81 and 78. Homer the Nosferatu.

Asamando's need for a wireless matrix, along with their very high literacy rate, is strange to me, in light of the fact that ghouls are blind. This also makes me wonder what kind of "military training" they receive.

Yeah, he could at least have used Monty Burns as a model.

What's really odd about the terrible metavariant and Infected pictures in RC is that the same artist did some of the better pieces in Arsenal...

As far as Feral Cities is concerned, the art isn't bad, but seems kinda...bland.

Nice read, though, especially Chicago, Karavan and Geneva.

As a reference, if you buy the PDF from Battlecorps, you can download updated versions at no cost. You don't need to keep buying new ones as I understand it.

... except for SR4 and Street Magic, which are special cases as FanPro released the in PDF and we don't have access to the customers that bought them [on DriveThru, Paizo.com, and Studio 2's online store.]

But if I buy them from the Battlecorps site, I'll be able to get updates when they're available? I think my main concern is that they are FanPro PDFs and with the current problems getting the core PDF updated, I'd rather wait until it's all sorted out. As I said, I do bring my core book to the game as the rest are on the Mac when needed.

Carl

Bofh = Freejack? Dual boxing or did you forget your password?

When they're available being the key phrase -- as things stand, we're not releasing the updates until we can provide them to the DriveThru customers equally.

I've been having trouble staying logged in from work as bofh since the forum software change. I'll have to log in several times just to post. One suggestion was to create a new account and see if it made a difference. Since I'm Freejack on a couple of other sites now, I created this account to test it.

It seemed to work a lot better on Friday however I did have to log in a few times during the day. I suspect that if more people are at work (Friday being a quiet day ), the problem will still exist with both account.

Since I am Freejack on other sites, I might just keep this one even if it doesn't fix the problem. I don't have a lot of posts as bofh and the only thing that would change would be the sign up date

Carl

All in all, I really liked this book. It did a great job following up on Bug City. But why was it decided to change the appearance of Truman Tower from the semi-pyramidal (e.g., Transamerica Building) design for the corkscrew?

I really want to say thank you to the developers. I meet them 2 years ago at Gen con and talked to them about making Chicago a Feral City. I am all giddy that as a fan, player, and GM my voice was heard and you all get to play in the most awesome setting ever... CHICAGO!

Thanks again guys your awesome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Spire

Yeah. I know that's a real building.

But that doesn't answer my question. Truman Tower already had a physical description in Burning Bright and either NAGNA or Bug City or both.

Okay, perhaps I'm misunderstanding here. The Transamerica Pyramid is in glowy San Francisco.

He wasn't saying it was the Transamerica building, but that it has been described in the past in a similar manner.



That's clearly not a corkscrew

(Currently reading Burning Bright.)

Carl

Ah, I see what you're saying. Let me be clear: the Chicago Spire is not Truman Tower, it was just the HQ/primary corporate housing enclave of Truman Technologies. We were going to include some material on TT, but decided to cut it.

Ah, see I assumed that was what this line on page 48 referring to the Spire meant:


Also TB's comment suggested it was the TT HQ in 2055 when the city fell:

Yeah, in hindsight we should have covered Truman Tower and the Spire, but since the Spire is the hub of such activity...<shrug>. Hindsight is 20/20.

Any chance this could be made a low-cost pdf, like digital grimoire?


There was better art in Arsenal? maybe I forgot it about the attack of the egg-shaped space marine borg mech dropships stuff, though.

Maybe the artist wanted to be original and fun? Or try out his leet new style? It happened to Marvel too.

Better compared to the rest of the book.
I mean, the picture on p. 7 of Arsenal has got the same signature as the Groening ghoulies and it doesn't look even remotely like it.
It has shading that actually deserves the name, basic anatomy is correct, it does have perspective- i couldn't believe that's done by the same artist.
Yet still it seems to be.

quick guess is that the artist works with large canvases, and the arsenal art is not so scaled down as the RC stuff.

hell, compare page 7 with the inner cover art. same basic image, with a AR overlay. but the face is larger.

could even be that the artist did them all in colors.

Well, having played Fallout 3 for a few weeks straight, I had this idea for a campaign, which I promptly implemented. First session will be in 2 weeks.

I told my players to create (using SR's rules) regular or not-so-regular working Joes. (Legal SINs, day jobs, all that.) I told them that the year is 2055, and that they all know each other because they're neighbors in a 4-unit apartment building. I very, very carefully did *not* mention what city we're going to be playing in.

Of the 4 players, one is very familiar with the background story, and one is somewhat familiar. Once I announce that the city is Chicago, I am confidently expecting at least one of them to call me a rat bastard or something to that effect.

"Congratulations, your world has just gone to hell. Survive."

Please note that due to holiday shipping schedule wackiness and all the fun that goes with business downtime during the holidays, the Feral Cities street date has been moved one week later to Tuesday the 20th of January, to ensure that all distributors/stores will be able to have the book on the street date.

Super Tuesday.

Has Feral Cities been released to the LGSes? I haven't heard from BattleCorps. Thanks!

The street date was the 20th; so, yes.

my mailbox has filed a PFA against me. Claims I am stalking it and struck it on several occasions.
Its lying.
*patiently awaiting my dead tree version.* which means you guys are doing a great job. I haven't been this crazy about RPG books since DND.(the original, before all the 1,2,3, ect). of course, I was 16 then and not as cynical and calloused as I am today.