Digital Burn

[bolen]

has anyone seen this? The link on the front page makes it sound interesting.

 

[Shapermc]

They had some copies at my local FLGS. Not very impressive from first glance. Pictures look like crap, and the content seems a bit lacking for $35 If it droped to $20 I would pick it up.

 

[VorpalBunny]

I'm with Shaper - the content seems a little sparse fpr the $35 price tag. If I want cyberpunk, I'll stick with Shadowrun.

 

[Benedict]

I might buy it for $20.

Does everyone know that the hacking/net running rules don't include anything along the lines of a VR experience a la William Gibson's famous cyberpunk books that defined the genre? At least not that I could find in my 5 minute long scan of this rather skimpy source book.

benedict

 

[bolen]

so there are no netrunning rules in the game? this is not good news. score a minus sign for the rules.

 

[Skywalker]

It was recently reviewed on RPGnet. It did OK. Apparently it looks skimpy but is quite lean (i.e. no fat only chunky).

There was mention of Net Running rules including Net combat (based off d20 combat rules) and companions (a class ability).

 

[Lurks-no-More]

Does everyone know that the hacking/net running rules don't include anything along the lines of a VR experience a la William Gibson's famous cyberpunk books that defined the genre? At least not that I could find in my 5 minute long scan of this rather skimpy source book.

benedict

Actually, that's a good thing.

I absolutely, totally, wholly hate the whole VR hacking thing. It works wonders in a book, but sucks big time in a RPG, where everyone else sits half an hour or more doing nothing while the GM and the hacker play out a fifteen-second jaunt in the cyberspace.

Stylistically, it sucks too, since it tends to restrict the net as an exclusive province of some character type. And that strikes me as totally wrong. Computers should be everywhere! Accessing and using the net should be an integral part of every character living in a technological society with all-pervasive telecommunications and computing!

So if Digital Burn has no VR net hacking, I think it as a feature instead of a bug.

 

[Moe Ronalds]

In digital burn, there are two kinds of net. Full immersion, and partial immersion.

Partial immersion is slower, less intense, and the user is still aware of the real world (meaning sooner or later they have to eat/sleep)

Full immersion is faster than the real world, quite intense, and leaves the user without any sensation of the real world. This has the nasty side effect that you can starve to death and not notice if you're idiotic enough to not get offline sooner or later.

Digi burn also has new uses for skills, new feats, new advanced classes, new prestige classes, new futuristic equipment, and rules for cybernetic enhancement. (Never be without juice with the new Blendo-thigh 3050!)

It also has information on mega-corps, new diseases and drugs, and profiles of the major national powers.

Still, for the $35 price tag I was a little disappointed. Around 150-something pages of material, and the quality of the paper itself really bugs me (it's tissue thin and a little too plasticy.)

 

[Benedict]

Wow! I totally missed it during my 5 minute search through the book. I apologize for the misinformation. I'll give it a second look if I can find one for a reasonable price sometime.

benedict

 

[HellHound]

I'm a total CyberPunk style junky, but at the list price, I can't afford this one yet...

Which is sad, because I LOVE Cyberpunk and am looking for a system to convert all my cyberpunk articles to ( http://www.ambient.ca/cpunk )