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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GlassJaw" data-source="post: 2101426" data-attributes="member: 22103">Well I agree with Saev so I guess I'm out to lunch too huh?Sorry Patryn but that was borderline rude.  There are a lot of people (myself included) that believe SR would be vastly different in d20.  When I hear people say that the conversion to d20 would be seamless, I immediately think that they haven't played SR enough.They definitely could be.  There's a lot of discussion on Dumpshock but it's not anywhere the level of craziness that went on when WotC announced 3.5.Anyway, I think FanPro made a decision to tr to reach out to new players.  The core SR following is very strong but my guess is that SR isn't really attracting new players.  I think FanPro just got tired of hearing about how complex the system was or that people don't use deckers because they slow down the game too much.  SR3 has a lot of flaws.  The decking and rigging rules are insane.  They tried to simplify things in SR3 but unless you completely revamp the system, it will just end being a retread each time.FanPro probably decided that losing a few core fans is worth picking up some new players.  Sometimes a big shakeup is the only way that's going to happen.  Have the release coincide with GenCon and you've at least created some attention for yourself.</blockquote>