Neo Revolution : A new French exclusive setting
[https://www.black-book-editions.fr/produit.php?id=6545](https://www.black-book-editions.fr/produit.php?id=6545)
*"Paris 2076. The people is growling and the sixth republic threaten to fall apart. The president Yohann de Kervelec feel the maw closing on him. The nobility want his head after he revealed the Cabal, corporations want him gone and all his allies abandoned him. At the back of the wall, he will attempt one last move pitting a group of shadowrunners in the torment that will take France until 2080."*
During the backing of the French version of Shadowrun Anarchy came a surprise addition: an update on Paris at 2080 along with a campaign called Neo Revolution. I have just received my hard copy and I am super excited.
Neo Revolution is a two part campaign and story splat book that pick up the story after SOX. As the name implies, it take place in Paris in the aftermath of a revolt that left its oligarchy dead or fleeing and installed a matrix backed police state.
The book also provides updates on the SOX and Brittany. For the later is goes into details about the city eating mist and its rising threat upon the metaplanes. The Jackpoint comments features new characters in addition to the usual suspects. I’m quite fond of the infuriating PatrioteInquiet, this guy is a news outlet comment section made flesh.
The campaign takes places in the years leading up to the revolution and follow an usual progression opening with a linear run and then letting you loose into the setting before bring you into the climax. It has you going places for sure as you even leave the city for more exotic areas. I also appreciate that the Jackpointers are not simply taking the back seat this time and do get stuff done at the same time as the runners. This campaign has plenty of social investigation and feature groups who push their own agendas while the runners go around to figure what is going on.
Overall it’s a nice campaign and setting. It’s different from what Japan and North America offers. You get a dystopian city directly surrounded with bad mana and a set of smaller corps to run for in case you are tired of the Big Tens. I’m super hyped to see Black Book Editions producing its own content and look forwards for more.