Systems For Punks

Devlog

• 1.40 Changes skill rolls
  January 14, 2024 by jlaakso

  I returned to the game after a break, and was bothered by the Edge mechanic. While I like the premise of gear and circumstances only really mattering if yours are better than the other party's, in pra... Continue reading
• 1.39 Changes skills, adds advancement systems
  May 03, 2022 by jlaakso

  Kill your darlings, bring more color I took a month long break from the game and realized I had been too specific in one area (skills) and too vague in another (character advancement outside of XP mec... Continue reading

  
• Art, clarifications, layout
  April 07, 2022 by jlaakso

  Added art, some clarifications and examples, layout adjustments for readability... Continue reading

  
• 1.37 layout & text clarity
  April 05, 2022 by jlaakso

  1.37 adds examples to a few potentially confusing rules, and fixes layout issues and typos. No mechanical changes... Continue reading
• 1.36 Asset, prep, XP changes
  April 03, 2022 by jlaakso

  Playtest results continue to improve the experience for all punks! Prep scene changed: Established in the middle of the action, not in advance. Always comes with an in-fiction boon (something the punk... Continue reading

  
• 1.34 Changes to risk & prep
  March 19, 2022 by jlaakso

  1.34 seeks to make risk a more interesting mechanic, and have prep serve the fiction. Asset use gets more options. Full changelist: Major change: risk is no longer an edge. Instead, a player may pick... Continue reading
• 1.33: Cover art & drug changes
  March 19, 2022 by jlaakso

  Art is good for marketing and I was so inspired by the previous playtest I wanted to draw, so now there's a cover. Clarified & changed drug rules: healing drugs only heal one health per turn, but you... Continue reading

  
• 1.32 performance booster change
  March 12, 2022 by jlaakso

  Changed performance booster drug use effect to be a static +1 to all rolls in a scene instead of a die. Yes, it's substantially more effective: the goal is to make them enticing to use... Continue reading
• 1.3 brings table wisdom
  March 07, 2022 by jlaakso

  Rules have been streamlined and expanded to treat all resource pool type things as "assets" — stuff you can use to boost your rolls whenever, and that refresh between scenes (or sessions, or adventu... Continue reading
• 1.22 adds money, rep, drugs
  February 18, 2022 by jlaakso

  1.22 update, punks! Added rules for resources (money & debt) & scene rep ("friends"). Added rules for fixing your malfunctioning body (when you wake up in the hospital with diminished functionality) w... Continue reading
• Rerolling & bags of guns
  February 15, 2022 by jlaakso

  Update 1.21: added rules for rerolling with risk. Added an experience spending option to get more gear instead of better gear... Continue reading
• Added a gear class
  February 15, 2022 by jlaakso

  Minor update 1.2: added a gear class for style . If you've invested in neat moving hologram tattoos, surely you want some benefit for them, as well. Upcoming: bags of guns, rerolling... Continue reading
• Additional rules
  February 14, 2022 by jlaakso

  1.1 Update, punks! Added rules for pushing your rolls to get around tied results. This increases the lethality substantially, which is probably good. Added static target numbers for when you can't mak... Continue reading