Leave Your Meat Suit at the Door
Netcrawl RPG, the limitless VR TTRPG, is now available at horsesharkgames.com
Ann Arbor, MI - Horse Shark Games is proud to announce the release of Netcrawl RPG. The cyberpunk style game is heavily influenced by Neuromancer, Snow Crash, Tron, and The Matrix and has recently concluded the fulfillment of its very successful crowdfunding campaign. Besides the hardcover core rulebook, the game is supported with five adventures and a table-based, world-building/ideation book.
The only AI-anything in these books are the monsters. The one hundred percent human-made books feature art from Johan Nohr (Mörk Borg, CY_Borg), Andre Garin (Banished Vault), Daniel Vega (Codex Noirmatic), Doug Kovacs (Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG, Hobonomicon), and dozens more.
What is Netcrawl RPG?
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.
Netcrawl RPG is inspired by Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG by Goodman Games. It can be used as a standalone game or as a cyber-sidecar to your current game. Simpler d20 gameplay and cool game mechanics like Luck and spell result tables are just some of the beats Netcrawl has borrowed from DCC RPG.
Reducing computer system hacking/raiding into a series of specialist character class skill rolls is a missed opportunity. Netcrawl RPG puts players inside the computer to face whatever digital defenses lie inside, protecting the party's objective.
Netcrawl is centered around cyberspace and players adventuring in cyberspace. Players guide their avatars to sabotage digital systems, steal money, gain access to systems, acquire knowledge and/or information, etc.
The WorldNet - Netcrawl RPG Setting
The matrix, cyberspace, the WorldNet is mankind’s shared, consensual hallucination. A pinnacle achievement of machine-generated virtual reality (VR) environments is available to all. Avatars give their users superlative access and control to the myriad of simulations available within.
The WorldNet might have been created now, or a hundred years ago, or even 10,000 years ago. The computational forces and AIs that run the WorldNet’s simulations may (or may not) be cognizant of when they were set to the task of providing billions of realities to its users.
Most users seem perfectly content to experience their every desire or wallow in their woes. Are not the infinities of imagination enough for you? No, not for you. You and others like you keep asking, “Why?” Are you really ready to find out?
Something is hidden in the virtual realms, and you shall hack it.
Two Worlds
Implicit in a VR RPG like Netcrawl is the notion of reality. Netcrawl does not have an explicit “real world” setting. It could be set within a myriad of sci-fi/modern RPGs, from space horror to post-apocalyptic to cyberpunk to spy adventures. Any game that includes computers is a perfect real-world setting for Netcrawl RPG. Alternatively, there may be little or no notion of reality in a Netcrawl campaign. The game does not try to solve it all, but gives you an open ruleset and lots of examples of how it can find a home at your table.
Print books are available at https://horsesharkgames.com
