What was once lost has now been found...
After hundreds of years of obscurity, a manuscript from the 12th century has recently been discovered that details the rules for a role-playing game of historical proportions. Envisioned and enjoyed by medieval monks of some long-forgotten priory, their game will take you back in time to portray the brave knights, cunning outlaws, determined clerics, bold peasants,... [click here for more]
Hong Kong’s fragrant harbor has become a fetid mess. Month-long acidic rains pour from the sky. Triad and corporate corruption has enmeshed the city in debt and crippled its infrastructure. Periodic power outages turn the slums into a claustrophobic hell for hours at a time. Most of the populace has been forced into warrens extending hundreds of meters into the bedrock and can escape only into the... [click here for more]
Sitting at the confluence of Northeast, Southeast, and Midwest, Indianapolis has become the de facto convention and conference center for the entire region. And the effective arcology that is the Downtown ConPlex shields visitors from the harsh reality of the city. But from multinational mega-corps to independent fan gatherings, there is always one conference or another going on, making it the... [click here for more]
MECHNOIR is an alternative Player's Guide for Technoir: High-Tech, Hard-Boiled Roleplaying. It includes nine new shiny training programs, six big stompy mechs (or 'rigs'), and the two transports that bring them to the battleground. There's special rules for destroying the tags on your enemies' rigs and transports and a section for how to deal with scale when hardboiled criminals go up against... [click here for more]
Playing it safe isn't working anymore; you're not going to get out of this clean. You have illicit tech and the talent to use it. Time to go shake the city and see what falls out. You'll get hurt, sure, but what kind of pain will you deal out?Technoir is a roleplaying game. You play protagonists like cyber-tweaked couriers, hard-nosed investigators, and drugged-out hackers making... [click here for more]