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I have the feeling that there will soon be a new SR Edition.

I do not evidence, but there are so many important things moving that there has to be something big coming.

• Both CAS and UCAS have elections

• The megacorp audit is ongoing and after the diseans there will some shakeup

• The big 6E metaplot is over

• The way magic works has changed

• The matrix is crumbling and will be replaced with a new framework host based system.

My gut feeling is we get 1 or 2 books describing the failure of the matrix and then everything relevant has changed, so its time for a new edition.

This is not a post to pick on editing or the company; it is a serious question because I think I am missing something.

I have been looking at SR6 to run a game, since I still cannot buy Anarchy 2.

So I gathered a few friends to test-run SR6 and will do the same for Anarchy 2 if the PDF ever becomes available. (OK, this part may be picking on Catalyst a little.)

One of my players found an anomaly in an example character, which led me down a rabbit hole of analysis. I soon found several example characters I couldn't recreate within the system's rules. This means they are either a bunch of misprints or there is an option or rule I don't understand or know about.

Please point me in the right direction.

Runner	Book, page	Error	Rule it breaks
Impersonator	Smooth Operations p.101	Con 7 without Aptitude	CRB p.65 (skill cap 6, or 7 with Aptitude); Aptitude, CRB p.70
Networker	Smooth Operations p.105	Influence 7 without Aptitude	CRB p.65; Aptitude, CRB p.70
Networker	Smooth Operations p.105	Cyberears over capacity (10 of 8)	Earware table, CRB p.286 (cyberears Rating 3 = Capacity 8)
Negotiator	Smooth Operations p.103	Influence 7 without Aptitude	CRB p.65; Aptitude, CRB p.70
Playboi	Smooth Operations p.106	Astral expertise at rank 4	CRB p.68 (an expertise needs skill rank 5)
Rigger	CRB p.86	7 paid qualities	CRB p.66 (at most six)
Technomancer	CRB p.89	Willpower and Intuition both at maximum	CRB p.64 (only one attribute at maximum); only Many Talents (Sixth World Companion p.134) allows two

CRB = Shadowrun, Sixth World Core Rulebook (Hong Kong City Edition); the other printings use the same page numbers for these rules.

NOTE: I used AI to format this table.

Each book add opportunities to play outside the “main” settings of Seattle, Germany or Denver (my age is showing I know), but have you ever run campaigns that were untraditional?
Instead of being urban predators they were mercenaries fighting and testing weapons in Libia or South America etc.?

Please tell me of these campaigns how well you felt the lore supported them and if they held the distance.

Having come to appreciate 6Es streamlining I want to ask how Anarchy 2.0 works as I heard its rather different than Anarchy 1?

How are tasks resolved (especially the damage soaking which caused so much discussion in 6E), how is magic, rigging and decking and what options are there (I tend to gravitate to more exotic options like changelings, infected to even shifter and drakes if I can play them in good faith).

Drones are excellent against Invisible targets.

First, the Simsense Interface Overdrive cyberware (DC, pg. 145) is underappreciated. It's easily available, it costs only 0.2 Essence per rating point, and it adds its rating to the rigger's Intuition while the rigger is jumped in. A perception test is, of course, Perception + Intuition.

But when perceiving through a vehicle's sensors, you can choose to roll Sensors + Intuition instead. And of course you can add ultrasound to your sensor package, as well.

With the right cyberware and drone upgrades, you can be rolling a pile of dice on Perception tests. Which are used to see the Invisible, to hear targets under a Silence spell, and also to do stuff like notice hidden bombs, etc.

In fact, you should be outsourcing your perception tests to drones as often as you can.

Hi there!

I'm here because there's something I'm not quite clear about: are insect spirits completely gone after the events of 2080? Is it possible that some hives have survived? Could new hives emerge somewhere?

More generally, can we still play with insect spirits in 2081 and beyond?

Oi 7 Chummers,

I plan on using modified Anarchy rules for a Fantasy setting, as the gameplay and mechanics result in fast paced rounds that leave many freedoms for the players.

What would you change/strip/add in order to adapt the rules?

The setting isn’t set in stone at the moment so I can also adapt things like Augmentation(like magically enhances prosthetics) into the setting.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Edit: thanks for all the helpful feedback!