[MrJBlackBook] Mr. J's Little Black Book, The title says it all... Options

[TechnoDruid]

I just got mine in the mail day before yesterday (along with SOTA64) and haven't had the opportunity to read through it much. So...what'd everyone think?

[Dark father]

After seeing the section on the anatomy of a Shadowrun, I thought they should have done this book long before! It took me years to master well the structure of a shadowrun, from the meeting with a fixer to the delivery of the goods. With this, a starting GM will understand it well from the start.

The contacts are original, nice variations on the classics. The encounters are a good update on Sprawl Sites. I rarely used them in this book, so I don't think I will use them more often with the MJLBB. The additional rules are interesting. I made a player use the quick decking rules this weekend and it helps a lot to shorten basic searches. additionally , it's interesting to see how reputation can be represented stat-wise. My only problem is the use of the terms Notoriety and Street Cred. I don't know if it's because english isn't my first language, but I don't find them not really meaningful.

Overall : a good book which will appeal especially to new GM or those wishing to perfect their games, but it can be an interesting, but unnecessary, resource for experimented GMs as well.

[Canid13]

[Birdy]

Since I offered to say something nice ;-)

Yes! Only way to improve the book is: Couple it with the Companion and Street Survival as the second major rulesbook!

Artwork: As with SotA the artwork is getting better by the day. Went through some old SR1/2 books (FoF or the Neo) and the current art is between almost as good and better than in the old books (And I preferred that art)

Contacts: A huge boatload of them and a lot useful ones. With enough hints to easily integrate them. Also my Humanis buddies complain about the amount of non-humans in there ;-) Some NPC are funny, some are "cute" (Ork hooker anyone)

What Mr Johnsons expects: Jaaaaaaaaaaa! That is a chapter that a lot of players should read! Mr J's the one hiring and you have to meet his criteria.

The whole stuff on "phases of a run" and "variant Mr. J's" is quite useful, even more so to "new" GM. Most SR groups don't meet in a tavern after all.

I did not check the rules but they sound interesting, giving a <Something>/Decker combo a new lease of life (not that deckers will live long IMU. Do Ghuls accept roastet brain?)


See, I can be nice to a book and it's authors ;-)

Birdy

[bitrunner]

btw, i bumped the last thread so you could all read some of the other comments...

[Mr.Platinum]

Well I have had this book for a while now. I
must say this is the best shadowrun aid for this GM i have used to help me make some adventures on the fly and quick matrix tables in the back have made the matrix less time consuming.