The year is 2050. Or 2053 or 2060 or 2070 or 2075 depending on the edition. This is the Sixth World, where megacorporations dominate a world where magic has returned and technology has advanced beyond our wildest imagination. This episode, we talk about the campaign setting of Shadowrun with a special musical appearance from Opti from the Neo-Anarchist Podcast.
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Our Guests
Rusty Zimmerman
Steve “Bull” Ratkovich
What We’ve Been Playing
Dungeons & Dragons (Darryl, Ross)
Tsuro (Darryl)
Shadows of Brimstone (Darryl, Bull)
Shadowrun (Bull)
Eclipse Phase (Rusty)
Smash Up (Rusty)
Vampire: The Masquerade (Rusty)
Shadowrun Crossfire (Bull)
Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Skull & Shadows (Bull)
Star Trek Online (Ross, Bull)
Birthright (Ross) (link goes to our episode on Birthright)
Shadowrun: Dragonfall Director’s Cut (Ross)
Champions (Ross)
The Sixth World
GE Commercial – The Kid Who Beeps
Portfolio of a Dragon: Dunkelzahn’s Secrets
Ancient History’s Annotated Will
One Book to Learn about Shadowrun
Shadowrun 1st Edition Rulebook (Rusty)
Into the Shadows (Bull)
Seattle Sourcebook (Bull)
Shadowbeat (Bull)
Sixth World Almanac (Darryl)
2XS (Darryl)
Street Samurai Catalog (Ross)
For further listening on Shadowrun
2 thoughts on “Episode 44: The Sixth World of Shadowrun, or Everything’s Fine Here, How Are You?”
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Also, to add to your list about great Shadowrun novel writers, Nix Smith. His language on describing the sprawl was pretty similar to Gibson’s in Neuromancer. All the despair, dirt and quick fixes for down n out people.
And on another completely different note to the SR5 team, why no stats for the Colt Manhunter? It was used in some of the fiction in the core rule book, but never any info on it. That was Dirk Montgomery’s preferred piece, guys!
Great podcast guys. I’m listening and loving.
—Shift in the night
Out of curiosity, is there any chance the Champions game you mention will be recorded as an actual play for the Game Table? I’ve been really curious as to how the game plays, but actual plays seem to be difficult to come by. (And even if they were, the Game Table is one of the few actual play podcasts I genuinely find entertaining to listen to.)
As for Shadowrun, I’m kind of interested, but I’m kind of ambivalent about the setting itself. I’d be more willing to give it a shot if it were a straight-up cyberpunk game (a la William Gibson’s Sprawl series) and not mashed up with D&D-esque fantasy.
Speaking of which, I’m curious if the makers of Shadowrun ever responded to Gibson’s comments about their game.