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The Smoke is the greatest city in the world, the beating heart of an empire. It is filthy and sprawling like a burst pustule left open to weep besides the iron-grey sea. It does have a name, but only the nobs and learned-readers know it. Beneath slumbers The Midden – the interconnected passages of built-over streets, basements, tombs and hidden lairs where criminals lurk, beasts squat and lost wealth resides.
What is Swyvers?
Swyvers is a brand-new game built from the ground up to give you a grotty system for running a grotty game. Written by Luke Gearing, illustrated by David Hoskins.
Swyvers is a light-weight set of rules married to a full set of tools and tables for running a game in the chaotic sprawl of The Smoke, its many districts and The Midden. What a city it is — corrupt officials, looming war, rogue sorcerors, monsters below and nobs above. Violence rests as thick as the smog, nothing is sacred and it’s always bloody raining.
Swyvers is a game about bastards. You and your gang of criminals scarper through heists and sewers, stalk through the filth of The Smoke and, if you’re lucky, you’ll make it out with a few extra shillings. The whole of this city is your filthy, sickly oyster.
What’s In The Book?
- Rules and lists of all the tools, weapons, lodgings, dodgy business investments, and hired goons any self-respecting Swyver should be familiar with.
- Rules for dogs of all cut and calibre.
- Death and dismemberment!
- How to have a proper funeral for your mates.
- ’Orrible diseases.
- Bloodsucking aristocrats.
- Accurate time keeping records.
- How to spend your spoils on carousing for XP.
- Getting into deep trouble for your wild nights out, including gambling debts, dogfighting, and jealous lovers.
- Take on apprentice Swyvers (Putterers), lead them on heists, and train them to take your place in the event of your inevitable sticky end.
- Fences: who they are and how they’ll profit from your terrible life choices.
- Rules for bribes, leverage and blackmail!
- A system for attracting the attention of Knotland Yard, who will, over many sessions, form a case against you and put a stop to your wicked ways.
- A complete selection of terrible adversaries including agents of the church, ghouls, hussars, vampires, average humans, and bears.
- complete rules on generating your own city of ’The Smoke’
- A unique and innovative magic system. To cast a spell, put briefly, the caster plays Blackjack.
- A starting adventure! Rob the Lindsore Estate, uncover their ivy-choked secrets, Liberate their ancestral valuables, and maybe solve a few problems and make a few friends or enemies along the way.
