Alterity is an asymmetrical tabletop role-playing game for 5-7 where a team of criminals and misfits work together on jobs against the corporations, governments, mafias and conspirators trying to control social organizing structures to satisfy their own greed. 3-5 players will take roles in a crew against 1 counter-operative with the game refereed and the stage (re)set by 1 Master of Ceremonies (MC). In the back half of the game, the powerful organizations will further their agendas in response to the crew’s meddling by bolstering their power, pursuing their vendettas, and stabbing one another in the back.

Players can team up by designing a character to join a crew, create their own counterop character to hunt down the crew, fill the glossy shoes as a representative a monolithic organization, or any combination of the above to collaboratively tell a science fiction story of resistance, despair, and difference.

Every player gets a chance to role play different perspectives of their shared fiction. Rotate the powerful role of counter-operative to a new player for each job, playing cat to a crew of mice. Just don't overplay your hand: just because your employers can buy off anyone doesn't mean you'll be worth the price. Bookend each session with a system for factions to interact and change the world, letting your shared world take you to unexpected places.

First full draft of the rules are available on itch.io: https://lazerbear.itch.io/alterityrpg