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Shadowrun: The Seattle Gambit (Enhanced Fiction) $1.99
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Shadowrun: The Seattle Gambit (Enhanced Fiction)
Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs
by Peter C. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 12/07/2017 15:44:39

This was a fun little Shadowrun short story. I love the Halloweeners and the author did a good job giving them more personality than they usually enjoy in Shadowrun lore. The setting was very well described throughout the story. The rundown neighborhoods where the Halloweeners and the First Nation gangs have their turf wars really spring to 'life'. Street-slang is in full use in this short story, and it really brings that Shadowrun ambience to the story. The story is a fun, entertaining read.

The story revolves around Yuri, a former Russian army man, and his somewhat more mysterious girlfriend, Soren. Yuri is given the right mix of mystery and detail for his backstory, but I wish Soren was developed a bit more.

There's a bit of adult content in the story, which honestly felt a little bit out of place for me.

As a Shadowrun GM this story greased my hamster wheel for how I could better integrate gangs into my Shadowrun adventures other than offering them up as easy target practice for my players.

The crunch at the end of the story includes stats for a few weapons and some NPCs, in addition to a negative perk for bad cyberware. I thought these were well done. I especially liked the inclusion of incendiary rockets. Those might actually make it into one of my games sometime. I know that this is a short story and not an adventure, but still I think it would have been nice to include the stat block for Yuri, and maybe one or two of the other major characters. Then maybe I could write them in as guest-stars of one of my adventures for the players to run into.

For the asking price of $2, I don't know how much more you could ask for. It was a good, entertaining purchase as far as I'm concerned.



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