In Shadowrun, they call these Archetypes. Tell me who you are Chummer?Ĭharacter creation starts with choosing a class. This common design is not surprising as both systems originated in the late 1980s and early 1990s in response to the popularity of Dungeons and Dragons. Shadowrun goes so far as to give players several pages of in-world jargon.Īlso like Vampire, Shadowrun uses a dice pool mechanic. Where Vampire tells the story of a world hidden from mortals knowledge since before the Flood, Shadowrun tells of a future, a dystopia where Corporations are the apex predators. Across North America and Europe, countries fractured and new nations were born.Īs I wrote in my explanation of Vampire the Masquerade, these two game systems compete with having the most thorough in-game canon. Death and destruction sowed further distrust in the already impotent national governments. Magic and technology did not mix and nuclear reactors went haywire. Volcanoes, especially along the Pacific Rim, erupted. As these meta-humans grew up and started families of their own, their new genetics bred true.īut as Mana flowed into the world, it altered the geography. These new mutants, or meta-humans, evolved into several standard types: dwarves, elves, orcs, and trolls. Along with the magic came dragons, long sleeping, and other fair and foul magical beasties.īut that’s not all, suddenly humans started mutating (usually right around or just after puberty). This new era is called the Sixth World by magical historians. The only thing that matters to them is money and power.Īs technology advanced, something strange happened in 2011: magic came into the world. Their property and compounds act as embassies of sovereign nations. International Corporations were given near nation-state status. Shadowrun tells gritty and dark tales of people living on the edges of society. You get hired by these Corps as disposable or deniable assets to infiltrate, seize, or destroy people, technology, or data. You play as Shadowrunners, mercenaries or idealists or simply desperate, living on the fringes of the Corporations. Shadowrun combines fantasy tropes with a cyberpunk future. But with the release of latest, Sixth, edition, I decided to do a deeper dive into this game. I even read some of the fiction books put out in the ’90s. Over the years, I have poked around and kept tabs on the Roleplaying Game Shadowrun.
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