To facilitate the intended style of story-focused play, Cue offers players the opportunity to maximize the nature and structure of a run, while distilling the time and word count of characters down to an evocative minimum. Unlike how Shadowrun has been played up to this point, the game is set up to have the full group collaborating on how scenes take shape so that a story is brought out. The GM has a definite job to do, and I feel that the game is better for it, but more of the people are going to be involved more of the time in more things than experienced Shadowrun players might expect. What is Cue?Ĭue is a system which sticks to the basics so the players can focus on description and where things are going.
Cue has previously appeared in Cosmic Patrol and Valiant, so the basics of the system are well-tested, but Anarchy itself is a new take on it.Īt the time of writing, the PDF is in crowd-proofing, but has already seen one major update which has cleaned up the worst of the pre-production oversights. With Shadowrun, I now have the chance to do all of these.Īnarchy is the new release by Catalyst which offers a passport to the Sixth World via the Cue System rather than the 5th Edition of the core rules. I even like comparing different expressions of the same game in different systems. I like reading them, learning them, sharing them, and comparing how editions change over time. It also includes information on one of the Sixth World’s hottest spots for running a con-Istanbul, City of the World’s Desire.Ĭuttings Aces is for use with Shadowrun, Fifth Edition, and it also contains plot information, story ideas, and characters that can be used with Shadowrun: Anarchy with slight adjustments of character stats.I like game systems at least as much as I like dice, and readers of this blog know that I have more than a passing fondness for dice…and understatement. I like systems. With tips, plot updates, spells, gear, and more to improve characters’ con abilities, Cutting Aces gives players the swagger and skills they need to swindle the world. That means you need to sharpen your con game. Almost every kind of shadowrun involves at least a little con artistry, and some of them are full-on long cons.
Yeah, blasting your way into a well-guarded facility is fun, but talking your way in, smooth and subtle, might be more rewarding. Marks, all of them, and the Sixth World is full of them. The business suit who drops ten thousand nuyen on a project because he thinks it’ll earn him fifty thousand. The security guard who lets a team into a top-secret facility because he thinks he’s pitching in on covert-ops training. The hotel bartender who slips you a guest’s room number because he thinks it will help him get lucky.
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