Comments on: Shadowrun 3rd Edition Character Sheet

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:29:38 +0000

You’re welcome Fernando!

By: Fernando

Fernando — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:49:44 +0000

Thanks! Mostly useful, for I will play with english speakers today.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:54:29 +0000

Also this reminds me that, among other things on my lists, I need to bring over the rest of my Shadowrun-related materials that I haven’t posted on this blog yet.

Can you tell I’m a Shadowrun fan?
(that’s supposed to sound rhetorical, not sarcastic)

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:51:37 +0000

I liked second edition, it was my first introduction to Shadowrun and I think flavor-wise also one of my favorite periods in the Sixth World.

Third edition felt like a good rules-cleanup, don’t know if I ever actually got a chance to play (we had that one close call) but I had fun reading the books.

Fourth edition is, I would agree, the pinnacle as far as rules go. They really made great strides in that department, and I believe the book won an award or two (Origins for best rules maybe?).

That did sort of come at the excise of a lot of the flavor. When they decided that core rules books would not have the shadow-talk and be thin on narrative, I kinda missed those elements. I guess I just need to pick up the separate adventure sourcebooks, but really my favorites were not the adventures but the books that described what it was like to live in the 2060s or 2070s and the Sixth World (Neo Anarchist’s comes to mind).

But overall I would agree that Shadowrun fourth edition is the best of the bunch. It’s still my favorite role playing franchise and the only one I’ve stuck with through multiple editions. I’m looking forward to more stuff from Catalyst.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:13:25 +0000

I know this is kind of late to be commenting on this post… but I just felt like saying: While Shadowrun 3rd Edition is probably a good game (I loved 2nd edition but I haven’t done more than flip through third) Shadowrun 4th is possibly the most well constructed game I have ever played.

Now if they could just come out with the Rigger/Matrix book…