BattleCorps now has Street Magic available to order; the PDFs are immediately available, while you can preorder print copies to ship as soon as they come in.

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I'm awaiting first reviews by tomorrow midnight

Hot damn. See you all in a few days.

Stop sleeping, so you can finish the book quicker.

Too bad I have to finish a work for university and will be on a short vacation afterwards, otherwise I would have bought the PDF myself. Now I'll wait for the hardcopy release.

I´m salivating, but I don´t even have time to read my Runner Havens :-/

Guess the Hardcopy will take some time (at least over here).

I just finished downloading my copy, but I have to work in a half-hour. My coworkers are going to feel my pain, believe me.

I normally get stuff from DriveThruRPG.com but they don't have this yet. There's nothing on the Battlecorps site that gives any details about their PDFs. For example, are they watermarked like DriveThru? DRM?

If it's DRM, I'll have to wait for DriveThru. Can anyone confirm this for me, please as I'm itching to buy this?

Thanks,

-K.

Well... there are some interesting changes here.
Let's just say - forget about warding cars.

Whoah... The book is already out on amazon. Oh nevever mind it says its a paper back copy and the book is paper so oh well if i had the extra mony i would buy the pdf and the book but i would prefer to have the book over the pdf so oh well.

I must say I am displeased to see adept centering return to the rule mix.

I dunno, having ninjas that whale on guitars right before they totally flip out and kill everyone was kind of amusing...

It's the ones that take Zen Meditation to enhance their assault rifle skills that piss me off.

Just notied that per the rules in the BBB pg 189, Zen Meditation is no longer a valid centering choice! Time to go get the GM Nerf bat and play munchkin pinata!

Also note that Adept Centering does not generate positive modifiers.

That's an old one... IIRC, Barbie had it online ages ago.

Sweet, that'll really distract the guards. How about a mass ecstacy spell? Can you imagine the after action report for the base personnel? 'At 1:45 am, you were doing what exactly?' 'We, were all... uhm... uh...'

Well, the area version is called Orgy.

Haven't read it all but the threats section is masterfully done. Lots of details and new ideas to torment your players with

The real interesting question is, will mages be able to resist casting it on themselves?

"Ok Gandalf, scout the area astrally. Gandalf? Gandalf? [notices the smile and vacant look on Gandalf's face] Oh ffs Gandalf not again"

In fact, they'll cast it on themselves, sustain it until they pass out, recast when they wake up, repeat until death.

On the other hand, spells like Bugs/Swarm are much uglier.

But less...uhm... satisfying.

That depends on the preferences of the caster.

And while those security know they should be trying to resist that orgy spell, they might not want to. "But boss, he had a spell on us"

I assume the spell is an illusion? If so: No.

I cracked. I bought the pdf.

I am possesed. The book has overcome my mental barriers. Th flavor is awesome the book is worth every penny.

I think I speak for the devs and the authors when I say: thanks, that's best type of praise you can ask for.

Only one thing is lacking, apet powers that are effective with melee wepons not unarmed that dont require other skills.

What? I don't understand what you're saying.

I think he is refering to an Adept power that can juice up a sword somehow. Like Killing Hands, Distance Strike, and Elemental Strike does for Unarmed.

EDIT Nerve Strike, Penetrating Strike, and Smashing Blow are also likely candidates of his envy.

Because your hands are a part of you, and a sword isn't. Adepts are all about (symbolically) affecting themselves, not the world around them, with their powers. They can boost their strength, but not their buddy's. They can wrap themselves in mystic armor, but not their pal. They can heal their own wounds faster, but not someone else's (traditionally).

Internal usage of power? Adept.

External application of mystical force? Mage/Shaman.

"Killing Hands" and "Smashing Blow" is basically turning your hands into real weapons. So they would be redundent with a real weapon.

BTW there is one power that you can use your sword with, Inertia Strike.

Anyone else get a chuckle out of the newly introduced mentor spirit, Artificer?

And, what do you know, they (sort of) explained the wacky flooding pattern of LA.