Now Is A Great Time To Get Into Shadowrun Sixth Edition
The 1990s were a big time for kitchen sink tabletop RPGs that smashed together genres in unexpected ways. Games like RIFTS, TORG and Deadlands allowed players to pit technological heroes and mystical villains againt each other in unexpected ways. Shadowrun took two of the most popular genres at the time—fantasy and cyberpunk—and brought them together that allowed cyborgs to shoot machine guns at dragons.
The game has evolved since then with a current edition called Shadowrun Sixth World that was first released in 2019. The setting has moved forward as well with new threats on the rise and new megacorporations hiring shadowrunners to put them down. A pair of Bundle of Holding offers allow fans to get a great deal when catching up on the newest edition and the latest news on the street.
Shadowrun is an alternate history science-fiction fantasy setting where magic returned to the world in the year 2012. A handful of people gained the ability to cast spells as massive coporations war with each other over control of this new power. Many humans mutated into forms similar to beings of legend like dwarves and trolls.
Players take on the roles of shadowrunners, the deniable assets the companies hire to do their dirty work with no questions asked. These jobs can be assasinations, kidnapping, data base hacks and more. The money these runners gain is often spent on better gear and cybernetic upgrades to take on deadlier missions.
There are also runners who push back on the system. Sometimes the truth of what's behind a job reveals itself and the runner chooses the righteous path. That won't matter to the coporate killers coming after them but at least the runner can die feeling like they did something right for once.
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The Sixth Worlds Essentials bundle includes everything needed to play the game. The Core Rules include the details on Berlin during this time frame as a home city for a campaign. No Future and Neo-Anarchist Streetpedia are guides to the culture and history of the setting as it heads into the 2080s.
No Future is a great way to absorb how the setting has changed in the over 30 years its been around. Neo-Anarchist Streetpedia is a great way to check in on people, places and things from other eras to see what they are up to now. The other books in the extended collection include expanded combat, magic and vehicle rules.
Sixth World Secrets expands things for Game Masters with new setting information and plot ideas. On the players side, there's massive amounts of new gear, spells and weapons. The extended bundle include an update to the central location of the game, Seattle, plus some plot books that detail new locations, jobs for the players and plotlines that they can see play out.
Shadowrun players love new things to buy with their dirty money. They also love the commentary from characters in the setting that presaged Internet commentary by a decade. These notes provide color, story hooks and make the world seem eerily similar to our own despire the spells and sweet cybertech.
Both Shadowrun Bundles of Holding run through June 3rd, 2025.
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