Well, for one thing, it's obviously compatible with all of the legacy CoC/BRP materials from Chaosium and others, rather than being tied to a proprietary game system like CthulhuTech's Framewerk. Gamer discussion boards at BRP Central and elsewhere, meanwhile, have devoted long debates to whether FutureWorld or Ringworld did a better far-future implementation of BRP's core mechanics. Over the Edge was first published by Atlas Games in 1992. Dark Conspiracy was first published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) in 1991. CthulhuTech has been around since 2007, while Chaosium published the Cthulhu Rising monograph for 'Call of Cthulhu Roleplaying in the 23rd Century' in 2004.

Punktown is hardly the first future RPG out there, or even the first future Cthulhu Mythos RPG. (Life in Punktown costs 1 point of Sanity per year.) The book is devoted to capturing that universe, with chapters on the setting and background, characters, powers, equipment and creatures three Punktown scenarios and two Punktown short stories by Jeffrey Thomas himself. It's also squalid, murderous, and literally insane. Punktown is a far-future megapolis of 16 million, nexus of various species, civilizations, and even dimensions.

The setting, of course, is the Punktown universe created by Jeffrey Thomas, first debuted in print in 2000 and since detailed in a dozen books and at least one comic. Naturally, that's not going to be an impediment to the target audience, especially with Chaosium's freely downloadable CoC and BRP quickstart rules. The text declares that it's compatible with the Basic Roleplaying and Call ofĬthulhu (Sixth Edition) games, and that you'll need at least one of these to play Punktown.

Punktown is very much a sourcebook and setting book rather than a full game in itself. Now to see what we've all been waiting for. The PDF version is already available for download, with purchasers offered a voucher for the print version, once that goes live and the original Kickstarter backers have been given theirs. As a July 2018 status report from Chaosium, the licensor, declares, ' Punktown was launched on Kickstarter way back in November 2012.' In the course of time, Punktown fell foul of the demise of Miskatonic River Press, and has now been taken up by Chronicle City, 'the new games company of Angus Abranson, founder of Cubicle 7.' Finally, Punktown has arrived in all its glory. Punktown: A Setting Book for Call of Cthulhu and Basic Roleplaying is one of those games that has languished in development hell for an interminable amount of time.

Punktown by Jeffrey Thomas