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By David Kizzia and Bob Richardson

Credits
Created by: David Kizzia and Bob Richardson

Written by: David Kizzia and Bob Richardson

Editor: Frank Pine

Art Direction and Graphic Design: Bob Richardson

Project Management: David Kizzia

Finance and Grown-Up Stuff: Jadine Kizzia

Cover Art: Conceptopolis
Interior Art: Ron Joseph

Additional Art: Bob Richardson

Playtesters:

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Shawn Carnes, Lee Johnson, Adam J. Goldberg, Shannon Jolene Kolar, Josh Levine,
Spencer Jones, Mike and Shawna Leader, Caiomhe Ora Snow, Amber Bird, Chris Aschoff,
Scott Ziggy Busser, Claudia and Chris Dievendorf, Matthew Allen, Jonathan Ruppert,
Sam Dennis, Frank Pine, Nick Buczynski, Matthew Allen, Josh Lewis, Zachary McCann,
Jason Whitney, Ian Nelson, Ed Hanley, Devin Saverline, Linny Cooke, Steven Yi,
Kevin Carter, Chris Savolskis, Jerome Bonoan, Kevin Meier, and a whole mess of people from
Strategicon Conventions.

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Special Thanks:
D. Vincent Baker, Shawn Brock Chestwell Carnes, Jadine The Adult Kizzia,
Jeff Starchild Combos, Paul Peterson, Michael Anderson, Shane DeFreest, Monty Ashley,
Jess Hartley and everyone on the SA Traditional Games Forums

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Very Special Thanks:

Bruce Lee, Burt Reynolds, Pam Grier, Richard Roundtree, James Brown, David Bowie,
Evel Knievel, Hunter S. Thompson, James Garner and everyone else who made the 1970s
super fun and funky.

...Its all about the big ass laughs and monkeyfun

1515 7th St. #63 Santa Monica, CA 90401

2015 Monkeyfun Studios, LLC. All rights reserved. All characters, names, places and text herein are copyrighted by Monkeyfun Studios, LLC. Monkeyfun Studios, Spirit of 77 and logos are trademarks of Monkeyfun
Studios, LLC. All Rights reserved.
This product is a work of fiction. Similarities to actual people, organizations, places or events are purely coincidental.

Table of Contents
What is Spirit of 77?

The Best Parts of a Bad Decade

Lets Get It On - How to Play Spirit of 77

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Characters Come Alive!

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Getting Started
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The Basic Rule
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Attributes 19
Basic Moves
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Saturday Nights Alright for Fighting - Combat
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Heat - Look for Trouble, Trouble Finds You
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Vehicles 49
Safety in Numbers - The Gangs of the City
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Turn Out The Lights, The Partys Over - Ending the Session
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Step 1 - Know Your Damn Role!

Step 2- Whats Your Story?
Step 3 - Choose Your Buzz
Step 4 - Sharpen Your Hooks
Step 5 - Pick Your Stuff (Thangs and Gear)
Step 6 - Lay it All Down

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The AM DJ - Running a Game

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The DJs Rules

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The Long Run - Creating a Campaign
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Fronts 158
NPCs - Everyone Else in the Big City
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Location, Location, Location
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Feels Like The First Time - Running your First Game
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The FM DJ - Running a Game (Advanced)

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This is a Perfect World - The World of 77

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In the City

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Move Index

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What Id Say - GLOSSARY of the 77

Youve Been My Inspiration

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Game Mastering
Let The Music Play - Soundtracks
The DJs Toolbox, NPCs and Locations

Living and Working in 77

Ball of Confusion - The Weird Events in 77
No Salvation In These Streets
Citizens of the City
Bopper Gangs of the City:

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Basic Moves
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Character Moves
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Thangs 281
DJ Moves
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Introduction
April, 1977. A chilly afternoon. Private investigator John Sampson leaned against a
light post on the corner of 75th and Benson, brass knuckles clenched tight in his right
fist in one pocket, his gold-plated revolver tucked into the other. From above, the tinny
sound of a transistor radio drifted down from a half-opened window.
Aw yeah, baby! Youre listening to WRTR 110AM with Wolfgang at the top of the
hour...
Sampsons contact Fredo, a lieutenant in the Corsair street gang, was late. Sampson had
been hired to find where the mob boys were hiding glam rocker Fata Morgana, and he
was pretty sure Fredo could tell him. Morganas sleazy manager was getting antsy. Her
FeelGood Records debut was days away, so it wasnt cool that she was in the wind.
You looking for someone, puto?

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Boppers. Two of them. They were tall and lanky in frayed peacoats, one of them holding
a battered aluminum bat, the other twirling a short length of chain. Sampson couldnt
believe theyd managed to creep up on him without him noticing.

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Your friend Fredo isnt coming, tough guy, said the one with the chain. Asking too
many questions outside his turf got him messed up real bad.
His partner tapped the the business end of the bat against his palm.

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Sampson nodded, slipping the brass knuckles over his fingers. Things were about to get
messy.
Above, the voice of the DJ rattled on. We gonna keep it comin at you with a little Maceo and the Macks and Cross the Tracks, he growled. Lets GET IT ON!
Welcome to the Spirit of 77, the year after Americas 200th birthday and Nixons
second term. Its a strange and violent time in American history, made even
stranger with X-Tech and the Glam movement. Gas prices have skyrocketed to
nearly a dollar a gallon and the Cold War standoff with the Soviet Union has
begun to heat up since Nixons Doublecross in Saigon.
But the hottest part of America is in the Citys trash-lined streets and midnight
highways, where cool tough guys from the street join crazy daredevil drivers and
glittered starry-eyed rockers to fight the Mafia underworld, weird sci-fi aberrations and a corrupt system that keeps everyone on their toes.

What is Spirit of 77?

The Best Parts of a Bad Decade
Evel Knievel and Pam Grier. Alice Cooper and Bruce Lee. The Dukes of Hazzard and the Six Million Dollar Man. Shaft. Spirit of 77 is a combination of
muscle cars and Mack trucks, CB radios and kung fu fighters, cross-country road
races and big scores in the big city with a killer soundtrack. Can you dig it?

Non-Stop Full Throttle Action

Put the pedal to the metal and drop the hammer. We got places to go, ammo to
use and buckets of fuel to burn. This isnt a game about exploring deep personal
relationships between characters; its about fast-drawing gangsters leading angry
cops on a non-stop high-speed chase through rain-slick city streets, swaggering
away from explosions in slow motion and striking a cool pose while delivering an
awesome one-liner at just the right time.

Being Cool Over Bean Counting

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Math is hard and nobody really cares how many iron rations you have in your
bedroll. Time spent keeping track of nonsense like ammo, fuel and money is better spent blowing suckas away and burning rubber. Running out of ammo only
happens when its appropriately dramatic, and if you run outta gas its because
youve just arrived where someone is in desperate need of a boot to their ass.

Watergate and Weird Science

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Whats more amazing, the superscience of X-Technology that brought us things

like Skylab, bionics and computers that can fit on your desk or Tricky Dick
Nixon beating the Watergate rap with a public apology? Both are complete
mysteries, making the 70s into the weird world it is in Spirit of 77. Politics
and truth-seeking have become even more dangerous since the manufactured
flap over that hotel break-in, and the end of Vietnam went weirder than anyone
couldve predicted.

Music In The Streets

In 1977, music is a powerful force that not only inspires and motivates, but in
some cases can even be weaponized. Musicians everywhere devote themselves
to the pursuit of hitting the big time, and in every club and on every corner, the
omnipresent voice of the Citys soul can be heard. The DJ, always wise, always
mysterious and always taking requests.

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Say What? - Wheatons Law In

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Spirit of 77 is not a histor fantasy world and a chance to play
1970s. Its a fictionalized detectives, good ol boys or disco
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kung fu fighters or clever
opportunity to indulge in rac
divas. It should never be an in any form isnt fun or funny.
sexual stereotypes. Bigotry
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Lets Get It On How to Play Spirit of 77

What is Role-Playing?
At its core, role-playing is lets pretend with rules. A group of players work
together to create a story, with each participant taking on the role of one
or more of the characters involved. Usually one player will lead the game,
playing all the minor characters and antagonists (non-player characters),
adjudicating the rules and guiding the overall plot. In Spirit of 77, this
person is the DJ, and his or her primary responsibility is to determine what
happens when there is conflict or uncertainty involved in any events that
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The other players each play a single character (a player character) of their
own. Player characters work together within the game, although they dont
necessarily get along or even like one another.

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The Fiction and the Conversation

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While reading these rules, you will often see references to the Fiction the combination of the story and any established details that the group
of players have created while playing the game. This includes the names
and personalities of the characters involved (both player and non-player),
the locations explored and any objects discovered during gameplay. While
playing, you always need to put the Fiction first. If something doesnt make
sense for the fictional situation youve created, then it doesnt work no matter
what the rules say.
The Conversation is how the Fiction is created, the back-and-forth
discussion between the players of the game as they add and build upon
each others statements to create a larger narrative. Some games formalize
this process, making people take turns and dictating exactly what can
be accomplished in a given amount of time, but the conversation of
Spirit of 77 is much more flexible. Players can talk out of turn, interrupt,
add to or correct each others statements. Only when theres conflict or
uncertainty do the rules kick in and dice get rolled.

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