As we gear up for our Cyberpunk RED campaign, we take some time to brainstorm ideas for for the game (If only reality didn't keep getting more cyberpunk-ish than cyberpunk).

Over in the library, we discuss William Gibson's Count Zero, then venture to the Game Room to talk about Forbidden Lands, CY_BORG, Mothership, and the just announced Edgerunners release for Cyberpunk RED.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn48MlWLG9E

Library

Count Zero

Ken’s reading William Gibson’s second book in The Sprawl Trilogy

Never read it, but it continues the feel of Neuromancer (which he just finished)

Next up: Mona Lisa Overdrive.

Game Room

New RPGs

Did Ken say he'll stop buying new RPGs until he’s read the ones he has? But how will he support Sweden’s economy if he does that?

Forbidden Lands … now in English!

A hexcrawl, sandbox fantasy RPG exploring a once-cursed land, still haunted land.

Ken got the Swedish version (accidentally) in June as part of a Free League’s sale.

English version was back ordered … and arrived in November.

CY_BORG

The science fiction iteration of MORK BORG.

Similar aesthetic, only this time, it’s an apocalyptic cyberpunk book

Arrives later in November (already have the PDF … but reading the physical book is more fun.

Cyberpunk RED

Edgerunners release is coming!

Mothership

The lightweight horror RPG arrives sometime in Q1 of 2023. For now, Ken's got the WIP versions of two modules: Dead Planet and A Pound of Flesh.

Cyberpunk Screamsheets kit and the weird world of cascading style sheets

In order to learn the latest in CSS, David worked with Mr. Miller to convert the Screamsheet kit to web form

Fan created scream sheets

Main Topic: Cyberpunk Brainstorming

Matt Colville - handing the players a small list of possible plot arcs they would be interested in

Rules for a cyberpunk player

Style over substance

Attitude is everything

Live on the edge

Break the rules

David’s media character as a possible narrator/documentarian so that he can help plot things with Ken initially

Campaign & World Building Ideas

Offshore sea stead of Makers trying to forge their own tech in the shadow of resurgent corporations. Corps stealing from Makers?

Inspiration

Rainbow’s End by Vernor Vinge

Unauthorized Bread by Cory Doctorow

Brazil

Rummage Flotilla - mining plastic from the seas

Inspiration

the Ocean Cleanup

Earth by David Brin

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Waterworld (yes, Waterworld)

Run against an underwater corp paradise?

Inspiration

SeaQuest DSV

Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles

Run against a sub base (to steal a sub to attack the underwater corp paradise)

Race to recover crashed spacecraft / space stations

AIs as protagonists or antagonists … or the fixer?

Are AIs Cyberpunk’s Dragons?

Urban legends of a cyberpunk future

What horrors made it out of the failing NET?

AI trapped in the real world, who just wants to get back to the Net and make the pain stop.

Inspiration

The Matrix: Reloaded

Digital Heists

What funds are locked up in broken segments of the Net, just waiting to be recovered?

Inspiration

IRS Seizes Another Silk Road Hacker’s $3.36 Billion Bitcoin Stash

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Cover art for Cyberpunk RED. Credit: R. Talsorian Games