Sardukhar;n9290471 said:
Uhhh..Cal...as far as I know, it's a supplement, not a Whole New Edition.
It's a sourcebook to cover the time gap, yes, but just a sourcebook. R.Tal is wary of new editions post-203X.
If you have a quote where he says they are doing a new edition, that would be news.
Hmm... maybe your right. I have asumed that this would be a compleatly new edition. But most of that comes from that the way most interviews and information I have read over the years about it seem to suggest that it is a compleatly new edition... that part "new edition" is what most places have used when talking about it. I don't know if that is the interviewers choice (and assumtion) of the word to use, or if that is what the person they interviewed actually used or not. Although... I now have also looked a bit closer and Marcin Iwinski has talked about it as an "update"... so maybe it is not an entirely new edition at all.
This below is a part of the link I posted above:
The decision to turn classic tabletop game Cyberpunk 2020 into a video game comes with a pleasant surprise: A brand new edition of the pen-and-paper game is in development.
Speaking with Polygon during E3 last week, CD Projekt RED co-founder and current CEO Marcin Iwiński said that the tabletop game is getting an update designed by Cyberpunk 2020 creator Mike Pondsmith.
The update will be the first since the third iteration of the game, Cyberpunk V3, hit in 2005.
The goal, Iwiński said, is for Pondsmith to carefully update the game so it doesn't feel like a retro take on a cyberpunk future.
Pondsmith is already hard at work on the new ruleset, which will be used to flesh out the video game's storyline, with hopes of releasing the updated tabletop game when the video game hits.
So I don't compleatly know... there are some indications I have seen over the years though that still does seem suggest that Pondsmith might actually be making a new edition of the game.
And the reason I think that is due to one thing I have seen mentioned on some very few occations online... but which stuck with me and is one of the factors as to why I have thought that Pondsmith is making an entirely new CP edition... and that is something called
"Cyberpunk Red".
I have seen that phrase, "Cyberpunk Red", in some of the interviews with Pondsmith (which I am currently unable to find)... and, somewhere during the last several years I had also heard that Pondsmith had been working on a new CP edition even befor the whole Cyberpunk 2077 thing came around (again, can't seem to find those either). But... I think I have found some info from two different, and very new interviews (July this year), interviews which I do recognize that I have read (I just forgot about them, and did not really reflect to much over the parts about CP Red), that might point to what I have been thinking, that it might be a new edition entirely... it might still only be an update of course, but it does not 100% rules out an actual new edition.
Quote from a
Rockpapershotgun interview from 12 of July 2017:
It was news to me that Pondsmith was having this kind of input on Cyberpunk 2077, alongside his work on a new iteration of the tabletop game. The new pen and paper version, coincidentally codenamed Cyberpunk Red before any contact with CD Projekt Red had occurred, will be set in 2020, decades earlier in the timeframe. Because the two games are in the same continuity, there’s a back and forth about narrative aspects that need to match in a credible way. Pondsmith has had to tell the 2077 devs that certain characters they might want to use will be dead and forgotten by the time their story begins, although he smiles, saying “I do have ways to bring some of them back”.
And a quote from a
Eurogamer interview also from the 12 of July 2017:
"I was actually in the process of doing Cyberpunk Red when CD Projekt Red showed up," he tells me, so he will continue with that. He'll also "probably" do a 2077 version for pen and paper in addition to the Mekton Zero game he's way behind on.
So yeah... there are things out there that does suggest that it might actually be an entirely new Cyberpunk edition. I guess it depends on what did and did not change once CDPR came into the picture... because if I am not mistaken CDPR does now also have the rights for the pen and paper property as well... atleast if you should belive this quote from the interview I linked to in my previous post:
A key part of Pondsmith's involvement in the project is updating the pen-and-paper version of the game, so the video game team can work off that when helping the fiction make the leap from the table to the television, Iwiński said.
And CD Projekt has the rights to the pen-and-paper property now as well, so they're able to make sure it sticks around.
