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A repeat offer of the Dusk City Outlaws Bundle, featuring the "fantasy heist RPG about criminal cartels in the sprawling metropolis of New Dunhaven" from Scratchpad Publishing. Someone I mentioned it to described it as being like a fantasy steampunk version of Leverage, which sounds about right:
https://bundleofholding.com/p
Last time around I said
This seems a little like a fantasy equivalent of a cyberpunk campaign, with the players acting as contract thieves / con men / whatever rather than hackers etc. Generally the rules seem to emphasize drama and story telling rather than precise mechanics, and it seems to be possible to pick up the game and start playing without a huge time investment. On a less positive note, there do seem to be a lot of game components which you can print yourself but are probably better if you buy them ready made - special playing cards and dice, for example - so this could get to be quite expensive. The actual word count seems to be fairly low, which may explain the comparatively low price - the largest document is only a couple of megabytes, and jobs (adventures) only run to a few pages.
Given the low price and slightly different approach it looks like a worthwhile buy, especially if you want to run this sort of campaign and don't have a suitable system. But as as always I have to point out that I get this stuff free, your mileage may differ.
I don't see any reason to change any of that.
Later - edited because first time around I called this "Duck City Outlaws"...
https://bundleofholding.com/p
Last time around I said
This seems a little like a fantasy equivalent of a cyberpunk campaign, with the players acting as contract thieves / con men / whatever rather than hackers etc. Generally the rules seem to emphasize drama and story telling rather than precise mechanics, and it seems to be possible to pick up the game and start playing without a huge time investment. On a less positive note, there do seem to be a lot of game components which you can print yourself but are probably better if you buy them ready made - special playing cards and dice, for example - so this could get to be quite expensive. The actual word count seems to be fairly low, which may explain the comparatively low price - the largest document is only a couple of megabytes, and jobs (adventures) only run to a few pages.
Given the low price and slightly different approach it looks like a worthwhile buy, especially if you want to run this sort of campaign and don't have a suitable system. But as as always I have to point out that I get this stuff free, your mileage may differ.
I don't see any reason to change any of that.
Later - edited because first time around I called this "Duck City Outlaws"...
