Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Time For My Nightly Patrol!


Oh for Pete's sake! He's right there! Behind you!
Looking over my "City of Crime" supplement, I was stricken by how some of the results aren't completely appropriate for all sub-genre's of superhero RPG'ing. While it was my intent all along to go in and tweak it at some point to offer a more "comics code friendly" option, I was still somewhat surprised at how squicky or grimdark some elements were. So I decided to go ahead and do it right now, and to  jail break it out as a separate thing.

"A Night on Patrol" focuses specifically on just the Districts of The City, the Patrol Encounter Chart, the Specific Crimes charts, and the Types of Rackets chart. It has been edited to remove crimes and situations that might be distressing or uncomfortable, and that would not typically show up in your average comic book.

So get out there now and patrol the city in a more genre appropriate way!

The Owl swoops!

Posted by at
Labels: , , , , , , ,

9 comments:

  1. Phillip RibbinkNovember 15, 2017 at 10:40 AM

    I like the Crime City one, I've considered running a Police Procedural game. Set in a Dogtown style city, so that really appeals to me.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. MoonSylverNovember 15, 2017 at 11:35 AM

      Agreed that it's the better one for gritty. More realistic. For Supers though, I got to thinking about running a more traditional game (in addition to the Vigilante one). That got me to thinking of how Spider-Man or Batman don't really run across hookers or rapists. And I have a feeling more people would benefit from the "Night on Patrol" version, as probably more run traditional than gritty, & might not be comfortable with certain things at the table (rape, domestic abuse, etc.)

      Have no fear though. Any further development done will be done on both,. City of Crime isn't going away. :)

      Delete
  2. MoonSylverNovember 15, 2017 at 11:13 AM

    This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Venger SatanisNovember 15, 2017 at 2:58 PM

    Looks like you put a lot of work into that!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. MoonSylverNovember 15, 2017 at 3:50 PM

      Oh aye...days and weeks in my spare time. This has literally been a dream project of mine for a long time.

      Delete
  4. OpiyelMay 24, 2018 at 12:23 PM

    I've started using this in my solo Miami ICONS game. Only change i made was attaching the Miami boroughs to the districts that would match it best. Wynwood is Uptown, Liberty City is Slum, Brickell is Nightlife District. Works out well enough

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. MoonSylverJune 11, 2018 at 6:53 PM

      Awesome! I've read your solo Miami ICONS stuff. Hope that the Night Patrol charts are useful! :)

      Delete
  5. sjolly75September 16, 2019 at 3:33 PM

    This is great! Do you mind if I include it in an upcoming issue of our fan-made web-zine for the Marvel Superheroes RPG (by TSR)? This would be a great tool for any superhero rpg, and I think our players would really find it useful. All credit will be provided, of course, including a link back to the source. Thanks!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. sjolly75September 16, 2019 at 5:49 PM

      And by the way, if you like the Marvel Super Heroes RPG, we've created over 30 fan-created products over at https://www.facebook.com/groups/MSHUCP/ as well as 28 issues of The New Marvel-Phile!

      Delete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)