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Longshot City
Longshot City
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Longshot City is the super heroic roleplaying game where you and your team of baddy-bashing buddies kick seven shades of JUSTICE out of world ending villains, all in a lavishly illustrated 70-page book. With just this book and a couple of six-sided dice you'll be able to provide years of comic-book adventures for you and your friends.
Longshot City, the place, is a dangerous town and the players are protecting it. Build your own hero team from a huge selection of Archetypes and Origins, covering almost anything you can think of! Are your a trenchcoat mage who got their powers from being sucked into a work of fiction? Or maybe you're a parasitic powersuit from outer space? And if your imagination is bigger than one book, fear not! There are simple guidelines on how to make more.
The rules are based on the classic tried and tested science-fantasy RPG, TROIKA!, so you know it's good!
What's Inside?
Longshot City has everything you need to start and stay playing for a long time:
- 36 player character Archetypes ranging from ace reporters to superpets. The rules support almost any kind of hero you can think of.
- 36 hero Origins, like experimental clones and one-way time travellers! With the archetypes this makes 1,296 possible combinations of hero.
- 24 arch-nemesis each using our innovative Motives & Methods system. A powerful tool for making and running a tense campaign.
- 3 procedural campaign structures you can follow to get running a super hero game TODAY.
- Rules on how to patrol Longshot City and bump into trouble with barely any prep. Players can look for trouble and the GM can take a break!
- A Conspiracy Board system to keep track of your villains, their relationships, plans, and methods. Never forget an NPC grudge again!
- Escalation rules! Set the villains plans in motion and see if the heros can foil them before they come to fruition.
- A sectioned map of Longshot City for you to explore.
- KO Tables! Heroes don't drop dead, they get kidnapped, have character altering flashbacks, or get an awesome grimdark relaunch.
- Nameless Grunt creation! Every villain needs an army.
- Inventions, vehicles and hideout creation system! Be the super-scientist of your dreams.
- Game system based on the best selling science-fantasy RPG, TROIKA!, with suggestions on how an enterprising GM might combine them.
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I've had the pleasure of playing this with the designer and it was a blast. Fantastic indie superhero action with great flexibility for characters, the setting can span from the far future to outer space to the simply city itself and this really adds to the overall comic-book feel.
I backed this game on Kickstarter and finally got my book after a ridiculously long wait. There are many things wrong with this book, starting with that it expects the reader to already be familiar with Troika (I never even heard of Troika until I got this game). It also fails to properly explain the most basic mechanics, such as how the dice rolls work in the game. There isn't a beginner adventure, they expect the GM to make one up. They also forgot to put in a section on how to make your own enemies instead of being forced to use the ones in the book. They also failed to make a separate pdf file for just the character sheet alone, only providing with the entire book pdf. And whenever you try reach out to the creators about your concerns, they just outright ignore you instead of taking the time to reply to the people who paid them to make this book happen. Save your money, buy a different superhero ttrpg.
An excellent supers RPG built on a chassis of Troika, a proven and lightweight set of rules that is both flexible and fun. Longshot City brings the weird and harkens back to classic superheroes RPGs like TSR's Marvel Super Heroes. The book itself is gorgeous, from the art to the graphic design. If you're looking for a fun, simple, supers RPG , look no further than Longshot City.
I've been reading several ttrpgs with the idea of running superhero games for some time, and I think Longshot City is finally the one I
would love to take to my gaming table. Within its pages, the Troika! system is adapted to allow for powerful characters, with dozens of powers and different origins. Trying to recreate your favorite comic book characters by exploring its tables is already a fun game in itself, enjoying the gret new options you can play with these. However, with the choices it offers, it's best to embrace its madness and create a more random character, in search of a new superhero you have never imagined before.
Even without having an extensive section dedicated to its setting, all entries and tables exude information about Longshot City. The city map is filled with evocative locations where chaos and common (and not so common) adventures can unfold for your game, with a very special mention for the antagonists compiled in the manual. They serve both as examples of the type of characters you can create and help establish more information about Longshot's setting. I find it especially admirable that (except for a few cases) almost all the rivals are characters that may initially frighten or confuse you but are not inherently evil; they just need to be listened to and a helping hand.
The three styles of art presented in the manual, one more epic and cosmic, darker and more terrifying in others, and even a more underground one, provide different visions on how to develop your own adventures. The texts are precise and fluid, and overall, delving into the intertwined world within its pages is a super fun experience.