How To Learn Shadowrun 5e

Getting Started

Quick-Outset Rules
If you've non already done and so, click on the quick-first rules graphic on the left to download the gratis PDF that'll have you tossing dice and running the shadows in no fourth dimension. Once you've tackled the quick-start rules you'll be ready to swoop into game.

Diving In!
Catalyst Game Labs recommends buying the items listed below, in the guild they are presented (all these products can be ordered through your local game store, or directly online from Catalyst if they're not available locally).

"I honestly cannot say enough positive matter about the quality of both products [Beginner Box/Runner'due south Toolkit: Alphaware]. Catalyst has truly outdone itself; I never would've imagined that the world of Shadowrun could perchance seem as exciting, engaging and deeply nuanced to me now as it did in my early on teens, and withal here nosotros are!"

-Z. (GeekDad.com)

Shadowrun Beginner Box Set

The Shadowrun Beginner Box Set is the first-ever introductory box set up for ane of the about indelible and popular role-playing settings in history. The box provide hours of excitement and take chances on the hateful streets of the Sixth Globe, giving players to chance to inhabit enthralling characters and show the world what they've got.

With pre-generated characters, a simplified ruleset, a set up-to-run risk, a solo adventure for 1 character, hazard hooks, and non-role player characters to throw into whatsoever situation, the Beginner Box Set up has everything players demand to dive into the fantasy-infused cyberpunk of Shadowrun. Including, of form, a scattering of six-sided die. Players can take on the office of a powerful street samurai, a spell-slinging shaman, a charismatic troll, and more as they struggle confronting the mighty powers of the earth and wait for ways to survive—or fifty-fifty thrive.

With details on the backstory and history that made the setting a legend, the Shadowrun Beginner Box Set is a complete tool for players looking to launch on new and boggling adventures. The nuyen and the glory are yours for the grabbing. Become get 'em!

eBook Availability
The Shadowrun Digital Tools Box combines elements from both the Shadowrun Beginner Box Set and Shadowrun Runner's Toolkit Alphaware into a single digital purchase.

Shadowrun Digital Tools Box is available from the following eBook/PDF vendors:

Shadowrun Digital Tools Box at BattleCorps.com
Shadowrun Digital Tools Box at DriveThruRPG.com

Unable to detect the box at your local game store? Order direct:

Shadowrun Beginner Box Set at BattleCorps.com

Shadowrun Runner's Toolkit: Alphaware

SCAN THIS, CHUMMERS

Have y'all tackled the Beginner Box Set and are ready to move up in the Sixth Globe?
Are you a game chief like shooting fish in a barrel to requite Shadowrun a shot, and y'all desire a few extra tools at your disposal from the outset toss of your dice?
Do y'all play Shadowrun now, and are you lot looking for a set of tools that'll allow you to easily innovate new gamers to your favorite RPG at your local game shop or hangout?

Say yes to any of this? Then Runner's Toolkit: Alphaware is the box set for you lot.

Designed as the perfect stepping-stone between the Shadowrun Beginner Box Fix and Shadowrun, Fifth Edition, this box can make full a number of roles. Whether you're looking for more adventures and options to move across the Beginner Box Set, laying the groundwork for your gaming grouping to move fully onto Shadowrun, Fifth Edition, or providing adventures, maps, and other tools to use in conjunction with the cadre rulebook, you'll find this kit invaluable.

Runner's Toolkit: Alphaware contains:

Fully detailed character booklets with statistics, groundwork information, preferred tactics, and a solo chance for each grapheme;
Rules of the Street, a rulebook with spells, guns, combat options, and everything that makes Shadowrun great;
Plots and Paydata, a book with a collection of fully detailed adventures, a trove of non-player characters, and hooks for future adventures;
Eight double-sided maps to help players and gamemasters rail the activity;
A handful of vi-sided dice;
And more tools to make playing and running the game easier!

eBook Availability
The Shadowrun Digital Tools Box combines elements from both the Shadowrun Beginner Box Set up and Shadowrun Runner's Toolkit Alphaware into a single digital purchase.

Shadowrun Digital Tools Box is available from the post-obit eBook/PDF vendors:

Shadowrun Digital Tools Box at BattleCorps.com
Shadowrun Digital Tools Box at DriveThruRPG.com

Unable to find the box at your local game store? Order direct:

Runner'south Toolkit: Alphaware at BattleCorps.com

Shadowrun, 5th Edition

Shadowrun, Fifth Edition

In that location are cracks in the globe. They're slender, dark, and often cold, merely they are the only things that proceed you hidden. Go on you alive. They are the shadows of the world, and they are where y'all live.

You are a shadowrunner, thriving in the margins, doing the jobs no i else tin. You lot take no office, no permanent home, no background to check. Y'all are whatever you brand yourself. Will yous seek justice? Sow seeds of anarchy? Sell out to the highest applicant? It's upwardly to you, only this much is certain—if you do nothing, the streets will eat you lot live.

You can survive—even flourish—as long as you lot do what it takes. Cede part of your soul for bleeding-edge gear. Push the limits of your will learning new and dangerous magic. Wire yourself into the Matrix, making your mind one with screaming streams of data. It'll cost you something—everything does—just you can make it worth the cost.

Shadowrun, Fifth Edition is the newest version of one of the nigh pop and successful role-playing worlds of all fourth dimension—a fusion of man, magic and machine in a dystopian near-future. With rules for graphic symbol creation, magic, gainsay, Matrix hacking, rigging, and more, you have everything you need to face the challenges of the 6th World.

eBook Availability

Shadowrun, Fifth Edition is bachelor from the following eBook/PDF vendors:

Shadowrun, Fifth Edition at BattleCorps.com
Shadowrun, Fifth Edition at DriveThruRPG.com

Unable to find the book at your local game store? Order directly:

Shadowrun, Fifth Edition at BattleCorps.com

Gamemaster Screen

Every shadowrunner knows the value of good data. The right fact, the perfect piece of data, can be the departure between success and failure on a run, between life and death. And in the right hands, information tin exist more than valuable-it can be powerful.

The Shadowrun Gamemaster Screen provides a drove of useful tables from Shadowrun, Fifth Edition for ease of reference in game play. With range tables, activeness lists, combat modifiers, social modifiers, and more, this is a critical game aid to brand your Shadowrun games faster and more fun. And to provide that all-important secrecy so that the players don't know what you lot're up to. This screen is for employ with Shadowrun, Fifth Edition.

Availability
Unable to find the book at your local game store? Order straight:

Gamemaster Screen at BattleCorps.com

Splintered State

Federal Amanuensis Seth Dietrich has a hole-and-corner. Actually, multiple secrets. 1 of them fabricated him go hugger-mugger, hiding from the people desperate to learn but how much he knows. And the other is keeping him from surfacing, because he's found he tin't even trust himself.

If Dietrich were in his right mind, he'd embrace his tracks similar a pro, and no one would find him. Particularly not shadowrunners getting their feel for life on the streets. But he'due south not in his right mind, which means a grouping of shadowrunners finds themselves in possession of some very valuable information—information the highest powers in Seattle desire for themselves. What started as a uncomplicated chore turns into a scramble for their lives, a scramble that could become profitable if the runners play their cards right.

Splintered Land is an introductory adventure for Shadowrun, Fifth Edition. Whether you have played previous Shadowrun editions or are new to the setting, this run a risk helps players and gamemasters learn the new rules while wrapping themselves in the intrigue, excitement, and danger of running in Seattle.

eBook Availability

Splintered Land is available from the following eBook/PDF vendors:

Splintered Land at BattleCorps.com
Splintered Country at DriveThruRPG.com

Unable to notice the book at your local game store? Order direct:

Splintered State at BattleCorps.com

Run Faster

Every step, every reward, every millisecond counts. The streets of the Sixth World are mean, and if they desire to stay alive, shadowrunners demand every reward they tin become to proceeds a footstep on the opposition. Fortunately, Run Faster is full of them. With information technology, you can larn most more than metatypes for characters, including hobgoblins, giants, centaurs, and sasquatch; acquire new qualities, such as Disgraced, Hawk Eye, and Lightning Reflexes; and, if you dare, dabble with the dangerous and deadly Infected.

Run Faster also has advice on fleshing out characters of different metatypes, expanded contact and lifestyle rules, and alternating grapheme creation methods to help ensure that players tin can build exactly the graphic symbol they want.

All these options make Run Faster a crucial companion to players who desire to get the nigh out of their Shadowrun, Fifth Edition core rulebook.

eBook Availability

Run Faster is available from the following eBook/PDF vendors: