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I think Stackpole's reputation as a Battletech novel god has been tarnished these days, don't really see much praise for him whenever books come up in the BTech LP threads I follow.
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Cooked Auto posted:I think Stackpole's reputation as a Battletech novel god has been tarnished these days, don't really see much praise for him whenever books come up in the BTech LP threads I follow. I wouldn't be surprised. I've never read any of it myself so I can't confirm or deny, but knowing how gaming novels can be if he wrote something that would rank as middling for a mainstream novel there's a chance it would be heralded as a work of boundless genius in gaming circles.
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They're fantastic for 'tie-in novels from the 90s.' But anybody who grew up reading them is going to be reading them through the lens of nostalgia. Anybody that picks one up today, and reads it for the first time, is going to not have that predisposition to like them.
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May 18, 2023 19:53
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I liked a lot of poo poo as a kid, so any kid reading those now would like them too I guess
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All I know is when I finally got around to trying to read The DaVinci Code my first thought was “Wow, this guy ripped off a Shadowrun novel from the ‘90s.” (Black Madonna)
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While it did rip off a lot from other books, not sure if that would've been one of the sources. 
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Liquid Communism posted:So in fun news, it appears someone has gotten ahold of the FASA Games rights. Doesn't carry any of the IP any more, but apparently included the physical assets... including a bunch of new old stock SR books. Wow, I wonder how they got their meathooks on these? Probably had shared copyright with one of the authors so CGL couldn't publish them, so they came up with a deal.
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Nah, I'm pretty sure this is old back stock that didn't ship before FASA went under, and got abandoned because only the IP was seen as of any value. The paperbacks have the expected paper aging from storage on the edges and inside covers but are clearly unread. and the sourcebook copyrights are all original print date and credited to FASA.
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Hallelujah Jack is a strong concept for a shadowrun entity tbh
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Mr. Lobe posted:Hallelujah Jack is a strong concept for a shadowrun entity tbh 
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Mr. Lobe posted:Hallelujah Jack is a strong concept for a shadowrun entity tbh Maybe its the real entity behind the Halloweeners.
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It is possible to use cyberware or bioware weapons for martial arts, right? For example a retractable hand blade can be used for any dagger/sword related styles and a whip tail can be used for whip fighting?
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Poil posted:It is possible to use cyberware or bioware weapons for martial arts, right? For example a retractable hand blade can be used for any dagger/sword related styles and a whip tail can be used for whip fighting? Which edition, and it depends on the maneuver. If it’s a retractable hand blade, then I’d say yes unless it was silly.
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I'd say yes especially if it was silly.
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weird hosed up gimmick weapons are a mainstay in martial arts media
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It's either some stupid poo poo like a belt sword, or just a regular loving carpentry hammer.
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While you played in the fields or drank in the taverns, I studied the way of the nail file. I know the 17th level kata of the nail file. My nail file is made of folded steel with over a thousand layers. There is no me, and there is no nail file. There is only one.
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Monofilament diamond-coated nail file
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don't care what the street says, im putting Dikote(tm) on my Weapon of Choice: a stepladder
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Goa Tse-tung posted:don't care what the street says, im putting Dikote(tm) on my Weapon of Choice: a stepladder Someone get this man a baby.
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Dikote on the strings of a tennis racket. Force your enemies through a fine mesh.
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ninjoatse.cx posted:Monofilament diamond-coated nail file Goa Tse-tung posted:don't care what the street says, im putting Dikote(tm) on my Weapon of Choice: a stepladder secular woods sex posted:Dikote on the strings of a tennis racket. Force your enemies through a fine mesh. You gotta be smooth on the streets to keep your rep, and nothing gets things smooth faster than a good plane. Always bet on the plane.
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Tippis posted:Sounds like a cyber-hand plane to me. I see you’re running the Chipbreaker adventure
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BY GAWD ITS JOHNNY RAZORGUY WITH A DIKOTE STEEL CHAIR
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smh if you aren't coating your dikote'd steel chair with a DMSO/gamma-scopolamine mixture.
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I notice there’s no one in the IRC channel. Is there a different one or a Discord?
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Noam Chomsky posted:I notice there’s no one in the IRC channel. Is there a different one or a Discord? And after 6e I don't think there's enough interest to hold an entire goon discord together.
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Zereth posted:That's from 2013. Ah ok. Thanks for letting me know.
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alright, ok, there was, wait IS an IRC channel
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Goa Tse-tung posted:alright, ok, there was, wait IS an IRC channel
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Zereth posted:That's from 2013. The Edition That Shall Not Be Named.
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SR editions don't go above 3 anyway. It causes an integer error something.  e: Yes, that — pretty much the same outcome, but expressed with an actual reason and logic behind it. ⬇️ Tippis fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Oct 10, 2023 |
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6 is so bad it got me to stop equivocating and just tell people "Stop after FASA gets taken off the books", pretty much. It's not even like 20th or whatever doesn't have playable rules, it's just not worth caring about everything Catalyst did to the setting. Dragonfall and Hong Kong are that reminder that no, this is an interesting setting that can still do cool things. The PnP just isn't going to be the place that happens while it's under Catalyst.
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Mulva posted:6 is so bad it got me to stop equivocating and just tell people "Stop after FASA gets taken off the books", pretty much. It's not even like 20th or whatever doesn't have playable rules, it's just not worth caring about everything Catalyst did to the setting. Dragonfall and Hong Kong are that reminder that no, this is an interesting setting that can still do cool things. The PnP just isn't going to be the place that happens while it's under Catalyst. I’m running a 5e game in January. Is that edition ok?
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Noam Chomsky posted:I’m running a 5e game in January. It's got problems (for example, if a decker PC loses their deck in some unrecoverable fashion, they will never, ever be able to afford to replace it) but it's not "literally missing critical rules" like 6e.
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Zereth posted:It's got problems (for example, if a decker PC loses their deck in some unrecoverable fashion, they will never, ever be able to afford to replace it) but it's not "literally missing critical rules" like 6e. Yeah 6e seemed like crap. I could always figure out how to house rule the irreplaceable deck problem. Which version of Shadowrun would you recommended?
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3e, to be honest. It's still got that Shadowrun flavour to it. All editions have Problems. 4e is probably the most polished, but has magic issues.
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Noam Chomsky posted:Yeah 6e seemed like crap. 3 e is my recommendation for playability. 6e actually works fine if you’re really good at hand waving, making rules judgements on the fly, and make the players promise to never read the book. And apply the new “optional” rules that were in one of the newer 6e supplements. I just tried to look up which one, and the descriptions are so bad I can’t figure it out. On second thought, gently caress 6e, and catalyst. All editions have the irreplaceable deck problem. If you can acquire a deck through some other means than buying it, it behooves you to do that instead of spending your character creation points on a single piece of equipment.
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ninjoatse.cx posted:3 e is my recommendation for playability. 6e actually works fine if you’re really good at hand waving, making rules judgements on the fly, and make the players promise to never read the book. And apply the new “optional” rules that were in one of the newer 6e supplements. I just tried to look up which one, and the descriptions are so bad I can’t figure it out. On second thought, gently caress 6e, and catalyst.
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