Runner's Companion

by Catalyst Game Labs

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934857092
• ISBN13: 9781934857090
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.4" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Runners Companion

Runner's Companion for 4th edition Shadowrun is a very good book to have. I introduces all of the Metatypes, Vampires, AI's, Drakes, and sapient critters, as well as offering advice on Shadowrun in general. It also has Lifestyle options, more Qualities, SURGE qualities, and so on. All in all, a very good book to have.

Runner's companion

The first two versions of the Shadowrun Companions were something of a mixed bag of goodies consisting of stuff the designers wished they'd put in the core gamebook. With SR4 the designers have had their wish and as a result this verison is more focused on Character Creation Concepts. This starts with roles for characters and hints and tips for running and playing a good campaign before progressing to alternative character generation rules, then rules for creating Metahuman varients, changlings, drakes, the Infected (Vampire: Shadowrun anyone?), Sapient Critters, Shapeshifters, AI's and Free Spirits. After all that there's a heap of new qualities then expanded rules for contacts and a selection of new contacts, followed by the Advanced Lifestyle System that first appeared in the Sprawl Survival Guide (with a few new lifestyle qualities to take the changes in setting into account). Finally it finishes up with a look at a shadowrun from multiple veiwpoints. Overall this is a very good book especially for players but GM's will also find it useful for coming up with something a bit unusual to throw at players. The only reason I won't say this book will statisfy the most fussy player is that I know just how fussy players can be!

Decent addition

This book adds quite a few options including creating infected player characters and even sub-species for all the meta characters. Like the other books it also adds a few more qualities. I would only recommend this book to those that have played the game before, would also recommend getting the other books first as they are more beneficial to the players.