Seattle almost certainly collects personal income tax - they need all the money that they can get. Washington state, by contrast, no longer exists.

I would like to see a Rigger book, where at least half the book would concentrated on a better vehicular combat rules and vehicular profile.

Sorry but should the rules for vehicular combat, take up half or even just quarter of the book, it should better be a short book.
Overly lentgthy and complex rules (for whatever) are not likely to help the game.

And a rigger related question, vehicle wise. The Ferrari Appaloosa was given a 16R or so rating back in SR4, conceivably would there be a semi-civilian or military-downgrade model that basically removes the overt weapons turret? I always kinda liked the design.

Half the book for the rules AND detailled profile for each vehicules to go with the rules. Sorry if I wasn't clear that the vehicule list and profile should have been the larger part of that (80%).

I see and must have gotten that one wrong. Vehicles all over, sure would be nice for a rigger themed book.

Who writes Clockwork btw. I've been catching up on my SR4 stuff and realizing how much I HATE the guy. Which in turn makes me want to say Kudos for whoever is irl channeling their inner A-hole to write such a char, its damned effective. I mean even Kane is sorta sympathetic, but Clockwork is just so...odious.

Some say Clockwork used to go by the handle Toaster until a tragic love affair fell apart, leaving him embittered to the world in general and certain parties in particular.


JK


*nudges CanRay to hurry him along on his project*

Everyone does. There aren't any characters that one writer claims and, in general, everyone writes their chapters solo.

A rare exception to this is in Storm Front: the author of that piece was *amazingly gracious* and asked if anyone wanted to put on an avatar and say their goodbyes to FastJack. About every line at the end is by a different author.

Clockwork's just an easy character to get a handle on. Too easy, in some ways. Keep watching for more.

I wouldn't mind seeing some expansion to contacts. IN Sr4, with the 4 actions contacts took I had already bandied around the idea that certain contacts might have pluses for some actions and negatives for others. A contact might be better at getting info for you, but much worse about Swag/favors.

Now that SR 5 has increased the ratings, one I wonder how Sr4s might be converted to 5s, double the contact connection rating, x1.5? No changes needed at all? The lowbie level stuff seems straightforward, up to rating 4 or so, but old rating 5s now might be 5s or all the way up to like 9 or 10.

As a general rule of thumb, hit 'em with 1.5 for the new rankings.

Oh, Nice...

Shadowrun 6e comes out 4 months later?

That was always rather curious. I'm half-convinced that Jon Szeto planned that intentionally for R2 and R3 as a meta-joke