What is Shadowrun?
(>) Shadowrun is a roleplaying game designed for two to eight players. Unlike most such games, however, it is open-ended, with no time limit, specified number of turns to play, or single goal to reach that ends the game. And unlike most games, there is no winner and no loser. The object is to have fun with the excercise of imagination. When roleplaying, the players control their characters’ actions and respond to the events of the plot. This roleplaying game plot, or script, is flexible, always changing based on the decisions the players make as characters. (>) Shadowrun rulebook, 2nd ed. (Chicago: FASA Corp, 1992), 10. Some images from the game’s authors: • (>) THE YEAR IS 2050…The melding of technology and human flesh began in the late 20th century. Interfacing the human mind with computers was just the first, simple step. Cybernetic implants boosting reflexes and other physical abilities quickly followed. Then came the Awakening. A five-thousand-year lull in the flow of certain en
