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Shadowrun Third Edition (FASA 1998) | Rules Breakdown
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Description: The year is 2060. Magic is as real as the mean streets of the mega-sprawls. Corporations call the shots while nailing each other through covert operatives in cutthroat competition. Flesh and machines have merged--the street samurai with his smartguns and impossibly fast reflexes, the decker who can plug his own brain into the worldwide computer network, the rigger who links his mind to his vehicle and takes hairpin turns at fantastic speeds. And you're a part of this wired world, where corporate skyscrapers glitter over the dark shadows they cast. You live in those shadows. You're a shadowrunner--a street operative.
You may be human or troll, dwarf or elf. You may throw fireballs, pull out your trusty Uzi or slice through computer security with a program as
elegant and deadly as a stiletto. No matter what, you get the job done. You're a shadowrunner--a professional. You don't just survive in the shadows--you thrive there--for now.
Shadowrun, Third Edition is a complete rulebook for gamemasters and players. It contains all the rules needed to create characters and ongoing adventures set in the popular Shadowrun universe. Shadowrun, Third Edition updates, revises, expands and clarifies rules from previous Shadowrun rulebooks. It is compatible with previous versions of Shadowrun and with previously published Shadowrun source material.
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@bannisher 2 жыл бұрын
Our group has been playing 3rd since it came out and we're revolving back into it. Thanks for the rules refresher Chummer.
@RPGGamer 2 жыл бұрын
3e is actually my least played version of Shadowrun (unless you include 6e, which I haven't bought), loved each of the editions in their own way, and 3e is extremely well put together.
@dhampirdumpster 7 ай бұрын
Been trying to roll into 3e Shadowrun w/my group since middle school. Thank you for the breakdown! Can’t wait to geek 😈🔪
@RPGGamer 7 ай бұрын
Good luck in your game, and I hope the video was useful. Thanks for the comments.
@LonelyTengu 5 ай бұрын
Will be running SR 4e here full time for my group soon and it's always good to hear discussion and insights into the previous additions, if just for the history of the system and where it's come from!
@RPGGamer 5 ай бұрын
Good luck, 4e isn't one I played a lot, our group stayed with 3e for a long time, and then 5e came out pretty soon after we started playing 4e, so we transitioned to that. From memory though it was a lot of fun.
@vinylchemicals 7 ай бұрын
Thank you for this!
@RPGGamer 7 ай бұрын
My absolute pleasure! I hope it was useful to you.
@eric_eagle Ай бұрын
This is really helpful, thanks! I have been reading through the 6e material, and while I don’t hate it as much as some (I always go liberal on house rules, agreed on in session 0) I really don’t like what Catalyst did with Edge in 6e. It feels like a botched, over-complicated attempt to accommodate what D&D 5e solves with advantage/disadvantage. 3e seems much tighter and more worth the time of learning and teaching to my players.
@RPGGamer Ай бұрын
There's certain things I like in the more modern versions of Shadowrun (the guesses on future technology in 1989 look pretty outdated now), but the FASA versions were a whole load of fun to play.
@idonolmao 2 жыл бұрын
I've been wanting to try after playing the shadowrun games Thanks for this simple video to see if I can get into this
@RPGGamer 2 жыл бұрын
Cool, glad it was useful, and hope you have a load of fun.
@keonkobra Жыл бұрын
3rd edition is good, and has the most updated rules. They took a lot of the sourcebook stuff for 2nd ed and rolled it into 3rd. But I really like the art and style of the 2nd edition book. I find it more engaging and I like the skill web in 2nd ed. Matrix rules for the Dekker are hard to handle just do your best and don't worry too much about it. play it in a way that makes you and the players the most happy and brings the most excitement. I have all the pdfs and I found the 2nd edition online for 16 bucks I am getting nostalgic to run it. Even over 3rd. because I like the Hellblast spell that they removed in 3rd.
@RPGGamer Жыл бұрын
In so many ways this was the peak of the FASA era of Shadowrun in most things except presentation, in that 2e and even 1e looked so much nicer. Over the years I've had good times with every edition of Shadowrun, so I can't say many bad things about any of them. Wasn't Hellblast basically just Fireblast? (Blast spell with fire elemental effect?)
@keonkobra Жыл бұрын
@@RPGGamer It was the spell with the most devastating damage, I remember that. I want to play a troupe style game of 2e Shadowrun where we bounce between multiple characters stuck inside the Renraku Arcology Shutdown, an elf go gang getting taken over by the Ancients, Let them play as the corporate types in the boardroom, and of course as the shadowrunners. And have it all interconnect. This seems like a grandiose goal. I don't know if I have the GM skills to pull it off, But thats what I want to run when I am rereading 2e books.
@DCM68W Жыл бұрын
Peak Shadowrun imo, especially in terms of lore. Instead of running away from 80s retrofuturism they shouldve leaaannned in
@RPGGamer Жыл бұрын
Good point. I find it amusing that the futuristic games which set things in the early 21st Century, are now alt-history, such as Cyberpunk and Twilight 2000.
@realMindmelter 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks mate! Considering your video of the rules breakdown of second version, the difference i recognize between 3rd and 2nd edition is mainly the dodge skill, which is missing in 2nd. Maybe the other systems for decking and magic have also some changes. Question for me is, which version is easier to learn and easier to teach to new players, when it comes to a decision between 2nd and 3rd edition?
@RPGGamer 3 жыл бұрын
A difficult question for me to answer, as I was coming at it from an angle of having played 2nd Edition for years, so I only had to adapt to 3rd edition, which did tidy up and fix the rules a bit. So I definitely prefer the 3rd Edition rules. But coming in fresh, I really don't know which would be easier to learn. I would hope 3rd edition, but really can't say.
@timkpunkt8171 2 жыл бұрын
I'd say 3rd edition because of how magic works and you only need one book for that. But as a houserule I would drop Dodge alltogether. It is just to easy to doge a single bullet and also makes magicians irritatingly good at doging bullets because they don't need ther combat pool for magic so they use their pool to doge. So we dropped it. Playing that way for over 20 years now and it is great.
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