Cyberpunk 2020 RPG tells the future

Spinachcat · June 15, 2019, 11:22:45 PM

Thank you Aglondir and Savage Schemer for verifying this.

Kudos to Mike Pondsmith for his foresight.

Aglondir · June 15, 2019, 11:37:45 PM

Quote from: Spinachcat;1092170Thank you Aglondir and Savage Schemer for verifying this.

Kudos to Mike Pondsmith for his foresight.

No prob!

But it wasn't Maximum Mike-- Ross Winn and Eric Oppen have author credits. Mike's credited for Spiritual Guidance.

Spinachcat · June 16, 2019, 12:13:26 AM

Interesting! Who are Ross Winn and Eric Oppen? Any other credits?

Aglondir · June 16, 2019, 12:26:53 AM

Quote from: Spinachcat;1092174Interesting! Who are Ross Winn and Eric Oppen? Any other credits?

From a quick glance he looks like he was a contributing author on several Cyberpunk supplements and Godsend Agenda.

https://www.rpggeek.com/rpgdesigner/13810/ross-winn

Alderaan Crumbs · June 16, 2019, 02:57:28 AM

That Mike Pondsmith is black must send them into a tailspin. Regardless and irrespective of his skin color, that man is a genius who made an absolutely incredible and enduring game, both thematically and mechanically.

Itachi · June 16, 2019, 07:48:55 AM

RandyB · June 16, 2019, 09:13:26 AM

Quote from: Blood Axe;1092146Just sounds eerily familiar.
Me first = # me too.
Everyone is special = demanding the your special flag be flown over the embassies.
If your political beliefs are different than you are racists, sexist, xenophobic, etc, etc.

Maybe Cyberpunk Neo tribes is worth a read.

Maybe? Try "definitely". Everything for Cyberpunk 2020 is worth a read. Mike Pondsmith ranks with the greats of RPG design.

jeff37923 · June 16, 2019, 09:33:59 AM

This entire situation is made of win as far as I'm concerned. Anyone who gets butthurt by a game supplement written over 20 years ago is a person who doesn't engage in Actual Play of TTRPGs, because the RPG they are interested in is seeing who can be more outraged over trivial crap.

SavageSchemer · June 16, 2019, 09:44:30 AM

Quote from: jeff37923;1092213This entire situation is made of win as far as I'm concerned. Anyone who gets butthurt by a game supplement written over 20 years ago is a person who doesn't engage in Actual Play of TTRPGs, because the RPG they are interested in is seeing who can be more outraged over trivial crap.

My current theory, which isn't based on any actual knowledge of the situation, is that the recent Cyberpunk 2077 announcement got the hype machine going. Some of the people hyped are the kind of NPC's you find frequenting TBP. So they go to the source material to check out what this Cyberpunk game is all about. Then they run across material that is...problematic for a card-carrying member of the Woke Wagon. What's a NPC to do? I know! I'll show everyone just how triggered I can be over this 20 year old material! We'll get everyone riled up and demand (demand, I say!) a public statement from the authors of such deeply offensive material.

Anyway. That's how I see it. It'd be entertaining if it weren't so fucking sad.

Ratman_tf · June 16, 2019, 01:15:52 PM

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That is priceless.

Shawn Driscoll · June 16, 2019, 02:14:48 PM

This is why the gay mafia infiltrates any media not already in their control.

Spinachcat · June 16, 2019, 06:23:59 PM

Quote from: RandyB;1092208Everything for Cyberpunk 2020 is worth a read. Mike Pondsmith ranks with the greats of RPG design.

Agreed. CP 2020 is made of awesome.

Anon Adderlan · June 18, 2019, 06:44:24 AM

That sure is a long way to go dumpster diving.

They were digging for shit on Keanu too, only to discover he's been hoverhanding this whole time.

Quote from: Ratman_tf;1092163Anyway, there's a video on twitter,where Mike Pondsmith replies to the criticism of the Voodoo Boys.

https://twitter.com/GayLesbianCunt/status/1139217998105833472

*Obligatory comment about a black man defending his game from accustation of racism from white people.*

Oh that smooth easy listening voice...

...ahem, where was I?

That interview is also being conducted by controversial asian Yong Yea, and they're talking about the Bozos, which are ironically even more relevant (and problematic) thanks to clown world being a thing.

#HonkHonk

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bhwAHAHAHAHAHAH!

It's like they looked into the future and combined the most problematic elements they found into one for maximum offense. The only way it could be more offensive is by using dolls instead of Poser art

tenbones · June 18, 2019, 12:27:46 PM

I thought everyone knew this stuff about CP2020. Heh.

Welcome to the world of the real.

Quick - someone pull up where Shadowrun does this better with magic!

Anon Adderlan · June 19, 2019, 04:48:39 AM

Quote from: tenbones;1092580I thought everyone knew this stuff about CP2020.

You think they would have given how desperate they are for dirt, but for some reason they didn't bother to check the actual RPG it's based on until now.

Wonder why.