Shadowrun 4 Anniversary Changes Options

[Cardul]

No. Most are due to poorly implemented streamlining, too little or too superficial playtesting of the V4 rules, a raving mad German FanPro line developer who hated Shadowrun and wanted to destroy the setting for an Anime setting where steampunk Nazis in Reichsflugscheiben are the main enemy (I am NOT making this up), and poorly implemented transhuman ideas and forced "updating" of SR to the current treds in near-future SciFi.

Listening to customer complaints is what made them make the Changes V4 to V4A.

OK, first..YAY that that did not get implemented!

Second, it almost seems like what you are saying, Hermit, is the impression I got, where part of the reason for the changes is to give Shadowrun BACK its feel where magic had an achilles heel of tech, Mages could pass out from a really powerful spell and so tended for quick takedowns rather then prolonged spell slinging battles, and skills defined the Runners, not Attributes.

Now, the question is: do you LIKE that direction?(Personally, I think there was more playtesting put into this then SR4..and from what I have seen going through the PDF, it is, over all, better written then the original SR4.)

[Medicineman]

No,Hermit is not making this up!
the Nexus Affair was the reason why I changed my Point of View towards Christian Lonsing(Vegetarian Wendigos ,
Spike Baby Three Headed Dragons in the 19th Century,Stargates for Time Travel,Nazi-Werewolfes on Reichsflugscheiben)
But that is Long ago.We should bury this Incident .Now Its CGL & Pegasus and I think they're doing a fine Job

With a Dance on the Grave of the Nexus-Incident.May it Rest in Peace and never Torment us again
Medicineman

[Fuchs]

No,Hermit is not making this up!
the Nexus Affair was the reason why I changed my Point of View towards Christian Lonsing(Vegetarian Wendigos ,
Spike Baby Three Headed Dragons in the 19th Century,Stargates for Time Travel,Nazi-Werewolfes on Reichsflugscheiben)
But that is Long ago.We should bury this Incident .Now Its CGL & Pegasus and I think they're doing a fine Job

With a Dance on the Grave of the Nexus-Incident.May it Rest in Peace and never Torment us again
Medicineman

I must have missed that incident... link, Medizinmann?

[Medicineman]

No Link ,Just Information from some Workshops (too me it seemed also too sincere to be an Aprils Fools Joke )
I really don't want to write anymore about this. I just didn't want Hermit to stand up there alone and be regarded as
Making this up ! (even though he might think that Hell is freezing up )
....oO( I forgot the Omegaware with no Essence-Loss)

with a dance on Ice
Medicineman

[hermit]

I really don't want to write anymore about this. I just didn't want Hermit to stand up there alone and be regarded as Making this up ! (even though he might think that Hell is freezing up )

Yay? Thanks, though. I know it sounds totally outrageous (well, it is). I thought so myself.

I forgot the Omegaware with no Essence-Loss

Urgh, right. Yes.

But that is Long ago.We should bury this Incident .Now Its CGL & Pegasus and I think they're doing a fine Job

Sure. Just wanted to point out where some of the setting's flaws in fluff (as I see them) might come from, and what kind of person Lonsing was.

Last commment on the subject: In one of the newsletters, he wrapped it up with "But now I am finally done with the newsletter and will go and do some work in my minis project. Because, even the SR line developer gets to do something he likes to do occasionally."

That was the official SR fan newsletter. Talk about epic fail in PR, eh?

[Particle_Beam]

So the "Nexus-Plot" is about the smurfs fighting Nazis?

Hmm, that sounds... original...

And Lonsing really wanted to incorporate this into Shadowrun? Whoa...