Q. 1 – How did you review the material in this draft? Critical eye Q. 2 –What’s the most critical problem you’ve identified in these rules? Coming from such rules heavy systems as Rolemaster, Living Steel, ASL and other such grognard systems, this is mild. And actually simpler to use than Shadowrun in all it's variations. That said, a minor quibble on the Swarminoid rules to make the Durability reduction stand out a bit more when the new Swarminoid rules are read, but otherwise not much else. Q. 3 – What’s the best part of these rules? As I have always been intrigued by the Swarminoid concept the expanded rules area happy thing to see. The text for that as well as the description of the EGO is immensely in trying to help players picture things (as well as myself). The pod descriptions are also good for generating adventure nuggets. Q. 4 – What’s your opinion on the rules for vehicle morphs? As an observation, drive-by-wire, are pretty common these days for most jets and starting to become common for cars. A notable factor for many of these is that a lot of them have inhibitors built in so that full actual performance is not reached as it well exceeds human reflex maximums. Many Transhumans will not have this problem. Much less something that IS the vehicle in question. As how to represent this, I'm not entirely sure... Q. 5 – What issues with extreme morphs have you had in your gaming group? Not as such as my group is pretty wide range on what kind of characters we play.

[b]Q. 1 - How did you review the material in this draft? [/b] Simple reading. [b]Q. 2 - What's the most critical problem you've identified in these rules? [/b] [b]Swarmanoids microbots [/b] I think it is almost impossible to kill them, but they don't have enough drawbacks. Microbots can communicate in 50 meters range. So you can spread the swarm into very large area, to decrease number of lost bots with one attack. I mean, one blast could kill many bots if they swarm; it could kill very few if they spread into large space and there are very few bots in a area one blast could affect. I hope I had any good idea to shorten the range, but I don't have. So I'd like to suggest some ideas on drawbacks. 1: noisy against scanning. If you communicate by radio, you make noise. And if one transmitter make some noise, 2,000 transmitters are quite noisy. In game term, Swarmanoid communication can't use stealthed signals (p. 252), so just anyone can scan Swarmanoid. 2: wired hacking. Swarmanoid communication are encrypted, so they are resistant against wireless hacking. But, it means just every microbots have decrypt key. So if you capture a microbot, you would be able to extract its key. 3: augmentation limitation. a microbot is just too small to install some augmentations. [b]Large morphs and AP [/b] I am fine about "too small weapons won't hurt large thing" concept. But against large morphs, "weapons with an armor penetration factor of 0 or less do no physical damage to the morph" (p. 10). But weapons with more penetraition power have lower AP (light pistols have 0 AP and medium ones have -2). I figured it should be "0 or more", but most weapons have negative AP, so they work against large morphs (and make this rule sound little sense). So it is required other line between "too small" weapons and working ones. And why large vehicles are vulnerable while large morphs aren't? [b]Q. 3 - What's the best part of these rules? [/b] Vacuum Living section. It is cool and work on isolate brinkers. New Traits. Among them, I like Innate Ability New Positive Trait especially. I am sure it is more balanced than "+30 xxx Skill" Advantage some morphs have. If existing morphs will be retconned, this Trait should be used. [b]Q. 4 - What's your opinion on the rules for vehicle morphs? [/b] I don't think large vehicles (like cars) have too high DUR; After all, they are large as a car. And if I am big, my opponents will bring big gun (or seeker). If big guns and seekers aren't enough, theire damage should be increased. Even if vehicle-as-a-morph should be more fragile, second DUR rating means second set of WT and Wounds. For example, a vehicle of DUR 100 is WT 20 (100 / 5) and will have 1 wound by 15 damage. but the same vehicle will have WT 10 and 3 wounds if it is sleeved by ego. I feel it would be better to determine when a vehicle fail to carry on a ego (for example, "with 2 Wounds"). Thant said, I am fine about Aptitude Maximums. [b]Q. 5 - What issues with extreme morphs have you had in your gaming group? [/b] Is it possible to purchase a part of pod or synthmorph and replace damaged part with it, to heal faster? Do cyberbrain affect on biomorph life support? If I am a biomorph but have a cyberbrain at torso, being decapitated might not be fatal. [b]Q. 6 - Are there any exotic morph types you'd like to see (more) coverage of? [/b] More about Artificial Ids. How do vehicle AIds act against "unapproved" command (like too high speed)? How does an AId of property pod control residing ego? Rules about Pods. Materials are nice, but it won't hurt to have some additional rule about Pods. And I am looking forward to rules about flexbots and infomorphs.