Crimefighters

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Crimefighters

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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.

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