shadowrun

Berlin. No sprawl in the ADL is as notorious and famous as the dystopian megaplex on the Spree. The years of anarchy have shaped the cityscape and the metahumans, the reconquest of the corporate areas has brought new color to the shadows of Berlin.

And right in the middle of it all, between armed Berliners, corporate guardsmen, soldiers of the Vory and gangers on Kamikaze, runners seek their luck in the shadows.

Shadows over Berlin is a Shadowrun 5e server set in the heart of this urban jungle in 2079. 18+ only, LGBTQIAPN+ friendly

• A Living City: Dive into a constantly evolving setting with active GMs, player-driven bounties, and dynamic plots.
• Healthy Community: New to Shadowrun or play-by-post? We'll help you learn.
• Built for PbP: Streamlined resources, custom maps, and a dedicated chargen guild to get you into the action fast.
• Your Effort Rewarded: Earn karma for character creation, GMing, and creating custom content.
• The Rumor Mill: Test your wildest concepts, cyberzombies, homebrew mechs, in our consequence-free, GM-less sandbox and earn karma for your main runners.

Choose your path and find your place in the chaos, forge your legend from the street up:

• Street Level: Gritty, desperate, and brutal. You're a nobody, fighting for survival and a chance to prove yourself. Every nuyen counts.
• Standard: The heart of the shadows. You're a competent pro, taking on the corps and syndicates for a hefty payday. This is classic Shadowrun.
• Prime: The big leagues. You're a legendary operative, a master of your craft, dealing with threats that could shake the entire ADL.

Grab your deck, your piece, or your focus. The shadows are waiting.

ShadowHaven Reloaded is a Shadowrun 5E living community. As shadowrunners, you and other Player Characters will choose job offers that come your way, forming teams long enough to get the job done. Your choices will have an impact on the community's shared narrative as you factor into the balance of power between megacorps, governments, organized crime and the forces that fight back in this magical cyberpunk dystopia. Will you bleed for a better world, or end up in some dirtball executive's pocket? Join our Discord for roleplay and help getting started, or visit our wiki to browse player characters and previous shadowruns! Join our discord and have helpful staff to help you build your first PC!


Player Safety First: We have robust and well-developed player safety tools to help explore this dark world. We cultivate a culture of collaboration between all players and game masters.


Pre-Generated Runners: You can rapidly join any run by using our premade Shadowrunners if you just want to try out Shadowrun 5th edition.

Robust Wiki: We keep rules, character sheets, and more all on our own wiki for ease of access.

Welcome to Shadows Over Hong Kong!

We are an 18+ Shadowrun Fifth Edition living community set in Hong Kong in 2076, a period in the setting rife with looming threats, and corporate intrigue seeking to take advantage of them.

Our community focuses on characters just beginning their careers as Shadowrunner, following their climb up to the big leagues from the streets. Whether you are a new player, a long term fan of the system, or returning after a break, we’d be happy to have you play with us!

We lean more into the discrete style of running this system, emphasizing planning and completing tasks without being detected. We have implemented some house rules to help smooth out the highs and lows of the system we have experienced in play.

Welcome to the Shadows, Chummer. Walk the streets of Seattle with your fellow runners. Taking jobs from the Megas to save up a nestegg for your luxurious retirement, helping out your local gangs and neighborhoods with hooding, all in a days work. Maybe that isn't what you're here for though. Maybe you're just here to try and make your mark on history and become a running legend?

Shadowrun: Locked and Loaded is a living community which looks to encourage people to have fun in an environment that encourages teamwork. Custom content is already in the works as well as some already being allowed. If you're looking to relax with some friendly faces, just join up. The fixers would be happy to have another Runner in their network.

This server has a text RP section for out-of-session roleplay, but in session games are entirely voice chat based.

Welcome to Dark Requiem – A Living Shadowrun 5E Community

Step into the shadows, chummer. Dark Requiem is a living world Shadowrun 5E community where the corps rule from their ivory towers, the streets whisper in hushed tones, and runners carve their legends—or their epitaphs—in blood and chrome.

What We Offer:
🔹 A Persistent, Player-Driven World – Your choices shape the streets, from back-alley deals to high-stakes corp sabotage.

🔹 Global Operations – Not just Seattle or LA. The whole world is in play—if you’re bold enough to step into the unknown.

🔹 Unique Storyline & Homebrew Elements – We embrace a narrative that deviates from traditional lore, exploring new facets of the Sixth World with custom content, mysterious threats, and unexpected allies.

🔹 Mature-Themed & Gritty– The Sixth World is brutal, dark, and unforgiving. We embrace the full depth of cyberpunk storytelling.

🔹 Active and Expanding– We may be small, but we’re dedicated. Quality over quantity. Every shadow counts.

🔹 Diverse Playstyles– Whether you’re a chrome-laden street samurai, a decker breaking through firewalls, or a magic-wielding adept, we have a place for you.

🔹 Mission-Based & Open RP– Take on jobs, build contacts, or forge your own path in the shadows.

Why Join?
If you’re looking for a tight-knit, immersive, and player-driven Shadowrun experience, where your actions matter, Dark Requiem is calling. you have the chance to help shape the future of this living world.

Think You Have What It Takes?
🔗 Join Now & Walk the Shadows. The Sixth World waits for no one.

We are a rather young LC, at least compared to many existing ones out there. Nevertheless, we are looking for more active players and GMs that want to join us in that project.

While we have a focus on runs, we also have various RP channels where you can go and play out your character. You can join the datahaven to just talk to others, hang out together in the asylum (which is a runner bar with tasty drinks), the range (a rather new addition to our locations, where you can go do some target shooting on an old abandoned air strip in the barrens) and if none of those are what you want, you are always free to create your own temporary place and play out a private scene with other invited runners. We encourage active RPing and even award some progression for those.

Does that sound interesting? Well, if you're not yet convinced, we also have another feature.We allow you to import one or more characters from other places (LCs and homegames), from where they can bring some or maybe even all of their achievements along (it will likely require some changes to fit our house rules but otherwise you can continue playing your character), or you can use that special slot to boost one of your new characters instead of importing an existing one, to catch up a bit to those who already have been active for a long time.
Our Team will gladly help you.

Overall we offer a variety of games, obviously a bit depending on whose GMs table you play on, ranging from Black trenchcoat, over mirrorshades to the pinkest of pinkest Mohawk runs.

But why don't you come and have a look for yourself? Worst case its 5 minutes wasted, best case, you waste the next few weeks or months of your life (or at least some part of it)

PS: Don't be too scared of our homebrew rules, it's not really longer than many other places and feel free to ask questions about them. While we do have some homebrew content, they are mostly quality of life changes. To fix cgl editorial teams attempt.

An on-topic community of people who prefer retro editions of Shadowrun.

We are the Farmer's Market.
A 5e Shadowrun Living Community based in Seattle in the year 2086. Our goal is to enjoy everything that the expansive Shadowrun universe has to offer, by giving as much freedom to our members as possible to explore the sixth world, from it's brightest heights to its darkest lows, without shying away from the mature themes that define it.

Our 18+ LC is entirely community-led, so any major change and choices are submitted by and voted on by the community at large.

After 4 years, the Farmer's Market is finally opening to the public! We welcome all players, new and old!

2085 began with fire.

At 12:05 AM on January 1st, the ZOG space station — seat of the Corporate Court — fell from orbit, shattering the illusion of corporate control. Minutes later, a rogue decker named Raguel leaked every nuyen transaction since the currency’s birth… along with the keys to decrypt them in real time. Every financial transaction tied to the nuyen — decrypted, exposed, and searchable by anyone.

Nuyen isn’t anonymous anymore.

Trust is dead.

Now, cities are fighting to host the new Corporate Court — and the Seattle Free State is on the edge of something huge... or terrible.

What Sets Us Apart:

Custom + ported content welcome: We embrace creativity and bring in material from across editions.

Story-first: Deep continuity with evolving metaplots, arcs, and consequences.

The Corporate Court is gone. The Matrix is cracked open. Will you fight to shape what rises next — or get buried in the fallout?

Join Mean Streets. The lights are probing the shadows, how will the shadows react?

Welcome to Port in the Storm, a Shadowrun 5E Living Community (a group with multiple GMs running games in the same in-game world) that’s opening its gates to both experienced prime runners and small-time criminals who want to dip their toes in the shadows of 2086 Seattle for the first time.

Our 18+ server focuses mainly on Mirrorshades and Black Trenchcoat style of one-shot games, we also offer multi-part adventures as well as overarching meta-plots that will be felt by all characters as well as Seattle at large, and private runs on request which explore the backgrounds of individual runners.

In addition to frequent voice games, we also have occasional play-by-post runs and a large written RP section to boost interaction between characters. To ensure that everyone gets their enjoyment, our GMs are encouraged via rewards to pick players who haven’t had a run in a while, as well as help integrate newbies on the Port. If you are a long-term LC-enjoyer who would like to bring their old characters, but hates to start from scratch, you will benefit from our import system, which enables you to port them over with most of their achievements and equipment up to a certain threshold.

Our newest metaplot has begun! Recently EVO has been making some maneuvers in Seattle, taking advantage of recent biotech developments they have made. While every corporation has a presence in Seattle, EVO is looking to increase its prominence. Do you take the fat corporate paychecks to give EVO the power and profits they want, or do you do what is necessary to stop another corp from forcing its way into Seattle? Either way, expect biotech experiments and corporate shadow plays to be mixed in with that good old EVO inclusion! Did we mention you can upgrade your genes for just 10 easy payments of 3,999¥? When your children inherit the gene, they get 25% off the copyright fees!

See you on board, chummers!

Welcome, High Rollers!

Nuyen Improved is a 5th Edition Shadowrun Community, where GM's post job opportunities and player characters find themselves as part of a new rag-tag, eclectic, diverse criminals every run!

Shadowrun is where Cyberpunk meets Fantasy, with heists performed by spell-slinging elves, gun-toting orks and black-trenchcoat, pink mohawked trolls against megacorporations, criminal syndicates, and all manner of magical and mutant critters.

We're all about bringing new people into the game so if you've heard of Shadowrun and its crunchy reputation or just want to give roleplaying games a go in a supportive community, come check us out!