Corporation: The RPG

Beige ATM

I just saw this in My Friendly Neighbourhood Forbidden Planet. It looks pretty interesting... I originally dismissed it as a Shadowrun rip-off without magic or supernaturals, but I had a longer look at it today and that might be somewhat unfair.

www.corpgame.com

Corporation wrote:

There will come a time when the nations of the world will cease to exist. When the anachronisms of state and country are finally crushed by the inexorable juggernaut of total corporate domination. When five monolithic Corporations are the new world powers. When the lives of billions are the sole property of the companies that employ them.

There will come a time when the tools of war and politics alike are not armies or diplomats but Agents: the eyes, the hands, and sometimes the knives of the Corporations, individuals elevated to new peaks of physical and mental potential by unthinkable training and unimaginable technologies.

There will come a time when you will be recruited as an Agent, ordered to operate outside any remaining semblance of law and augmented beyond what you once considered human. When you will negotiate, bargain, spy, sabotage, kill and perhaps die in the service of your Corporation - and when you will be well rewarded, as long as you survive.

The time is 2500 AD, and it is now.

Has anyone else seen this? Any thoughts? I must stress that reading into the book gave me a better opinion of it than my initial reaction.

Edit: Also: "System Shock 2 was a fantastic game and played a strong influence in many aspects of Corporation."

So let's not be too harsh

nindustrial

Just off the bat, reminds me slightly of William Gibson's writing too; though I suppose that's cyberpunk for ya'.

Sounds intriguing; is it D20 or what?

Beige ATM

It seems to use a variety of dice; IIRC, everything from d4 up to d20, with skill checks on an attribute + skill basis rolling against 2d10, for example. The necessity of all those dice seems rather tedious, but I've never played a system like that so I can't really comment.

The website stresses that this is not meant to be a post-apocalyptic setting, and that certainly seems borne out by the stuff I've read so far.

Main forum is here, although there's not much on that yet.