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Title: The Neo-ANarchist Streetpedia is now available!
Post by: Bull on <06-12-19/1801:59>
ALL IN!

They’re all here. Everyone of them. The legends, the liars, the betrayers, the winners, the craven, the brave, the powerful, the down-trodden. The people who leaked secrets and got killed for it, and the secrets that no one has discovered yet. The dark bargains, the shady deals, the desperate maneuvers. Everything that makes the Sixth World the high-revving nightmare machine its residents know too well is right here, between these two covers

The Neo-Anarchist Streetpedia is your definitive guide to the Shadowrun universe. With hundreds of entries, it covers corporations, shadowrunners, politicians, nations, cities, criminal organizations, and more. Even better, it gets to the point and tells you what you need to know now, so you can hit the streets a little smarter than you were when you woke up this morning.

The Neo-Anarchist Streetpedia is for use with whatever form of Shadowrun you play. Don’t play Shadowrun? Read this, learn about the Sixth World, and then find a game to dive into!

PDF from DriveThruRPG (https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/279782/Shadowrun-The-NeoAnarchist-Streetpedia)
PDF from CGL Store (https://store.catalystgamelabs.com/collections/shadowrun/products/shadowrun-the-neo-anarchist-streetpedia-pdf)
Physical Copy + Free PDF via CGL Store (https://store.catalystgamelabs.com/collections/shadowrun/products/copy-of-shadowrun-the-neo-anarchist-streetpedia-book-free-pdf)

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Title: Re: The Neo-ANarchist Streetpedia is now available!
Post by: Bull on <06-12-19/1802:40>
This was a fun book to work on.  Lots of excellent lore, background info, and bitching about the man. :)
Title: Re: The Neo-ANarchist Streetpedia is now available!
Post by: FastJack on <06-12-19/1939:08>
+1000
Title: Re: The Neo-ANarchist Streetpedia is now available!
Post by: Wakshaani on <06-13-19/0043:43>
Here we go...
Title: Re: The Neo-ANarchist Streetpedia is now available!
Post by: Prime Mover on <06-15-19/1926:15>
Just finished a read thru.  What an amazing resource, so hope this gets a sequel project.  Seeing posting from Saeletra put smirk on my face. One entry wasn’t able to recognize immediately Stardust.

 Black Lodge got mysteriously short intro, only passing mention of mysterious Taco Temple and lots of horror Aztec mentions but no smoking mirror.  Plenty of words left out there for follow up product I’m sure.
Title: Re: The Neo-ANarchist Streetpedia is now available!
Post by: CanRay on <06-15-19/2258:43>
Now the fun game of trying to guess which parts I wrote.   ;D
Title: Re: The Neo-ANarchist Streetpedia is now available!
Post by: Wakshaani on <06-16-19/0010:33>
Just finished a read thru.  What an amazing resource, so hope this gets a sequel project.  Seeing posting from Saeletra put smirk on my face. One entry wasn’t able to recognize immediately Stardust.

 Black Lodge got mysteriously short intro, only passing mention of mysterious Taco Temple and lots of horror Aztec mentions but no smoking mirror.  Plenty of words left out there for follow up product I’m sure.

If it sells well, we have a better chance of making more of 'em. I know that there's a TON of stuff I still want to cover, but, I'm also a madman, so.
Title: Re: The Neo-ANarchist Streetpedia is now available!
Post by: Michael Chandra on <06-16-19/0746:01>
Seeing posting from Saeletra put smirk on my face.
:o :o :o Now I NEED to get this.
Title: Re: The Neo-ANarchist Streetpedia is now available!
Post by: DeathStrobe on <06-16-19/1033:50>
I'd like to point out that the article on the Astral Space Preservation Society doesn't mention that Wuxing has bought them out. Which happened in Bloody Business. I realize everything we read in the Streetpedia should be taken with a grain of salt as it's an in-world article and unreliable narrator. But they mention Hestaby helping the ASPS and considering her current status I don't think she's able to really help much of anyone.
Title: Re: The Neo-ANarchist Streetpedia is now available!
Post by: HP15BS on <07-02-19/0729:45>
So this is basically a lore-encyclopedia, but written from a neo-anarchist's pov?

If so, that sounds kinda cool.
But
Does it do a good job of detailing anarchist thought?  I imagine it'd be kinda hard to take anarchist philosophy (which tends to be focused on the coerciveness of govt) and modify it for the 6th world, which isn't really dominated by nation-states so much as megacorps.   ... But then again, I guess the sr megas have basically taken on many of the features of nation-states so... /shrug/.

But it should at least  include a fair amount of fluff on what neo-anarchist groups do, and how they relate to other groups, etc, right?
Title: Re: The Neo-ANarchist Streetpedia is now available!
Post by: FastJack on <07-02-19/0946:33>
At the very beginning, there's a large introduction that goes into detail about Neo-Anarchism.
Title: Re: The Neo-ANarchist Streetpedia is now available!
Post by: Mirikon on <07-02-19/1443:52>
It is a decent encyclopedia of some of the big names in the Sixth World, written from a Neo-A bias. Still, I was hoping for more of a Loose Alliances kind of book, which was a treasure trove of potential plot hooks and character backgrounds from all walks of life.
Title: Re: The Neo-ANarchist Streetpedia is now available!
Post by: Michael Chandra on <07-02-19/1516:38>
I already got it electronically but decided to bite the bullet and order it along No Future.

FLGS also asked me about every other Shadowrun product they can order. Including Sprawl Ops. I almost cried.  :'( One day PSI will stop screwing things up and I will get my game... Ahwell I already waited like two years since the playtest...
Title: Re: The Neo-ANarchist Streetpedia is now available!
Post by: The Tekwych on <07-02-19/1946:30>
Yeah, my FLGS often texts me questions realizing that I am often more in the know than Alliance, PSI, GTS, and the rest

Distribution really needs to grow up and advance with the rest of the industry. It is the one rung in the leader that is still VERY broken and holding back manufactures, publishers, retailers and other parts of the industry
Title: Re: The Neo-ANarchist Streetpedia is now available!
Post by: PiXeL01 on <07-03-19/1752:38>
I already got it electronically but decided to bite the bullet and order it along No Future.

FLGS also asked me about every other Shadowrun product they can order. Including Sprawl Ops. I almost cried.  :'( One day PSI will stop screwing things up and I will get my game... Ahwell I already waited like two years since the playtest...

Well, at least you are not as screwed as the EU.
***

I like this book a lot too, though I miss links to where more information is available even if dated [Would You Like To Know More?]

Google doesn’t offer that much. For instance where can I find information about Perianwyn’s captivity under Ghostwalker and his escape, just to name one?
Title: Re: The Neo-ANarchist Streetpedia is now available!
Post by: Michael Chandra on <07-03-19/1759:28>
I am EU...

Perianwyr's escape is CMP Dragon Song 1. Can't remember what books talk about it, maybe Storm Front?
Title: Re: The Neo-ANarchist Streetpedia is now available!
Post by: PiXeL01 on <07-03-19/1931:50>
I am EU...

Perianwyr's escape is CMP Dragon Song 1. Can't remember what books talk about it, maybe Storm Front?

Ouch ... my condolences.
Dragon Song, is that available for Download somewhere?
Title: Re: The Neo-ANarchist Streetpedia is now available!
Post by: Beta on <07-04-19/1113:58>
I am EU...

Perianwyr's escape is CMP Dragon Song 1. Can't remember what books talk about it, maybe Storm Front?

Ouch ... my condolences.
Dragon Song, is that available for Download somewhere?

Doesn't seem to be on drivethrurpg :(  It seems like some later 5th edition missions just got dropped (season 8 missions 3-6, the culmination of the entire story arc, among them).  With 6th coming out, I wonder if Catalyst has any intent of publishing some of these CMPs and the rest of season 8?

(at least with season 8 we have the Anarchy book Chicago Chaos which at least thumbnails the approximate storyline)
Title: Re: The Neo-ANarchist Streetpedia is now available!
Post by: Bull on <07-04-19/1752:46>
A lot of the CMP adventures for the Missions line have never been officially released in any format (We've done like 70+ CMP adventures counting this years releases, and I think 20 or so have been published).  Because they're intended solely for convention and CDT use, some of them never got past a "rough draft" format due to scheduling and trying to get them done in time for Origins and Gen Con.  This was especially true with Dragon's Song, unfortunately, which was my project, and kinda hit about the time my health and personal issues began to start effecting my Missions work.  Ray Rigel and Tim Patrick helped pick up some of my slack, but the two missions I worked on (the first and last of the four) were...  very rough and we just never had an opportunity to go back and clean them up.

I didn't have the word count to do too much with Peri in NAS and wanted to give a very different perspective on him anyway.  But at some point, I should see about getting a full summary of events for the Dragon's Song adventures, at least.
Title: Re: The Neo-ANarchist Streetpedia is now available!
Post by: zenbubble on <08-23-19/0130:56>
Seeing posting from Saeletra put smirk on my face.

Can you provide a reference? I can't find the Saeletra comment.

Thanks!
Title: Re: The Neo-ANarchist Streetpedia is now available!
Post by: FastJack on <08-23-19/0821:19>
Seeing posting from Saeletra put smirk on my face.

Can you provide a reference? I can't find the Saeletra comment.

Thanks!
Resonance and Dissonance, p. 96-98. It's signed with an " - S", but has the same kinda quote that Saeletra left when the world Awakened.
Title: Re: The Neo-ANarchist Streetpedia is now available!
Post by: CanRay on <08-26-19/0017:36>
But was it Saeletra?  Was it FastJack starting to come back and using that quote?  Was it another old Decker who caught that post long and ever ago?

Either way, it's going to be a fun ride!
Title: Re: The Neo-ANarchist Streetpedia is now available!
Post by: Michael Chandra on <08-26-19/0022:37>
The talk definitely suggests Saeletra, given how they noted the Resonance already got discovered in the Fourth World. O_O The whole 'well this is new and we're interested' part is also scary. It also opens up avenues of alliances with other entities against the Terrors.
Title: Re: The Neo-ANarchist Streetpedia is now available!
Post by: T3kk3y on <09-01-19/1757:20>
I bought this at GenCon this year and was given a code to download the PDF. I have tried to use it multiple times and it does not work. It took a while, but the one for the SR6 book worked as of last week so why doesn't this one work?
Title: Re: The Neo-ANarchist Streetpedia is now available!
Post by: The Tekwych on <09-01-19/1800:44>
Check in with customer service. They’ve been fixing a lot of the codes