[PRE-ORDER] Deadline: A Clockwork Press

This is a PRE-ORDER for the physical version of Deadline: A Clockwork Press. By purchasing, you are securing your copy when the game has been printed.

Estimated time of printing: July 2025. Your game will be shipped shortly after.

Note: Any additional item purchased with a Pre-order will be shipped together when the pre-order item is ready for fulfilment.

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DEADLINE - A Clockwork Press is a GM-less, news-chronicling, and map-making TTRPG.

In this game, players will don a quill and cap and assume the roles of journalists for the largest news publishing house in the City.

What city, you ask? Well, that’s for you to create and develop with 1-4 players (can be played solo!)

The city you will create is a place of steam-powered industry, corruption, rebellion... and a touch of the arcane.
And it's yours to build—and report on.

You’ll play through two main phases:
• Establishment Phase: Collaboratively create your city—its districts, its power structures, its secrets.
• Chronicling Phase: Take on the roles of journalists writing for the biggest newspaper in the city, documenting key events and exposés, and the pulse of the city.

This unique game comes as a 24-page, tabloid-size newspaper packaged in an A4-sized printed envelope sleeve—immersing you right into the world of Deadline.

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Features:
• 1–4 players (solo play supported)
• No GM required
• Industrial, steampunk-inspired city-building
• Great tool for world-building, and creative writing
• Unique format: Tabloid newspaper!

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Every purchase will be sent a pdf of the game through the bits and mortar program and will be sent to the email you include in your order.
Learn more about Deadline and download supplements here.