Buy the PDF! Given how well the PDF has gone so far for me i'm wondering how often i'll be buying physical books again. I do have an LE on order through the FLGS, and they haven't called me to tell the order won't be filled. So i'll have that physical chunck in my hands, but depending on how i feel about when i get it in my hands i might put it up for resale to someone that will appreciate it more. *shrug*

I'm fortunate in that i have a laser printer, so it wasn't that bad to print it out. I then spent less than 4$ CDN to have the local Office Depot to bind it with a plastic spiral coil (the ones that look like a stretched out slinky). That sucks for trying to put sheets in later, but for actually reading, especially when in a porcelin situation, it is great. I can fold it around back on it's self and hold it with one hand and not worry about the spline. As a bonus i don't really worry about water splashing or the kids (or fellow players ) grabbing it and chewing on the corner a bit.

P.S. 2.5 kids here, i know exactly what you are talking about.

EDIT: I do get the "i like the asthetics" about a physical purchase book. It's the only thing that is keeping me for not just saying no more at all. It is just a trade-off for having the most up-to-date possible.

When all the books from the first print run are gone.

hmm.... Nope, not worth it.

Given what I've read here, there really isn't anything in 4th edition that inspires me and some things are serious turn-offs. And now with rapid fire edition changes before the books have even shipped, its time to cancel my order.

Besides, I have another real world 4+ years of gaming ahead of me with the old 3rd edition products I already own. My group is only in 2053 now.

I'll let the dust settle for a while and see what their product line up for 4th edition is like. If it looks good in total, then I'll order.

if you have so much 3rd ed stuff to last you that long why did you bother ordering it in the first place?

And in all honesty, this isn't the place I'd come to for inspiration on anything...

I love hardcover gaming books, have always liked the setting of SR even when I didn't like specific rules, and I also like to have the complete history so that I can create far reaching adventure arcs based off of it.

Admittedly that last is only possible since I brought into the game three years ago after most of the history was already a done deal. Thus I was able to use or discard as needed knowing everything that happened for the next 11 years of game time.

I don't think I would have had as much fun with it if I had signed on with 1st edition on day 1.

And that perhaps defines my self-created problem. I had a image of 14 years of game history, and 4th edition changes the style of those years significantly...

These boards? There's some great stuff here.

P.P.S. - 4 kids here, and I love the pdf. Not only does the errata get included in updates, but I have a binder at work. I fear no damage.

2053?

And I thought my clock was running slow being that It is now only August '63 in my campaign.

In 2053 the Serb Occupation of Croatia was in it's first year. The protagonist (Leela) was only ten years old, had just woken up from life saving implant surgery and had entered intensive rehabilitative therapy. It would be two years before the antagonist, Rita Kovec, would take control of the Serbian SSID and cozy up to the New Soviet to help rebuild (read re-arm) her nation..

I still look at just over 6 years left under SR3. There are several more events to happen in my campaign during what I am now calling: "Shadowrun, The Lost Years: 2064 - 2070"