This is a VERY large game for the jam. What made you decide to submit something of this size? There’s even a section for a proposed campaign for GMs to use.
There are definitely big cyberpunk vibes playing out here.
Can I ask what made you want to take part in this jam? This seems to be your only work thus far.
We've been making homebrews and the like as friends in our gaming group for years now, and we figured a jam would be a great opportunity to start making things that are a bit more presentable and actually legible to people besides ourselves. Hence this being our first published work as a team!
The size of the game mostly comes down to the Forged in the Dark rules format that it's based on, it's a design space we're very comfortable in so we decided to start there; cyberpunk specifically is a genre we've been interested in for a really long time and it fit the theme of this jam excellently, so it all sort of fell into place.
Since the very basic rules were adapted from an SRD and added to with things like the Power system, our new playbooks and our modified harm rules, creating the example session was actually what took most of the work! It helps that we're a three-person team, so the scope could afford to be a lot bigger than a solo project.
Thanks for asking!
That’s very smart! To go with what you know and going by an SRD saves a ton of development time. It sounds like this project was really meant to be. It’s good you have a group already because playtesting multiplayer TTRPGs is a nightmare for most people, especially when something is a homebrew. It allows for a lot of balancing and adjustments on the fly.
You should all be very proud of putting this together. Will you offer it on Drivethru RPG as well? I bet people would be interested.
