Paying with Your Soul

Magic can burn your brain and sear your soul. It can inject power into every millimeter of your veins, or leave you a lump of ashes at the end of a dark alley. It's dangerous, but to spell slingers in the Sixth World, it's worth it. Because magic is power, and power in the Sixth World needs to be grabbed with both hands.

Spells, rituals, alchemical preparations, adept powers, metamagics -all of those elements and more can be used to help an Awakened shadowrunner move off the streets and get a taste of the high life. Street Grimoire has more options for Shadowrun players, along with information on magical traditions, magic societies, and the dangers and benefits of living as a spell caster in a world where "geek the mage first" is a common adage.

With more options, deeper rules, deadlier threats, and dozens of way to have fun with magic, Street Grimoire is an essential book for anyone playing Shadowrun, Fifth Edition.

• Presents new spells, rituals, alchemical preparations, adept powers, spirit types, and more options for Awakened Shadowrun characters.
• Includes information and complete game information on magical threats, including bug spirits and toxic shamans.
• Offers details on magic traditions and magical societies the players can use to give more depth and flavor to characters’ individual interactions with magic.
• Provides flavor on how Awakened characters live in the Sixth World, which can be used by players and gamemasters alike in informing how their game and plots move forward.
• Includes full-color art and fiction to display the full range of Shadowrun magic.
• Details rules that give players and gamemasters more options for how they use magic to create awesome effects in Shadowrun games.

Pages: 200 (softcover)

* Real leather, emobssed cover.
* Limited Edition poster.

Paying with Your Soul

Magic can burn your brain and sear your soul. It can inject power into every millimeter of your veins, or leave you a lump of ashes at the end of a dark alley. It's dangerous, but to spell slingers in the Sixth World, it's worth it. Because magic is power, and power in the Sixth World needs to be grabbed with both hands.

Spells, rituals, alchemical preparations, adept powers, metamagics -all of those elements and more can be used to help an Awakened shadowrunner move off the streets and get a taste of the high life. Street Grimoire has more options for Shadowrun players, along with information on magical traditions, magic societies, and the dangers and benefits of living as a spell caster in a world where "geek the mage first" is a common adage.

With more options, deeper rules, deadlier threats, and dozens of way to have fun with magic, Street Grimoire is an essential book for anyone playing Shadowrun, Fifth Edition.

* Presents new spells, rituals, alchemical preparations, adept powers, spirit types, and more options for Awakened Shadowrun characters.
* Includes information and complete game information on magical threats, including bug spirits and toxic shamans.
* Offers details on magic traditions and magical societies the players can use to give more depth and flavor to characters’ individual interactions with magic.
* Provides flavor on how Awakened characters live in the Sixth World, which can be used by players and gamemasters alike in informing how their game and plots move forward.
* Includes full-color art and fiction to display the full range of Shadowrun magic.
* Details rules that give players and gamemasters more options for how they use magic to create awesome effects in Shadowrun games.

Pages: 200 (hardcover)

Where Man meets Magic and Machine - that was Shadowrun's tagline from way back, and this campaign book explores how those three aspects of the Sixth World interact and overlap.

Taking place in the Denver sprawl, this book bounces players back and forth from the meatworld to the Matrix to the astral and back again, looking at what changes and what stays the same as they try to uncover a plot that brings all three worlds together to possibly highly destructive effect.

In any given sprawl, there are a few million people who hate a few million other people in an endless cycle of grudges and hostility. What keeps the peace is that most of the people lack the power to do anything about their anger, so a status quo of simmering tension is maintained. Problem is, if some of the angry parties got their hands on enough power of any kind, those simmering tensions would explode. DeeCee, the UCAS capital, is full of all kinds of power, and enough factions are grabbing for it that the prospect of open fighting or worse is growing.

This is especially worrisome since some of the factions have nothing on their mind other than utter destruction. The law firm of Stark, Theissen, and Van Der Mar is making too much money from the status quo to want it to change, and they’re about to discover that shadowrunners might be the only thing that can stop the advancing secret plots from plunging the sprawl into complete disaster.

Toxic Alleys is a complete adventure for use with Shadowrun, Fifth Edition. While it draws on existing plot lines, it stands on its own and can be enjoyed by any team of runners looking for a challenge.

Vaquita has had a rough go of it lately. She was doing all right, building a career as a London-based rigger, when something went wrong inside her head. Suddenly the mental space that used to be hers alone was shared as a foreign personality carved out a section of brain for itself. It wasn't exactly madness, but it sure felt like it.

It also made for some tough going for a time, and several lost jobs, but lately Vaquita's gotten her swagger back. Her life may be a little trickier than the average runner's, but she's also got some skills she didn't have before, not to mention new ways of bringing in the danger. And she has the perfect testing ground for her new abilities, the hulking, abandoned Angel Towers Arcology. Filled with squatters, gangs, vicious critters, and certain areas people only talk about in whispers, Angel Towers has enough danger and hidden caches of tech to keep a dozen teams of shadowrunners busy. And with her small, new team, Vaquita's going to use it to not only rebuild her rep, but take it to the next level.

But the arcology's secrets and dangers go far deeper than Vaquita realizes, and she'll have to deal with the perils at every turn, as well as the people who put them there.

Hack the planet!

Unwired is the advanced Matrix rulebook for Shadowrun, Fourth Edition. For everyday users, it explains how the Matrix works in easy-to-understand terms, and provides new software, qualities, and gear. For hackers and technomancers, it introduces new hacking tricks, malware, echoes, and sprites. It also covers system security and new Matrix phenomenon, from AIs to the resonance realms.Unwired contains everything players and gamemasters need for exploring the Matrix in Shadowrun.

• The highly-anticipated hardcover core rules expansion focusing on one of the key new elements of the Sixth World setting: Augmented Reality and the Matrix 2.0.
• Features a deeper look at the introduction and widespread impact of new wireless computer technologies following the Crash 2.0.
• Expands, explores, and explains the hacking and rigging rules presented in the core rulebook.
• Introduces a plethora of new options, tricks, and toys for the casual Matrix user, the hardcore hacker, and the versatile security spider.
• Provides an indepth look at the new denizens of the digital depths: technomancers, sprites, and a whole new generation of synthetic intelligences.

Pages: 208 [Hardcover]

CRIME PAYS!
Illegal is a strong word. It means you’re doing something that the government doesn’t want you to do. You’d never do anything like that, right? Or would you? It might be that some laws are... Misguided. It’s civil disobedience and a moral imperative to oppose those laws. Gandhi taught us that. My friends and I—we’re here to help you make these difficult moral choices. We’ll even provide you with a support network, if someone objects to your strong moral compass. And, hey, if everything works out, maybe all of us might come out ahead. Don’t worry! We’ve got your back.

Vice is a sourcebook for Shadowrun, Fourth Edition. It provides a detailed look at all levels of organized crime, from the major transnational syndicates—like the Yakuza, the Triads, and the Mafia—to the smallest street gangs and specialist organizations. History, personality, and membership of these groups are provided along with suggestions on how best to use them as key players in a Shadowrun campaign. The crimes they commit, the metahumans they recruit, the law enforcement they oppose, and the shadowruns they sponsor are all in here. Whether your team of runners works in concert with the criminal underworld or tries to oppose it, Vice will offer new insights and options to your campaign.

Contains no game mechanics; could be used with any edition of Shadowrun. provides background information, game rules, and details needed for players and gamemasters to learn about the crime underworld in Shadowrun and adopt it into their games.

• Details the major (and some minor) criminal organizations in the Shadowrun setting, along with some of the crucial characters in these organizations as well as the most wanted independent criminals.
• Provides rules to help players join and interact with a wide variety of criminal elements.
• Offers adventure hooks to help gamemasters plan their campaigns.
• Builds on plot information presented in Ghost Cartels.
• Updates previous sourcebooks and provides setting information for fans interested in the current state of Shadowrun’s Sixth World.

Pages: 192

ALL HELL!

The diplomats have failed. The tensions have only grown worse. Each side has pushed the other too far, so there's nothing left to do but fight. At the border of Aztlan and Amazonia, war has broken out. The streets of Bogotá are being pummeled, mercenaries are being hired and killed in approximately equal numbers, and blood is being spilled in dark rooms to give strength to mages on the battlefield. Most importantly, runners are being hired by the score.

War! puts Shadowrun players into the world of open combat. From sabotage missions behind enemy lines to intelligence operations to small-squad mercenary tactics, War! provides the background information, gear, and rules players need to plunge into the chaos of battle.

Is the first in a new line of Deep Shadows books that immerses players and game in the Shadowrun setting through location details, new gear, plot hooks, and game rules.

• Details a new war erupting between Amazonia and Atlas, advancing the Shadowrun metaphor through conflict between these long-feuding nations.
• Provides setting details of the feral city of Bogota, including history, important locations, and fascinating characters.
• Describes new, cutting-edge equipment developed in the war zone that Shadowrun players will covet.
• Offers rules for players and game who want to introduce war elements to their campaigns.

Critters Call

The howl that cuts through the night. The bared fangs in a dark corridor. The talons piercing exposed flesh.

All these haunt shadowrunners’ nightmares. You can always try to reason with or buy off other people, but critters? Critters just come at you, relentless and hungry. Whether they’re used as corporate security or something you run into in the wild, they can be a tremendous threat. They can also, however, be a source of reagents or wealth if you know what you’re doing—and you know how to steer clear of tooth and claw.

With information on critters that can be found in a range of environments, Wild Life is the core critter rulebook for Shadowrun, Sixth World.

* Information on dozens of critters arranged by habitat.
* Dozens of two-page color spreads that build the immersion of the book.
* Plot hooks, training information, and other details to make critters useful in the shadowrunning world.

The Sixth World is a dangerous place, with deadly hazards lurking around every corner. Everywhere shadowrunners go, from the top of the world to the deepest, darkest Sprawl neighborhood, someone's always looking to make their rep by taking you down. World of Shadows is the second anthology of original Shadowrun short stories, each one showcasing some of the most far-flung, treacherous locations around the world.