Street Gear

Nothing to fear if you’ve got the gear!   Nobody can do a brisk business in the field of shadowrunning without the right kit. A commlink to organize and communicate with the people you like, guns, ammo, blades, and other weaponry for the people you don’t like, armor to deal with the people who don’t like you, and maybe a few precautions to keep the whole thing in the shadows and completely out of the light of day. Having the right tool at the right time—whether it’s a stimulant patch, gas grenade, riot shield, miniwelder, maglock passkey, or a disguise kit—can mean the difference between being a legend in your own right, or a fading stain on the pavement.   Many runners love their equipment, playing favorites and installing flashy and impressive customizations, from a street samurai with gold-plated Predators to a techie pimping out his cyberdeck case. Others disdain this hardware fetishism and take a more pragmatic “toolbox” approach—it’s not the gadgets that matter, it’s the skill needed to use them right. But either way, there’s no getting around the fact that shadowrunners need specialized equipment to do their jobs.   This section introduces all the rules you need for gear—concealing, carrying, buying, and selling—and includes a representative, but not exhaustive, selection of the toys that runners, gangers, mob and metroplex soldiers, corp-cops, and other hardcases play with on the mean streets of 2075.