I thought so as well. My players seemed determined to get themselves killed.
D20 has been done. Digital Burn. http://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?mainid=1958
Agreed. I bought 2 copies, hey they were on clearance at Half Price Books! Was thinking about trying to get my old group to play. They are die hard D20ers. Read through the books then banished them to dust collectors.
TImeline: 204X+ to make space for cyberware and internet development. Corporate Wars timelines still in, just pushed forward. SouthAm exchanged with Afghanistan/Iraq - first cyberware as a result of advanced prosthesis projects for wounded soldiers. Soviet Union doesn't exist since the '90s. Russia a capitalist wild west without any rules, men can get rich there within days but go bankrupt and dead even faster. Arab nations are a nuked wasteland (like in the original timeline). USA didn't collapse with 100 million dying within 10 years, corporations have pretty much bought both the Senate and Congress triggering a massive military and civil unrest against it. Thus begun balkanization of the US - states started to secede, creating their own separate administrative entities called free states. Economically powerful states like Texas and California are the only ones that kept their free status in 204X with almost all of fly-over states (apart from Wyoming and Colorado) succumbing to economic pressures of Corporate Washington to re-join the Union. Catastrophic unemployment due to Corps outsourcing jobs, massive economic inequality, overcrowding due to exodus to cities as farms become incorporated and automated, lack of medical care to the uninsured leads to untreated infectious diseases to spread among the populace decimating it... Still a Dark Future...
Technology: pretty much based on Shadowrun's wireless technology, without cables (although paranoid PCs may still use them), Netrunners able to hack gear/cyberware/smartguns on the fly. Caseless guns a standard with energy weapons making slow strides into the mainstream. Drones everywhere - traffic drones, street cleaners, hovering TV cameras, surveillance, etc. Neuro jacks acting similar to GitS' cyberbrains. AVs considered outdated, the same with Tiltrotors (Osprey) - light ducted fan craft are prevalent (think SA-2 Samson from Avatar or the Bat from TDKR). CHOOH2 was a good idea so it stayed. Techies and Netrunners become the wizards and sorcerers of the future...
Mechanics: starting characters can't have their special ability higher than the median of their 10 profession skills.
Technology: pretty much based on Shadowrun's wireless technology, without cables (although paranoid PCs may still use them), Netrunners able to hack gear/cyberware/smartguns on the fly. Caseless guns a standard with energy weapons making slow strides into the mainstream. Drones everywhere - traffic drones, street cleaners, hovering TV cameras, surveillance, etc. Neuro jacks acting similar to GitS' cyberbrains. AVs considered outdated, the same with Tiltrotors (Osprey) - light ducted fan craft are prevalent (think SA-2 Samson from Avatar or the Bat from TDKR). CHOOH2 was a good idea so it stayed. Techies and Netrunners become the wizards and sorcerers of the future...
Mechanics: starting characters can't have their special ability higher than the median of their 10 profession skills.
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No game sessions so far... but possibility for getting part of one in this Summer.
I've heard the group uses modified rules (possibly IU ), but I can adapt. (If they really use IU, easier for me :dance: )
I also like "vanilla" rule set, but the "modified" rules in "Hardwired" are fine too.
How long exactly 'til big update Wis?
I've heard the group uses modified rules (possibly IU ), but I can adapt. (If they really use IU, easier for me :dance: )
I also like "vanilla" rule set, but the "modified" rules in "Hardwired" are fine too.
How long exactly 'til big update Wis?
My group are also D20 bred, I did convince a couple of them to try out cyberpunk and I used the IU rules Wisdom000 made. It was great fun and I really love the setting.