there's like a source/rule book out about this setting, right?
so what exactly is unique about pondsmith's cyberpunk world that distinguishes it from other cyberpunk settings?
isn't it still a bunch of lowlifes and mercs vs the corporations all over again?
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yeah but you could say the same about tolkien
Yeah but there are some fairly interesting gangs. Also Trauma Team is just pure kino.
>how is the original different from the copies?
The copies all add retarded shit
>what exactly is unique about pondsmith's cyberpunk world that distinguishes it from other cyberpunk settings?
Nothing. That was the whole point. It was "HEY, NERDS! YOU LIKE NEUROMANCER? WELL THIS IS NEUROMANCER: THE TABLETOP RPG! EXCEPT WE COULDN'T GET THE LICENSE, SO WE JUST NAMED IT AFTER THE GENRE INSTEAD!"
Tolkien basically invented what we think of as "fantasy fiction". It wasn't generic until every single fucking fantasy writer in every single fucking medium copied what he did.
What Western games let me play a Blond haired bright eyed man?
Seems weird that the West has so few Blond male characters in vidya when its the place we Blonds are native to in the first place. Will cyberpunk 2077 allow this?
>there's like a source/rule book out about this setting, right?
There is indeed.
creepy
it's like he knew
>so what exactly is unique about pondsmith's cyberpunk
He wrote the rule book.
It's pretty much the first pen&paper cyberpunk game. Movies, other pen & paper game and videogames have been stealing from it for years.
oh cool, so he is THE original when it comes to the p&p stuff?
i had no idea, ty for the info mates
i recently got gifted the cyberpunk 2020 second edition handbook and it's pretty damn cool to read through as a fan of the genre
Literally nothing. It's as generic as it gets, mashup of diffrent cyberpunk media. That's what made it good for p'n'p setting, but for a video game they could adapt something with a little more identity.
Pondsmith more or less codified what cyberpunk novelists were doing in the then new-ish genre. He was the one who popularized the terms used for the character archetypes that are in every fucking cyberpunk work of fiction (e.g. "net runner" and shit like that). Though keep in mind that he didn't necessarily invent these terms. He's just kind of the first dude to sit down and lay out exact definitions for all of the clichés of the genre.
Acctuall first cyberpunk novel coming through. Gibson can suck a dick.
>so what exactly is unique about pondsmith's cyberpunk world that distinguishes it from other cyberpunk settings?
nothing, it's literally just an amalgamation of things he liked during the 80s like Neuromancer, Blade Runner and Mad Max
>He was the one who popularized the terms used for the character archetypes that are in every fucking cyberpunk work of fiction (e.g. "net runner" and shit like that).
I wanna say "net runner" might have already been a common term in cyberpunk books, but I don't have the time to look it up right now. A better example would be his usage of terms like "corporates" as a noun to describe big business executives that wielded disproportionate amounts of power and were essentially just reskinned gangsters. Before that they were just "evil executives of [fictional corporation]". Then suddenly they were "corporates" and that term has stuck. Pondsmith, by turning the character archetypes of the genre into "classes" for a role-playing game, essentially gave them easily identifiable labels. This was a contributor (though not the only contributor) to these terms becoming popular in the genre in general.
Why don't you read some of it or at least google the wikipedia, lazy moron?
>trusting (((wikipedia)))
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Not much, it was just cheap to buy.
You can go back to the 60s, if you want to be a pedantic dick about it.
William Gibson's stories set in the "Sprawl" setting were, for all intents and purposes, the first full realization of the genre. Gibson actually denies this, but he's either being too modest or using an extremely broad definition of "cyberpunk". The genre really was not fully formed until Gibson's work. Anything before that, even if it uses similar ideas, is only possible to see as "cyberpunk" retroactively, and even then only by using a questionably broad definition of the genre.
It's better than trusting Yea Forums like an idiot.
Dude, it's set in pre-apoc LA, titular character surgically modifies prostitutes to fit clients wildest fetishes. It starts on a farm where people fuck giant genetically modified chickens. The mcguffin is metal arm that blows people up. It's as cyberpunk as it gets, and it was published like 10 years before neuromancer.
>What Western games let me play a Blond haired bright eyed man?
Wolfenstein.
its both worse you scum.
why are you repeating what you're replying to?
So you trust Yea Forums?
Duke Nukem. Jak and Daxter
nigga have you read any cyberpunk? none of that shit has shit to do with the genre.
I used to believe Wikipedia was the collection of all human knowledge.
So sad to see it become like this.