Shadowrun: Art Through The Decades

We’ve got a slew of PDFs available for purchase, including a brand new novella by Jennifer Brozek, Doc Wagon 19; a new Mission, While The City Sleeps; alongside some wayback-machine-realeases in Corporate Shadowfiles and Native American Nations Volume 1 and 2.

Anytime one of those oh-so-early books is finally available in PDF form (i.e. scans of a book since often the files don’t exist or the tech no longer exists to extract the files appropriately) it’s always fascinating to flip through and look at the art.

As with any game setting, art is just so crucial for that immersion element. It can work so well hand-in-hand with the text to take us on a journey of adventure and exploration.

Flipping through those old volumes, sure, there’s some illustrations that didn’t age well. But I grabbed one illustration each from those three old books to show that they still work as strongly now as they did over twenty years ago (well, IMO of course, since art can be so subjective).

The great thing about those illustrations is those three artists also happen to be pretty much the defining aesthetic of the first few years of Shadowrun: Timothy Bradstreet, Jeff Laubenstein, and Janet Aulisio.

And it’s always great to see that early art against the latest art coming out for Shadowrun; a great legacy that keeps expanding a vibrant universe we love to visit time and again.

Randall