This is the first edition of the Rainworld TTRPG system. The second edition, Rainworld R2, is now available here.

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Please note that if you want to download all of the Rainworld 1e PDFs, you can get them all at once in the form of The Collection.

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Rainworld is a love letter to janky early-90s rules, dystopian SF settings, and dad jokes disguised as flavour text.

Catgirlspersons! Psionics! Biotech combat androids! The gig economy! A cyberpunk gear list with as many more evening dresses than shotguns! Six Seven TEN a bunch of pamphlet-sized supplements for it already!

The internet's finest* dystopian cyberpunk McJob TTRPG!

(*according to: me.)

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Two centuries into terraforming the New Republic of Libertaria, the planet is nice enough — well, liveable enough — as long as you live within a few dozen klicks of one of the sky-high toadstool-shaped atmospheric processors. And lucky you, you do, in the urban sprawl around the base of the New Shenzen processor. The daily rains are a side effect of terraforming — should calm down in another few hundred years. The main thing is, your ancestors escaped from the Commonweal's long nightmare of peace and prosperity to found a society based on the real principles of real men — the capital-F Freedom to sell yourself into indentured servitude, own a different military assault weapon for every day of the year, and die from a minor infection because actually seeing a doctor is a deluxe premium optional extra for your medical insurance.

Breathing the air is still free at point of use, but trust me, they're working on it.

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Rules plugins:

A set of pamphlet-sized expansions to the Rainworld rules is underway.

Currently available:

• Cyberdeck — cyberpunk hacking rules
• Underworld — details on the subterranean Gyre
• Manxworld — the Manx, their homeworld of Askon, and the details that Rainworld's systemic racism ignores
• Ganzfeld — the Ganzfeld, the Flow, and their place in galactic politics
• Toxcrawl — wilderness exploration in the toxic apocalypse beyond the atmospheric processors
• Catwalk — expanded gear and fashion to keep your operative on the cutting edge of style
• Draculoid — simultaneously a joke and a supplement you can run entirely seriously as part of your Rainworld game (yes, really): Dracula for Rainworld!
• Control — more sample RFWs, the Department's inner workings, Rainworld's calendar, and guidelines for naming Rainworld's places and people
• Offworld — expanded character creation options for characters originating in the wider Interstellar Commonweal
• Altitude — rule and gear for combat drones, and for livestreaming your sensorium across Rainworld's internet for fun, profit (and shooting at people without sticking your head out of cover)

Plus:

• Tithe — a scenario module detailing the rise and fall of the Tithe cryptocurrency corporation
• Machina — a scenario module for a perfectly ordinary "shoot our employee for breach of contract" corporate work ticket