4e Cyberpunk???

[HANS]

My article "Tactical Shooting: Tomorrow," published in Pyramid #3/55 Military Sci-Fi, was largely inspired by my love for old-school Cyberpunk novels.

Cheers

HANS

[Langy]

Me and Cernig have been running a long-standing Cyberpunk campaign over on Obsidian Portal, complete with almost everything you need as a Cyberpunk 'sourcebook' including cyberware, netrunning rules, new armor and weapons rules, new rules for AIs, and a bunch of other stuff. It's intended strictly for our particular game - meaning it has a bunch of house rules and ignores TL differences due to everything being late TL9/early TL10 - but it should prove useful as a general 'that's interesting' area and maybe you can steal some of our ideas *shrug*.

[Otto Harkaman]

Thanks all for references and links. I'm going through the old Gurps 3rd ed stuff at the moment, fun looking back on that era. :)

[CousinX]

Originally Posted by HANS

My article "Tactical Shooting: Tomorrow," published in Pyramid #3/55 Military Sci-Fi, was largely inspired by my love for old-school Cyberpunk novels.

Likewise, "One With the Ship" in Pyramid 3/30: Spaceships was mostly an homage to cyberpunk, written just after I'd re-read Hardwired.

Originally Posted by Langy

Me and Cernig have been running a long-standing Cyberpunk campaign over on Obsidian Portal, complete with almost everything you need as a Cyberpunk 'sourcebook' including cyberware, netrunning rules, new armor and weapons rules, new rules for AIs, and a bunch of other stuff. It's intended strictly for our particular game - meaning it has a bunch of house rules and ignores TL differences due to everything being late TL9/early TL10 - but it should prove useful as a general 'that's interesting' area and maybe you can steal some of our ideas *shrug*.

I've perused this site (and Favorited it on OP) ... it's essentially a complete Cyberpunk Net-Book. Even if you don't use the specific material, it's a great list of "things to think about" when designing a cyberpunk campaign. Definitely worth a look for anyone considering running any kind of Gritty Urban Sci-Fi.

Originally Posted by Otto Harkaman

Thanks all for references and links. I'm going through the old Gurps 3rd ed stuff at the moment, fun looking back on that era. :)

I feel like the setting in GURPS Cyberworld still holds up, after all these years. I'm endlessly amused by how "accidentally-almost-accurate" so many of their future-history timeline events were.

[Fred Brackin]

While we're touting Pyramid articles you're go8ing to want Demi Benson's "Live better with Cybernetics" from Pyramid #51

http://e23.sjgames.com/item.html?id=SJG37-2651

It expands cybernetics quite a bit over just UT. Especially metal arms and such.

It's very strong issue generally.

[Peter Knutsen]

Originally Posted by Crakkerjakk

I view Action 2 as pretty much the perfect supplement for the Shadowrun style mission based cyberpunk game.

Much like DF volume 2, it's an excellent procedural manual for GMing in a fashion that respects the skills and other abilities of the characters. (And presumably MH2 is that way too - I just haven't read it at all closely.)

[PK]

Originally Posted by Peter Knutsen

Much like DF volume 2, it's an excellent procedural manual for GMing in a fashion that respects the skills and other abilities of the characters. (And presumably MH2 is that way too - I just haven't read it at all closely.)

I think you'd actually like MH2, Peter; it has rules for allowing characters to figure out mysteries even when the players are 100% stumped. (It's odd how few RPGs allow for that.)

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by PK

I think you'd actually like MH2, Peter; it has rules for allowing characters to figure out mysteries even when the players are 100% stumped. (It's odd how few RPGs allow for that.)

I did read that a long time ago, but I couldn't implement it in my campaign 100% by the book. Trying to use it as guidelines does seem to help, though. And it's very neat as an idea overall.

[Peter Knutsen]

Originally Posted by PK

I think you'd actually like MH2, Peter; it has rules for allowing characters to figure out mysteries even when the players are 100% stumped. (It's odd how few RPGs allow for that.)

Yup, it is certainly on my "to-read closely list". Don't worry about that.

[Zarmonic]

Originally Posted by Langy

Me and Cernig have been running a long-standing Cyberpunk campaign over on Obsidian Portal, complete with almost everything you need as a Cyberpunk 'sourcebook' including cyberware, netrunning rules, new armor and weapons rules, new rules for AIs, and a bunch of other stuff. It's intended strictly for our particular game - meaning it has a bunch of house rules and ignores TL differences due to everything being late TL9/early TL10 - but it should prove useful as a general 'that's interesting' area and maybe you can steal some of our ideas *shrug*.

I tried becoming a 'fan' of this campaign but this is a feature that does not seem to be currently working at OP right now.

I'm hitting a new burst for working on my own campain set in a cyberpunk setting right now and so I will certainly be mining your material for things and ideas. That's clearly a lot of work you've put into it and that's awesome. I think that one thing that's essential to the genre is brand name recognition for gear and weapons. Unfortunately, that's something the generic-ness of the GURPS system isn't very conducive to without all the hard work.

For those using GCS, I put up a library of cyberdecks and programs, based on the rules from Pyramid and UT. I'll be getting a text version of the list up on my campaign's OP site real soon.