Nathan Russell wrote Space Rat: the Jack Cosmos Adventure Game! and FU: The Freeform/Universal RPG. He publishes games through Peril Planet and will now write Hard City for Osprey Games.
The noir roleplaying game is due out at the end of the year and brings hard-nosed gumshoes, gangsters and femme Fatales to the tabletop.
The system offers swift character generation, producing characters with flaws and skills and an action resolution that keeps the momentum up to keep the plot going.
Hard City is a sandbox setting with hooks for adventures in which innocents must be rescued, blackmail thwarted, and crooks fought.
I woke with a start, my mouth tasting like an old glove and my head pounding from the events of the previous evening, though I wasn’t sure if it was the beating from Benny’s boys or the bottle of whiskey that had done the most damage. I lifted my eyelids like stubborn blinds to find my gaze fall on a dame with a hundred-dollar purse in one hand and a cheap bean-shooter in the other. I groaned and cursed myself for ever getting involved in this mess…
The Hard City RPG is not the only city-based game with action, corruption and investigation that Osprey has slated for this year. The publisher, which is part of Bloomsbury, will also release the cyberpunk-themed Crescendo of Violence written by Alan Bahr.
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