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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imperialus" data-source="post: 2666276" data-attributes="member: 893">I got the LE #372 here.  I must say I like the new system.  Takes a bit to break out of the 3rd edition mold since the mechanics are so different.  It's almost on the same scale as the shift from AD&D 2nd ed to D&D 3.X and for the most part the changes are welcome.  The static target number is a blessing.  Back when I played 2nd ed we had a long running campaign that by the time it wrapped up had most of the characters sitting on 3 or 4 hundred karma total the amount of time spent calculating target numbers chewed up a significant amount of play time.Decking (I still can't call it hacking) seems to work a lot better and the decker is able to work in tandum with his team since his brain is no longer plugged into a wall socket.Adapts can make effective use of limited cyber or bioware without suffering the same penalties as they did in 3rd.  There are some peices of cyber that just fill their roles better than their magic counterparts and make things even nastier when you stack them.  I made a social skills adept for my group and he rolls 18 dice for both ettiquite and negotiation.  If I hadn't been willing to give up a point of essance I would have rolled a max of 15.One thing to keep in mind is that a lot of the rules from 3rd ed like str bonus's to recoil came from the splatbooks.  Shadowrun has always needed it's splatbooks, the world is too big and too complex to fit it into a single volume and all things concidered I think they did an admerable job.</blockquote>

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