#all time cops are bastards

[fantasyfantasygames]

Timebreakers

Timebreakers, Uwe Jones, 2017

A lot of time travel games involve you effectively playing the time cops. You're putting things back "the way they should be". Timebreakers is not that kind of game. Timebreakers is a time-travel heist game where you seek to disrupt very specific events in very specific ways.

See, you can't just go around murdering people. That's going to cause too much change. All sorts of unrelated things go out of wack when big important people, events, or objects ("keystones") go missing. You have goals that involve keeping the good parts of the world in place. You need to be in just the right place, at just the right time, to make the small change that snowballs into the perfect effect. Well, maybe not perfect, but better anyway.

The mechanics for the game are fairly typical for a modern-day expert-level game. You have seven mental / physical / social stats, some skills, and advantages. (No disadvantages in this one.) They're rated 1-20. The system is roll-under, blackjack style. Failures on Stress Rolls (rolls made in combat or under life-or-death situations) cause Stress conditions, which penalize your attributes in specific ways. For instance, the moderate-level Sprained Leg condition penalizes all your attributes in the short term, and your Speed in the long term. There's a bit of a death spiral. There are also Juncture points, which let you do dramatic editing. You build those up by making changes to the timeline.

The mechanics of time travel involve an "operator" in the future pulling you back and forth. It's very Matrix-feeling. The GM always plays the operator, which kind of feels like a missed opportunity. There's often static on the line, and your communications device has to be either in your ear (which means people can spot it) or built into your clothing (which means someone might damage it or take it away), so you can't always jump. It's mostly a mercy-of-the-dice thing. You don't track things as carefully as Continuum does, but it's not as anything-goes as Time Liner.

The art is thin-line drawings of time travelers doing things in the past, sometimes with a chain of them all doing the same thing or reversing it back and forth. Part modern comics, part art nouveau. I think it might be a very-well-employed vector graphics bundle, but I'm not 100% sure. It's very sparse - there are only six pieces throughout the book. The layout is not great. It uses a single column across a full-sized page, which is hard to read.

The book has an antagonist section, with 19th-century stats and directions for how to alter them for previous eras. There are, naturally, time cops to deal with, but one of the potential paths you can take is to neuter them first. The GMs section gives about a dozen different "chains of coincidence" you can meddle with and that's one of them. Meddle with it wrong and you end up having to time-cop yourselves!

Timebreakers is hidden away on DriveThru. There's a typo in the name that makes it unsearchable due to a non-ASCII character.

[timeclonemike]

"I'm a doctor, not a time cop!"

While trying to find Chekov Bones stops to do some awesome doctoring 

[thewettestsock]

I'm a time traveller. I went back in time so I could steal all the funniest Tumblr posts and pass them off as my own but the time cops also went back in time and killed anyone who was going to reblog "my" posts so the space-time continuum wouldn't rupture.

[a-hollow-forest]

starting to feel like people are using ACAB as it's own little thought terminating cliche because there is a staggering number of people who will say all cops are bastards only to turn around and then fantasize about being able to use horrific acts of violence to 'cleanse' the world of all of the Bad People but it's ok because they're leftists and their discernment of who the Bad People are is obviously the most morally correct and could never be subject to an erosion of compassion or ethics or unexplored bias if they were no longer to be held accountable for their desire to hurt people

[nando161mando]

A pig is still a pig no matter how many times you pinkwash it

[lilithism1848]

[westerlieswitch]

tumblr user: I like your shoelaces!

punk: thanks. that cop had it coming.

tumblr user: what?

punk: what?

[alreadysoltye]

seen outside my local starbucks

[cheapfakeblood]

per my last reblog:

CELEBRITIES ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS

COPS ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS

BILLIONAIRES ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS

they do not care about you. you are not special for siding with them when they choose wrong. when they close the drawbridge of the castle, they will not grant you entry just because you will help them pick flowers from the garden of time. if you protect and speak for them, know that you will not be spared from their actions.

you are always a lot closer to living on the streets than you are to being a billionaire.

you are always a lot closer to starvation than you are to being one of the met gala attendees.

you are always closer to being dead than you are to being their kind of rich and/or powerful.

[bendrownedbodypillow]

there's a breed of people that the world would be better of without, and that breed is cops

[shittygaypornmagazine]

haven't killed a cop yet but have committed atrocities can I have blorbo status now?

[scarlet--wiccan]

You don't need to tag me in posts that have nothing to do with me. I'm not going to respond, comment, or interject myself into conversations unless they are relevant to the focus of this blog, which, I'll remind you, is the Maximoff family and the many issues of Romani representation in American media. I also minor in trans issues, but honestly, putting my neck out there as a transfeminine person in the comics world is fucking dangerous, even on tumblr.

I actually care about a lot of different issues, but I've learned that speaking outside of my exact lane usually attracts more negative attention than I have the emotional or intellectual bandwidth to deal with. Honestly, I can barely keep up with running this page anymore, as I'm sure you've all noticed, so please, don't try to summon me as an attack dog or call me up in a court of public opinion just because I happen to be a casual fan of an animated movie.

[thesoundofchokingonabreadstick]

Hey guys have we all seen the trailer and/or ad on Youtube from The Epoch about trans hate.

Ya know, the one were they're intentionally spreading misinformation and hate?

Oh you haven't? Heres some screen caps. Now you have!

Anyway I'm in a fit of rage :D so,

Fuck Our Duty, fuck Erin Friday, fuck all the people and organizations intentionally spreading hate and misinformation.

[nando161mando]

"It's time to stop the police" (EN: English)

[talentforlying]

also, writing up those profiles made me realize just how hard the john constantine self-loathing machine goes brr. exactly one of the people who were actually there at newcastle really, truly blamed you for what happened, my guy, the rest is just the mental illness talking.

[carito-dorito]

If people rlly cared for terrorism to never happen again in Peru

Why the fuck they applaud all what Fujimori did

Why the fuck they still allow people to die in hunger, in poverty

Why the fuck we say "it was for a bigger good" every time indigenous women talk about forced sterilizations

Why the fuck everytime they see a native or a black person raise their voice call them names

Why are they exploiting people specially minorities

Why the actual fuck is white supremacy still a thing here and our society in 2023 acts like we're still on castas

Because when people want to protest then we are killed and seen as the danger

But yeah then they say they are the victims of the story

And no I'm not mentioning people

I'm talking about the elite that still holds all these values