You sure can, if you'd like.

BTW, when doing your own rolls, it's probably easier to post all of the results, so if the TN is 6 or 8 or whatnot, I can pick how many successes you got. Plus, I still get a little weak in the knees when I see Big Numbers.

I prefer the same in my games but I was just using the default setup on the dice roller

Snow, I realized the best response from the dinner thread. "Hey! Some of my best friends are tall!"

Man, I should have gone with Snow. I coulda been a bit more useful..

Snow can get through the doors but each time he does something like that the risk of the drek hitting the fan gets higher.

I'm trying to move the recon and leg work ahead so that we can get to the actual run and those who are more action oriented can be more active.

Does anyone have any good suggestions for a specific sourcebook I could look into getting for this and/or a good place to purchase it?

In reply to St. Velveteen (msg # 210):

Please define "it".

I think the SR3 book would be a good start. Ebay should have a few. I think you can get a digital copy from drive thru RPG or more nefarious sources.

sr3, unless the GM has strange rules for decking....as I do when I run a game.  also should look into getting the matrix book also.

http://echopulse.net/game_rela...SR_RPG3rdEdition.pdf

Umm...  This made my jaw drop.  In a good way.  Thanks!  Looks like I have some reading to do.

Jaw-dropping indeed! However, I would recommend actually buying it. It's only $20 on drivethrurpg.com. Without paying for it, the developers who make the products can't make rent, and that means they have to pursue more lucrative pursuits.

Yeah, it's also the type of thing I would like to have on my bookshelf just for the sake of it being there.

Random fact: Once upon a time I actually owned a bunch of Shadowrun books.  My dad's cousin and her husband actually helped make the game (they are credited in the linked sourcebook, Sharon Turner Mulvihill and Michael Mulvihill) and they found out I was interested in this sort of thing, so shipped a TON of Shadowrun books.  Unfortunately, I wasn't quite old enough to understand and appreciate what I had been given at that time.  And when I finally read a Shadowrun novel and realized what a goldmine I had been given, all the books disappeared.  They became tragic victims to spring cleaning. :(
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This.

This is what we need to do.


https://31.media.tumblr.com/00...0t1rvoAv41qebcl8.gif

Haha, now I know why everyone keeps voting for Becka's cuteness!

In reply to St. Velveteen (msg # 215):

ebay. amazon and half price books are all good sources for SR3 material. I have a bookshelf full of source books from editions 1-3.  I keep thinking about getting the 4th ed books just to keep the collection going but I really just don't like 4th ed.

I was actually very surprised to find that.  I own multiple copies of most of the 3rd ed (and have at least one copy of all of them).  I also still have my 1st and 2nd ed hard covers as well as most of the 2nd ed supplements.  All of the adventures also.  And of course I have all the pdfs too.  I do have to say that nothing beats holding the hard copy and reading it (although my kindle is pretty nice).

I would never buy the 4th ed but I have been thinking about 5th ed.

YOU'RE RELATED TO MIKE MULVIHILl?????

(and great plan, Warlock. +1 karma.)

Sadly, IMHO, its shite.

Mechanically it's pretty much SR4. Can't put my finger on why, but flavor-wise it seems a lot more like SR3. It's still not a favorite, but I enjoy it.

I cant stand the shoehorning bullshit that goes on with deckers. Who in their right mind would connect their gun, or cyber ware to the matrix?

Ok, TBH the decker to physical crossover gets deckers combat-capable. The big problem with deckers (and why I don't let my players actually use them) is they are a money sink that can do practically squat when drek meets fan. Tack on the fact that the Matrix rules make my head hurt...
But my proper tangent is I would absolutely use those kinds of Decking rules for things like Mass Effect. Considering the way Sabotage, Overload and Damping work in-vidya-game, I could really make a killer Mass Effect RPG with very little mechanical fuckery.

I actually bought most of the SR4e stuff because it's better organized and a little neater. I also haven't found SR3 things for nearly as cheap as SR4 is.

The wireless BS is pretty bad. However, it's only a single item, and easily patched.

Yeah, by playing a grumpy old Dwarf and demanding to have all of your equipment hardwired instead of on this "damn newfangled wifi bullshit" <waves cybercane>

yea ill be damned if I am going to let someone hack my smartlink and cyber eyes

nuts to that

In reply to Papa Bear (msg # 226):

Really, that is just the most glaring example. I was very dissapointed with my 5e purchase :(