Q. Will SR4 still use six-sided dice?
A. Yes.
Q. Will SR4 still have Dice Pools?
A. Yes, but not in the same sense as SR3. In SR4, any time you make a test, the dice you roll are considered your dice pool. Dice pools consist of skill + attribute, +/- any modifiers.
The Dice Pools from SR3–Combat, Hacking, [...]

The next SR sourcebook, Loose Alliances, will be going to print shortly. Here are two pieces of artwork you’ll see in the book. This first one is the opener for a section on Political Agitators, done by Shane Coppage. It shows a cell of anti-Tir trolls:

And here’s a shadowrunning team for a section on DIY [...]

For those of you with LiveJournal accounts, we’ve syndicated our RSS feed so you can read it on your friends page — add shadowrunrpg to your friends list. There’s also an unofficial but cool Shadowrun discussion fan-run community.
Random Link Propogation: before a recent printing fixed the concealability of cel-phones and other small electronic equipment in [...]

The latest piece of short fiction from our On the Street section is now online — Redeye Flight, a little tale about Josie Cruz, T-Birds and betryal, by Jon “Who?” Szeto.

FanPro Announces Shadowrun, Fifth Edition!

In consideration of the feedback we’ve received for the still-unreleased Shadowrun, Fourth Edition, we’ve decided to go ahead and announce our plans for an upgrade to the SR4 rules set, to be released in September 2005. This magical new edition will somehow fix everything wrong with the game without actually changing [...]