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The setting of Earthdawn is the same world as Shadowrun ( i. e. a fictionalized version of Earth ), but takes place millennia earlier.
The Shadowrun world is cross-genre, incorporating elements of both cyberpunk and urban fantasy.
Shadowrun is linked to Earthdawn, and is set in the " Sixth World ", where Earthdawn is the " Fourth World " and modern-day Earth is at the tail end of the Fifth World.
The date of the beginning of the " Sixth World " is based on the ancient Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, which when Shadowrun was developed was correlated as finishing a 5200 year long cycle on December 24, 2011.
The understanding of the Maya that resulted in the use of the 2011 date and the use of the " worlds " concept is due to the influence of Frank Waters's 1975 book Mexico Mystique: The Coming Sixth World of Consciousness, whose elaborate cosmology is selectively utilized in the framework of the Shadowrun universe.
Shadowrun is also influenced by the writings of William Gibson ( particularly Neuromancer ), who reacted as follows to its release.
The fourth and latest game released is a first-person shooter for the Xbox 360 and Windows Vista and is titled Shadowrun.
As the publishers of the Shadowrun role-playing game stated at the time of the video game's release: " Microsoft rewrote the timeline and setting for this game, so it is not in continuity with the tabletop RPG.
The system of determining success or failure is very similar to the system in Shadowrun and is based on rolling a number of Successes that meet or exceed a set Difficulty Number.
Metahuman is also used in the Shadowrun universe to describe elves, dwarves, and the like.
* It is often used as a type of enemy creature in games such as Star Ocean and the Shadowrun role-playing game.
This image is the box art for the Shadowrun game's third edition.
Beyond illustrating the Shadowrun game, this box art is an instance of cyberpunk visual media in its own right: the portable computer " jacked in " to the all-encompassing technological ediface is a classic trope.
* In the role-playing game Shadowrun, San Onofre is destroyed by an earthquake in the year 2028 and sealed similarly to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
* In the role-playing game Shadowrun, essence is a measure of a living being's lifeforce
is a cyberpunk interactive fiction role-playing video game ( RPG ) for the Sega Mega-CD adapted from the pen and paper RPG Shadowrun by FASA.
The game has a manga-based visual style ; it is loosely based on a contemporary Japanese manga series which was based on the Shadowrun franchise.

Shadowrun and fantasy
During his trial Boyd stated he was playing Shadowrun, specifically the role of criminal elf Buho, at the time and may have " blurred reality and fantasy ".
* Shadowrun, a cyberpunk fantasy roleplaying game
Later games would update this concept even further, bringing fantasy gaming into the present day in a genre known as urban fantasy ( e. g. Mage: The Ascension ) or even into the future by combining urban fantasy with cyberpunk ( e. g. Shadowrun ).
Low fantasy exists in role-playing games such as Shadowrun, Hârn, Seventh Sea, and the products of many d20 manufacturers like White Wolf and Skirmisher Publishing LLC.
Furthermore, the apparel of the characters hints at Shadowrun < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s inclusion of high fantasy themes, a point which the article addresses.
Shadowrun combines the genres of cyberpunk, urban fantasy and crime.

Shadowrun and role-playing
Video games, board games, and tabletop role-playing games, such as Cyberpunk 2020 ( created by Mike Pondsmith ) and Shadowrun, often feature storylines that are heavily influenced by cyberpunk writing and movies.
The Shadowrun role-playing game, various expansions, and a Shadowrun collectible card game have won Origins Awards.
The Shadowrun role-playing game has spawned Shadowrun: The Trading Card Game, four video games, an action figure game ( Shadowrun Duels ), two magazines, an art book and more than 50 novels, starting with the Secrets of Power series which introduces some of the original characters of Shadowrun and gives a good introduction to this fictional universe.
Four video games have been developed based on the Shadowrun franchise ; the first in 1993 was an action role-playing game titled Shadowrun and developed by Beam Software ) for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
In 2012, Weisman's company Harebrained Schemes launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the development of Shadowrun Returns, a 2D turn-based single player role-playing video game.
Jan Wagner's Cliffhanger Productions also ran a successful Kickstarter campaign for Shadowrun Online, a 3D turn-based online role-playing video game that can be played either alone or with other players.
* Earthdawn-A role-playing game set in the same world as Shadowrun but many thousands of years in the past.
* The table top role-playing game, Shadowrun, introduced AR into its game world.
Aztlán has been used as the name of speculative fictional future states that emerge in the southwest US or Mexico after the central US government suffers collapse or major setback ; examples appear in such works as the novels Warday ( 1984 ), by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka ; The Peace War ( 1984 ), by Vernor Vinge ; The House of the Scorpion ( 2002 ), by Nancy Farmer ; and World War Z ( 2006 ), by Max Brooks ; as well as the role-playing game Shadowrun ( 1989 ).
An anthology of stories based on the Shadowrun role-playing game.
Fiction with a dystopian future setting often portrays deadly futuristic games as popular sports entertainment, including the movie The Running Man, video games such as Smash TV and the Twisted Metal series, and the role-playing game Shadowrun, which features Urban Brawl and Combat Biking
Another early use of the term was in the pen and paper role-playing game Shadowrun ( 1989 ).
* Shadowrun ( role-playing game )
* A Sasquatch infected with the HMHVV-II virus in the Shadowrun role-playing game

Shadowrun and game
* The game Shadowrun ( 2007 video game ) mentions, as one of its important world events, the construction of RNA's Santos Corporate Arcology.
* The game Shadowrun ( SEGA MD video game ) includes Renraku Arcology as an in-game location.
WizKids itself produced an unsuccessful collectible action figure game based on the property, called Shadowrun Duels.
Unlike in a purely cyberpunk game, in the Shadowrun world, magic exists and has " worked " since 2011.
The Shadowrun game mechanics are based entirely on a 6-sided dice system.
The third game was an interactive fiction adventure game developed by Japanese company Group SNE in 1995 for the Sega CD, again titled Shadowrun.
A fourth game, titled Shadowrun: Assassin, was planned to be released in 1998 by FASA Interactive for the PC, but was cancelled.

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