Synthicide: Sharpers in the Dark
Synthicide: Sharpers in the Dark is a rerelease of the popular 2017 Synthicide RPG using the Forged in the Dark engine.
In Synthicide, the Galaxy has entered a dark age where human life has no value. Sharpers have to fight for their lives, while trying to earn enough money for food and spaceship fuel. Create characters who are a mix of lethal skills, high tech cyberware, and unique mutations
If you loved the original Synthicide, this is a chance to experience its galaxy in a whole new way. The planets are updated to provide location-specific mission ideas, and the baked in faction system brings the galaxy to life.
If you’re a fan of the Forged in the Dark engine and new to Synthicide, try the game to see how Synthicide’s grimdark, lethal cyberpunk themes are expressed in a perfectly suited system.
Quickstart
Interested in trying out Synthicide? Check out the free quickstart! This version of the game comes with everything you need to play a one-shot of Synthicide: Sharpers in the Dark, including 3 playbooks and bioclasses, 1 crew, and 1 ship, as well as a prewritten score: Barbarians' Cause.
Print and digital versions available on DriveThruRPG!
Based on Blades in the Dark, a product of One Seven Design, developed and authored by John Harper, and licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $7.50 USD. You will get access to the following files:
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Community Copies
Free copies of Synthicide: Sharpers in the Dark for anyone who wants to check out the game but is lacking the finances to do so. If you're experiencing any economic hardship, these copies are for you. Everyone who purchases this game adds more copies to the pool for others to claim.
Download demo
Development log
- Synthicide Prints Books now Available!May 04, 2022
- Synthicide: Sharpers in the Dark Launched!Apr 19, 2022
Comments
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Been looking over this and it's super cool. Great setting, and an interesting take on typical Forged in the Dark mechanics. Excited to play this.
However, the Murder action rating is a bit confusing when sitting alongside Battle and Shoot. There seems to be a lot of overlap when considering scenarios it could be used, but maybe I'm misunderstanding. Could you elucidate the intent here?
It's typical for the use cases for different actions to overlap a bit in Forged in the Dark games. The intent is to clarify the goal of a player and gets the conversation between player and GM going. Some examples:
Being a big sci-fi universe with a bit of crunch to it, it made sense to have more actions than a typical Forged in the Dark game, to capture the breadth of what player character could do, and give them more decisions on how to spend their action points and specialize their characters. Someone with lots of points in murder is a very different vibe than someone with a lot of dots in battle or shoot.
Also in such a grimdark world, 'murder' felt like too good of a keyword to pass up.
Hope that helps!
That definitely helped clear things up, thank you!
hi there
Will there be any more community copies available for your game? I’ve looked at the sample and would like to play the full version to
Thanks in advance
Will this be going to print via DriveThruRPG?
That's the plan! Don't have an ETA currently.