Shadowrun is a Cyberpunk/Fantasy/Urban RPG set approximately 60-65 years in the near future (depending on which edition you play).
The year is 2050.
Magic is as real as the mean streets of the mega-sprawls. Corporations call the shots while nailing each other through covert operatives in cutthroat competition. Flesh and machines have merged - the street samurai with his smartguns and impossibly fast reflexes, the decker who can plug his own brain into the worldwide computer network, the rigger who links his mind to his vehicle and takes hairpin turns at fantastic speeds. And you're a part of this wired world, where corporate skyscrapers glitter over the dark shadows they cast. You live in those shadows. You're a shadowrunner - a street operative.
You may be human or troll, dwarf or elf. You may throw fireballs, pull out your trusty Uzi or slice through computer security with a program as elegant and deadly as a stiletto. No matter what, you get the job done. You're a shadowrunner - a professional. You don't just survive in the shadows - you thrive there... for now.
Shadowrun (2nd Edition) is the main rulebook needed to play
second edition Shadowrun, and it's essential for anyone who wants to
Gamemaster it. It includes all the rules necessary to play the game, and
is a good improvement over the first edition rules, including as it
does most of the improvements and rules expansions published between
1989 and 1992.
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