HERO 2020

[bishoplogan]

I put this out for all exp players

Is there any game that is like cyberpunk2020 with superpowers/ and maybe magic?
The closet I can think of is Aberrant.
Or ugh "shadow run" (makes me sick)

Any body know of any other that fits the bill.

For those that don't know what Cyberpunk is,it is a RPG that has lots and lots of
cyberware,bioware, nanotech and future tech.But not a lot space travel or any alien races.
And does not take place in the far far future.
:sacool:

[Strongman]

Cyberpunk had a fantastic setting but I always had problems with the game mechanics.

Just use GURPS or V&V or something. GURPS has all the bases covered, though I'm not a huge fan of the system, and V&V can be just about anything (one of the V&V sites has some pretty good coversions of AD&D monsters, IIRC).

While I'm certainly not a member of any fringe subculture, I toy with trying to put such in games where it would be appropriate. In V&V, for example, I had an anti-hero/sometime villain named "Boneblade" who was a mystic mutant would could regenerate and who could spontaneously generate blades and spikes of bone from his skeletal structure and who had some heightened expertise with using them. He was a trenchcoat-wearing Goth who would sometimes aid the PC group but who had his own agenda.

[Sketchpad]

Most systems would handle it okay ...
If you wanted to use CP2020 as written, you could track down a copy of the Fuzion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzion) rules and incorporate them.

As an alternative, Hero has some rules in Star Hero for cybernetics and some fan built CP2020 on their boards (https://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29816&page=2).

Using M&M would also be simple, especially if you have the Iron Age book (as it gives some great ideas on a darker campaign) or access to the boards, as one thread talks about Shadowrun (http://www.atomicthinktank.com/viewtopic.php?t=16028&highlight=cyberpunk) while the other looks at CP2020 (http://www.atomicthinktank.com/viewtopic.php?t=27694
highlight=cyberpunk)

But for the most part, any system will do :)

[SD Anderson]

I put this out for all exp players

Is there any game that is like cyberpunk2020 with superpowers/ and maybe magic?
The closet I can think of is Aberrant.
Or ugh "shadow run" (makes me sick)

Any body know of any other that fits the bill.

For those that don't know what Cyberpunk is,it is a RPG that has lots and lots of
cyberware,bioware, nanotech and future tech.But not a lot space travel or any alien races.
And does not take place in the far far future.
:sacool:

A darker themed Technomancer* with Supers might fit the bill. Basics: The 1945 Trinity nuclear test ripped open a dimensional hole and dumped magic into the Earth, particularly at the test site and 200 miles more west than east because the Earth rotated under the hole for about 2 hours. A second nuclear bomb detonated in Antartica was 10 times more powerful. It's feared if the next one also jumps a decimal point, the world will die.

You have a hive mind telepathic non-marxist comunist Killer Penguin race controlling Antarctica and the industrial might of post WWII Earrh focusing on spells research. (You'd be amazed how many elixirs can be bought at Walmart cheap thanks to pharmeceutical grade factories.

I'd go with magic based Supers for obvious reasons.

*Available as a pdf from SJG for $8, and as of a minute ago, a used paper copy: $4.50 on ebay 3 bidders, 8 and change hours to go.

[Strongman]

Most systems would handle it okay ...
If you wanted to use CP2020 as written, you could track down a copy of the Fuzion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzion) rules and incorporate them.

As an alternative, Hero has some rules in Star Hero for cybernetics and some fan built CP2020 on their boards (https://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29816&page=2).

Using M&M would also be simple, especially if you have the Iron Age book (as it gives some great ideas on a darker campaign) or access to the boards, as one thread talks about Shadowrun (http://www.atomicthinktank.com/viewtopic.php?t=16028&highlight=cyberpunk) while the other looks at CP2020 (http://www.atomicthinktank.com/viewtopic.php?t=27694
highlight=cyberpunk)

But for the most part, any system will do :)
Iron Age book? Is this worth getting? While I'm not totally sold on the M&M system, I love the ideas that they present and the format of the products. I just haven't been in a hobby store in a while.

[Sketchpad]

Iron Age book? Is this worth getting? While I'm not totally sold on the M&M system, I love the ideas that they present and the format of the products. I just haven't been in a hobby store in a while.

IA was a good book. Not the best IMO, but I'm not a big IA fan. It has some great info on the genre and offers some advice on how to run a game with it.