Cyberpunk 2020 thread? Post your stories, resources, and all

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ayyyy
so im trying to get into the game i alredy get the basic, what books i need to play i well, i have:

Blackhand's Street Weapons 2020
Solo of fortune I and II
Rulebook 2.1
Deep Space: The Interplanetary Supplement
also what´s in chrome books exactly?

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Hello?
is anybody there?

Cyberpunk is a cool setting but honestly a pretty shit system. You're better off using something like Shadowrun. Yeah it's got magic and orcs and shit but at least the system isn't just rolling attribute+d10 for everything.

>>53595739
>Better off using Shadowrun
Fuck off

>>53594859
The chrome book are extra augments and shit
One of them has cyberpets

>>53596342
do i download them1 by 1 or i download Rache Bartmoss' Brainware Blowout, it says that it haves al 4 chrome books

>>53596342
also what other book do i need?

>>53596580
Honestly with just the core book you're pretty much set.
Every other book is just more gear.

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>>53594859
You have already enough stuff to start. For beginning don't give too many stuff for your players to choose from. They would be overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of gear available. Chromebook 2 has a good section for adaptive subdermal armors and skinweave. Chromebook 4 has a cool system to create all kinds of armors.

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>>53595739
Cyberpunk 2020 is an excellent system that is very simple to learn. It's much simpler than Shadowrun.

The only modification I recommend is lowering SP value of skinweave and soft body armor.

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This website has also a lot of useful resources: http://www.ambient.ca/cpunk/

I recommend the drug manufacturing system, the alternate humanity loss system, the luck deck (alternate system for LUCK stat), the expanded martial arts list, and the additional ammo types chart. Some of this stuff is derived from Dark Metropolis, a pretty good supplement about life in a cyberpunk city.

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I also strongly advise against using Interlock Unlimited. It adds unnecessary complexity to the system, by adding stuff from CP2013's combat system.

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>>53594859
Ask yourself what kind of campaign you want to DM. If you want to make a cop campaign (totally underrepresented), get To Protect & To Serve. If you want the campaign to take place in the USA and you want to use the canon setting, get Home of the Brave. If you're a weeaboo, get Pacific Rim (it's shit, but it's canon shit). The Night City sourcebook can be useful, just keep in mind that it has a very passé-flavor - otherwise just use the gigantic Night City map made by some French dude (Eric Beigeberger, or something like that). It can be found on Datafortress 2020.

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Finally, don't get discouraged by the netrunning system. Netrunners don't need to go through the hacking process to be useful. They can take control of any remotely controlled device/machine (robocabs, cameras, doors...) within a certain area of their cyberdeck, provided they have the right software and they can hack the device.

Thanks for all the support, now any tips about being a DM, there isnt any place close to me that plays any kind /tg/ style games, but i do have some friends that would like to try it.

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Some guy made a game called Hunter/Seeker that uses a modified and streamlined Cyberpunk 2020 system. It could be worth a look. The PDF can be found here somewhere: https://hunter-seeker.obsidianportal.com

Some people on /the/ complained about the background being too simplistic. I didn't make it that far, but I found the system interesting.

>>53600297
Don't worry. You'll learn by doing. When I started, we were three, and I was the most experienced having played a TTRPG once before.

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If you're all new to role playing and cyberpunk, I suggest you watch some cyberpunk movies/anime together to get the vibe. Then start with simple adventures so players get used to role play and the DM gets used to DMing and improvising. If you want to use music, don't fiddle with multiple short tracks during the game. Use long mixes of non-intrusive music like:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ8moLn3e-k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn2-3BlZGBE&index=6&list=PLiqFJNjZR4Sb8DpBZVkugfyrxe7GZnkn9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajF2NOuYkjk

>>53595739
>>53600297

The basic system is the best part of C2020, along with the wound track system. The only real issue is that netrunning is too clunky and they did'nt quite cover enough odd situations with rules. But really, every good game master house rules a little bit, so it isn't a big deal so as long as the core is good.

I've been running C2020 for 13 months now. The best advice I can give is utilize the lifepaths of your player characters to help create your world and determine plot points. Cyberpunk runs best in a dark, lethal, claustrophobic city setting. Make your players just a head above their competition and be willing to punish them if they get too brash.

The way I run things almost all the combat is due to choices made by the players as opposed to just ambushing them all the time, and I mostly focus on giving them meaty conspiracies to chew on, lots of world building and a large web of interpersonal allegiances and rivalries for them to navigate through.

Netrunning is best without the grid - just simplify it to a few program roles to get the job done.

Also, have all the players do passive awareness roles at the beginning so you don't have to constantly see if they are aware of what is going on around them or not.

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>>53600171
Your advice is good and your choice of art is superb.

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>>53602151
is this official art for the game?

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>>53602263
Some. The artist made stuff for cyberpunk and shadow run. I didn't separate them.

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In term of aesthetics I also recommend not mixing too many styles together (ex. Deus Ex: Human Revolution pictures and those old black and white pictures). Collect some images and put them on your DM screen or in a binder for the players.

what clothes would be good for a solo?

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>>53602581
It depends on your universe. Generally speaking a solo would favor practical clothing (parka, coat, sport/tactical shoes, sunglasses...) that allow to conceal armor and weapons. If the situation requires no discretion at all, the solo would wear a combat uniform, heavy body armor and a helmet. A corporate bodyguard would probably have to wear a suit most of the time.

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I've been thinking about running this for a while, my only concern is keeping the party together considering you can have both a cop and a punk rocker in your party. How do you guys do it?

>>53602744
I tell the players what kind of campaign we'll play and they will create characters that make sense. Also, I got rid of character classes (requires to adapt the skill list). This way, the characters can even be more diversified.

>>53602744
well is mostly about the setting, try something that can run both a cop and the rockerboy
perhaps a big concert with an assassination attempt?

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I want to do a Cyberpunk 2020 horror campaign but I don't know how to go about doing it?

>>53592638
Should I use the alternate combat rules from the GM guide?

>>53602744
There's no reason they can't work together for a common a cause, like they both have corps after them, they're both trying to expose a corrupt police offical, they could also be "old friends" doing each other a favor.

>>53602951
Look into Kuro?

>>53602951
No problem. Use the supplements from Ianus Publishing. They all incorporate horror in some form.

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>>53602953
You don't need. Use the normal system and then modify it, if needed.

>>53602951
A cult formed from watching too many Mickey Mouse club re-runs, they have adopted a belief that Micky Mouse is the symbol of purity in this new world. As such, the cyberpunks in this scenario are being tested by the Mousketeers by an arbitrary measure of their purity.

It gives you an excuse to use a creepy Micky voice if you've got one.

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>>53603280
That's more a poser gang.

>>53603345
And you don't think being locked into a House of mouse with a crazy poser gang cult dedicated to the ideals of the Disney corporation wouldn't be some type of horrific experience? That's scarier than a squid man coming out the toilet in 2020.

>>53603513
That's more grotesque than horrific.

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You might be onto something if you make them creepy enough. Maybe have them do a string of murders.

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>>53602951
I got ya, fampunk.

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>>53602951
There's also a vampires the masquerade and other alternate realty sourcebooks that could fulfill that wish.

>>53603280
That idea is amazing, definitely going to use that.

>>53603802
Isn't the V:tM crossover book terrible?

Just got done running a fairly lengthy 2020 campaign where the party consisted of a Singer and there entourage. They accidentally started a three way gang war in the combat zone while trying to clear their debts to a drug dealer.

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>>53605064
I wouldn't know, just skimmed em a bit.

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>>53605064
It's ok. Not great, not bad, but ok. Can use the psychic power section for an Akira-type setting.

>>53595562
existential angst?
you try coffee?

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>>53608374
He should.

>>53603611
No... they must KNOW why I'm killing them! (RAMSTIEN starts playing in the background)

>>53608478

Its usually the french who murder americans for having poor taste, not the germans

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Did Corporates, Medtechies, and Techies ever get books focusing on them? Solos get SoF 1 & 2, Netrunners get the Bartmoss books, Fixers get Wildside, Rockerboys and Medias get Rockerboy and Live and Direct, Cops get Protect and Serve, and Nomads get Neo Tribes. Would the three Corp Report books be the ones for Corporates?

>>53596553
Brainware Blowout is only netrunning shit, but it's all the netrunning shit in one place (complete with conversions of cards from the old Netrunner card game). For anything else you need the full Chromebooks. The scans floating about are pretty shit, but usable. If you want better scans, go buy the Chrome Compilation PDFs off DTRPG.
>print-on-demand for anything other than Core and Blackhand's never

>>53600079
>the gigantic Night City map made by some French dude (Eric Beigeberger, or something like that).

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>>53605064
They're not actually VtM crossovers, are they? They're Not-VtM.

>>53606700
Sounds like Eurotour.

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>>53608501
There's also the same map in color. You can find it in Datafortress 2020.

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>>53608554
I haven't seen the full one in colour, only the top half (i.e., the actual NC poster map)

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>>53608567
And the wireframe-y one.

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>>53608501
The Corp Report books simply give some details about some corporations (Arasaka, Militech, IEC, Petrochem, SovOil and one more but I don't remember which one).

>>53608584
Lazarus.

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>>53608567
This one : http://datafortress2020.com/nightcity/Night%20City%20Amalgamated.html

>>53608501
>Medias
I'm interested in that. What do they do?

>>53608632
Intrepid journalism. You know, breaking into corporate research sites to record and expose the illegal research going on there.

For example, one of the one-page adventures in the core book is of a nomad tribe getting sick from badly-stored toxic waste (the corporation involved, Petrochem I think, moved it in a hurry and didn't really give a shit about making sure it didn't leak in the new position), and Petrochem trying to get them the fuck off the land they're occupying so they can clean up the mess before anybody finds out. Both the Corporate and the Media would be very interested in finding out, the Corp as a form of corporate blackmail (or suppressing same, if they actually work for Petrochem), and the Media so they can run a damning expose on the incident.

>>53608665
Or, as Live & Direct mentions, you can be playing with much less noble intentions, and be inventing your own news, paid for by corporate donations or not.

>>53608665
That sounds cool.

Just to be clear, there are no supernatural elements whatsoever in this setting, correct?

>>53608678
Oh, sick, like that guy from Nightcrawler

>>53608680
Not without breaking out the Ianus Games supplements.

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>>53608678
Fake news and alternative facts.

>>53608611
Jesus Christ that map is awful.

Why the fuck is the "freeway" just a short stretch of freeway less than a few kilometers long? Why does this short ass "freeway" end in a parking lot on one end and the other become a two lane street? Why is this cyberpunk metropolis mostly suburbs?

The retard who made this should just hang themselves.

>>53608689
Late-game Medias well-placed in somewhere like Network News 54 or WNS can basically be Rupert Murdoch.

>>53608689
So could I play as a rampaging jingoist who revels in all sorts of ethnic conflict and suffers from delusions of nuclear paranoia? He pays his bills by advertising on pirated retro stations that play 70's and 80's nostalgia memetics. And porn. Of course porn. The dirtiest nastiest porn you could find in the 70's must seem kind of quaint by the settings standard..

Yo, viddy the screamsheet! OP is pure chilled choomba. Down the Night City Combat Zone he be real as Lace 'n' all the dirtsiders on the edge, you savvy? This netwall be buzzing like a dorpher on payday spending some Corp's nuyen down the Maelstrom and we real Chiba right now. Slot ya later buzzalls!

>>53608729
And heres the twist: Hes actually a chippawa indian who used to live on a reservation. His reservation got bulldozed and the US revoked his dual citizenship status.

He has no car, He lives paycheck to paycheck, when gets broke he actually has to shoot porn, really racially degrading stuff, he preys on single moms and is into experimental drug testing.

>>53608729
>The dirtiest nastiest porn you could find in the 70's must seem kind of quaint by the settings standard..
Consider the Exotics from Chromebook 2. Specifically the Playbeing one.

>>53608775
huhuh, buzzballs

>>53608775
>Blackfolk is its own language, distinct from English

>>53608787
the guy will post links to bumfights on bbs forums, which he organizes himself. He will post footage of ATF agents gunning down mexican foot traffic crossing the border and scream "Fuck yeah! Americas kicking ass and taking names!"

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>>53608710
Ask the guy who made it. I only used the small map from the rulebook before making my own Night City.

In my opinion, the main issue of Night City is that it doesn't pass for a massive urban sprawl. There's downtown (the small map) where all the action takes place - this area is described in the Night City sourcebook. Then, you have Night City South which is only described as a slum, though it's probably there that a lot of shit happens. And finally, you have the suburbs and industrial areas who all look generic and boring as hell.
IMO, all those districts should all be interconnected cities with their own districts (downtown, commercial district, residential district, industrial district...).

>>53608869
He doesn't even understand that hes not white. He just revels in the jingoistic sentiment and wants to spread conflict.

>>53608881
So you can see, hes having multiple identity crises. He has been living on government entitlement so long, the concept of having to work is foreign to him. All employment seems centered around sadism and brutality, and what was once an ironic reaction by adopting the mannerisms of the people around him became a core tenet of his identity.

Fucking psychiatrists follow him around and use it on documentaries about undiagnosed mental illness, then refuse to pay him a dime or sign him up with some fly by night government service that promises it will help then hands him a stationary phone and a phone book.

>>53608904
Many of the things we took as 'entitlements' during the 20th century no longer exist. He is disenfranchised from his own culture, the culture he grew up with, and the culture of the present. He has adopted the attitude of giving them people what they want, in the hopes that it will make them sickened at what they have become and make them want to change.

>>53608933
It just basically feeds on itself, the public never gets tired of it. Hes either going to become a total bottom feeder, shooting childrens underwear ads, or hes going to engage in some sort of guerilla warfare with the media, interrupting their broadcasts and forcing the public to indulge in the cultural depravity that they refuse to take responsibility for the media they consume in the privacy of their own homes.

If he ever goes corporate, (or god forbid government) he is going to be a media censor for sure.

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Got the chrome in the bloodstream
Got a metal soul,
I'm looking out for action,
Guess I'm on a roll

Got the old mega violence,
When I boost, it's for real,
The capacitors roarin' inside my brain
You know just how I feel!

Cold chrome, molten lead
Can't be hurt cuz I'm already dead
Ain't no time as real as realtiiiime!
I'm chippin' in
Chippin' in.

Chippin' in (Got my head to the wall)
Chippin' in (Can ya hear me call?)
Chippin' in (I'm the man of steel)
Chippin' in (Is that how you feel?)
Well, comon!

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>>53609286
Man that cop's gun looks janky.

>>53609295
It surely would trigger /k/.

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Had found this revised armor chart in an old thread.

This old thread had some useful stuff: https://yuki.la/tg/52904020

And here is a character generator (especially useful for life path):
http://www.ericdorsey.info/cp2020/index.html

How are the Atlas and Ianus Games adventures? The Media Junkie series of adventures sound interesting.

>>53611119
As a general rule everything made by Atlas is utter shit. Ianus stuff is generally speaking good but often incorporates supernatural stuff. The best supplement is probably Dark Metropolis.

>>53611162
>everything made by Atlas is utter shit.
Tragic. Their CP2020 main dev must have been shit. Was Chasing the Dragon an exception? That one's by Stephan Michael Sechi, the Talislanta guy.

>>53603710
Very good GURPS-book.

>>53603802
Also quite OK.
The whole Dark Metropolis-suite of source books and adventures are well worth picking up.

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>>53608501
Only one other Vtm Cross over the others are just Straight up vampires

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A pretty cool soundtrack: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6dkqVj7heiA

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I'm looking for cyberpunk music with Asian sound elements.

For example like this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw4vU39yzFs

A good mix of electronic and a hint of asian instruments.

I already know the deus ex posts. Anyone know some cool stuff?

>>53614231
Shadowrun: Hong Kong - OST:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=27EHTwiY9EA
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ6h_OjKZC8

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - OST:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qumSPlU_fWw
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EWqCGxm0e6Y

Miscellaneous stuff:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLiqFJNjZR4Sb8DpBZVkugfyrxe7GZnkn9&v=qQto4NjRcmo
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kbBtjSfRA5c
https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLeJH_GQjBwv7F-ys9fb2Hvrp7DK7coLkD&v=WD07ZsBGgIs

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>>53614231
Ghost in the Sell: Innocence: OST

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NeoTokyo had some cool art.

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The general aesthetic is pretty slick.

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Pretty sure it would make a pretty good setting, too. On one side the NSF, on the other the Jinrai terrorists (ultra-nationalist cell of the GSDF). The Yakuza and zaibatsu in the middle.

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Seems pretty good for a political-espionage campaign with a lot of double-crossing and possible friendly-fire.

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Bodyguarding, assassinations, sabotage, terrorism, kidnapping, industrial espionage, blackmailing, surveillance, infiltration, false-flag operations, corruption... there would be a lot of things to do.

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And everything set in a futuristic and tentacular Tokyo.

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Has anyone played with the Hunter//Seeker homebrew? Thinking about using it as opposed to cp2020. Apparently reworks netrunning