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CYBRGAZE is a cyberpunk supernatural rpg in which you play as raccoons.

The PDF is 25 pages, with a clean layout and solid visual organization.

There's a strong absurdist vibe to the book, but it never blinks. It plays the whole setting straight.

CYBRGAZE thrives off of this. It's a setting in which you can have mechanically relevant parts of your character like Hydraulic Knees and a Shag Carpeted Van and also get into fights with animal control in high tech megaspires over a sprawling corporate slum.

The game's mechanics are driven by stats, which cover a character's body, mind, magic, and luck. The core roll is a d20 under a stat. Failing or succeeding rolls pushes a gauge, and hitting either edge of the gauge gains you money on retires your character.

There are a lot of opportunities to apply bonuses to these stats, from disposable Hacks to built-in Upgrades, as well as help from allies or taking damage to succeed via Cybrburn. As such, the players should expect to feel a lot of control over the dice, which should offset a bit of the swingyness of a typical d20.

Character creation is simple, low prep, and flavorful.

GMing involves some shared responsibilites, as the players create the megacorps for the setting and the hooks for individual scenarios. GMing also rotates by default, although it's easy to adjust this if you want a more traditional GM role. Full GMing resources are provided.

There's a fairly detailed minigame for downtime after jobs, as well as a "win" condition in which the players themselves can score points for doing things like retiring or GMing.

Overall, if you're looking for a low-prep comedy rpg that gets even better when you run it with a perfectly straight face, I'd absolutely recommend checking out Cybrgaze.


Minor Issues:

-CybrBurn doesn't seem to have stronger penalties than regular failing a roll. Do they both only move you one step down the slider?

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Thanks for the review. The word additional would probably have been good to add there. Its supposed going down another step for a partial success.