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Dog Town: Stripped - Coming Soon!

Dog Town: Stripped is a rules lite version of the Dog Town rpg of crime,money and violence. Gone is the complicated and time consuming chargen with its derived attributes, skill aspects and talents. In its place 8 broad stand alone attributes and an optional list of expertises from which only a handful are chosen. Gone too are the charts and crunch of the original core rule book which have been replaced by a single stripped down mechanic with descriptive modifiers that lean toward more intuitive play.

* It contains fast character creation.

* Quick and easy task resolution.

* A detailed play by post example of freeform gameplay.         

Creating A Criminal The Excel Way

One of the flaws in the current version of Dog Town is the labourious character creation system: it has too much accounting and takes too long. A fix until I get around to providing a rules lite version is an excel program designed by Jeremy Seeley that makes all the calculations and provies you with a character to go in under 5 minutes.

This really is a cool bit of software and I am very grateful to Jeremy.

Download dog_town_character_sheet.xls

Free! - Dog Town: 20 Punks

Download CBG1200.pdf

A 64 page supplement for Dog Town providing the director of the game with 20 ready made punks for players to work, with, whup, or even pick up and play.

This rotten line up of thugs, thieves, pimps and drug pushers are brought to life in photo style mugshots drawn by the talented artist Gavin Hargest.

These scumbags will feature in forthcoming neighborhood sourcebooks.

This product is fully bookmarked and contains within the 64 pages a printer friendly version. In this version mugshots have been separated from text providing players if they wish with a rogues gallery of 20 portraits to represent their own criminals with.

Free! - Dog Town: Easy Money

Download CBG1700.pdf

Dog Town: Easy Money is a lurid trawl through the mean streets of 1970's New York. Written by Peter Spahn with artwork by Jake Richmond this Dog Town venture set in Brown Bay pits the player criminal against the unbelievably vengeful and violent Jungle Posse, and the greedy clutches of a cold calculating Mafia Capo.

Do you keep the money or your fingers?, Do you get whacked or hacked? This is Boogie Nights with bullets, treachery and machetes.

Contains:

Three referenced maps.

A number of additional dilemmas, jobs, problems and temptations to side track the player.

A ready to roll gangster Red Hopkins.

This product is fully bookmarked.

Free! - Dog Town: The Missing Mafioso

Download CBG1500.pdf

Thomas Ormenti is missing. To bad ! you say, except that he is the son of powerful Gurino Family Capo "Florida" Phil Ormenti and it is your crew that gets a call to help find him. The rewards for locating him could be substantial, the consequences of failure or refusal potentially fatal. Whatever the outcome dealing with the Mafia and its politics is never easy.

The Missing Mafioso is a fast paced adventure for the Dog Town the Roleplaying Game of crime, money and violence.

Outrun bounty hunters hot on your heels.

Tangle with a Columbian Drug Cartel.

Get dangerously mixed up with the Mafia.

Avoid getting pinched by the cops.

Follow the trail and find the Missing Mafioso.

This book contains 20 NPC's and 4 pre-generated player criminals. It can be played solo or as a three to four player game.

This product is fully book marked.

This game contains strong language and requires Dog Town: Core Rules to play.

Bust: Explosive Roleplaying

Bust is a fast, narrative focused card based system that uses player defined traits in a single, explosive resolution mechanic.

The core mechanic is that player characters assume a tough template of 21 with player created traits and flaws boosting and detracting that number. Threats and challenges in the form of cards attempt to bust that number. The harder the challenge the more cards have to be turned. Insert Aces that neutralize difficulty, exploding kings that create more, Jokers that twist fate, and play becomes more dyanmic and tactical. The system is flexible using templates like 14 or 28 for more mundane and heroic play.

Cover art by Richard Gray. 

Bust is Free!!!

Download Bust. Explosive Roleplaying.CBG1900.pdf

Dog Town: Stray Bullets Print Version Available

Dog Town: Stray Bullets is now available in print from Cold Blooded Games's Lulu Storefront

Dog Town: Stray Bullets

Get it at rpgnow

Dog Town: Stray Bullets is a magazine style supplement to boost your Dog Town game. It contains:

* Additional Talents and Vices.

* Three new criminal types in The Extortionist, The Rat and The Wheelman.

* Exciting new rules on playing with Luck.

* Dozens of additional Skill Specializations.

* A new fighting style and critical chart -Thai Boxing.

* New combat rules and weapons to rumble with.

* Two brutal mini-adventures - Junkie Stomp and Home Invasion.

* Gun laws, gun crime, gun tips and more guns.

* G.T.A. - all you need to know about boosting cars, making them legit, keeping them on the road and suping them up as getaway cars.

* An extended price list from the time covering simple sporting goods to luxury homes.

Product is fully bookmarked and contains art from Clifford Kurowski and Brad Mcdevit.

Frederico Thibault

I pleased to announce that Dog Town fan and email buddy Frederico Thibault will be contributing gun related material for the forthcoming Dog Town: Stray Bullets. Frederico is a great enthusiast of the genre with a talent for finding very useful but obscure information on the decadent decade.

Play Thread

A Dog Town game thread has been opened up at Flames Rising. I double dare someone to post on it.

Interview At Flames Rising

Matt McElroy of Flames Rising has been kind enough to interview me about Dog Town and other rpg stuff. Ignoring mine there are a number of insightful ones into games and the industry that you may care to peruse.

Go Here.

In Print Dog Town: The Missing Mafioso

Dog Town: the Missing Mafioso is now available in print from Lulu Press.

Get it here

Critical Miss Reviews Dog Town

Critical Miss author Jonny Nexus has written a review of Dog Town from his experiences of playing Dog Town: The Missing Mafioso at last Decembers Dragonmeet.

Read it here in issue 10 of Critical Miss.

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Hobby Games Takes Dog Town

Hobby Games is now distributing Dog Town: Core Rules to rpg stores throughout the UK.   

Now Out Dog Town: The Missing Mafioso

Dog Town: The Missing Mafioso is now out as a pdf from Rpgnow and Drivethrurpg. 

Retailers

Cold Blooded Games is interested in supplying retailers direct with print copies of Dog Town: Core Rules and Dog Town: The Felon's Handbook at 55% MSRP.

Orders must total at least two Core Rule Books + one Felon's Handbook or alternatively three Core Rule Books to qualify for this offer, which also includes free shipping.

US and Canada

Dog Town: Core Rules - $16:50.

Dog Town: The Felon's Handbook - $8:25.

UK and Europe

Dog Town: Core Rules - £11.00

Dog Town: The Felon's Handbook - £6.50

Enquiries made to Coldblooded.games@ntlworld.com

Invoices prepared and sent.

Payments to be made by Paypal to jonathan.ridd@ntlworld.com

Delivery will follow three to four weeks from order.   

Indie RPG Awards

Dog Town: Core Rules picks up an Andy's Choice Award at this years Indie RPG Awards

"The Only Thing Missing is a 'Hot Coffee' Mod" Award: Dog Town: Core Rules.There is absolutely no other game or gaming system out there, indie or mainstream, with this much background and emphasis on the roleplaying of illegal activites. I have not played this one yet, but after reading some of the background, it's just a matter of time. It plays out like a crime drama on Showtime."

The man has taste.

Cold Blooded Games & Indie Press Revolution

Dog Town: Core Rules and Dog Town: The Felon's Handbook are now available in print through Indie Press Revolution , an online retailer that specializes in selling quality games of creator publishers directly to the customer.    

Competition

Win a Rpgnow coupon entitling the recipient to a 75% discount on any Cold Blooded Games e-product by answering this simple question.

What is a Fugazy ?

To enter simply post a comment at the end of this post and either leave your email address there (for me to send you the coupon) or contact me personally if you don't want to leave it up on the site. The first correct answer wins, but also the most exact and detailed answer will win. 

Good luck

Jonathan Ridd

Cold Blooded Games

We have a winner !! Jeremehovah has correctly stated that a Fugazy is street slang for a Fake, particularly where diamonds are concerned.  Jeremehovah wins a 75% discount on Grenson Park. 

Jonathan Ridd

Print Titles

Both Dog Town: Core Rules and Dog Town: The Felon's Handbook are available in print through www.Lulu.com . Lulu are foremost in their field producing exceptional perfect bound books using quality paper and beautiful laminated covers.   

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