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Netcrawl

Netcrawl

Netcrawl is a TTRPG about adventuring inside a computer system. Everyone goes in, seconds pass in the meatspace as players spend hours conquering a cyber-dungeon - together.
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Intro



You are coherent data traveling at the speed of light,
a digital avatar searching for computerized information. 

There is something hidden in the virtual realms, and you shall hack it.

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Netcrawl

Netcrawl RPG is a TTRPG about adventuring inside a computer system. Everyone goes in, seconds pass in the meatspace as players spend hours conquering a cyber-dungeon - together. 

Netcrawl RPG uses the d20 System and Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG rulebook that can run as a cyber sidecar to your current game or as a stand alone game with little or no notion of an outside meatspace world. 

Inspiration for Netcrawl RPG is drawn from William Gibson's seminal cyberpunk novel, Neuromancer, among many other works of science fiction and cyberpunk.
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The Core Books


Netcrawl RPG presents a synthetic reality RPG set inside computers powered by DCC RPG. 

The main rulebook features a full cyberspace RPG with classes, equipment, programs, bestiary, and more. Powered by DCC RPG mechanics and game design.

• Hardback
• 8.5" x 11"
• 100+ pages
• Color throughout
• Cover by Johan Nohr

Netcrawl Arcologies is a system light generator and table ideation book for creating ICE, systems, and virtual realities and focuses on world building and adventure ideation.
 
• Softbound
• 8.5" x 11"
• pages TBD
• Cover by Daniel Vega

But Wait, There's More

There's a third book that goes along with Netcrawl. Enchiridion of the Computarchs is a book of 42 programs to add on to Netcrawl RPG. Includes several generators for error messages, system acronyms, and generating true ICE. 

• Softbound
• 8.5" x 11"
• 100 pages
• Color cover by Matt Cartwright
• B/W interior
• Already produced and printed
• DCC RPG & MCC RPG compatible

Get a print copy of Enchiridion of the Computarchs at 50% cover price ($10) by backing these pledge tiers:
• Netcrawl Trilogy [Print + PDF]
• Netcrawl Complete [Print + PDF]
• Netcrawl Gold [Print + PDF]
• Netcrawl + Eye-Wizard [Print + PDF]
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Adventures



Explore the WorldNet

Netcrawl RPG is launching with 5 adventures ranging from 0 level to 4th. Plenty of opportunities to discover the WorldNet as soon as the system is published. 
Amazing authors creating cyberspace adventures:
  • Brendan LaSalle
  • Julian Bernick
  • Brian "The Neon Lord" Shutter
  • James A. Pozenel, Jr.

Fantastic cover artists illustrating virtual realms:
  • Caterina Gerbasi
  • Robbi Burns
  • more TBA

To get them all, back Netcrawl at any of these pledge levels
  • Netcrawl Complete [Print + PDF]
  • Netcrawl .New( ) [Print + PDF]
  • Netcrawl Gold [Print + PDF]
  • Netcrawl + Eye-Wizard [Print + PDF]
  • Electronic .All() [PDF only]

Later after the Backerkit closes and fulfillment begins, you can add on specific adventure modules.
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Cross Collab

Neon Lords of Netcrawl

The Neon Lord and the WorldNet team up to wrestle the cyberspace and meatspace into bloody submission.

If both projects fund, Brian Shutter and James Pozenel will produce a new adventure, "Token Collect".  Features 6 mini-adventure homages to classic video games of the 80s.
  • 3 mini-adventures designed for each Netcrawl RPG and Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland
  • Conversion information for each mini-adventure
  • The players must survive and collect tokens from the mini-adventures 
  • The players cash-in the tokens for prizes, benefits, and other things specific to each RPG
  • The adventure will be a 8.5" x 11" softcover book.

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Stretch Goals

Hack The Expectations

We have some big plans for Stretch Goals. Help us get there.
Here's our first set of Stretch Goals. More to be announced as the crowdfunding campaign progresses.

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Shipping

All shipping fees will be charged separately, AFTER the campaign, during pledge management. Actual shipping prices will be determined after production is finished and we're gearing up to send out the books. Also, if you add-on additional physical copies of the game to your order, your shipping cost may increase.
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Media Coverage

Interviews

I've done several interviews and podcasts for Netcrawl RPG. If you really want to dive deep, here's some appearances over the past year or so.


Press Kit

Are you a member of the press or a podcaster, reviewer, or other cool content producing observer of the scene? Feel free to check out the Press Kit and get in touch for interviews or other engagements with Horse Shark Games.
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The Team

Netcrawl RPG is written by Spellburn co-host, Goodman Games freelance writer, and that bearded guy behind Horse Shark Games, James A Pozenel, Jr.

Julian Bernick is a poet, editor and writer who began his RPG writing in 2016 and has since published over a dozen adventures with Goodman Games and associated third party publishers. He also hosts the Spellburn podcast and can be found running games at various RPG conventions in the upper midwest.

Brian Shutter is the writer/creator of Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland
Hailing from upstate New York, the Neon Lord tirelessly cranks out zines and supplements for Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland as well as a new game Zombie Braineaters: Decay in the USA with John "Hambone" McGuire. You can find his royal slimeness all over the internet and most notably on his Patreon where the Knights of the Slimetable meet!

Brendan LaSalle is a staff writer for Goodman Games who has been publishing adventures and RPG content since 2002. He is the creator of Xcrawl and the new Xcrawl Classics edition. 

Artists
Horse Shark Games is proud to have a global, diverse community of artists working on not just Netcrawl, but all of its publications. 
AND MORE to come!

Music
Netcrawl RPG
theme music created by Loot the Body

Video
Crowdfunding campaign video by Alana Thompson

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