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Released: 1997
Authors: Werner Fuchs & Jim Nelson
Artists: Doug Andersen, Darrel Anderson, Janet Aulisio, Thomas M. Baxa, Peter Bergting, Rick Berry, Joel Biske, Tim Bradsteet, Brom, Dave Dorman, Larry Elmore, Fred Fields, Earl Geier, Mike Jackson, Romas Kukalis, Jeff Laubenstein, Larry MacDougall, Jeff Miracoli, Jim Nelson, Mike "Skuzzy" Nielsen, Luis Royo, Stephen Venters, Karl Waller, John Zeleznik & Mark Zug
ISBN: 1-55560-327-0
Price: $20.00
Pages: 120
Status/Availability: in print/uncommon
Sections: Introduction, Black and White Gallery, Color Gallery, Artist Biographies
Overview: Let's put it right at the front that this book is my number 1 for the most useless Shadowrun book published. The reason is simple: it's an art book, its pages filled with nothing but drawings and paintings from previously-published Shadowrun books. As such, it has no game value whatsoever, except perhaps to give an impression of life in the 2050s, and even for that it won't be all that useful if you have an extensive collection of Shadowrun books already: as said, nothing here is really new, and all the art has been taken from other books. I only saw one image I'd not seen before, and that's the art for Running Short—a book that was announced in 1993 but never came out. (And since then, that piece of art has been used for the updated version of the Shadowrun Companion.) Also, since this is supposed to be a book about the best art made for Shadowrun, why they included some of Earl Geier's drawings is beyond me...
Still, it's not actually a bad book—just one that I wouldn't have bought if it hadn't been on sale :) On the whole, if you want a book with pretty pictures in it, buy this. On the other hand, if all you want are books useful to the game, you can safely leave it in the store and not miss a thing.
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Survey Rating: 3.7 (9 votes)
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