First things first, hello you there my dear reader! Hope you're having a good day.

Since the deadline for the contest I'm writing a game for has been postponed for two whole months due to COVID in my country, I find myself with a lot more time on my hands than planned. I've never released a full project, despite I've written a lot of half-functioning games for my inner circles, so I wanted to put out in the open my first game on itch.io, just because I don't want to "jinx the other one".

Yes, I'm superstitious, I can't help it.

Elevator Pitch

A.C.A.B. is a punk-themed rules-light game of anarcho-rebels against a totalitarian regime. Make a band, rise against the system and fight against the cops for what's right and what's wrong. Punk is not Dead!

Punk Creation

Punks are created by rolling their Punk Tags, picking a Note Patch, and a few stolen Goods. Roll 4d6, drop the lowest, and assign them in the order they come up with.

- Use Hard when you break goods and skulls, endure pain and tortures and beat cops into a bloody pulp.

- Use Street when you jump from roof to roof, resort to underhand tricks and sneak behind cops.

- Use Glam when you attempt at something with flair, lead the rebellion and talk your way out with cops.

One is crap. Three is the average. Six is almost superhuman.

Each punk starts with a note patch, an instrument and a stolen good.

These are the full rules of character creation. While I've mostly written out the list of stolen goods and the instruments, I'm looking for suggestions for the note patches.

Note Patches

Notes are loosely inspired by the urban legend of the Brown Note. Punks learn some specific combinations of notes by making music (despite being banned by the regime) that can make "magical/supernatural" effects and they can call those notes by playing their pieces when they have the ability to do so. Yes, I intend the Brown Note to be one of the note you could pick at character creation.

Note Patches are small squares with evocative images and some rules written on it, reminiscent of real patches, that the players must clip on their sheet, wherever they want without making other parts unreadable. A punk with a note patch on their sheet knows how to play those notes and get those effects, make the best use of them is left to the player.

For example, this sticker could represent a spell that reads "You make a Glam roll to force a target to punch the nearest cop as hard as they can".

Feedback

This post is basically my current game design document.

I'm looking for suggestions about possible spell effects, possibly inspired by punk songs or punk-themed. Everything could go, but the punkier the better.I'd love to hear your thougths!