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General Discussion / Re: Did the new core rulebooks fix the game?
« Last post by Michael Chandra on Today at 02:37:07 »(Honestly CGL should consider creating a zero-price Master Index that gets updated with new books.)
I have no idea if "all" the drones are included now, what a super vague question!The drone list in the Core book is not complete, just like weapons, spells, decking, etc., etc., etc., have all been expanded by other books.
I've been aware of it for a while, and even had the official conversion formula at some point but lost it. I suspect 1 reason is because otherwise, the plot just went too fast. By the time you get a proper wrapup of a big metaplot, 4 years down the line, it would already be waaaaaay late. Either the universe was already in year X+2 by the time we got told what happened in year X, or the plot was going at a glacial rate. By condensing the game-time, so it's now 2 real years per game year, you no longer have that problem.yeah, basically they were still using the old chronology progression of 1 year in real life = 1 year in game time not realizing/not having been informed that it had been changed to 1 year in real life = 6 month in game time.
Which caused the German timeline to be in early 2084 instead of early 2083 as per the later supplement (Wild life and Falling point).
Considering how fast some aspect of the Shadowrun timeline can move that can be quite significant.
Wait, what? When did that change happen? For that matter, WHY did that change happen?
I do understand that the pace of a game in play will almost never keep up with the game calendar at a 1-to-1 ratio, but a) lagging behind is not the worst thing, b) it makes the timekeeping really easy, and c) it has over 30 years of tradition to it.
Was this announced somewhere, or just put together with the jackpoint dates of books? (I haven't paid much attention to those dates, and have just been assuming things were ticking along like they always have).
Was this announced somewhere, or just put together with the jackpoint dates of books? (I haven't paid much attention to those dates, and have just been assuming things were ticking along like they always have).
yeah, basically they were still using the old chronology progression of 1 year in real life = 1 year in game time not realizing/not having been informed that it had been changed to 1 year in real life = 6 month in game time.
Which caused the German timeline to be in early 2084 instead of early 2083 as per the later supplement (Wild life and Falling point).
Considering how fast some aspect of the Shadowrun timeline can move that can be quite significant.
Scotophobia says at one point "Trying to get information out of Europe right now is becoming almost impossible." Perhaps with luck some early steam ships are running and we'll have more fulsome news in a few weeksI think it's a joke regarding the real life problems that Scotophobia messed up books that had already been published by Pegasus Press (i.e., they're about six-twelve months ahead in the timeline and didn't know about the coming "week of death").