Well, that's EGG's version of the story. If you read the filing, it's more complicated than that. What this article doesn't mention, but is mentioned in the Gizmodo article, is that EGG accidentally posted supposedly non-approved* stuff to their website that ended up being shared on social...
It took a minute, but I figured it out. They want TPK to remove the word renegade because they're afraid that Rockstar Games will mistakenly go after RGS for the infringement, not because they just oppose having the word in the title.
I'm not even certain Ward's involved beyond using his ruleset, as the wording's a bit fuzzy there. All I know is that this is Ernie Gygax's gig, and he still hasn't delivered on a KS yet, after 5 or so years.
Better inform whomever is doing TSR's social media who pretty much said they're going to fight Hasbro over the rights by saying that it's up to the lawyers now.
In that context, yeah, it makes sense to drop it, but it makes sense to have it as a response to general hacking. (Though, I'll admit, it doesn't really come up that much in JD.)
I guess this is mostly for Morrus, but I was wondering if the supplement has shipped yet? I just ordered it and Strontium Dog. (Edit: I just realized that what I thought was people receiving their books was Morrus showing a printer's proof.) If not, is there an ETA?
Interesting features, then randomly. Like above, I can't seem to ever read them cover to cover (most of the time, there have been a couple of exceptions.)
There's another link/version for it, and this one always seems to work: WOIN Character Builder
That said, I'm not sure which is the one we're supposed to be using.
It's equipment quality that counts with Max Dice Pool, not equipment bonuses. (Though that could be made clearer in the rules.) So, the +1d6 to Strength is above and beyond the MDP.
That said, I don't know if cyberware counts as equipment with equipment quality.