Cyberpunk Red

William Gibson described Cyberpunk as a fusion of high-tech and low-life, exploring the intersection of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on human society in a near-future, often dystopian setting.

If you don’t know who William Gibson is then shame on you.

Like most people out there, my first exposure to Cyberpunk was Blade Runner. The 1982 movie by Ridley Scott blew me away. After that I watched movies like Freejack and Johnny Mnemonic, Akira, and Ghost in the Shell. it wasn’t until the late 90’s that I started diving into the literary world of Cyberpunk with Nuromancer and Snowcrash.

I loved the setting, the style, the tech, and the action, but I never got into the roleplaying games. I heard about Cyberpunk, and Cyberpunk 2020. But for some strange reason I never picked them up.

Then Mike asked me if I was interested in playing Cyberpunk Red.

I jumped at the chance.

Mike ran our group though almost a year of Cyberpunk using the Cyberpunk Red rules and we have recently started up again focusing more on the Edgerunner 2077 expansion for Cyberpunk Red.

After that much game time, we got opinions.

In this episode Mike, Christina and I are going to give you an honest, unbiased review of Cyberpunk Red.

But before we do that, Christina, break down the legalese for us.

[Kick to Christina so she can go on about how we haven’t been paid or compensated in any way for our opinion and we bought the shit with money out of our own pocket.]

Now Mike, Start us off on our review of Cyberpunk Red.