20XXPNKS - Firefight City

20XXPNKS - Firefight City

A Rules-Light Cyberpunk RPG by Alan Bahr, Rick Hershey, and Simone Tammetta!
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Welcome to Firefight City!


Welcome to Firefight City!

20XXPNKS: Firefight City is a rules-light tabletop roleplaying game set in a dystopian city in the near future.

Introducing the Shrike system, a punchy, rules-light, hyper-lethal game system, 20XXPNKS: Firefight City is all gas, no brakes.

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Features

This game features:
  • 60+ pages in glorious black and white!
  • A high-level overview of an original setting: The cyberpunk city-island archipelago of Twilight, also known as Firefight City!
  • Dynamic difficulty and an upgraded dice system that allows for a quick resolution and flexible tactical options.
  • Detailed combat rules that are evocative, fresh-feeling, and new.
  • Rules for downtime, contacts, drones, and cyberware
  • Six original archetypes:
    • Devildog, Iconoclast, Beekeeper, HXR, MKR, and FXR
  • Rules for hacking
  • And more!
Credits:
  • Written by Alan Bahr
  • Art by Rick Hershey and Simone Tammetta
  • Layout by Kris McClanahan


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The Pledge

This project is short, sweet, and simple! The game is available as a digital PDF and as a softcover Print-On-Demand book from DriveThruRPG.

There is one pledge, and it gets you everything!

THE PLEDGE: $12

The core game is complete, and proofs are en route. Once the project concludes, the game will be distributed via DriveThru RPG.
 

If you are interested in all of the Add-On games offered in the project, there is also a super-discounted tier for that: THE COLLECTION! You get 20XXPNKS: FIREFIGHT CITY and all seven available add-on books in PDF and at-cost POD code for $60! You can see more about the other games in the "Add-Ons" section below!
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No A.I.


We strongly believe in the vitality and importance of supporting people and using real human creativity to make our games. No generative Artificial Intelligence was used in the creation or production of this game. 
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Open Hearts, Open Source


After this campaign, the SHRIKE system will receive a CC-BY 4.0 release as a separate document, so you can hack, mutilate, change, or adjust it to your leisure.
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About Us


Alan Bahr is an award-winning and best-selling game designer, known for TinyD6, Heirs to Heresy, Crescendo of Violence, Tombpunk, and much more. BAHRHAUS is Alan Bahr’s independent label where he develops smaller, experimental projects or games that will be released by other publishers.
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Print-On-Demand and Fulfillment

IMPORTANT: You will get Print-On-Demand at-cost codes for the printed book, which will cost about $3-5ea USD for the black-and-white softcover book. You will also be responsible for paying shipping costs for your order at the time of purchase.

How Does This Work?
This campaign is entirely digital. Fulfillment will be done via print-on-demand delivery from DriveThruRPG. Digital delivery will happen via DriveThruRPG as well. 

Print-on-demand delivery means you will get a link that allows you to pay the shipping and printing cost of the book and have it delivered to you on your own timetable.

The book is edited, illustrated, laid out, and basically done, other than proofing the physical copies. 

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Add-Ons

Get more games at a discount! In addition to 20XXPNKS, you can add a plethora of fine games from Octopress Publishing, Alan Bahr, and Kris McClanahan!

NOTE: All of these games include the digital PDF and an at-cost code for the Print On Demand version of the book. If you are looking for the offset print of any of them, or the box set of Tombpunk, most of them can be found on indiettrpgs.com

Dweomerdark & Alone in Dweomerdark

88 pages, softcover. Can you brave the ancient dwarven depths? In the darkest depths of the ancient dwarven kingdoms known as Dweomerdark, brave and foolhardy adventurers raid ancient tombs, fight undead, risk death, dismemberment, and decapitation, all for a taste of glory and gold. Features Cooperative dungeon exploration and mapping as you explore an ancient dwarven empire long left to dust, Modified SONGS & SAGAS ruleset, Rules for magic items, traps, and ancient dwarven curses, A bestiary of foes, New tables for exploration, and Rules for heritages and classes in a fully stand-alone and playable game.

30 pages, softcover. Alone In Dweomerdark contains rules, guidance, and tables for a solo delving experience! Features tools and oracles for: Scenarios, Weather, NPCs, Encounters, Obstacles, Storytelling, Action, Enemies, Locations, Traps, and Curses. Designed and written for DWEOMERDARK, this supplement also works great as a general Solo RPG player aid for most OSR and fantasy TTRPGs.

Tombpunk: The Mausoleum Edition

136 pages, hardcover. TOMBPUNK is a lo-fi, high-action, rules-light, roleplaying game from ALAN BAHR. Welcome to a world that will do its damndest to kill you, full of tomb-raiding adventures, armored skeletons, dangerous cultists, unpredictable blunderbusses, and you, armed with a trusty old mace and a slightly rusty helmet you stole off of a corpse. This second edition of TOMBPUNK includes all-new art and layout from Kris McClanahan, rare classes, enemies, dungeon generators, setting notes, and more!

A Bug's Guide to the Shimmer (For the Troika! RPG)

47 pages, HC/SC. They dwell forever in a series of tunnels underground. Lit and fed by a phosphorescent carpet of fungi and lichen. They battle strange beasts and giant creatures. They are small and blue. They are The Roan, and this is THE SHIMMER. A Bug's Guide to the Shimmer is a world book for the Troika! Roleplaying system. It includes the following fine features: Background and history of The Roan, Notes about the Shimmer, 1D6 worth of PC Backgrounds, 3D6 worth of Creatures and Foes, D66 Items and weapons, Advanced Skill descriptions, 1D6 unusual spelling choices.

Streetlights & Shadows: The Early Edition

78 pages, softcover. Streetlights and Shadows is a tabletop roleplaying game where you play a Private Investigator on the streets of a city, attempting to solve crimes, handle the problems of clients, and in general, survive in a mean city. This early edition of Streetlights & Shadows includes: A complete, all-new system with a focus on managing your energy and will across a long night of investigation, Dangerous combat, 16 skills, 4 Investigator Templates, case-building tools, an innovative interview system, Premade Citizens, Original art, and more!

Pressure Point

30 pages, softcover. In Pressure Point, you play a member of the maintenance crew on board a research station where something happens in the science wing, plunging the station into darkness, chaos, and danger. Armed with nothing but your spanner, a laser drill, and your thermal coveralls, you must attempt to discover what happened to the station and reactivate the core before you freeze.  Avoiding anything that could cause a puncture in the station and everyone's immediate death would be good too. Oh, and there's something alien in the station, of course. Can't forget that! This is the Zinequest version of the game and is a quick, easy-to-play solo RPG where you physically puncture the pages as you play to change the game. (You'll get this in PDF too, but it needs to be played as a printed game - it can be easily printed at home too.)





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