Crimefighters

Crimefighters
Designer(s) David Cook
Publisher(s) TSR
Publication date 1981
Genre(s) Crime, crimefighting, pulp
Playing time Varies
Random chance Dice
Skill(s) required Role-playing, improvisation, arithmetic

Crimefighters is a 1981 TSR pulp-themed tabletop role-playing game created by game designer David Cook.[1][2][3][4] Crimefighters was originally released in issue 47 of the March 1981 edition of Dragon magazine.[5][6] The game featured artwork by artist Jeff Dee[1][7] who also drew the Crimefighters game character Dark Night Dan.[1] It was ncluded in the Dragon Magazine Archive, collection of five CD-roms comprising the first 250 issues of Dragon magazine.[8]

Game overview

Crimefighters emulates the 1930s pulp adventures of characters such as Doc Savage, The Spirit, The Spider and The Shadow.[1] Players can choose to play a law-abiding Defender, vigilante Avenger or a Pragmatist, who obeys the spirit, if not the letter of the law[1]

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