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We did a full review of Shadowrun 5e on the Critical Glitch podcast. You can find it at www.criticalglitch.com Listen to episodes 8 through 11 to get a detailed overview of the system. If you still have questions then, feel free to contact us through the criticalglitch.com website. Hope this helps.

Hey folks. Some of the agents of the Catalyst Demo Team will be running games at Ohayocon, in Columbus, Ohio January 18-20, 2013. If you can come to the show and get involved, we still have seats available, and we'd love to have you! One BIG thing that's going down at Ohayocon this year is a...

This is becoming a disturbing trend in gaming. At GenCon this year, Red Brick announced that they were becoming FASA, reviving that old dead company name. Now we see TSR getting the zombie treatment. I have to say I'm not a fan of this trend. New FASA is not, and can not be old FASA. A FASA...

Has it been a month already? There's another new episode of Critical Glitch up and ready for you. This time out we answer some listener questions, talk about voting and weather as they pertain to Shadowrun, and spend a while talking about Shadowrun Then and Now as we discuss the Shadowrun 2050...

After months of planning, I'd like to publicly announce the release of the first episode of Critical Glitch, a Shadowrun podcast. Critical Glitch deals with all things Shadowrun, with a special focus on the tabletop aspect of the game, specifically the Shadowrun Missions living campaign. In our...

In my experience, players are not interested in weapons like these. Anything with this serious of a drawback is immediately suspect, and when that drawback is possibly losing control of your character, which for all intents and purposes means not getting to really play the game, well, like...

Try a gang of four Violet Fungi. Individually, they're no match for the PC's, but with four attacks each, those Rot saves are going to add up. This comes out right around a CR 6, CR 7, probably a high 7 IMO. Don't use this unless your party has access to some Restoration spells/potions, or you...

You said you're new to pnp rpg's, so I'd reccomend this guy. He's a human ranger using the Skirmisher Archetype. You dump the ranger magic in exchange for some fun combat tricks. Going with the companion bond, rather than the animal companion will be easier starting out, but you could take a...

The answer here is obvious. Large party + skillful + decent combat = BARD If don't fancy the traditional singing adventurer, (which in a party this size would be GREAT) try the Archeologist archetype. The steampunk-esque setting you describe would fit Indiana Jones perfectly IMO, and that's the...

Try this on for size. Improved Initiative plus the Inquisitor bonus to Init means you pretty much go before everyone. The Killer trait lets your scythe do more damage. Too bad you have to dump a feat to be proficient in it. Grab Taldan Conscript as your next feat to add even more damage to your...

I appreciate the edits you made. Now it actually reads like a legitimate setting and not a joke. Being interesting is important, and being funny can help, but you have to tailor your humor to the material you're presenting. I really like the alien spores thing. It feels very Gamma World or...

Honestly, I don't consider myself overly-sensitive, but your intro was so juvenile and unecessary, I lost all interest in looking at your setting after reading the first few paragraphs. That kind of stuff is fine in a home game, but if you want people to take your setting seriously and give you...

Here's a fun build we just had in our Carrion Crown campaign. Half-Orc, with the Orc Bloodline. Note the HO favored class advantage that lets you add half your level to your fire spells. And the Bloodline Arcana lets you add an additional +1 dmg per die rolled on all your damaging spells. Those...

Hail Brony! I'm not a hardcore number cruncher, but these look fine. Even though they were originally posted as an April Fools joke, I still think they are playable as is. I agree that you should remove the EP's drawback, and Unicorn's should all have Mage Hand at all times. Sounds like a...

Book 5 - War of the River Kings. You can also get just the Mass Combat system with some tweaked and expanded rules from Jon Brazer Enterprises in their Book of the River Nations: Mass Combat (PFRPG) - Jon Brazer Enterprises | DriveThruRPG.com