{"id":296,"date":"2016-08-11T02:39:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T02:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briebeau.com\/thoughty\/2016\/08\/11\/shadowrun-anarchy-preview-first-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2021-11-16T00:41:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T05:41:35","slug":"shadowrun-anarchy-preview-first-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briebeau.com\/thoughty\/2016\/08\/shadowrun-anarchy-preview-first-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadowrun: Anarchy Preview First Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Got the Shadowrun: Anarchy<\/b> preview book, shipped from Gen Con for me by the wonderful Adam Koebel!<\/p>\n

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Highlights:<\/p>\n

1) This is the first game text in a damn long time I’ve sat down and read in a night, even including super short ones. I realize this is in part because I am a sucker for Shadowrun, but it also was easier reading than many have been, which is awesome.<\/p>\n

2) I am guaranteed<\/i> to pick this up in full form. I think it’s doing some interesting stuff to encourage character-focused play while still maintaining some of the more dice-heavy mechanics I personally really enjoy.<\/p>\n

3) 50\/50 for gender representation in sample characters, and not all of them are white. I did note that the majority of the women characters featured in the art have cleavage, but it didn’t bug me, tbh, because they weren’t posed sexy or anything, really. I have always, always loved Shadowrun’s art, and it’s often been far more inclusive than people seem to realize. I really value visual representation, so this is super important to me.<\/p>\n

4) There are some things missing! There is no indication about how many boxes there are in condition rows, number one. I might note some more stuff later.<\/p>\n

5) There are literally zero women, from what I can tell, on the cover credits. This is, imo, a huge<\/b> problem. I want to see more Shadowrun products with women working on them, and while I know there have been some (including Monica Valentinelli’s work on Court of Shadows), seeing none on here really disappointed me. Get to work, Catalyst.<\/p>\n

I’m planning on taking the tons and tons of pictures I took while reading tonight and doing into detail on my thoughts soon, but figured I’d share a first look. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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This post was supported by the community on patreon.com\/briecs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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