Shadowrun

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{{infobox RPG |title= Shadowrun |image= Image:Shadowrun4.jpg |caption= Shadowrun 4th edition cover |designer= Bob Charrette, Paul Hume, Tom Dowd |publisher= FASA Corporation, Fantasy Productions |date= 1989 (1st edition)
1992 (2nd edition)
2001 (3rd edition)
2005 (4th edition) |genre= Cyberpunk fantasy |system= Custom |footnotes= }} Shadowrun is a cyberpunk-urban fantasy cross-genre role-playing game, set in the years 2050, 2060 or 2070 (depending on the game edition) following a great cataclysm that has brought use of magic back to the world, just as it begins to embrace the marvels (and dangers) of technologies such as cyberspace, everpresent computer networks, genetic engineering, and the merger of man and machine called cyberware.

Contents 1 History 2 Setting 2.1 Races 2.2 History 2.3 The Corporations 2.4 Technology 2.4.1 The Matrix 2.5 Magic 2.5.1 Hermetics 2.5.2 Shamanic 2.5.3 Somatic 2.6 Quotations 2.7 Timeline 3 System 3.1 Mechanics 3.2 Archetypes 3.3 Character Creation 3.4 Essence 3.5 Karma 3.6 Fourth Edition Changes 3.7 Flaws 4 Influences and links 5 Publications 5.1 Movies 5.2 Video games 5.3 Novels 6 See also 7 External links

History

Shadowrun was developed and published by FASA Corporation from 1989 until early 2001, when FASA closed its doors and the property was sold to WizKids who licenses the RPG rights to the current publisher, Fantasy Productions (also known as FanPro, also responsible for the German version). WizKids produced an unsuccessful collectible action figure game based on the property called Shadowrun: Duels.

Shadowrun is currently in its fourth edition, which brings significant changes to the game's system and setting. The fourth edition was released at GenCon in August, 2005.

The Shadowrun role-playing game, various expansions, and a Shadowrun collectible card game have won Origins Awards.

Video games for the Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, and in Japan only, the Sega Mega-CD have been created with entirely different story lines, although they all take place within the same Shadowrun universe. They are generally faithful to the pen and paper game. A first-person shooter video game was announced by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 in July 2005.

Setting

Races

Characters in Shadowrun can be humans, orks, trolls, elves and dwarves, as well as certain diverging subspecies (known as metavariants) such as gnomes, giants, minotaurs, et cetera. As magic returned to the world, Humans began to give birth to infants of these races, a phenomenon called Unexplained Genetic Expression, or "UGE". In addition, some juvenile and adult humans "goblinized" into other races (mostly orks). The term metahuman is used either to refer to humanity as a whole, including all races, or to refer specifically to non-human races, depending on context.

Two of the metahuman races have fictional languages. Many elves speak Sperethiel which some of them—being immortal—remember from the last age of magic. Some orks speak Or'zet which was forgotten until the will of an assassinated dragon released The Or’zet Codex to the public.

Additionally, a virus known as HMHVV (Human Meta-Human Vampiric Virus) with many variant strains, has been known to cause further change, frequently resulting in Bandersnatches, Banshees, Dzoo-noo-quas, Goblins, Ghouls, Nosferatus, Vampires, Wendigos, Wild Fomorians and other fierce abominations that are no longer human and sometimes no longer even sentient.

History

Template:Further The emergence of magic, the outbreak of the VITAS plagues (Virally Induced Toxic Allergy Syndrome), the Computer Crash of 2029 (caused by a complex and nearly unstoppable computer virus called "The Crash Entity"), the Euro-Wars, in which the western-European countries once fought off an invasion from neo-communist Russia and then a pan-Islamic invasion like that of 800 years ago, and the fevers for independence of Amerindian tribes, Chinese provinces, etc. left the world governments tumbling and falling. Out came the mega-corporations as the new superpowers.

The Corporations

The monolithic "enemies" of the Shadowrun world (borrowing heavily from cyberpunk mythos) are the Corporations, dubbed "Megacorporations", "Megacorps", or simply "megas" or "corps" for short. Megacorporations in the 21st century are massively global, with all but the smallest corps owning multiple subsidaries and divsions around the world.

In Shadowrun, corporations are effectively "ranked" by the amount of assets under their control, including materiel, personnel, and property, as well as profit. These ranks are A, AA,and AAA; AAA corporations are top tier. Most corporations in the AA and AAA level are immune to domestic law, responsible only to themselves, and regulated only by the Corporate Court, an assembly of the ten AAA-rated corporations.

All AAA-rated, and most AA-rated corporations also exhibit a privilege known as “extraterritoriality”, meaning that any land owned by the corp is sovereign territory only to the corp, and immune to any laws of the country within. Corporate territory is not foreign soil but corporate soil, just like its employees are corporate citizens, though dual citizenship in a corporation and a nation is common.

The AAA corps, and many more minor companies, fight each other not only in the boardroom or with tricky deals, but with physical destruction, clandestine operations, hostile extraction or elimination of vital personnel, and other means of sabotage. Because no corporation wants to be held liable for damages, it has to be done by deniable assets: shadowrunners, invisible to the system where every citizen is tagged with a System Identification Number (SIN). They are outcasts, from the streets or disillusioned ex-corp/government/military personnel who threw off the shackles of corp society to achieve freedom. They chose or were forced to work in the shadows cast by the gigantic corporate buildings to support their living. Players of Shadowrun generally assume the role of these shadowrunners.

The Big Ten, the AAA Megacorporations (as of 2070):

• Ares Macrotech, Detroit-based conglomerate of automobile, steel, arms and space industry companies, led by Damien Knight. The first American-based Megacorp, Ares also trumps up its “mom and apple pie” image, fostering strong brand image within the United Canadian and American States (UCAS).
• Aztechnology, a corporation from Aztlan (formerly Mexico, recreated in Aztec image) heavily involved in consumer goods, chemistry and magic. The least-liked megacorp in the shadows, due to its nasty secret projects.
• Evo Corporation, a corp based in Vladivostok, Russia, that focuses on nano- and bio-technology, genetics research and other transhumanist technologies, and “metahuman factors engineering” (products made specifically for metas). The first corp to become transplanetary after establishing a Mars base.
• Horizon, A Los Angeles(Annexed by the Pueblo Corporate Council in 2061)- based media coporation new to the AAA scene in the 2060s that used the second Matrix crash to make its move. Horizon is a media and PR corporation that lists Tir Tairngire among its clients. While they are primarily invested in media and entertainment they are also strong in consumer goods, real estate, and pharmaceuticals.
• Mitsuhama Computer Technologies, started as money laundering operation for the Yakuza but soon surpassed their investors' income by a very large margin. Focuses largely on robotics, heavy machinery, magical goods, and computers.
• NeoNET, created from Novatech’s merger with Transys Neuronet and Erika, pioneers of the new wireless Matrix, to form this powerhouse in the Matrix sector, but with diversified holdings in many other sectors.
• Renraku Computer Systems, mainly computer and arms-producing giant from Japan. Slowly rebuilding from both the Seattle Arcology debacle and the second Matrix crash.
• Saeder-Krupp Heavy Industries, the world's largest corp, a German conglomerate based on the production of steel, heavy-industrial goods, cars (BMW), arms and communication in Europe. Its majority shareholder and chairman is Lofwyr, a Great Dragon, who bought the company stocks from hoarded resources.
• Shiawase Corporation, an old family business, which survived the turmoils of the early 21st century unscathed, quickly able to expand in energy production, biotech and environmental procedures. First to fight for and be granted megacorporate sovereignty (later called extraterritoriality): exemption of law on foreign soil.
• Wuxing Inc., a Hong Kong-based company that joined the AAA-corps primarily due to money from Dunkelzahn’s will, heavily focused on shipping and finance, and recently chipping into the magical-goods market.

Former AAA Megacorporations that were prominent in prior editions include:

• Fuchi Industrial Electronics, a computer giant built by the Nakatomis and Yamanas from Japan and Richard Villiers from Boston, Massachusetts. Focused heavily in computers and Matrix technologies. Disintegrated during the Corp War of '59 - '60 due to corporate infighting, and fractured. Richard Villiers took his piece and formed Novatech.

• Novatech, Richard Villiers’ remnant of Fuchi that was based in Boston, Massachusetts. Focused on computer and Matrix technologies, also heavy into the brief space race for Halley’s Comet in 2061. Near bankrupt in 2064, it was forced to an unprecedented IPO, which lead to the second Matrix crash. Smarting from the PR fallout, it formed NeoNET by merging with Transys Neuronet and Erika.

• Cross Applied Technologies, a Free Quebec-based company that rose in power due to the Corp War in ’59-’60, it was the smallest of the AAA corporations. When its founder, Lucien Cross died in a plane crash on the night of the second Matrix crash, Ares Macrotechnology, its biggest rival, snapped up enough of Cross’ subsidiaries and holdings to nullify its AAA status.

• Yamatetsu; after moving the corporate headquarters HQ from Japan to Vladivostok, Russia and shifting focus towards metahuman ventures, it renamed itself Evo in the 2060s.

Technology

Despite the Crash which caused much data corruption, technology advanced at a tremendous rate. Cyberware, technical implants, and Bioware, genetically engineered implants which enhance a person's abilities, emerged.

The Matrix

Originally, direct neural interface technology enabled humans and metahumans to directly access computers and the Matrix, the global computer network restructured after the 2029 Crash. Access to the Matrix was accomplished by "deckers": individuals that have cyberdecks which are roughly equivalent to laptop computers. These interface machines are connected to the brain through a Datajack generally located behind the ear. The "deck" would then be plugged into a port that is connected to the Matrix at large. Since Shadowrun pre-dates the movie The Matrix, it seems obvious that the Wachowski brothers were at least influenced by the setting, originally based on ideas by William Gibson and the cyberpunk literary genre.

In Shadowrun 4th edition, the Matrix rules have changed, thanks to the setting's constant evolution and a drive to match real world technological developments. After the second Matrix crash in 2064, Matrix technology was moved away from the wired network and lead into a wireless technology. This technology was originally proposed in the early 2060s by Transys Neuronet and Erika, now part of NeoNET.

The most noticeable difference between the Matrix in the 2070s and the earlier editions is the widespread use of wireless technology. Communications and Matrix access is done through a Personal Area Network (PAN), managed through an individual's Commlink, a wireless device that hooks into the Matrix through wi-fi nodes placed in every city's infrastructure.

The other major difference in the Matrix of the 2070s is the use of Augmented Reality, where a person hooked to the Matrix through their Comlink has their vision imprinted (through direct neural implants or special glasses), with the same files and images that one would see on a computer desktop. This allows many users to stay on the Matrix constantly while walking around in normal space (though the traditional full-immersion neural interface is still accessible).

Cyberdecks are obsolete, so "deckers" have once again become "hackers" (though the definition might annoy real world hackers, the term is used as understood in popular culture). In addition, the otaku of previous versions (deckers who did not need decks to access the Matrix) have metamorphed into a new class - the technomancer, who has an innate connection to the Matrix and is capable of entering into a wireless network with no special equipment.

Magic

It is impossible to detail Shadowrun and give only a cursory mention of magic. It is the element that separates it from other cyberpunk roleplaying games. Magic in Shadowrun comes from three sources or traditions, the Hermetic, the Shamanic, and the Somatic. A mage's power in (at least initially) magic is equal to their essence. Because of this, most mages attempt to avoid cybernetic enhancement.

Hermetics

Hermetic magic is one part chemistry, one part philosophy, one part mathematics, and yet none of them at the same time. It is a "logical" approach to magic in which the spellslinger spends much of their lives studying endless theories. Their magic is fuled by their own will and imagination.

Shamanic

Shamans are mages who live in accordance with the natural world. They feel especially bonded to a specific animal spirit and are guided by that spirit in their lives. It is this spirit that gives the Shaman his/her magic, teaches them their spells, and gives their lives purpose. A shaman CAN fight against his/her Totem, but in the end, it is fighting against oneself.

Somatic

Adepts do not cast spells in the way that other mages do. Instead, their magic is used to enhance their physical abilities in combat. An example could be running on walls or turning a keyring into a deadly thrown projectile. This might be considered Shadowrun's "ninja" type.

Quotations

• "It is not about what you know, but who you know." - Street Proverb
• "Watch your back. Shoot straight. Conserve ammo. And never, ever, cut a deal with a dragon." - Street Proverb
• "That which does not kill me is dead when I'm through with it." - Joel Neechi, Merc
• "When you cut someone nowadays, you don't know if they'll bleed or leak hydraulic fluid." - Evil eye, Tiger Gang Member
• "Geek the shaman/mage first" - Street Proverb
• "Repeat after me kiddies, 'Half up front!'" - Prime Runner, Shadowland Poster
• "Why do things happen the way they happen? For all I know the world is just one big game and all our actions are determined by the roll of a die." - Dunkelzahn, Great Dragon, Late President of the United Canadian American States

Timeline

The Shadowrun timeline diverges from reality starting in the late 1990's, with the first dated event occurring in 1999.

See the detailed Shadowrun timeline for more information.

System

Mechanics

The Shadowrun game mechanics are based entirely on a 6-sided dice system.

The game is skill-based rather than class-based, but archetypes are presented in the main book to give players and gamemasters an idea of what is possible with the system. Image:Shadowrun3.jpg Before the fourth edition, skill and ability checks worked like this: All actions in the game, from the use of skills to making attacks in combat, are first given a target number that reflects the difficulty of the action which is then raised or lowered by various modifying factors, such as environmental conditions, the condition of the character, the use of mechanical aids, and so forth. The character then rolls a number of dice equal to their level in the relevant skill, which then the number of dice rolled that meet or exceed the target number determines if the character is successful performing the action and to what degree of success the character has. As an example, a character with a high firearms skill not only has a better chance at hitting a target then someone with a lower ranked skill, they are also more likely to cause more damage to the target as well. Target numbers may exceed 6, in which case any dice that show a 6 have to be re-rolled (a target number of, e.g., 9 is reached by rolling a 6 followed by at least a 3; thus, a target number of 6 and one of 7 are identical). For even higher target numbers, this procedure has to be repeated; thus, an action with a target number of 20 (like attempting to procure military-degree weaponry) will only succeed if 3 successive dice rolls result in sixes, and the forth gives at least a 2. This system allows great flexibility in setting the difficulty of an action. As noted, this has been significantly changed in the fourth edition though.

In addition to this basic mechanic, players can use dice pools to add bonus dice to certain tests, though dice that are used do not refresh until the end of a turn. This adds an extra tactical element, as the player must decide where best to spend these bonus dice. For example, combat pool could be spent to improve attacks or to improve defense, or some of each. Players also have Karma Pool that can be used to reroll any dice that failed to reach the target number. Karma Pool only refreshes once a scene. The combination of Karma Pool and dice pools gives players a considerable amount of freedom to decide how important a task is to their character. Two characters with identical statistics could perform very differently on the same tasks depending on their priorities (and thus, allocation of dice pools and karma pool). This also has been changed in the fourth edition.

Shadowrun's original dice system has been cited as a major influence in the development of White Wolf's original Storyteller System. The new Storyteller System from the new World of Darkness then influenced the new dice system in the fourth edition of Shadowrun.

Archetypes

Although the skill system is freeform, certain combinations of skills and equipment work well together. This combination of specialization in skill and equipment is known as an archetype. The most notable archetypes are Street Samurai, characters who have heavily augmented their bodies with cyberware and bioware and focus on physical combat; Adepts, characters who have magical abilities that increase their physical combat abilities; Deckers or Hackers who are experts at manipulating computer networks; Riggers who augment their brains to achieve fine control over vehicles and drones; and Magicians who cast spells and can view emotions and call spirits from astral space.

Some people complain that Shadowrun separates different types of characters too far: Street Sams are useless in computing; Deckers are useless in magical encounters; Magicians can't drive well. Each specialty seems so far removed from the others that it appears difficult to write an adventure which involves all the players at the same time.

However, the archetypes are not character classes: the player is allowed to cross boundaries. Restrictions are not imposed by the system itself, but by the player's specializations. Because character-building resources are limited, the player has to weigh which game resource (magic, computers, combat, etc.) he wants to specialize in and which he has to neglect. This allows high character customization while still ensuring that characters are viable in the setting.

Character Creation

The fourth edition of Shadowrun uses a point-based character creation system reminiscent of GURPS; previous editions had optional point-based creation systems and instead used a priority system where the player ranked the character's relative strengths in each of five areas (race, attributes, skills, magic, and resources) and received points to spend or benefits in each area depending on the priority. The point-based creation systems handle character creation in stages that could be compared to the prior versions' priorities, but the point-based system allows for further specialization (e.g., huge amounts of skills and very little magic or cyber). The point-based system is slightly more difficult than the priority system.

Shadowrun characters are created with contacts, friends and acquaintances who will usually help the character out. The contacts system makes it quite easy for players to acquire the use of skills that their characters don't have, albeit at a price, a radical departure from most role-playing games.

Essence

Essence is a measure of a living being's lifeforce. Most humans and metahumans start with a value of six. It powers magic, and as essence fades, so does magical aptitude. Cyberware, bioware, nanotech implants, and other major changes to a being's body can damage its essence as well. If a being's essence ever reaches zero, it dies.

Karma

As the game progresses, players will be awarded Karma points. These points are usually added to a total called Good Karma, which can be used to boost attributes and skills. Skills that are already well-developed cost more Good Karma than skills which are undeveloped, which helps encourage specialized characters to become more flexible by spending Good Karma on weaker attributes. This advancement-buying system is much more organic than level-based systems (as made ubiquitous by Dungeons & Dragons), though not all roleplayers agree that is necessarily a good thing. Karma also makes characters more powerful in general because every tenth (or twentieth for metahumans) point is added to the Karma Pool instead of Good Karma. The Karma Pool allows players to re-roll dice or "purchase" additional dice in certain situations. Karma can even be used to avoid certain death, but it costs all Good Karma and Karma Pool points.

Fourth Edition Changes

With the new edition, major changes to the rules system were adopted.

Out of the original six attributes (Body, Quickness, Strength, Charisma, Intelligence, and Willpower), Quickness was broken into Agility and Reaction, while Intelligence was broken into Intuition and Logic. A new attribute called Edge was introduced to replace Karma Pool. Instead of starting from a base, characters buy their Magic attribute like a normal attribute.

The initiative system was modified to only affect the order of actions, not the number of actions, during one turn. The number of actions taken by a character are determined by implants and magic but not rolling dice.

Skills were changed from the target number system to a "hits" system. The target number is fixed at 5, and to complete a skill test, a player takes a number of six-sided dice equal to the skill and its linked Attribute, and rolls them, counting the number of dice that show 5 or 6 as "hits". The number of "hits" are compared to a pre-determined amount set by the GM for the roll with success based on whether the appropriate number of "hits" was equaled or exceeded. In addition, dice pools were removed, eliminating most of the tactical allocation of dice during combat, spellcasting, hacking, and other activities. These changes speed up the resolution of skill tests and combat.

Rules for combat, magic, hacking, and other activities were changed to accommodate the new skill system. The modified rules are typically similar in outline, but the details are necessarily different.

Since the rules in the Fourth Edition are mechanically dissimilar to those in earlier editions, balance issues differ between editions. Characters from previous editions do not easily convert to the new edition with their strengths and weaknesses intact.

There were a few changes to the fictional setting in the Fourth Edition. The main premises remained unchanged while the timeline advanced by five years. The largest change in setting was the addition of a global wireless matrix that allows people to have augmented reality displays: visual overlays on real-world scenes. This encourages hackers to join their teammates physically rather than provide matrix backup from a remote location, and makes coordinating and integrating online and real-world actions easier for the GM.

Flaws

There have been complaints that cybertechnology in the Shadowrun game system makes very little sense. Because of the strict rules that make cyberware difficult for the character to have, it is far less likely that someone will give their character enhancements like full cyberlimbs rather than alternatives like bioware and magic. This is a problem because cyberware, especially the obvious cyber-limb kind, is a staple of the cyberpunk genre. However, this was less of a problem in the third edition, where the increase in functionality for cyberlimbs made them more appealing to both "trick" characters and more general street samurai. Due to the limit on cyberware/bioware imposed by the Essence rating, and the open development system, cyberware tends to have an "early power, not much late development" tone, versus a slower-developing but potentially much more powerful magic-oriented character.

The name theoretical troll was used to identify one of the inherent flaws in a previous edition release of the game. It referred to the fact that a player could select a Troll as a starting character and, through manipulation of rules, could make the equivalent of a walking, indestructible artillery platform, through various methods. Trolls were known for extremely high combat statistics (Body and Strength) which allowed players to abuse the system in ways it wasn't designed for.

The first edition of the game is notable for an infamous flaw in the ballistic combat system that made even the most powerful firearms all but useless against characters wearing even moderate body armor. With the second edition of the game, the combat system was overhauled so that even with armor, firearms still posed as a potentially deadly threat, especially in the hands of a skilled character.

Another problem that cropped up first in the first edition and fixed incrementally through subsequent editions were the complicated rules involving grenades. Before the addition of rules for the effects of blast against barriers in the second edition, there was a common joke among players that, given a horrible roll by a GM, one could place a baby in a box with a live grenade and the baby would come out unscathed.

Influences and links

Shadowrun was retroactively linked to Earthdawn, and is set in the "Sixth World", where Earthdawn is the "Fourth World" and our modern-day Earth is at the tail end of the Fifth World. Such links are not necessary for play, but they allow crossover potential.

Shadowrun is closely based upon the writings of William Gibson (particularly Neuromancer), although less closely than the Cyberpunk 2020 role-playing game. Gibson himself has stated his dislike of Shadowrun, although he has not publicly stated any reasons, aside from the presence of fantasy creatures in the game.

Publications

For a complete list of the published books and novels see List of Shadowrun books.

Movies

Despite various rumours, no Shadowrun movie has been published so far. In the recent years, however, FanPro's promotional fan film competition has brought forward a variety of German fan-based short films depicting numerous aspects of the Shadowrun world in numerous levels of quality, some in subtitled versions. American-made Shadowrun movies do exist, but are few in number.

Video games

Three video games have been developed based on the Shadowrun franchise, the first in 1993 was an action RPG titled Shadowrun developed by Australian software company Beam Software (now Melbourne House) for the SNES console. The second also titled Shadowrun was for the Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis in 1994 developed by US company BlueSky Software. The third game was an interactive fiction adventure game developed by Japanese company Group SNE in 1996 for the Mega CD console, again titled Shadowrun. The fourth and latest (in production) game is for the XBox 360, with the working title Shadowrun developed by US company FASA Interactive owned by the Microsoft Corporation, which is also producing the title.

• 1993 - Shadowrun
• 1994 - Shadowrun
• 1996 - Shadowrun
• 2006 - Shadowrun

Novels

(1 – 40 published by ROC, 41+ published by WizKids)

1. Never Deal with a Dragon (Secrets of Power #1) by Robert N. Charrette
2. Choose Your Enemies Carefully (Secrets of Power #2) by Robert N. Charrette
3. Find Your Own Truth (Secrets of Power #3) by Robert N. Charrette
4. 2XS by Nigel Findley
5. Changeling by Chris Kubasik
6. Never Trust an Elf by Robert N. Charrette
7. Into the Shadows anthology edited by Jordan K. Weisman
8. Streets of Blood by Carl Sargent
9. Shadowplay by Nigel Findley
10. Night’s Pawn by Tom Dowd
11. Striper Assassin by Nyx Smith
12. Lone Wolf by Nigel Findley
13. Fade to Black by Nyx Smith
14. Nosferatu by Carl Sargent & Marc Gascoigne
15. Burning Bright by Tom Dowd
16. Who Hunts the Hunter by Nyx Smith
17. House of the Sun by Nigel D. Findley
18. Worlds Without End by Caroline Spector
19. Just Compensation by Robert N. Charrette
20. Black Madonna by Carl Sargent & Marc Gascoigne
21. Preying for Keeps by Mel Odom
22. Dead Air by Jak Koke
23. The Lucifer Deck by Lisa Smedman
24. Steel Rain by Nyx Smith
25. Shadowboxer by Nicholas Pollotta
26. Stranger Souls (Dragon Heart #1) by Jak Koke
27. Headhunters by Mel Odom
28. Clockwork Asylum (Dragon Heart #2) by Jak Koke
29. Blood Sport by Lisa Smedman
30. Beyond the Pale (Dragon Heart #3) by Jak Koke
31. Technobabel by Stephen Kenson
32. Wolf and Raven by Michael A. Stackpole
33. Psychotrope by Lisa Smedman
34. The Terminus Experiment by Jonathan E. Bond & Jak Koke
35. Run Hard, Die Fast by Mel Odom
36. Crossroads by Stephen Kenson
37. The Forever Drug by Lisa Smedman
38. Ragnarok by Stephen Kenson
39. The Burning Time by Stephen Kenson
40. Tales You Lose by Lisa Smedman
41. Born To Run by Stephen Kenson
42. Poison Agendas by Stephen Kenson (2006-Jan)
43. Fallen Angels by Stephen Kenson (due 2006-Mar)
44. Drops of Corruption by Jason M. Hardy (due 2006-May)

See also

• Earthdawn - Set in the same world as Shadowrun but many thousands of years in the past.

External links

• Official Shadowrun RPG home page
• Dumpshock – a large collection of information and sub-sites, including:
  • Shadowrun Forums
  • the Sixth World Wiki
  • The Shadowrun Supplemental magazine
  • The Shadowrun Archive
• Shadowrun NPC Wiki – 3rd & 4th edition.
• Publication list on Pen & Paper
• Shadowland Six – In and out-of character forums.
• d20 Shadowrun – an incomplete rules conversion.
• Bulletproof online comic
• Homepage of 2006 Winner of fan-film competition Tor 3
• MUDs & MUSHes
  • Awake 2062 MUD
  • Awakened Worlds MUD
  • Deckeon Shadowrun MUD
  • Shadowrun Seattle MUSH
  • Shadowrun Denver MUSH
• Xbox 360 announcement
• Shadowrun Polska – Polish Shadowrun
• C.L.U.E. Foundation casefiles
• The Screamsheet - A podcast dedicated to Shadowrun.cs:Shadowrun

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