Message from @kawaii

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2020-09-05 02:24:17 UTC  

Going to look up that game.

2020-09-05 02:29:01 UTC  

U should

2020-09-05 02:34:59 UTC  

So basically the internet was the protomatrix and microchimerism is real

2020-09-05 02:48:36 UTC  

yeah basically

2020-09-05 02:48:51 UTC  

cool setting but most of the players are cringe as fuck

2020-09-05 07:49:09 UTC  

IDK about that. I found a pretty good group of good guys to play with.

2020-09-05 09:12:32 UTC  

I mostly mean that in the sense of "There's multiple reasons 6th edition is a complete fucking disaster."

2020-09-05 09:19:28 UTC  

Well, I think 6th edition is dogshit b/c Catalyst is a dogshit company.

2020-09-05 09:20:18 UTC  

My source being an experienced Shadowrun player.

2020-09-05 09:20:29 UTC  

Who is currently my DM.

2020-09-05 09:21:22 UTC  

oh there's no doubt catalyst is dogshit

2020-09-05 09:21:29 UTC  

dudes can't make a rulebook to save their lives

2020-09-05 09:21:35 UTC  

lol

2020-09-05 09:21:44 UTC  

like it's amazing to me that they haven't lost the license

2020-09-05 09:22:05 UTC  

given Ulysses literally lost the 40k license over taking too long to release errata

2020-09-05 09:22:25 UTC  

I guess it's because Topps doesn't really give much of a shit as long they are making money off it.

2020-09-05 09:23:04 UTC  

Which I find it interesting that a baseball trading card company bought the rights to Shadowrun.

2020-09-05 09:23:26 UTC  

Capitalism at it's finest

2020-09-05 09:23:33 UTC  

still it's just wild because you can tell that Catalyst was more worried about appearing woke enough than they were about giving you a functioning set of rules

2020-09-05 09:24:10 UTC  

Oh, so they decided to go woke huh.

2020-09-05 09:24:31 UTC  

I mean trannies and shit were always part of shadowrun as a setting

2020-09-05 09:25:02 UTC  

Well, it is the future.

2020-09-05 09:25:25 UTC  

So I'd kind of expect there to be a lot of degeneracy.

2020-09-05 09:25:33 UTC  

but if I'm remembering right, they spend a shitload of time in the 6E rulebook talking about shit like "It's okay if you want to play a nonbinary character!" meanwhile there are placeholder texts remaining in place of simple rules

2020-09-05 09:26:25 UTC  

so it's like "Yeah whatever, the tranny stuff was always a part of the setting because it's a hellworld where capitalism went off the rails" gets outweighed by shit like this

2020-09-05 09:26:28 UTC  

I mean, we can always just pirate 5th edition shit lol.

2020-09-05 09:26:38 UTC  

Oh for sure

2020-09-05 09:27:40 UTC  

I have honestly thought about buying the Shadowrun rights if I ever win the lottery.

2020-09-05 09:28:57 UTC  

And just make my own company. Hire competent people, market the hell out of it and boom.

2020-09-05 09:29:31 UTC  

I mean you don't even need to market it

2020-09-05 09:30:22 UTC  

you just need a character creation chapter that doesn't require you to reference the index at least 20 times and do introductory calculus to figure out how to do the pointbuy

2020-09-05 09:31:20 UTC  

that's basically why I stick to 5th Anarchy

2020-09-05 09:31:52 UTC  

I like the character creation tbh.

2020-09-05 09:31:52 UTC  

because the Anarchy ruleset is simplified sure, but all that means is that it's possible to make a character in under 30 minutes without downloading a program specifically for chargen

2020-09-05 09:32:15 UTC  

Well, I get the whole crunching thing is a bit much.

2020-09-05 09:32:33 UTC  

But I like the whole priority sytem

2020-09-05 09:32:34 UTC  

Shadowrun's character creation mechanically wasn't awful, the primary issue is how Catalyst formats their books

2020-09-05 09:32:46 UTC  

it makes character creation harder than it needs to be

2020-09-05 09:33:01 UTC  

solely because you constantly have to flip back and forth skipping through entire chapters of the book

2020-09-05 09:33:25 UTC  

to the point that most people I know just use Chummer unless they're using the Anarchy rules

2020-09-05 09:33:38 UTC  

I used chummer as well.