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I just hope this isn't a one-off for collectors. Supplements for additional classes and region guides would be much appreciated.

The Book of Dungeon Encounters has the exact same cover picture as Classic Fantasy (for Mythras):

I would think that the situation in such a game would be similar to China in the 1920s: a bunch of warlords vying with each other for power. Btw, how does the game deal with the fact that the Soviets planned to use tactical nukes if there was a war in Europe? Simply ignore it?

Yeah, I first thought it was a supplement for Star Wars.

If I were to play in a Cyberpunk game I would probably totally subvert the genre by forming an overly cute Japanese boy band:

Really amazing that more than €400,000 have already been pledged for the new Vaesen book.

Interesting that the Mag of Holding will include the wolpertinger. I don't know if this creature has ever been described in any D&D material before.

:rolleyes:

Well, I beg to differ.

I think that inexpensive cybergear would be an environmental nightmare. If millions or even billions of people have such enhancements, the existing electronic waste problem would get a whole lot worse since there's no way all of the cyberware would be be recyclable and even if it were, it would...

It just goes to show that our views on this matter completely differ.

I didn't try to compare or combine Traveller and cyberpunk. I merely mentioned Traveller as an example of a sci-fi system that, because of its age, has a retro flavor.

Although Traveller wasn't retro sci-fi when it was written it certainly is so today, even in its current edition. As for cyberpunk, it is also a child of its time, of course. Some of its conventions are downright quaint, especially given the comprehensive surveillance possibilities that exist...

I feel that the entire Cyberpunk genre is a kind of "retro future". This isn't necessarily bad, since Traveller, for example, is basically retro sci-fi. A really hard sci-fi setting of how our future might realistically be like would probably make for a rather dull game. Mega infrastructure...