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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9754445" data-attributes="member: 4534">I think the Gilded Age makes for a good cyberpunk setting.  You have new technologies transforming the world, often being adapted and used in a manner nobody expected, you have a fairly large rift between the haves and the have nots, laborers working dangerous jobs were not compensated properly and could barely keep their families fed, when labor complained the corporations were able to hire others to put them down violently, there is a great deal of environmental destruction going on and few regulations to control it, and corporations would even hire goons to go wreck the competition or anyone standing in the way of profit.While I played a lot of Cyberpunk 2020 when I was a teen, I had only read a handful of cyberpunk books at the time, and I didn't read anything by Gibson until I was in my late 20s or early 30s.  In the first Gibson book I read, Neuromancer I think, the protagonist, Case, is so poor he has to rent a pistol from someone.  We're introduced later to Molly Millions, a razorgirl, the equivalent of a Solo from CP2020, who has very few cybernetic enhancements when compared to characters from the game.  It was then that I realized we pretty much played CP2020 as an adolescent power fantasy just like we did with D&D.  But then CP2020 will tell you it's all about style over substance, so I guess we were doing it right.</blockquote>