Bio-Tech vs. Cybernetics

[Opellulo]

To me it's like apples and oranges: the differences are down to setting preferences...
The two books are not meant to be like items in a menu to pick and mix; they are resource for different game styles. In a "typical" Cyberpunk 2077 campaign cybernetics are widespread while Bio-engineering is for the ultra wealthy or the ultra weirds. On the other hand in the XCOM campaign I am planning Biotech is basically the bread and butter of alien tech, cybernetics are almost unknown of.
it's like comparing standard magic with paths one: they are different ways to stat something that have similar results.

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by Opellulo

To me it's like apples and oranges: the differences are down to setting preferences...
The two books are not meant to be like items in a menu to pick and mix; they are resource for different game styles. In a "typical" Cyberpunk 2077 campaign cybernetics are widespread while Bio-engineering is for the ultra wealthy or the ultra weirds. On the other hand in the XCOM campaign I am planning Biotech is basically the bread and butter of alien tech, cybernetics are almost unknown of.
it's like comparing standard magic with paths one: they are different ways to stat something that have similar results.

Please note that the fluff text from Biotech's biomods section does actually describe a world in which both kinds of transhumanism are available. Also that the world depicted in Cyberpunk Adventures is one that has cyborgs and bioroids.

[David Johnston2]

I've gone through them a couple of times now and they actually seem pretty well balanced. It was just a bit of an error that they used "boosted heart" to describe two such mechanically different augmentations.