I have never seen a Sniper who had Anti-Tank Howitzers on Call... *shrug*

Happened all the time in the first push from the north in Iraq back in '03.

Not in Shadowrun...
Real Life differs, yes. Hell, I often connected to Naval Support (among many options I could call in) in the first Gulf War. Does not mean that Shadowrunners will have the same access.

didn't cthulu emerage in pittsburgh in a recent SR release?

Good point. If FuelDrop's game journal is any indication, you're lucky to get the support of the people on your own team half the time...

You posted this in a timely fashion for next weeks game. Thank you.

Edit: With the added bonus of having played Arkham Horror with the group against Nyarlathotep last Friday. I´ll nevertheless make sure to tell them whom to thank.

Anytime. Don't forget that the cult leader runs a high-end escort service, the hookers turned street sammie as bodyguards, and the Remo Williams knockoff physad for some "extra muscle" but is really there to make sure the PCs don't run into his boss' own evil plot.

Edit: The Yig-thing was force seven.

Oh man, and this week's entry isn't even up yet. That comment is SO fitting it's not funny, except that it is.

I would love to see a "Talents" mechanic, for lack of a better term. One thing I really liked about The Dresden Files is that there was a ton of folks out there doing single-source magic where they had good ability in one very specific thing, but were all but completely worthless in anything else. Be nice to see some Magic 2 weinnerdog talent completely skullfuck a full-boat mage because they actually have Magic 4 in Illusion Spells but Magic 0 for absolutely everything else so the full-boast mage doesn't plan for the right fight. That said, I'm not talking about reducing any other costs at all. It still takes them just as long to learn to do their thing, but something in them more limiting than a Geas keeps them from doing more with their magic.

Thoughts?

I want more genuinely new things in the first supplements than seen in previous editions. Another rehash of the vashion island line but nothing really new is lame. Woo orgasm will be added back into the spell list when street magic 5 comes ot, but any actually new spells, spell types etc.. I hate when the first 3 years are 95% just getting me back to where I was when the last edition wrapped up. Oh and martial arts please either ditch it or totally revamp it, 4es system sucked hard. Honestly martial arts should just be a series of combat maneivers all people have access to as their skills hit certain points. unarmed combat 3, you can attempt throw maneuver,s unarmed combat 6 joint locks, unamed combat 9 nerve strikes etc. Being trained in a specific martial art might give bonus dice with certain maneuvers.

Heh... Indeed.

Not sure about sr5 (haven't played enough yet to tell) but with Sr4 it was extremely easy to do alt universes/realities. The game system allowed a lot of flex room and the basic rules were easily tweak able to allow for most ideas. In one of my old game groups alone we did a western themed (imagine the awakening happening in the Wild West during the western expansion of North America), a firefly esque game taking place in the future where mega corps owned planets, moons and whole solar systems, literal fallout (no magic or other races, just cyber ware) ad lastly the biggest hit with the group was a post apocolyptic SR.

Took place about 200 years in the future after a nuclear exchange. Most of the world is trashed and whole areas are toxic. Main cities and sprawls were uninhabitable, dangerous and toxic areas containing archeotech. The only places to come out okay were secluded towns and areas, less inhabitated regions, and remote research/production sites. Had feral and smart ghoul enclaves, tons of cyber ware, magic was risky but powerful, but spirits just roamed certain areas with a high background count, toxic shamans and mages led while tribes. Was a lot of fun while it lasted.

We also looked at running a skyrim game using sr4. Sadly we quit playing together after one friend had a kid and me and the mrs were expecting so we never got to run it. Had the skyrim races all use either human or elf race and then used Surge rules to emulate the bonuses. Te system also allowed players to gain skill with weapons rather than in pathfinder or d&d where it would all have been stat base. Every character got the magician trait for free aswell (allowed everyone to learn magic like the player in any elder scrolls game). We tested it out a bit but sadly never got to actually play it.

I would like to see some cargo rules or at least some guide lines as well. I'm currently playing a rigger in a 5th edition campaign and it would be nice to know how many drones or other cargo I can fit into a bulldog in addition to the six seats listed.

In a pinch, check SR4a's Arsenal, page 102. I know the Body attributes have changed some in regards to the larger drones since 4th, but the categories are still the same.

Yeah I checked that out already, it'll be a good guide to determining what drones I should be able to fit if I don't have a full load of 6 people on board. What I want to know is how much dedicated cargo space a vehicle has in addition to passengers space.Like how much can fit inside of the trunk of a eruocar westwind. Even todays minvans have a bit in the back for cargo so it would be nice to know what I can fit into the back of a bulldog.