#cbrpnk

Que por todo medio vanal recuperes tu verdadera forma.

This is CBR+PNK Augmented, a clever little box set of pamphlets housing a razor sharp Forged in the Dark cyberpunk game about a group of Runners pulling One Last Job. It’s so tight, I can barely breath.

OK, so, the fold-out box opens up into two section filled with 4-fold pamphlets. They’re all heavy card stock featuring lovely art and nice design that is both evocative and clean enough to remain usable. There’s lots of spot gloss, too, which is a nice touch. One pamphlet is for the GM, explains how to write scenarios (this is a one-shot game), how to use the progress tracks (a tweaked version of Blades in the Dark’s countdown timers), how glitches effect cyber, consequences for failed rolls, how to handle elite opponents, and so on. There are five player guides/character sheets (suspicion: these might be dry erase safe?) — main thing to know is that there are no playbooks, rather the skill/augment combos make them unique. Dump all the pamphlets out to read the various cybernetics printed on the box interior.

The second set of pamphlets for the GM. There’s “Mind the Gap,” a train based scenario in three acts; “PRDTR,” a scenario inspired by Predator, natch; “Framework” is a deeper guide to crafting scenarios; “+Weird” adds, well, weird shit like magic and mutants; “Cyberpunk Hunters” adds additional opponents; and “Mona Rise: Megalopolis” provides a campaign frame clearly based on William Gibson’s Sprawl.

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