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Shadowrun is a science fantasy tabletop role-playing game set in an alternate future in which cybernetics, magic and fantasy creatures co-exist. It combines genres of cyberpunk, urban fantasy, and crime, with occasional elements of conspiracy, horror, and detective fiction.
Shadowrun Companion is a sourcebook featuring expanded rules for Shadowrun. The content includes: [1] Chapter 1: Expanded rules and options for character creation. Chapter 2: New skills; Chapter 3: Advice for gamemasters on how mega-corporations might hire shadowrunners; Chapter 4: Potential contacts and enemies of the player characters.
The player can customize their character's gender and appearance. There are five races to choose from: humans, elves, dwarves, orcs, and trolls. The game lacks traditional character classes, but players may optionally play as one of six pregenerated archetypes: street samurai, cybernetically-enhanced warriors who focus on weapon mastery; the spell-casting mages; deckers, who focus primarily on ...
Catalyst Game Labs (CGL) was created in May 2007 by InMediaRes Productions, LLC for the purpose of publishing print Shadowrun and Classic BattleTech sourcebooks. [1] In June 2007, WizKids transferred the licenses for both Shadowrun and Classic BattleTech from FanPro's United States subsidiary, FanPro LLC, to Catalyst, and in June 2008, Catalyst announced novels for Shadowrun and Classic ...
At the time, Jon Szeto was an officer in the U.S. Army who had played Shadowrun for a number of years, and was contributing articles about riggers to the Scrawls from the Sprawls APA. This brought him to the attention of FASA, and when Szeto left the Army in 1996, FASA hired him to write Rigger 2. [2]
The popularity of Minecraft mods has been credited for helping Minecraft become one of the best-selling video games of all time. The first Minecraft mods worked by decompiling and modifying the Java source code of the game. The original version of the game, now called Minecraft: Java Edition, is still modded this way, but with more advanced tools.
Shadowrun was released in North America and Japan by Data East. In PAL regions , it was self-published by Beam Software as Laser Beam Entertainment. The 1994 Japanese version has a significantly longer introduction sequence than the English version of the game and also has a vertically uncompressed Shadowrun logo on the title screen.
It's a very good sourcebook and it takes the magic system of Shadowrun far beyond what is offered by other role-playing games (except perhaps Ars Magica). Unfortunately, with this new, incredibly vast magic system, come a lot of rules to digest." [2] In the November 1992 edition of Dragon (Issue #187), Allen Varney wrote, "The book amazes me ...