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Message no. 1
From: maxnoel_fr@*****.fr (Max Noel)
Subject: Screw Shadowrun 4: SR5 all the way, BABY!
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 12:47:39 +0200
Source: http://www.shadowrunrpg.com/


"""
FanPro Announces Shadowrun, Fifth Edition!

In consideration of the feedback we’ve received for the
still-unreleased Shadowrun, Fourth Edition, we’ve decided to go ahead
and announce our plans for an upgrade to the SR4 rules set, to be
released in September 2005. This magical new edition will somehow fix
everything wrong with the game without actually changing anything about
it! All illustrations will also be anatomically correct! In addition,
we will compile all of the advanced rules material and include it in
the core rulebook, so you’ll have it all in one place: at 800 pages,
the $150 cover price is a bargain! And with this 10-pound brick in your
hand, your players will think twice before arguing with the gamemaster
again! As a special bonus, we’ll even throw in a limited edition piece
of orichalcum we recovered from the secret FASA vaults. And if you
don’t stop playing SR1, SR2, SR3 and SR4 as soon as we release it,
we’ll hunt you down and kill you.

Oh, and did we mention it will be D20?
"""


This seems like it's gonna be the best thing since Windows Millenium
Edition. Charging us for the beta (SR4) then charging us again for the
final release is a brilliant business move -- I suspect Rob et al. have
been taking lessons at WotC and Microsoft.
I, for one, welcome our new d20 overlords. Keep up the good work, guys.

-- Wild_Cat
maxnoel_fr at yahoo dot fr -- ICQ #85274019
"Look at you hacker... A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting
and sweating as you run through my corridors... How can you challenge a
perfect, immortal machine?"
Message no. 2
From: arclight@*********.de (Arclight)
Subject: Screw Shadowrun 4: SR5 all the way, BABY!
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 12:57:56 +0200
At 12:47 01.04.2005, Max Noel wrote:

>FanPro Announces Shadowrun, Fifth Edition!

Well, at least they're putting *all* of their creativity into SR4 ;)


--
Arclight

Quitters never win, winners never quit,
but those who never quit and never win are idiots
Message no. 3
From: orcstsam@*****.com (Chris Haase)
Subject: Screw Shadowrun 4: SR5 all the way, BABY!
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 06:30:38 -0800 (PST)
Happy April Fools Day?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

--- Max Noel <maxnoel_fr@*****.fr> wrote:
> Source: http://www.shadowrunrpg.com/
>
>
> """
> FanPro Announces Shadowrun, Fifth Edition!
>
> In consideration of the feedback we’ve received
> for the
> still-unreleased Shadowrun, Fourth Edition, we’ve
> decided to go ahead
> and announce our plans for an upgrade to the SR4
> rules set, to be
> released in September 2005. This magical new edition
> will somehow fix
> everything wrong with the game without actually
> changing anything about
> it! All illustrations will also be anatomically
> correct! In addition,
> we will compile all of the advanced rules material
> and include it in
> the core rulebook, so you’ll have it all in one
> place: at 800 pages,
> the $150 cover price is a bargain! And with this
> 10-pound brick in your
> hand, your players will think twice before arguing
> with the gamemaster
> again! As a special bonus, we’ll even throw in a
> limited edition piece
> of orichalcum we recovered from the secret FASA
> vaults. And if you
> don’t stop playing SR1, SR2, SR3 and SR4 as soon as
> we release it,
> we’ll hunt you down and kill you.
>
> Oh, and did we mention it will be D20?
> """
>
>
> This seems like it's gonna be the best thing since
> Windows Millenium
> Edition. Charging us for the beta (SR4) then
> charging us again for the
> final release is a brilliant business move -- I
> suspect Rob et al. have
> been taking lessons at WotC and Microsoft.
> I, for one, welcome our new d20 overlords. Keep up
> the good work, guys.
>
> -- Wild_Cat
> maxnoel_fr at yahoo dot fr -- ICQ #85274019
> "Look at you hacker... A pathetic creature of meat
> and bone, panting
> and sweating as you run through my corridors... How
> can you challenge a
> perfect, immortal machine?"
>
>



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Message no. 4
From: korishinzo@*****.com (Ice Heart)
Subject: Screw Shadowrun 4: SR5 all the way, BABY!
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 08:15:22 -0800 (PST)
--- Max Noel <maxnoel_fr@*****.fr> wrote:
> Source: http://www.shadowrunrpg.com/
>
>
> """
> FanPro Announces Shadowrun, Fifth Edition!
>
> In consideration of the feedback we’ve received for the
> still-unreleased Shadowrun, Fourth Edition, we’ve decided to go
> ahead
> and announce our plans for an upgrade to the SR4 rules set, to be
> released in September 2005. This magical new edition will somehow
> fix
> everything wrong with the game without actually changing anything
> about
> it! All illustrations will also be anatomically correct! In
> addition,
> we will compile all of the advanced rules material and include it
> in
> the core rulebook, so you’ll have it all in one place: at 800
> pages,
> the $150 cover price is a bargain! And with this 10-pound brick in
> your
> hand, your players will think twice before arguing with the
> gamemaster
> again! As a special bonus, we’ll even throw in a limited edition
> piece
> of orichalcum we recovered from the secret FASA vaults. And if you
> don’t stop playing SR1, SR2, SR3 and SR4 as soon as we release it,
> we’ll hunt you down and kill you.
>
> Oh, and did we mention it will be D20?
> """
>
>
> This seems like it's gonna be the best thing since Windows
> Millenium
> Edition. Charging us for the beta (SR4) then charging us again for
> the
> final release is a brilliant business move -- I suspect Rob et al.
> have
> been taking lessons at WotC and Microsoft.
> I, for one, welcome our new d20 overlords. Keep up the good work,
> guys.


April Fools!

======Korishinzo
--Frag it, I'm going back to 2nd edition! ;)



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Message no. 5
From: jjvanp@*****.com (Jan Jaap van Poelgeest)
Subject: Screw Shadowrun 4: SR5 all the way, BABY!
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 08:27:40 -0800 (PST)
--- Chris Haase <orcstsam@*****.com> wrote:
> Happy April Fools Day?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Nah, the Big Joke is that it's in fact true.
(responses to this possible ad infinitum :)

cheers,

Jan Jaap



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Message no. 6
From: pb3209@****.utah.edu (Jamison Cooper-Leavitt)
Subject: Screw Shadowrun 4: SR5 all the way, BABY!
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 10:36:07 -0700
Max Noel wrote:

> Source: http://www.shadowrunrpg.com/
>
>
> """
> FanPro Announces Shadowrun, Fifth Edition!
>
> In consideration of the feedback we’ve received for the
> still-unreleased Shadowrun, Fourth Edition, we’ve decided to go ahead
> and announce our plans for an upgrade to the SR4 rules set, to be
> released in September 2005. This magical new edition will somehow fix
> everything wrong with the game without actually changing anything
> about it! All illustrations will also be anatomically correct! In
> addition, we will compile all of the advanced rules material and
> include it in the core rulebook, so you’ll have it all in one place:
> at 800 pages, the $150 cover price is a bargain! And with this
> 10-pound brick in your hand, your players will think twice before
> arguing with the gamemaster again! As a special bonus, we’ll even
> throw in a limited edition piece of orichalcum we recovered from the
> secret FASA vaults. And if you don’t stop playing SR1, SR2, SR3 and
> SR4 as soon as we release it, we’ll hunt you down and kill you.
>
> Oh, and did we mention it will be D20?
> """
>
>
> This seems like it's gonna be the best thing since Windows
> Millenium Edition. Charging us for the beta (SR4) then charging us
> again for the final release is a brilliant business move -- I suspect
> Rob et al. have been taking lessons at WotC and Microsoft.
> I, for one, welcome our new d20 overlords. Keep up the good work,
> guys.
>
> -- Wild_Cat
> maxnoel_fr at yahoo dot fr -- ICQ #85274019
> "Look at you hacker... A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting
> and sweating as you run through my corridors... How can you challenge
> a perfect, immortal machine?"
>
>
>
I am just glad that FanPro is keeping up with April Fools. I remember
last year they had me going good for a whole day, before I realized it
was April 1st.

Veracusse

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