{{Short description|Tabletop role-playing game}} {{Italic title}} {{Infobox game | name = Crimefighters | image = File:Crimefighters.png | caption = | designer = David Cook | publisher = TSR | date = {{release date and age|1981}} | years = | random_chance = Dice | playing_time = Varies | genre = Crime | system = | skills = Improvisation, arithmetic | web = }}
'''''Crimefighters''''' is a TSR pulp-themed tabletop role-playing game created by game designer David Cook.<ref name=RS>{{cite journal|authorlink=David Cook (game designer)|author=Cook, David|title=Crimefighters|date=March 1981|journal=Dragon|issue=47|publisher=rollenspiel-almanach.de|url=http://www.rollenspiel-almanach.de/wp-content/uploads/Crimefighters.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=39bb1bf6cdff86f3&id=39BB1BF6CDFF86F3%21302|title=Crimefighters|website=onedrive.live.com|access-date=2015-11-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151126102218/https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=39bb1bf6cdff86f3&id=39BB1BF6CDFF86F3!302|archive-date=2015-11-26|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stargazersworld.com/2009/06/15/crimefighters/|date=June 15, 2009|title=Crimefighters!|website=stargazersworld.com}}</ref> ''Crimefighters'' was originally released in issue 47 of the March 1981 edition of ''Dragon'' magazine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?mainid=10125|title=Dragon #47|website=rpg.net}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?articleid=22036|title=Crimefighters|website=rpg.net}}</ref> This issue of ''Dragon'' magazine also contained an introductory ''Crimefighters'' adventure called ''The Case of the Editor’s Envelope''.
The game featured artwork by artist Jeff Dee<ref name=RS/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://paratime.ca/v_and_v/art_jdee_rpg.html|title=The Jeff Dee Gallery|website=paratime.ca}}</ref> who also drew the ''Crimefighters'' game character Dark Night Dan.<ref name=RS/>
''Crimefighters'' was included in the ''Dragon Magazine Archive'', a collection of five CD-ROMs comprising the first 250 issues of ''Dragon'' magazine.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/classic/rev_2584.phtml|title=REVIEW OF DRAGON #47|date=December 2, 1999|author=Coffin, Bill|website=rpg.net}}</ref>
==Game overview== ''Crimefighters'' emulates the 1930s pulp adventures of characters such as Doc Savage, The Spirit, The Spider and The Shadow.<ref name=RS/>
Character classes players can choose from are '''Defender''', a law-abiding crimefighter, '''Avenger''', a vigilante, or '''Pragmatist''', one who obeys the spirit, if not the letter of the law.<ref name=RS/>
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==External links== *[http://www.rollenspiel-almanach.de/wp-content/uploads/Crimefighters.pdf ''Crimefighters'' original gamebook] *[http://truckeegames.blogspot.com/p/crimefighters.html Truckee Games]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Crimefighters}} Category:American role-playing games Category:Historical role-playing games Category:Role-playing games introduced in 1981 Category:Superhero role-playing games Category:TSR, Inc. games Category:Pulp and noir period role-playing games