[ScytheKnight]

Well Missions FAQ already has a 30% trade in for augmentations...

[Dr. Meatgrinder]

Well Missions FAQ already has a 30% trade in for augmentations...

That's a poor substitute for the deal mages get with foci:  Only a 20% nuyen upcharge for the difference in cost, then pay the difference in karma, and no Availability test at all, so a mage can buy a Force 1 at its Availability and just keep upgrading it as much as they want.

[adzling]

Just finished reading most of this on a flight.
Crazy amount of fluff, insane really.

IMHO catalyst should focus more on writing solid rules and decent editing.

The fluff is out of control, especially for what should have been a crunch focussed book.

[ScytheKnight]

Just something I'm wondering about... does the quality Prototype Transhuman allow you to take Cultured Bioware, or just basic?

[jim1701]

Just something I'm wondering about... does the quality Prototype Transhuman allow you to take Cultured Bioware, or just basic?

It just says bioware so I'd think either.  Not much of a prototype if you just get basic.  My question would be if you are still limited to 12 availability.

[prionic6]

I feel that the >15 pages of compiled tables that include page references are a pretty good substitute for a classical index. A real TOC would have been great, though.

[prionic6]

Question:

The Shiawase Kacho Bundle has a datajack plus an image link and a sound link. The way I understood this in the past is that a datajack coupled with a sim module in your deck / commlink would make the different image / sound / touch / etc. links unneccesary because that stuff could just be overlayed via simsense. Is that wrong?

[NoxMortem]

And, for everyone, there will be errata, so any issues you find, LET US KNOW! The more you find, the more we can fix.

As the chrome&flesh has a chapter about drugs this would be quite a good time to give some official wording about the Addiction Rules. They are discussed in the german as well as the english version quite a lot and recently here:
http://forums.shadowruntabletop.com/index.php?topic=21130.0
and further back here http://forums.shadowruntabletop.com/index.php?topic=11865.0

It would be really cool to just drop a sentence or two clarifying on how the addiction rules are meant to be. Thanks in advance! Also if it is intented that you can choose less addicting BTL's for your BTL addiction as well as when a test is required and when the addiction threshold decreases and what happens when you use a lot of drugs in a week vs one dose and why a single BTL can't be used over and over again.

[Novocrane]

The difference is that you can send data from the sense links, like a simrig sans emotive track.

[UnLimiTeD]

So, if the errata comes out with a table on contents, will the pdf be updated?
I'm worried I buy thr pdf now, and in a month I get an extra page I can print out and tack onto a wall. I much prefer digitally interlinked indexes, like the CRB had.

[AJCarrington]

From Tumblr, some additional artwork:

Well, for my money, pass along to Jason that a good book is more than Jackpoint fluff.  I really like Shadowrun and I am currently enjoying a 5e game, but this edition seems plagued with shoddy or absent editorial oversight and flat cheap/lazy production.  Crunch heavy games need things like toc/indexes.  Data trails seems almost unusable to me because of it, and it sounds like this one is just a bad.  Produce professional quality if you want me to pay for these bloody books!

So noted.

So, if the errata comes out with a table on contents, will the pdf be updated?
I'm worried I buy thr pdf now, and in a month I get an extra page I can print out and tack onto a wall. I much prefer digitally interlinked indexes, like the CRB had.

Honestly don't know...but that would be my preference.

[Backgammon]

Just something I'm wondering about... does the quality Prototype Transhuman allow you to take Cultured Bioware, or just basic?

It can be cultured

[ScytheKnight]

Just something I'm wondering about... does the quality Prototype Transhuman allow you to take Cultured Bioware, or just basic?

It can be cultured

Ooooo... that does make for some interesting ideas.

[cantrip]

@CatalystLabs -- hey guys just FYI, but it looks like there is an issue with your domain registrar for Battleshop -- getting the following when I go to purchase: "NOTICE: This domain name expired on 6/30/2015 and is pending renewal or deletion."

Easily fixed - and you probably are aware, but just a heads up! I've got my creds ready to go - no rush! I'm guessing Paizo must have hired a team to take down your server...   

[I_AM_ZHOUL!!!]

Editor is still out to lunch.
I wonder if he will ever return.
But I guess he was never here, I mean core and s.g. were a horror show compared to this.
I wonder what if catalysts battle tech books suffer similarly?

The actual Table Top books... No, they are the comprehensive & organized dream I've always wanted! The RPG... A Time for War book, what a nightmare! There were at least 3 different editions with zero labeling. We found out after arguing the first night cause the GM had 1 edition & I had the other so he was saying that I and the 2 others I helped build their characters were cheating cause they were definitely better that the 2 guys he had helped. We finally figured it out when I was explaining how we had built ours that the rules were different in some key areas. So then I went and downloaded a new copy thinking it would be the same as his, but the 3rd copy was different from both other ones. It was an aggravating night and we had to spend it rebuilding everyone's characters from the 3rd copy since me & GM both had that one.