Category: Playable Black Characters
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GODSEND: Agenda
Designer: Jerry D. GraysonPublisher: Khepera PublishingRelease Year: 2001Platform: Board GameGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Black NPCs; Development, Playable Black Characters In an alternate Earth, impacted by godlike aliens, there are six factions you can join as you ultimately examine the influence and impact you have on the world and on your own legacy and future. interviews and…
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Android: Netrunner
Developer: Damon StonePublisher: Fantasy Flight Games Release Year: 2012Platform: Card GameGenre: Living Card GameTaxonomy: Black NPCs; Development; Playable Black Characters Set in New Angeles, home of the Beanstalk, this game pits a megacorporation and its resources against the talents of lone runners in a cyberpunk world. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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The Witcher (RPG)
Designer: Cody Pondsmith, Lisa PondsmithPublisher: R. Talsorian GamesRelease Year: 2018Platform: Board GameGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Black NPCs; Development; Playable Black Characters Set in the Witcher universe, during the events of Assassin of Kings, Wild Hunt, and the third Nilfgaardian War, this roleplaying game allows players to craft a backstory for their character in order to deal…
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Tidebreaker
Designer: Nick Butler Publisher: Self Published Release Year: 2022 Platform: TabletopGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Black NPCs; Development; Playable Black Characters Step into the role of hyper-competent heroes to explore worlds, customize abilities, and engage in epic battles as you roleplay to solve problems and resolve conflict using diplomacy and persuasion skills. interviews and other media scholarship…
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S0urce C0de
Designer: Gabriel HicksPublisher: Self PublishedRelease Year: 2016Platform: TabletopGenre: Role-playingTaxonomy: Black NPCs; Development; Playable Black Characters Creating your own pathways, you focus on exploration and discovery as a member of an elite force in a universe where the number of planets is endless. Adventure follows. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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Rap Godz
Designer: Omari AkilPublisher: Colorway Game LabsRelease Year: 2020Platform: Board GameGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Black cultural Traditions; Black NPCs; Development, Playable Black Characters; Politics/ ideology/ history; Robust Character Creation System; As an up-and-coming rap artist, you must earn money, build your street cred, and improve your rap skills in order to become the ultimate rap god. interviews…
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Steal Away Jordan
Designer: Julia Bond EllingboePublisher: Stone Baby GamesRelease Year: 2007Platform: TabletopGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Black Cultural Traditions; Black NPCs; Development; Playable Black Characters; Politics/ ideology/ history; Robust Character Creation System; Set during the United States antebellum period, in Steal Away Jordan you work to live out the collective stories of enslaved people and their secret goals. interviews…
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One Child’s Heart
Designer: Camdon WrightPublisher: Unicorn Motorcycle GamesRelease Year: 2020Platform: TabletopGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Black NPCs; Development; Playable Black Characters; Robust Character Creation System; Take on the role of a child welfare professional participating in a new mental health care memory exploration experiment, the Central Limbic Engagement Recovery System, and support an imaginary child struggling with their life…
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Harlem Unbound
Designer: Chris SpiveyPublisher: Darker Hue StudiosRelease Year: 2017Platform: Board GameGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Black Cultural Traditions, Black NPCs, Development, Playable Black Characters, Politics/ Ideology/ history; Robust Character Creation System In the 1920s prohibition is in full swing in New York City. African Americans flee the South and create dynamic Black cultural life in Harlem. Classes, other…
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Cyberpunk 2020
Designer: Mike PondsmithPublisher: R. Talsorian GamesRelease Year: 1988Platform: TabletopGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Black NPCs; Development; Playable Black Characters; Robust Character Creation System; Set in the context of a dystopian future, a lack of government and police enforcement, and the presence of megacorporations fighting for power, you, as a cyberpunk, must fight to survive in this violent…