What they’ve basically done, as you can still only take 3 other people on a run, is give you instant back-up to fill whatever hole you need. The last member of your crew is a Troll Weapons Specialist named Eiger who is looking for someone she can respect to get the job done and isn’t one for ass kissing. Blitz is a human Decker you pick up along the way but isn’t part of the regular group initially. Glory is a human Combat Medic with so much hardware built into her that it’s hard to tell where she ends and the tech begins. They knew Monika, your friend, but you are an unknown element.ĭietrich is an aging human Shaman who is looking for that final fight that he can’t walk away from. Things go south on this first run, and what seems like a flippant comment ends up with you in charge of the group with more than a few of them not quite ready to trust you. You’re invited along with an established group of Shadowrunners by the leader who happens to be an old friend you’ve run with before and is an expert Decker. The dragon-slayer that brought Firewing down is long gone, Berlin is considered part of a Flux State that controls all of Germany, meaning basically that Anarchy is the ruler of the day. One of the big dragons to get taken down was Firewing, or Feuerschwinge, who terrorized Germany for months before she was killed. That’s the year they brought magic with them into the Shadowrun universe and sparked a shift in the world that brought in a change in some people making them meta-humans, an overhaul of many political pieces and the rise of the mega-corporations and of course the Shadowrunner. When Dragons didn’t pop into existence in our world in 2012 after decades of Shadowrun, we knew we’d be stuck only visiting that world in the tabletop, our imaginations and video games. While I don’t discount Dead Man’s Switch as being well done, I will be getting far more mileage out of Dragonfall. Dragonfall manages to pull off two very hard things, it serves as a better introduction to the Shadowrun universe than the first campaign did and at the same time is a far more satisfying story and RPG campaign than Dead Man’s Switch was as you get far more involved with everything around you. Anyone who followed the Kickstarter knew there was an expansion coming even at launch, and while this took a bit longer to come out, Dragonfall was more than worth the wait. We here at DHGF loved the game so much it went on to become our Game of the Year. Shadowrun Returns was the return to Shadowrun we all wanted after a rather unsatisfying FPS release a few years back and a long drought before that after the console release on the SNES and the Genesis.

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