Spun-off from the annual Sci-Fi One-Shot Jam, the Cyberpunk Mission Jam is all about making missions and adventure modules for your favorite cyberpunk tabletop RPGs. Some notable ones include:

• Bite the Hand (and Mothership, via A Pound of Flesh)
• CBR+PNK
• Cities Without Number
• Crash//Cart
• Cy_Borg
• Eclipse Phase
• Gangs of Titan City
  
• HARDCASE
• Hard Wired Island
• Neon City Blues
• Neon City Overdrive
• Runners in the Shadows
• Sprawl Goons
• The Sprawl
• Wetrunner (and Blue Planet, to an extent)

The Rules

1. Write a mission for any cyberpunk TTRPG of your choice (or make your cyberpunk adventure system-agnostic).
2. Finish the submission during the jam. No pre-existing missions; we want new stuff.
3. No AI-generated text or images.
4. No bigoted submissions. 

You are free to submit as many missions as you want and charge whatever you want for them, as long as they each follow the above rules (and you provide community copies for the judges).

Optional Themes

We have a handful of optional themes, to help provide inspiration:

• Love 2.0.
• Are You Smarter Than A Megacorp Executive?
• "This Drone War is Fucked, Man."
• Urban Exploration.
• Muppets.

Hard Mode Challenges

Looking for an extra challenge? Here are some additional rules:

• Limit the submission to a single sheet (two A4/letter pages).
• Use two or more of the Optional Themes above.
• No images or diagrams, only text (ASCII art is allowed).
• Make it system-agnostic.

Does [X] count as cyberpunk?

If you're writing a system-agnostic adventure, it can be easy to push against the bounds of "cyberpunk." I generally trust you (and whoever judges your mission) to determine if something "counts" as cyberpunk. 

But remember the rule-of-thumb: cyberpunk is "high-tech, low-life."

Judging

Submissions will be judged based on the following criteria:

• Legibility. How well-written and easy-to-understand is this mission? This includes clear writing, layout, and organization.
• Design. How well does this mission apply adventure design principles to create compelling gameplay? This includes scenario structure/flow, encounter design, player objectives, and other game design considerations.
• Appeal. How appealing (conceptually and stylistically) is this mission? This includes aesthetics, themes, how well it slots into the genre, and any of your preferences.
   

Community

This jam is sponsored by the Sci-Fi RPG Collective, a Discord server dedicated to being a welcoming safe space to discuss, play, and make cool stuff for sci-fi TTRPGs. If you want to chat about the jam or sci-fi RPGs in general, join the server here: https://discord.gg/aPc7vCzaJZ

Useful Resources

• Our community thread with resources. What other adventure writers found useful.
• Itch Game Page Image Guide & Template by Star West - Helps you create itch.io project pages and properly-sized images for them.
• Cities Without Number Mission Worksheet by Glitched Tabletop (me) - Form-fillable worksheet for CWN's mission creation procedure.
• Sci-fi character portraits project by Ashen Victor - 100 free, Creative Commons-NonCommercial portraits. Ashen has a second and third collection (paid) with additional portraits.
• OpenGameArt.org - massive repository of artwork with a variety of licenses.
• Letter TTRPG Pamphlet Template by me - Free template in Google Docs for letter-sized pamphlets.
• A4 TTRPG Pamphlet Template by Hugh Lashbrooke - Free templates in Google Docs, Canva, and Microsoft Word. 
• WTF Pamphlet RPG Template by Wizardthieffighter. Free pamphlet template for Affinity Publisher (the pay-once alternative to Adobe InDesign).

Banner uses Tourney font by Tyler Finck.