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I tried to get back into Cyberpunk 2077 but it did not take, so now I am back in the Commonwealth crafting guns and sniping super mutants.

The problem with Edgerunners is that it leans so heavily into its anime tropes that it stops being a decent CP2077 story. There is nothing in CP2077 that looks like the latter half of Edgerunners, so while it might be good anime cyberpunk on its own, it isn't good Cybrpunk 2077/.

What parts of John Wick are specifically cyberpunk?

I think a lot of cyberpunk gives its heroes some leverage against the corporate state. All of it is dystopian, but it isn't all completely bleak.

I thought it would be interesting to talk about things in the cyberpunk genre, from television shows and novels to TTRPGs and video games. I am going to start with two statements that might be a little controversial. 1) Westworld Season 3 is a really good cyberpunk story, and (probably more...

One presumes they still double the dice for the damage roll.

Another one I really like is Pathfinder condition tracks for diseases, poisons and curses, as well as Pathfinder haunts (which i think would work great as Daggerheart Environments).

Ooh! Good call!

You could replace the d20 with 2d10 easily enough, but I am not sure what exactly hope would power for the players given how thin SD is on class abilities.

Do you use a specific mechanic from a specific game?

That is reasonable. there might even be a mechanism for that (Dragonbane does have something that looks like feats) but I might be thinking of the Savage Worlds Edge for that. I love Aspects. That is how I tried to treat Bonds and Flaws, and how I treat Experiences in Daggerheart.

Some games have really great subsystems and mechanics that can be used in other games. What's your favorite? How do you adapt it? I really like the Dragonbane initiative system. It is a simple set of cards going from 1-10 that get doled out to the PCs and any monsters/groups of monsters. Boss...

I think @Aldarc really nailed it. All I would add is that I really, really like the way "boss monsters" work in Dragonbane (multiple initiative actions, random "attacks" action, no rolling to hit, etc). And I very much like DB's drawn card initiative system overall.

If only the Bastion rules were in the SRD,a 3PP could do that...

I never ran a published scenario after The Isle of Dread for literally 30+ years. But when I started running games using a VTT (Fantasy Grounds, specifically) I found it easier to use pre-published and converted to FG modules. I ended up hating it. I am back to running homebrew, which honestly...