each suit of cards represents one of the four pillars of intel you need to pull off a job: the client, the objective, the opportunity, & your "in". the intel gets privately generated by each player (with the help of an extensive series of tables to roll on) when they "fish" from the deck, so by the time you've assembled all four cards of a value to complete a book, they've picked up a wild spread of facts that you get to weave into one single successful mission. if you complete a book by taking those cards from another player's hand, the two of you work together to build the narrative of how you stole that job out from under them.
this game requires zero prep. in service of that, it's full of generative tables for every instance of information you might need. this is a GMless game in part because the cards & tables can help GM for you. let the dice set your characters up so you can focus your creative energy on how they pull off the impossible.
& it now has:
- a completely rebuilt layout (with either a full colour cover or a simplified cover for home printing, or as spreads)
- all-new ending mechanics
- new online play assets: spreadsheets that can apply your rolls to tables for you
- new printable play assets: a character sheet with quick reference rules, a pamphlet with all the tables, & public record markers to keep your intel organised
- the first-ever print edition being sold at big bad con by @jessfromonline :)
also...it will be in my Games on Demand menu Friday night of Big Bad Con! if you're at Big Bad Con, you can sign up day-of for me to run HOOK LINE & CYB3R for you! and i will be selling the very first copies of the physical edition at my vending table friday and sunday.
i've never played anything quite like HOOK LINE & CYB3R. it takes no prep very seriously--the amount to which it provides you with every bit of inspiration & tools (& tables & tables & tables) that you could need to tell a cyberpunk story off the cuff is astounding. i've never seen anything that does what it does with tables.
also, you play with go fish. you literally play cyberpunk heists with go fish. you have to try it.

