Paranoia in 2025Happy New Year 214 citizens! We already have plans for four new titles this year (mostly because we are lazy and didn't get these published in 2024), so I wanted to give a short preview of what's to come.
So far, we have three missions mostly written but need playtests and editing. Note: All are supposed to get Roll20 assets, but that's far outside my meager authority so I have no idea what's going on there.
- Water, Water, Everywhere: Mission that satirises climate change and how people pretend it's not happening. Can your Troubleshooter prove its real and not real at the same time? And yes, we found a way to have rising sea levels inside Alpha Complex.
- Infiltraitors: Mission that satirises the rise of AI and bots online. Is your Troubleshooter a human or a secret bot? How about after you graciously accept this mandatory software mod for your Coretech? Oh, and you get to taste-test new algae. Yummy!
- Interwebs Famous: Mission that satirises influencers and internet celebrities. What could go wrong with a Computer mandate saying citizens have a new quota for uploading vids to social media? Troubleshooters hoping to improve their public image, that's what.
We're also publishing our first major supplement for this edition:
Behind the Curtain. This is a 100+ page book covering all service groups and secret societies, and we should be done with the first draft by the end of January 2025. Inside you will find:
- More-or-less the origins of them all, including a certain society that likes to say "Fnord" a lot.
- Stats for the group/society's current leader, current rival to that leader and a "main contact" NPC for the players to interact with.
- Specific scenes you can drop into any mission on the fly, such as Armed Forces blocking your way with a parade or Death Leopard showing up after you failed a roll with a drug that should help a second roll. Maybe.
- Mission prompts directly related to that group/society for a quick and easy mission.
- More examples of Favours to ask of your group/society.
- For service groups only, several departments inside each and several common locations.
- For secret societies only, several specific cells and a list of generic secret objectives.
On behalf of our small design team, thank you so much for playing this game!
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