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<blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 9589798" data-attributes="member: 725"><p><em>looks at his Shadowrun collection</em></p><p>I absolutely love my 1e/2e/3e SR FASA physical book collection, the Fanpro ones a little less so, and I own most of the 4e/5e/6e in pdf (via Bundles).</p><p></p><p>The issue with SR is all the different systems that are stuck together, yes it's crunchy, that's not the issue. The problem is that it's a lot (maybe too much) spread out over all kinds of books. Cool! A new equipment book, but it also comes with <em>more</em> new systems. SR also suffers from Games Workshop 'syndrome': THIS edition we'll go for a very minimalist structured approach!" and they might start out that way, but a few years down the road it starts again with all the overflowing supplements with new systems. I remember that when I went to friends to play SR back in 2e/3e days, I needed to take an enormous pile of books with me to cover all the rules!</p><p></p><p>I liked the old SR FASA novels (and the Battletech and Renegade Legion novels) and read most (if not all of them), haven't read new (Fanpro/Catalyst) ones in a long, long while (although I have a whole digital pile of them). Probably because these days I have easy access to the whole worlds library in scifi/fantasy books and there are so many good/enjoyable books out there to read.</p><p></p><p>I really dislike the fluff direction they went in, so <em>if</em> I ever play/GM SR it will be set in 2050-2059 with probably the SR5e or Anarchy rules set. Still wondering which, because while Anarchy solves the issue of way too many rules and crunch, it might have overcompensated in the simplification.</p><p></p><p>Don't assume I don't like something just because I criticize it, you'll know when I don't like something. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cergorach, post: 9589798, member: 725"] [I]looks at his Shadowrun collection[/I] I absolutely love my 1e/2e/3e SR FASA physical book collection, the Fanpro ones a little less so, and I own most of the 4e/5e/6e in pdf (via Bundles). The issue with SR is all the different systems that are stuck together, yes it's crunchy, that's not the issue. The problem is that it's a lot (maybe too much) spread out over all kinds of books. Cool! A new equipment book, but it also comes with [I]more[/I] new systems. SR also suffers from Games Workshop 'syndrome': THIS edition we'll go for a very minimalist structured approach!" and they might start out that way, but a few years down the road it starts again with all the overflowing supplements with new systems. I remember that when I went to friends to play SR back in 2e/3e days, I needed to take an enormous pile of books with me to cover all the rules! I liked the old SR FASA novels (and the Battletech and Renegade Legion novels) and read most (if not all of them), haven't read new (Fanpro/Catalyst) ones in a long, long while (although I have a whole digital pile of them). Probably because these days I have easy access to the whole worlds library in scifi/fantasy books and there are so many good/enjoyable books out there to read. I really dislike the fluff direction they went in, so [I]if[/I] I ever play/GM SR it will be set in 2050-2059 with probably the SR5e or Anarchy rules set. Still wondering which, because while Anarchy solves the issue of way too many rules and crunch, it might have overcompensated in the simplification. Don't assume I don't like something just because I criticize it, you'll know when I don't like something. ;) [/QUOTE]
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