Cartel: Ashcan Edition [Print+PDF]

Description

3-5 players | Short Campaign Play 2-4 hour sessions | Rated Mature |

Cartel is a Powered by the Apocalypse tabletop roleplaying game of Mexican narcofiction, all about people who are in over their heads, trying to stay alive in an increasingly dangerous game of drugs, money, and power. A combination of Breaking Bad, The Wire, and El Mariachi.

Play members of the Sinaloa Cartel, the largest drug trafficking organization in the world, a sprawling network of narcos, halcones, y sicarias that moves billions of dollars of drugs into Los Estados Unidos each year. One of their prime holdings is Durango, Mexico, a small city ten hours south of the border that’s a crucial way station for anything moving north.

But holding the city ain’t easy: either la policia gets in the way, or some foolish pendejo thinks he can pull one over on the chingados that run Durango for los jefes grande. And don’t even get me started on Los Zetas…

The version presented here is an ashcan preview edition; it has everything you need to play Cartel today. Magpie Games will release the full version of Cartel in the future.

What You Get

• 6 playbooks that span the archetypes of narcofiction, such as El Cocinero, La Esposa, El Halcón, and La Sicaria.
• Rules for stress and harm, including what happens when—not if—you get shot.
• Guidance on bringing the Mexican city of Durango and its inhabitants to life.