Simulacrum Supoplement by The Yellow Hand
Neo City is the technologically most advanced city on Earth, thriving in protective isolation as the rest of civilization descended into chaos following decades of catastrophic sea level rise.
From the squeaky clean, manicured neighborhoods of Uptown in the north, to the noisy and polluted chaos of the Industrial Sector in the south, and from the bustling street life of the Commerce Sector in the west, to the neon-soaked, vibrant nightlife of the Entertainment Sector in the east, Neo City is a setting of stark contrasts. Land your hovercar on the tidy, spacious upper deck of a Cloud City skyscraper, or take the crumbling concrete stairs down to the artificially lit Cave City, and you will get a sense of just how wildly different life in this technological haven really is. You will be struggling to put it all together.
The 1,703.491 inhabitants who call this city home are struggling, too. The rich and powerful of the corporate upper crust are struggling to keep their distance from the hoi polloi, and cling to their privileges. The servants of the middle class are struggling to find meaning in their monotone and purposeless lives, where they are but one debt foreclosure away from desti- tution. And the worker bees of the underground are struggling just to put food on the table, never mind finding a light at the end of the long, dark tunnel that is life in this dystopian place. The majority of the citizens are destined for a life of debt and servitude, with very few glimmers of hope.
This, then, is where your characters arrive, sent on a mission to unveil the many secrets of this tightly contained and controlled urban conundrum. A place of untold riches and technological marvels, but also a place of extreme bleakness and cynicism. From the moment they step off the blimp that brought them here, their arrival will be an experience of bewilderment and awe.
This 108-page book provides all the details for a Game Master to run a game using the vibrant, layered and rich cyberpunk setting of Neo City – the foundation for the Simulacrum cyberpunk RPG, now also available as a standalone book.
Neo City Guide is available through DriveThruRPG in Print and PDF.
Please note: The links in the post above are “affiliate links”. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item the author of this post will receive an affiliate commission.
