Cyberpunk RED

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Cyberpunk RED or CP RED is a role-playing game published by R. Talsorian Games in November 2020.

August 2019 saw the debut of a new edition of the RPG at GenCon meant to bridge the gap between 2020 and 2077 (so can be used for campaigns set anywhere in between). Later in November 2020, the full corebook was released. With its existence, and per the creator's confirmation, it has supplanted V3 as Cyberpunk's successor. In this version of the game's continuity, the Fourth Corporate War took place, but did not go nuclear, leaving the world battered but intact. The side benefit is that it explains why things have changed and how between CP2020 and CP2077 (for example; the Voodoo Boys went from an all-white gang of voodoo posers in 2020 to a predominantly-Haitian gang of actual Vodun practitioners in 2077 and CPRED explains how that happened).

The timeline is advanced from 2020 to 2045 and sees a lot of the old setting changed in order to provide a fresh ground for veterans of the earlier editions as well as new players. The old net is gone, in favour of multiple local data nets (requiring the netrunner of the group to actually travel with the rest of the crew to complete jobs) The fourth corporate war has been and gone and seen some corporations fall, some rise and the power dynamics shifted. The local geography of Night city had changed somewhat with the detonation of a small nuclear bomb in the centre of Night City. certain characters whose name is synonymous with the setting are either dead or missing.

All in all its not as dramatic a change as V3 which is probably a good thing.

Links

• Official website