If you like that kind of stuff, what else might I have in my handy haversack. 

27 Questions To Ask Your New Characters

The character creation process is one of the most important steps at the beginning of any campaign. The choices you make will echo over the course of many levels. Making a truly memorable character requires you to make a lot of important choices. From race, class and attribute distribution all decisions will factor into the overall enjoyment of playing this character.

1.   How old is your character?
2.   Are your parents still alive?
3.   If one or both of your parents are dead when and how did they die?
4.   Who raised you after your parents died?
5.   Do you have any siblings?
6.   Have any of them died?
7.   If any siblings have died how did they die?
8.   What do your siblings do?
9.   Is your character married?
10.   Does your character have children?
11.   What social class is your character from?
12.   How has their upbringing affected their world view?
13.   How did your character get started in their chosen class?
14.   Does your character have any heroes or inspirational figures?
15.   Does your character have any significant personal items?
16.   Is your character religious?
17.   Is your character guided by a prophecy?
18.   What is your character's view on magic?
19.   Has your character ever served in the military?
20.   Has your character ever been arrested? What for?
21.   How did your character meet his current adventuring companions?
22.   Has your character ever crossed anyone?
23.   Does your character have any enemies?
24.   What are your character's goals in life?
25.   How important is the accumulation of wealth?
26.   If your character died tomorrow what would they be remembered for?
27.   Where did your character learn or train their skills?

Quote from: S'mon on February 29, 2024, 02:13:25 PM

Quote from: SimpleDisorder on February 29, 2024, 01:17:54 PM
Perhaps not what you're looking for, however I always start here:

Goals as GM:

One Shining Moment For Every Player And PC

One Cool Reward For Each PC

One Plot Thread Measurably Advanced

One Surprise

One Seed Planted

One Background Event

One Way The PCs Have Changed The World


Good gaming!

These seem like good things to bear in mind. Running a sandbox I can't ensure all that every session  and I very much see shining moments as things the player creates, at most I give the opportunity.

It's still online: https://orbitalflower.github.io/rpg/wizards-3e-archive.html#villain-builder
Not cyberpunk, however this Villian Builder series improved my games micro and macro.  Just replace Dragons with Militech hover platforms.   

Last tip, The Edge Runners show on Netflix does a good job of setting the theme.  A bit over the top with the super cyber spine, however some run hot like that.  They show how scary cyber psychosis is. 

https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/edgerunners

Good luck!

Erik

@Simple cheers!

@Tenbones - I think in my setting Kessler Syndrome following the Last War will pretty much prevent manned space flight currently, but I do want to bring in exotic locations over time.

Quote from: S'mon on March 01, 2024, 05:53:57 AM
@Simple cheers!

@Tenbones - I think in my setting Kessler Syndrome following the Last War will pretty much prevent manned space flight currently, but I do want to bring in exotic locations over time.

I came up with the following this morning:

Space in 2064

War debris Kessler Syndrome has closed LEO to humanity, probably for at least the next two decades, and the Starlink global satellite network did not survive the War, but further out in Geostationary Orbit 35,785 km (22,236 miles) over Nairobi Kenya, the vast ESA-owned, publically accessible Crystal Palace station is battered but still largely intact, and still inhabited - sort of. As well as the teams of hundreds of ESA and Corporate reconstruction workers, technicians, security and scientists, there are rumours of radiation-crazed cannibal cults, rogue killer drones, bioenginered space monsters, diehard Russian Cosmo-Spetsnaz still fighting the Last War ... in Space, everyone will hear you scream.   

Officially Crystal Palace is at the Earth-Moon L1 point but that seems very far out (326,869 km), and only useful as a staging point for large scale lunar colonisation. The way it's described as functioning it feels much closer. (I think the authors confuse the Earth-Sun L1 with the Earth-Moon L1).