# Shadowrun

Shadowrun is a board game.

- **Complexity:** 3.5 out of 5
- **Year published:** 1998
- **Categories:** Core Rules (min needed to play)
- **Mechanics:** Skill Based (buy or gain skills), Point Based (allocate points to get skills, powers, etc), Dice (Primarily d6), Attribute/Stat Based (STR, CON, PER, etc), Dice Pool (Roll multiple dice vs target), Exploding Dice (Die may 'explode' into a second roll), Race Based (Player Race/Species affects gameplay)
- **Owned by:** 4 Ludoya players

**Designers:** L. Ross Babcock, III, Michael Mulvihill, Randall N. Bills, Dave Wylie, Sam Lewis, Diane Piron-Gelman, Paul Hume, Tom Dowd, Steve Kenson, Bob Charrette, Robert Boyle, Jordan Weisman, John Szeto

**Artists:** Mark A. Nelson, Steve Prescott, Tom Fowler, Larry MacDougall, Ron Spencer, Tom Baxa, Shane White, Karl Waller, Matt Wilson (I), Mike Jackson, Jeff Laubenstein, Mike Nielsen, Kevin McCann, Doug Chaffee, Janet Aulisio, Paolo Parente, Clint Langley, Mark Zug, James Nelson, Peter Bergting, Paul Bonner, Fred Hooper, Dave Martin, Marc Sasso

**Publishers:** La Factoría de Ideas, Beholder Kft.

## Links

- [This page](https://www.ludoya.com/games/shadowrun-3)
- [Shadowrun in the Ludoya app](https://app.ludoya.com/g/shadowrun-3)
- [BoardGameGeek entry](https://rpggeek.com/rpgitem/45329)

_Data from Ludoya, updated 2026-10-31. Ratings, ownership and play counts are Ludoya's own._