How to Play TriadCity

The TriadCity Players' Guide

Cop Role

Cops are officials of one or another of the Thirds. They have the legal authority and the obligation to arrest or otherwise inconvenience criminals, runaway slaves, or other persons designated arrestable by the appropriate Third authorities or the Central Computer. Cops include Peacekeepers, Stormtroopers, CopBots, Sylvan Archers, and other types.

Cops may be any alignment.

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We call this "pop music." We call it "mass market." And games are indeed reaching this mass market, and I suppose that to a degree I am fighting the tide in arguing that that is not the ultimate destiny for games any more than it is for any other art form. The art we remember is material that opened up new vistas: whether or not it was popular at the time is largely an accident of history. Shakespeare ws a popular playwright and then was neglected for a couple hundred years. Popularity is not a measure of long-term evolutionary success."
— Raph Koster, A Theory of Fun For Game Design (info)