Message from @kawaii

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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.

2020-09-05 09:33:43 UTC  

because the crunch on its own wouldn't be bad

2020-09-05 09:33:49 UTC  

if the book didn't have such awful formatting

2020-09-05 09:34:13 UTC  

Yeah, it comes down to a formatting thing.

2020-09-05 09:34:59 UTC  

Instead of making a new edition they should just re-format 5 and boom.

2020-09-05 09:35:29 UTC  

Maybe simplify the crunch and make 5.5

2020-09-05 09:35:43 UTC  

that was Anarchy

2020-09-05 09:35:46 UTC  

But nah, they won't do that.

2020-09-05 09:35:48 UTC  

simplified 5E

2020-09-05 09:35:49 UTC  

huh

2020-09-05 09:36:11 UTC  

but nobody's ever heard about anarchy because they put zero effort behind marketing it

2020-09-05 09:36:36 UTC  

and most shadowrun purists don't like it because "It's too simplified"

2020-09-05 09:36:59 UTC  

tl note: still takes at least twice as long to teach to somebody as Savage Worlds

2020-09-05 09:37:43 UTC  

Not to familiar with savage worlds.

2020-09-05 09:38:48 UTC  

real simple ruleset, setting agnostic to the point that they provide you with all sorts of rules to make your own races, worlds, etc, then proceed to say "By the way you don't need to follow these rules if you want to make some broken super race, up to you."

2020-09-05 09:39:07 UTC  

Huh

2020-09-05 09:39:14 UTC  

Very interesting.

2020-09-05 09:39:22 UTC  

your stats and skills are represented by dice rather than a number that provides a flat bonus, all rolls come with a wild die

2020-09-05 09:39:41 UTC  

so every stat and skill levels up in steps from d4-d12

2020-09-05 09:40:53 UTC  

Sounds cool

2020-09-05 09:40:58 UTC  

and no matter what your stat or skill is, you throw that die and a d6 to go with it

2020-09-05 09:41:25 UTC  

and any time you roll a "crit", the die explodes and you roll again and add to the total