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I have been into other Tabletop RPG's for a long time and have recently been looking into investing in Shadowrun. Naturally I went to the Catalyst Game Labs website which directed me to Shadowruntabletop.com. I start looking into the books on that site and became rather confused. It seems like the website has a mix of SR4 and SR5 content with no logical way of separating them. Luckily it seems like each of the sub-menu items under the "Books" menu contains only books for one version, but there is no easily discernible way to tell which sub-menu items are SR5 and which are SR4. Furthermore, it would appear that many SR5 books can't be found on the site at all. I was looking into buying what some would call the "core" books (CRB, Run Faster, Street Grimoire and Run&Gun) and could only find two of the four.
If not the official website, where do I go to learn about all SR5 books without having to filter through SR4 content? Also, I have only ever gone to an RPG's website for errata so where do I get errata for the books I was unable to find on shadowruntabletop.com?
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Social media for fans and freelancers best source of info, Catalyst not great about having online presence for Shadowrun. Been toying with idea of doing blog or something to compile releases and do some reviews.
DriveThruRPG has section for 5th edition, good place to look as well.
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/2216/Catalyst-Game-Labs/subcategory/4328_10253/Shadowrun-Fifth-Edition
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Yeesh. Social media is great if you are up to date with current events. Not so great if you have to catch up on the past four years of book development. While I understand that writing books is their main source of income, it mostly helps to keep existing customers buying more books. If Catalyst Game Labs wants to grow their company they need a better online presence.
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What the hell, I love making lists. Someone chime in if I miss any ...
Core Rulebook
Shadowrun, Fifth Edition
Core Handbooks
Chrome Flesh (more augmentations)
Data Trails (advanced Matrix rules)
Forbidden Arcana (more advanced magic rules)
Howling Shadows (critters)
Kill Code (more advanced Matrix rules, technomancers)
Rigger 5 (vehicles and drones)
Run & Gun (more weapons, armor, and combat rules)
Run Faster (player options)
Street Grimoire (advanced magic rules)
Street Lethal (new weapons, tech, advanced combat rules)
Runner Resources
The Complete Trog (orks and trolls)
No Future (media and culture)
Deep Shadows Sourcebooks
Better Than Bad (hooding, Pretoria)
Cutting Aces (confidence schemes, Istanbul)
Hard Targets (wetwork, Havana)
Stolen Souls (extractions, Manhattan)
The Neo-Anarchist Streetpedia (A-to-Z lore)
Campaign and Plot Sourcebooks
Bloody Business (corp shenanigans)
Book of the Lost (Tarot card shenanigans)
Market Panic (megacorp info)
Dark Terrors (things that go bump in the night)
Lockdown (CFD outbreak in Boston)
Alternate Rules and Settings
Anarchy (simplified shadowrun)
Chicago Chaos (Anarchy campaign book)
Court of Shadows (Faerie)
Adventures
Splintered State
Serrated Edge
False Flag
Ripping Reality
Toxic Alleys
Collected Convention Missions
Firing Line
Sprawl Wilds
London Falling
Boundless Mercy
Digital Supplements
Aetherology
Assassin's Primer
Bullets & Bandages
Coyotes
Gun H(e)aven 3
Shadow Spells
Shadows in Focus: Butte
Shadows in Focus: Cheyenne
Shadows in Focus: Sioux Nation
Shadows in Focus: San Francisco
Shadows in Focus: Metropole
Shadows in Focus: Morocco
Shadows in Focus: Casablanca-Rabat
Ten Terrorists
Box Sets
Beginner Box
Alphaware
Seattle Sprawl
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Nice work, Sphinx!
Maybe add the Seattle boxed set? Not really a core book for fifth, but published during 5th's timeperiod.
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@Sphinx - Thanks mate. This is already better than the Shadowruntabletop.com site and drivethrurpg. The former lacks all the books the latter lacks the informative grouping you added. The short phrase descriptions without Shadowrun's paragraphs of literary fluff is great. (It is good for books, bad for product descriptions).
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Nice work, Sphinx! Maybe add the Seattle boxed set? Not really a core book for fifth, but published during 5th's timeperiod.
Drek. Forgot the boxed sets. I'll edit the list.
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Also useful, if not necessarily 5th ed specific: Seattle 2072, Seattle Sourcebook, Sixth World Almanac, NAN (Native American Nations) Volumes 1 and 2, Sprawl Sites, Bug City, London Sourcebook, Germany Sourcebook, California Free State, Tir Na Nog, Tir Tairngire, the Target: series, Aztlan, New Seattle, Denver, Year of the Comet, Shadows of: series, Corporate download, Corporate Enclaves and Feral Cities. These are the setting sourcebooks, from 1st ed on. Not necessarily in any order.
Edit: definitely not a high priority for learning the system, but good for the background/setting info.
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Worth remarking that Dark Terrors is also the most up-to-date metaplot book. That's really more what it is than a "spooky parts of SR" book, IMO, even though it was marketed as that. Some chapters like the Elder Gods or the Infected chapters are intended to have horror aspects, but the chapter talking about how the cure for CFD has been found and it's basically on its way out the door (to put things optimistically) is the opposite of a horror story. Even if NeoNET breaking apart will lead to a bunch of strife and pain.
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And pinned for future reference ;D
@Sphinx - updated your list to in the Morocco release from today. If you don’t mind, will continue this going forward.
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Here is the full list I have, I do not guarantee there are no missing ones.
If you spot any mistake please let me know
Edition Date Type Title
SR1 2050 Scenario DNA/DOA
SR2 2050 Scenario Dreamchipper
SR1 2050 Scenario Harlequin
SR1 2050 Scenario Mercurial
SR1 2050 Rules Shadowrun 1st Edition
SR1 2050 Scenario Silver Angel
SR2 2050 Background Sprawl Sites
SR2 2051 Scenario Bottled Demon
SR1 2051 Scenario Dragon Hunt
SR2 2051 Scenario Imago
SR1 2051 Scenario Ivy & Chrome
SR2 2051 Rules Paranormal Animals of North America
SR2 2051 Scenario Queen Euphoria
SR2 2051 Règles Street Samurai Catalog
SR1 2051 Background The Universal Brotherhood
SR2 2051 Scenario Total Eclipse
SR1 2051 Règles Virtual Realities
SR1 2052 Background London sourcebook
SR2 2052 Background Neo-Anarchist's Guide to North America
SR1 2052 Règles Rigger Black Book
SR2 2053 Scenario Elven Fire
SR2 2053 Background Native American Nations vol1
SR2 2053 Background Native American Nations vol2
SR2 2053 Scenario One Stage Before
SR2 2053 Règles Paranormal Animals of Europe
SR2 2053 Règles Rigger 2
SR2 2053 Background Seattle Sourcebook
SR2 2053 Background Shadowbeat
SR2 2053 Règles Shadowrun 2nd Edition
SR1 2053 Règles Shadowtech
SR2 2053 Règles The Grimoire
SR2 2054 Scenario A Killing Glare
SR1 2054 Scenario Celtic Double Cross
SR2 2054 Background Corporate Shadowfiles
SR2 2054 Scenario Dark Angel
SR2 2054 Background Germany Sourcebook
SR2 2054 Background Lone Star
SR2 2054 Background Neo-Anarchist's Guide to Real Life
SR2 2054 Scenario Paradise Lost
SR3 2054 Background Target: Awakened Lands
SR2 2054 Background Tir na nOg
SR2 2054 Background Tir Tairngire
SR2 2055 Background Bug City
SR2 2055 Background Denver: City of Shadows
SR2 2055 Scenario Double Exposure
SR2 2055 Scenario Eye Witness
SR2 2055 Rules Fields of Fire
SR2 2055 Scenario Harlequin's Back
SR2 2055 Background Prime Runners
SR2 2056 Background Atzlan
SR2 2056 Background Corporate Security Handbook
SR2 2056 Rules Cybertechnology
SR2 2056 Scenario Divided Assets
SR2 2056 Rules Virtual Realities 2.0
SR2 2057 Rules Awakenings: New Magic in 2057
SR2 2057 Background California Free State
SR2 2057 Scenario Missions
SR2 2057 Background Portfolio of a Dragon: Dunkelzahn's Secrets
SR2 2057 Rules Shadowrun Companion
SR2 2057 Scenario Shadows of the Underworld
SR2 2057 Scenario Super Tuesday
SR1 2057 Background Threats
SR2 2058 Background Blood in the Boardroom
SR2 2058 Background Mob War
SR2 2058 Background Target: UCAS
SR2 2058 Background Underworld Sourcebook
SR2 2059 Background Cyberpirates!
SR3 2059 Scenario Predator and Prey
SR3 2059 Background Renraku Arcology: Shutdown
SR3 2059 Background Target: Smuggler's Havens
SR3 2060 Rules Cannon Companion
SR3 2060 Rules Critters
SR3 2060 Rules Magic in the Shadows
SR3 2060 Rules Matrix
SR3 2060 Background Mr Johnson's little black book
SR3 2060 Background New Seattle
SR3 2060 Rules Rigger 3
SR3 2060 Rules Shadowrun 3rd Edition
SR3 2060 Rules Shadowrun Companion
SR3 2061 Scenario Brainscan
SR2 2061 Background Corporate Download
SR3 2061 Scenario Corporate Punishment
SR3 2061 Scenario First Run
SR3 2061 Rules Man & Machine
SR3 2061 Background Target: Matrix
SR3 2061 Background Target: Wastelands
SR3 2061 Scenario Wake of the Comet
SR3 2061 Background Year of the Comet
SR3 2062 Background Shadows of North America
SR3 2062 Scenario Survival of the Fittest
SR3 2062 Background Threats 2
SR3 2063 Background Dragons of the Sixth World
SR3 2063 Background Shadows of Europe
SR3 2063 Background Sprawl Survival Guide
SR3 2063 Background State of the Art 2063
SR3 2064 Background Loose Alliances
SR3 2064 Background Shadows of Asia
SR3 2064 Background State of the Art 2064
SR3 2064 Background System Failure
SR4 2070 Rules Augmentation
SR4 2070 Rules Digital Grimoire
SR4 2070 Background Emergence
SR4 2070 Scenario On the run
SR4 2070 Background Runner Havens
SR4 2070 Rules Shadowrun 4th Edition
SR4 2070 Rules Street Magic
SR4 2070 Background Contact & Aventures
SR4 2070 Background Jackpoint User List
SR4 2071 Rules Arsenal
SR4 2071 Background Corporate Enclaves
SR4 2071 Background Feral Cities
SR4 2071 Scenario Ghost Cartels
SR4 2071 Rules Runner's Companion
SR4 2071 Rules Unwired
SR4 2072 Background Manhattan
SR4 2072 Rules Shadowrun 4th Edition - Anniversary Edition
SR4 2070 Scenario Bad Moon rising in the East
SR4 2072 Scenario Dawn of the Artifacts 1 - Dusk
SR4 2072 Scenario Dawn of the Artifacts 2 - Midnight
SR4 2072 Scenario Dawn of the Artifacts 3 - Darkest Hour
SR4 2072 Scenario Dawn of the Artifacts 4 - New Dawn
SR4 2072 Rules Running Wild
SR4 2072 Background Seattle 2072
SR4 2072 Background Vice
SR4 2072 Background Corporate Guide
SR4 2072 Background Sixth World Almanac
SR4 2072 Rules This Old Drone
SR4 2072 Background 10 Gangs
SR4 2072 Rules Parazoology
SR4 2072 Background 10 Jackpointers
SR4 2073 Background War!
SR4 2073 Rules MilSpecTech
SR4 2073 Background Attitude
SR4 2073 Scenario Horizon Adventure 1 - A Fistful of Credsticks
SR4 2073 Scenario Horizon Adventure 2 - Anarchy Subsidized
SR4 2073 Scenario Horizon Adventure 3 - Colombian Subterfuge
SR4 2072 Rules The Way of the Adept
SR4 2073 Background Spy Games
SR4 2072 Rules Unfriendly Skies
SR4 2073 Rules Gun Heaven
SR4 2073 Rules Deadly Waves
SR4 2073 Background Street Legends
SR4 2073 Rules Runner's Toolkit
SR4 2073 Rules Runner's Black Book
SR4 2073 Background 99 Bottles
SR4 2073 Scenario Artifacts Unbound
SR4 2073 Background Conspiracy Theories
SR4 2073 Background State of the Art 2073
SR4 2073 Background Street Legents Supplemental
SR4 2073 Scenario Corporate Intrigue
SR4 2074 Rules Safehouses
SR4 2074 Scenario Jet Set
SR4 2074 Background Another Rainy Night
SR4 2074 Scenario The Twilight Horizon
SR4 2074 Scenario Boardroom Backstabs 1 - Damage Control
SR4 2074 Scenario Boardroom Backstabs 2 - Sacrificial Limb
SR4 2074 Rules Parabotany
SR4 2074 Background Hazard Pay
SR4 2074 Rules Gun Heaven 2
SR4 2074 Background Magical Societies
SR4 2074 Background Sprawl Sites: North America
SR4 2074 Rules Used Car Lot
SR4 2050 Background Shadowrun 2050
SR4 2074 Rules MilSpecTech 2
SR4 2074 Background The Clutch of Dragons
SR4 2074 Rules Runner's Black Book 74
SR4 2074 Background Land of Promise
SR4 2074 Scenario Elven Blood
SR4 2074 Background Dirty Tricks
SR4 2074 Rules Parageology
SR4 2074 Background Montreal 2074
SR4 2074 Rules Way of the Samurai
SR4 2074 Background Sprawl Sites: High Society & Low Life
SR4 2074 Rules 10 Mercs
SR4 2074 Background Sim Nightmares & Dreams
SR4 2074 Background Storm Front
SR4 2074 Rules Eurowars Antiques
SR5 2074 Background Sail Away sweet sister
SR5 2075 Rules Shadowrun 5th Edition
SR5 2075 Scenario Sprawl Wilds
SR4 2075 Rules Parazoology 2
SR5 2075 Scenario Firing Line
SR5 2075 Background The Vladivostok Gauntlet
SR5 2075 Scenario Splintered State
SR5 2075 Rules The Assassin's Primer
SR5 2075 Rules Gamemaster's screen
SR5 2075 Rules Coyotes
SR5 2075 Rules Gun Heaven 3
SR5 2075 Rules Digitals Tools Box
SR5 2075 Rules Run & Gun
SR5 2075 Scenario London Falling
SR5 2076 Background Stolen Souls
SR5 2076 Rules Bullets & Bandages
SR5 2076 Background Nothing Personal
SR5 2076 Rules Street Grimoire
SR5 2076 Rules Aetherology
SR5 2076 Background Shadows in Focus - Sioux Nation
SR5 2076 Background 10 Terrorists
SR5 2076 Background Lockdown
SR5 2076 Rules Data Trails
SR5 2076 Scenario Boardroom Backstabs 3 - Battle of Manhattan
SR5 2076 Rules Shadow Spells
SR5 2077 Rules Run Faster
SR5 2077 Background Shadows in Focus - Sioux Nation - Cheyenne
SR5 2077 Scenario Shadows in Focus - Sioux Nation - Starving the Masses
SR5 2077 Scenario Shadows in Focus - Sioux Nation - Counting coup
SR5 2077 Background Shadows in Focus - Sioux Nation - Butte
SR5 2077 Background Wolf & Buffalo
SR5 2077 Scenario Bloody Business
SR5 2077 Rules Chrome Flesh
SR5 2077 Background Hard Targets
SR5 2077 Scenario Boundless Mercy
SR5 2077 Rules Rigger 5.0
SR5 2077 Background Shadows in Focus - San Fransisco
SR5 2078 Background Market Panic
SR5 2077 Scenario Denver Adventure 1 - Serrated Edge
SR5 2077 Background Seattle Sprawl Setting Expansion
SR5 2077 Rules Howling Shadows
SR5 2078 Scenario Denver Adventure 2 - False Flag
SR5 2078 Background Shadows in Focus - Metropole
SR5 2078 Background Court of Shadows
SRA 2078 Rules Shadowrun: Anarchy
SR5 2078 Background Cutting Aces
SRA 2078 Background Chicago Chaos
SR5 2079 Scenario Denver Adventure 3 - Ripping Reality
SR5 2079 Background Book of the Lost
SR5 2079 Background Sixth World Tarot
SR5 2079 Rules Forbidden Arcana
SR5 2079 Background The Complete Trog
SR5 2079 Scenario Lethal Forces
SR5 2079 Background Dark Terrors
SR5 2080 Background Shadows in Focus - Morocco
SR5 2080 Rules Street Lethal
SR5 2080 Scenario Toxic Alleys
SR5 2080 Rules Kill Code
SR5 2080 Background Shadows in Focus - Casablanca, Rabat
SR5 2080 Background Better than Bad
SR5 2080 Background No Future
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Incredible job, Carmody; Thank you so much on my behalf and I'm sure many others.
I do see a couple of small omissions: you have the first Denver scenario (serrated edge) but not the second and third (false flag and ripping reality).
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Thanks, fixed :)
I do not know how I missed them.
By the way, some dates are guess only, as some books lack the Jackpoint page.
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Wow Carmody, thanks!
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Not seeing Lethal Forces (recent adventure)
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Not sure if it counts but Tarot deck is worth the purchase, especially if using Book of the Lost plot hooks.
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Thanks Prime Mover,
Lethal Forces and Sixth World Tarot added
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Welcome to the forum!
No need to worry, there are a few products in the pipeline:
Take a look here: https://forums.shadowruntabletop.com/index.php?topic=26955.0
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Are there ANY new books to be published anytime soon?
I don't find anything anywhere, has Catalyst given up on writing new materiel?
Shadows in Focus: Morocco just posted a couple of weeks ago. Street Lethal should be out any day now. Kill Code and Better than Bad are in the pipeline. I've heard rumors about something called the Rigger's Red Book, and maybe an elf/dwarf sourcebook down the road.
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I posted some updates a couple of weeks back in this thread:
https://forums.shadowruntabletop.com/index.php?topic=26955.0 (https://forums.shadowruntabletop.com/index.php?topic=26955.0)
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Very happy about the upcoming re-print for the corebook w/errata.
my current core rulebook 5e brokedown from the spine and as I went on reddit this seems to be a problem that happens to several prints because of quality issues.
I'm banking on this upcoming re-print being of better quality and more durable as I'm willing to buy the physical version.
Any word on when is it coming up?
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Nothing formal yet, though if I had to guess would think by June to have on hand for Origins and the start of he summer con season.
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Thanks AJCarrington!
I love this thread by the way! very informative source.
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First off, to the chummers who compiled those lists, holy crap you are amazing.
I applaud and appreciate your efforts.
Now, has anyone considered compiling the same list including the cover prices? I want to know how much that entire library will cost me when I get adopted by an elderly billionaire.
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Now, has anyone considered compiling the same list including the cover prices? I want to know how much that entire library will cost me when I get adopted by an elderly billionaire.
It all depends if there is a sale on at drivethrurpg or not ;-) (after all, most of these are out of print in hardcopy versions, and pdf are half the price even on the new books)
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First off, to the chummers who compiled those lists, holy crap you are amazing.
I applaud and appreciate your efforts.
Now, has anyone considered compiling the same list including the cover prices? I want to know how much that entire library will cost me when I get adopted by an elderly billionaire.
Thanks :-)
I will not add the cover prices, I'm a fan, not a shop attendant ;)
By the way, your message reminded me to update my list, following changes have been applied:
- Changed Sail Away Sweet Sister date from 2075 to 2074
- Changed London Falling date from 2076 to 2075
- Changed Run Faster date from 2076 to 2077
- Changed Shadows in Focus - Sioux Nation - Cheyenne date from 2076 to 2077
- Changed Shadows in Focus - Sioux Nation - Starving the Masses date from 2076 to 2077
- Changed Shadows in Focus - Sioux Nation - Counting coup date from 2076 to 2077
- Changed Shadows in Focus - Sioux Nation - Butte date from 2076 to 2077
- Changed Wolf & Buffalo date from 2076 to 2077
- Changed Bloody Business date from 2076 to 2077
- Changed Chrome Flesh date from 2076 to 2077
- Changed Hard Targets date from 2076 to 2077
- Changed Boundless Mercy date from 2076 to 2077
- Changed Rigger 5.0 date from 2076 to 2077
- Changed Shadows in Focus - San Fransisco date from 2076 to 2077
- Changed Market Panic date from 2077 to 2078
- Changed Denver Adventure 2 - False Flag date from 2077 to 2078
- Changed Denver Adventure 3 - Ripping Reality from 2077 to 2079
- Changed Shadows in Focus - Metropole date from 2077 to 2078
- Changed Court of Shadows date from 2077 to 2078
- Changed Shadowrun: Anarchy date from 2077 to 2078
- Changed Cutting Aces date from 2077 to 2078
- Added Street Lethal
- Added Toxic Alleys
- Added Kill Code
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Thanks for this amazing list, really helps sort through the material. Now, since I just picked up SR5 after not playing since 2MF edition, where would you recommend starting, adventure/mission wise in order to get the most important timeline pieces built into our upcoming campaign? I figure it’s not too hard to adjust season 4 missions to play by SR5 rules.
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Added
- Shadows in Focus: Casablanca, Rabat
- Better than Bad
- Chicago Chaos
- No Future
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Now, since I just picked up SR5 after not playing since 2MF edition, where would you recommend starting, adventure/mission wise in order to get the most important timeline pieces built into our upcoming campaign? I figure it’s not too hard to adjust season 4 missions to play by SR5 rules.
I haven't read all SR5 adventures yet, but Splintered State, the first stand-alone adventure for SR5, is considered a bad place to start, and it doesn't really stand alone. If you're willing to convert the season 4 missions, Splintered State can be a great climax to that. I just started running season 4 with exactly that goal.
If you go that route, start with either Ashes (from Sprawl Wilds), Copycat Killer (comes with Silver Platter), or Back in Business (the first actual mission from season 4). Ashes has the advantage of having SR5 stats, except for the Matrix, which is all SR4 (I started a thread here: https://forums.shadowruntabletop.com/index.php?topic=28916.0 (https://forums.shadowruntabletop.com/index.php?topic=28916.0) to convert that). For Copycat Killer, I hope to be able to use some of the stats from Carbon Copy from Sprawl Wilds. You're going to have to convert Back in Business yourself, though. Hence, starting with Ashes is probably the best idea.
Or start with adventures from the Alphaware Box or some recent adventures to get the hang of the rules before you start converting from SR4, because while the systems are fairly similar, they're not identical, and the Matrix is completely different.
Edit: This question probably belongs in a thread of its own, though.
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I also have a list of all the SR5 books on the /r/shadowrun wiki (https://www.reddit.com/r/Shadowrun/wiki/books).
I'd actually love it if some kind soul actually back filled the SR4, 3, 2, and 1 books that are available on DriveThru or were released and don't appear there.
I guess I could also format it to be a table and contain release dates and theoretical in game dates...but I'm not going to do that because that's a lot of work.