Yeah, passing off skills via Endowment I don't like. Once again puts too much emphasis on spirit-buffering.

my review of SM: having had a chance to look over the whole book, it's not nearly as bad as the "omg check out this new awesome feature that is guaranteed to make mfb chew rocks" posts had lead me to believe.

Negative comments are far more common than positive ones.

I, for one, love my Street Magic!

Well, damn. I was enjoying that for a bit. Mfb, for a couple of posts, I could almost swear you'd need limestone to fight that acid reflux.

what, this? hahaha. this is nowhere near my top form. i can't bring myself to care about SR4 enough to really hate it much, anymore.

Certainly not what some of the less open minded among us would hope.

Certainly not what some of the less open minded among us would hope.

Eh. I just hope at some point they just say, "they're magic" and spare the nonsense. At least as far as the rules and OOC stuff goes.

Quite a bit of the IC stuff supports the idea as well. They have their mages and shamans, their form of innitiation, etc.

...have yet to actually get a copy (though I'll have to wait until tha actual book is released). Curious as a player about espansions to adepts, apprehensive as a GM about espansions to spellcasting and spirits.

Right, and your desires for the SR world don't include TMs. Thats cool, and well within your rights as a gamer. Unfortunately (or fortunately deppending on who you ask) TMs are here to stay, no matter what your personal preferences on them are. They're one of the many things that are incredibly simple to remove from your world if you don't want them.

I'm sure the SR3-games mfb plays don't include TMs.

I'd agree on that. It continues to make one wonder why he even bothers to come here.

Picked up my copy at GenCon. Breif scan, looks good. One thing I was surprised is that while it's hard cover, it doesn't havethe glossy paper and green ink the core book did. This actually makes it seem relative lower quality production value then the main book

Technomancers.

An inquistor of the DBC can't look like a noob.

i'm not one to disinclude words from my vocabulary simply because they haven't yet made it into the dictionary.

Don't worry, it wasn't a question.

I think your "i'm here because I like sr" is a coverup for "i'm here because i like poking holes in sr4, even though i personally have no discernable game creation abilities." That's just me though.

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I know I've actually seen mechanics he's written. Last time I checked... no one else here has.

It's like anything concerning algorithms: Then publish it and thus open it for review.
Until then, no one gives a damn.

We all have heared about too many rulesets that, on closer inspection, were inconsistent and/or carried too much overhead, even though the authors and fans were sure to have found the holy grail of gaming (yet again).

sure. when they're ready, i'll put out what i'm working on right now.

now that i think of it, though, how many of you submitted material for SR4 or SM? how many of you were even asked? i don't brag, as a general rule, but i think it's worth pointing out that my material was requested despite the harsh things i have to say about SR4. or maybe because of it, who knows. that doesn't make me special; lots of people contributed to both books. but i think that, given these facts, i'm really not in a position where i need to fret over questions from most posters on these boards regarding my ability to craft game material. i'm not being insulting, not saying you can't question me. just saying that past response has made me confident in my abilities.

mfb: If you've got actual (good) game writing expertise then I withdraw the second portion of that post. I'd love to see it. How long have you been working on it (i.e. is it under a reasonable timeframe for going from conception to completion)?

been working on it since a few months before SR4 came out. that's not reasonable at all, from the POV of a company that's trying to put out a project... but that's not what i am. these rules may never see completion. so, to amend my previous statement, if and when they're ready, they'll be put out.

Cool. It's much easier to fiddle with things to get them as right as possible on an unlimited schedule. (says the guy who has been working on something for well over a year and has two chapters)