Crimefighters

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Crimefighters
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Designers David Cook
Publishers TSR
Publication1981;44 years ago (1981)
Genres Crime
Playing timeVaries
Chance Dice
Skills Improvisation, arithmetic

Crimefighters is a TSR pulp-themed tabletop role-playing game created by game designer David Cook. [1] [2] [3] Crimefighters was originally released in issue 47 of the March 1981 edition of Dragon magazine. [4] [5] This issue of Dragon magazine also contained an introductory Crimefighters adventure called The Case of the Editor’s Envelope.

Contents

The game featured artwork by artist Jeff Dee [1] [6] who also drew the Crimefighters game character Dark Night Dan. [1]

Crimefighters was included in the Dragon Magazine Archive , a collection of five CD-ROMs comprising the first 250 issues of Dragon magazine. [7]

Game overview

Crimefighters emulates the 1930s pulp adventures of characters such as Doc Savage, The Spirit, The Spider and The Shadow. [1]

Character classes players can choose from are Defender, a law-abiding crimefighter, Avenger, a vigilante, or Pragmatist, one who obeys the spirit, if not the letter of the law. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Cook, David (March 1981). "Crimefighters" (PDF). Dragon (47). rollenspiel-almanach.de.
  2. ↑ "Crimefighters". onedrive.live.com. Archived from the original on 2015-11-26. Retrieved 2015-11-26.
  3. ↑ "Crimefighters!". stargazersworld.com. June 15, 2009.
  4. ↑ "Dragon #47". rpg.net.
  5. ↑ "Crimefighters". rpg.net.
  6. ↑ "The Jeff Dee Gallery". paratime.ca.
  7. ↑ Coffin, Bill (December 2, 1999). "REVIEW OF DRAGON #47". rpg.net.
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