Tag: Shadowrun

  • Unboxing: Shadowrun Sixth World Beginner Box (Shadowrun Sixth Edition)

    Unboxing: Shadowrun Sixth World Beginner Box (Shadowrun Sixth Edition)

    I know! It’s been roughly two years since I’ve written anything! What can I say? I bought a house, got some cats, painted a ton of miniatures and just kind of burned out on writing. So what could bring me back? Pokémon Sword and Shield? A RPG based on the writing of Carl Barks? The…

  • Review: Shadowrun: Hong Kong (PC)

    Harebrained Schemes drops another delve into Shadowrun in our laps and you need to pick it up.

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Wolf & Buffalo

    Shadowrun: Wolf & Buffalo Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: $2.99 Page Count: 23 Release Date: 08/20/2015 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Every runner has an origin story; we just rarely ever hear them. Established characters in the Sixth World canon are generally introduced to us after having been veterans of the shadows for many years. It’s…

  • Book Review: Shadowrun: Borrowed Time

    Shadowrun: Borrowed Time Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: $8.99 (digital)/12.99 (Physical) Page Count: 296 (approximately) Release Date: TBD (Was supposed to be 5/25/15 but it was pushed back) Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com. Unlike a lot of tabletop games, Shadowrun has had a ton of fantastic fiction released for it. Whether you’re talking the original Robert…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Lockdown

    Shadowrun: Lockdown Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: Special (See below) Page Count: 242 Release Date: 04/28/2015 (Steam)/05/08/2015 (DriveThruRPG.com) Get it Here: Steam or DriveThruRPG.com Shadowrun Lockdown is the tabletop tie-in to the new Shadowrun video game, Shadowrun Chronicles: Boston Lockdown. For those of you finding Shadowrun Chronicles to be too much of a mess to…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun Chronicles: Boston Lockdown: Boston Adventures

    Shadowrun Chronicles: Boston Lockdown: Boston Adventures Publisher: Cliffhanger Games Cost: Free with purchase of Shadowrun Chronicles Deluxe Package, RPG Deluxe Package or Kickstarter Backers Release Date: 04/28/2015 Page Count: 64 Get it Here: Steam I’ll admit, even though I was a Kickstarter backer (and have a boxed copy of the game coming), I was far…

  • Book Review: Shadowrun: Dark Resonance

    Shadowrun: Dark Resonance is the technomancer mystery I didn’t know I needed.

  • Book Review: Shadowrun: Hell on Water

    Get some packages across a bridge, how hard can it be?

  • Tabletop Review: Shadows in Focus: Sioux Nation (Shadowrun)

    Shadows in Focus: Sioux Nation (Shadowrun) Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: $7.99 Page Count: 39 Release Date: 01/06/2015 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com So 2014 wasn’t the best year for Shadowrun. Sure we got the Dragonfall video game, but the tabletop side received a lot of grief from critics and fans alike in regards to what…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Bullets & Bandages

    Shadowrun: Bullets & Bandages Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: $4.95 Page Count: 23 Release Date: 06/02/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com It’s about time DocWagon had the spotlight thrust on it, don’t you think. I’ve played a DocWagon character back in the FASA days of Shadowrun. He was a purely defensive character and the other players…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Stolen Souls

    Shadowrun: Stolen Souls Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: $24.99 (PDF)/$44.99 (Physical) Page Count: 202 Release Date: 05/14/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Throughout Shadowrun, Fourth Edition, we saw hints and teases that something wasn’t right with FastJack, and perhaps a few other major players in the Sixth World, but it wasn’t until Storm Front where we…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun Missions 5A-02: Critic’s Choice

    Shadowrun Missions 5A-02: Critic’s Choice Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: $5.95 Page Count: 32 Release Date: 04/30/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Feetal’s Gizz! Has it really been seven full months between Chasin’ the Wind and the next installment of this season’s Shadowrun Missions? It sure has, but worry not, for it has been worth the…

  • Book Review: Sail Away, Sweet Sister (Shadowrun)

    Book Review: Sail Away, Sweet Sister (Shadowrun) Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: $1.99 Page Count: 33 Release Date: 4/22/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Sail Away, Sweet Sister is the latest piece of “enhanced fiction” for Shadowrun. Enhanced Fiction simply means that at the end of the short story you get stats for the characters you…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Run & Gun

    Shadowrun: Run & Gun Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: $24.99 (PDF)/$49.99 (Physical) Page Count: 218 Release Date: 04/10/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Run & Gun is our second major Shadowrun release of 2014, with the first being the awesome Digital Tools Box. Usually Shadowrun has several small PDF releases a month, but Catalyst Game Labs…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun Fifth Edition Errata

    Shadowrun, Fifth Edition Core Rulebook Errata Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: FREE Page Count: 4 Release Date: 2/8/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Look, no one likes errata. NO ONE. No one likes know they paid fifty or sixty dollars for a core rulebook only to find out there are a multitude of errors that got…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Digital Tools Box (Beginner Box Set/Runner’s Tool Kit Alphaware)

    Shadowrun: Digital Tools Box (Beginner Box Set/Runner’s Tool Kit Alphaware) Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: $19.99 (PDF)/TBD (physical) Page Count: Special Release Date: 01/30/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com January was an excellent month for tabletop releases. Numenera gave us The Ninth World Bestiary, Castles & Crusades gave us The Book of Familiars and Dungeon Crawl…

  • Interview with Mike McCain, Project Lead on Shadowrun Dragonfall and Art Director for Shadowrun Returns at Harebrained Schemes

    Yesterday Harebrained Schemes released the official announcement of Shadowrun: Dragonfall, the follow-up to last year’s smash hit, Shadowrun Returns. The expansion, funded as a stretch goal by the original Kickstarter campaign, is currently available for pre-order on Steam. This is great news to all of us here at Diehard GameFAN as Aileen, Ashe, Robert and…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Coyotes

    Shadowrun: Coyotes Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: $7.95 Page Count: 30 Release Date: 12/14/2013 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com ..and with this, I believe I’ve cleaned up my backlog of reviewables that came in while I was on vacation. Except for White Wolf’s Blood & Smoke: The Strix Chronicle of course. That’s a big one. Anyway,…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Gun H(e)aven 3

    Shadowrun: Gun H(e)aven 3 Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: $7.95 Page Count: 38 Release Date: 12/14/2013 Get it Here: DriveThrurpg.com Oh, Shadowrun. Leave it to you to release two supplements the very day I go on vacation for a week without any internet. So these reviews are later than I am comfortable with and then…

  • A Look at Next Pass (An iOS App for Shadowrun Fifth Edition)

    Although Shadowrun, Fifth Edition has only been out for a few weeks, we’ve already got our first app for it! Next Pass, is by a third party developer, Eiger Tech LLC and is in no way affiliated or endorsed by Catalyst Game Labs. However, that’s true of all the Shadowrun apps for iOS device and…