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When things are going down or it’s too hectic, let’s stop with turns for a minute and get shit done, right? However, from the comments on the Prototype review and the forums I’d seen it interpreted that you can’t interact freely at all outside of Talk Time, and regardless of how it was originally intended in the text, I read it otherwise, and it has been clarified since then in the text under Turns and Narrations. Admittedly, I kind of hate the term, and would prefer something like “free play,” but that’s just being a jerk about semantics. Cool! Now, I’ve seen some people get stuck on Talk Time. From there, we can see each player narrates within their turn their actions and their interpretation of the situation. From what I can tell, there are no rules preventing other players from acting within that scene, but they would most likely need some input from the lead player in those scenes. SR:A institutes turns, effectively letting each player take a turn playing their part of the scene. I may be translating the rules incorrectly, but if you like what I’m saying, just play it that way, it’s just a damn book. Anarchy is about collaborative narrative storytelling (it’s a thing!) and there are things that they’ve done great about this, and things that may be confusing for people who haven’t done it before.

Anarchy is not a game with a GM running the show and the players taking on roles within that show. This is the only piece that really stood out, but I wouldn’t be a cranky critiquing feminist if I didn’t point it out.įirst, a quick note on the way the game works in Shadowrun: Anarchy. Y’all.īut let me be clear, my problems with the second piece here are mostly that it seems somewhat disjointed (kind of literally, but if it had a caption talking about an articulated spine, I’d be cool) and I was just kind of bummed out by how it felt in comparison to the other (frankly badass) art. Getting close to gender binary parity is great, but this issue is in the forefront for me of late and I still can’t fathom why – I never have been able to – we don’t see more androgynous characters, especially in identity as opposed to simply presentation, in Shadowrun. There are a number of androgynous people, but I was incredibly disappointed to see zero androgynous or nonbinary styled characters in the pregens. The art in the book is still majority men or masculine, but there are a greater number of women or femmes than I expected to see.

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I’m not doing a full numbers breakdown of the art in SR:A because 1) I don’t think it’s as valuable as it seems and 2) I don’t think it’s entirely necessary. Basically what you see first, whether you can even read it, what’s inside, and how it’s dressed up. Covering art, then layout, then mechanics, then flavor text. I hope you do! But the fiction does you no good if you don’t like the rest. I am sure the fiction is fun and great – but I don’t really have interest in it. That is, unfortunately, not the dealio in Shadowrun: Anarchy. Unreliable narrators having interactions between bits of important information just really felt like the game to me. I like fiction within RPGs – specifically, if you look back to like, Shadowun 3e where the interactions between The Smiling Bandit and Harlequin were interspersed in the rules and flavor text, that kind of thing I like. The fiction… let me explain here that I don’t like fiction on RPGs, for the most part. The art fits just fine! The graphics we’ll get to. Shadowrun: Anarchy on first glance is a true family member to 5e, having beautiful art, lots of graphics, and fiction first. I’ve GM’d and played, and I’ve worked on some tabletop games which you can read about here on my work page. Maybe longer? I bounced blog names a couple times. I’ve played indie and story games since around 2011, and I’ve been writing on Thoughty about games, doing interviews, and occasionally writing reviews for like, 4 years I think. I’ve been playing tabletop RPGs since I was 15, text-based since 11, and my first TTRPG that I recall playing was Shadowrun. I have only played Shadowrun 3e, and only built characters for 3e and 5e. I intend to eventually read the Seattle background but I have set it aside for this review to get the things out that people will see first and most often. I haven’t yet played the game for logistics reasons, so this is purely a review of the mechanics, art, and characters. I won’t be commenting very much on the fiction in the book because I don’t typically read it and I’d rather focus on the game, but I will be looking at flavor text in character descriptions and so on.