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  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: The Assassin’s Primer

    Shadowrun: The Assassin’s Primer Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: $4.95 Page Count: 17 Release Date: 10/25/2013 Get it Here: Drivethrurpg.com Wetworks is a very tricky thing to pull off in a tabletop game, even one like Shadowrun. Players, and thus their characters, tend to look at themselves in a heroic light, so it’s generally very…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Splintered State

    Shadowrun: Splintered State Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: $12.99 Page Count: 72 Release Date: 09/30/2013 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Splintered State is the first adventure for Shadowrun, Fifth Edition that isn’t from the Shadowrun Missions line. Although to be honest, since the adventure uses the same formatting as Shadowrun Missions, follows up some of the…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun Missions 5A-01: Chasin’ the Wind

    Shadowrun Missions 5A-01: Chasin’ the Wind Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: $5.95 Page Count: 35 Release Date: 09/30/2013 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Okay, chummers, rise and shine, and don’t forget your booties ’cause it’s cooooold out there today! That’s right, this brand new season of Shadowrun Missions kicks off in Chicago smack dab in the…

  • Book Review: The Vladivostok Gauntlet (Shadowrun)

    Book Review: The Vladivostok Gauntlet (Shadowrun) Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: $1.99 Page Count: 19 Release Date: 09/16/2013 Get it Here:DriveThruRPG.com The Vladivostok Gauntlet is the latest “Enhanced Fiction” release by Catalyst Game Labs for Shadowrun. It’s been a while since he had one of these – a year and a half to be exact…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Firing Line

    Shadowrun: Firing Line Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: $12.00 Page Count: 66 Release Date: 08/28/2013 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Firing Line is a collection of previous conventions exclusives bundled into one black and white compilation. Not only does this give Shadowrun fans the world over a chance to get adventures that were previously nigh unobtainable,…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Parazoology 2

    Shadowrun: Parazoology 2 Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Page Count: 41 Cost: $7.95 Release Date: 08/28/2013 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com I know, I know. I still haven’t gotten around to reviewing the core rulebook for Shadowrun, Fifth Edition, but that’s because I’ve been kind of swamped with all these other requests. Rest assured I will get…

  • Book Review: Shadowrun Returns Anthology

    Shadowrun Returns Anthology Publisher: Harebrained Studios Page Count: 194 Cost: TBD (Free with a purchase of Shadowrun Returns Deluxe Edition or to various Kickstarter backers) Release Date: 07/25/2013 Get it Here: Steam Store (Hopefully through DriveThruRPG.com eventually…) So yes, everyone’s raving about Shadowrun Returns, the new tactical RPG for the PC, and well they should…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Sprawl Wilds (Fourth and Fifth Edition)

    Shadowrun: Sprawl Wilds Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Page Count: 88 Cost $19.99 ($12.99 PDF) Release Date: 07/11/2013 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Shadowrun: Sprawl Wilds is a reprint of four previously published Shadowrun Missions adventures collected and bound into one document. I’ve been praising the Shadowrun Missions line since I started reviewing tabletop games here at…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun Fifth Edition Quick Start Rules

    Shadowrun Fifth Edition Quick Start Rules Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Page Count: 31 Cost: FREE Release Date: 07/09/2013 Get it Here:DriveThruRPG.com What can I say? While I’m knee deep into my review of Shadowrun, Fifth Edition, it’s easier to churn out a quick review of the new Quick Start Rules for the game. Think of…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun/Battletech Quick Start Rules

    Shadowrun/Battletech Quick Start Rules Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Page Count: 65 (35 Shadowrun, 29 BattleTech) Cost: Free Release Date: 06/15/2013 The third Free RPG Day 2013 release we’re looking at this week is the flip book from Catalyst Game Labs. On one side is the Quick Start Rules for Shadowrun and on the other side…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Rigger 4

    Shadowrun: Rigger 4 Developer: Catalyst Game Labs Page Count: 18 Cost: FREE! Release Date: 04/01/2013 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com For the past few years, Catalyst Game Labs has treated Shadowrun fans to a free comedic PDF on April Fool’s Day. Last year it was the hilarious Street Legends: Home Edition which was not only a…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Storm Front

    Shadowrun: Storm Front Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Page Count: 202 Cost: $34.99 ($25.00 PDF) Release Date: 03/13/2013 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Storm Front isn’t your usual Shadowrun tome of this size. Of the 202 pages (which include the covers, 188 are pure metaplot fiction. The rest is either some light bits or plot hooks to…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Sim Dreams & Nightmares

    Shadowrun: Sim Dreams & Nightmares Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Page Count: 17 Cost: $4.95 Release Date: 3/13/2013 Get It Here: DriveThruRPG.com I have to admit, five bucks for only fourteen pages of content is a little bit exorbitant, especially for a throwaway fluff piece like Sim Dreams & Nightmares. That alone would generally prevent me…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun Missions: Showcase

    Shadowrun Missions: Showcase Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: $3.95 Page Count: 39 Release Date: 02/25/2013 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com I was actually kind of surprised to see a new Shadowrun Missions, honestly. I thought the season had wrapped up nicely with Election Day, and so I wasn’t really expecting any more until the new edition…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: 10 Mercs

    Shadowrun: 10 Mercs Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Page Count: 52 Cost: $7.95 Release Date: 02/25/2013 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com 2013 may have been touted as “The Year of Shadowrun” by Catalyst game Labs, but it hasn’t had a very good start so far. The Way of the Samurai was insipid at best and panned by…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: The Way of the Samurai

    Shadowrun: The Way of the Samurai Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Page Count: 19 Cost: $4.95 Release Date: 01/12/2013 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com I was always a big fan of the original Street Samurai Catalog back in the early days of Shadowrun. So when The Way of the Samurai was announced, I was really hoping it…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Montreal 2074

    Shadowrun: Montreal 2074 Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Page Count: 21 Cost: $5.99 Release Date: 12/18/2012 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Montreal 2074 is one of those Shadowrun releases I was really looking forward to. I love it when time and energy is devoted to locations other than the usual areas like Seattle, Berlin, Bogata, Chicago and…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Shadowbeat

    Shadowrun: Shadowbeat Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Page Count: 112 Cost: $8.00 Re-Release Date: 11/27/2012 (Originally released in 1992) Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Shadowbeat was always an odd book and twenty years after its original release, it might be even odder. Shadowbeat is a collection of odds and ends from across the Sixth World that most…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Dark Angel

    Shadowrun: Dark Angel Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: $4.00 Page Count: 74 Re-Release Date: 11/16/2012 (Originally 1993) Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com With due respect to Takeshi Kaga, if memory serves me correctly, Dark Angel was one of the very first published adventures for second edition Shadowrun, my favorite version of the game. I owned this…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Bottled Demon

    Shadowrun: Bottled Demon Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs (Originally FASA) Page Count: 64 Cost: $4.00 Re-Release Date: 11/05/2012 (Originally 1990) Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Well now. THIS is a blast from the past. I actually remember playing this adventure in 8th grade so it was great to see Catalyst Games Lab bring back this back in…