Crimefighters

Crimefighters is a 1981 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.

Crimefighters
Designer(s)David Cook
Publisher(s)TSR
Publication date1981 (1981)
Genre(s)Crime
Crimefighting
Pulp
Role-playing game
Playing timeVaries
Random chanceDice
Skill(s) requiredImprovisation, arithmetic

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