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TAZ - A Roleplaying Game of Post-Cyberpunk Resistance

Created by Mana Project Studio

TAZ is a post-cyberpunk tabletop roleplaying game about resistance and loss of control. Set in a world stripped of all its resources, you play as desperate idealists searching for a place to build a free enclave far from the tentacles of the dystopia.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

We're going to save $M4RT4. Join us!
over 1 year ago – Thu, Jul 03, 2025 at 04:57:37 AM

This might be the last time you hear from me, Rebel.

It’s still me — s3/VA.

Right now, I’m joining the recovery squad to bring $M4RT4 back to the TAZ.

She hacked the System just long enough to send us the coordinates.
Now we know where she is.

You’ve got a 3 hours left to claim your identification patch and join the squad. We need every rebel we can get to bring our comrade home.

Meet us at the coordinates:
  • GRID-Z3/∆SUBTERRΞ∆
  • COORD: SBT-R34.N2
  • NODE ∆404-SUB/SECTOR C
  • ZONE-ID: SUB-X09.FADE

If this works, I hope the next message you receive comes directly from $M4RT4.

See you on the other side. Maybe.

s3/VA

Project 99 Secret Unlocked. Stretch Goal no. 4 acquired!
over 1 year ago – Thu, Jul 03, 2025 at 12:58:54 AM


Hey Rebel,

Glad to be back online. The war’s far from over — and you're going to need this:

TRANSMISSION LOG: ∆STRETCH-UNLOCK_004 SCENARIO 01 --PROJECT 99--
SIGNAL DECRYPTED
RESOURCE NODE // UNLOCKED
STATUS: CONFIRMED
TYPE: ∆TACTICAL – ADDITIONAL MODULE
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What’s Project 99 and who are the 99ers? Discover the terrible goals of this scheme in Subterrea. This scenario will be included in the Scenario Book.
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INTEGRATION PROTOCOL: IN PROGRESS...∆RECEIVED 
>> ARCHIVE UPDATED
// END TRANSMISSION

$M4RT4

$M4RT4 is missing. We need you!
over 1 year ago – Thu, Jul 03, 2025 at 12:41:58 AM

Bad day for us, Rebel.

We just received this transmission:
// INTRUSION IN PROTOCOL [SUBTERRA-03] 
<<$M4RT4 // SIGNAL LOSTStatus: UNKNOWN
Last Ping: 00:12:07:09[!DATA LEAK DETECTED]
SUBJECT CAPTURED→ Confirmed resistance: MAXIMUM
→ Final transmission indicates conflict at node [Z-A12]
CURRENT LOCATION TRACE: ∆SUBTERRΞ∆
Action: Surveillance locked. 
Rescue not advised. Risk: CRITICAL.
END //

It was $M4RT4. We don’t know what condition she’s in, but for now, I’ll be the one contacting you.

I’m s3/VA, graphic designer and art director of TAZ — and second-line Solar Engine revolutionary.

We need help building the TAZ. 
The risk is high. The pressure’s on.

You have 7 hours to get your symbol of recognition:
the patch that brands you as a Rebel.

We have a mission to complete: destroy the System.
And $M4RT4 is the best we’ve got. We need her back.

Will you join us?
Don’t reply. It’s not safe.
I’ll reach out again.

s3/VA

We've unlocked something. Stretch Goal no. 3 acquired!
over 1 year ago – Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 06:41:52 AM


Hey Rebel,

Glad to be back online. The war’s far from over — and you're going to need this:
TRANSMISSION LOG: ∆STRETCH-UNLOCK_003__DIGITAL FILES FOR YOUR VTT
SIGNAL DECRYPTED
RESOURCE NODE // UNLOCKED
STATUS: CONFIRMED
TYPE: ∆TACTICAL – ADDITIONAL MODULE
____________________________________________________________________________________________
Digital files for playing online. A huge map, all the tokens and fillable sheets. 
____________________________________________________________________________________________
INTEGRATION PROTOCOL: IN PROGRESS...∆RECEIVED 
>> ARCHIVE UPDATED// END TRANSMISSION

$M4RT4

Transmission hacked. Stretch Goal no. 2 acquired.
over 1 year ago – Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 12:57:32 AM


I don’t know where I am.

But I hacked the system — and now I’ve got access to their resources.

Sending this to you could cost me my life.

But what is one life, compared to the freedom of an entire people?

TRANSMISSION LOG: ∆STRETCH-UNLOCK_002 GRANT&CHRIS' SCENARIO
SIGNAL DECRYPTED
RESOURCE NODE // UNLOCKED
STATUS: CONFIRMED
TYPE: ∆TACTICAL – ADDITIONAL MODULE
INTEGRATION PROTOCOL: IN PROGRESS...∆RECEIVED
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Grant Howitt and Chris Taylor combine together, mecha-like, to form a two-headed, eight-limbed entity that lives and works in Sheffield, England as a sort of games designer. The entity’s work to date includes Spire: The City Must Fall and Heart: The City Beneath; one of its heads (and two of its limbs) wrote Eat the Reich and, ages ago, Honey Heist. It enjoys smoking cigarettes, consulting thesauruses, and talking to itself. Read more of its work at rrdgames.com and follow their last project on BackerKit!
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>> ARCHIVE UPDATED// 
END TRANSMISSION

$M4RT4