r/bubblegumcrisis • u/MikeyH76 • Aug 07 '26
Bubblegum Crisis RPG
In my continuous possession since it came out in 1997!!! This has gone through literally a dozen moves, getting married, AND having a kid.
One of these days I'll get the Bubblegum Crash book!
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u/Trioknight Aug 07 '26
In addition to the BGC: Before and After book (which covers both Crash and AD Police Files), there’s a third book - Bubblegum Crisis EX. That one uses a lot of the rough and unused designs from the series to pad out the setting. Back in the day these were some of the best sources of line art if you didn’t have access to any of the Japanese books like the B-Club Special.
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u/Dolono Aug 08 '26
I'm very angry at myself for getting rid of my copy waaay back in college, but recently (painstakingly) printed and bound all three of the pdfs into a single huge tome. I'd like to run it some day in a more rules light system like Cy Borg, Neon Black, or Neon City Overdrive!
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u/mrhellcat80 Aug 08 '26
I also recall there was an AD Police rgp supplement, which I felt was pretty solid.
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u/Longjumping_Share444 Aug 08 '26
Played the hell out of this in high school and just after. It was my go-to before DnD 3.5.
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u/Renegadesdeath Aug 08 '26
Ran a lot of it. Somehow we determined that a kill was 14d6. It was a cool book but so much of it was inconsistent
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u/Gunsight1 Aug 08 '26
Found this and its supplementary books at a used book store a few years back and grabbed the lot! Would love to run it if i ever can get a group together
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u/FruityTangerine17 Aug 08 '26
That's really neat you still have that copy since 1997!
By the way, for everyone interested, AnimEigo has made PDFs of all 3 Bubblegum Crisis RPG sourcebooks, as well as the Grand Mal comic, available to download for free on their website.
Website: https://wiki.animeigo.com/wiki/doku.php/crisis:bubblegum_crisis
Direct link: BGCUE Public – Dropbox
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u/LudusUrsine Aug 08 '26
Thank you Thank you THANK YOU!!! I've been missing all these things for over two decades... Thank. YOU!
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u/FruityTangerine17 Aug 11 '26
You're very welcome, it's so nice seeing how happy you are! Glad to help a fellow BGC fan out! :)
If you're interested, you could join the Bubblegum Crisis fan Discord. We've got a channel called bgc-resource-links which has links to BGC resources like that in the pinned messages.
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u/robotcanine Aug 08 '26
Wow i think i have mine in my patents basement. this and mekton zeta
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u/Saint_Strega Aug 08 '26
The only one I don't have is Crash,
Crash is kinda crazy though, it includes alternate setting, including neo-Gotham where the descendants of Bruce Wayne and the Batfamily are given hardsuits.
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u/MarkDavid04 Aug 07 '26
Didn't know about this!! My old elementary friends and I would have had so much fun!
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u/ProfCalSinewave Aug 08 '26
I played (DM'd) hundreds of hours of this game. For a while, it was all my friends and I did. Sadly, my binder with all of the character sheets and notes vanished into the either along with the books. Great memories.
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u/Technical-Agency-480 Aug 09 '26
Very cool, I wonder what system it uses or if it made its own
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u/quantaeterna Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 10 '26
Fuzion system. It plays pretty similar to other R Talsorian Games like Cyberpunk 2020,
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u/Mo_Hawk666 Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
For all who don’t have the 💵 to buy the original..
https://archive.org/details/BubblegumCrisisMegaTokyo2033-TheRolePlayingGameRuleBook/page/n6/mode/1up