Quick-Start Rules
If you’ve not already done so, click on the quick-start rules graphic on the left to download the free PDF that’ll have you tossing dice and running the shadows in no time. Once you’ve tackled the quick-start rules then you’ll be ready to take on the core rulebook.
After the Shadowrun, Fourth Edition 20th Anniversary Core Rulebook, Catalyst Game Labs recommends buying the items listed below the book, in the order they are presented (all these products can be ordered through your local game store, or directly online from Catalyst if they’re not available locally).
The year is 2072. Magic has returned and creatures of myth and legend walk among us as megacorps bleed the world dry. You’re a shadowrunner—a deniable asset, a corporate pawn—using bleeding-edge science and magic to make your meat body and mind better-than-flesh. Stay on the edge, and you may survive another run on the mean sprawl streets. Shadowrun, Fourth Edition offers a completely new rules system that is simple, integrated, and accessible. The state-of-the-art has also been advanced, introducing a new level of augmented reality, new gear, and new magical discoveries. This full-color rulebook contains all the rules gamemasters and players need to create characters and ongoing adventures set in the popular Shadowrun universe. Shadowrun, Fourth Edition 20th Anniversary Core Rulebook is fully compatible with all Shadowrun, Fourth Edition books.
eBook Availability
Shadowrun Fourth Edition, 20th Anniversary Edition is available from the following eBook/PDF vendors:
- Shadowrun Fourth Edition, 20th Anniversary Edition at BattleCorps.com
- Shadowrun Fourth Edition, 20th Anniversary Edition at DriveThruRPG.com
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Shadowrun Fourth Edition, 20th Anniversary Edition at BattleCorps.com
RUNNER’S TOOLKIT
When you go into a tight spot, you go in prepared. One gun might be good, but two is better. And two guns and a grenade launcher is better still. Throw in a spellslinger to watch your back, and you’re on to something.
Runner’s Toolkit is the well-stocked arsenal all runners should have, the ultimate accessory to the Shadowrun, Twentieth Anniversary core rulebook. Inside you’ll find:
- A deluxe, four-panel gamemaster’s screen that puts critical information directly in front of you;
- On the Run, one of Shadowrun’s most popular introductory adventures;
- Contacts, Adventures, and Sprawl Sites, a booklet that gives you the who, the what, and the where to launch runners on new missions;
- 4 laminated maps of Sprawl Site locations;
- The Pre-generated Auxiliary Character and Kit System, a modular system that makes character and NPC generation simple while keeping characters highly customizable;
- Anatomy of a Shadowrun, a two-column book; one column tells the story of a high-stakes run, while the other details the tests and rules that players involved in the run would encounter, giving gamemasters insight into how a Shadowrun game flows;
- Six quick reference sheets that, with the gamemaster’s screen, greatly reduces the time spent flipping through books to find a particular rule;
- A poster of the Sixth World Seattle skyline; and
- A book compiling tables from Arsenal, Street Magic, Augmentation , and Unwired—it’s the ultimate shopping list for runners
Runner’s Toolkit is an adrenaline shot to the heart of your Shadowrun game, jolting your runners and keeping them moving until they end up like all good runners—either rich or dead.
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It’s a screwed up city. Isolated from the rest of the UCAS, it’s haven for criminals—smugglers, syndicates, gangers. Legal criminals, too—megacorporations, governments, politicians.As beautiful as she is dysfunctional, Seattle is urban sprawl amid rolling hills and forests nestled up to man-made wonders next door to natural and man-made disasters. Whether you’re a native or not, Seattle will draw you in like no other.
You can run for a lifetime and never leave Seattle, but some say you can’t run for a lifetime without entering.
Seattle 2072 is compatible with all Shadowrun books.
eBook Availability
Seattle 2072 is available from the following eBook/PDF vendors:
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What was the VITAS outbreak like for the people who were there? What was Renraku Arcology—and its operating software—like before it became a total nightmare? How does it feel to get off a plane and set foot in the ghoul kingdom of Asamondo?The Sixth World Almanacis the ultimate compendium of Sixth World energy, history, and geography. With the most detailed timeline in Shadowrun’s history and write-ups of nearly forty major nations, this book immerses players and gamemasters in the Sixth World deeper than they have ever been.The Almanac is full of Shadowrun firsts, including the first-ever full-color map of the entire Sixth World and new fiction covering historic eras that have never been detailed in past sourcebooks. Open the Almanac and fall into the Sixth World—let the art, the maps, and the writing bring you more completely into one of the most exciting, enduring role-playing settings of all time!
eBook Availability
Sixth World Almanac is available from the following eBook/PDF vendors:
Life in the shadows has never been as dangerous, and runners need every edge they can get. Runner’s Companion opens up a world of expanded options for Shadowrunplayers with dozens of New Qualities, Advanced Contact and Lifestyle Rules, and handy tips on running, travelling and smuggling, and operating in a surveillance society.This core book for Shadowrun, Fourth Editionalso introduces Metavariants, Changelings, and the Infected as player character options, and expands the scope of the game to include unique non-metahuman characters such as Shapeshifters, Free Spirits, and a new generation of AIs among others.
eBook Availability
Runner’s Companion is available from the following eBook/PDF vendors:
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LOOKING FOR MORE?
Want more weapons, vehicle and combat options in your games? Check out Arsenal.
More spells, adept powers, and advanced magic rules? Street Magic is for you.
Perhaps your character’s meat body just isn’t pimped enough for your latest run? You want Augmentation.
Or maybe you’re looking to crawl into the Matrix like never before…then Unwired is the book for you.
