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It's the only time you can control companions. I want to pre-position them for fights. And if I get a Decker later, I'm worried I won't be able to use him/her to access the Matrix unless a fight breaks out.

G is an odd button. But thank you! I still want to be able for force turn-based, let me know if you discover that.

Saw The Wolverine. Fox definitely is taking the X-Men franchise seriously compared to when Origins and Last Stand came out. I guess the competition from the other Marvel properties has gotten them to take notice. It's a really good film. It's fairly close to your typical bodyguard film with some superhero undertones. But the combination does it well. This is a vulnerable Wolverine developing as a character. The plot wasn't particularly clever, but I thought it worked. And stay for the mid-credits scene.

People have published D20 games and sold them. D20 is only a trademark, which means all you really have to do is not call it D20. If you want an example, just look at the Book of Erotic Fantasy or Nuisances. Which were denied the trademark because of mature content, but still use the system. Or you can just go for something like OGL or GSL, which allow you to use trademarks but are royalty free.

The mind is often better at recalling bad memories than good ones. So don't read too much into the fact that I remember.

Aren't they open systems simply for that reason alone? Also you can't copyright rules which means they're open because they kind of have to be. Though you can definitely copyright and trademark things such as spell names and monsters.

We've had official word that they're working on Half-Life 3 for years now. They've essentially said they never stopped working on it.

Yeah, but that's too cliche.

Please use spoiler tag if you answer this question. I have gotten that far and I have a theory, but I don't know for sure yet. The theory:

For those who've come across Blind Lucy, have you figured out what the Ripper is targeting yet?

Crappy linkbait. They talked to one designer that said they expect to have a trailer or something to show at the next E3. That's all he said. This does not translate to "release 2014" unless we're talking about running it through babelfish into japanese, german, french, then back into english.

I just want keyboard shortcuts! i for inventory, space to force it into turn-based mode.

Looking at Shadowrun Returns, I'm now worried about how PE will do their modding. The thing I realized here is that SRR looks to be using real-time 3D, tilesets, placeables, that kind of thing. PE is using pre-rendered backgrounds. So at best we're going to need custom art assets to introduce any new areas, but more likely than not we'll all just repurpose old areas. I guess that's not a death sentence, it's just not something that crossed my mind before.

To flip flop on my non-answer earlier, I have to say that I would like to see more outrageous fantasy worlds. Which I think is helped along by having more magic in some way. Either because the landscape is outrageous or the things people have accomplished is.

That should depend on the mod, they'll have instructions. For the most part it's running their associated installer.

Not necessarily. It's not like you simply can enter any system during combat and rerout systems freely. There are two or maybe three situations where you can really get to decking (although it's still very linear) and sometimes it helps you extract info. Better off with Mage, got it. Are there interesting utility/debuff spells or is it nuke and heal?

I've decided to see The Wolverine tonight.

I haven't even started playing yet. Unlike some people, I'm not allowed to play at work.

I'm debating between Decker and Mage. Are there lots of opportunities for being a Decker to be worthwhile?

Du wollst lernen Deutsch und mag es.

My ideal fantasy setting is one where magic does what magic needs to in order to push the themes along. I'd like a word where magic is ubiquitous and controlled to the point that people queue up at the tele-port to take vacations in hell, yahoo. If the world is ending and magic is totally at fault, raging entire cities with apocalyptic disasters because one wizard OMMed when he should have OHMed, that makes for an intriguing story. If there's rumor of one legendary sword that gives the wielder the strength of 3 guys, but everyone thinks it's a myth because magic's totally not real and you're a fool for leaving on a quest to find it, well, that sounds like an adventure all the same.

One of my story ideas I'm trying to figure out how to make it more Shadowrun. It already leaned Cyberpunk so that's a bonus.

More technical limitation than design choice. I think I heard they had problems implementing manual saves and not enough money to get around them.

That's rather ambitious, no wonder it took you so long. If I find the time I'd love to try it out.