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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Liaden" data-source="post: 2460792" data-attributes="member: 34638">Since Champions/HERO System has been mentioned a few times on this thread, I should mention Kazei Five from Hero Games.  This is a setting and genre campaign sourcebook for playing an "anime-style" cyberpunk campaign using HERO.  The setting features many of the classic cyberpunk elements - dystopian future, megacorporations, cyborgs, netrunning - but also incorporates elements from the treatment of the genre in Japanese manga and anime, such as physical mutations, formidable psionic powers, and mecha. Kazei Five is available as a PDF from Hero Games's <a href="https://secure.compnetco.com/herogames/browse.jsp?categoryID=4" target="_blank">Online Store</a> - 176 pages for $9.95.  The book's author, Michael Surbrook, has put substantial samples from the book on his personal <a href="http://surbrook.devermore.net/kazei5/kazei5.html" target="_blank">website</a>, as well as short stories from this setting, and campaign logs from the PBeM game that the book is based on. Kazei Five is written for Fourth Edition HERO System, but for this genre the differences between Fourth and the current (Fifth) Edition are pretty small.</blockquote>