In the game, player characters are an off-the-grid team of mercenaries, or “shadowrunners” for hire, each with unique magical, technological, or tactical talents. Shadowrun seems to owe as much to the sword and sorcery genre as to William Gibson, Terri Windling, and classic heist films like The Italian Job. You will find cyber-enhanced dwarf mercenaries with machine guns, elf mages slinging combat spells while riding motorcycles, elite hackers in the ubiquitous computer-connected Matrix, and even dragons holding down C-suite roles at tyrannical mega-corporations. Photo: Erik Stanfill What is Shadowrun?įor the uninitiated, Shadowrun is a technicolor mix of classic cyberpunk and urban fantasy. The Beginner Box previewed this past week at Origins Game Fair, with a retail release in July. As someone who has played Shadowrun off and on since the 90s, typing “30th” makes me feel quite old.Ĭatalyst also kindly sent me copies of the first Sixth World products hot off the press: the Shadowrun Sixth World Beginner Box along with No Future and The Neo-Anarchist Streetpedia books.
As previously announced, Catalyst Game Labs dropped a surprise last month by announcing the sixth edition of their Shadowrun role-playing tabletop game and a release schedule of new books and products for its 30th anniversary.
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