You heard the scream. It’s important to remember that. Sometimes, when it’s late, and you hear something that sounds like a scream echoing through dark alleys, you try to convince yourself that it was something else. An animal. An illusion. Anything but what it sounded like.

But it was a scream. You heard it, and you’ll hear it again, because in the Sixth World, the supply of terror is growing. Bug spirits work to devour corporations from within. Shedim claim dead bodies and mobilize to their own dark ends. And the hidden corners of the metaplanes and the Matrix contain creatures that are best not imagined, because to imagine them is to sever ties with reason.

Dark Terrors is a catalog of the horrors lurking under the surface of the Sixth World. With plot updates and hooks, critter stats, and campaign information presented in an immersive style, it’s an invaluable resource for players ready to stay on the edge of their seats.

It is for use with Shadowrun, Fifth Edition and Shadowrun: Anarchy.

THE INFINITE FRONTIER

The last great undiscovered country is vast, wild, and weirder than you can possibly imagine. And it's nearby, waiting, accessible by the press of a button, or a simple gesture, or even just a thought. The Matrix holds a whole lot more than selfies and cat videos, it has artificial intelligences, electronic ghosts of people formerly alive (or perhaps still living), and deep wells of pure data that can swallow you whole. Oh, and a copy of every secret ever recorded electronically. The possible rewards of exploration are great, and the dangers are greater.

Data Trails is the Matrix sourcebook for Shadowrun, Fifth Edition, offering more options for decker and technomancer characters, including qualities, programs, gear and more.

With detailed examinations of hacker culture, information on diving deep into immersive hosts, and briefings on the strange sites hidden in dark corners of the Matrix, Data Trails is a vital resource for any Shadowrun players involved in the omnipresent flow of information. Non-Matrix specialists have chances to get in on the adventures as well, with game details explaining how their skills and expertise translate into the wild virtual world.

Data Trails is for use with Shadowrun, Fifth Edition.

THE INFINITE FRONTIER

The last great undiscovered country is vast, wild, and weirder than you can possibly imagine. And it's nearby, waiting, accessible by the press of a button, or a simple gesture, or even just a thought. The Matrix holds a whole lot more than selfies and cat videos, it has artificial intelligences, electronic ghosts of people formerly alive (or perhaps still living), and deep wells of pure data that can swallow you whole. Oh, and a copy of every secret ever recorded electronically. The possible rewards of exploration are great, and the dangers are greater.

Data Trails is the Matrix sourcebook for Shadowrun, Fifth Edition, offering more options for decker and technomancer characters, including qualities, programs, gear and more.

With detailed examinations of hacker culture, information on diving deep into immersive hosts, and briefings on the strange sites hidden in dark corners of the Matrix, Data Trails is a vital resource for any Shadowrun players involved in the omnipresent flow of information. Non-Matrix specialists have chances to get in on the adventures as well, with game details explaining how their skills and expertise translate into the wild virtual world.

Data Trails is for use with Shadowrun, Fifth Edition.

The Adventure Begins...

Sixth World scholars have long hypothesized the cyclical nature of magic. For years corporations, collectors and other factions have spent fortunes hunting down surviving relics of this mythical age. The shadows whisper of lost lore and a secret history to the world. A privileged few have come into possession of ancient items of great power and mysterious purpose, artifacts from before recorded history. Now it’s your turn...

On the surface, the job seems simple: escort and assist Ms. Johnson as she follows the trail of a man across the globe. The target? An agent of the Atlantean Foundation tracking a priceless stolen artifact. And the trail? It leads to Lagos, the most dangerous sprawl on earth, where simply surviving the day can be a run in its own right. Add in the biggest black market auction of the century, a powerful African king, and a plethora of the biggest players in the artifacts trade, from the Atlantean Foundation to Aztechnology... well, welcome to the underside of the artifact business. If you survive, there’s more work a-coming… and maybe even some answers to your questions.

Dusk is the first in a series of interlinked adventures that will take the runners to the far corners of the globe on a quest to recover priceless artifacts. Exactly who wants these artifacts, and why, are questions the runners will have to discover for themselves.

• Begins a series of adventures that will have Shadowrun players searching for powerful artifacts and uncovering some of the secrets of the game’s long-running setting.
• Begins the four adventures of Dawn in the Artifacts, which will build to a dramatic conclusion in 2010. The Dawn of the Artifacts series can be bought and ran in any order!
• Provides complete non-player character statistics, player handouts, and all other information needed to let players dive into the adventure immediately.

Takes the runners into the dark heart of the most dangerous city in Africa on a fast-paced, dangerous treasure hunt for mysterious Awakened artifacts.

Set in Lagos, a core setting presented in Feral Cities.

Designed to introduce new Shadowrun fans to the rich world setting and slowly reveal some of the long-time history and secrets of the Sixth World, while providing long-time fans with a tantalizing hint of nostalgia and tying into one of the best selling Shadowrun adventure campaigns of all time (Harlequin).

Kicks off a new 2072 Sixth World storyline that will feature four adventures and a full campaign book.

Features a fully-written, buy-and-play adventure format with numerous useful gamemaster aids (including behind-the-scenes narratives, maps, grunt stats, location and character profiles, and a full Cast of Shadows).

Pages: 56

There are deep secrets in the Sixth World, and there are people who will do anything to uncover them. Some secrets reach into the ancient past, but they still have the power to shake the world. What they will do depends on whose hands they fall into...

Dusk was only the beginning. Jane "Frosty" Foster is back and ready to continue her artifact hunt. The Dawn of the Artifacts story continues as runners visit three of the most intriguing cities in North America -the feral, bug-haunted city of Chicago, the political hot spot of Denver, and the dangerous, watery tunnels under celebrity-obsessed Los Angeles. All this is done in an effort to recover another artifact, the mysterious Sextant (or Sexton) of the Worlds mentioned in Dunkelzahn's will.

Midnight is a complete adventure that brings gamemasters and players deeper into the secret history of the Sixth World and takes another step toward unleashing powers that could change the world forever -while, in the meantime, possibly making runners rich or dead.

Jane "Frosty" Foster returns to recruit help for tracking down another artifact -the Phaistos Disc, which can help unlock some of the secrets of the Piri Reis Map. This adventure goes international, taking the runners to Hamburg, Europort, and Frankfurt, and bringing them in contact with organized criminals, law enforcement authorities, Aztechnology security forces, and arcanoarcheologists.

Darkest Hour is a complete adventure that continues the Dawn of the Artifacts storyline but can also be played alone. Some of the powers behind the search for the powerful artifacts make themselves more visible as the conclusion of the hunt draws near.

Puts players in the middle of a fast-paced plot to recover an artifact that had been stolen and get their hands on an item that has drawn the attention of some of the most powerful people in the Sixth World. • Works with the other Dawn of the Artifacts adventures in gradually uncovering some of the secret history of Shadowrun’s setting. The Dawn of the Artifacts series can be bought and ran in any order!

Takes players on an international journey to cities that have been featured in previous Shadowrun publications, including Hamburg, Europort, and Sarajevo.

Can be played alone or as the third part of the Dawn in the Artifacts series, which will build to a dramatic conclusion in 2010.

Provides complete non-player character statistics, player handouts, and all other information needed to let players dive into the adventure immediately.

Pages: 56 [softcover]

The Final Piece.

One more artifact. One more chance for a big payday. One more run to distant lands and high seas, racing against time and the wealthy, ruthless powers who want the artifact for themselves. At the end of this, if you succeed, four powerful artifacts will be gathered together, and they will be poised to shake the world.

To finish the quest for the artifacts, runners will have to travel to Hong Kong, track down the mobile city of Karavan, penetrate the corp. enclave of Neo-Tokyo, and survive an assault on the high seas. The final adventure in the Dawn of the Artifacts series, New Dawn brings the story of the gathering of the artifacts to a rollicking conclusion while setting the stage for the changes the Sixth World will experience once the true power of these artifacts is tapped and unleashed.

New Dawn is the fourth chapter of the Dawn of the Artifacts storyline. This storyline explores the secret history of Shadowrun and offers clues to the mastermind behind the hunt for the artifacts.

Four artifacts have been found. Some of the most powerful people in the Sixth World have been after them, and many people have died in the globetrotting hunt to bring these objects together. Now that they have been recovered, their powers can be unleashed-or the artifacts can be scattered, lost again until another generation summons the courage and the knowledge to dredge them up.

Artifacts Unbound concludes the Dawn of the Artifacts campaign that makes gamemasters and players free to determine the events of the campaign. Filled with adventure seeds, basic setting information, and NPC statistics, Artifacts Unbound lets gamemasters select the elements that would work best in their campaign and design a thrilling story for their game. Easy to use and flexible, this book can be used with players who have gone through the entire Dawn of the Artifacts campaign, or with players just learning about the artifacts and their effect on the Sixth World.

• Continues the plot strands introduced in the Dawn of the Artifacts series of adventures.

• Explores the hidden powers of the artifacts gathered in the previous adventures and shows the effects they are having in the Sixth World, as well as revealing how they have affected past history.
• Provides a flexible plot structure that allows players to follow the parts of the campaign that are most interesting to them; gamemasters may also explore locations in the Sixth World that they fi nd compelling for a campaign setting.
• Advances the overall Sixth World plot as the world’s powers continue to vie with each other for dominance.
• Introduces a new form of campaign book that provides the concrete information gamemasters need to run a game while also providing fl exibility to design the campaign in a way that suits them.

Compatibility: Requires Shadowrun, Twentieth Anniversary Edition; offers the character statistics, setting information, and plot points needed for gamemasters to build on the story line introduced in the Dawn of the Artifacts series.

Pages: 160, softcover

Shadowrunner Katar Hawke knows the score on the streets. Every job is to be executed swiftly and simply, no muss, no fuss, and with as little help as possible. But when an extraction of seemingly ordinary grad student from a Central American dig goes south in a big way, Hawke has to keep them both alive while he figures out what he's stumbled into, and how to get out of it in one piece.

But nothing about this shadowrun is remotely ordinary. The student, Rachel Gordon, has unearthed an artifact linking the Sixth World and the long gone, magical Second World. The discovery sets off a lethal chain reaction of feuding megacorporations and cold-blooded killers who will do anything to get their hands on her and what she knows.

Caught in the hardest of hard places, Hawke must break his cardinal rule and assemble his own shadow running team to survive what's coming at him. But in the end it all comes down to one question: will he sell out Rachel to the highest bigger, or join her on a quest that could change the face of the Sixth World forever

CALPEL OF HATE

The Sixth World is many things, including a stunning series of case studies on the mechanisms of hate. There are some true experts out there, people who know that just walking up to someone or something you don’t like and throwing a solid punch is satisfying, but nowhere near as satisfying as causing destruction that runs deep and lasts forever.

The Aurora Warrens of Denver hold a dark secret, as some people trusted to help its residents are instead giving full rein to their darkest impulses. Shadowruuners typically are not heroes riding in to save the day, but in this case the work they're being offered gives them a chance to dig into these secrets, perhaps fix some of them, and maybe even bring a few people to justice-however they happen to define justice.

With dark secrets, double-crosses, and plenty of nuyen flying around, Serrated Edge gives players plenty of chaos to keep up with while launching them into a series of adventures that will shake up the city of spies and maybe bring about a better future. Or curse it to worse.

• Advances plot information from previous books such as Storm Front and Stolen Souls.
• Involves shadowrunners in high-level plots while ensuring that their actions are at the center of the plot and their decisions are pivotal to how events proceed.
• Includes full game information, including location and NPC stats.

Serrated Edge is an adventure for use with Shadowrun, Fifth Edition.

64p

The Angry Gaze.

The ruling powers of Sixth World sprawls are content to let the little people of their cities engage in all sorts of shenanigans and scheming so long as it doesn’t affect their master plans. But when the chaos gets too out of hand—or the little people start acting too arrogant—then those powers turn their angry gaze to the people they would rather ignore, and the everyday chaos of life erupts into something worse, and considerably more dangerous.

Recent attacks on the Paladin Medical Health Center in the Aurora Warrens have drawn the attention of some of Denver’s powers, and they’re not going to ignore the situation. They’re also not going to just send in the police, because that’s not how things are done—instead, they will launch schemes of their own, with the opportunity to create chaos that makes the previous wildness seem like a sunny day in the Rockies.

False Flag is the second in the series of Denver Adventures for Shadowrun, Fifth Edition. Whether played alone or as part of a larger campaign with the first adventure, it will test players’ resources, creativity, and skill, while moving them toward the dramatic plot developments ahead.

Contains a detailed story with all the game stats needed to run an exciting adventure filled with twists and turns.

Builds on past Shadowrun storylines while containing hints of major plot developments to come.

Takes place in one of the most popular, intrigue-filled cities in Shadowrun’s Sixth World setting.

The series of Denver Adventures for Shadowrun comes to an explosive conclusion with Ripping Reality, as shadowrunners have to deal with dangers that seem to be tearing the fabric of reality apart. They will face strange creatures and extraordinary dangers while being caught between grudges that are old and nasty enough to rupture the world. With connections to many ongoing Shadowrun plots, this adventure will help runners change the shape of the Denver sprawl - and many parts beyond.

Building on plot strands from the previous Denver adventures, Serrated Edge and False Flag, Ripping Reality sends players on a wild ride through a sprawl that seems to be tearing itself apart, giving them a chance to try to keep it together.

Jump In!

In the Sixth World, you can go from home to work to stores and back home again without touching a steering wheel or pushing a pedal, letting your vehicle and the networks it is hooked into do all your driving for you.

But why would you want to do that?

The accelerating jump of a vehicle when the clutch engages at just the right point, the smell of burning rubber, the sound of a thrumming engine that you can feel in the back of your sternum, those are the sort of things riggers live for, the sort of things they get when jump in to the right vehicle, tuned exactly the way they want it.

Double Clutch gives riggers a host of new options, including all sorts of vehicles and drones, as well as rules for customizing vehicles, making their own vehicles, and customizing their character to be the best rigger around. Everything they want is here.

If you are looking to build-your-own vehicle then you will love the first chapter. If you want to make the Sixth World chopper, sports car, speed boat, or t-bird of your dreams, Double Clutch has the rules to help you do so!

Double Clutch is the core rigging rulebook for Shadowrun, Sixth World.

Emerald City is a sourcebook for Shadowrun, Sixth World. Join spies, smugglers, liars, cheats, killers, thieves, rebels, anarchists, gangers, thugs, hoods, outlaws, low-lifes, hackers, con artists, hustlers, and more as they gather and try to climb to the summit of the shadowrunning world.

In Seattle, the gold glitters brighter and the dungeons are darker, meaning the shadows in between are the widest and most intense in the world.

ON THE PRECIPICE

The Sixth World feels like it’s perpetually in the middle of slow-motion collapse, disaster after disaster threatening to bring parts or all of it down. So it’s critical to know what might push some of these disasters over the edge, turning slow motion into a full-on downward plunge.

Falling Point profiles ten people and organizations standing on a precipice. Sometimes they’re the ones who might go over the edge; other times they’re looking at someone else they can push. Either way, they’re going to play a significant role in unfolding events, so runners better know about them before they run into them in the shadows.

Falling Point is a threats sourcebook for Shadowrun, Sixth World.

Walk on the Wild Side
In the decaying urban wilds, war-torn cityscapes, and cancerous megabarrens of these Feral Cities only one thing is certain - they all harbor singular opportunities for those brave and foolhardy enough to explore their dangerous domains, factions and secrets.

* Sprawls where the usual rules and constants of civilized society don't apply, where everyday survival is a challenge, and where the hazards and pay-offs are unique.
* Runners cast out of their comfort zones and dared to challenge the ravaged urban wilderness of Chicago and the darkest heart of Africa, Lagos.
* Ruled by lawlessness and survival of the fittest; Bogota, GeMiTo, Geneva, Karavan, and Sarajevo are also profiled.

• Spotlights the urban wilds of the Chicago sprawl, devastated by the events of Bug City and its aftermath, and then abandonned to its fate in the wake of Crash 2.0.
• Exposes the savage heart of Africa’s darkest and most dangerous city, the lawless and feral megasprawl of Lagos, where staying alive is a run in itself.
• Seven indomitable feral sprawls and urban jungles across four continents open up new and distinctly different environments for adventure and intrigue, rife with unique challenges and hidden menaces.

Format: 136 page Softcover

Someone, somewhere, is about to get hurt.

Guns will come out. Swords will unsheathe. Damage will be done. The same questions are at the center of it all: Who will suffer, and who will survive?

Shadowrunners stare violence in the face daily, deciding how much they’ll inflict, figuring out how they’ll remain alive. They know the prices that must be paid—the hard work of training, the challenge of recovery, and the continual effort to live with what you’ve done. Some shadowrunners develop a code to help them know what to do and what to avoid. Others decide to just develop a short memory.

Firing Squad is the book to help shadowrunners pay those costs. It has new weapons, qualities, and techniques to hone shadowrunners’ combat abilities while also looking at how to develop characters based on the codes they follow and the violence they face. Take your character through new twists and turns and experience the shadows in a brand-new way.

Firing Squad is a core combat rulebook for Shadowrun, Sixth World.

RIDE THE CRASHING WAVE!

Magic is wild. Magic is undisciplined. You can try to impose order and understanding on it, but that’s just surface. Underneath is chaos, an erratic heart beating to a staggering rhythm. You don’t control it, any more than a surfer controls twenty-meter-tall wave; you don’t direct the wave, you ride it, capture a piece of its power, and hope to survive. If you do it right, though, you catch a portion of unimaginable power—power those who control the Sixth World don’t want you to have. All the more reason to push past their boundaries and grab it.

Forbidden Arcana offers dozens of different ways for Awakened characters in Shadowrun to harness that power and make themselves a mana-slinger like no other. From new ways to distinguish spellcasters of different traditions to more chaotic methods for summoning spirits to options for Awakened characters who have mastered their craft, Forbidden Arcana shows players how to break out of conventional molds, use mana in new ways, and become true street legends riding the growing wave of Sixth World mana.

Forbidden Arcana is an advanced magic rulebook for use with Shadowrun, Fifth Edition; magic concepts from the book can be used with Shadowrun: Anarchy, though mechanics for that game are not included.

The LE edition is bound in a nice faux leather cover.

RIDE THE CRASHING WAVE!

Magic is wild. Magic is undisciplined. You can try to impose order and understanding on it, but that’s just surface. Underneath is chaos, an erratic heart beating to a staggering rhythm. You don’t control it, any more than a surfer controls twenty-meter-tall wave; you don’t direct the wave, you ride it, capture a piece of its power, and hope to survive. If you do it right, though, you catch a portion of unimaginable power—power those who control the Sixth World don’t want you to have. All the more reason to push past their boundaries and grab it.

Forbidden Arcana offers dozens of different ways for Awakened characters in Shadowrun to harness that power and make themselves a mana-slinger like no other. From new ways to distinguish spellcasters of different traditions to more chaotic methods for summoning spirits to options for Awakened characters who have mastered their craft, Forbidden Arcana shows players how to break out of conventional molds, use mana in new ways, and become true street legends riding the growing wave of Sixth World mana.

Forbidden Arcana is an advanced magic rulebook for use with Shadowrun, Fifth Edition; magic concepts from the book can be used with Shadowrun: Anarchy, though mechanics for that game are not included.