Custom Cyberpunk Setting - Can someone explain Netrunning?

trooper6 · 10-11-2016, 08:13 PM

I'm watching a twitch stream of a Shadowrun 5e game and that seems to deal with having hacking and non hacking at the same time quite well.

Anyhow, when I run GURPS cyberpunk, I have my own system that works really well. Everything is done in VR. And VR is GURPS Dungeon Fantasy. So the hacker (or hackers--I really enjoy running all hacker teams) just pulls out their matrix persona and does some hack and slash in the same turn sequence as everyone else--but the hacker is in VR and everyone else is in reality. I have a bit of fun creating the VR Dungeon Fantasy version of real life things. Data systems are small Dungeons with alarms and goblin guards.

I personally like having all the PCs have Dungeon Fantasy Matrix characters so they can all jump in for complex dungeon crawls as a team. While the person who really dedicates themselves to hacking can jump in solo in the middle of a fight to take out a turret or smart gun--which can be lockpicking or a solo fight or whatever.

I have more detailed rules that deal with translating points from one persona to the other and what are some of the base rules. I love my system and how it plays and what it is like to run it. If you want more details I can give them to you, but don't want to overshare if that isn't the way you want to go.

10-11-2016, 08:13 PM	#5
trooper6 Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Medford, MA	Re: Custom Cyberpunk Setting - Can someone explain Netrunning? I'm watching a twitch stream of a Shadowrun 5e game and that seems to deal with having hacking and non hacking at the same time quite well. Anyhow, when I run GURPS cyberpunk, I have my own system that works really well. Everything is done in VR. And VR is GURPS Dungeon Fantasy. So the hacker (or hackers--I really enjoy running all hacker teams) just pulls out their matrix persona and does some hack and slash in the same turn sequence as everyone else--but the hacker is in VR and everyone else is in reality. I have a bit of fun creating the VR Dungeon Fantasy version of real life things. Data systems are small Dungeons with alarms and goblin guards. I personally like having all the PCs have Dungeon Fantasy Matrix characters so they can all jump in for complex dungeon crawls as a team. While the person who really dedicates themselves to hacking can jump in solo in the middle of a fight to take out a turret or smart gun--which can be lockpicking or a solo fight or whatever. I have more detailed rules that deal with translating points from one persona to the other and what are some of the base rules. I love my system and how it plays and what it is like to run it. If you want more details I can give them to you, but don't want to overshare if that isn't the way you want to go.