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Rigger Black Book

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ131309813 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rigger Black Book is a 1991 role-playing supplement for Shadowrun published by FASA.

Contents

Rigger Black Book is a supplement in which 90 vehicles receive illustrated descriptions, along with rules for using vehicles.

Reception

Matthew Gabbert reviewed Rigger Black Book in White Wolf #31 (May/June, 1992), rating it a 3 out of 5 and stated that "Overall, the Rigger Black Book is a pretty good supplement, but you end up paying for an awful lot of wasted space and good-to-poor artwork. With a tighter format and smaller pictures, it could have been done in half the pages and for two-thirds the price.

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“Rigger Black Book” enters the record as open-knowledge reference entry. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rigger, Black and Book can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 1992—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Rigger, Black and Book.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q131309813. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1991 and 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rigger Black Book” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.