[Ajax]

Very much looking forward to this. Bring back the days of Neuromancer cyberpunk!

For that you'll need to get the upcoming Gibson Edition 

[Black]

Very amusing.. except whats with the pokes at the metric system   Easist, most logical system ever...  Why Americans are still using the old 'Imperial' system when even the British upgraded to a better system is beyond me.

[CanRay]

Very amusing.. except whats with the pokes at the metric system   Easist, most logical system ever...  Why Americans are still using the old 'Imperial' system when even the British upgraded to a better system is beyond me.

Try suggesting change to most people in the US.

First thing they'll do is call you a Communist/Socialist, the next thing they'll do is reach for their firearm.

Note that I said "Most"...

[Mirikon]

Very amusing.. except whats with the pokes at the metric system   Easist, most logical system ever...  Why Americans are still using the old 'Imperial' system when even the British upgraded to a better system is beyond me.

Try suggesting change to most people in the US.

First thing they'll do is call you a Communist/Socialist, the next thing they'll do is reach for their firearm.

Note that I said "Most"...

Yes. The rest of us will reverse that order.

[DarkLloyd]

It sure would have been nice when we started running our latest campaign a year and a half ago...... We started over and are running all the modules from the beginning in order.... we cobbled our own rules together for it.

[beowulf_of_wa]

I think it's safe for me to say that, no, it's not a reboot of the timeline.

If you don't hear from me again, you'll know I was wrong.

Save your data in some cheap chip. We will get you back chummer.

umm why is this chip black and have 2xs scribed on the case?

[JustADude]

Very amusing.. except whats with the pokes at the metric system   Easist, most logical system ever...  Why Americans are still using the old 'Imperial' system when even the British upgraded to a better system is beyond me.

First off, comparing the USA to England is like comparing the whole Eurozone to England in terms of the scale and complexity of our economic infrastructure. That's not apples-to-apples at all.

Secondly, political joking aside, the real main reason we haven't changed is that it's just not worth it for what we'd get out of it. Our multi-trillion-dollar industrial and commercial infrastructure was already warmed up and in motion by the time Metric started getting really popular, let alone how built up it is today.

Yeah, metric is the "better" system in purely objective terms but, when you get right down to it, Imperial works just fine and dandy, and its what we're already tooled for. So why, exactly, should we bother with the expense and headache of a sudden, government-mandated changeover?  To keep the other countries from laughing at us? Not a very good reason to refit or repurchase a few thousand craptons of equipment, re-annotate every single "Inch" blueprint in use and, last but not least, retrain tens of millions of skilled laborers. All of that costs money and creates opportunity for things to go wrong (especially the retraining), things that will cost more money to fix.

The change is happening, mind you, but its happening slowly and on a very organic level as more and more of the old guard die off and a younger generation that is at home with the metric system starts to take over. We're just not about to drop money we don't have just to look "smart", which would be a very stupid thing to do.

[Mara]

I will say this: I *very much* hope that there is some small section of rules in an appendix at the end that will also
give rules for adapting stuff from 2050 into the modern era. Because it would be cool to have rules that allow a bunch of old
timers to step out into the modern nights and show that they are still dangerous.

[ArkangelWinter]

I will say this: I *very much* hope that there is some small section of rules in an appendix at the end that will also
give rules for adapting stuff from 2050 into the modern era. Because it would be cool to have rules that allow a bunch of old
timers to step out into the modern nights and show that they are still dangerous.

Except in SR, the oldtimers keep up with SOTA or get left behind. Thats what makes guys like FastJack so amazing, that at his age he's still ahead of younger gents in the tech developments field, even after his entire line of work radically changed.

[Crash_00]

Which really makes since for computer related subjects like decking/hacking. A top of the line computer is generally outdated by the time it gets shipped to your house. Technologies change at a slower rate, but it's still much faster than most fields.

What really irks me is that there are no rules for carrying/using decks in 2072. Yes, you can use commlinks, but a full-sized deck could carry much more powerful components (like comparing a laptop to a desktop, more space will always allow for more power).

[CanRay]

I figure Bull has ideas about porting Cyberdecks into the 2070s.  If he doesn't, I'd be really surprised.

Me, I got lots of ideas. 

[Mirikon]

Bull still carries his cyberdeck case around. It just has a really fancy commlink inside it these days.

[CanRay]

Bull still carries his cyberdeck case around. It just has a really fancy commlink inside it these days.

My personal theory is that it has far more than that in it.

There's a lot of space inside a cyberdeck compared to a commlink...

[Stahlseele]

knowing bull, he'll have a completely pimped out comlink dedicated to each of the old SR3 Hacking-Attributes (persona etc.) in there.

[CanRay]

knowing bull, he'll have a completely pimped out comlink dedicated to each of the old SR3 Hacking-Attributes (persona etc.) in there.

Hell, he probably operates Virtual Underground 93 on it alone!