It's at shadowrunrpg.com as a PDF.

I like the look of it. Neocommunists! Comrade Stalin smiles down on you!

The table of contents lists a "game information" section in the back. In the fluff books, these sections have often been redundant (and unnecessary). If the main entry on Islamic political groups reads, "This group wants to see Israel destroyed," the game information section will helpfully add, "The Islamic group might hire the PCs to help them do it. Or, Israel might hire them to defend against the Islamic group."

The TOC is interesting...but I've not really seen enough. I've said my piece previously re stuff like the Vigilia Evangelica, but the rest of it does look cool.

We think there's a thread for this in the SR forum where this discussion belongs.

But it's all SR4 now, baby.

We think this is being moved to the correct forum.

We wonder if Adam often refers to himself in the plural.

As long as he doesn't start hissing about 'sneaky hobbitsesss'....

The 'we', of course, referred to the community, that for the most part, likes to put things in their proper place.

Ok, confession time, who else thought this was sixteen pages of Los Angeles?

Certainly made the first post more interesting.

~J

Shame, shame, Kagetenshi! You must KNOW the acronyms! You must ANTICIPATE the new releases with a nearly sexual frenzy!

By the way, does anybody else think that SR is getting a little acronym happy? DIMR, ERLA, MIFD, PPP, UCAS, NAN, NEEC, UN, AGE...and I'm not even looking at the books.

Then I come to DS and have to know LA, RA:S, CC, DotSW, SoNA, SoE, SoLA, SoA, SOTA63 & 64...and I still don't know what a BABY is.

Oh well. YMMV. TTFN.

It's the acronyms that are already commonly in use that trip me up. SF also got me a few times, for instance. Just as long as they never release Wuxing Tactical Firearms as a supplement.

~J

It's due up after Omnitech's Medical Guide.

i could see that working, coupled with a new barcode scheme:

OMG!11!!1111!
WTF11!11!!1!!

I propose a Clift's Notes version of the BBB titled RENRAKU TACTICAL FIELD MANAGEMENT.

Nah. No one would buy that.

Touché, author.