[Hephaestus]

Just wondering if anyone who went to Origins had any input on SR6? Namely, any thoughts/comments/critiques on the demos or the new Beginner boxes.

[cndblank]

Tracy picked up the box set and reviewed it.
He has some good pictures including one of the starting character's sheet.

https://twitter.com/TheOtherTracy

[Michael Chandra]

Gawd, is there any way for Twitter to be readable?

Edit: Managed to read through. So a few problems with editing, awesome material, wondering why the Rigger Dossier isn't available yet.

[Rapier]

So combat sense doesnt add dice pools for defense?

[Michael Chandra]

The spell in QSR, yes. The effect seems a bit weak to me, so wonder what it does in the full edition. But that eliminates the concern of stacking both types of Combat Sense for massive defense pools on Adepts.

I also notice that Health spells have a threshold of (5-Essence). So instead of a -1 per Essence, you actually have the equivalent of -3 per Essence. OUCH. That's gonna hurt, literally, when that Heal spell will have a massive threshold for a near-zero Street Sam.

No Increase Reflexes spell, so don't know what that one does.

[Shinobi Killfist]

So combat sense doesnt add dice pools for defense?

What did it do then?

[Marcus]

The spell in QSR, yes. The effect seems a bit weak to me, so wonder what it does in the full edition. But that eliminates the concern of stacking both types of Combat Sense for massive defense pools on Adepts.

I also notice that Health spells have a threshold of (5-Essence). So instead of a -1 per Essence, you actually have the equivalent of -3 per Essence. OUCH. That's gonna hurt, literally, when that Heal spell will have a massive threshold for a near-zero Street Sam.

No Increase Reflexes spell, so don't know what that one does.

Wow Chandra criticizes 6e? I’m shocked. Shocked I say!

Anyway, yes All that sound totally terrible, which makes it par for the course for 6e.

[FastJack]

Keep it cool when talking about each other. Criticize the game all you want, just don't fling mud at your fellow forum members.

[Rapier]

In adds dices to test against surprise.

[Shinobi Killfist]

Increase reflexes was in one of the plays. +1 initiative per hit every 2 hits could get you a minor action. It cost more drain the more hits it got. I think at +3 minors it was 9 drain. But the lady who played the mage has 3 focussed concentrations and could sustain 3 spells without penalty. Heal your drain over breakfast be a bad ass the rest of the day. I’d of been fine if they had kept that out of the main rules along with the QSR.

And thanks. So no one will take the combat sense spell. Take improve attribute intuition instead or when it’s added deflection.

[Stainless Steel Devil Rat]

In adds dices to test against surprise.

...
And thanks. So no one will take the combat sense spell. Take improve attribute intuition instead or when it’s added deflection.

It does do more than just that in the full rules.  I can't speak to the QSR tho.

[Michael Chandra]

QSR is indeed just that effect on the spell card.

[Shinobi Killfist]

Seems kind of silly to make spell cards for things only in the QSR. Spell cards could be nifty and ones that were compliant both with QSR and core would be good advertising. Waste of paper just for QSR. 

[Marcus]

Seems kind of silly to make spell cards for things only in the QSR. Spell cards could be nifty and ones that were compliant both with QSR and core would be good advertising. Waste of paper just for QSR.

[sarcasm] Shhhhhhhhhhhh You keep going like that and you might make sense. Why would anyone expect a rules preview to have anything to do with actual rules? I mean really, that might help people make an informed decisions and clearly we just can't have that. [/sarcasm]

Honest to God I also keep asking myself why this was done, and I can only guess a print deadlines was involved and the system was still just slightly past the white board stage.
 

[PiXeL01]

Global warming isn’t happening fast enough! Need less trees to push the planet faster over the brink and into real dystopia!