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Shadowrun: Rigger 3 Revised
Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs
by Gergely V. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 07/24/2019 15:29:22

Some books and game systems are Good and Bad at same time for exactly same reason. You have WiFi at home, and when connections in 3rd edition Shadowrun are often Wired, you might say that is outdated, antiquated and you would want to see something different. On the other hand, I am sitting less than 10 feet away from a WiFi router, only I use would use that router, it is a fast AC router, yet I find that a wired connection is faster. Wired connections can easily use a dedicated medium with dedicated bandwidth, while most wireless aren't "point to point" dedicated links, but use a "shared medium and a shared bandwidth". That is why we use wired connection when speed, latency and reliability matters. It is physics that won't change.

I know my characters can use a plain old image link, that exists since 1st edition, to display data and images in an AR way. For orientation system, to cyberdeck, to devices connected with Smartlink like interfaces and everything else can use this system. Neither AR nor Wireless is any new to Shadowrun both were present in various forms if you used some existing devices creatively. But it shown us the advantages of the other options. We had many campaign types, where "slices of life" were also important. And unlike many systems with chaotic modifiers Shadowrun system was complex because it had rules for almost everything. Including vehicle design, and as the developers tried to lead the playerbase instead of copying the worst expectations of the masses we had pretty solid products.

Vehicle Design Rules in Rigger 3, and Rigger 3 Revised were part of this picture, and they are useful. They are useful even if you would have to convert vehicle data to other systems after the vehicle design process. And this, along with plenty of other options helped us to have plenty of freedom in Shadowrun 3 games. Of course this freedom ment we had to prepare more. There is nothing bad with 4E, 5E and Anarchy, but they are simpler games with far less options. And as long as we don't have a true spiritual succesor to classic Shadowrun, these old originals are the best thing we can have. It is for thinkers and tinkerers who think RPGs are a "serious hobby" and are willing to invest time in the game.

And for us, Rigger 3 is a must have. For players on the opposite side of the spectrum such products aren't recommended.

There is only a slight problem with PDF quality, when I tried to copy data for Vehicle design sometimes selecting data from tables had small issues, but "we can always write down the data we need the old way" so it is a minor issue.



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[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Shadowrun: Rigger 3 Revised
Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs
by Candice R. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 11/11/2014 17:07:23

Greetings.

For the purpose of specifically downloading this PDF, I registered here at the RPGNow.com site and bought this one for $12, which seemed to be a great price at the time for what I hoped would be a thoroughly searchable PDF.

I am very familiar with Rigger 3 Revised (and actually own the very same book), but I wanted a quicker way to reference rules while playing online text games (for Shadowrun 3rd).

While I can still search many keywords, I noticed that some simple header titles were not searchable (specifically 'concealed armor' and 'morphing license' and even 'autosofts'). Maybe, I am being super picky, but I wish I could search title text, too!

While the scan seems to line up nicely (for the most part) there are slightly slanted pages, as well as very light and very dark parts to the printed words. Overall, this is not a very 'nice' PDF on one's eyes.

Yet, this still seems to do the job, for the most part, anyway.

Rating neither good nor bad, but I would -really- love to see this rescanned sometime and eventually updated. I own a document scanner as well as Adobe software, and I know that things can be done better. Please, if you guys have the time, try again! Thank you!



Rating:
[3 of 5 Stars!]
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Shadowrun: Rigger 3 Revised
Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs
by Sean H. [Featured Reviewer]
Date Added: 01/14/2014 21:45:38

Rigger 3 Revised, is the Shadowrun 3rd big book of vehicles and rigger rules covering everything that drive or flies in detail. While designed for the 3rd edition of the Shadowrun rules much of the general discussion and information is still usable in later versions. The discussion of what vehicles will be like in the Shadowrun future and the expenses (licences, insurance) is an interesting read. There are discussions on the role of riggers, security riggers (who operate building security systems), vehicle design and customization rules and a combined list of 3rd edition vehicles

The general information and ideas are still excellent reference and full of useful data and ideas, unfortunately it is almost totally incompatible with the current edition (or even the 4th edition) of the rules. Still, if your campaign makes wide use of vehicles and drones it may just be worthwhile.

Disclosure: As a featured reviewer for RPGNow/DriveThroughRPG, I received my copy of this product for free from the publisher for the purpose of this review.

Note: Read more reviews and other gaming articles at my journal https://seaofstarsrpg.wordpress.com/



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