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Summary: Here There Be Dragons
Review: Dragons of the Sixth World is something that I (and probably many others) have beeen waiting for for a long time. Dragons have always played a significant, if behind the scenes role in the Shadowrun universe and this book finally gives us some decent data on them. Much of this information is brand new while some of it is simply collected and updated from previous sourcebooks and novels. The book gives a brief (and sketchy) treatise on dragon biology and life cycles and then goes on to give dossiers of several great dragons and then a few pages of blurbs on lesser dragons. The game information section is actually quite small but it gives some harder information on the Great Dragons and rules for creating Drake player characters. This book, in some ways, is like Threats 2. It's a lot of speculation, shadowtalk, and provides many, many hooks for adventures. It may also be the last of its kind in some time, as Shadowrun is said to be switching to more "street-level" look and feel. The book itself is about 200 pages long and is quite an interesting read. It leaves a lot of questions unanswered of course, but that is the point of this kind of sourcebook. Some of the art in it (sparse as it is) is quite nice. One note: If you're aware of the Shadowrun/Earthdawn crossovers then this book will have somewhat more meaning for you, especially if you've downloaded and read the FASA sourcebook "Dragons." Before FASA closed its doors it had just finished putting the writing together for the Eartdawn sourcebook on dragons. They very kindly released it for free in PDF format on the net as one of their last acts. Dragons of the Sixth World will make much more sense if you've read its Eartdawn equivalent.
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