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Cyberpunk 2020 is a cyberpunk role-playing game set in the near future.
Based on the works of William Gibson, Bruce Sterling and other "mirrorshades" authors, the feel of this role-playing game is meant to be very much style over content.
The range of characters is very diverse from hardwired solos with psycholinked weapons and boosted reflexes to nomads who move along the dusty roads with their cyberbikes looking for trouble.
Most missions are based on anti-corporation actions ranging from black ops raids to political machiavellian tactics.
The game is skill based instead of level based. With player being awarded points to be spent on their skill sets. New skills outside their expertise can be learned but in-game time needs to be spent on this.
A big part of the system is the player characters' ability to augment themselves with cyber-technology and the ensuing loss of humanity as they become more machine than man.
A game with a dark noir-gothic feel if played right.
Cybergeneration is a follow-up to the original Cyberpunk 2020 game. It is set roughly 10 years after 2020 and is heavily dependant on the concepts and application of nano-technology. A nano-plague is mutating and morphing the youth of society, driving them underground, as society dramatically fears their capabilities and differences.
Starblade Battalion, a setting for R. Talsorian's related Mekton RPG, postulates a more distant future to the Cyberpunk 2020 world (set in the year 2180), where the "primitive" ACPA technology of 2020 has evolved into 15-meter-tall giant robots called Mektons. Between Cyberpunk and Starblade Battalion, the Earth suffered a devastating global ecological disaster called the "Ecocollapse" and is now governed by a totalitarian Green government called the United Stellar States Alliance. Humanity's interstellar colonies are governed by a manipulative corporatist government called the Pleiades Confederacy. The Starblade Battalion setting has been noted for its similarities to Gundam, particularly in that neither antagonistic party is particularly "good", and the primary division is "My side" and "their side."
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