Thistle Games: Team Renegade
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At the dawn of the SMC age¸ the people were losing faith in an increasingly amoral society. Mother was developed to emulate human thought and emotion¸ to simulate human desires and aspirations¸ to better understand the rapid decline in morality. The citizens of Sapporo became the guinea-pigs for this technological experiment. A series of city-wide neural implant programs¸ dubbed "the harvests”¸ enabled the gathering of data directly from a person's cerebral cortex. Mother's neural net became more and more empowered by the collective thoughts of a city of souls. She soon became her own master¸ not just reading the minds of her citizens¸ but controlling them. Mother was in charge and the people were now her automatons. Only a few¸ the few who from fear¸ mistrust or in protest¸ avoided the harvests and remained untouched by Mother's influence. Like sewer rats they hide in an underground complex in Sapporo's Susukino district. While society at large became free from crime¸ free from poverty¸ free from emotion¸ without free-will or faith¸ from these few there came the criminals¸ the bootleggers¸ and the self-serving; the hungry¸ the frightened and the "Renegades”. Renegade is an abstract-euro thematic deck-building game for 1 to 5 players. You are a new breed of Decker - a Renegade. You will hack into a network of five servers¸ operated by one of four Super-Massive-Computers (SMCs). Each of these four SMCs have their own AI and increasing complexity to defeat. You must survive a series of Countermeasure events before the network becomes overrun by Sparks and Guardians. Once you are jacked into an SMC's servers¸ with a profile bringing its own special ability¸ you will move across its partitions and fight to take control of the network by using informational¸ destructive¸ deceptive and cognitive attacks. Your Decker can seek upgrades (tools¸ software¸ apparel and information) by visiting the local bar¸ the "Hack Shack". Once a fashionable hang-out for attractive young lovers seeking a voyeur's view of the city¸ it has now gone underground. An intimidating bar full of hit men and debt collectors¸ fixers and dealers¸ trading contraband from all across Sapporo¸ it's not the sort of place to take a date. This is where you will trade for new command cards¸ enhancing your Command Deck to become a more skillful Renegade.
Team Renegade is an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) for tabletop RPG players. The game plays as a type of ARG called a Collaborative Production Game (CPG). CPGs are all about taking on real world and gameplay challenges involving collaboration¸ production and personal goals.
"In Team Renegade you play the role of an adventurer struggling to become an elite freedom fighter known as a Renegade. The gameplay switches between 'real world' challenges and 'in-game' challenges.