2038 AD

The United States no longer exists.

Within the war-torn former United States lies the last place in the formerly free world that is truly a land of opportunity: Chicago. 

Everyone from around the world who seeks to make a name for themselves without the approval of a totalitarian regime or having to keep their head on a swivel in the middle of a war zone has come to this dynamic city-state.

In a city in which various factions and organizations are vying for power, be it megacorps, smaller businesses, aldermen, crime syndicates, street gangs, and even ordinary citizens. There's only one profession that's keeping the entire city from being another battlefield: RōNIN.

You are one of these RōNIN. The ultimate equalizer. It doesn't matter what type of business or social status one has, if they have the chits then they can hire you for any reason be it spying on a spouse suspected of cheating, reclaiming stolen property, putting someone out of existence, or settling issues without having to go to court.

As a RōNIN you have the opportunity of a lifetime in which if you succeed, the city and everything in it will be at your fingertips. If you fail, well...

We hope you set aside enough chits for a burial!

The crowdfunding campaign for RōNIN will be coming soon!  Check back here for more updates!

Success by Degrees

RōNIN uses a 2d10 ranked system in which it's not that you succeed in your roll it's to what degree you succeed.  If you barely pass, you'll succeed... with a small price, but if you pass your roll by a lot, you will witness your great accomplishment!

An explainer video is coming soon!

A Broken Empire, A New Order

The world of RōNIN circa 2038 has become a very dangerous and chaotic place.  With the fall of the United States and the rise of the Federal Union, most people are in a perpetual state of fight or flight.  Everywhere you go in the Former United States you could be under the domain of local militia, religious cults, tribals, cities that are constantly attacked by guerillas, or ghost towns that are populated with abominations that were left behind by the Federal Union.

The Federal Union is what's left of the American government.  An organization too drunk with power is willing to pervert humanity to achieve what they call a true utopic society... but their utopia is your living nightmare as in reality the Federal Union is nothing more than an open-air prison with the populace being experimented on through, food, medicine, AI manipulation, and other sick experiments daily and because of those experiments the world has to endure genetic abominations such as zombies, vampires, lupines (or werewolves if you prefer) or any other grotesqueries.

These experiments have two purposes for the Federal Union: consolidate power through a cowed populace and reclaim their dominion over the former United States. Especially the independent city-state of Chicago.

Your Kind Of Town

The city-state of Chicago is home to 38 million people who have gathered here as it's the last bastion of pure freedom left in the formerly free world.  While some seek to achieve the 'American Dream' which has become a rarity, there are those who have taken advantage of the ultimate opportunity that they would get nowhere else.  12,000 square miles of the city-state from the neon-lit streets of the Loop and the Gold Coast, the trendy enclaves of Lincoln Park and Lakeview, ethnic enclaves like Chinatown, Polish Village, the Japanese in Edgewater and Uptown, the Latin enclave of Little Village, or the Russian-dominated Jefferson Park, the tech boomtown of Oak Brook, the epitome of suburbia in the Northwest Corridor, or the farmlands and the small towns of the outer city-state.

Just keep your wits about you, mind your surroundings, and stay ahead of things.  Because in Chicago, if you're not on the way up--

--you're on the way out!