Are you shopping for the holidays? For others or for yourself? Or just shopping in general? Well, there’s Shadowrun goodness waiting for you! First, the latest Deep Shadows sourcebook, Better than Bad (Catalyst shop, Drivethru), just came out! Here’s the rundown:

Righteous Fire

Kill or be killed. Eye for an eye. Get yours while you can. Shadowrunners—and most of the other residents of the Sixth World—are told from birth that those are the principles you must follow to survive. Thinking of others is for suckers. Take care of your own and hope you don’t die early.

But some runners think that’s no way to live. They know the world is stacked against them, and they’ve decided they like those odds. They choose to fight for what they think is right. They use shadowruns to take from people who don’t deserve what they have and give to those who need it. They seek hidden information that can right wrongs. It’s not easy, and it doesn’t always pay as well as outright theft, but who do they tell stories about centuries later—Robin Hood, or the jerk thief from a few forests away who only thought of himself?

Better than Bad is a shadowrunners’ guide to hooding, the art of committing crime to help those in need. With plot information, shadowrunning techniques and tactics, and advice to help runners work to bring good into the world, the book is the first definitive guide to shadowrunning with a conscience. It also includes information on a hot spot for working to right wrongs—Pretoria, in the African nation of Azania

Better than Bad is for use with Shadowrun, Fifth Edition, and most of the material can also be used with Shadowrun: Anarchy.

Also, don’t miss the recently released follow up to Shadows in Focus: Morocco—Shadows in Focus: Casablanca-Rabat (Catalyst shop, Drivethru). Here’s what it has!

Devils in the White City

Casablanca-Rabat is a sprawl with millions of secrets and a willingness—an eagerness, even—to sell them. That means there is plenty of work for shadowrunners, but also a need for care, since revealing the wrong secret at the wrong time can lead to disaster. So get to know the city, get to know the culture, and learn how to play the game. Then take your running to the next level in one of the most vital sprawls of the Sixth World.

Shadows in Focus: Casablanca-Rabat follows Shadows in Focus: Morocco to fill in details of Africa’s northwestern shore, and you can either use both books to build in-game knowledge or focus on this one to help you launch shadowruns in a sprawl with a deep history of intrigue.<o:p></o:p>

Shadows in Focus: Casablanca-Rabat has rules for Shadowrun, Fifth Edition, along with world-building that can be used in both Shadowrun, Fifth Edition and Shadowrun: Anarchy.

Hey all! I’ve long operated on the idea that however people like to play games, they should be able to play Shadowrun, which has led to games like the deck-builder Shadowrun: Crossfire, the push-your-luck dice game Shadowrun: Encounters, and the two-player hacking duel game Shadowrun: Zero Day. That has led us to this: a full-on competitive board game called Shadowrun: Sprawl Ops. Want to learn more about it? It’s on Kickstarter! But here are the basics: Hire runners, send them into danger, and watch them take on the impossible and see if they can overcome it! Buy upgrades, gain advantages, and occasionally push your luck to take the team over the top!

We’ve been working on this game for a while, playtesting it plenty, and had a lot of fun to this point. We look forward to having lots of you join us in this fun! Thanks for loving Shadowrun, and we hope this will increase your Sixth World fun!

If you are the type of person who likes Shadowrun—and we kind of assume you are, what with you reading this and all—you should watch this space in the next day or two for some exciting news. Even if you’re busy on some kind of complicated operation deep in the sprawl, you might want to make time to check this out!

We’ve heard that some players have had trouble finding the Shadowrun, Fifth Edition core book recently, and we’re happy to announce that the drought should be over. The latest printing of SR5 is appearing in stores all over the place, and you have four new covers to choose from. What do those covers look like? I’m so happy you asked. Here they are!

Some new errata has been included in this book–here’s a link to the changes. And if you like the new covers, we have word that some new wallpapers might be in the works–stay tuned!

But that’s not all the news! A wild new adventure called Toxic Alleys has been released electronically (Catalyst shop, DriveThruRPG), and it has plenty of challenges for all sorts of shadowrunner teams. Here’s a little plot info for you:

IT’S GOING DOWN

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.

So there you go! Have fun! Play Shadowrun!