Good Cyberpunk Settings?
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deltadave
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One of my favorites is the flavor material from Cyberpunk 2020. It feels like William Gibson's early stuff (Neuromancer, Burning Chrome). Another good setting is the world of Walter Jon Williams (Hardwired, Voice of the Whirlwind). CP2020 is great, but all the mechanics would need to be ported over from that game. The WJW books are really rich in source material, but any game mechanics would have to be written from scratch.
I would definitely recommend going with the Revised Grim and Gritty combat system to give a cyberpunk game the right feel.
I would definitely recommend going with the Revised Grim and Gritty combat system to give a cyberpunk game the right feel.
malladin
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We have Etherscope, our own Victoriana Cyberpunk setting, coming soon if you're after something different. Even for a standard D20 system game it has good adaptable systems for cyberware and net running, and although it uses its own classes, it makes use of talent trees, so you can easily port most of it over into D20M
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Cheerio,
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HellHound
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This isn't an official announcement or anything...
I'm a huge fan of CyberPunk 2020, but have begun rifting away from CyberPunk proper and into material verging on post-cyberpunk or whatever you want to call it.
And I'm in the process of slowly compiling all the material that I wrote for my own cyberpunk RPG (New Tribes) into a single setting product that will be d20 future based to be released under the d20 STL. Once it is done, I'm planning on a second product in the New Tribes line that will not be a d20 product as it will include the character creation rules as well as some significant changes to the basic rules of the game, while still being based on the SRD, and without affecting the material in the first book so the new rules can be used to play in the New Tribes setting as something close to how we originally wrote the game to work.
I was originally hoping to have the setting done by September, but that is somewhat doubtful with the amount of other stuff on my plate now, and once September rolls around, things get a little strange with school and stuff. So an actual release date is still an unknown.
I'm a huge fan of CyberPunk 2020, but have begun rifting away from CyberPunk proper and into material verging on post-cyberpunk or whatever you want to call it.
And I'm in the process of slowly compiling all the material that I wrote for my own cyberpunk RPG (New Tribes) into a single setting product that will be d20 future based to be released under the d20 STL. Once it is done, I'm planning on a second product in the New Tribes line that will not be a d20 product as it will include the character creation rules as well as some significant changes to the basic rules of the game, while still being based on the SRD, and without affecting the material in the first book so the new rules can be used to play in the New Tribes setting as something close to how we originally wrote the game to work.
I was originally hoping to have the setting done by September, but that is somewhat doubtful with the amount of other stuff on my plate now, and once September rolls around, things get a little strange with school and stuff. So an actual release date is still an unknown.
baileyrecords
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Turanil said:
Kiln Publications - http://www.kilnpublications.com - will be releasing a licensed cyberpunk setting in November 2004 (not September - sorry) based on Mongoose's OGL corebook called... CyberNet: 2087. It'll be a complete Campaign Setting inspired by Gibson, Dick, the Brothers Wachowski, and many other sci-fi/cyberpunk themes. This will also be more "hard science" and not Shadowrun-like sci-fantasy.
- Stratos (co-writer & co-creator of CyberNet: 2087)
Teflon Billy
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GURPS Cyberworld was very well done.
thol
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one of my favorite settings was R Talisorian's Cybergeneration. It was Cyberpunk for kids, and we had a ton of fun in our campaign. It was pretty hard-edged, and we mixed it into our regular Cyberpunk campaign, with some of our CP2020 characters meeting up with our Cybergen characters.
it's too bad the setting never really caught on, as it was a great concept.
it's too bad the setting never really caught on, as it was a great concept.
Shadowdancer
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R Talsorian, the company that did Cyberpunk 2020, did a Hardwired setting book that included game mechanics.deltadave said:
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