I Could Do This In My Sleep
A nightmarish cyberpunk RPG set on the LED-soaked streets of urban Britain
Hey, you awake? Hard to tell sometimes.
Cybernetic implants keep the masses of Great Britain on their feet and working 16 hours a day, dead to the world around them. You’re one of the lucky ones. Sorta. That glitched chip in your head lets you hijack work streams and tug the reins of power for yourself; superhuman feats of strength, perfect recall, mind control. All you gotta do is keep taking the drugs, and try to forget the nightmares you saw through a thousand pairs of hopeless eyes.
So, are you sure you wanna be awake for this?
I Could Do This In My Sleep is a cyberpunk RPG for one Game Master and a small group of players, powered by a simple yet flexible character skill system and variable dice pools. Player characters are defined not only by their strengths and weaknesses, but by their connections to the world at large, their dreams and fears, and the consequences of their actions.
Characters grow and develop with your choices. Will you become a streetwise survivalist with a deft hand and a sense for danger? An expert of the arts or sciences with an encyclopaedic knowledge? A fighter with a keen eye and a finger on the trigger? Or will you delve deeper into the powers seized from your cybernetic implant, risking your mind and body in the process?
The 24-page rules booklet also features a suite of equipment and world-building prompts to kickstart your game: Heavily armed Metropolitan Guards clash in the streets with the clandestine Vigil. Brainwave and the Pill Pirates seek to undermine IntraMed's grasp on workers' bodies and minds. Gangsters and government shills alike close in from all sides.
I Could Do This In My Sleep is the fourth RPG release from Zachary Elliott-Hatton, following Protomancer, a deck-building dungeon crawler set in the hostile outer reaches of space; Beanjackers, a game of infiltration and theft loosely inspired by the classic tale Jack and the Beanstalk; and Minimal Impact, a tiny inverted dungeon crawler featuring the furry minions of the underworld.
