Evil sued!

~J

Yes, it would pretty much kill it. Going by SotA64, they could do something similar, a something with humor, but a direct translation wouldn't work with 1st edition cheesy grit and 3rd edition dark humor.

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Submission guidelines are on ShadowrunRPG.com. The nature of most Shadowrun products does not lend itself very well to "open call" submissions [unlike a lot of fantasy/d20 products: 101 spells, 101 magic items, etc], but FanPro is almost always willing to entertain proposals from new authors.

In English:
- Chapter "Political Movements": Environmental protectors (including eco-terrorists), feminists, pro-metahuman- and anti-metahuman-organisations, anarchists, fascists and anti-fascists, neo-communists, anti-corp-groups (descendants of today's globalisation critics) and North American revolutionaries (Rinelle and the Metahuman Peoples Army).
- Chapter "Global Powerplayers": United Nations, Brokerage X (shadowy stock brokers dealing with insider knowledge), Aegis Cognito (a corporate secret service for hire) and the aristocrats.
- Chapter "Ancient Secrets": treasure hunters, magical groups and the Guild of Seers.
- Chapter "Defenders of the Faith": Vigilia Evangelica (a secret organisation of the Vatican), the Islamic Freedom Movement, the New Islamic Jihad and the Islamic Renaissance Movement.
- Chapter "In the Shadows": various runner-groups, Tamanous (organleggers) and DIVE (dragon-hunters).

According to the newsletter the contents of the book are not 100% set yet, but these groups should be definitely in it.

Very much!

Spoilsport!

Aegis Cognito is mentioned in the Portugal chapter of SoE.

*Waves hand mysticly*

That? It's always been there. This is not the logic or argument you are looking for. Look, just sod off would you. Wide retro-fit coming through, stand well back please.

Dragon Sighting Forums it was, IIRC (not that it matters now, just nitpicking at you, Syn )

IMHO, These two books should really be combined into one. I might get one or the other, but no way both.

I also think RA:S and brainscan should have been one book. Yes, this runs into player knowledge problems if the GM passes the players shadowland (AKA the book), but that happens regardless. [edit] Yes, It also runs into problems with the problem being presented and closed in one book, but that just means that the scenarios will have to be a bit less final in their results

YOTC and WOTC were different enough (Wake being a tiny part of Year) that I can see them being kept apart. OTOH, a single run (Linked or not) for each of the sections in YOTC would have been excelent.

I would be willing to shell out for bigger books - it's still cheaper than buying two smaller books. SOE was a good size

Running Wild: might get. I have PANA, critters and PAE, so I don't need a monster manual, but I read somewhere that it dealt with how critters fit into the 6W, with a HMHVV section. I would get that. [edit] I said that I would get something that wasn't a monster manual, did I not, and that I thought than I had heard what it was?

Loose Alliances: doubtful. Maybe sometime after I get Threats I. (Why isn't the book called threats III?)

Shadows of Asia: not getting. Europe and north america will have to be enough km2 to screw runners over in.

Shadows of Latin America: might get. Not for game purposes (as above NA and europe are big enough) but for the azlan and amazonia fiction

SOTA 65: will get. series of books has been excelent so far.

Indeed. You know what else should have been combine dinto one book? Universal Brotherhood/Missing Blood, Double Exposure, Bug City, Super Tuesday, POAD: DS, and Target: UCAS. You know, even though it ruins the suspense about what the Bug situation is Chicago was up to.

Hm. Maybe you might want to reconsider since Synner explicitly wrote, "is not a monster manual."

Hm... No idea why it's not just Threats III. None at all....

I miss not having had the time to get in on the ground floor of that. It should be fun, though.

All indications are that the two books will be at least as distinct YotC and WotC, so RA:S and Brainscan are not accurate comparisons.

Unfortunately not everybody is willing to sell out 30$ for a sourcebook.

Crimsondude is correct. I did specifically state this was "not a Monster Manual". According to the GenCon seminar it should include material on critters, infected, spirits, guard animals, pets, cyberbeasties and much more.

Simply because the book is so much more than Threats. Take a look at the lineup Crimson's posted. The book contains more the 50 organizations (some new, some old, some upgraded) to weave into your stories and fillout your world, it also covers why these organizations are important and how they fit into the setting and can be used as both background and plothook. Oh, and there's one more surprise about the book that hasn't been let out of the bag yet.

Obviously its not going to be everyone's cup of tea, but I think a book covering Japan, China, Russia and India is pretty much a good buy for my collection...

Again pretty much a sure buy for the same reasons as SoA, but then again I'm a collector.

Contents are still undisclosed but I expect it will be up to the standard.

Because, IIRC, it's more aimed at groups that your character may interact with on a more neutral or beneficial level, as opposed to pure "opposition."

I'm still getting the impression that there's something more sinister (well, POV, natch) ebyond groups runners can hang with in a positive/neutral role.

You're going back to the old SR1 format?

Yay!

Well, we are waiting for the Japan since... bah, 1992 at least, so no problem about this one you're going to sell it . In fact, the MJLBB may have been a bit disapointing for old GM, SOTA is good but basic, the past years have been slow (SoE apart of course), and the BSSBOtN has disapeared into void it seems... so any sourcebook will be good... I need a fix, well several fixes a year at least

They're including Russia and India in it? Hhmm.