LOW SIGNAL- Find a runaway virtualoso and decide their fate!!!

Creating your character

We’ll run a free session zero for creating characters.

Preparing for the session

Please read the information provided pre-session zero and have a working grasp of the rules. Walking in knowing nothing isn’t great, but if task paralysis gets a hold of you, it’ll probably be ok.

What TPKDM brings to the table

In a TPKDM dream, Dimm City is not the backdrop. It is a living pressure cooker. The city pushes back, watches, remembers, and sometimes bites first. TPKDM doesn’t shepherd Dreamers through a story. He drops them into a situation already in motion and asks what they do when the heat turns up. Factions have plans. Gangs have grudges. Corpos have leverage. If the crew stalls, the world does not. Prep is about tension, not plots. Who wants what. Who is desperate. Who is lying. From there, dreams find shape. A simple job can spiral into district-wide fallout. A mercy today can become a liability next session. A bad call can echo for a longwhile. Failure is fuel at this table. A miss does not mean nothing happens. It means something worse, stranger, or more complicated happens. Heat rises. Clocks tick. Enemies learn. The crew adapts or gets chewed apart. The tone straddles gutter-grit danger and silicon-slick intrigue, with CREATUREPUNK pumping through its veins. One moment you are negotiating with a fungal mafia accountant, the next you are sprinting from a biotech horror through a rain-slick blackmarket quad. Humor exists, but the stakes are real. Violence is fast. Consequences linger. Mechanically, TPKDM runs lean and decisive. Rolls happen when outcomes matter. Lucid and Surreal states are treated as narrative signals as much as mechanics. AP pressure is real, resources matter, and choices carry weight. Most importantly, Dreamers are co-conspirators. Clever play, bold risks, and lateral thinking are rewarded. If a plan is wild but grounded in the narrative, it flies. If it changes the city, even better. In a TPKDM dream, you are not being told a story. The dream reacts to you and your actions and ideas make it real. Survive it. Shape it. Or get swallowed by it…

Homebrew rules

Quest is the clean fantasy blueprint. Dimm City RPG is that blueprint twisted into CREATUREPUNK. Instead of heroes and kingdoms, you get monsters, augments, and a living city that eats the weak and belches their names. Stories focus on surviving the daily grind, savage faction politics, and consequences, not noble quests. Both are rules-light and run on a single d20, but Lucid vs Surreal states (Roll a 20, get two rolls on your next/Roll a 1, the same but the lower goes) change the weight of rolls, and abilities in Dimm City are a far cry from those in Quest. Specialties show the shift in tone. Where Quest has familiar roles like fighters, mages, and rogues, Dimm City has Streetwardens, Technosorcerers, Proxies, Gutterdruids, and other city-forged paths. They fill similar niches, but with a Creaturepunk spin. Quest is about adventure. Dimm City is about survival, choice, and the same simple mechanics and spirit, rewired for a city that breaks necks, slings hex, and hacks decks. That’s CREATUREPUNK!

How TPKDM creates a safe table

I’m an old-school gamer, but understand and appreciate the current climate of TTRPG hobbyists. In session zero, you can be upfront about any problems with particular content when we’re talking or DM me after about your concerns. As far as player safety, I prefer to have players create that amongst themselves as opposed to creating those rules. I will follow and abide by whatever the players create and advocate for individuals if necessary. I believe everyone giving up 2-3 hours of their week to play a game like this are owed a good time. If something is getting in the way of that requirement, I’m the front line of responsibility to resolve the issue.