Cyberpunk Red & Stargate Both Delayed

The pandemic has already delayed WotC's Mythic Odysseys of Theros for D&D, and closed several conventions for the year. Now two more game companies have announced that their big releases will be delayed.

R. Talsorian Games' Cyberpunk Red was slated for a June release, and has been pushed back to the end of summer.

We’ll just come right out and say it. The TRPG industry got punched in the gut by the pandemic and there’s just no way we can release in June without compromising quality. We’re currently looking at summer’s end for a release but until the world calms down and things stop fluctuating, our crystal ball is full of fog.

Stargate, from Wyvern Gaming, was going to launch at Gen Con in August. The Kickstarter has been pushed to Winter 2020, with a release in 2021.

The main reason we decided to delay was that we felt that a lot of people are feeling a financial crunch at the moment and would only spending money on necessities for their families ... Also because we had planned to launch at Gen Con 2020, but believe it is likely to be canceled or at the very least greatly diminished in attendance. We felt it would be prudent to delay the physical launch.

 

[Mercador]

I haven't check this one out yet, but I generally like if there are a lot of skills. I dislike 5E because the lack of skills. I like CoC because of the skills (now there you could argue that they are too much, but I'm never sure. Most of the time I think that Savage Worlds has not enough skills.

So how does CP compare to these? In what way are they useless?

It's been decades but if I remember correctly, there was 2 or 3 skills for combat, 1 for driving, 1 for nethacking but all the rest were pretty much useless. Jobs like Rockerboy were useless as well.

 

[stadi]

It's been decades but if I remember correctly, there was 2 or 3 skills for combat, 1 for driving, 1 for nethacking but all the rest were pretty much useless. Jobs like Rockerboy were useless as well.

Ahh, ok, I thought you were talking about Cyberpunk Red

 

[Mercador]

Ahh, ok, I thought you were talking about Cyberpunk Red

No I haven't bought Cyb Red yet. I was waiting for the full sourcebook since it's the fluff that I want, not really DMing it.

 

[aramis erak]

It's been decades but if I remember correctly, there was 2 or 3 skills for combat, 1 for driving, 1 for nethacking but all the rest were pretty much useless. Jobs like Rockerboy were useless as well.

Hardly.

My Charismatic Leadership +8 Perform +8 rockerboy was plenty useful. I started a street party so big, even C-SWAT was occupied, allowing the others to pull their data-heist.

If the party was a bunch of thugs, maybe...

I've not looked at the CP:R previews, but CP v3 told me that I was done with CP as a game system... if I run again, I'll use 2013 with all the chromebook stuff other than weapons.