Shadowrun: Was kommt als nächstes?

IMHO sind das Großteil die Leute, die jetzt nicht zugeben wollen, auf einen Aprilscherz reingefallen zu sein.

Wobei natürlich die Möglichkeit besteht, dass es tatsächlich kein Scherz war.

"Chaki" schrieb:

Wobei natürlich die Möglichkeit besteht, dass es tatsächlich kein Scherz war.

Tja... genau lesen:

"Synner" schrieb:

More than just taking the opportunity to pimp Runners’ Companion, I wanted to do this in such a way that it showcased how robust the basic SR4 system is, and presage not only some of the options that will be in the book but also the core rules framework fans can expect. The joke being not the rules themselves, but the context and the presentation, I wanted the rules to be as solid as possible, both to be convincing (gotcha) and to provide a baseline for those of you who did like them to expand on them in your own game (who knows I might get round to doing that myself some time).

ImO war das von Catalyst Games ein als (im Nachhinein) Aprilscherz getarnter Versuchsballon.
Ich habe die Möglichkeit Drachen zu spielen nicht für einen Aprilscherz gehalten,das mit den Obsidianern schon,denn das wirds Offiziell nicht geben (genausowenig wie Windlinge,Hobbits oder Aliens)

Hough!
Medizinmann

"Medizinmann" schrieb:

Ich habe die Möglichkeit Drachen zu spielen nicht für einen Aprilscherz gehalten,das mit den Obsidianern schon,denn das wirds Offiziell nicht geben

Genau lesen:

"Synner" schrieb:

Obsidimen: We have repeatedly told people — iirc the latest SR Dev Chat being the most recent instance — it’s too early in the manacycle for them to be popping up if they did survive the downcycle.

Es ist also nicht ausgeschlossen nach dem Motto: 'keine Obsidianer weil Lizenzprobleme' oder 'keine Obsidianer weil nicht in die 6te Welt passend' - sondern 'keine Obsidianer weil zu wenig Mana'... womit das Gerücht aus dem SoA zum Mana-Spike-Event wird.

SR5 mit D20 da wirds sie geben

"Nekekami" schrieb:

SR5 mit D20 da wirds sie geben

Ähm,es gibt schon SR4 mit D20 :wink:

der mit einem Himmelsstein tanzt
Medizinmann

ja, aber das ist GURPS Shadowrun oder? *g*

RvD: Ach was gesagt oder geschrieben wird...

also ich muss sagen, dass recht am anfang auf DS jemand gemeint hat, es ist halb scherz, halb versuch und ich hab mir gedacht, dass er wohl recht hat. also insofern stimmt RvDs hervorhebung wohl durchaus, das denk ich mir schon auch.

"Nekekami" schrieb:

ja, aber das ist GURPS Shadowrun oder? *g*

GURPS Shadowrun gibts nicht,dafür GURPS Technomancer(das ImO besser ist) und GURPS arbeitet mit 3w6:ich rede vom D20(Was u.A. D&D ist)-SR

mit universellem Tanz
Medizinmann

Update: Die Drachen PC Regeln werden wohl als "Inoffizielle Optionale Regeln" auf PDF veröffentlicht.

Mehr über Ghost Cartels

"Wizzbit" schrieb:

also die reatkionen auf DS sind ja schlimmer als vorher, wo die hälfte noch dachte, das ist kein scherz. also ich fands wirklich witzig, seh das mitm 2en april bei weitem nicht so eng (eigentlich fand ichs ziemlich gut) und muss sagen, ich wunder mich total über die hate-flame-reaktionen. ob das nur die fraktion ist, die wirklich drachen spielen wollte?

Ich will keine Drachen spielen. Ich hab einfach die "Drachen sind Superwesen! Götter! Nichts ist ihnen gewachsen!" Ergüsse satt, und erwarte, dass Drachen weniger vergöttert werden, wenn sie PCs sein und damit reihenweise umgelegt werden können.

von DS:

"Synner" schrieb:

Just a quick reply to all as follow through on Adam's post: please don't expect an apology, the April Fool's joke was a success on several levels, whatever you might think of it. Some people got it, some people didn't. Some found it funny, others didn't. Fine. That's to be expected. But... make no mistake, the "prank" did exactly what it was intended to do.

I do, however, regret not posting the debunk a week earlier, but somethings are out of our hands and things have been complicated what with 5 books in development and imminent parenthood on the horizon. For that delay, I publically apologize.

Those of you who did like the idea can expect to see a full unofficial writeup based on the pdf posted some time down the line - probably after Runners' Companion comes out and as soon as my desk clears (a little). As I mentioned in my post, the rules themselves weren't the joke (pretty much everything else was), but they were thrown together in less than 12 hours and they were definitely not playtested or edited.

"Synner" schrieb:

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That does sound like it was testing the waters though.

Not entirely incorrect, but not in the way you're probably thinking. As I said in the post, these rules were also intended to showcase the basic framework people can expect for the new character options that will be used in Runners' Companion - you could say it was testing the waters for those.

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The delay in debunking it was, together with the date, the main issues of the thing for me, so for whatever it's worth, that's ok.

We are slightly undermanned (for the time being) and these things will happen. If things had gone the way I wished we'd have posted the pdf at 00:01 April 2nd.

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The rules did look very balanced already, and I'd put the rules in the companion anyway - after all, expanding the options is the book's point, and the whole companion are optional rules, from what I understand.

Runners' Companion is very much a book about introducing as many options as possible for PCs. I have the first drafts in hand and I can say there will be more than 20 entirely new (at least as playable) character "race" options—including metavariants, new playable races, ghouls, and other more unique options. Unfortunately, even more so than drakes, dragons, even young dragons, will automatically skew most campaigns away from the shadows and that's something that I do not at this point intend to include in a core rulebook.

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You guys contributed to the threads in question.

I was responsible for posting the debunk not Adam, I assumed the responsability of doing it, and I'm the one who got caught up in other things. With that in mind, please refer to my single post in the various Dragon PC threads and "read" it in the current context.

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(die mit QUOTE markierten stellen sind antworten auf synners post, auf die er dann jeweils nochmal antwortet)

Was für eine würdevolle Vorstellung ...

SR Dev Chat 19. April 2008, 19.00 Uhr CET - in-character chat

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Catalyst Game Labs will be holding our monthly SR Chat next Saturday, April 19 at 10AM PDT. This month we’ll be doing something somewhat different from our regular Q&A with the developers and authors. Instead, to promote our upcoming campaign book Ghost Cartels, we’ll be giving fans the opportunity to participate in an “in character” chat with some of our regular JackPoint posters. In the guise of a Matrix discussion between our regular fictional characters, we’ll be offering fans teasers about the upcoming campaign and the events depicted therein.

The premise is simple: sometime in mid-August 2071, several JackPointers meet up on an open ShadowSEA chat host to talk with a few friends and acquaintances about recent events taking place in the Sixth World at large and Seattle in particular during the preceding months.

Feel free to join in and ask questions about what’s going on in the Sixth World and specifically recent events depicted in Ghost Cartels – just remember to post in character. Log on with your own character’s street name or just use your internet handle and join the fun.

Want to know who won the race for Seattle Metroplex governor?
Wondering who’s behind the hugely popular bioengineered awakened drug known as tempo?
Intrigued by the unique high and magical abilities tempo allegedly grants?
Interested in who just took out the Shotozumi-gumi’s senior sokaiya and why?
Would like to know which veteran Seattle runner has been killed in the gangland violence?
Concerned by the impact of the wide-spread syndicate warfare on your business?
Need to know why the Triads are fighting it out in the streets of Hong Kong?
Heard the latest buzz about the recent shifts in power among Neo-Tokyo’s Yakuza?

For the answers to those questions and many more, log on next Saturday.

As usual, the chat will be held in the Battlecorps Shadowrun Chat room.

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Und noch offizielle 2071-News:

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MORE DEATHS IN RISING GANG VIOLENCE
New Seattle Intelligence[NN] – 23 March 2071
SEATTLE, UCAS: The rising gang violence has seen the death tally rise by another fifteen last weekend. In this latest round of gang violence the Amerind First Nation gang and the Halloweeners were involved in a bloody turf dispute. NSI sources believe the escalating gang violence is related to the distribution of the new drug tempo (also known as "flipside"). Readers should note that while technically tempo is not illegal in the UCAS, several medical organizations and the UCAS Surgeon General's office have warned that the substance is highly addictive and that it's legal status will go under analysis by the relevant authorities in the near future. Metroplex authorities claim they are looking into the matter, but that right now Lone Star's hands are tied by tempo's ambiguous legal status.<full article>

NTPD MAJOR DRUG BUST
Pink Tentacle [NTT] – 01 April 2071
NEO-TOKYO, Japan: After weeks of investigative work, members of the Neo-Tokyo Police Department have conducted their first bust, seizing nearly a dozen kilograms of the street drug tempo that were being smuggled into Japan inside freeze-dried fish. The smugglers are believed to be members of a Korean organized-crime syndicate looking to expand into the Japanese market. NTPD detectives credit the bust to a reliable tip-off from a concerned citizen. While not classified as a narcotic in Japan, tempo falls under a general ban on importing spices or herbs without paying a tariff, a law originally passed to prevent the circumvention of standard trade regulations concerning traditional Chinese medicine. <full article>

DEATH IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN
New Seattle Intelligencer [NN] – 16 May 2071
SEATTLE, UCAS: Chaos at the Garden of Eden tonight as Red Star paramedics failed to resuscitate 57-year old Toju Shotozumi, noted Seattle philanthropist and investor, following a bomb attack on the Garden of Eden Casino in Everett. Red Star were first on the scene, followed by CrashCart and DocWagon; EMTs later described it as a scene of carnage. No word yet on whom the other casualties might be, but sources indicate five other bodies were recovered at the scene of the explosion. Further details about the attack have not been released, but Lone Star and Garden of Eden, Inc. security have released trideo images of suspects in what is an ongoing murder investigation, but no arrests have been made yet. Lone Star sources have refused to comment on whether the attack is related to the recent rise in gangland violence and drug-related crime. Lone Star is under considerable pressure from the new Metroplex administration to crackdown on the escalating street violence. <full article>

LONE STAR TO RECRUIT FORMER MILITARY
New Seattle Intelligencer [NN] – 23 May 2071
SEATTLE, UCAS: In what is being called a response to escalating gang violence, Lone Star public relations spokesperson, Maxine Poocha announced today that Lone Star would be hiring former Metroplex Guard officers to bolster its overtaxed Seattle Fast Response Division. The move comes after weeks of escalated gang warfare throughout the city. Poocha admitted Lone Star FRT forces had been caught flat-footed by the sudden spike in gang violence. “We were unprepared to handle the level of firepower and military efficiency these gangs are operating with,” she stated. Poocha went on to say that the move would allow the police force to, “get out on the street in greater numbers and protect the city from its criminal element.” <full article>

Drug Razzia at Six Local Pharmacies
Keimzeit Beepscream Ticker - 04 June 2071
Northrhine-Ruhr, AGS: Six German pharmacies located within the Northrhine-Ruhr-metroplex area were searched by 70 police officers of the Landeskriminalamt (State Office of Criminal Investigation), Customs Investigation and Saeder-Krupp corporate guards yesterday. The accused, six pharmacists and one employee, are suspected to have provided the processed and refined drug to a yet unknown distributor within the metroplex area. “The confiscated amount of twelve kilos of raw tempo is high enough to supply the whole drug scene of the metroplex for a week” said an observer of the LKA. Due to the presence of armed representatives of Triple A monolith Saeder-Krupp, it has been speculated that corporate employees might be involved in this matter, though Essen has denied any connection. <full article>

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Soweit es doch noch nicht bekannt war:

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April 15th, 2008
“Runner’s Companion Preview”

Wow. This has been so much more fun than I ever thought it would be when the idea originally hit me. Yes, people, the “Runner’s Companion Preview” (and the Dragon and Obsidimen PCs in it) was our annual April Fools’ offering. Sorry to disappoint those of you who liked the idea.

As my first go at an April Fool’s joke as developer, I thought I’d be a little subtler and less blatantly tongue in cheek than usual. I wanted this year’s offering to be both convincing and to kill several birds with this particular stone. I think we were successful on both counts.

Just to show we don’t take ourselves too seriously, when it became obvious we weren’t going to get this out on time (yeah, Adam’s not the only one whose been swamped, what with Unwired, Ghost Cartels, and Feral Cities all on final approach), we chose to take a self-indulgent poke at all the whining about SR books never coming out on time by releasing the “preview” a day late. Putting it up unedited, is not only a nod at recent reviews, but given some people’s expectations actually lent the piece more credibility!

More than just taking the opportunity to pimp Runners’ Companion, I wanted to do this in such a way that it showcased how robust the basic SR4 system is, and presage not only some of the options that will be in the book but also the core rules framework fans can expect. The joke being not the rules themselves, but the context and the presentation, I wanted the rules to be as solid as possible, both to be convincing (gotcha) and to provide a baseline for those of you who did like them to expand on them in your own game (who knows I might get round to doing that myself some time).

Runners’ Companion will indeed feature a number of basic character race/species options unavailable in previous editions, including several surprises. However, our focus in this book is very much on providing variety and options for runners, and introducing dragons would skew the game away from the feel and style of what we’re aiming for.

It’s been fun, particularly since the whole thing (rules included!) was put together in less than 12 hours (many thanks to Adam for the last minute layout work). Nice to see the rules themselves so well received, bodes very well for Runners’ Companion.

For those who haven’t caught the obvious clues here are just a few (there are more, I particularly liked the “obsessive-compulsive hoarding” and wish I’d managed to squeeze in the Young Dragons in Estrus section though that would have been a dead giveaway):

Runners Companion “preview”: When was the last time Catalyst Game Labs released a preview this far in advance of a book’s release? Runners’ Companion is four books down the line (after Unwired, Ghost Cartels, and Feral Cities). That said Runners’ Companion is being written and I’m looking at the first drafts as I speak… er… type and they look nice…

Obsidimen: We have repeatedly told people — iirc the latest SR Dev Chat being the most recent instance — it’s too early in the manacycle for them to be popping up if they did survive the downcycle.

The asterisks in the Dragon Attribute Table are all over the place.

Dragons and Technology offers two completely different prices for dragon-compatible nanotrodes.

The Transcendence Metamagic box: A little too big, don’t you think?

The Dragons and Ranged Combat Modifiers: “they may apply a modifier between +2 and +4 (gamemaster’s discretion; standard of -3)”

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Gott sei Dank.

"Echo" schrieb:

Soweit es doch noch nicht bekannt war

War es - einfach mal den Thread lesen bevor man postet. Ansonsten gilt: Die Regeln an sich sind kein Scherz.

Das ist nach wie vor offen.