Shadowrun
Shadowrun Play => Character creation and critique => Topic started by: Crimsondude on <05-10-14/1806:54>
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From the CGL tumblr (http://catalystgamelabs.tumblr.com/post/85319617841/shadowrun-5-and-hero-lab):
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As was just announced, the Shadowrun, Fifth Edition data files for Hero Lab will be releasing on May 23rd!
What’s Shadowrun perhaps you might be asking? Shadowrun is one of the most successful tabletop role-playing universes of all time. An incredibly unique combination man, magic and machine! Explore the Shadowrun website (http://shadowruntabletop.com) or check out the video below:
http://youtu.be/Y4MXIg62yPE
"Okay, I know all about Shadowrun, but what’s Hero Lab?” Hero Lab is the industry standard in software that takes the pencil and paper approach to character creation for a host of the hobbies’ greatest RPGs and puts it at your keyboard fingertips.
Here’s a few screen shots of the beta that’s been under testing:
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I mentioned as part of a previous blog (http://catalystgamelabs.tumblr.com/post/82003564284/why-should-i-care-about-tabletop) that my wife, my eldest son and a host of his friends have started up a Shadowrun game. And even though I knew I had access to Hero Lab, we all walked through the process with a paper and pencil. (I know, brutal, but as much gaming as they do they’re still relatively new to RPGs and I wanted to ensure they had the experience of that process.)
Once they had their characters done on paper, I unleashed them with the software and they’ve been having an absolute blast! One of my favorite moments came when Bryn realized he’d done his Positive and Negative Qualities completely wrong. He’d come up with this fantastic story about how he was a “spirit bane” and come to find out you have to have a Magic Attribute to have that quality and he didn’t have the points or money for everything. So he agonized for days, trying to rebuild the characters numerous times to make it “work.” Finally he confessed that he was forced to “hurt” his character and give it a big handicap out of the gate just to be able to keep his backstory.
I simply told him “Welcome to the joy of roleplaying!”
Randall
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Yeah, that looks pretty cool. You really need a computer to navigate the char gen with all the errors and errata.
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Is it out yet*?
* It's May 23rd...on the East Coast. :)
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it will probably be out around 12... if not later
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I hope itll have a way to juryrig stuff in till. Offfical releasea. Like run and gun armor and weapons
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I hope itll have a way to juryrig stuff in till. Offfical releasea. Like run and gun armor and weapons
Hero Lab does allow you to create user files, to add in things like equipment. Also the 4th Edition data set had a custom gear option you could click on to manually enter information for a particular item that wasn't available; I don't see why it wouldn't have it in SR5's data set, since it seems to be universal in the various games they support.
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For SR4 I succesfully created a different version of HP ammo, where rather than a -2 penalty it was 2 extra recoil. I also made edited modifications with different limitations. A lot was possible, and likely still will be.
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Good thing there wasn't any sort of Midnight Release event for this. Wish they had some sort of cute
little count-down clock so we knew how long until it is released :'(
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Good thing there wasn't any sort of Midnight Release event for this
Why not? What's bad about it? O_o
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Good thing there wasn't any sort of Midnight Release event for this
Why not? What's bad about it? O_o
Well, it not being released at Midnight would be the big reason a Midnight Release Event would have
sucked. ;) So...here is hoping it released before I go to bed this morning...I don't want to have to wait
until I wake up in the evening to get it!
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Well, it not being released at Midnight would be the big reason a Midnight Release Event would have
sucked. ;)
LOL, I see your point =)
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Since I work 3rd shift, it will most likely be released after I go to bed in the morning. :'(
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It's Here!!!
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It's Here!!!
the release date or the actual thing itself?
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Launch the program and run the free update to 5.2 then relaunch and go to purchase new license. It will then show up in the list and be available for purchase.