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<blockquote data-quote="Jeff Wilder" data-source="post: 1743621" data-attributes="member: 5122">SRIII is far superior, mechanically, to SR and SR2.&nbsp; (I agree about missing the &quot;chatter&quot; between 'runners in the older sourcebooks, though.)I've played SR from the first printing of the first edition, back when a GM couldn't scare a PC with anything less than a Panther Assault Cannon.&nbsp; SR2 fixed a lot of problem.&nbsp; SRIII fixed many more.&nbsp; I ran an extremely successful and long-lived SR2/SRIII campaign.My problem with SR is that it is very nearly impossible to play with people who don't know the -- extremely complex -- rules.&nbsp; With D20, learning the session-to-session rules is a matter of a few hours at most, and, regardless, somebody else at the table can tell you want to roll, and when.&nbsp; With SR, though, the interaction of attributes, skills, dice pools, weapons, spells ... it's hairy.On the other hand, the modularization of the rules means that only mages and shamans need to know the magic rules, only the riggers need to know the vehicle rules, and so on.&nbsp; (Except, of course, for the GM, who has to know all of it.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeff Wilder, post: 1743621, member: 5122"] SRIII is far superior, mechanically, to SR and SR2. (I agree about missing the "chatter" between 'runners in the older sourcebooks, though.) I've played SR from the first printing of the first edition, back when a GM couldn't scare a PC with anything less than a Panther Assault Cannon. SR2 fixed a lot of problem. SRIII fixed many more. I ran an extremely successful and long-lived SR2/SRIII campaign. My problem with SR is that it is very nearly impossible to play with people who don't know the -- extremely complex -- rules. With D20, learning the session-to-session rules is a matter of a few hours at most, and, regardless, somebody else at the table can tell you want to roll, and when. With SR, though, the interaction of attributes, skills, dice pools, weapons, spells ... it's hairy. On the other hand, the modularization of the rules means that only mages and shamans need to know the magic rules, only the riggers need to know the vehicle rules, and so on. (Except, of course, for the GM, who has to know all of it.) [/QUOTE]

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