Jump Into the Grid from ‘Tron’ With High Tech Tabletop RPGs

Virtual Realities, a Shadowrun sourcebook, is the ultimate guide to decking in the matrix. It includes new, revised, & expanded rules for matrix running, cyberdeck construction, & computer systems. Virtual Realities also features a full-color computer graphics section & a novella-length fiction piece, both set entirely in the matrix.

Welcome to the Time of the Red, Choomba! The Megacorporations spent decades wrecking everything and in the aftermath of their last War, everyone has to fend for themselves. But that’s just fine. You can handle it. After all, in a world of vicious boostergangs, rampaging cyborgs, corporate assassins, and nihilistic doomsday cults, there’s only one rule: Always take it to the Edge. Take the big risks, get the big rewards. Be the action, start the rebellion, light the fire. Never drive slow when you can blaze a trail.

Virtual lets players to take on the roles of sentient search engines, self-aware military AIs, and determined search-and-destroy virus hunters. Their young new world is a self-created, virtual reality of data towers and firewall defenses. They take on humanoid or animal forms, armor themselves with programs, and attack their enemies with hacks and viruses. They worship the Users as their gods and travel with the speed of thought.

Code Warriors is a science-fiction tabletop roleplaying game where you portray programs living inside a computer world. The computer is crashing, perhaps for the last time. It’s the apocalypse. Can you survive? Can you stop the destruction of your home.

You’ll play a program that had a specific role in the previous world but who now has to find their way when all the old structures are gone. The stories you tell will center on survival, teamwork, the unknown, power and control, and rebuilding a new world in the ashes of the old.

Most Ninth Worlders know the datasphere only as the source of mysterious glimmers—those odd, unbidden flashes of knowledge and insight that, rarely, embed themselves within the mind. Some who study the numenera call it a network built by the ancients to surround the world with their knowledge. Some Aeon Priests say it is in fact many such networks that sometimes, but not always, intersect.

And then there are those who have explored it. They tell stories of a vast metaspace that one can actually enter, to emerge in wholly other places—and along the way discover treasures and dangers unique to a bizarre realm unconstrained by the laws of nature.