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Hack the Planet: Cyberpunk Forged in the Dark

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Hack the Planet is 346 pages, full-color, and graphic-novel sized. There are 64+ pieces of art in the interior and it comes with optimized, highly usable PDFs (300dpi and 144 dpi for a lower-res file). Each PDF includes bookmarks, extensive hyperlinking, a reference section, layers, and an index.

Hack the Planet is a cyberpunk tabletop roleplaying game about clawing power away from those at the top while surviving extreme heavy weather. In the not-so-distant future, our environment and technological growth was impacted by Acts of God: natural disasters radicalized by climate change effects that wreak havoc on the world.

You play individuals living in Shelter 1, a massive facility for climate refugees, corporations, and the superrich. These days, the Shelter serves only the few corporations who saw these changes coming—and you’ve had enough.

While you seem powerless compared to these corporations, you use technology to forge a new way of life within and around a massive Shelter 1. You pull off daring heists using experimental weapons and armor, install cybernetics into your bodies, and hack the corporate nanites pervasive in your body, food, and culture. You deceive those you don’t trust, betraying them when necessary. You rip apart hurricanes in this cascading, sprawling metropolis.

Play to find out how well you fare against the odds as you leverage your appropriated and modified futuristic technologies, wits, and sordid pasts to take power from a corporate society that will stop at nothing to keep it.

Each player create a player character (or PC) referred to as a Glitch—the punks of this society living in the Green Zone. Glitches hacked the nanites that track and monitor their movements to take themselves ‘off the grid’ so they could thrive outside of Shelter 1’s cultural norms. Often, they engage in crime and violent acts that, while not heroic, are necessary to achieve their goals when the odds are stacked against them.

The players’ Glitches form a crew who work together to go from having little-to-nothing to having serious clout and resources. They work outside of the authority and mainstream culture to accomplish this; taking scores from people in the criminal underworld. They’ll have to forge alliances, eliminate those that get in their way, and bypass the law to work their way up the proverbial ladder.

Hack the Planet uses an “engine,” or framework of rules and mechanics, of another game called Blades in the Dark to pull off this daring way of life—making this game Forged in the Dark. 

Visual touchstones include Elysium, Blade Runner, and Blade Runner 2049. But the game also takes a lot of inspiration from cyberpunk and cli-fi (climate fiction) literature like Heavy Weather and Loosed Upon the World


Note: Print copies available @ indie press revolution and samjoko publishing dot com.


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Richard H March 29, 2023 4:38 pm UTC
Can we get a POD for this, please?
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Ketil J September 02, 2022 4:43 pm UTC
Man hoped this was on sale since it's a Forged in the Dark title.
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Soti V December 18, 2021 10:07 pm UTC
Is the physical book available in EU?
(now buying anything from UK or US is almost prohibited - customs take enormous time + taxes)
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Neil S September 30, 2021 7:25 am UTC
Does this detail gangs
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Benjamin N September 04, 2021 7:04 am UTC
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Is it possible to get a physical edition of this book?
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Fraser S September 04, 2021 8:25 pm UTC
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Yes. If you are in the US, Indie Press Revolution has copies. Otherwise, Samjoko Publishing's website has copies as well.
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Xavier B February 09, 2021 10:54 am UTC
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A shout out to the authors/maintainers: thanks for detailling the updates !! I love that and I feel it's an important piece of info.
Cheers for that, this is not getting unnoticed ;)
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Tom S October 06, 2020 3:33 pm UTC
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Sabotage entanglement? the 4/5 result on 0-3 Heat in the Entanglements table says "Rivals or Sabotage" but I'm not seeing a description of Sabotage in the entanglements list. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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John P October 03, 2020 6:51 pm UTC
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I noticed in the Factions Tables on page 246, there are two factions which are mentioned in the tables but never again elsewhere in the book. Under Criminal, there's a faction called Nuance, and under Labor & Trade, there's a faction called Laborers. Laborers seem obvious enough, but as far as I can tell, Nuance is never mentioned elsewhere. Is this a mistake?
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Fraser S October 05, 2020 3:55 pm UTC
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Nope. Not a mistake.
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Dave T January 06, 2020 7:26 pm UTC
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Here is my video review of this book. I generally think the game and setting kicks XXX:
https://youtu.be/3pghvWU6Vco
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Fraser S January 07, 2020 9:17 pm UTC
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Thanks for the review!
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Jason W December 24, 2019 3:55 pm UTC
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I bought the dead tree version at my FLGS and I'm very thrilled with the game overall, however, there are no character sheets/playbooks included in the book for me to photocopy. Is there somewhere I can download them? Paying 40 dollars for a book I can't actually use in play would make me one sady puppy.
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Fraser S December 24, 2019 6:05 pm UTC
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Absolutely, we send customers digital copies of the game with proof of purchase for all of our games, actually. Send an email to info@samjokopublishing.com with it (usually people just send a pic of them with the book) and I'll get it to you ASAP, Jason!
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Jason W December 25, 2019 3:36 pm UTC
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Outstanding! Thank you very much, Fraser. I'll do that!
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Jason W December 27, 2019 8:32 am UTC
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Email sent, along with a (rather bad) selfie of myself holding the book. Thanks again!
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Fraser S December 27, 2019 5:34 pm UTC
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No problem! I sent it!
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Francesco L October 29, 2019 9:05 pm UTC
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I noticed a really tiny and inconsequential mistake, but I thought this is the place to report it: in the reference sheet, all Playbooks have the name reported in the bottom red bar, except for Edge.

Apart from that, it looks a really cool game and I am looking forward to play it!
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Fraser S October 29, 2019 11:20 pm UTC
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Thanks for letting me know, that is weird. I'll look into it!
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Dwight L August 01, 2019 8:51 pm UTC
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can a mod remove comments like this? really? gee, nice to know its preferred to bury a dissenting comment of I found the game not satisfying of lower than expected in standard of quality.
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Simon B April 21, 2019 3:41 pm UTC
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The reference sheet file seems to be from "Comrades" rather than from this game - or have I screwed up my downloads somehow?
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Fraser S April 21, 2019 4:10 pm UTC
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Hi Simon,
I don't think that's possible unless DrivethruRPG linked to the wrong file in their server or something. Maybe give re-downloading it a shot. I don't own or publish "Comrades" so it's impossible for the file to be uploaded on my end.
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Simon B April 21, 2019 5:07 pm UTC
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Must be a DTRPG bug, I suppose. I've just re-downloaded, and I got the same file.

FWIW, I *have* purchased Comrades.

I see 4 files to download:

Reference_Sheets.pdf
Hack_the_Planet_low_res_singles.pdf
Hack_the_Planet_singles.pdf
Hack_the_Planet_spreads.pdf

Is that as expected?
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Fraser S April 22, 2019 7:43 pm UTC
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That's correct, that's the name of the files.
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Brandon P April 19, 2019 10:24 pm UTC
Have you spoken with Evil Hat about a print run?
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Fraser S April 19, 2019 10:36 pm UTC
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As it says in the note at the bottom of the description, there will be a print run (funded by the Kickstarter). There just won't be a print-on-demand option.
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Brett M April 19, 2019 7:12 pm UTC
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Will the print version be softcover or hardcover?
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Fraser S April 19, 2019 9:02 pm UTC
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The print version will be softcover. It'll have a thicker cover than is typical...but softcover only.
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Brett M April 19, 2019 9:50 pm UTC
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No worries! Just planning out where I'm going to put it on my bookshelf ;)
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