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There's no reason to think that you won't see AIs, Free Spirits, and Drakes back in the game as playable characters in later content updates. Fact is, I wasn't trying to single anyone out - that's why I have included all three of the "special snowflakes" that weren't included in my list. I can think of several reasons why some content wasn't included in this book. I was not trying to piss anyone off. I was pointing out, in my own convoluted fashion, that these three types of characters weren't tremendously popular (to my knowledge) and therefore may have been cut out of this book for just that reason. If anyone took that personally, I apologize - that was not my intention. As I stated, nothing that I said was intended to be personal.
Let's be clear, this topic is important, so I tend to treat it as such. I do not jump to conclusions, and I refuse to make a decision without sufficient evidence. There have been people on these forums (thankfully they haven't appeared recently) that have argued that the existence of the Shadow Spells PDF and the content within it (some of which was deliberately taken out of Street Grimoire) was some sort of conspiracy to get us to buy more stuff. If I seem aggressive in my defense of the decision to remove content that was in Runner's Companion, it's simply because I have gotten into these kinds of arguments in the past and I want to head them off before they go down the crazy rabbit hole.
Now to discuss why some content from Runner's Companion is not present in Run Faster. I'll start with one of my favorite quotes: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." -
Hanlon's Razor. Another great one is this: "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." -
Argument from Ignorance. Between those two cautionary logical positions, there can be myriad reasons why the content wasn't included. But the one that seems least likely to be the case is that Catalyst has decided to forgo support of this content completely. Is it possible? Sure. But is it likely? Not really.
In many cases, the main content books have been Missions-legal (with a few changes), whereas the PDF books are not Missions-legal. So the decision may have been made to put these character types in later content for just that reason too. Or perhaps they got to 255 pages and decided that enough was enough? Or maybe they decided that those rules needed more work? Or... Or... you get my point. There are probably dozens of reasons why something doesn't go into a book. And probably three or four of them that are correct.
But rather than discuss it logically, people like to jump to conclusions. People like to assume that the lack of content for ... say, a German life module, would indicate that Catalyst is somehow not supporting German-related content. It's just not logical to leap to these types of conclusions based on the lack of evidence.