Shadowrun 4th Edtion (Fanpro LLC, 2005) | Retro RPG
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Description: The year is 2070. The world is not only Awakened -- it's wired. Cyber and bioware implants make your meat body better-than-flesh, while the wireless Matrix enhances your perceptions with hyper-real senses. Deals are made in steel and lead more often than gold or nuyen; success and failure live only a razor's edge apart. Creatures of myth and legend walk the streets, while the arcane skills of spellslingers are in high demand. Above it all, monolithic megacorps bleed the world dry, sabotaging each other in covert cutthroat competition as they go to war over the bottom line You're a shadowrunner, a street operative, scratching out a living on the mean sprawl streets. You may be human, elf, dwarf, ork or troll. From lethal street samurai to well-connected info brokers, spell-slinging mages or code-cracking hackers. No matter what, you're a -- professional corporate pawn or "deniable asset," -- you get the job done. Shadowrun, Fourth Edition offers a completely new rules system that is simple, integrated and accessible. The state-of-the-art has also been advanced, introducing a new level of augmented reality, new gear, new magical discoveries, and more. This hardcover rulebook contains all the rules gamemasters and players need to create characters and ongoing adventures set in the popular Shadowrun universe. Note that the Shadowrun, Fourth Edition will replace the Shadowrun, Third Edition rules set. Source material from previous editions will still be compatible.
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My love/hate relationship with shadowrun knows no bounds.
Same. 2 steps forward, 1.5 steps back, same thing with every edition since the Fourth.
The changes between edtions I've always found annoying and shocking at the time (the lethality of 1st to 2nd was a total surprise), but I love each version when I come to know it. Damn it I love Shadowrun.
@@RPGGamer My first edition was 3rd, since my LGS had thr core book for super cheap and a bunch of lore and source books.
I like the house rules series and detailed sub-system rules ideas.
Perhaps even a edition v edition style (esp. with Shadowrun) like, this is how you do this same task in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and now 4th to give an understanding between each edition and whether or not it's a good change.
@@Yobcis73 this is a great idea
Cheers guys, much appreciated. I've done a sample Character Creation video which I'll put out next week, and will try a House Rules one for the week after to see how it goes. Really appreciate the feedback, and the edition vs edition idea is fantastic. I think it would have to be an even more stripped down version of a Rules Breakdown to avoid it being an hour or more long as I cover the many rule versions some games have.
@@RPGGamer sounds like a plan. I really like your rules breakdowns. I am a die-hard 2nd edition player, and if I'm honest, I didn't know there was a third edition of the game until about a year before 4th came out! So, I have no experience with any other edition.
House rules seems like an interesting idea.
Interesting, that was the one I thought people would have the least interest in. Cheers for letting me know. I've recorded a test Character Creation Video for next week, but I'll do a test house rules one the following week and see how it goes.
Really enjoy your videos, mate. Great stuff.
Cheers mate, much appreciated and glad you like them.
Just realised on rewatching, Dave Alslop is from Nightfall games, and made SLA Industries and has nothing to do with Games Workshop.
Nice stuff!
Cheers mate, much appreciated.
I really disliked how wireless headsets/pda like devices were as fast a wired in cyberdeck equipped hacker. Wired > Wireless. Latency and bandwidth is always superior over a physical then any wireless connection can be.
Yeah, they never took that into account whatsoever, it would have been nice to have a reason for Deckers to stay at home with their Cyberdeck, while being in the field and going wireless would have it's own advantages of being able to hack local devices.
I've read through 1st and 2nd edition, played a bit of 3rd, but 4th is the only edition of Shadowrun I really enjoyed playing and running. The whole point buy character creation system just feels so much more flexible than you get from the other editions. It's the only edition I'd still be willing to run/play to this day. I just was never a fan of the whole tier system, deciding how you were prioritizing things like race/money/attributes/etc. just feels really restrictive.
I've loved every version of Shadowrun when I've played them, 1st edition has a lovely purity to it and got so many ideas right straight away, but the rules were pretty flawed. Second edition improved on 1st rules wise, but became too much of a compendium of everything that 1st edition had added in sourcebooks, so was a bit of a muddle. 3rd edition really perfected that branch of the rules, but the world was starting to look a little stale as modern technology was making the tech of 2050+ look primitive in comparison.
4th edition gave us a nice new set of rules, and updated the world to take into account real world changes, and 5th edition once again improved and fixed some of the problems with rules.
The only edition I don't have an opinion on is 6th, which I don't have, but haven't heard good things.
I guess what I'm saying, is every version has it's ups and downs, and I'd gladly play any of them :D
As a past, current and 3rd ed player... this is heresy.
I've played every edition of Shadowrun except 6th, and loved them all in their way. But my fave is still 1st edition, so many good and crazy memories of the over the top exploits the system would allow you to get up to.
The cool but sad thing is... if your game moves to an edition you don't like. You still have the previous edition. They can't take it from ya... but you no longer get official books supporting your edition of choice.