Some of you may have seen me throwing a few parts of this thing around for polish in the last few weeks. I just finished, so here it is.
I've got my D&D group ready for some old school 2nd edition Shadowrun, and as part of the prep, I made them a supplementary packet with a drekload of house rules and other modifications. I'm running the published adventures and slowly introducing new tech past 2050 like the Samurai Catalog and Bioware, so I've asked them all not to read anything but the core rules to avoid spoilers. This means that they're missing a lot of fluff, so I decided to do something about it.
The first third is just stories from the core book that I transcribed and modified slightly to have the backstory make a tad more sense. The middle part is my attempt at making the game more realistic vis a vis decking versus real life encryption and a few other things, and the final third is house rules. I've also sprinkled art and advertisements throughout. Yes, they suspect nothing about the Universal Brotherhood's ad inside....bwahahaha
I'm pretty proud of it, so I thought I'd share it. If you'd like to use it, please drop me a PM and I can send you the Word version. The only problem you might have is that on page 43 (47 of the PDF) is that I redacted an email in the shadowtalk. I set up a gmail with a simple to guess password for my players and sent them on a run to see who actually read the thing. The font is Friz Quadrata TT which is available online for free. I've got it hosted here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-GV0IfKz...S093UTZiaGJ0YVU
Edit: Just noticed the page numbers aren't justified on the table of contents and are crooked. I already took these to the printer to have bound. /wrists
Edit #2: Alright, finally put in the permanent fix. Ripped out all of the full page ads and opening stories.