Tag: Shadowrun

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Parageology

    Shadowrun: Parageology Developer: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: $7.99 Page Count: 32 Release Date: 11/27/2012 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Although the bulk of Shadowrun sourcebooks and adventures tend to be about corporate espionage and counter espionage, I tend to find the ones that explore other aspects of the Sixth World to be my favorites. Maybe it’s…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun Missions: Election Day

    Shadowrun Missions: Election Day Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: $3.95 Page Count: 40 Release Date: 11/16/2012 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com So here we are with the climax of this season of Shadowrun Missions. Throughout the season we’ve seen a slow build up to the vote on Proposition 23 aka “Project Freedom.” You had a good…

  • Book Review: Shadowrun: Neat

    Shadowrun: Neat Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Page Count: 101 Cost: $2.99 Release Date: 11/10/2012 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG Neat is a novella set in the Shadowrun universe featuring the exploits of burned-out mage Jimmy Kincaid. Now, CHL puts out a lot of fiction for Shadowrun, but usually it’s very short stories or sourcebooks like the…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Dirty Tricks

    Shadowrun: Dirty Tricks Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Page Count: 162 Cost: $34.99 ($25 PDF) Release Date: 11/06/2012 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Dirty Tricks is the latest Shadowrun sourcebook from Catalyst Game Labs. Appropriately enough, this 162 page tome on political bribery and scandals was released on Election Day for the United States. At first I…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Sacrificial Limb

    Shadowrun: Sacrificial Limb Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Page Count: 50 Cost: $14.99 ($8.00 PDF) Release Date: 10/9/2012 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Sacrificial Limb is the second in the new line of Boardroom Backstabs adventures that Catalyst Game Labs is putting out for Shadowrun. I absolutely HATED the first one (Damage Control) and it’s a toss-up…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun Elven Blood

    Shadowrun: Elven Blood Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Page Count: 98 Cost: $14.99 ($6.99 PDF) Release Date: 09/17/2012 Get it Here: DrivethruRPG.com Now THIS is more like it. The last few Shadowrun releases have disappointed me a bit. Romero and Juliette was flat out terrible. Land of Promise, while well-written, was far too short for what…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun Missions: Romero & Juliette

    Shadowrun Missions: Romero & Juliette Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Page Count: 31 Cost: $3.95 Release Date: 09/17/2012 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com If you’ve been reading my reviews of various Shadowrun products for a while, then you know I’m a huge fan of the Shadowrun Missions series. These adventures are exceptionally cheap, costing less than a…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: The Land of Promise

    Shadowrun: The Land of Promise Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Page Count: 24 Cost: $5.95 Release Date: 09/05/2012 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Back in the days of Second Edition, before I was old enough to vote (and at one point drive), FASA released a book called Tir Tairngire, a 158 page guide to the elven nation…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun Missions: Assassin Nation

    Shadowrun Missions: Assassin Nation Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Page Count: 41 Cost: $3.95 Release Date: 08/10/2012 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com I’ve said for some time that, pound for pound, Shadowrun Missions is the absolutely best gaming deal out there. For only $3.95 you get a complete one-shot adventure in full color. Best of all, the…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: The Clutch of Dragons

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Mil Spec Tech 2

    Shadowrun: Mil Spec Tech 2 Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Page Count: 31 Cost: $7.95 Release Date: 07/24/2012 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Mil Spec Tech 2 is another in Catalyst Game Lab’s line of Shadowrun stat block supplements. Much like Parabotany, Used Car Lot and Gun Heaven 2, you’re getting a bunch of stats with a…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Used Car Lot

    Shadowrun: Used Car Lot Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Page Count: 34 Cost: $7.95 Release Date: 07/13/2012 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Used Car Lot is a Shadowrun supplement, in the same vein as Parabotany or the Gun Heaven series, in which you are given a collection of in-game stats for a variety of items. In the…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Sprawl Sites: North America

    Shadowrun: Sprawl Sites: North America Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Page Count: 32 Cost: $9.99 Release Date: 06/19/2012 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Maps and miniatures are two things that never spring to mind when I play or run Shadowrun. Sure I have a few Ral Partha Shadowrun minis lying around and I tried the terrible oversized…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Magical Societies

    Shadowrun: Magical Societies Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Page Count: 23 Cost: $4.95 Release Date: 06/15/2012 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com When Catalyst Game Labs first teased Magical Societies, I was expecting a larger sourcebook, one possibly filled with adventures. Something more akin to Jet Set, Hazard Pay, or Corporate Intrigue was what I had in mind.…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Hazard Pay

    Shadowrun: Hazard Pay Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Pages: 170 Cost: $34.99 ($25 for the PDF Version) Release Date: 05/09/2012 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com When I first heard about Hazard Pay, I was expecting it to be like other recent Shadowrun compilations, like The Twilight Horizon, Corporate Intrigue and Jet Set. All of those books were…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Parabotany

    Shadowrun: Parabotany Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: $7.99 Page Count: 51 Release Date: 04/16/2012 Get it Here: Drivethrurpg.com Too often Shadowrunner players and GMs alike focus on two things: A run itself or a city. Many opportunities to really get to know a location, be it flora, fauna or even a simply layout are often…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun Missions: Free Taiwan

    Shadowrun Missions: Free Taiwan Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Pages: 19 Cost: Free! Release Date: 04/01/2012 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Free Taiwan is the latest in this season of Shadowrun Missions. I’m a big fan of this series, as you get extremely high quality adventures in full colour that can easily be run by a GM…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun Street Legends: Home Edition

    Shadowrun: Street Legends Home Edition Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Pages: 16 Cost: FREE Release Date: 04/01/2012 Get it Here: Drivethrurpg.com Home Edition is the third entry in the Shadowrun: Street Legends line. These books contain bios and stat blocks of famous or infamous characters from Shadowrun history, be it old classic FASA era characters like…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Damage Control (Boardroom Backstabs)

    Shadowrun: Damage Control (Boardroom Backstabs) Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Pages: 58 Cost: $14.99 ($8.00 PDF) Release Date: 03/24/2012 Get It Here: DriveThruRPG.com I’m a pretty big fan of the current incarnation of Shadowrun. I find the writing to be well done and entertaining. I like that the public adventures are often outside the box. I…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: The Twilight Horizon

    Shadowrun: The Twilight Horizon Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Pages: 154 Cost: $29.99 ($18.00 PDF) Release Date: 03/13/2012 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com I was actually kind of surprised when Catalyst Game Labs announced The Twilight Horizon, if only because they’ve done three Horizon based adventures in the last year alone. We’ve had A Fistful of Credsticks,…