Catalyst's garbage, Are there any SR books worth reading since "War!"? Options

[Fatum]

Yeah, and it didn't have omniscient shadowtalkers who know EVERYTHING in their area of expertise, and much more besides, but had those tiny shadowtalker sideplots going on.

[binarywraith]

Yeah, and it didn't have omniscient shadowtalkers who know EVERYTHING in their area of expertise, and much more besides, but had those tiny shadowtalker sideplots going on.

Oh, man. How I miss the comments on the MP Laser and MP Laser 3. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/love.gif)

[lokii]

In defense of the Jackpoint concept I would point out, that it started as a circle of interested professionals sharing information. True a Fastjack vetted user base raises the bar for contribution quality but it doesn't imply the jackpointers are omniscient and/or generally forthcoming. Frosty was close to the big secrets of the Sixth World, but she didn't actually talk about them, she gave little hints meant as in-jokes for the reader. I assume the intention of having a smaller cast was to be able to flash the individual voices out.

So for me the issue is how that was done. And here it is towards the tail end of Fourth Edition that we get a collective of dragon whisperers or jackpointers as street legends or Bull as Proposition 23 figurehead. Mind you I never liked the idea of shadowrunner infamy let alone fame... I wouldn't say the content became more about jackpointers' exploits in the Sixth World than what was actually going on, but I think it is fair to say it became too much about them. Consequently the celebrity status is now diluted with less important voices. But I would argue this the result of the choices in commentator portrayal rather than a failing of the concept.

[Udoshi]

Speaking of Fastjack......
I really hope the writers (Critias and company, I'm looking at you!) use the Fastjack Situation in presented in storm front - where he's possessed by some sort of entity trying to take over his mind - as a chance to write a mission series to save fastjack.

Okay, so, fastjack owns. He's been around forever, and some people I know love the guy so much they cried when they heard "the war writers" were "killing off fastjack". Sure, that's not all the story, but its the short version that people share and summarize.

I want to see Fastjack's plight become a new sort of Brainscan/Harlequin Adventures- High risk, high reward, a personal stake for the players involved. Where they have a chance to play THROUGH the metaplot for 5th, instead of just reading about it in a book handed down from On High. By putting fastjack in peril, you've created a situation rife with emotional potential, which is a base for great storytelling.
Making a really sweet series of modules to cure/treat/investigate the greatest hacker who ever lived, while also shedding light on this new e-ghost-possession situation would be fricken sweet.

If it was handled RIGHT? It would also go a LONG way to redeeming the sort of ..... bad name CGL has earned recently with plot decisions and handling legendary characters in adventures(frosty), showing that you can still set up a situation and then deliver the goods.

[Tzeentch]

It sound what marines think of the marine corps. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

You need to capitalize those words!

But really, the FMC sounds like what FORMER Marines who start getting nostalgic and put on their double-thick rose-colored BCGs think about the Marine Corps. You know, the guy who bitched every day about "getting the green weenie" and now has an entire room of his house covered in pictures, Marine Corps flags, and a sword he bought AFTER he got out.

When you're active duty you sound more like a cynical Dumpshock poster (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Tymeaus Jalynsfe...]

You need to capitalize those words!

But really, the FMC sounds like what FORMER Marines who start getting nostalgic and put on their double-thick rose-colored BCGs think about the Marine Corps. You know, the guy who bitched every day about "getting the green weenie" and now has an entire room of his house covered in pictures, Marine Corps flags, and a sword he bought AFTER he got out.

When you're active duty you sound more like a cynical Dumpshock poster (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Truth... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Neurosis]

Apparently garbage sells.

Everything else in this thread can go hang, give me context for this video...now.

[Critias]

Everything else in this thread can go hang, give me context for this video...now.

Jason didn't think it'd sell out at Origins in, like, fifteen minutes or whatever. It did. So then he had to sing the Street Samurai archetype text. Everybody lost.

[Tzeentch]

Apparently garbage sells.

Traveller 5 got funded and released, so this is certainly true. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)