Another Bundle - Shadowrun

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This is a big offer of material from the first and second editions of Shadowrun, the Cyberpunk and magic RPG, from the late 80s and early 90s, launching today because it's apparently "Cyber Monday".

Shadowrun 1E/2E

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/SRun1E2E

"This all-new Shadowrun 1E-2E Megabundle presents more than three dozen titles from the First (1989) and Second (1992) Editions of the cyberpunk-fantasy SFRPG Shadowrun from Catalyst Game Labs. These are the early rulebooks, supplements, sourcebooks, and adventures that made Shadowrun a smash hit from the start – titles like Sprawl Sites, the Street Samurai Catalog, Shadowbeat, the Rigger and Matrix expansions, the Seattle and Underworld Sourcebooks, and ambitious adventures like Harlequin, Universal Brotherhood, and Super Tuesday! Developed by the early SR line editors Tom Dowd and Mike Mulvihill, the product line in this period showcased much of the best work of prolific designer Nigel Findley (1959-95), who wrote or contributed to 17 Shadowrun RPG supplements and wrote four SR novels.

These Shadowrun titles from 1989-1997 are .PDF image scans of the original hardcopies. Text is sometimes fuzzy but always readable. OCR has been applied to all text except the Seattle Sourcebook and Underworld Sourcebook. Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these ebooks have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their devices. (By publisher request, the DriveThruRPG versions of these files are inobtrusively watermarked.)

Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) goes to this Shadowrun Megabundle's designated charity, the Diana Jones Award Emerging Designer Program. Each year, the Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, amplifies the voices of up-and-coming game designers by featuring them during an expenses-paid visit to Gen Con. The global Emerging Designer Program focuses on creators from marginalized communities.

The total retail value of the titles in this offer is US$275.50. Customers who pay just US$19.95 get all thirteen complete titles in our 1E Collection (retail value $98) as DRM-free ebooks, including the Shadowrun First Edition core rulebook and these 1E supplements, sourcebooks, and adventures:

• Four 1E rules expansions: the First Edition Grimoire (1990), Rigger Black Book, ShadowTech, and Virtual Realities
• Six Sixth World setting guides: Corporate Shadowfiles, The Neo-Anarchist's Guide to North America, Paranormal Animals of North America, the Seattle Sourcebook, Shadowbeat, and Sprawl Sites
• The landmark adventures Harlequin and Universal Brotherhood

Those who pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $39.95 to start, also get our entire 2E Collection with twenty-four more titles worth an additional $186, including the Shadowrun Second Edition core rulebook and these 2E ebooks:

• Five 2E rules expansions: Cybertechnology, Fields of Fire, Rigger 2, Street Samurai Catalog Second Edition (1991), and Virtual Realities 2.0
• Six Sixth World sourcebooks: Corporate Security Handbook, Neo-Anarchist's Guide to Real Life, Paranormal Animals of Europe, Portfolio of a Dragon: Dunkelzahn's Secrets, Threats, and the Underworld Sourcebook
• Seven Sixth World location guides: Aztlan, California Free State, Germany Sourcebook, Target: Smuggler Havens, Target: UCAS, Tir na nÓg, and Tir Tairngire
• Five 2E adventures: Bug City, Harlequin's Back, Missions, Shadows of the Underworld, and Super Tuesday!

All these titles are currently available on DriveThruRPG except The Grimoire and the Shadowrun Second Edition core rulebook. Customers can download those from their Wizard's Cabinet page here on the Bundle site."
 

This is a lot of stuff, but it's worth remembering that it's a pretty old system and some of it is a bit clunky by modern standards, that you're not going to be getting files that can be searched easily since they're made up of image scans, and that there is a much later edition from 2019, which was on offer in three bundles earlier this year. I should probably add that it isn't my favourite cyberpunk setting because having magic, big guns, and cyberspace in the same system has always felt like over-egging things a bit, and often leaves one or two characters doing most of the work with the brawlers etc. have to stand around waiting for them.