Mages, those rare folk who possess the gift of wielding and shaping the magical energies that now surround the Earth, are sought after to spy on the competition, heal and buff their allies, sling spells against an enemy, commit magical sabotage, and any other purpose that their employers can dream up.Riggers can manipulate vehicles and drones for a variety of purposes.
Street samurai are enforcers for hire whose combat skills and reflexes make them the ultimate urban predators.Deckers can slide like a whisper through the databases of giant corporations, spiriting away the only thing of real value-information.Below is a list of archetypal shadowrunners and their skills.
Though only the most confidential government or corporate databases even know of a shadowrunner's existence, the demand for his or her services is high. When the megacorps want a job done but do not want to dirty their hands, they turn to the only people who can pull it off: the shadowrunners. Shadowrunners are the professionals of this culture, where self-sufficiency is vital. The Mafia, Yakuza and other crime syndicates have grown explosively as their networks provide anything that people want to buy. Entire societies live and die in a black-market underworld, exploited and abused, yet powerful in their own way. And in the cracks between the giant corporate structures, shadowrunners find their homes. In the world of 2063, the metroplexes are monsters that cast long shadows.