This book is very hard to review because its going to be useful and not useful in different ways to different people. This book is an update to several older books including the Neo-Anarchist Guide to Real Life, Shadowbeat, On Stage Before, and others. First off it lives up to the name Attitude as much of the street talk comes off as an internet flame war in places. The first few chapters will be less useful to veteran players as its more about where shadowrunners come from and what life is like which we have all read before. They also give some common mission ideas and some general advise that may or may not be useful to you. Next they go over music artist and trideo all of which felt short but I LOVE that stuff so maybe its just me. They also go over BTLs, Sports, Pirate Media, some Celebrities. All these sections are as useful if you find them interesting. I think for old timers this is really a 2 or 3 star book but for new shadowrun players its probably 4 stars. I would have liked to see the "where do shadowruners come from" and "life on the streets" and "gear" sections dropped and put into another book so we could have had more on the music, sports, etc. For example each music artist has a one or two paragraph summery, I would have like to see them get a full page at leased.
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