PRESSURE: INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE FICTION ROLEPLAYING
Written by Jonathan Hicks
Illustrated by Nathan J. Anderson

"Attention! Stop your yappin’! I’m not in the habit of repeating myself so if you have any issues with any of this then wind it back afterwards and rewatch it in your own time. Any questions can be left until I’m done, and only then. Do you get me? I SAID DO YOU GET ME? At ease. Take a chair. Welcome to your first orientation session of the SOS, the Special Operations Squads. You’ve been chosen because some damn fool thought you’d be good at this. We’ll see. This is a military-backed department, but it doesn’t matter where you’re from – navy, police, private contractor. What does matter is where you go from here. Either to the stars to represent the government, or to the brig. Either is fine with me."
– SOS Orientation Briefing

A science fiction roleplaying game of bringing law and order
to the dark and dangerous corners of the universe.

Pressure: Industrial Science Fiction Roleplaying is a rules-light, story-focused game of facing the darkness at the heart of humanity's fragile and claustrophobic existence – both on Earth and among the stars. An entirely standalone title, Pressure also develops and expands upon the mechanics and setting introduced in the Those Dark Places roleplaying game.

As highly skilled agents of Special Operations Squads, players are tasked with cleaning up after the Corporations – investigating links to organised crime, neutralising rogue weapons research, negotiating with rebel leaders on orbital stations, and hunting down whatever that black-budget excavation team 'awoke' out in the Procyon Sector…

The universe is a dangerous and hostile place; the Hypercities and the Deep Black alike hide powerful foes. But you have the tools, the training, and the resources to face these dangers… you hope.

Pressure is out now in the UK and 9th January in the US.

Check out our blog series from the author about what's new, the game's
worldbuilding & mechanics, and find official freely downloadable character sheets here.

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