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[Roccojr]

New to the forums but not new to Shadowrun (been playing since the day 1st Edition hit the streets...). I dragged my girlfriend (now wife and mother of our three kiddies... future Shadowrunners, all!) to go get the rules the day they came out and we were playing a couple of days later.

We had a long hiatus that we're just emerging from. Our campaign is significantly behind the official timeline... we're in 2058. Dunkelzahn's death, the Mob War, the Corp War... they're all in the near future for us. I'm not sure how closely we will follow the timeline at this point but I've been pretty loyal to it in the past. Despite the hiatus, I was keeping up on the books. I even have one of those pre-ordered, leather-bound 3rd Edition rulebooks stashed away (popularly referred to as BABY, if I recall).

We played 1st Edition and then 2nd Edition when it came out. When 3rd Edition came out, we opted to stick with 2nd. Now 4th is out. My group STILL prefers 2nd Edition. We've incorporated some 3rd Edition stuff and even a few 4th Edition things so we refer to our rules as Shadowrun 2.5 when we need to differentiate but its close enough to 2nd Edition that I'm pretty sure anyone who preferred that Edition would be happy... We are!

Is anyone else out there an anachronistic, 2nd Edition hold-out?