Cyberpunk Timeline preferance

[Leo]

--- So Canon Cyberpunk has separate timelines. My preference is Cybergen 1993-1995, I played it as a juve punk playing a juve punk. The 2020 legends mentored us Nanobot virus Mutant brats. Good memories.
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2013 (1988) {I didn't play this one}
2020 1e (1990)
2020 2e (1992) {I played this one}
2020 3e (1993)
Cybergeneration (1993) {Loved it}
Cybergen 2e (1994)
Cyberpunk 3e (2005) {Had the book didn't have a group to play with}
=== CP3e Reboot, post Firestorm. (2020 3e, & Cybergen are a seperate timelines now.)
Cyberpunk Red (2020) {Have not played it}
=== Rebooted timeline
Cyberpunk 2077 (2020) {Drive around night city listening to music/books all the time}
- I say "Rebooted" Because allot of the characters and events don't exactly match up to their 2020 versions from the 90s.
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So, Which is your groove?

[Silverbane7]

I'm a lot like you, I've got the old stuff.
It was the 2013 box set that grabbed me back in the day... Before that, everything I'd seen was fantasy or tied to fantasy.

(The red/blue/turquoise/black and gold sets of basic D&D....and Star Frontiers which just looked like elves in space to me...till I saw Spelljammer XD)

And it was Rogue on the back of that box that caught me. She was the opposite of every fantasy heroine or damsel I'd ever seen.
And I liked it (lol)

Grabbed the 2nd print of 2020, and as many of the supplements as I could afford, 2nd hand..
Then Cybergeneration and the Eco-Front supplement.
Then the 2nd hand market dried up where I was, at least for cyberpunk games.
A while later, I saw a copy of the firestorm book, flipped thru....
Read what happened at Arasaka Towers.

Was shocked and hurt, thought 'look at what they've done to our boy....what do they have in store for the rest of us...?'
So I put it down, bought something else instead.

That was the last time I grabbed anything cyberpunk till April 2021, when I grabbed first the quick start box for cyberpunk Red, then a week later, the cyberpunk Red hardback.
Managed to get the 'Rockerboy' and 'Protect and serve' reprints, 'Danger Gal Dossier' along with 'Black Chrome' (the replacement for the Chromebooks) and the meat space version of the first digital supplement they made since then.
(I like physical copies more than digital, since I want to be able to check and read/play when and where there is no net.)

Right now, I'm waiting for the Edgerunners supplement, it's supposed to link 2045 to 2076, fill in the gaps
I thought they were just waiting for Phantom Liberty to drop, since they delayed it from 'spring 2023' till '1st quarter 2024'.....
Still waiting....*sigh*
But, Im keeping an eye on the R Talsorian websites downloads page.
When Black Chrome dropped, they published a small freebie pdf with extras for it there.
Did the same with Danger Gal Dossier...
So I figure they will do it again when the Edgerunners book drops, and I can ask my bookshop to grab it for me then.

As for timeline?
Currently, my own version lol.
Untill they clarify what happened to everyone I gaf about, I'm sticking with headcanon.
(and converting them to MagiPunk too lmao. Silverhand the Bard ^^)

[Leo]

Originally posted by Silverbane7:

I'm a lot like you, I've got the old stuff.
It was the 2013 box set that grabbed me back in the day... Before that, everything I'd seen was fantasy or tied to fantasy.

(The red/blue/turquoise/black and gold sets of basic D&D....and Star Frontiers which just looked like elves in space to me...till I saw Spelljammer XD)

And it was Rogue on the back of that box that caught me. She was the opposite of every fantasy heroine or damsel I'd ever seen.
And I liked it (lol)

Grabbed the 2nd print of 2020, and as many of the supplements as I could afford, 2nd hand..
Then Cybergeneration and the Eco-Front supplement.
Then the 2nd hand market dried up where I was, at least for cyberpunk games.
A while later, I saw a copy of the firestorm book, flipped thru....
Read what happened at Arasaka Towers.

Was shocked and hurt, thought 'look at what they've done to our boy....what do they have in store for the rest of us...?'
So I put it down, bought something else instead.

That was the last time I grabbed anything cyberpunk till April 2021, when I grabbed first the quick start box for cyberpunk Red, then a week later, the cyberpunk Red hardback.
Managed to get the 'Rockerboy' and 'Protect and serve' reprints, 'Danger Gal Dossier' along with 'Black Chrome' (the replacement for the Chromebooks) and the meat space version of the first digital supplement they made since then.
(I like physical copies more than digital, since I want to be able to check and read/play when and where there is no net.)

Right now, I'm waiting for the Edgerunners supplement, it's supposed to link 2045 to 2076, fill in the gaps
I thought they were just waiting for Phantom Liberty to drop, since they delayed it from 'spring 2023' till '1st quarter 2024'.....
Still waiting....*sigh*
But, Im keeping an eye on the R Talsorian websites downloads page.
When Black Chrome dropped, they published a small freebie pdf with extras for it there.
Did the same with Danger Gal Dossier...
So I figure they will do it again when the Edgerunners book drops, and I can ask my bookshop to grab it for me then.

As for timeline?
Currently, my own version lol.
Untill they clarify what happened to everyone I gaf about, I'm sticking with headcanon.
(and converting them to MagiPunk too lmao. Silverhand the Bard ^^)

ahh I remember the second hand boxes filled with all sorts of RPG books. One that caught my eye was Heavy Gear from DP9, and a little hidden Gem called Jovian Chronicles. The Expanse reminds me a bit of Jovian chronicles.
- Yeah, Firestorm was a bit controversial.
- I like digital, But I also tend to use my Laptop, or pad. I have every Dragon Magazine, & Cyberpunk book digital on my pad. Character sheets, arttablet apps, notes, Libraries of books. It's just to convenient compared to carrying around a massive backpack full of books, and binders to have it all on one pad or laptop. Drive through RPG is the way to go. I'll not subscribe to something service like D&D Beyond. Besides it's hard to find the old books these days. But many of them are available at Drive through RPG.

[Silverbane7]

Choom XD
I have still got the 5 disk dragon magazine cd set someplace (tho it's probably suffering from cd rot by now, and the fact it wants windows 98 second edition lmao)
Collected a bunch of them physically before they split into dungeon and dragon, then they just stopped shipping to my part of the UK. (and stopped making physical copies. I couldn't pay for anything online back then. Still can't sub/direct debit recurring even now. Thank the server gods for steam vouchers)

It was hellish here to get a group. For *any* game but 'Vampire: the Masquerade'
think everyone just wanted to be Spike clones (aka, I'm the baddest mofo, come fafo) or they were Angel clones (aka, sad puppy face - i'm a good guy, woe is me - angst angst) lol.
And cyberpunk wasn't 'edgy' enough anymore after that had come out.
(Course, they could have had both, if they had invested in 'Nights Edge' and 'Bloodlust' alt-reality cyberpunk sourcebooks XD)