A three-pack of thrilling scenarios and supplements for CBR+PNK, the award-winning portable cyberpunk TTRPG, Forged in the Dark.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Gratitude 🙏
9 months ago
– Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 06:25:56 PM
Hey Runners,
Thank you so much for an incredible campaign. Emanoel and I have so much to be grateful for. We did our best, but alas fell just a little short of the $70k Stretch Goal. Nonetheless, this campaign was a banging success. 1,465 of you spoke loudly that you wanted more CBR+PNK, and now we get to make more CBR+PNK!
We're going to take a couple of days to decompress and then get back to it.
Thank you, Runners.
Ray
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As with the first time, I’m blown away by the reception and support!
Thank you all for backing, sharing, and celebrating each stretch goal we hit. But also for helping us bring this to life alongside an amazing team of writers, artists, and editors.
It’s thrilling to team up with you to expand the CBR+PNK ecosystem beyond anything I imagined back in 2021.
Now, let’s focus on the roadmap. There’s much to do!
—Emanoel
//T-MINUS 16 HRS...
9 months ago
– Wed, Jul 09, 2025 at 02:29:20 PM
//INCOMING TRANSMISSION
16 hours to go. $6.5k until our next stretch goal. One final push...
If we get there we unlock INSURGED by René-Pier Deshaie - a scenario that traps you in a corpo mega-prison. RP's crafted something intricately beautiful here.
How amazing would it be in print? I bet you those UV layerss would be awfully shiny...
// $60k PAYOFF UNLOCKED!!
9 months ago
– Tue, Jul 08, 2025 at 01:31:57 PM
Let's gooo!!!
$9.4k more until we unlock the prison scenario INSURGED by Fari RPG!
// BREAK FREE
// LAST 48 HRS
9 months ago
– Tue, Jul 08, 2025 at 10:06:46 AM
//RUNNERS! We're on our last 48 hours!
Let's get it!!!
//WHATCHA DOING? INTERVIEW
To begin today's update, here's an interview with Emanoel, Ray, and Matt Caulder about all things CBR+PNK:
A lot of great insights if you want to learn more about the history and design process of CBR+PNK.
//STRETCH GOAL APPROACHING
As of writing, we are about $500 away from our next stretch goal, a PAYOFF UPGRADE for the entire crew! This means all of our collaborators and designers get paid more, which is in our opinion well deserved!
Hopefully we can hit one or two more stretch goals after this next one! At $70k, we'll get a new scenario, INSURGED, by RP Deshais! And then at $80k we'll be adding another PAYOFF UPGRADE for the entire crew. Let's get it!
//DESIGNER INTERVIEWS
For the sake of compiling all of the designer interviews, I've linked them all below:
I'm personally really pleased with how these designer spotlights turned out. It's a lot of great content and insights from the designers, so if you haven't taken a dive yet you should! Especiaally if you're interested in designing / hacking games yourself.
// OVERDRIVE
As we enter the last stretch of this campaign, we could use your help in spreading the word! We'd love to be able to hit a couple more stretch goals, bringing you more great CBR+PNK content and raising the pay for our collaborators.
Thank you for all of the great support thus far. Let's end this SCORE on a bang, RUNNERS!
$50k+ One Week Remaining! More Spotlights++
9 months ago
– Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 05:17:16 PM
// TIME LOOP UNLOCKED
That means Matteo Sciutteri's Time Loop (title pending) is a GO! Super excited about this one and all of the new scenarios / pamphlets to be included in this. Let's gooo!
Matteo is the designer of a number of incredible games, including the CBR+PNK inspired Bloodstone and the Breathless-based BREACH. If you haven't checked out his work, make sure to take a peak at his itch - you won't regret it if you're a fan of CBR+PNK!
// DESIGNER SPOTLIGHTS
A fresh trio of spotlights for you today! Closing in on the home stretch now...
Jack Cahan is the designer of Trident Prototype, a fantastic intro-scenario for CBR+PNK. Check out the spotlight here.
Marta Palvarini is the designer of EUROVENICE, a social score about the excesses of capitalism in the theme-park like Venice of the future. Read the spotlight here.
Luigi Calistrato is the designer of HACKY RACES, one of the future scenarios we hope to include in OVERLOAD if we reach the stretch goal. Check out the spotlight here.
// UPGRADES
In addition to the Stretch Goals Pamphlets, we're also upgrading some of the pamphlets that have digital releases with upgraded artwork, like DARK CITY:
Here's one for CRESCENT PARALLAX:
// THE WEEKLY SCROLL
A few weeks ago Emanoel and I hopped on a podcast with the good folks over at The Weekly Scroll! We talked about a lot of things, including inspirations, design philosophy, and more!
Did you know that Mythworks is running a CBR+PNK Mega Game at Gen Con this year?
It's called SCIRE, and it uses a variation of the +WEIRD add-on. Here's the description:
SCIRE (Self-Contained Industrial-Residential Environment) is a Weird, Dungeon-Horror Megacity game where players assume the roles of residents and corporations during a lockdown triggered by a bizarre event. The incident stems from a bad batch of SYRUP (Synthetic Rich Universal Protein), which causes a fungal outbreak that contaminates the air. 30 players separated into 6 groups explore the transformed SCIRE to prevent a looming doomsday scenario. Choose from diverse crews, including Gangs, Heist Crews, Corp Security, Sanitation Workers, Performers, Freed Prisoners, Cultists, and Journalists, each with unique objectives! The game features timed Broadcasts that alter the game state and introduces major powers like The Dragon, The Lich, The Goddess, and Earl the Broker, each with their own agendas. Will you DESIRE the SCIRE?!
We've been working on the mega-game for a while, but this month prep really kicks into high gear. All of the tickets are currently sold out, but you can take a look at the event listing here.
Wish us luck as we build the SCIRE!
// ONE WEEK REMAINING
Runners, we have just one week remaining on the campaign! Our next stretch goal is a PAY RAISE for all of our contributors. Help us pay them more! And then, if we get to the next goal after that, we'll have a wonderful new scenario by René-Pier Deshaies aka Fari RPGs. Beyond that, more pay raises, and HACKY RACES, plus maybe one more scenario that has been well requested...
Help us get there Runners! Let's race to that finish line!
