Out of Print Shadowrun Books Available as PDFs

The current design team for the Shadowrun table-top RPG, FanPro, has intended to make out of print resources available via the web for quite a while. In what is hopefully the first in a series of such offerings, they've made the Gamemaster's Screen and Critters Sourcebook available for download in PDF format.

Re:Good for them.

[Dan Ost]

That's why it's so important to support your local gaming shop. When something
new comes out, I always flip through it at the store to determine if it's
something worth buying and I've never been hassled. If you get everything
online and the local stores disappear due to lack of community support, you
will always be at the mercy of whatever content Amazon (or whoever) decides to
make available to you.

Also, people who run local gaming shops are far more likely to have a personal
interest in the material than large retailers (like Walden's). Get to know
them and they can be a wonderful resource for getting introduced to new systems.

Great news!

[Christopher Cashell]

This is really great news. Shadowrun has been one of my absolute favorite RPG's ever since it was released.

Admittedly, the first edition rules were a little rough around the edges, but the stories and setting were all absolutely top notch, and with the second edition rules streamlining a lot of things, I was really impressed.

I would love to see some of the other rulebooks released online, too. Now if I could just find someone to play this with. . . haven't played a table top RPG in years. ;-)