In the past it has been considered poilte to warn people if a TVTropes link is included (due to the amount of time wasted on the site).

But the times they are a changing . .

In the past it has been considered poilte to warn people if a TVTropes link is included (due to the amount of time wasted on the site).

Or, like me, use all the rules in 4E, and don't sweat it.

I can wait.

There's no plebtonium necessary. We already do it in real life. All you need is a strictly controlled, tightly regulated network. You know, something draconian and oppressive in its implementation.

So somebody jumped on the cloud bandwagon. While that would explain how matrix uplinks improve image processing, it does not really account for better chemsuits


And as I said to RHat, I'd be far more interested in a good reason why a hacker should be able to make people see things by waving his hands...

So somebody jumped on the cloud bandwagon. While that would explain how matrix uplinks improve image processing, it does not really account for better chemsuits

And as I said to RHat, I'd be far more interested in a good reason why a hacker should be able to make people see things by waving his hands...

It doesn't ... hmrrrr ... must ... not ... post ... NDA ... gaaaaaaahhhhhh.......

Stay in the light, Aaron.

Simple: One of the design problems they're after is, quite clearly, poor integration of the hacker into a run leading to the "decker in the basement" thing - it's the same reason for the noise mechanic. Of course, I rather suspect you're mistaken about the particulars of how it works.

And what gives you the idea that there's no resistance test, binary?

Simple: One of the design problems they're after is, quite clearly, poor integration of the hacker into a run leading to the "decker in the basement" thing

While mechanically, it's a good idea, it's a good one for a tabletop game. But I don' t see how it could be credible. There will be flaming about that. As a GM I don't see how to be credible to explain how unwired is styuff is 200% better. Some gear might have an explenation but not everything.

OH MY GOD IS THAT A CORTEX BOMB?!

And what gives you the idea that there's no resistance test, binary?

The point is not that I'm sure of anything.

The thing is that your postings generally (if at all) contain nothing worthwhile, just baseless assumptions, allegations and negativity.
If you were able to package your criticism in a well thought out argument, like others here do, it'd be constructive. Yours is just spite and not really even near the point where I'd call it criticism at all.

I dislike mindless yes-men and fanboys/girls just as much as constant naysayers.

I don't particularly care to be talked down to by someone with just as much information as the rest of us.

Well, gear's not a player, so it doesn't have pools to resist with, just device rating and firewall rating if any. Despite, you know, having been paid for with Essence

Without a resistance test or drain, I might add. rotate.gif

Sweet. Because adepts needed yet another way to outpace samurai.

You can agree or disagree, but I'd appreciate you getting down off your high horse unless you've got some mechanics up your sleeve to show us how much this isn't based on the existing rules.

Otherwise, we're both wildly speculating,

and I don't particularly care to be talked down to by someone with just as much information as the rest of us.

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Edit : You know, you're right. I'm sure they're going to come up with a logically consistent and rules compatible reason why everything in the world is now mysteriously hackable.

Just about the same time that submarine sails into Bogota.

didn't Bogota! mention Docks?

Yes, but you still need to sail the sub into them. If you try to, the result is kind of like this.

And if Ares want to retake their power after their failure, they could sell a Predator with a wire/wireless switch.

I think I can say this without breaking my DNA: Ares will only sell one Predator V

/me wonders how Larsine would break his DNA with that . . or at all for that matter . .

It is an exceptionally awkward proposition possessing both information and opinions crucially relevant to an ongoing 82 page forum discussion, and being legally obligated to keep my damn trap shut. Professionalism is a fickle and nasty bitch, like trying to ride a dinosaur.

I might be a proofreader, but spelling was never my strong side

It is an exceptionally awkward proposition possessing both information and opinions crucially relevant to an ongoing 82 page forum discussion, and being legally obligated to keep my damn trap shut. Professionalism is a fickle and nasty bitch, like trying to ride a dinosaur.

Actually I think Aaron touched on that about exact phenomenon about a page back. Something about Bull, a scalpel, and a cortex bomb...he's been kind of quiet since then.

Hmm...

I can neither confirm nor deny anything.

Man, oddly working on Shadowrun is making me sound like a suit.

Game mechanics will be more universal. If you learn the combat rules, it’s the same basic rules for magic, decking, rigging, etc. This will hopefully level off the learning curve for the game.

The Matrix will be harder to hack, making deckers more unique again since not everyone can try to hack anything like in 4th Edition.

Character creation in the core book will go back to Priority, with other options showing up in the Companion book. You’ll also get karma to spend as well, which spends exactly like karma you get as experience.

Skills can be raised to 12 rather than 6 like previous editions.

Missions Season 5 will take place in Chicago. Other cities that will be featured are Seattle (of course), Denver, Vladivostok, and Boston.

Magic changes: Traditions will be more unique than in 4A with more of the flavor coming through, there will be a new mechanic called “preparations” that allow a spell to be pre-cast and triggered later, and spirits no longer have individual Edge (which fixes a major overpowered rule).

The metaplot will be developed more in sourcebooks than in 4A along with Missions adventures. A plot sourcebook will be released shortly after the core rulebook.

SR5 and Crossfire (the Shadowrun deckbuilding game) “should” be out sometime this summer.
Core rulebook will be more “generalized” in background rather than tied to the timeline, though the core book will not support play in other eras (2050s, for example) out-of-box.

The sub-core rulebooks that give expanded rules and additional gear will be released a few months apart from each other, according to the current plan.

The various Native American cultures will be re-emphasized again.

The first two books released after SR5 (an adventure and a rulebook) will explore the cybernetic body-snatching metaplot introduced in Storm Front.

HeroLab (the character creation software) will be updated for SR5.

I'm curious what the exploit was for spirits and individual edge. As far as I know you could not force them to use it so I don't see the issue. If a spirit used edge I'd think it was mainly against you in the summoning test or in a dramatically appropriate moment the GM wanted to push. Neither of which seem like an exploit, Though I guess group edge or mook edge or whatever they end up with will be about the same as they probably won't use it often anyways.

The metaplot will be developed more in sourcebooks than in 4A along with Missions adventures. A plot sourcebook will be released shortly after the core rulebook.

The exploit (such as it is) is that it never said any of what you just said. It's a perfectly reasonable way to run it (and how most GMs did, I imagine), but that's not what the rules said, so there were always players insisting otherwise.