Good day folks, I wanted to draw attention to the fact that the Official Shadowrun Website has not been updated since October 3rd. (Thanks D. Generate)

Who else can we contact and recieve a response to questions?

What is going on?

When will we see an Update?

Where can we find Information on upcoming releases?

How would you prefer I make my inquiries in the future?

Thank you in advance

QM

Actually it was October 3rd. And just have faith my brother the great gods or SR will reveal thier knowledge when they feel that we are worthy to recieve thier gift.

The New Big D.

If you really want Adam's attention, a PM or email is the way to get it.

~J

One should not speak directly to our lord and master without first getting permission! You'll damn us all to an oblivion without the sweet sweet nectar of shadowrun goodness....

What Synner said.

Man, I cringe every time I read "Web suplement" to a book. Either it should have been in the book to start with, or it's fluff material. I don't like having "canon" stuff available online and nowhere else.

Now be fair. You can't fit /everything/ into a book or they'd all be 600 pages and $50 each. We're not talking critically important material or even lots of game stats here either. This isn't like DnD where they decide they have to fix all the prestige classes after-the-fact on the website.

Well, that is true, most of the cringing comes from the crap WotC pulls.

Argh?

~J

Argh.

~J, slow on the uptake.

Argh as in "argh, not another 'major campaign' that's going to require a second book just to go over all the 'post-CE status quo' changes." Which, if it's already in the works as it seems to be, essentially means that nothing you do in the former doubtlessly epic and thus non-street level campaign will matter one iota.

Nice to see that you're reserving judgement on the books until they're released.

Considering past releases, I have very little reason to suspect anything else at the moment. Especially with those mini-blurbs.

I would also like to see a return to "street-level" stories. Though I very much enjoyed reading Dragons of the Sixth World (praise to all the writers!), it has no place in my campaigns, where great dragons are as far removed and inconsequential as an alien sun. Yes, they put off lots of radiation, but if any of it reaches the galaxy of my players, they don't realize it.

And of course we'd all love frequent website updates, but Adam--gifted as he may be--is only (as far as I know) one man.

Cheers,

Lance

Your information is wrong. Adam is in fact two men. The second one is hidden in the hair.

~J

He never learned how to type, though. Loser.

The problem with street level campaigns is, that after a certain point (which I bvelieve SR has hit) it becomes impossible to release new information, as it has all been done before. I mean realy, what else is there for street level campaigns? Nothing. I for one greatly enjoy the published campaigns, even if I dont run all of them.

Prehaps the REAL question should be *que ominius music and lightning* What happens! I have wanted a good reason to annoy my players with an all Decker game.. and that sounds rather... evil?

I don't know. Most of the hooks in SotA64 that weren't spy related, were street adventures and low life scum stuff. Loose Alliances seems like it has a lot of that too. Not that I'm happy about new modules when we could be having books...

I respectfully disagree with Doctor Funkenstein. "Return to the streets" is not at odds with "world changing events."

I think people confuse the latter term with IEs and such stuff, when in fact it might as well mean corporate war, presidential campaign, Yakuza shakeup, NEEC, etc., all of which affect the streets in a major way.

Oh, and by the way, more fiction should be coming up in the next website update.

EDIT: Don't forget Mr. JLBB has tons of runs and run ideas.

I'm cool with it. I can make my own 'Street Level' runs and campaigns. I like these type of things that make the world move forward ... even though some of them in the past have been less-than-perfectly implimented.

Shake up the world? I'm cool with that. Constantly throw out "epic campaigns" that shake up the world due to their events, but completely and utterly disregard those events except for how the writer of the week felt like seeing them resolved? I'm not cool with that.

I know it's not a popular opinion, and I frankly don't give a damn. I'd, personally, just rather see the game return to its roots rather than turn into a lameified world-shaking epic heroes D&D knock-off. That's not what Shadowrun is to me, and I'm disgusted by every single "campaign" book that's come out in the last few years as a result. Doubly so because those campaigns don't matter at all. They're just a cheap excuse for Fanpro and co. to do what they like and give the illusion that the suckers who bought and ran the game are having some kind of impact on the world around them.

While some of you don't need help coming up with "street-level games," I don't need help coming up with a worthless epic-level game that doesn't affect anything at all, either. But I'd rather see those apparently useless street-level games given more attention than these asinine epic ones.

You're assuming that's what I was referring to. I was referring to the roots as in the concept the game was built around.

I think what we need are pairings like this where the campaign is world-changing, but the players are not the driving force behind it. Brainscan was just wonderful at the beginning, but it would have been better had they been hired to do something completely different to assist a team that they didn't know about in reaching the guy whose name I forget inside the Arc. Basically, stop trying to make the players the main characters of the story, and let them just be the main characters of their story.

And I just put this all really badly. I am ashamed as a writer. More if I actually figure out how to phrase this.

~J

Both myself and my players had a blast going through Brainscan. Granted, the ending was a little... blah.



...OK, more than a little.

But aside from that, I have no complaints about it. The rest of the campaign was a lot of fun, so I can forgive a single ill-concieved combat scenario.

Actually, the end I liked a lot more than The end may suck for the characters, but it makes sense.

~J

Oh yeah, heh, I remember that. I didnt have a huge problem with that, insofar runners tend not to like being blatantly misled. The only potential problem would be having to rework the scenario to fit with how you believe your players would respond, which you should have enough of a sense of their tendancies to do at that point. The part I didnt really understand was

My best explanation to that would be

~J

The problem with that explanation is that,

But hey, the runners don't know whats going on behind the scenes, so problems like this aren't terribly pressing - just a little annoying when you stop to ponder them. As I said, we still had a lot of fun, and this part didn't end up being problematic.

My suggestion would be to

~J