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The Downtown Dataheist
by Diogo F. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 02/06/2017 21:17:48

Really great and hellpfull in how run an adventure in sprawl



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The Sprawl // MIDNIGHT
by Fraser S. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 01/04/2017 20:25:27

In terms of genre emulation, which is what PbtA is great at imo, this game nails it. The mission based structure should appeal to everyone famililar with Dungeon World and the game text does everything you need it to in terms of setting up tone and creating the ever present megacorps present. I'm a huge fan of cyberpunk and had great fun playing this game.



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The Sprawl // NOON
by Charles V. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 11/06/2016 12:35:48

This game is fantastic. Your characters will be immersed in a sprawl which provides missions, gives them enough room to try to prepare, and then relentlessly goes after them with consequences and countdown clocks.

It's Powered By The Apocalypse, but with a strong push towards running missions in a cyberpunk dystopia. So you get a unique framing device, and rules to make things work. The players are pretty much either doing Legwork to prepare for a mission, or are in the Action portion where the mission plays out. Countdown clocks for the Legwork phase impact the mission, as they represent noise the PCs make as they gear up, talk to player-generated contacts, and try to work through vague or contradictory job information. The Action clock shows the players how close their are to hosing the mission. Threats get their own clocks, as do the corporations which crouch above all this, giving the PCs jobs, hunting them, owning them. It's very easy to build in new threats from prior missions and have them haunt the PCs.

It's also a system which doesn't require a ton of preparation, even though things are a bit more structured than Apocalypse World. The playbooks are wonderful nods to various important characters in the genre (via both moves and even thanks to the list of names each one comes with). The cyberwear is useful and a great addition to the *World Engine. The game uses harm clocks and a harm move reminiscient of AW more than Dungeon World, which I think is appropriate - hit point inflation doesn't really fit the genre very well, I'd argue. And some cyberwear definitely can help take the sting out of getting hurt.

I wrote a review a while ago here and stand by that thoroughly. Basically if you want an awesome cyberpunk game, you have found one that I've gotten a lot of mileage out of. I tend not to run a mission in a single session, as the Legwork my players do becomes an adventure unto itself, but I've gotten through almost 5 missions across about 13 sessions so far. The world has been built up over time as things become interesting to people, and we're getting to the point where there are a number of hunting corporations and threats jostling for position against the players. I'm excited to find out what happens.



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The Sprawl // NOON
by A customer [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 09/04/2016 03:28:10

Worth every dollar. A high quality, well developed, fun to play rpg. Good job. Would definitely buy supplements.



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The Sprawl // MIDNIGHT
by Trung B. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 08/09/2016 13:49:58

As a huge fan of the cyberpunk setting, I have played the heavy hitter games like Shadowrun and Cyberpunk 2020. I've seen many hacks to integrate the setting into the system and didn't prefer them. However, Hamish Cameron chose wisely when he decided to bring cyberpunk to the apocalypse (world). Author Hamish Cameron opted to use the influence of William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy and delivers a great game that, I feel, captures the cybernetic heart and soul of what it means to play a cyberpunk game: Get some work, get paid, and deal with double crosses, corporations gunning for you, and create your own legacy as an operator in a world where if you don't find a use for the streets, they will find a use for you.

The Sprawl works wonderfully as a PBTA type game with most cyberpunk archetypes being defined in the playbooks. Cameron adds notable quotes to the intro of each playbook to help capture the appeal of each one and continues to help the book ooze chrome. The game flows beautifully as a narrative game with players defining what they're on the run from and what they're gunning for.

It's an excellent product that's a steal at the price and if you have any enjoyment of cyberpunk, you'll do yourself no harm by picking up The Sprawl.



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The Sprawl // MIDNIGHT
by A customer [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 07/16/2016 12:47:59

If you like PBtA games and cyberpunk, this is a 100% recommendation from me!



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The Sprawl // MIDNIGHT
by Rick S. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 07/06/2016 05:43:51

This is, in my mind, THE cyberpunk game if you wish to run games with that William Gibson feel.

As a longtime cyberpunk fan, I absolutely fell in love with it. Get this game.



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The Sprawl // MIDNIGHT
by Morgan E. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 03/12/2016 18:20:40

Great game for mission based Cyberpunk action, and it is a great implementation of the powered by the apocalypse rules for Cyberpunk gaming.



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The Sprawl // MIDNIGHT
by Carl A. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 02/26/2016 14:51:25

Now that I've had my hands on this for a day and I've been able to read most if it, I'm giving it a big thumbs up. I played Shadowrun before Second Edition was even a gleam in FASA's eye, and every version since. This captures everything I liked about Shadowrun, with the exception of magic. Though I liked things like Shamans, and Physical Adepts, I'm absolutely fine with the focus on Cyberpunk. There are so many things The Sprawl can handle well that were more difficult or time consuming in SR that I'm not missing the magical elements.

For example, when a character gets shot, even if the wound isn't that bad in terms of the amount of harm done, they still might lose a limb! The amount of harm affects that likelyhood, so a minor scrape is a lot less likely to do that then a cannon shot, but the chance is still there. Getting that fixed after the run is no big deal (unless the cyber-replacement turns out to have strings attached...) but everything works to drive home the danger and push the plot forward, and that's why I love Apocalypse World rules so much. That, and Hamish Cameron is really responsive to questions on Google+.

I like the look of the layout, but it is one of the most printer-unfriendly pdfs I've seen in a while, with a lot of dark backgrounds with white writing, so I won't be printing anything from this until a printer friendly version is uploaded, which Hamish said is being worked on, so I'm not taking any points off for that.

If this was my first foray into Apocalypse World or Cyberpunk, I think there might be some confusion, but a good grounding in either one of those would help with understanding the other. The text at the end of each Playbook (character sheet for those that don't already know how Apocalypse World rules work) are a great addition for helping players undersatand why they would and wouldn't want to pick a particular Playbook for a new game, and I'd suggest every author include something similar with their rules.

I can't wait to run my first game in The Sprawl, and seeing what trouble the Players get into!



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The Sprawl // MIDNIGHT
by Chris W. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 02/25/2016 15:00:53

Been reading The Sprawl today and I can't wait to run it.

I love cyberpunk, but RPGs in the setting tend to suffer from problems of overcomplication, for a number of reasons. The Sprawl uses the Apocalypse engine to elegantly solve these problems, while keeping the came tight, focused, and relatively low prep.

The PDF is gorgeous and stylish, and the playbooks bring in that great, over the top gibsonian prose that makes this genre so much fun.



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