Cyberpunk

And I was like, that's fucking wild, dude.

Cause I remember the old character sheets for cyberpunk 2020 and that shit was wild too.

Cause like you had boxes that were split.

So when you have like a certain attribute, it combined with another one for a different one.

No, no, I wouldn't.

Like, even Cyberpunk, I've been reading up on Cyberpunk Red, right? Right.

And like...

It has this idea of cyberpsychosis.

Now, what was your main game? If it wasn't D&D, which doesn't seem like that fit your style, did you have a main game that you tended to go to, or were you more going from one game to the next as a

GM player? um much like designing i tend to go from one to another there are some mainstays uh dragon warriors i've played a lot on and off um it's just one of those early games um and linked to some formative experiences i suppose I played Cyberpunk a lot, from the black box Cyberpunk 2013, which seems kind of quaint, through Cyberpunk 2020, which I think is still the best edition that there was of that.

Nobody played third edition Cyberpunk.

The new one I am kind of on the fence about.

Now, what was your main game? If it wasn't D&D, which doesn't seem like that fit your style, did you have a main game that you tended to go to, or were you more going from one game to the next as a

GM player? um much like designing i tend to go from one to another there are some mainstays uh dragon warriors i've played a lot on and off um it's just one of those early games um and linked to some formative experiences i suppose I played Cyberpunk a lot, from the black box Cyberpunk 2013, which seems kind of quaint, through Cyberpunk 2020, which I think is still the best edition that there was of that.

Nobody played third edition Cyberpunk.

The new one I am kind of on the fence about.

I don't like some of the oversimplifications and the way some of the newer rules work, or don't as the case may be, but it's easier to get people to play that.

But Cyberpunk's been a constant.

Vampire was a huge one.

I picked up Vampire the day it came out in the UK, played it that evening, and then continued to play a whole bunch of White Wolf games for years and years and years, got involved in the LARP society.

They invested in it.

R. Talsorian is, of course, the guys who do Cyberpunk and Teenagers from Outer Space.

It's Mike Pondsmith's company.

Mike Pondsmith, of course, is one of the most cr- most successful in indie, uh, RPG creators of all time, 'cause Cyberpunk 2077 is, of course, huge.

Huge.

So when it was under R. Talsorian, uh, they actually took the Interlock system, which is the home system for all of the R. Talsorian RPGs, and they mashed it together with the Hero System, and created something called Fusion.

The Ra- The Rasslin' Theater.

[laughs] That's another great name.

I don't have a preferred science fiction role-playing game, I don't think.

I've played a bunch of them, from Star Frontiers to Traveler to... from ICRPG to Cyberpunk 2020 to, you know, I've played a number of these games and had a lot of fun with all of them.

So with science fiction gaming, kind of like horror gaming, it depends what brand of science fiction we're tackling to what game I would pick.

For a cyberpunk game, 100%, I'm going to take Cyberpunk 2020.

That is my favorite cyberpunk game, without doubt.

For a science fantasy kind of game...

Yep.

So, my first RPG, Cyberpunk.

And for those who don't know, the first edition was Cyberpunk 2020, so that would be playing in the past.

Reggie McKay, that's baby nerds.

Yes.

1993 was introduced to a whole bunch.

My friend Juan, he had a whole bunch of RPG books.

The first one that caught my eye was the Cyberpunk 2020 role-playing game.

[laughs]

For context for this, the majority of the lore covered here is from Cyberpunk 2020's core book, a few supplements, and some details from Cyberpunk 2013, since Possum didn't, like, hasn't had or opened the copy of that in a decade, and, uh, they really-

Oh

... wanted to read it again.

Um, but like sometimes, you know, like, look, artwork is cool and it can sell books and, but there are those, there are those games that just, it somehow, it adds more than just being pretty pictures.

And like one of the books, you know, like to me, it's kind of like one of those grail books, if you will, of like the standard of how you could, Cyberpunk 2020, man, that book, the art, the layout, the text, it's, It all just oozes this attitude, and it sounds like you're getting a lot of that, you know, collaborating with Daniel for the artwork, because this just feels very right.

I'm trying.

I'm not revolutionizing layout, I will say.