Netrunner Edition>Cyberpunk 2020 vs. Cyberpunk RED?Cyberpunk 2020 is the second edition of the Cyberpunk TTRPG that focuses on simulation gameplay and has a black trenchcoat aesthetic.Cyberpunk RED is the fourth edition of the Cyberpunk TTRPG that is set after Cyberpunk 2020 following the Fourth Corporate War, focuses on more balanced gameplay and is more streamlined but has less content.>Cyberpunk Rulesets (The Vault) (May not have all updated rulebooks, check official sources for updates)bit<dot>ly/2Y1w4Md>Resources for RED:https://datapool2045.net/>RED free-DLC and extra contenthttps://rtalsoriangames.com/downloads/>RED Easy Mode is available for FREE.https://rtalsoriangames.com/cyberpunk/>Errata Pageshttps://rtalsoriangames.com/errata/>Character Sheetshttps://rtalsoriangames.com/downloads/>Previous thread:>>96237546Thread Question: Are you currently in a game (any edition), and what are you/the players up to? Replace with solo play/schizo fantasies as needed.
No schizo necessary. My 2020 bois have been following a celebrity around trying to entertain him over a weekend for cash, with middling success, but it has recently been revealed the man is suffering from advanced disassociation and heightened aggression from a piece of cyberware malfunctioning. They must now balance his lust for murder with the doctor's orders of trying to keep him calm and under control. Almost everything they came up with as entertainment involved capturing and injuring hobos in some way, but the moment Mr Celebrity said he wanted to murder a hobo for sport they all got really shy about it. Players; can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em, am I right?
>>96509222Sounds like the guy to be drugged and kept entertained with a snuff braindance or three.What alternatives to bumfights did the players come up with?
>>96509179>Are you currently in a game (any edition), and what are you/the players up to? Replace with solo play/schizo fantasies as needed.My groups characters are currently on the run after the easiest multi billion dollar heist in history, and what might become the easiest multi billion escape from the law in history with the GMs efforts to shut down any potential stakes or human complications. there were a grand total of two guards stopping us, the entire gamut of electronic security was shut off by a coincidental nuclear EMP, none of the security doors were closed or really locked and the complete lack of preparation did nothing to hinder us in general Individually one player is currently borderline zoning out for multiple sessions because he has a specific thing he wants to do and doesn't really care about anything else until that's done. Another player is just kind of along for the ride. And I'm personally swinging between trying to get the GM to do something that induces actual tension into the campaign and zoning out from boredom.
>>96509301Firstly they figured they'd do hobo battles, like cockfights. They shelved this idea in place of hiring some hobos to look tough so they could scare them away for tourism, so they shot near them and it went alright. They then thought about staging a car robbery by using a hobo with a suicide vest, but they shelved this idea in place of shooting some local drug dealers and splitting the drug cash with the NPC. They gave him his own gun, and took him to play poker, which they then turned into a lethal gunfight as they stole all the poker money. Mr Celebrity is so-so pleased. They've been a little underwhelming as a group in coming up with ideas, partly because they keep circling the drain on inevitable crimes against hobomanity then chickening out. But they ended up at an illegal fight ring where they did some cyberboxing and tried to poison a guy, but failed due to IRL player fatigue. It's very much a situation of>So Mr Celebrity might want to just see a landmark>Are there any landmarks nearby?>Well there's a series of highrises here with skybridges that->Dude that'd be a great place to source hobos!But it is what it is, once this is over I am going to unload some consequences in the form of a bounty hunter coming to take revenge on behalf of an old lady they fucked over. They aren't used to things coming back to bite them so I think it'll be good.>>96509515They wouldn't be rich if they spent all their money on security.
>>96509634>They wouldn't be rich if they spent all their money on security.idk bro I just want there to be some actual difficulty and tension in the campaign
>>96509179How well would 2020 and RED work if you replaced the D10 with 2D6 instead?
>>96509704The tension will be from following your stocks, the rising stakes will be to decide whether to diversify your portfolio into agriculture or goods transport.
>>96509179I still don't get MedTechs. I can't imagine any build that isn't just: I have Speedheal.They can't even use any of their abilities on themselves in down time.Can't "Therapy" self/Can't Cyberware self etc.Are roles supposed to be like this?I just made them a forensic detective/investigator which has almost no mechanical relationship.
>>96509882Severely reduces the swinginess, and reduces the downsides of things that happen on critical failures (I can't really think of anything in RED at least that carries additional effects from a critical success). Evasion pumping becomes a lot more viable because it becomes a lot more reliable. A of RED is about accounting for the likelihood of failure (the 10% chance of a critfail at all times and the imploding dice feature is made to make optimizing past a 90% chance of success a case of diminishing returns), and poor quality weapons would not be a huge downside.
>>96510712MedTech is pretty uniquely focused on supporting others as opposed to buffing yourself, yes, as the medical profession is. A bounty hunter who incapacitates opponents in Cryobags. or a priest whose therapy is of a more religious nature. The base building DLC allows medtechs to upgrade and fabricate street drugs, which combined with their access to rapidtetox lets them stack up on drug-based buffs with little real downside.
>>96510712Make a gig that's stealing an entire crate of cyber arms with inbuilt grenade launchers. Make a hidden fact about this shipment that it has trackers in each unit. Watch them yell "Medic!"
