Inner City (role-playing game)

Inner City is a role-playing game published by Inner City Games Designs in 1982.

Description

Inner City is a contemporary crime system with humorous overtones. The PCs are Citizens or Crooks; character subclasses include cops, politicians, vigilantes, FBI agents, and hoods; most of these subclasses may be either Crooks or Citizens. The object is to get ahead and make more money. Skills are increased directly through experience gained in encounters. The system contains numerous charts and tables (for encounters, "treasure," etc.), but few actual rules systems.

Publication history

Inner City was designed by Chris Clark, and published by Inner City Games Designs in 1982 as a boxed set containing a 40-page book, a large map, and six sheets of paper money.

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Inner city

The inner city is the central area of a major city or metropolis. Inner city areas tend to have higher population densities than outer suburbs, with more of the population living inside multi-floored townhouses and apartment buildings.

In the United States, the term "inner city" is often used as a euphemism for lower-income residential districts in the city centre and nearby areas, with the additional connotation of impoverished black and/or Hispanic neighborhoods. Sociologists sometimes turn this euphemism into a formal designation, applying the term "inner city" to such residential areas, rather than to geographically more central commercial districts. However, some inner city areas of American cities have undergone gentrification, especially since the 1990s.

Such connotations are less common in other countries, where deprived areas may be located in outlying parts of cities. For instance, in many European and Brazilian cities, the inner city is the most prosperous part of the metropolis, where housing is expensive and where elites and high-income individuals dwell. Poverty and crime are more associated with the distant suburbs. The Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Swedish words for suburb (sobborgo, suburbio, subúrbio, banlieue and förort respectively) often have a negative connotation similar to that of the English term "inner city", especially when used in the plural.

Inner city (disambiguation)

The inner city is the central area of a major city.

Inner City may refer to:

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Other uses

Inner City (film)

Inner City is a 1995 film directed by Jean-François Richet. It stars Cyrille Autin and Emmanuelle Bercot. It won an award at the 1995 Avignon Film Festival.

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