[AirBreather]

Hello all!

I've been interested in the canon and metaplot of SR for a while, and have recently checked it out via timelines, reviews and more. I've been doing some fluff/off-screen based SR/crossover fanfic, and a large part of it is the presence and interaction of official canon missions/adventurers run by the 'players'.

Along those lines, I wanted to create a (simple) dependency list listing:
1) All adventures/missions
2) What logical order they should be 'played' in, if done from the very first in 2050 to the most current, in the 2070s.
3) What metaplot date they correspond to (if applicable)
and/or
4) What are the metaplot prequisities for the mission (if any at all, such as a certain length of time passing)
and/or
5) What are the metaplot conditions (or date, circumstances, etc) to close off the mission (if it ever happens)

(Anything I missed? Please add in suggestions and so on!)

Raw Adventure List, by edition & file number reference (obtained from wikipedia).

Key: ND = No Date, CF = Campaign Frameworks, #x = contains # adventures inside.

(7102/1st) Silver Angel (2050)
(7205/1st) Universal Brotherhood (ND)
(7301/1st) DNA/DOA (ND)
(7302/1st) Mercurial (ND)
(7303/1st) Dreamchipper (ND)
(7304/1st) Queen Euphoria (ND)
(7305/1st) Bottled Demon (ND)
(7306/1st) Harlequin (ND)
(7307/1st) Dragon Hunt (ND)
(7308/1st) Total Eclipse (ND)
(7309/1st) Imago (ND)
(7310/1st) Elven Fire (ND)
(7311/1st) Ivy & Chrome (ND)

(7312/2nd) One Stage Before (ND)
(7313/2nd) Dark Angel (ND)
(7314/2nd) A Killing Glare (ND)
(7315/2nd) Celtic Double Cross (ND)
(7316/2nd) Eye Witness (ND)
(7317/2nd) Paradise Lost (ND)
(7318/2nd) Divided Assets (ND)
(7319/2nd) Double Exposure (ND)
(7320/2nd) Harlequins Back (ND)
(7322/2nd) Super Tuesday (ND)
(7323/2nd) Shadows of the Underworld (ND)
(7324/2nd) Predator and Prey (ND)
(7325/2nd) Missions (ND)
(7326/2nd) Mob War (ND)
(7327/2nd) Blood in the Boardroom (ND)

(25014/3rd) System Failure (2064)
(7328/3rd) Renraku Arcology: Shutdown (ND)
(7329/3rd) First Run (ND)
(7330/3rd) Corporate Punishment (ND)
(7331/3rd) Brainscan (ND)
(10654/3rd) Wake of the Comet (ND)
(10665/3rd) Survival of the Fittest (ND)

(26301/4th) Emergence (2070) (CF)
(26302/4th) Ghost Cartels (2071) (CF)
(26213/4th) Storm Front (2075) (CF)
(26451/4th) Corporate Intrigue (ND) (CF)
(26452/4th) Jet Set (ND) (CF)

(26003/4th) On The Run (ND)

(26400/4th) Dawn of the Artifacts 1: Dusk (ND)
(26401/4th) Dawn of the Artifacts 2: Midnight (ND)
(26402/4th) Dawn of the Artifacts 3: Darkest Hour (ND)
(26403/4th) Dawn of the Artifacts 4: New Dawn (ND)
(26404/4th) Artifacts Unbound (ND)

(26405/4th) Horizon Adventure 1: A Fistful of Credsticks (ND)
(26406/4th) Horizon Adventure 2: Anarchy: Subsidized (ND)
(26407/4th) Horizon Adventure 3: Colombian Subterfuge (ND)
(26463/4th) The Twilight Horizon (ND)

(26408/4th) Boardroom Backstabs 1: Damage Control (ND)
(26410/4th) Boardroom Backstabs 2: Sacrificial Limb (ND)
(27409/5th) Boardroom Backstabs 3: Battle of Manhattan (2076)

(26601/4th) Bad Moon Rising (ND)
(26S005/4th) 99 Bottles (ND)
(26S022/4th) Another Rainy Night (ND)
(26S025/4th) The Land of Promise (ND)

(26CMP10/4th) Elven Blood (2074) (5x)
(26S041/5th) Sail Away, Sweet Sister (2074)
(27101/5th) Beginner Box Set (2075)
(27102/5th) Runner's Toolkit - Alphaware (2075)
(27400/5th) Splintered State (2075)
(27480/4th-5th) Sprawl Wilds (2075) (5x)
(27481/4th-5th) Firing Line (2075) (4x)
(27482/4th-5th) London Falling (2075) (4x)

(27M0501/5th) Shadowrun: Missions: Chasin' the Wind (2075)
(27M0502/5th) Shadowrun: Missions: Critic's Choice (2075)
(27M0503/5th) Shadowrun: Missions: Gone Long Gone (2075)
(27M0504/5th) Shadowrun: Missions: Liberation (2075)
(27M0505/5th) Shadowrun: Missions: While the City Sleeps (2075)

(26S038/5th) Nothing Personal (2076)
(27300/5th) Lockdown (2076) (CB) (3x)
(27450/5th) Bloody Business (2077) (CB) (19x)

(26S044/5th) Shadows in Focus: Sioux Nation: Starving the Masses (ND)

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Placed into logical groupings:


(7102/1st) Silver Angel - very simple, no external connections.
(7301/1st) DNA/DOA - simple, no external connections.
(7303/1st) Dreamchipper - simple, no external connections.
(7308/1st) Total Eclipse - simple, no external connections.
(7309/1st) Imago - 'Out there' concepts. No obvious links.
(7310/1st) Elven Fire - requires building up gang violence in Seattle over a medium-long period of time. No obvious links.
(7311/1st) Ivy & Chrome - No obvious links.

(7312/2nd) One Stage Before - No obvious links.
(7313/2nd) Dark Angel - No obvious links. High-end Yakuza clans.
(7315/2nd) Celtic Double Cross - No obvious links.
(7316/2nd) Eye Witness - No obvious links.
(7317/2nd) Paradise Lost - dragon Naheka, first visit to Hawai'i.
(7318/2nd) Divided Assets - No obvious links.
(7324/2nd) Predator and Prey - No obvious links.

(7205/1st) Universal Brotherhood:Missing Blood - depends on the unrevealed status of the UB. Would need to be set before '55/'56 and the dismantling of the UB and the containment of Chicago.
(7304/1st) Queen Euphoria - supposed to be the first appearance of insect shamans; might involve some date/concept shuffling to do it after the dismantling of the UB.
(7319/2nd) Double Exposure - depends on unrevealed status of the UB; would ideally need to be set before '55/'56.

(7305/1st) Bottled Demon - Blackwing, mercenary.
(7307/1st) Dragon Hunt - the Blackwing mercenary from Bottled Demon.

(7306/1st) Harlequin - eight linked adventures, uses Harlequin, Ehran the Scribe, Jane Foster.
(7320/2nd) Harlequins Back - MUST be run well before August 2057 and the Aztlan sourcebook.

(7302/1st) Mercurial - simple, no external connections. (Maria Mercurial and dragon Perianwyr need to be alive; Aztech corp involvement.)
(7314/2nd) A Killing Glare - Link back to Mercurial and dragon Perianwyr.

Prior/During '57 Elections
(7322/2nd) Super Tuesday! - Concerns the elections of '57 (prior/during).
(7323/2nd) Shadows of the Underworld - Concerns the elections of '57 (prior/during).

After '57 Elections
(7325/2nd) Missions - 1 of the 4 missions is timed to be after the dragon's will being read. Missions based on non-runner players.

(7326/2nd) Mob War (2058) - Set to occur in/after January '58 (assassination of Seattle Mafia boss). NO set adventure, just lots of details.

(7327/2nd) Blood in the Boardroom (2057 to 2060) - Set in 2057 through mid 2060. Only has plot hooks and partially-finished adventures.
(7329/3rd) First Run (2060) - One of the three missions are timed after the breakup of Fuchi, after 2060.

[The Wyrm Ouroboros]

For the early-on adventures, you are ideally looking at publication order for run order - DNA/DOA, Mercurial, Dreamchipper, Queen Euphoria, Bottled Demon.  You could theoretically start seeding the Harlequin adventures amongst those, though i honestly wouldn't start getting into those until 2051-2052.

For the insect spirit adventures, there is actually have a pretty solid timeline - Queen Euphoria in 2050 (with KE getting interested then); Universal Brotherhood in 2051-2052; and finally Double Exposure in early 2055  Those have to be completed before Bug City goes live in 22 August 2055; Double Exposure is actually the Seattle portion of the KE extermination rounds, and so should take place sometime between January and July.

[AirBreather]

Oh, okay thanks.

I actually had more focused questions in mind when I listed all those adventures.

My 'starting' point would be the day of/day after big D's death (2057). Doing such automatically cuts off a number of the early adventures.

The 'ending' point would start around the earliest time of the Emergence of technomancers, but I don't know exactly when that is (any time past Matrix Crash 2.0, or is there an earlier date???).

So... Given that start and end point, what missions/adventures would be rendered invalid? The plan was to shove as many of them into that span of years as possible, so placing them in order and to certain calendar dates is really wanted.

~AB

[Rift_0f_Bladz]

There is another Sioux Focus run set after the events of that run, dealing with rescuing a former military personal and deals with bad mages and another runner team.

[The Wyrm Ouroboros]

The easiest way to do it is by publication date, then.  You'd then want anything published after the Big D's will, and before Crash 2.0 - since technomancers appeared pretty much immediately thereafter.

Honestly, publication date is pretty much the easiest way to do it always; SR's theme has been a 'rolling future', per se.

[Vandal Noire]

This is something ive been looking for so thanks to the OP for that. My question is can I find all of these adventures at sources like drivethrurpg and if not what other sites should I be looking at?

[Tecumseh]

I can't say for certain that every one of these is available via DriveThruRPG but the majority of them are. I know because I have a good number of them on my wishlist there.

DriveThruRPG mostly sells PDFs. A handful of these are also available via print-to-order which works reasonably well. I bought Threats that way earlier this summer and was pleased with the quality.

If you want original paperback books instead of PDFs then I usually go to other sites looking for sellers with used copies. I use Amazon personally but eBay has a lot of inventory too.