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 Aug 12 2011, 11:26 PM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 582 Joined: 13-April 08 Member No.: 15,881  |
So what books and contents would you like to see published for SR4?
Personally, I'd like to see some of the things in Runner's Companion fleshed out more like the alternative character types and the AI UPDATE: Added a poll |
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Aug 12 2011, 11:39 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 144 Joined: 11-April 05 From: San Antonio, USA Member No.: 7,317 |
I would like to see some more location books. Tir Tairngire, Caribbean League, Dallas/Ft.Worth, maybe a updated NAN book just for starters.
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Aug 13 2011, 12:18 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 75 Joined: 17-July 11 Member No.: 33,515 |
Rigger 4
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Aug 13 2011, 12:24 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
QUOTE (PeteThe1 @ Aug 12 2011, 07:18 PM)  Rigger 4 It is cursed.
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Aug 13 2011, 01:53 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,272 Joined: 22-June 10 From: Omaha. NE Member No.: 18,746 |
The Shadowrun Bartender's handbook. A guide to drinks, munchies, and pretending to not overhear conversations that could get you killed.
Includes such classics as Hot Laésal Toddies and Hurlg Boilermakers. |
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Aug 13 2011, 02:37 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,178 Joined: 5-December 07 From: Lower UCAS, along the border Member No.: 14,507 |
State of the Art - 2072
Shadowrun in Spaaaaaaaace An actual book on Sixth World Street / Youth / Pop Culture A GM's Guide. For reals. Deliberately not trying to start shit, I swear. I know that there have been books that have covered aspects of, but I'm just saying... Oh, Africa needs something written about it. Anything. |
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Aug 13 2011, 02:58 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 308 Joined: 2-November 09 Member No.: 17,830 |
The Shedim or book on Magical Threats.
Kama Sutra Sixth World Edition. (Updated for Metahumans) You are what we Eat! All about Ghouls. |
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Aug 13 2011, 03:01 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,416 Joined: 4-March 06 From: Albuquerque Member No.: 8,334 |
SR5.
(Don't kill me!!!) |
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Aug 13 2011, 04:32 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 53 Joined: 19-June 11 From: St. Louis Member No.: 31,741 |
Books updated with errata. Reformatting to fit into SR4A.
More NOVELs.... Gangers book. About doing a campaign as a ganger. 300 BP. I want the classic Seattle gangs in there as well as other cities. More Yakuza and Russian Mafia. Rigger 4 I don't think CGL can do SR5 justice right now. They can't even put errata in a book.... |
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Aug 13 2011, 04:49 AM
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Freelance Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 7,324 Joined: 30-September 04 From: Texas Member No.: 6,714 |
*pulls out his popcorn again*
NDAs and common sense prevent me from giving out details (or anything very much like details), but I'll just say that several things being asked about came up in a few recent face-to-face meetings. I won't say which, I won't say if they got a very-early-in-the-game green light, etc, etc...but they came up in discussions. |
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Aug 13 2011, 04:55 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 582 Joined: 13-April 08 Member No.: 15,881 |
QUOTE (Critias @ Aug 13 2011, 05:49 AM) *pulls out his popcorn again* NDAs and common sense prevent me from giving out details (or anything very much like details), but I'll just say that several things being asked about came up in a few recent face-to-face meetings. I won't say which, I won't say if they got a very-early-in-the-game green light, etc, etc...but they came up in discussions. So there's very definitely maybe something that could possibly definitely come down the pipe probably sooner or later... |
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Aug 13 2011, 05:15 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
QUOTE (Jhaiisiin @ Aug 12 2011, 10:01 PM) SR5. I'd shoot you in the face, but no one is paying me. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) (Don't kill me!!!) QUOTE (Abdul Alhazred @ Aug 12 2011, 11:32 PM) More NOVELS.... I thought there was supposed to be throat punching at GenCon over novels. Yet I haven't heard about any arrests.I feel somewhat disappointed that the words I put into someone's mouth didn't come true. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) |
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Aug 13 2011, 06:26 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 53 Joined: 19-June 11 From: St. Louis Member No.: 31,741 |
The german books translated into english....
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Aug 13 2011, 06:29 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 26 Joined: 21-July 11 Member No.: 33,797 |
Space stuff (Mars, Moon, Orbitals etc.)
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Aug 13 2011, 06:35 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 582 Joined: 13-April 08 Member No.: 15,881 |
QUOTE (Abdul Alhazred @ Aug 13 2011, 06:26 AM) The german books translated into english.... Amen |
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Aug 13 2011, 07:01 AM
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Freelance Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 7,324 Joined: 30-September 04 From: Texas Member No.: 6,714 |
QUOTE (Socinus @ Aug 12 2011, 11:55 PM) So there's very definitely maybe something that could possibly definitely come down the pipe probably sooner or later... Perhaps. |
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Aug 13 2011, 08:20 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 239 Joined: 16-September 10 From: Moscow, Russia Member No.: 19,051 |
I would love to see more in-depth books. Most 4e books try to catch it all in one title. To recap 20 years of publications in a couple of books. When whole Aztlan book is squeezed into four-five pages of Almanach, it leaves a lot of blank or undeveloped space. Also 4e books are aimed at new players. This is good because if you want the game to survive, you need to bring in new blood. That's what got me into the game after all. But after I have read the whole bunch of older books, I started to feel a bit disappointed with the current texts mentioning previous storylines. At most it's a shortened recap of the events without the flavour of the old books, at worst it's just three words like 'she is dead'.
As for the book titles, I want more metaplot. Immortal Elves, Dragons, Horrors, new Deus, whatever. And I second more location books. |
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Aug 13 2011, 08:32 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,000 Joined: 30-May 09 From: Germany Member No.: 17,225 |
A dirty tech book containing:
Vehicle design rules Deck... i mean comlink design rules Weapon design rules Cyberware/Bioware/Gentek/Surgery rules (For introducing the balance and introducing drawbacks) Rule compendium (Different sets of rules with/without options as spreadsheets and/or compressed bullet point lists) In those lists: Matrix Actions, Combat Actions, usual equipments, Chase sequences, Surrounding magic rules, usual corporate structures, organized crime structures, Lists of all electronic/magical security devices, list of street names. I mean i wrote my own compressed lists - you can only understand them if you read the rules. But they make things so much faster, would be nice to have them in a book for all and maybe BETTER than my crap *g*. Help with thematics, plots and atmosphere to fill the book out after that. So yeah: pretty much the whole approved and discussed dumpshock forum in one accessible black/green book *g*. |
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Aug 13 2011, 08:37 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,373 Joined: 14-January 10 From: Stuttgart, Germany Member No.: 18,036 |
My guess is easy and working Matrix rules and vehicle rules will have to wait until SR5, afaik that's what JH said.
I still wait wait for the Advanced Magic Rules Book announced in the FAQ. Setting-wise I think there are enough already. We can play 15+ campaigns each in a different city |
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Aug 13 2011, 10:37 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,178 Joined: 5-December 07 From: Lower UCAS, along the border Member No.: 14,507 |
QUOTE (Bushw4cker @ Aug 12 2011, 09:58 PM) The Shedim or book on Magical Threats. Magical Threats would be nice. Some way for "norms" to better fight spirits would be nice too. Didn't realize how bad it was til I ran a group through Chicago... QUOTE Kama Sutra Sixth World Edition. (Updated for Metahumans) We already have the Book of Swallowed Darkness and Book of Erotic Fantasy. Think that's all we really need at this point (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) QUOTE You are what we Eat! All about Ghouls. Now this is just a genius title. You taking notes, Critias? QUOTE (Abdul Alhazred @ Aug 12 2011, 11:32 PM) Books updated with errata. Reformatting to fit into SR4A. Never happen. Besides, Adam Jury doesn't work for CGL any more. QUOTE (Abdul Alhazred @ Aug 13 2011, 01:26 AM) The german books translated into english.... How the hell did I forget this? Also some of the French and Polish stuff as well. IIRC, the Japanese don't have anything really worth getting excited over translating though (shame) QUOTE (Critias @ Aug 13 2011, 02:01 AM) Perhaps. "When will then be now?" "Soon." I'm sorry about the quote tree. |
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Aug 13 2011, 10:55 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 245 Joined: 17-August 10 Member No.: 18,943 |
Vehicle rules that make sense.
Given that the primary purpose of a vehicle (as opposed to a drone) is the ability to carry people or things from point a to point b in a state of compromise between speed, efficiency and security, actually knowing how many people or things (by volume and weight) can fit inside a vehicle is to my mind one of the most fundamental stats. |
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Aug 13 2011, 02:28 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 197 Joined: 14-July 11 From: Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 33,321 |
As a huge fan of world-building fluff, I'd love to see more location books, but only if they're going to be properly researched. Bogota is NOT a port city!
This is a pipe dream, but I'd love to see a book focused on older tech, especially things like cyberdecks, that included rules for using the current rules set in older timelines. I'd love to run a campaign in the 2050's or 2060's, but I just can't envision how to simulate the wired world with the current rules. I think most of us would love to get the German stuff translated into English, myself included, but I remember reading in one of the threads recently that one of the CGL muckety-mucks said it was never going to happen for a variety of reasons (one of them being cost, I think). (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif) |
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Aug 13 2011, 02:37 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,272 Joined: 22-June 10 From: Omaha. NE Member No.: 18,746 |
There are times I dream that SR5 will come with a DC style reboot, taking a gun to the fluff that we've suffered with since SR1....
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Aug 13 2011, 03:33 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 308 Joined: 2-November 09 Member No.: 17,830 |
QUOTE (ravensmuse @ Aug 13 2011, 11:37 AM) We already have the Book of Swallowed Darkness and Book of Erotic Fantasy. Think that's all we really need at this point (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) But that doesn't include Trolls, Orks, Dwarves, Elves, Shapeshifters.... I game with group that wanted to know if you could have a Modular Penile Implant. |
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Aug 13 2011, 03:38 PM
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Prime Runner Ascendant Group: Members Posts: 17,568 Joined: 26-March 09 From: Aurora, Colorado Member No.: 17,022 |
QUOTE (suoq @ Aug 13 2011, 08:37 AM) There are times I dream that SR5 will come with a DC style reboot, taking a gun to the fluff that we've suffered with since SR1.... I hope not. I have never sufferred from the Fluff of the game world. In fact, I actually enjoy the fluff of the game world. Keep it like it is, is my vote. You change the fluff, you end up changing the game world, and it is no longer Shadowrun. Just my 2 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) . |
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