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One year ago a new era of running in the shadows was unleashed as Shadowrun, Fifth Edition PDF and print preorders went live. We wanted the release to be great, but it went beyond our expectations and straight to awesome. The strength of the vibrant Shadowrun community asserted itself, breaking a slew of online sales records and selling out a stunning 15,000 copies of the print book within weeks.

And three hundred and sixty-six days later, Shadowrun, Fifth Edition is still in the top 10 on DriveThruRPG.com! A huge, giant shout out and thank you to the Shadowrun community that have embraced the new edition and brought new players into the fun of the shadows.

We’re starting to hit our stride of fully supporting Fifth Edition, as the last two months has seen Run & Gun, Stolen Souls, and Street Grimoire appearing either on store shelves or in PDF form, with a print book not far behind.

All this has put us in the mood to celebrate! So here’s how we’re going to do it:

First, we’re coordinating with DriveThruRPG.com in offering several sales in the coming weeks. Look for those shortly.

And second, a fully corrected PDF—folding in all official errata-to-date—for Shadowrun, Fifth Edition has just been released. (For those who already purchased that item, you should be receiving a notification via email to download that new PDF.)

It’s been a little bit of a bumpy run to reach this point (and what runs don’t go sideways now and then?), but we believe the next 12 months are gonna be even more fantastic than the first 12 for Shadowrun. That includes the publication of the long-anticipated Shadowrun novels, starting with Fire and Frost; the Shadowrun Starter Box and Shadowrun Runner’s Toolkit: Alphaware Box Set; the Shadowrun Online-connected sourcebook Lockdown; the next core rulebook in Run Faster (Echo Chernik’s brilliant cover for this is above), which brings alternate character builds and meta variants, and a slew of other options; the much-anticipated Shadowrun: Crossfire cooperative-deckbuilding game; Hostile Takeover, the Shadowrun boardgame; Shadowrun miniatures; and so much more!

So get out and get running! Join us in the shadows!

And the books are really starting to flow…ready for the next Shadowrun Core Rulebook expansion, cause it’s here: Street Grimoire!

Magic can burn your brain and sear your soul. It can inject power into every millimeter of your veins, or leave you a lump of ashes at the end of a dark alley. It’s dangerous, but to spellslingers in the Sixth World, it’s worth it. Because magic is power, and power in the Sixth World needs to be grabbed with both hands.

Spells, rituals, alchemical preparations, adept powers, metamagics—all of those elements and more can be used to help an Awakened shadowrunner move off the streets and get a taste of the high life. Street Grimoire has more options for Shadowrun players, along with information on magical traditions, magic societies, and the dangers and benefits of living as a spellcaster in a world where “geek the mage first” is a common adage. With more options, deeper rules, deadlier threats, and dozens of way to have fun with magic, Street Grimoire is an essential book for anyone playing Shadowrun, Fifth Edition.

You can grab the PDF off of DriveThruRPG, or review below for a variety of cool bundles that you can order off of BattleShop.

The following products have a Street Date of JULY 16TH, 2014:

Run & Gun ($49.99)
Guns and ammo cost nuyen. Mastering martial arts takes time. And learning how to use explosives without blowing yourself up takes patience and a steady hand. These weapons and more are out there, waiting for you. You have the chance to use them to become deadlier, faster, more dangerous than the next guy—and more dangerous than you were yesterday. You’ll have to pay the price to get what you want, but this is the Sixth World. Don’t you always?

Run & Gun is a combat core rulebook for Shadowrun, Fifth Edition, containing more weapons, more armor, more modifications, and more game options such as martial arts and unit tactics. Break the book open and prepare to raise your game!

Run & Gun, Limited Edition ($74.99)
Guns and ammo cost nuyen. Mastering martial arts takes time. And learning how to use explosives without blowing yourself up takes patience and a steady hand. These weapons and more are out there, waiting for you. You have the chance to use them to become deadlier, faster, more dangerous than the next guy—and more dangerous than you were yesterday. You’ll have to pay the price to get what you want, but this is the Sixth World. Don’t you always?

Run & Gun is a combat core rulebook for Shadowrun, Fifth Edition, containing more weapons, more armor, more modifications, and more game options such as martial arts and unit tactics. Break the book open and prepare to raise your game!

The Limited Edition includes bonded red leather, embossed cover, plus a double-sided poster showing off the weapons from both Run & Gun as well as Shadowrun, Fifth Edition.

The following product has a Street Date of JULY 30TH, 2014:

Stolen Souls ($44.99)

Not all has been right in our shadows of late. Especially in the dark shadows of my mind.

Those were among FastJack’s parting words to JackPoint when he left, the victim of a condition that divided his mind against itself. And the condition is spreading. Across the Sixth World, people’s minds are in schism, as new personalities emerge and battle the old. The world is in chaos, and there is a dramatically increased demand for extractions, to get infected people out of sensitive positions and to steal the insights of people who might know what’s gone wrong.

Stolen Souls is a Deep Shadows sourcebook for Shadowrun with plot updates and adventure hooks, as well as information, techniques, and gear to help make runners extraction aces. It also contains setting information about Manhattan, where key extractions are taking place. Players will get the chance to dig deeper into a new mystery that has torn through the Sixth World—and discover just how deep the conspiracies and cover-ups go.