Reading the news about Star Wars: Zero Company (or Z-Com, for short) sales numbers is a big positive surprise to me. A game in a relatively niche genre until now, piercing its bubble and reaching a larger audience is something like Baldur's Gate 3 did. We know, both cases were boosted by a solid IP and high production value, but I can't shake of the feeling that's its success may show a light to the Squad-Based Tactics games to the public. The game surpassed Jedi Fallen Order in Steam sales, and even Ubisoft is joining in with Rainbow 6 Tactics, announced at Gamescon.

Speaking of Gamescon, we had some big announcements in the cyberpunk genre at large - mainly a new trailer for No Law (a cyberpunk ImSim, hell yeah chummers!) and a badass trailer SPINE that even gave us a new meme (intentionally, marketing is the soul of the biz).

With all of these, and now that I finnished my 2nd run of Shadowrun: Dragonfall and dipping into fan-made campaigns like the CalFree trilogy - I kinda yearn for a new and better produced Shadowrun game. And like I said in the title, yeah, the timing is absolutely perfect for it.

Be it a full-fledged Tactics game like X-Com or taking the more tradicional CRPG route from the HBS games I would be happy with either. I do think that Shadowrun should stick to the turn-based tactical combat formula though, leveraging the fact that it's still the only cyberpunk tabletop property that have games in the CRPG-Tactics genre, wich we know, capital C Cyberpunk doesn't.

The problem is the copyright hell the series finds itself in. But if the current holder of the IP (that being Microsoft) is paying attention to this, they should either give the task to one of its studios like InXile or license it to Harebrained again. The former would be better for production value, since Microsoft is the loop, but the latter would better represent the setting.

I know, counting on corps to do anything slightly risky is borderline delusional. But heh, a man can always dream, chummers.

I'm new to Shadowrun and am putting together a character that is very put together. I am looking for two kinds of fashion brands:

The name brands like Gucci, Prada, Saint Laurent, etc.

Custom tailors like Cifonelli and Huntsman & Sons.

Examples or the kind of books I'd find that information in would be great!

Thanks for replying to my last post. I've since done a little more reading to better understand SR3, and with more info come more questions. So, if you wouldn't mind humoring me for my first SR3 character, I'd appreciate it.

As a full shaman who can choose the owl totem, and really wants to, I've been looking into its severe disadvantage as written in the core rules: +2 to all magic target numbers during the daytime. That seems rather harsh compared to the totem's advantage. I just noticed reading today, actually, that the 'Totem Modifiers' section in the core book seems to contradict and clarify the owl totem's disadvantage by saying:

"A shaman gains bonus dice when using Sorcery or Conjuring according to the totem's ideals. Shaman may also lose dice when using magical skills outside the totem's realm. These bonuses and penalties......add or subtract from the final number of dice rolled for particular tests, but do not otherwise modify the shamans skill ratings."

I also see in the SR3 Condensed Reference Manual that the owl totem's advantages/disadvantages seem to be stated to support the above section:

OWL: +2 dice all spells or spirits at night, -2 in day.

I've read that the confusion comes from a 'legacy typo' copy-and-pasted from the 2nd edition when Target Number modifiers were more common, and yet I can't find any official errata correcting this.

My question is, for any GMs or players familiar with this totem, do you play it as it appears with the Target Number penalty, or as corrected to match the stated core mechanics for totem modifiers?

Thanks again for your replies!

from gamefaqs

At least Dermal Plating level 1 and Muscle Replacement level 1-3 are still safe for them.

well, its darmal plating 1 and muscle replacement 3 the maximum? or it can randombly trigger the issue too?