"we need guns . . many guns!"
especially the Savalette needs to come back to daddy *g*
If the GM won't let me put Heavy Weapons into my Troll-Cyber-Arm he'd better let me decide what kind of HeavyPistol/Shotgun i want in there ^^

"Guns, guns, guns - how would life be without it?"

longer/quiter probably *g*

early 2008 means 1st Quarter 2008

Heh. Everyone got all excited over Street Magic (and it was good), and everyone got all excited over Augmentation (and it was also good), but the moment people see a preview with a big machine gun in it, everyone is going to start having fits. I don't know why nothing gets most players as excited as a great big catalogue of equipment, but it's Arsenal that I think people want more than anything.

Drones for me - there have to be some good new drones, I hope. And maybe some really impressive body armour. Given how much care and thought has been put into other areas of 4th Edition so far, I'll be interested to see if the advanced melee rules are actually appealing for once.

Oh, and at least a couple of boats would be useful for my campaign, but I don't want to hope for everything.

I don't get excited over the fact that Arsenal brings new toys and weapons, I'm excited for getting another core book for SR4.

Yes I am also very excited. In my opinion the quality of SR4 books has increased with each book, so why would Arsenal be any different? On the other hand, I have my worries that cramming too much stuff into one book will not be a good thing. IIRC the guys said that it will contain every weapon published in shadowrun books. That's a good thing. But in SR3 there was one book for guns and equipment, one for vehicles, and didn't SR3's cyberbook ( I forget the name ) have the rules for substance abuse? Add to that, none of these books had any fluff or fiction. So my worry is that how on earth will all this stuff plus the fluff fit into one book? I'd rather spend more money on more books than buy one book that's lacking in content.

But I am still definitely waiting with my tongue out for this book, no doubt.

I don't think it's saying too much to say that there are boats!

I was pleasantly surprised by Augmentation, so I'm pretty stoked for Arsenal.

Damnit! I saw Adam's name as the author of the most recent post and was hoping for a more substantial preview .... oh well.

yaay . . boats . . hooray . . i guess . .

your smuggler could always just use the hovercraft =P

(or the yacht, i suppose, but post-errata yachts are a little expensive =P )

I'm just happy that I'll finally be getting my lasers again.

...oooh and armoured long johns too....

Powered armor and gyrorifles? Come on. Admit it. You know you want to do that.

...had fun in a 3rd ed campaign with a maxed out Cyberzombie packing a gyromounted Vindicator Minigun. Shoulda' seen the looks on the players faces.

Powered Armor and Gyrorifles . . Fallout or Battletech style? O.o

i am one suspect for the troll in battlearmor . .
and if you want a light style do a light battlearmor with ruthenium like the ghost-suits of the grey legend *g*
Edit: btw, fuck boats . . but hovercrafts i can digg *g*
Gyrobike/Hovercraft? *hopes*

isn't pilot anthroform for drones? O.o
btw, wouldn't cyberzombies/Cyborks more or less need that skill? x.x

For anthroform bodies, yes.

Depending on the exact kind of implementation, I can see battle armor working without skill. If it only automatically supports your natural movement, and is on the light side of things (think Crysis), there is not much skill involved.

Regardless of Piloting skill, you´ll need Armorer skill to repair that thing.

I have a rigger who dreams to pilot a mech. Powered armor would probably make his day =D

technically speaking that has been doable(if verry hard/expansive/useless) since 3rd ed with big walker drones and JYM-suits *g*
but yes, i am fond of such foolery too ^^

I know it was quasi doable in 3rd, and my GM actually had some house rules that made it more usable if you decided that was going to be your thing (though I never played 3rd ). He was going to port his rules over to 4th and he may still do some tweaks, but having a book to work from is going to be a bonus.

I can just see it now, the little gnome, with a big suit, and a big gun, and his army of drones.

nah, wrong image . . Troll-sized suit piloted by 5 of those gnomes . . one in each limb and one in torso/head *g*

I really want to see the battlearmour. I'm playing around right now outlining a far future game using the Shadowrun system, it's so much more elegant for dealing with stuff like being shot than D20. It's sort of a weird Mass Effect, Honorverse, 40K mix, with a bit of Warlord Ralts now defunct Nova Wars D20 setting and I'd like to see if my power armour matches up with the designers vision.

Nah, the suit can definitely be troll sized. But you only need 1 gnome.

If you had 5 gnomes, then you should have 5 suits! More suits = more guns = more awesome!

I'm sure you could put some fiddly bits in the arms and legs to make it work......

No, what you really need is five suits that combine into one.

God, as a parent I hate those shows...

as a Nerd we love Voltron though . .

Then I guess I must not be nerd enough because I didn't even like Voltron. (Only sat through a couple of episodes though.)

HERETIC! . . okay, so most of it was pretty bad, but there was one Season(the vehicles, not the animals) that was pretty good *g*

I watched Thundercats a couple years ago and it made me want to claw my eyes out

He-Man I still enjoyed, just not in the same way I did when I was little (it's freaking hysterical now).

It's even funnier if you're drunk.

...I stopped having beer with breakfast on Saturday mornings after I left college (the first time) so I wouldn't know as the show didn't exist back then.

They're out on DVD (I'd buy em, if it wasn't for the ridiculous prices they're asking). No need to miss out (or get loaded first thing in the morning).

i made the mistake of watching Transformers . . back then it was my life, i was a paragon of the holy order of the paladins of optimus prime . . today i see the tactical errors and curse at megatron for being so stupid and losing every time <.< . .

Ack a leafs fan!

Booo Hissss!!!!

I guess I can't be too mad since my gf cheers for them, and if I become too adamant I'll be sleeping on the couch.