/cyber/ - Cyberpunk & Science Fiction

>>24566

Does Monopoly count?

Paranoia, OF COURSE

>>24621

what? why?

>>24621

nice

BRP with some homebrewing.

>>24670

Additionally, GURPS. Their cyberpunk book got them in trouble with law enforcement because they thought it was a legit hacking manual.

shadowrun without magic? do you just hate fun so much?

It's kind of post-cyberpunk, but Eclipse Phase is a great fucking tabletop game.

I hate to break it to you, but a modern, updated, no-magic, no-tie-in, no-joke cyberpunk game doesn't exist. I've looked. HARD.

I don't know why it doesn't. And GURPS cyberpunk doesn't count. It's GURPS, it's a general system with some cyber-stuff tacked on.

Technoir looks interesting. I like the way there are loansharks in character creation, if you want to start out with lots of cyberware.

Back when I had friends and played a bunch of shadowrun, it never felt like we were playing scumbags trying to survive on the mean streets of Seattle. More like we were playing a highly skilled, well-funded black ops team trying to survive on the mean streets of Seattle.

>>24826

Eclipse Phase is good, it deals with transhuman themes, evil hypercorporations, space, hacking etc.

I have no group that wants to play it thought ;_;

>>24994

I disagree actually. As someone currently running a EP game there's tons of ways to take away the ways to get out of situations. In fact, that's one of the main jobs of a GM, as it adds some sense of excitement and risk to the game. It's a common problem with new GM's where they don't add enough difficulty to a game in their notes, or add too much and TPK their whole team.

How in the hell has no one mentioned gurps Transhuman Space?

>>24994

>Since bodies are treated as disposable, you don't really feel attached to your characters/outcome,

That's exactly what I don't like about Eclipse Phase.

I genuinely raged when I found out they dedicated thrice as much to a paragraph about muh pronouns than the Ship of Thesseus paradox that arises from essentially being a clone of yourself.

I mean, they specifically mentioned people can change bodies not out of necessity, but because they can. You would have thought at least a few philosophers would have questioned the belief that making a data backup of your brain and putting it in a vat-grown body is not like just changing your body, but dying and getting a clone "reborn" as yourself. Sadly, they totally disregarded the explanation of this part in favour of the much more "interesting" thought experiment of gender identity in a society where bodies are exchangeable.

I mean, do the authors have no fucking priorities when worldbuilding? I find arguing about the stream of consciousness of a cloned brain much more interesting than what you like to say you have down there.

I am not mad about the pronouns stuff itself, but about the fact that they gave a simple detail much more importance than a motherfucking metaphysical problem they introduced with one of the most important mechanics of the game.

Had it been a humor game, like Paranoia, it wouldn't have bothered me that much, but they are actually trying to make it look serious.

By the way, cool pic.

>>32157

Because Transhuman Space is more post-cyberpunk and even straight up sci-fi than cyberpunk.

People have mentioned GURPS Cyberpunk, but disregarded it since there is a GURPS for anything.

There is also GURPS CthulhuPunk for shits and giggles.