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Dayum, this is gonna be interesting!

"Swiss Gov Launches Technomancer Control Initiative"

Man, I never would've bet that the Swiss would suggest something like that. More of an American type thing to do. Maybe some Technomancer hacked into their Swiss bank account computers?

hmm, anyone have a pdf editor?

those black blobs look like they where added in the pdf file...

They were and they're intended to work as spoilers and leave you some surprises. As I've said before there's a lot going on in Emergence and we'd like to save some of the twists for when the actual book hits the shelves.

lets just say synner, i can understand why you all want to do that

Yep, that totally fits the Switzerland I recall from SoE.

And also, cant wait for the PDF release. Started to reread some of the older sourcebooks recently.

And rich. That makes it much worse.

Nothing unexpected.

Including the crave for Unwired.

That's great!

Where's the Augmentation preview?

You'll find a link in the article referred to in the first post.
I think hobgoblin is on to something.

Haha. "In UR Head, Hacking UR Brain" I love it! Left edge of page 4.

Bah that's not a perview that's a publicly released government document.

Actually I was hoping to have the time to make an "Oversight Office" stamp, unfortunately we've been a bit swamped.

For the technically challenged - the hidden parts:

oh crap, where is a moderator when one need them?

use a spoiler tag, damn it!

*EDIT*

Added [ Spoiler ] Tags.

perfect

Although to be fair, considering that its nothing that someone first opening the book wouldn't find out anyways I'm not quite sure why [ Spoiler ] Tags are actually needed.

I read his reasoning, I just don't agree with him on this issue since the preview is just the Table of Contents.

If the Spoilers were actual Spoilers from the book's text then I would be on board however.

Still, I guess that it is better to be polite then not.

Oh happy Day! Oh Happpy Day! Yays! More please?

EDIT:oops, spoiler tags now added

Tobias, please use spoiler tags.

Well, you're entitled to your opinion, all I can say to that is that the idea of releasing 'Unwired' before 'Emergence' was thought through and the decision was made not to.

The authors and dev's certainly did their best to ensure Emergence is enjoyable (and certainly playable) without requiring Unwired. Increasing the craving, yes, but required, no.

Generally there's a Game Information section that gives the rules for these sorts of things. Hopefully there will be something along these lines in Emergence.

Perhaps I didn't manage to make my point clear:

As it is now, the matrix rules have serious bugs that make them pretty much near unusable in normal play without heavy handwaving.
Thus, playing a matrix centered campaing without debugging the first in one way or another seems a bad thing to do.

Well I messed around for about five minutes seeing if I could get the information out by turning the pictures off or something, and then my housemate came along and got me the text in under ten seconds.

I can now see why the Technomancers trigger such fear, at any rate. So that will shut up all the people who kept saying that technomancy was no big deal when other people already had commlinks.

What I don't understand is why they brought him back as an AI. I mean, the tie-in with the will is nice and all, but if you want him back, there are other ways that hold with precedent.

cute aaron, real cute

=iP

Emergence focuses on two major elements we wanted to introduce in SR4 (the first everyone knew about, the second is a surprise) and firmly grounds both in the Sixth World.

In one sense it is a (much needed) metaplot book, in that it drives the universe forward and shakes things up a little, but more than that it is a setting book - one that should be useful whether you want to play the adventures therein or not. In fact its a pretty darn good read (if I do say so myself).

While the book provides some of the backstory that was missing for technomancers (and partly explains why they're just becoming news in 2070), it focuses on providing societal context and background on the bigger picture of technomancers in society and the shadows of 2070—and the myriad and unexpected ramifications thereof.

With technomancers an integral element of the gameworld from the corebook and people already playing them, there was no way we were going to hold off doing this and then pull the rug from under people's feet.

The logic for publishing the books in this order is simple: while the Matrix is integral to the campaign, make no mistake, it isn't the focus of the campaign. Events do revolve around Matrix elements and things do happen in the Matrix. But bigger things happen in the real world. This is a campaign about individuals and society, what it means to be human, and how far will you go to protect yourself from threats... real or imagined. You could be hapless with the Matrix and still get involved in this campaign. It explores some pretty dark themes in places and there are a couple of points where the dystopic nature of the setting really shines through.

As for the "second new element", all I'll say for now is that there's a twist (come on, by now you know me, there's always a twist). They might or might not be what people think, and that too factors into the storyline.

As written the campaign requires no Advanced Rules and is playable with the core SR rules (Matrix and otherwise). Note - Needless to say that I disagree with Rotbard on the Matrix rules requiring serious handwaving. Some clarification, maybe (and less so after the FAQ). Then again I would also argue that as written you didn't need the advanced Matrix rules in SR3 to play and enjoy Renraku Arcology: Shutdown, Brainscan or System Failure.

One last tip for now: keep in mind that the preview is a Table of Contents not the actual contents.

So what about that, eh?