But that does not mean an effort originating in another country has no barriers to assisting in such a collaboration.
But barriers have significantly been reduced over the years, and there has been more and more individual interest.

And then take into consideration that the game Shadowrun is actually owned by Topps Inc. which complicates the environment for foreign contributers.
Many nations do not have a legal environment to handle such a situation and require special agreements. Many governments outside the US assume that developer and owner are on first observation the same entity, to give an exampe.

There is now also a Brazilian Shadowrun publisher: Editora New Order.

There is now also a Brazilian Shadowrun publisher: Editora New Order.

Will they publish their own stuff too? Is there anything known about that?

I think you have the wrong impression. Here is a list: https://shadowhelix.de/Meta:%C3%9Cbersicht_...genproduktionen There were already roughly a dozen publications for 4th Edition and more than double that for 5th. And it's possible that Pegasus never obtained the license for the material from before they took over from Fanpro, because they never republished books from earlier editions in digital form.

Does anyone know of any other companies outside the US doing the same?

well, they have an errata team already, so it sounds like at least they're trying to look like they're trying to improve.

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that said, i have my doubts about the errata team getting anything in before the first printing. and there isn't really a huge difference between not having an errata team and not using an errata team.

The errata team, last I checked, is literally one or two freelancers working unpaid and a few fans from the official forums, and the only place any of their work seems to have been used is Missions.

Three Nazis walk into a BAR. They don't get up. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Seriously though, CGL is showing a frustrating lenience towards Nazis on its staff, and has throughout Hardy's rein, starting with WAR. Following up on those big words in reality (by letting them go/blacklisting them), macho chest-drumming aside, would be a good start. That enough clarification for you?

WORK BRINGS FREEDOM

Oswiecim was under a spiritual barrier for a number of years. Oswiecim was home to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most well known of the Nazi party’s concentration camps. During the Holocaust, 1.1 million people died within its walls. This led it to become one of the most haunted places on the planet. Ghosts of all shapes and sizes dwelled within, frightening out or murdering all residents of Oswiecim. Because of the sheer magnitude of the haunting, a great number of other things found home there.

For the inclined occult investigator, Auschwitz-Birkenau is a treasure trove. It’s also a remarkably dangerous trap. Earlier this year, an entrepreneur named Tetsuo Shuumatsu hired a cabal of sorcerers, charging them with the removal of the barrier. He’s an arms dealer, one who specializes in the weapons necessary to take down ghosts. With such an infestation of ghosts, only a silly buyer would hesitate to pay top dollar for his wares. His greed opened this treasure trove to the public, allowing those without a sense of self-preservation to have a unique opportunity to drudge for necromantic artifacts.

The town proper is effectively still a town, albeit a town inhabited by the angry and hungry dead. They don’t take kindly to the living, but aren’t necessarily hostile unless provoked. Many are simply living out echoes of their past existences as harmless villagers. The real problem comes from the concentration camps proper. The three main campuses are surrounded by about fifty smaller camps. Each of the smaller camps is a hotbed of supernatural activity, but nothing compared to the magnitude of the central collective.

In particular, Auschwitz II is remarkable. It was the source of the vast majority of deaths—it’s what most people think of when referencing Auschwitz. It’s nightmare made flesh, almost a living organism unto itself. The halls audibly scream and cry, the ghosts beg for release so much that most people couldn’t even hear themselves speak. For your average runner, Auschwitz II is suicide. Only the most enterprising groups will survive the trip. But such a trip can result in great rewards (see The Fleshfinder, below).

THE FLESHFINDER

Deep within the bowels of Auschwitz II during WWII, Dr. Eduard Wirths conducted and supervised thousands of odd experiments on the human body. He tested mustard gas on innocents. He mutilated twins. He held people in tanks of ice water for hours or until dead. He exposed prisoners to malaria. He forced them to drink seawater. One particular implement from his experiments, a rusted old scalpel, was left in the labs. Over many years, it was energized by the various ghosts passing by it, feeding off their death energies. At this point, it’s taken on a life of its own.

The rusty old scalpel craves death. It only finds itself at home when flush with warm blood. Although this makes it a remarkably effective weapon, anyone holding it is subject to the sounds of its past victims. As a function of this, when the weapon is in hand, the character is considered distracted and suffers a –4 dice pool modifier to all Perception Tests. If she attempts to Observe in Detail as a Simple Action, she only suffers a –2 dice pool modifier.
Reach: 0, Damage: (Str/2+4)P, AP: –2, Availability: N/A (unique item), Market Value: 10,000¥

The errata team, last I checked, is literally one or two freelancers working unpaid and a few fans from the official forums, and the only place any of their work seems to have been used is Missions.

oh, i wouldn't be at all surprised if that describes their current state of affairs too. i was just noting that they actually at least care enough to try and *look* like they're doing something, which is an improvement sadly enough.

truthfully, the biggest and most telling omission from the errata team would be someone that can actually push those corrections into the books. no editors. no managers. no actual full time employees of the company that actually work in the office. a handful of people is probably fine, *if* one of those people is actually making sure the work they do actually goes somewhere instead of just sitting in a file somewhere.

Edit: Of course it is, just checked the preview on DRTPG, and there it is in the contents.

Of course it is. This is the American edition. Not to go off on a tangent here, but it was removed from the German edition for several reasons, some of them moral, some of them more legal in nature. However, even if this wasn't dangerously skirting hate speech laws, the publisher would have faced quite a backlash on this stuff from local fans (and the wider gaming community).

I myself use sensitive subject matter to bring the playing group closer together.
And in my opinion the RPG culture in General has at times been for some a chance to exclude as many as possible from the experience.

My opinion.

Alot depends on the nature of the sensitive subject matter and how it relates to the players.

Which is why a Session Zero is so important.

i can't imagine an entire section about auschwitz would have gone over well at all.

I myself use sensitive subject matter to bring the playing group closer together.
And in my opinion the RPG culture in General has at times been for some a chance to exclude as many as possible from the experience.

My opinion.

I myself use sensitive subject matter to bring the playing group closer together.
And in my opinion the RPG culture in General has at times been for some a chance to exclude as many as possible from the experience.

My opinion.