Last post by Moonrunner on <03-17-24/2020:35> »

I just decided to give Shadowrun 6e another chance after having purchased it originally right at release....everything available for it initially....to then bounce off it when it appeared the core rulebook was missing key rules and such.  I found it to be a mess and my players were very discouraged.

I saw the Berlin edition of the core rulebook at my local FLGS and decided to see if this version of the book fixes all the problems and to maybe give the game a second chance. 

Did Catalyst succeed at fixing the issues and including all the needed rules this time? Are all the drones included now?

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

« Last post by Michael Chandra on <03-17-24/1641:45> »

... Stop hiring runners to steal my ideas.

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

« Last post by Crimsondude on <03-17-24/1558:23> »

I probably am going to design a run that drops by the GeMiTo lair of Alamais, to find some macguffin there. Will be fun.

A pristine fruitcake?

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Official Announcements / Re: Coming Next Week!

« Last post by Crimsondude on <03-17-24/1557:35> »

Meanwhile, I like to think his current body looks like Matthew MacFadyan. There’s no shortage of super-tall British villain actors to choose from (and given the Deadpool rumors, they’ve now cast every one I know of except for Mark Strong, ironically), and it would be gilding the lily to fancast Cavill.

I don’t have anything else to add. Good work.

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

« Last post by Michael Chandra on <03-17-24/1353:21> »

I probably am going to design a run that drops by the GeMiTo lair of Alamais, to find some macguffin there. Will be fun.

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

« Last post by Wakshaani on <03-17-24/1225:10> »

France, Portugal, Spain, ADL, Switzerland, Austria, England, Czech Republic... 8 SR6 countries, nine if you include the UNL since that's what I wrote Blood Diamonds about (and we have the Freedom Network info in Collapsing Now for some info on locals). I have so many options, all I really want to add is Italy. ^_^ And yeah, Null Value is on my reading list to properly read through before I design a big NEEC campaign.

Man,

Italy.

The One That Got Away.

Back when Shadowrun was a nigh-dead property and FanPro wasn't yet a thing, a bunch of guys were getting together to work on a EuroBook, just for kicks. Teh first Italian author dropped out. So did the second. The project was moving along and, despite being American, they let me sign on for it. Got some work done before a computer crash had me offline for a month. By teh time I was back up and running, they'd moved on to a fourth. Then they wound up going official and getting the line as FanPro was created.

You have no idea how much I kick myself for that personal failure of a situation.

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Official Announcements / Re: Coming Next Week!

« Last post by Wakshaani on <03-17-24/1210:07> »

Roxy's return was *supposed* to be a book or three ago, but his page got cut for space reasons and never got slid back into a book. I still want that original page out there somewhere. Need to ask the boss if I can share it since they own it, not me.

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

« Last post by FastJack on <03-17-24/0809:50> »

(and google translate/Deepl can be your friend here).

And they are very good friends.

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Official Announcements / Re: Falling Point is Now Available!

« Last post by Boneguard on <03-17-24/0725:00> »

Good to see this out. The French Touch and Michael Bishop are exciting. The Warpath and Humanis chapters are also great, but my versions would have been written very differently. I particularly like 0rkCE0's thread in the HP chapter.

The French Touch is a fun one, I did not write it (it's from the same author as the Marianne chapter in Null Value and of Néo-Révolution), but I did help with some of the research in the background and identify who is part of the FT... mostly to help us write La France des ombres.

Warpath was my contribution. On one hand I wanted to consolidate all the pieces of lore we had since SR2 that was sprinkled all over the place, then on the other hand, now that the UCAS was brought low(ish) offer possibility of what they are looking to do to push to agenda... as well as to deal with the internal politics.

Out of sincere curiosity, how would you have tackled Warpath?

Convergence was my pitch, but obviously not my contribution. The only thing I will say is that, in Shadowrun, those with power use magic, the Deep Resonance, the Dissonance, cybernetics (in the most abstract definition of Cyber) to predict and shape the future. The single greatest obstacle has always been a combination of bandwidth and bias - there's too much information, and too many known and unknown biases shaping how information is produced and consumed. Convergence may have found a way around or through that obstacle, or at the least, found a better solution than anyone else has yet to achieve. At the same time, everyone else Shadowrunners worry about or should worry about is still grinding on as-is and is looking for better fixes with the goal of figuring out what the optimally predictable future will be and controlling that as much as possible. Convergence is basically Google in 1998. It's the best-working search engine in a sea of them. The difference is that IRL, Yahoo! and AltaVista wouldn't have murdered you for getting in their ways.

That is both interesting and frightening. We've always been warned of the danger of the rise of the Machine/AI never of the rise of our search engine.

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Official Announcements / Re: Falling Point is Now Available!

« Last post by Crimsondude on <03-16-24/2151:21> »

Good to see this out. The French Touch and Michael Bishop are exciting. The Warpath and Humanis chapters are also great, but my versions would have been written very differently. I particularly like 0rkCE0's thread in the HP chapter.

Did it appear earlier (I know it didn't make it into the cyber book), or is this book the first time that it's been revealed how Roxy is still alive and back on Earth with a new body? I cannot overemphasize how significant this is because, IMO, he's always been hugely constrained by other factors before now. 2083 Roxy has the potential to be a (literally) walking Dunkelzahn's-will-level plot device.


Convergence was my pitch, but obviously not my contribution. The only thing I will say is that, in Shadowrun, those with power use magic, the Deep Resonance, the Dissonance, cybernetics (in the most abstract definition of Cyber) to predict and shape the future. The single greatest obstacle has always been a combination of bandwidth and bias - there's too much information, and too many known and unknown biases shaping how information is produced and consumed. Convergence may have found a way around or through that obstacle, or at the least, found a better solution than anyone else has yet to achieve. At the same time, everyone else Shadowrunners worry about or should worry about is still grinding on as-is and is looking for better fixes with the goal of figuring out what the optimally predictable future will be and controlling that as much as possible. Convergence is basically Google in 1998. It's the best-working search engine in a sea of them. The difference is that IRL, Yahoo! and AltaVista wouldn't have murdered you for getting in their ways.