I've just printed up some character sheets and quick reference sheets, so I guess this is probably happening! And I have a few hours on the train up to write the scenario.

Depending on who wants in, I might run a couple of sessions with smaller groups, rather than one huge session with too many people.

The Sprawl is a game of cyberpunk stories for 3-5 players. Most of you will play the roles of hardbitten but desperate cyberpunk professionals and one of you will be the Master of Ceremonies (MC for short). Playing the game is a conversation among the people at the table and the MC is the facilitator. Through this shared conversation you will create a fictional world filled with action, intrigue, and cybertechnology and coloured with neon, chrome, and excess. Your conversations will populate that fictional world with interesting characters and tense situations. The rules in this book will help you have this conversation. From time to time, the story will reach a point where a random element is desired. The dice add tension and a random element which changes the fictional state of the world and those changes spark the conversation anew. When there’s doubt about whose turn it is to speak, or what to talk about, the MC is the one who decides. Oh, and the MC? They control everything else. Your contacts, the corporations, the hit squads the corporations send to mess up your contacts, your other enemies, the team of pros who come to shoot up your team, and the blind cyber-assassin who loops the monofilament wire around your neck while you’re waiting in line for your vat-meat burger. The MC has their own set of rules, which will be described in the later chapters.

I've just printed up some character sheets and quick reference sheets, so I guess this is probably happening! And I have a few hours on the train up to write the scenario.

Depending on who wants in, I might run a couple of sessions with smaller groups, rather than one huge session with too many people.

If you're thinking of doing any on the Saturday I'd like in.

Are you going to pregen characters?

Nope, I'm going to use faster chargen and legwork options taken from a mission designed for convention play.

How long does it take?

As a complete RPG newb, I'm curious to see how it all works (and will be watching with interest)

As a complete RPG newb, I'm curious to see how it all works (and will be watching with interest)

Piss off! Done exactly right!

I’m a complete RPG noob too, but it sounds fun. Although most cyberpunk tropes are a bit too close to the bone these days.

It can be stereotypically gritty and dark, or tongue-in-cheek. It can feature characters with a focus on planning and professionalism

My prediction... Doccy G tries to put us down the planning and professional route, we ignore him and shoot the first person we see.

My prediction... Doccy G tries to put us down the planning and professional route, we ignore him and shoot the first person we see.

That was the person trying to hire you. You have no job to do now.

Session over, next group please.