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Saturday, October 13, 2018

An Attempt at an OSR Cyberpunk Game Part 1 - System Overview

This is my very first attempt at an RPG design and it's a ruleset I'm making first and foremost for myself. After looking for a simple cyberpunk system made for OSR play and not finding one based on the basic D&D mechanics I'm most familiar with, I decided to make one.

Here's what I'm trying to achieve, more or less in the following order:
  • A system that is rules-light, making use of mechanics I like
  • A system suitable for OSR style of play
  • A system that is OSR compatible, meaning it can make use of OSR fantasy dungeons and monsters
  • A system that is as neutral as possible, covering all the commonly accepted pillars of cyberpunk, mainly cybernetic augmentations, cyberspace netrunning and "punk", but without it being tied up to a specific setting or vision of the near future.
  • Fast to run and fast to play
With that established, here is Part 1, an overview of the system (if you find mentions of something not yet covered, worry not, for it will be included in a future post, since I'll be posting segments of it at a time).

As usual comments are very much encouraged and appreciated (go easy on me, I'm a newbie!!), especially those suggesting alternative mechanics or ideas I have overlooked or that I might not be aware of.

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