[Crunch]

- The Entropy spell described on page 187 has the same effect than what Sirrurg did in Cali, yet it needed something more. The spell requires line of sight, which Sirrurg is unlikely to have had on all the victims, and it affects a number of victim up to the Force it's cast at. Considering ten thousand people were killed in Cali, Sirrurg simply doesn't have a Magic attribute high enough to pull it out.

Do you find it equally unlikely that Sirrurg knows Ritual Spellcasting?

As far as SR4 rules go, Ritual Spellcasting is still not enough. It sure isn't hard to create a Force 10,000 Magical Lodge: it only requires twenty-seven years of work and a ten kilometers radius. Then Sirrurg can form a ritual group with a single magician who just need Magic 1 and Ritual Spellcasting 2, overcast the spell with him in a single hour at Force 10,000, and burn Edge to survive Drain with the Hand of God.
But they still can't get all the targets in visual range from the magical lodge, nor can the one acting as a spotter "travel physically or astrally to where she can assense the target of the spell" because the astral shadows of buildings are opaque and will hide some people (probably the vast majority, considering people rarely hand out in the streets during a battle). Unless Sirrurg first spend another twenty-seven years to craft a symbolic link for every people that would be in Cali business district on January 18th, 2071...

Or maybe Sirrug knows some tricks the rest of the world doesn't...

[Nath]

Or maybe Sirrug knows some tricks the rest of the world doesn't...

Which is what I meant when I wrote "it needed something more".

[Mystic]

Or maybe Sirrug knows some tricks the rest of the world doesn't...

<WARNING: SNARK ENGAGED> What, a dragon knows something the rest of metahumanity doesn't? NO WAY! Who would have known....<SNARK DISENGAGED>

 

[Crimsondude]

I am not going to make characters not speak in the jargon that they should and would speak in because distinguishing abbreviations and acronyms requires context. I've reined the language in when it could have been much worse, but it's not rocket science.

[Sichr]

Well, someone was able to cast a spell that pierced 3 great and multiple lesser dragons combined counterspelling and serriously wound Loremaster :p

[Sichr]

So maybe somebody knows something even greats doesnt know...

[Nath]

- Disguised HK G36 has been used to fake Excalibur demonstrations. The G36 design first came out in 1997, eighty years ago. Unless the footage was really heavily edited, this would imply the Excalibur fires cased ammunitions.

The Shadowrun history diverged from real history in 1989. So HK didn't necessarily come out with the G36 in 1997.

The G36 nonetheless fires cased ammunition, per Gun Heaven, page 27: "The G-36 utilizes conventional cased cartridges that matched preexisting stockpiles."

[Michael Chandra]

That was a big ritual from a magical group, right?

[Sichr]

You bigger than Azzies and Smoking Mirror are able to asembly?

[Sichr]

'You mean'...

[Sichr]

That said, this is nitpicking (?) I like the book. Well. Most of it...

[Michael Chandra]

For some reason I got something in my head about it being pretty much a war declaration from a magical group on the dragons. Can't say I blame them much.

[Sichr]

Apparently some people are going to die in next 12 month. And Im not talking about old, poor or sick people...
About those bloodlines disappearing...somehow it reminds me Herodes attempt to avoid inevitable...

[Black]

I am not going to make characters not speak in the jargon that they should and would speak in because distinguishing abbreviations and acronyms requires context. I've reined the language in when it could have been much worse, but it's not rocket science.

There are other solutions.

For a casual, sometimes reader, its challenging.  Its only through these forums that I can understand what is happenng in the books.  And even then, I know a large chunk of what is going on is being missed.

[Boomstick]

<WARNING: SNARK ENGAGED> What, a dragon knows something the rest of metahumanity doesn't? NO WAY! Who would have known....<SNARK DISENGAGED>
 

I hate when people do that. Can't people admit there is a mistake, instead of mocking the one who pointed it.

Well, someone was able to cast a spell that pierced 3 great and multiple lesser dragons combined counterspelling and serriously wound Loremaster :p

Are you talking about a specific event of Storm Front? (really need to read it)