Return To The Sixth World For Shadowrun’s Sixth Edition
May 1, 2019 by dracs
Catalyst Game Labs have announced that this year will see the launch of the sixth edition of their much-loved cyberpunk RPG, with Shadowrun, Sixth World.
Shadowrun mixes the genres of cyberpunk and urban fantasy to create a setting that players have been exploring through various mediums since the late 80s.
Are you ready to risk everything? The Sixth World. One of the most enduring RPG settings ever created, with shadows growing deeper and darker in its latest edition. Dominated by enormous, world-striding megacorporations strangling metahumanity in their clutches, by 2080 most of the planet has surrendered to these corporate overlords. But from the darkest shadows, defiance flickers in people known as shadowrunners. They risk everything—wrestling magical energies, channeling them into power; putting their minds against the electronic void of the Matrix; trading flesh and blood for chrome and steel. Stand up, join them, and dare to risk it all!
Catalyst have promised that the new edition, marking the game's thirtieth anniversary year, will be easier to learn, while providing an in-depth role-playing experience.
It will be starting with the release of the Shadowrun, Sixth World Beginner Box this June.
Until then, Catalyst is releasing a novella tying into the characters from the Beginner Box.
The novella is written by Dylan Birtolo, who has previously worked on the Shadowrun novella Blind Magic and the game Shadowrun: Sprawl Ops, and is available as of today.
Shadowrun is a game I have never had a chance to play myself, but its legacy and influence are undeniable. The fusion of fantasy and cyberpunk is one that I have been wanting to experience for a while, so I hope that this Beginner Box and a new edition will give me the chance to delve in.
In the meantime, you can find out more from the new Shadowrun, Sixth World website.
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"From the darkest shadows, defiance flickers in people known as shadowrunners."
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Cyberpunk 2020! Magic… pah! HUMBUG!
sufficiently advanced tech is indistinguishable from magic …
so :-p
Elves, dwarfs and DRAGONS?! Nope! 😉
I throw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Council_Wars into the ring. 😀
I have been interested from Shadpwrun ever since I was teenager and I read about it from gaming magazine (one people working in that one was fan) but I haven’t have chances to get into it so I hope that I can finally do so with this new edition.
Do you still need 100 dice to roll for your stuff? It seriously got a bit ridiculous on that front. The 2050’s are still my favorite setting as well. My favorite RPG setting, I have to say.
5th edition still has D6 dice pools and players could roll 30 or more at a time but that was always one of the joys of running the shadows of 2075
Nice.
Shadowrun was the first RPG I ever played back in the mid 90s, and I loved it
Unfortunately time has moved on and the some of the the near future background never happened. The dragon erupting out of mount Fuji in 2015 and Charles and Diana’s third child been two of them.
I used to play a lot of Shadowrun, I’m a sucker for metaplot and this has had bags of it.
Pleased to see there’s a new edition coming
Between this, infinity and cyberpunk red, I may struggle to remember what year it is.
Also that I’m not an Orc named Jaun Shyeet Dos Plentey..
Awe Sam, Sam, this is one you need to play. Among the oldest, continuously published RPGs except for the progenitor, D&D. Originally published in 1988 and releasing product every year since, I’ve been playing since the beginning. The 3.0 rule set is still my favorite but the story is what keeps me in. 30 years of continuing, compelling story. 60+ novels and thousands of pages of fluff show a world of dystopian science meshed with the fantasy tropes of magic and the fantasy races. Story that works! Troll with pintle mount machine guns as their sidearm, dwarves as getaway drivers,… Read more »
Uhh, now this may be something i might give a look. Played it at the university (2056 setting, 2nd & 3rd edition, iirc)…a long time ago…and now i am interested, how the word evolved.
btw, is there a place to read the story so far?
And so it came to pass, the timeline of Shadowrun can be found at http://www.shadowruntabletop.com/game-resources/shadowrun-timeline/ while the legal will of Dunkelzahn, a dragon who applied for citizenship of the United Canadian and American States and then became President of the UCAS (only to be assassinated in office) is found here http://www.shadowruntabletop.com/game-resources/dunkelzahns-will/
All the fluff from the last 3 additions is available at drivethruRPG – https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/2216/Catalyst-Game-Labs
Thank you very much. 🙂
Hopefully they will clean up the rules, make them less ambiguous and consistent through out the line. The core of the system is fine its just there is just so many fiddly bits that just seem to slow things down at times. Also I would like some design rules for making vehicles and drones from the bottom up and not just modding what is there.
An attempt to collect everything that has been made public about 6th edition. This is a player and his interpretation, not FAQ from Catalyst:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZPN1-6xfGD9SV6xD85eaJIWoNq0NcsBdE3CQI8s5rJU/mobilebasic#heading=h.h701ncsxs7zi
Some good information and the discussion is being monitored by editors from CGL
A full breakdown of what’s to come: https://www.catalystgamelabs.com/2019/05/08/preview-the-lineup-of-shadowrun-sixth-edition-rulebooks-sourcebooks-and-game-aids/
Breaking it down:
Beginner Box, $24.99 (June) – Core Rules
Shadowrun Sixth World Core Rulebook, $49.99 (August) – Core Rules
Shadowrun Sixth World Core Rulebook Limited Edition, $99.99) – Core Rules
Shadowrun Sixth World Core Rulebook Executive Edition, $199.99) – Core Rules
Neo-Anarchist Streetpedia, $34.99 (June) – Setting Sourcebooks
No Future, $49.99 (July) – Setting Sourcebooks
Cutting Black, $49.99 (September) – Plot Sourcebook
30 Nights, $39.99 (October) – Campaign Book
Rogue’s Gallery: An Npc Deck, $19.99 (August) – Game Aid
Dice & Edge Tokens, $19.99 (August) – Game Aid
Prime Runner Miniatures, $19.99 (August) – Game Aid
Gamemaster Screen, $29.99 (September) – Game Aid