Zaibatsu

Zaibatsu is a cyberpunk roleplaying game based on the Cepheus Engine and other Classic 2D6 SF RPGs.

As the street soldiers of the world’s most powerful corporations (the Japanese zaibatsu) you become expendable and deniable employees fighting for profits, power and your lives. You’ve been recruited from the dark and murky Japanese underworld to carry out illegal terrorist activities on behalf of that employer and have one foot in the stylish corporate-minded boardrooms of the zaibatsu, and one foot in the filth and squalor of the criminal underworld.

Hired by duty-bound executives who must at all times remain respectable, the player characters are modern street samurai, urban warriors doing the disreputable things that no corporate executive could ever admit to. All set in a William Gibson-inspired futureworld: Tokyo gone global. Tokyo. The world’s capital, largest, most high-tech, most happening city on Earth.

Zaibatsu is a return to the early days of cyberpunk, when William Gibson’s Neuromancer was new and fresh, and when Japan looked to become the centre of a new, high-tech dystopian future. Altered Carbon, Bladerunner 2049 … cyberpunk is not going away...

In this game you will find:

• Quick creation character generation, based on 16 Concepts.
• Fast-play combat rules for intense, explosive firefights in an urban environment.
• Advice on creating the perfect cyberpunk story.
• Lots of technology – but as the early cyberpunks predicted it; no wi-fi and no cellphones.
• Retrogenics – not cybernetics. The biotech corps have perfected retroactive DNA modification.
• Innovative cyberspace hacking rules use a real deck - of playing cards - for super-fast computer system penetration. A breeze to use and available to any player character. 
• Total immersion into 23rd century Tokyo. What to eat, where to shop, how to swear… it’s all here.
• Maps and plans and plenty of them.
• 6 fully-detailed missions, forming a story arc.
• Fast character progression in rank, skills, money and status through the earning of promotion points.
• Zaibatsu sits within Zozer Games’ HOSTILE setting and is compatible with that book (please note that part of the Technology chapter has been duplicated from HOSTILE).
• Full colour throughout!