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> How about dropping some SR5 goodness on us?, More info on the stuff that we want to see!
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post Jun 30 2013, 05:21 AM
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Instead of talking about missing Skinlinks and matrix bonuses.

Cause we got 11 days to go!

Thanks!
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post Jun 30 2013, 05:36 AM
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Umm.... There are actual mechanical differences between Magicians and Shaman again!

That's nifty! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)
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post Jun 30 2013, 09:20 AM
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I'm hoping (in fact I know) there's more than that. New Matrix rules for example, especially coming from SR3 these are something I'm curious about (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Mentor Spirits are also intriguing and sound like they've been done cool and I imagine there's a whole slew of Cyber and Biotech I'm not aware of as each edition seems to have introduced something else.
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post Jun 30 2013, 09:45 AM
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QUOTE (Moirdryd @ Jun 30 2013, 03:20 AM) *
...there's a whole slew of Cyber and Biotech I'm not aware of as each edition seems to have introduced something else.

Have you and I been playing the same game or is my sarcasm detector broken? Ware has been extremely static edition to edition traditionally.
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post Jun 30 2013, 10:03 AM
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2-3 introduced new stuff (some if it wasn't accessible easily) but Man&Machine certainly has more toys than Shadowtech did (although I do have a soft spot for Shadowtech, got my first real upgrades in my first shadowrun campaign from that book) although not sure what the StreetSamueai Catalogue had in it, so maybe there was stuff I missed.

I could be wrong but I'm sure there was new stuff between 3-4 (or maybe things brought into greater prominence than before). Granted perhaps not a slew but even so, the odd new thingy. I havent bought anything SR in 8 years(ish) and haven't spent on a new edition or system for over a year, so I'm a little keen.
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post Jun 30 2013, 10:27 AM
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SSC was mostly new guns, and some headware that was making its' first appearance.

But it is the home of the Predator II, the Colt Manhunter, the Panther Assault Cannon, and the Ingram Smartgun all of which I still love 20 years later.

Sadly, it was also the start of the scourge that is Form Fitting Body Armor, however it specifically says that it does not stack with any other armor in the book, so I can't hold that against it.

Also, the MP Laser, which was the start of the absolute best bit of Shadowlander commentary ever done in the books. The Neon Samurai's war with Ares over the MP Laser systems always drew me in. Seemed like he'd be a really neat Johnson with an axe to grind.

Edit: Oo, and the Narcoject stuff, the one item I have consistently ported over to every edition of SR I've ever GM'd, because it is something that is absurdly sensible to have in existence.
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post Jun 30 2013, 11:55 AM
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Also, the MP Laser, which was the start of the absolute best bit of Shadowlander commentary ever done in the books. The Neon Samurai's war with Ares over the MP Laser systems always drew me in. Seemed like he'd be a really neat Johnson with an axe to grind.

Except for the fact he died in (I think) Fields of Fire or Cybertechnology.
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post Jun 30 2013, 05:59 PM
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QUOTE (hermit @ Jun 30 2013, 05:55 AM) *
Except for the fact he died in (I think) Fields of Fire or Cybertechnology.


Nah, pretty sure he's still alive after that. He comments in Corporate Download and Target : Matrix, which are both later books.
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post Jun 30 2013, 06:12 PM
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I am definitily sure he died in some book, but it's been a while.

Edit: Looked it up, and I guess I was wrong; he should still be around.
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post Jun 30 2013, 06:29 PM
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Some say he changed his handle to the LED Samurai, but this is unconfirmed.
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post Jun 30 2013, 06:31 PM
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AR Samurai, because the world now is all wireless and shit.
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post Jun 30 2013, 06:41 PM
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He died during the Burger Franchise War of '67. He went down defending the Clawn. It was sad.
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post Jun 30 2013, 07:28 PM
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QUOTE (binarywraith @ Jun 30 2013, 06:36 AM) *
Umm.... There are actual mechanical differences between Magicians and Shaman again!

Namely?
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post Jun 30 2013, 07:45 PM
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QUOTE (Bull @ Jun 30 2013, 01:41 PM) *
He died during the Burger Franchise War of '67. He went down defending the Clawn. It was sad.
Still not as bad as the Cola Wars of the early-70s.
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post Jun 30 2013, 07:46 PM
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QUOTE (CanRay @ Jun 30 2013, 09:45 PM) *
Still not as bad as the Cola Wars of the early-70s.

The second Cola War. Some scars will never heal.
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post Jun 30 2013, 10:05 PM
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QUOTE (Sengir @ Jun 30 2013, 01:28 PM) *
Namely?


From the previews, they soak drain differently. Will + Logic for magicians, Will + Charisma for shaman.

Beyond that, I'll need the book to really tell, but I'm seriously down to grasping at straws here to find the good.
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post Jul 1 2013, 02:36 AM
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QUOTE (binarywraith @ Jun 30 2013, 03:05 PM) *
From the previews, they soak drain differently. Will + Logic for magicians, Will + Charisma for shaman.


... Which is the exact way that worked in SR4?
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post Jul 1 2013, 02:59 AM
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I will double check but the magic traditions are seperated exactly as they were in fourth.

And honestly that's not a bad thing, as much as it is nice to have some seperation of traditions thematicly having multiple systems is dumb. On the other hand "choose your drain stat" is also kind of dumb.
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post Jul 1 2013, 04:57 AM
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Having some good differences between traditions can be nice and make for good roleplaying.

But I don't think I would go back to Shamans being the only one to summon a Spirit and Hermetics being the only one to bind them.
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post Jul 1 2013, 05:09 AM
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QUOTE (cndblank @ Jun 30 2013, 08:57 PM) *
Having some good differences between traditions can be nice and make for good roleplaying.

But I don't think I would go back to Shamans being the only one to summon a Spirit and Hermetics being the only one to bind them.


Shamans summoned Nature Spirits, and Mages summoned elementals in 1st through 3rd editions. Both made exactly the same conjuring test and it was the spirits themselves that had the different mechanics.

That distinction was made up by 4th edition to try and revert the setting. It was a creative enough re-imagining of the system, but didn't really go far enough to bring back the feeling of having two (or more) different paradigm-types of Magic. I hope fifth will take it further.

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post Jul 1 2013, 06:06 AM
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The big(ger) shaman/magician divide was an idea we wanted to have fun with, but in the end it got shuffled off to a splatbook. SR5 is friggin' huge, and we decided to keep the basics, well, basic. So the core doesn't have a bigger difference than SR4 did, but the plan is to have more stuff to differentiate between them in a later book.

And yes, Mentor Spirits got a bit of a change. Since -- unlike most of what's been discussed so far -- I did play a larger role in that (in that the guy busy writing all the rest of the magic chapter was kind enough to let my adept-lovin' self brainstorm and stuff extensively, and then he liked some of my ideas ad we hammered stuff out), though, I won't share it, personally. Someone who can be a bit more objective will have to.
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post Jul 1 2013, 08:50 AM
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I think I am going with a Mentor Spirit that appears to me as Michael Weston. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Jul 1 2013, 09:34 AM
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Not Morgan Freeman?
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post Jul 1 2013, 10:04 AM
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That was my second choice with Sean Connery tieing with him.
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post Jul 1 2013, 10:09 AM
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How about Patrick Stewart?
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