shadowrun 40 The Burning Time (29 page)

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Emerging technomancers:
Recent times saw the emergence of people who can interact with the Matrix without equipment, using only the power of their minds. These strange and inexplicable abilities set off a worldwide panic.

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Underworld explosion:
A powerful, extremely addictive bio-engineered drug named tempo shook the world, and the potential profits from it set organized crime groups against each other in an explosive conflict.

Those are the central changes, but at its heart
Shadowrun
is still
Shadowrun
. Fixers still arrange things, Mr. Johnson still waits with an offer, and dragons are something to stay far, far away from.

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