Apart from a new edition for the RPG, a miniature game, a "European style board game", and the two upcoming video games, they have announced a new Shadowrun card game, "Shadowrun: Crossfire"! This is the official announcement:
For the first salvo of the year, Catalyst will publish Shadowrun: Crossfire, The Adventure Deckbuilding Game. Designed by Fire Opal Media, it features the very best designers in card games: Gregory Marques, Mike Elliot, Rob Watkins, Rob Heinsoo, Jay Schneider and James “Jim” Lin.
Shadowrun: Crossfire is a cooperative deck-building card game for two to four players set in the gritty, cyberpunk fantasy world of Shadowrun. Play a shadowrunner team and take on tough jobs such as protecting a client who’s marked for death, shooting your way out of downtown when a run goes sour, or facing down a dragon. In each game you’ll improve your deck with a mix of strategies while earning Karma to give your character cyber upgrades, physical augmentations, magical initiations, weapons training and Edge.
Shadowrun: Crossfire includes an obstacle deck, black market deck, race and role cards, scenario cards, augmentation stickers, and personal missions that test a team’s allegiances.When starting this blog, I would have never dreamt of this coming true! If you have other bits of information, please let me know omae!
“We designed Crossfire to take deck-building games to a new level, by combining RPG elements with cooperative gameplay,” said co-designer Mike Elliott. “The result is a challenging game system that keeps evolving.”
3 comments:
Have you heard anything more about this, and when it may be released?
Hey Samurai,
as far as I know, there is no official release date yet. The designers of the game post regular updates on the offical Shadowrun 5 site though:
http://www.shadowruntabletop.com/blog/
The last post was by Rob Heinsoo and talked about pacing:
http://www.shadowruntabletop.com/2013/05/crossfire-riding-your-luck-until-it-explodes-pacing-and-tension/
You may also want to follow Fire Opal Media's facebook site (https://www.facebook.com/FireOpalMedia), so you stay up to date.
I really hope the game turns out nicely! :-)
Ongoing BoardgameGeek entry on SR:Crossfire.
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/135382/shadowrun-crossfire
Seems like mixed anticipation. The game run-thru's sound like the teams "got really lucky" a few times. Lots of people whimper at the word 'stickers'.
I loved the first TCG (but had a hellish time getting people to play w/me) and would likely enjoy this one too.
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