Punktown: A Setting Book for Call of Cthulhu and Basic Roleplaying is a setting supplement designed for use with Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu and Basic Roleplaying game systems. It was published under license by Chronicle City in 2018.
Overview[]
| “ | Skyscrapers with sides so smooth and featureless (with vidscreens on the interior, instead of windows) that one might think they were solid granite monuments in a graveyard for dead gods. Other buildings that looked like they’d been pieced together from thousands of odd-matched parts salvaged from stripped factory machines, steam curling out of grids and grates in their complex flanks. Buildings with snake skins of multicolored mosaics. Buildings wearing an armor of riveted metal plates, like retired warships looming vertically with their sterns jammed into the street. Flat roofs upon which perched smaller buildings, symbiotically. Other structures tapering to needle points that seemed to etch the clouds upon the blue glass of the sky. Stacked apartments. Stacked businesses. On street level: shop fronts, and gang kids squatting on tenement steps, glaring insolently at the slow sludge of traffic...Ah, Punktown. —Jeffrey Thomas, Deadstock Punktown: An RPG Setting for Call of Cthulhu® Sixth Edition and BRP uses Chaosium’s famous award-winning system to explore a dark, futuristic world fraught with untold perils created by author Jeffrey Thomas. Imagine Blade Runner, The Fifth Element, Minority Report, Total Recall and the rest of the dark, not-too-distant-future genre. Now add aliens, mutants, robots and Lovecraftian horror. Blend them together, and you get a hint of what Punktown is like. This reference explores the city itself, the alien races, the weaponry, the creatures, mutations, cybernetics, drugs, sanity (and the inevitable loss thereof), and the option of adding the Cthulhu Mythos into the mix. As written in Thomas’ work, the mythos is already there, threatening life as Punktowners know it. If you’re a cyberpunk fan, if you’re a horror fan, or if you’re both, this book is for you. Keep your eyes wide, your pistol close, and mind the snipes. Those who venture into Punktown never leave the same...if they leave at all. |
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Primarily a setting supplement containing information describing how to play games in Jeffrey Thomas's dystopian Punktown milieu, Punktown also contains three ready-to play scenarios and a pair of short stories by Thomas set in his fictional universe. It was designed by Mike Tresca, Glynn Owen Barrass, and Brian M. Sammons, and runs to a total of 148 pages in both paperback and digital formats.
Punktown appears to have suffered setbacks in its release, having been first announced as part of a Miskatonic River Press Kickstarter campaign in November 2012 [1], with publication delayed by the closure of the press in 2014 [2]. However, Miskatonic seems to have retained the licensing for Punktown, and Chronicle City took up the completion of the project, finally bringing the book to publication in 2018 [3].
External Links[]
- Review of Punktown at RPG.net
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References[]
- ↑ Punktown on Kickstarter
- ↑ Bret Kramer's blog post on the closure of Miskatonic River Press
- ↑ Chaosium blog post on the state of Punktown