Showing posts with label cyberpunk*. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cyberpunk*. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 30, 2020
End-of-Year Artsravaganza: CARBON2185.README
Ah, 2020... did this year actually live up to some dystopic fiction? Truth indeed seemed to become worse than fiction for this year, touted in Cyberpunk 2020 back in the day. Now that we're here in "the future," it makes me turn my mind back to that genre. I've read tons of cyberpunk fiction but never really gamed in that genre. In 2021, I hope to return to the gaming table in the flesh, and I'm considering finally using the Carbon 2185 rules to jack into some cyberpunk gaming goodness!
So, to close out this wild and futuristic year, I'm dedicating the first day of my annual artstravaganza to Carbon 2185 and all things cyberpunk!
Friday, December 11, 2020
End-of-Week Game Art (12/11/20): Carbon 2185 Cover
I know there's that big cyberpunk video game everyone's buzzing about right now, based on that cyberpunk tabletop RPG from the early 90's (which is also getting a new version). But in the meantime, there's a little game called Carbon 2185, built on the D&D 5E chassis, that is pretty swell, too! Check it out when you get a chance!
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Hitting 50, Cyberpunk, and Technoir
Hey now, I've reached 50 followers! Nice! Not bad for a fat kid from South Jersey! ;-) Seriously though, it's pretty cool to feel like there are people that value one's words. I hope it's because my rekindled passion for the hobby is coming through in my posts. It really is important to me to give something of value back to our little community here, even if it is just the tale of my musings on the hobby and stories of my actual gaming experiences. Anyway, I'll spare you the Sally Field act...
Now on to my other topic for this post:
My other great love besides fantasy fiction is cyberpunk. I don't care what the genre fiction pundits have to say about the supposed death of cyberpunk as a science fiction subgenre. It will always be alive in me as a fan. Gibson's Neuromancer is one of the books I've reread the most in my life (about 10 times). As I get older, I get something new out of it every time. I don't care about how the passage of time and the progression of technology makes some aspects of the book outdated. There is such a possibility as alternate futures and divergent technological development, just like there are alternate pasts to be explored (see cyberpunk's "sister" genre, steampunk).
I've owned the Cyberpunk 2020 RPG for over a decade but never played it. Same with Shadowrun (but frankly I couldn't stand the combination of magic and technology). I played Rifts here and there, but that also put too much emphasis on magic. I've considered using the Shadowrun and Rifts systems/worlds and stripping out the magic, however.
It's been one of my holy gaming grails to do some cyberpunk gaming someday. I was tempted to run a Matrix movie game using the online free system based on the D6 System that's been on the web for years now. But again, this never came to pass, due to the myriad circumstances I've talked about in my testimonial.
I just heard that there's a new game called Technoir in development, and it looks interesting. There's a beta that's been released, and I'm trying to find the time to delve into it. There's also a fund that's raising money to publish the game.
So, maybe once I get a goodly bit of fantasy gaming under my belt to really cement my return to the hobby, I can move on over to exploring some cyperpunk gaming. See you in the matrix (not the one inhabited by Keanu Reeves, either)!
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