Oh I think we should keep referencing the pen and paper. Of course! Reasons! And also it is, as far as we know, the template for 2077. Sure is for setting!
Well, I agree with this. Especially since the pen and paper rules are so good at conveying danger and power and coolness.
I mean, c'mon. Mortal 0 saves for 8 damage to the limb? So brutal and so cool. The Humanity rating of a character? Skills like Human Perception?
There is literally a Cool stat. Just like the pen and paper.
So given that and some of what we've seen about the demo ( the stats) I think the Pen and Paper is a strong influence on the game systems. How strong, hrm. Well, we have Roles, albeit only 3 but Referees do that too. They changed the stats so that Body is now Strength and Constitution, which is both sensible and seen in R.Tals Fuzion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzion
We have skills as well as the Rep stat from PnP, albeit called Street Cred now.
We have Empathy of some kind - you are limited in how much Cyber you can have. Dunno if it affects interactions like in pen and paper but a fair bet it does.
We have limb targeting and dismemberment! Very Friday Night Firefight!
https://forums.cdprojektred.com/ind...r-answers-to-your-cp-2077-questions.10970951/
So as of now we do have a fair bit of the Pen and Paper ruleset in place.
I, too, wish we knew about how the stats and skills go together, but we have a lot to go on indicating they are aiming at a pen and paper -ish target.