Very true - Logic attributes would lilely not be very high, with Intiuition often being the higher 'brainstat'. Willpower, however...as far as gangers and 'henchmen' goes, it would likely be low; often wageslave-ish.

When you come to professional criminals that do what shadowrunners do, it's a bit different. Even the 'gruntwork' street sam would likely have to have a higher-than-average willpower to be respected. The world of professional and organized crime is very unforgiving, and if you constantly bend to the will of others you will become a grunt. A Street Sam would who hopes to be respected in the shadows doesn't just have to be good in combat, he has to be able to resist intimidation from both 'lesser' thugs and employers. A high Intimidation skill (or being a troll) can substitute for that, but the Veteran Street Sam doesn't, so...3 dice to resist Intimidation (6 with Edge) isn't very impressive for the 'tough guy'.

If you're a "Single runner" Then yes.

But what about the giant lunk of a tank who has, from the start, worked with his smaller smarter partner. "he's the brawn I'm the brain, we tried it the other way but he kept eating the Johnsons" sorta things. If you have your group or your partner for all that, you don't 'need' it. Old runners are smart runners. NO DOUBT..... but the Matrix is full of stories of runners that were good for a while.. but fell victim to the DUMB.

Twenty years later, they're more common, but not terribly so. It's safe to say that the Big Ten all have access to one, even if Horizon and Quxing might have to hire the services from someone else (Like Evo) ... I'd personally say that there were under twenty worldwide, and a dozen is more likely the correct number. Delta Grade gear should be quite rare due to this.

As usual, , IMHO, YMMV, and all that.

Technically, delta grade only modifies the price (making someone with R3 Wires the true million dollar man) and not availability. BUt I would invite everybody to blatantly ignore that (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Another example of 4th edition screwing things up early on and those of us working now catching shit for it.

So... Blame FanPro?

So... Blame FanPro?

Yes, you can buy the implant at normal Availibility. But the medical care technically needed to get the surgery done itself has an Availability of 24, according to Augmentation, page 122.

No maps whatsoever...which goes with the format I guess =/

There are short write-ups on the exotic locations (in some cases not much at all) but several of them are described in more detail in the various setting books.

Personally, I would've preferred one less chapter and less general NPCs in exchange for some maps and better location info.

If anyone is looking to actually run/GM any of my adventure seeds, I can provide (cruddy) maps for some of them. They're not amazing but they'll save you some work.

I have placeholder maps for at least a couple of them (some of them probably straight up jacked from other IPs/video games and then shittily edited by me because they were just meant to be placeholders) that were supposed to act as blueprints to get made into actual maps, by actual artists, but apparently that never happened. Not sure why, although my guess would be because of time/budgetary constraints. In any case, it makes me sad. I really like maps. But I guess they must just be very difficult to budget.

Isn't that always the way? I've got a backlog of Shadowrun stuff I've been wanting to GM for ages that's about a mile long.

I've finally started picking up some new books (Yay Tax Return!), and I'm looking at this one or Spy Games atm. Anyone taken a deeper look at this one, decided if it's worth what they spent or not?

Picked up the dead tree version of this product today.

Was a little disappointed in this product. A lot of the statistics, NPCs, and overall material can be seen in Street Supplements and Artifacts Unbound. Deeper plots with statistics and corporate type NPCs except for Miles Lanier and Damien Knight. Such as who is in charge of Evo, Wuxing, Renraku, MCT, etc. Who are the big names in those corporations?

Jet Set was good and so was Artifacts Unbound.