Dreamchipper

Dreamchipper is an adventure published by FASA in 1989 for the cyberpunk near-future role-playing game Shadowrun.

Publication history

Dreamchipper is an 80-page book written by James D. Long, with a cover by Dave Dorman, and published by FASA in 1989.[1]

Plot summary

Dreamchipper is a scenario in which a company's new dream chips – with the recorded personalities of Jack the Ripper, Cleopatra, and Genghis Khan – have been stolen. The shadowrunners are hired to get them back.[1]

Reception

In the April 1990 edition of Dragon (Issue #156), Ken Rolston called this "good, gritty cyberpunk, well organized and entertaining, with a solid action-adventure story line." Rolston complimented the adventure for being broken into short and manageable episodes, and also for allowing enough leeway to allow for the players' "characterization and divergent problem solving." Rolston concluded with a thumbs up, saying, "The Shadowrun game is one of the hottest role-playing settings at present, and this is a good example of how that setting can translate into dramatic action-adventure role-playing."[2]

Reviews
  • Games Review (Volume 2, Issue 5 - Feb 1990)
  • White Wolf #20 (April/May, 1990)
gollark: Install CCEmuX, try potatOS, try uninstalling potatOS.
gollark: So I guess... add an IPC mechanism of some sort?
gollark: PotatOS has no IPC mechanism, so I just bodge it a lot of the time with queueEvent and stuff.
gollark: Hmm, that gave me a really good idea, 6_4.
gollark: I would recommend CraftOS-PC or CCEmuX for maximum Potatocompatibility™.

References
  1. Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. p. 280. ISBN 0-87975-653-5.
  2. Rolston, Ken (April 1990). "Role-playing reviews". Dragon. TSR, Inc. (156): 86.
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