With all due respect to FanPro, the people who work there, the freelancers who contribute such excellent material and the logistics and trials of turning such material into a neatly laid out and printed bit of hardcopy, we who have voted above want Arsenal and / or other books like Augmented and Unwired to be released sometime before the first available opportunity. Until at least one of the above books is released, we hereby solemnly undertake to whine, beg, cajole or threaten to turn up at your house en masse for a five day Runathon (you provide the munchies) in our attempt to motivate you.

I personally volunteer to provide any freelancer working on the project with a room, computer, total social isolation and meals passed twice a day through the grill at the bottom of your door until such time as you secure your release by passing back through a completed manuscript. Other posters below hereby volunteer to dress up in your clothes, imitate whatever weirdy-beardy accent you have in your part of the World and turn up at your job / home / local bar fulfilling whatever obligations (contractual / social / marital) may be distracting you from completion of said Shadowrun projects. (We do not guarantee continued availability of job / spouse / friends on your return. Past performance is no indicator of future performance).

In short, this poll serves as an expression of interest in the forthcoming books and to demonstrate the fragile hopes of your many players that have been brutally savaged by each release date as it flew by them.

Please, Fanpro, on behalf of all of us, hearken to our calls and deliver us our supplements.

That is all.

-Khadim.

p.s. A continuation of the quality of Street Magic and Runner Havens would be appreciated.

wait... there's release dates?

i didn't know you could call "sometime in the X quarther of the year" a release date...

I'm noticing a certain lack of options like ... "I'm ok with waiting..."

Or am I talking to the wrong crowd?

This isn't really on topic, but I just went to your site from the link in your sig, and I'm very impressed. The thing showing what a street sam with great stats can do is cool. Plus, the fiction pieces are very good. Anyhoo, like I said, this isn't on topic, but I wanted to give kudos where kudos were due.

Heck, I want Augmented first. I don't need more guns and Daikote 2.0, I want street samurai to be able to compete with adepts (that initatites).

I hate that I am not a gamer that dwells on and appreciates a single set of rules and fluff for their elegance and intrigue, but rather a gamer that MUST CONSUME NEW MATERIAL.

Ahem. Unfortunately the other gamers in my SR group share this trait, and we are unable to play without a better fleshed out post-Crash 2.0 Sixth World.

Im an old gamer and still as rabid as the next fanboy when comes to new releases. I can be patient abit longer if can only be assured its quality product on par with what we've seen so far for this edition and it comes out sooner rather then later or worst case never.

Don't see it now but pretty sure adam mentioned somthing about an upcomeing errata for Street Magic that would include material left out of book, that would be nice "appetite suppresent" till we get arsenal / emergence wouldnt it

A watched pot does boil, but usually you're too busy paying attention to notice.

I'd rather get good quality supplements than crappy ones. I'll wait, thanks.
Thats not to say I don't WISH they were done, but if they aren't done, I'd rather wait.

Put me down for the unwritten choice 'C'

I'd prefer it done right rather than quickly, thank you.

Ditto the done right sentiments. But I am a rabid consumer of all things shadowrun, and I haven't consumed in sooo long.

*waves hand lazily* These are not the release dates you are looking for...

Let's hope the next few books from Fanpro give you some validity to "quality vs quantity".

Here's to hoping Fist.

*clink*

*glug*

...make mine a double....

Who are the dorks who keep voting for never?

Heck release Shadows of Latin America on holostreets. That would make ME happy. Or as someone said more PDFs Yes PDFs would be nice.

I know I've mentioned this before, but what I would really like to see is a free, online compilation of the gear art from all the old editions. People new to SR4 may not realize this, but almost every gun, bit of cyber, vehicle, etc had a half-page writeup and a half-page picture once up on a time, in whatever book in whatever edition it first showed up.
That would be a wonderful resource for everyone, new or old to the game, to just have each bit of gear that still exists in this edition, with whatever big fabulous picture it had in the Street Samurai Catalog, or Rigger Black Book, or Fields of Fire, or Shadowtech, or Cybertechnology (right now the old-timers are getting little chills, just hearing the names)

I can dream, can't I?

Hey Demerzel, it could be worse, Kyoto Kid could start using my system of only refreshing a Single Point at a time.

Still, I'll second (Or is it Third...) the notice of releasing more old PFDs, preferably starting with Threats 2...

Things I would like to see, preferably in the next few months, in the order in which I would like to see them.

1) Shadows of Latin America, on the SR webpage. (Screw Holostreets, they are obviously incapable of doing the simplest of tasks, such as creating a simple website.)

2) Previous edition PDF releases, starting with Shadows of Europe, Dragons of the Sixth World, Threats 2, etc etc etc. Free money for the net effort of making a PDF out of an old book = profit for FanPro/Wizkids/whoever

3) Additional material for the books (Runners Havens, Street Magic, etc) and web only material on the SR website. More website support equals happier fans, take a page from WotC's book (they have enough of them rolls eyes)

4) SR4 Conversions of old gear (including cyberdecks/matrix stuff) on the SR webpage, one book (or part thereof) at a time.

5) Augmentation. Before August. Please. Same goes for Emergence, but not so much.

Finally, I am of the opinion that if FanPro/WizKids/whoever needs more manpower to get things done, simply ask us (the fan base). I can't speak for anyone else, but I would be willing to do what I could for free to help accomplish the above goals presuming anything I could do would actually help.

Gazing through the fog in my crystal ball, I predict a release at Origins and a second release coinciding with GenCon (Indy).

Does anyone wonder that his crystal ball doesn't predict a year?

On the topic of website material:

The current licensing agreement between Wizkids and FanPro does not allow FanPro to publish digital-only supplements on their website. I'm not sure where the legal line comes down, since FanPro can publish errata on the website, but it is preventing FanPro from just putting SoLA on the website. Last I heard, Rob was discussing this with Wizkids to get it changed, since it really does bind us more than is practical this day and age.

On getting more freelancers:

FanPro is always looking for more freelancers. But to get new freelancers requires people to send in good submissions. They do want serious and skilled freelancers; adding freelancers who will require more editing effort or who will drop out of a project halfway through only make things more difficult than they are now.

Maybe if we just lock up AH in a room with a bunch of monkeys and type writers they can put out something to keep us busy while we wait.

I don't think that Wizkids is lacking material (SoLA is finished since years), but somehow they don't get it manage to release it in time...

But locking AH up and force him to write some ED/SR-crossover stuff is still a great idea.

Hrm? Oh, false alarm.