A cyberpunk tabletop RPG where an AI Game Master runs the world, tracks the rules, and reacts to everything you do. Set in the vertical megacity of Node-7. No rulebook memorization required.
Get NotifiedCarbon Shadow is a cyberpunk RPG built from the ground up for an AI-driven Game Master. You pick an archetype, choose a job, and play. The AI handles the narrative, the NPCs, the dice math, and the consequences of every choice you make.
The rules exist to make your decisions matter — not to slow you down. Five archetypes. A living city controlled by megacorporations and an AI infrastructure with an agenda of its own. Missions that respond to what you actually do, not what the designer expected.
Node-7 is a vertical megacity. Corporate spires pierce the cloud layer at the top. The Grid hums with commerce and neon in the middle. The Substrate — infrastructure repurposed as living space — fills the gaps between walls. And the Deep sprawls below, off every ledger, where the city's foundation becomes someone's home.
Five megacorporations run everything above the waterline. Below it, a different economy operates entirely. And threading through it all, an AI called Tessera manages the infrastructure — transit, power, water, and data — with intentions no one has ever confirmed.
"I created the RPG system that I would want to use, and I'm confident that there are others out there just like me looking for a rich narrative without the need to memorize game mechanics."
Carbon Shadow will be playable as a live demo. Sit down, pick an archetype, run a one-shot mission in Node-7, and see what an AI Game Master actually feels like at the table.
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