So what was the talk all about: Shadowrun will never go to D20??

Check this out

Link

Is there anyone here that thinks this will be good for Shadowrun?

I personally feel a little betrayed. I was happy to have a purely non-D20 product. Wasn't Spycraft enough of a Shadowrun copy?

Veracusse

[edit]HAAAHAHAH

Yes, because that looks like an official website, what with the lack of any company name or legal disclaimers, and the comedy "censoring" of pictures from SR1 that arent rude.

Also note the date.

Also click on the last link on the right, it'll explain it all. Though I must say for a few seconds I was genuinely worried.

Holy Hell! (Can I say that on this Forum?)

I am so glad that it was a joke. I have to give Kudos to FanPro for that one because I nearly jumped off the roof of my apartment.

Thank Goodness.

Veracusse

Feeling very Sheepish right now

Oh yeah my mind is still on March 31st. But that is the damndest best April Fools joke that anyone has ever played on me.

I still want to see the Man-Machine Interface book!!!

If they meant that to give heart attacks, then they suceeded...

They got me; hook, line and sinker.

Whoa. Elf Porn. cooool.

Nice, but no dice. Didn't fool me... ok, for a second.

Had me going.

Had me going, and I was close to a heart-attack on that when I saw it was on the official website - then I remembered the date...

A Good One!

Though...where can I get that Man-Machine Interface book?

Elf Porn -- "Lineage 2" mmorpg.

-Siege

Everyone thank Adam. I believe he is the one in charge of the SR site.

This was the best April's Fool joke I've seen in a very long time...

BTW when I started reading the description of Man-Machine Interface I just knew I had to get that book! Finally we'll have the canon answer to that age old question:

Can I have sex with my Ally Spirit?

Off course you can Crisp!

Just use a rubber dildo as your homunculus focus... hmmm, now that I think of it, this opens up a whole new area of possibilities. Wonder if they take submissions for Man-Machine Interface...

omg

hmm, that image of those magical girls i think ill save

Didn't fool me for a second, but I am liking that magical girls pic

Well, if it had been serious, then Man-Machine Interface would've answered one burning question of these boards: "Can you have sex with spirits?"

"...and 'paranatural encounters' are also explored. Including 16-pages of full-color illustrations! "

No more elf porn, guys. No more elf porn.

That's not something you pull on a guy early in the morning.

I almost snarked my Cheerios.

The second I saw that it was the real site, I asked myself "What day is it? Oh yeah!" Nice try, but I've been wasting time in the online too long to trust anything an official page says on April 1st.

AHHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHA

I totally fell for it, and I got angry and came here to see what you guys had to say about it. I completely forgot that was april the first.

-Gig

Whoa, for a second there, they had me. Nice, very nice. The funny thing is, it would not be nearly as funny if you weren't an avid reader of Dumpshock.

Y'know, I was only fooled for about five seconds, but five seconds feels like an eternity when you're having a fraggin' heart-attack!
It was awful!
Somebody hold me.

Seriously, though, best April Fool's prank ever.

Ok You guys are going to hunt me down for this one....but I thought "COOL". I'd give it a try.

<Sniff, sniff> Do you smell smoke? Thought so... send flames as needed.

If you want those flames, they're here. Plus a lot of (un-)reasonable debate.

I wasn't fooled for more than a second, but when I showed a friend of mine she practically dropped to her knees in tears. 'Twas fun to see

I was fooled for about five seconds, but what a five seconds it was. *Salutes Adam*

~J

Thank so you much

I was reading ShadowRN when a mail caught my attention. Good lord... almost choked to death while reading the website.

I want that d20 sourcebook.

It's one of the best April fool's jokes I've ever seen, especially because it's not just random silliness, it's nicely targeted. And it works quite well even if you aren't a member of Dumpshock - a couple of my group members have promised to hurt me ...

Thank you I needed the laugh.

Ok this had me for a few minutes. I was like NO!!!!!!!!!!!!! then I thought ok so there are some links lets take a look (thinking this is gonna suck). So I click away and hit the last link and I was like oh my god that is just too funny. This rocked you go Adam keep up the great work.

I am both highly angered and highly amused.

I think it would have been a bit more convincing if the cover didn't have a grey border and wasn't using the cover art from another book. But otherwise, yes, I agree... not a bad joke at all.

Just kinda hope Fanpro starts using more edgy interior art like that. I wanna see more atmosphere and style in the art, not just oddball character types. Ordinary humans is becoming a rare thing to see these days.

I'd hardly call that distinctly exterior view "interior art".

~J

I'm referring to some of the "sample" interior art on the page. Namely the Prime Runners Hangout and Magical Girls.

Hell, I'd even be happy to see more fake advertising in the books on the level that they were in the older ones. The movie poster for Karl Kombatmage and a rather bleh one for NERPS are about the only ones I can think of at the moment in 3rd Edition.

HAHAHAHA Great one! For about 10 seconds every curse word in the book came out of my mouth. Damn d20 damn!

Had me going there for a couple seconds...then I was like, oh wait, april 1st.

The Prime Runners Hangout pic I do like. The second pic not so much, and it might pass for gratuitous sex, but that's really a context thing. Since it seems to be about some sort of 2060s striptease show, if it were near a place in the book describing such events I wouldn't mind it. Still, the "pose" of the girl in front is a bit unneccessary.

Yes, a very nice prank indeed. Showed this to some of my old gaming buddies, they should be coming out of cardio-arrest any minute now. Heh, great April Fools. As for the "elf porn" and "gratuitous sex" pics I don't think they're necessary. It would be nice to have more atmosphere art though.

*GASP*

THANKS FOR THE HEART ATTACK.

I'd just like to point out the best part of this thread: the subtitle of the OP. (Specifically, the last two words.)

I figured it wasn't a ritual because there are towering loudspeakers and spotlights in the background and a huge crowd watching/cheering/trying to grab them. Plus the clothes look like what men might fantasize women to wear in some "occult rituals", not like what people would actually wear in them, even if sexual rapture was the theme -- clothing that may look, but doesn't feel, sexy.

But you are certainly right in that there's a lot of, uhm, needlessly erotic-natured art in Shadowrun books already. Which is pretty understandable, considering that maybe 50-75% of all well-known fantasy and sci-fi art is simply about the beauty of females. And maybe 95% of the less well-known.

I've got a feeling (not sure, I don't pay much attention to SR art really) that, while Prescott's works often seem to underline breasts, the poses are not as provoking as in the Magical Girls picture. The girl in the front really looks like something you usually see in bad softcore porn.

hmm, magical enhanced striptease that happens to summon some astral entity anyone?

we are all adults in here anyways right? its a game about people that injure and kill for a living so why is sex bad? hell i have seen musicvideos on mtv that are more direct then that pic (just look at the latest raps or maybe a spears video)

i will never understand americans, rampant gun use is ok, sex is bad, hello? if it was not for sex we would not be sitting here today, if guns where not under control most places in the world we would not be sitting here today, do the math...

sure there is sex and there is sex, some stuff people do is just to nuts to justify but when all people involved agree then what is the problem? stuff like the image is tame compared to some of the stuff you can find on the net when you are not even looking. and that is real people doing real things, not some black and white drawing!