In Bad Moon Rising in the East, a team of shadowrunners is hired to track down the source of a new drug shipping into Hong Kong. Directly connected to the Ghost Cartels campaign, the team of six Caracas natives are thrust into a criminal underworld far from their home. With few contacts to turn to, they may find themselves deeply involved in a vicious underworld conflict.

This 22-page scenario was used for the Gen Con 2008 Shadowrun tournament. While it may be used with other characters, the included team of shadowrunners is fully fleshed out with contacts, backgrounds, and motivations. This complete package allows for a night or two of Shadowrun with little prep work for the gamemaster or the players.

Bad Moon Rising in the East totals 37 pages, with 1 cover/credits page, 21 pages of scenario, 3 pages with 1 map each, and 12 pages of pregenerated characters: Covert Ops, Face, Hacker, Melee Artist, Pistol Adept, Shaman.

Bad Moon Rising PDF - $3.95

Bad Moon Rising PDF from DriveThruRPG - $3.95

"a team of shadowrunners are hired" - is hired, neh?

"This 22-page scenario scenario " - one less: scenario

"the included team of shadowrunners are fully fleshed" - probably just "included shadowrunners" or "is fully fleshed" ?

When I get home for <strike>the salt mines</strike> work, I fully intend to check this out.
/me crosses his fingers and wishes for the best.

Don't worry, the promise to issue an errata for the announcement. And since its PDF you get the updated announcement for free!

"they promise", you mean.


It's the novacrack, I'm sorry

Problems with the BCC, blame me. Problems with the interior editing, blame someone else.

why out of all available old covers did you have to pick this ugly piece of crap?

sry, but I always hated the cover-art of the SR1/2-GM-screen and now it comes back haunting me

but great to see some earl geier-art again

anyway, I'll start reading now...

Because there's a series of adventures and they're going to each use a piece of it.

this is my personal nightmare

edit:
it's just a cover anyway. as long as the content is good, I'm fine

Right, I'll fall on the sword for those issues.

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This is what I have been looking for since 4th Edition came out. I think its fantastic. The layout is readable. The NPC stats and condition monitors are blocked off on relevant pages. if it had Karma rewards it would be an honest to Rod adventure. This is A grade work.

I would be willing to buy one of these a month at this price should you have more that are this good.

shadowrunner is
shadowrunners are

are is very much correct for a plural. Do not try to correct grammar if you don't have a firm grasp on the language (aka above high-school [American] education - high schools here suck balls).

it is still one Team that is hired : So the Team of Shadowrunners is hired should be correct
(and I'm a foreigner )

with the 100th Dance
Medicineman

In British English, "a team of shadowrunners are" would be correct. In American English, it wouldn't.

So We're right nyahhhh

Oh no he didn't!

I'll see what we can do to accommodate that.

And, as a minor spoiler, that formatting is what we'll be using in the next series of Missions scenarios.

My grasp is firm, thank you: like GI Joe Kung-Fu Grip.

While technically you can be correct, "is" is prefixed by shadowrunners, & thus what it is referencing. It is incorrect for the plural, & should be "are". To reference the team, the sentence should be worded "A shadowrunner team is".

Because of its wording, you cannot clearly tell if it is "a team of shadowrunners" or a team of shadowrunners", making everything potentially incorrect. The wording does suggest that team & shadowrunners are two separate entities.

Edit: Yet another reason why I hate this damn language. I should really learn another.

Are you talking about the second or first instance of "team of shadowrunners"? Clearly, in the first sentence, team is the subject, and the prepositional phrase "of shadowrunners" is acting as an adjective describing what type of team. Taking a look at the second sentence, we can conclude that the author intended to expound upon the shadowrunners, but constructed a poor sentence to do so, which is why I suggested an alternate fix, rather than just altering the to be verb.

Ahh, the SR2 GM screen cover. I love that piece of art. I pretty much love all SR2 art come to think of it.

Edit: Yet another reason why I hate this damn language. I should really learn another.
Don't learn German ,its very Difficult. I'm glad its my Mother's tongue.
Maybe Portuguese/Brazilian ?It's got a pleasant sound and Roman languages are usually easier

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Medicineman

"The corporation are"
"The company are"
"The team are"
"The group are"

All correct in British English.

I'll see if I can bag this later.

In British English, one may refer to a group as a plurality. In American English, one may not. We who live in Canada and are exposed to both forms regularly find this duality a source of psychosis. In a typically Canadian attempt to find a third way, we come up with "the corporation arse".

In BrE grammatically singular collective nouns are treated as notionally plural if the group is considered as a collection of individuals:

The audience were enjoying every minute of it
England have won the cup.

Singular and plural verbs are more or less interchangeable in the contexts of [1] and [2], but singular has to be used in sentences like The audience was enormous, there the group is considered as a single undivided body.

In AmE gramatically singular collective nouns are generally treated as singular, especially when they refer to governments and sports teams.

Note: In BrE and AmE, plural pronouns are often used to refer to singular collective nouns even when the verb is singular; for example, they is an alternative to it in The committee has not yet decided how they should react to the letter.

I can't believe we've spent two pages arguing pedantically about grammar on a thread about a new product! No wonder people consider us gamers antisocial.

Catalyst, are the characters for Bad Moon Rising in the East set, or can we stick our regular characters in there? I'm guessing the answer is that it might need a little tweaking.

What, you read the thread and not the blurb?

I skimmed it, I confess. I was distracted by the person correcting the grammar of the kind soul who had just posted the good news. Who was that again?

Archangel Gabriel: "Fear not, for I bring glad tidings of great joy. You shall bear a son, and He shall be the holiest of holies, and he shall be named Jesus."

Mary: "Yeah, did you know your sandals don't really go with your halo?"

Having been edited by Adam in the past, I can honestly say he appreciates us ensuring his professional, commercial product blurbs are free of errors.

Fair enough.

By the way, I agree with your corrections, and I live in Britain. 'Team' is the noun. 'Team of Shadowrunners' may be a noun phrase, but it is still singular.

I find it amusing, but will drop the issue.

I am actually intending to learn Latin, Norwegian (Bokmål & Nynorsk), Eldar Futhark, & Binary. I am vaguely interested in German.

While Latin should be easy enough, it's nearly impossible to find a teacher for the rest around here.

As a person studying to be an electronic engineer, let me just say that binary is both easy and overrated. But if you insist, you might as well learn octal and hexadecimal while you're at it.

01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01110100 01100101 01101000 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101110

The layout for running an adventure is very nice.

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Admin post: "It's freaking annoying" is a far better reason.

Jesus Christ let this go.

Two pages of you spankers chewing someone out for grammatical errors.

- J.

I love how the team of characters constructed for the mission all have their part to play and shine.

(light-hearted sarcasm)
While I appreciate your work in putting this out for all of us, I feel another format may be necessary. What do you say to putting it on paper? Maybe with a protective binding of some kind, I suppose we could call it a 'cover'. Then of course we'd have to name this new format... hmmm... I know, I'll call it a book.
(/light-hearted sarcasm)

Sorry. However, even with the fast production and greater availability of electronic formats (and yes, I'm gonna buy your PDF), there is something to be said for the smell of paper.

Seriously though Adam, you said this is part of a series of adventures? What're the odds of an actual physical compilation of this series when it's finished?

I would agree, even if this page can ease some of the pain.

Answering for Adam since the PDF-exclusives are actually my domain.

It's pretty unlikely that this scenario (or any of the other PDF exclusives) would see print release. These are being released as PDFs based upon sales expectations. In the event that the PDFs sell astronomically well, it's certainly possible that CGL would consider a print release. However, it's reasonable to say that's extremely unlikely.

Essentially, in order to justify a print run, it has to be reasonably likely that a book will sell a few thousand copies. These scenarios are unlikely to hit that target for a number of reasons.

Damn, and other (normally) unprintable exclamations. Well, thanks for the quick response anyway dunner, I guess I'll have to buy a new computer after all.

*wanders off to pour over my extremely extensive book collection*

The PDF costs $3.95 plus approximately $0.50 to $1.00 for ink (assuming you print the colour cover), paper and wear on your printer to have a print copy complete with the smell of paper. You can even use scented paper for a little extra.

I fully blame Penguin for that...

I love how the adventure allows the PCs to tackle the 'Run in many imaginative ways.

Gives a whole new meaning to the term "flavour text"...

I don't even want to speculate on this; it might happen, it might not, for the reasons John has outlined.

I do, however, want to point out that all of the "new content" PDF releases are additional to the print schedule: we aren't taking books off the print schedule and turning them into PDFs. We're taking product types and concepts that likely wouldn't break even or make money in the traditional three-tier [publisher -> distributor -> retailer] environment and making them available directly to you.

Just downloaded! I for one -like- the front cover; I've always liked the artist. Also the layout is fantastic; you've really outdone yourself on the character sheets and NPCs especially. Now off to read...

Note to the publishers: I would pay $30 for a bundle of adventures like Bad Moon. The format is great, easily read and completely usable. Whereas I have advised all of the local GMs to put Ghost Cartels at the bottom of their list, I have told them all to buy this immediately.

I can see one adventure losing money in a print format. A book of them may work.

If I am gushing, I apologize. This adventure represents something I have wanted more of for Shadowrun for nearly a decade.