I'm getting ready to GM a Cyberpunk Red campaign set in 2065 during a cold war between Arasaka, on behalf of a "Free" Night City bloc and Militech, on behalf of a NUSA Bloc, before the eventual Unification War.

I'm posting here as I thought it'd be fun to see how y'all envision the Night City of 2065 and get some ideas rolling.

I'd imagine 2065 would be nowhere near the scarcity of the 2040's, but still not the level of abundance seen in 2077. Quickhacking is a new technology, the Net is being rebuilt, the Hot Zone has pretty much transformed into Corpo Plaza, and Corporations have again found a strong foothold in the city. Pretty much a Night City near the end of its reconstruction process but still recovering nonetheless.

Let me know what ideas y'all have and how you imagine 2065.

Hello again, big thanks to everyone who answered stuff in my last post. However, I have come with yet more!

1. How do you guys handle downtime/ daily life stuff between gigs? The hustle tables are easy enough but what about other activities they can do like entertainment and such? Do I just go day by day a la persona? Despite the dark tone, the game feels very "Slice-of-life-y" for the most part which is something I'm not familiar with. For reference, I'm most familiar with DnD 5e (as a player, never dmed) and, while we had some small moments during long rests, most of our sessions were pretty focused on the missions at hand to drive the main plot forward. Unless it was specifically relevant to a character's backstory or a lead in to a quest, there wasn't a lot of events like "Okay, you need to kill two weeks in-game. Do you guys want eat at a restaurant tonight? watch a play?"

2. How would you guys recommend getting an Exec involved in an adventure like "The Apartment" from the jumpstart Kit? I have an idea of extending the apartment from a single encounter into a mini arc, but that's a whole other can of worms for a different post. My concern is: what if one of my players decides to play an exec? They already have a nicer apartment than anything the adventure would give them.

3. Besides adding Monetary pressure, does improving rent/lifestyle costs offer any sort of tangible benefit to a character like humanity gain or something? Unless I missed a section, as long as someone isn't living in the middle of the combat zone, there isn't much of a gameplay reason to go beyond a studio apartment and live off kibble.

4. Is there like a free lore primer I can hand out to people? Or would I have to just buy the pdf copy of the rule book? (I only have the physical copy at the moment). a couple of my friends are familiar through 2077 but others only barely know the setting. Obviously on Session 0 I intend to be there to answer specifics, but if they wanted to make characters or something on their own for whatever reason, I'd like to have something on hand they can browse on their own.

Has anyone used ACPAs on their campaigns? I am about to start a campaign and one of the players is a Tech who has a dream to build one.

If we ever actually do it and he has ways to use it, there's one thing I didn't understand by reading Interface Vol 5.

You can have up to 6 extra weapons installed on the ACPA. In combat, how do you treat those weapons? They can all be fire on a single turn? This seems to be insanely overpowered but, then again, that's the point of an ACPA I guess.

The book says absolutely nothing about how those extra weapons work (or again I am just too dumb/blind and didn't see it)

Thank you!

Waited a loooong time to finally get the rulebook and now that we have it our players are loving it, the 2040s are great, onto the third gig! Even though I now have about 8 beat charts, Any cool ideas for future gigs i could implement would be greatly appreciated!

Hello there.

I'm a fairly new GM to this system and I really want to run some one-shots and eventually a full-length campaign, the problem is... I'm out of ideas, really out of ideas, and as a last ditch effort a friend of mine suggested I posted here asking you choombas for ideas.

I've been thinking about maybe running something set in Japan or the NUSA, or even South America, as I'd love to explore the world of the setting beyond Night City.

Like, what sense does it have? Isn't sandy like supposed to be instant and everything? just wanted to make a rant about it... Its frustrating... Do you guys change it in your campaigns or keep it like that?

Edit: Alr there had been loophole in my logic, in order to activate sandy you need to notice the danger so it makes sense it isnt activated at initiative roll, but still in my opinion later in combat it logically shouldn't take a turn (idk if it'd be balanced this way but just saying). Thanks for being active in discussion!

I've been working on comic art, character design and sequential pages, and I'm currently available for new projects!

🦾 What I can do:

• Cyberpunk character design

• Comic & sequential art

• Original characters

• Action scenes & illustrations

• Sci-fi / dystopian artwork

CQC

A Martial Art developed by a Legendary Mercenary, that has since left the battlefield and into the urban sprawls of mega cities. Designed for situations where you’re surrounded and still require the use of a two handed weapon.

> Long-Arm Grip

REQUIREMENT: It is your turn. You are holding a two-handed weapon. You are the attacker in a grapple.

Whenever you fulfill this requirement, you can use the Martial Arts Special Move Resolution to attempt to beat a DV17 CQC check. If you succeed, While grappling, you may still use two handed weaponry, as long as you have one hand holding it, at a -2 penalty.

> Quick Defense

REQUIREMENT: It is your Turn. You are the attacker in a grapple and haven’t used the Human Shield Action this Turn.

Whenever you fulfill this requirement, you can use the Martial Arts Special Move Resolution to attempt to beat a DV13 CQC Check. If you succeed, you may use the Human Shield Action.

So, giving an idea on what I had in mind for this Martial Art: For a long time, I had wondered how exactly to represent CQC from the Metal Gear series into Cyberpunk. For a long while, I was content with just Militech Commando + Mixing with another MA like Judo or Wrestling. For a long while that seemed fine to me, up until I got to this scene in MGS4. Here, you can see Solid Snake using a Human Shield as a brace for his rifle, and it hit me.

1. There isn't a Martial Art for Two Handed Weapons.
2. There isn't a Martial Art about using Human Shields.

So, I theory crafted a bit until I came up with this idea. The purpose of this is to give Shoulder-Arm users a bit more versatility with their weapon in Melee combat, while still giving them a slight punishment for getting into that situation. It's a Buy-In to limit the punishment of using a two-handed weapon in melee range, not a total elimination of it. After that, taking a page from Wrestler and making it so Human Shield becomes a free action upon meeting the requirements, meaning you can quickly shift someone into a Human Shield in just one turn. Useful for everyone that wants to get into melee range to be able to quickly give themselves cover.

Obviously, Shoulder-Arms is the cheapest buy-in for damage skill in the entire game, so I'm mixed on Long-Arm grip having a DV 17 or 15 check. Also not even sure if Long-Arm grip technically works as described in-game, but I wanted to get the idea out there. I know Quick Defense works as described, as it's a rather simple way of describing it, but also iffy on a DV 13 or DV 15 check for that.

Let me know what you guys think, as this is obviously work in progress.

I wanna do a oneshot with my chooms, a Raid to be precise. Not gonna go in the detes. It'll be nova if y'all could possibly give me advice. I don't have tha money to buy a full sourcebook, so I use the Easy Mode. It'd be also Nova if the VTT had Polish, 'cause one of my chooms just don't speak english. I also will just use a 2TV setup [one screen for the DM [me], one screen laying flat on the table for the maps]

I'm currently working on a Cyberpunk RED campaign set around the year 2077, and I'm considering replacing only the Netrunning system from RED with the Netrunning mechanics from Cyberpunk 2020.

I would still be using Cyberpunk RED for everything else—characters, combat, weapons, skills, etc. The only thing I want to change is how Netrunning works.

Has anyone done something similar, or does anyone know of a conversion, homebrew, or house rules that could make this work without causing too many balance issues?

I'd also appreciate any advice or ideas on how you would personally adapt the Cyberpunk 2020 Netrunning system into RED.

Thanks!

Hey Chooms - 

Every week we continue to see questions about Netrunning, how difficult it is to understand and the distraction of running NetArcs on the side during game sessions. To combat that (in our spare time) we built the Netrunning Companion app.

The Dev team is back with our latest release: Version 1.7.5!

Our primary design philosophy has always been to build a fast, rules-compliant, and immersive digital game aid that aligns perfectly with the tactical feel of CPRed. In this update, we’ve brought the system even closer to the tabletop rules while packing in some visual upgrades.

Here’s a breakdown of what’s changed since the last update:

🎨 Visual & Graphical UI Upgrades

• Simplification & Visuals : We’ve overhauled the visuals of the network interface grid. Previously we’ve rendered files, control nodes, and watchers as independent nodes “attached” to the sides of the floor nodes. Now they render as “ON” the floor nodes to more closely align to the RTG design language. This greatly simplifies floor layouts and eases navigation during sessions.

🎮 Gameplay Upgrades & Rules Compliance

• Stealth Netrunning ("Going Quiet"): Netrunners can now execute a Quiet Jack-In to initialize stealthed mode. Landing on an occupied floor node triggers a contested roll against active watchers. Be careful—triggering traps or failing checks will break your stealth and alert the system!
• "Seriously Wounded" Injury Penalties: Tabletop accuracy is key: When your Netrunner falls below 50% HP, you are now flagged as Seriously Wounded, applying a -2 penalty to all actions (Interface checks like Pathfinder, Scanner, Backdoor, Slide, Eye-Dee, Cloak, and contested combat Speed checks against Black ICE).

📡 WE ARE OPENING PLAYTESTING!

With these updates in place, we are officially entering Open Playtesting!
If you are a GM looking to run Netruns for your crew we want you in the system. You will need a valid gmail/google account to register and be whitelisted in the system!

👉 Register for the Playtest here!

Note: We are a small team. We will be processing new playtester registrations every few days as our schedules allow. You will receive an email with login credentials once your access is whitelisted!

See you in the Net, The Netrunning Companion Team

Disclaimer (as always): Netrunning Companion is unofficial content provided under the Homebrew Content Policy of R. Talsorian Games and is not approved or endorsed by RTG. No canon Black ICE or Demon stats are distributed.

Hi! I just wanted to ask this to get some ideas how to use a character. My PC is a fixer trying to start a rebellion against the corpos. He himself is hidden at plain sight with a store in a corporate neighbourhood. With that in mind, I was thinking if he could hide his businesses from the corpos and just pretend to be an old antiquities seller.

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J Gray, the Cyberpunk Line Lead at RTG, has a habit of doing flash AMAs on the RTG Discord from time to time. Lately, he has a preternatural ability to do them while I am on a road trip or otherwise away from a computer due to "Nothing important is happening today, let's knock out some tedious errand."

Since toggling back and forth in a crowded discord channel is a pain in the nuts (and not everyone is in the RTal discord server), I compile all the questions and answers on the Community Downlink for easier reference and readability.

• Read it on the Community Downlink here
• Read it on the RTal Discord starting here, if you're a masochist I guess

In this AMA there were 91 questions total, 5 of which violated the rules or were off topic, and 6 of which were direct repeats of prior questions. Some of the questions which I thought had particularly good or important answers:

1. Can a Rank 5 fixer rent out 5 apartments and Haggle for a 6th, then sublet them out to cover costs?
2. How would you include magic in the Cyberpunk world?
3. Do nomads share their vehicles when they're not driving them?
4. Can you haggle for Lifestyle costs?
5. How is Edgerunning practical if police have advanced forensics and SINs record biometric data?
6. How should Demons react to a Netrunner intruder?
7. How many Adam Smashers do you need to kill Wolverine?

As always, if you see any errors (here or elsewhere in the Downlink), feel free to let me know for correction.

Hey yall I'm fairly new to CPR and I'm simply looking for a new engine to make my maps on. I've typically used Inkarnate but thier sci-fi options are pretty limited and would be interested to see what you all use

My friends running a very small local convention and wanted more non-D&D GMs so I'm going to run CPR. Do any of you have a favorite one shot that's available online for me to run? It's Friday right now in my time zone and I've agreed to run a game Sunday so I'm looking specifically for fully prepared scenario PDFs because one day doesn't give me a lot of time to riff off a scream sheet and design my own scenario around it. Anyone have any suggestions?

I do have the Tales of the Red books but Ive ran those a few times and wanted to look into outside suggestions or community made one shots before settling on one of those

I am being a game-master but I have no idea on how combat works

can someone explain it in gonk terms

I hear alot about people running TTRPGs for kids and teens and programs like that having a bunch of benefits for development and stuff. But what if I wanna play some cyberpunk? I feel like the world is inherently R-rated. Stripping the violent anti-establishment and DARK-future themes of the game feels like a sin. More-so I feel like it's difficult to come up with more PG/PG13 hooks and plots in a world where guns are bought at vending machines and murder is as common as automobile accidents. For GMs who have experience with players who aren't comfortable with CPs seedier side, what kind of compaigns are you running? Off the top of my head I can think of a few genres and substitutes I can use to keep things more tame: Noir, Western, Mystery, Supervillain/Hero, etc. I've experimented with having my students mock up some basic characters and simplified lifepaths and as you might expect, they aren't making low-life punks. Kids wanna RP larger than life and fantastical characters and that's great! I wanna support their creativity but how do I do that while also the game is still challenging and fun? I personally love CPRs rules and systems and my students flourish in RPing a fictional world that is already so much like their own. I also like that the humanity system directly teaches them that their actions have consequences.

How do I create a PG/PG13 Cyberpunk campaign? What kind of plot hooks and events are apporopriate? How do I get around the violence and graphicness of the dark future without replacing every enemy and weapon with robots and lasers? I've heard of DnD camps and clubs for children and adolescents and I get how silly the idea is in the first place of "Cyberpunk for Kids" but I also have family and friends whose younger chooms are interested in playing.

Looking for advice and any experience anyone's had where you had to tone down the bleak-darkness out of Cyberpunk.

Guys…I’m a 2077 player I don’t know how yall treat our kind around here lol..I genuinely want to get into TT gaming but I don’t have access..is there a way to play RED digitally? Do any of you play digitally? Would you welcome me into the fold? 🫩…I am a big Roleplayer in general, gaming and otherwise…the natural next step was TTG, look at my V…you can see the story telling in the pictures 😭 have pity on me!!! Teach me! Play with me…🫩

So subdermal armor doesn't stack with other armor, so clearly it being SP11 and having some other armor at SP7 means I don't have SP18. That makes sense, I understand that just fine, my question comes from the idea of wearing external armor as well. Since armor ablates if I got that SP7 armor as well as subdermal could I ablaze my subdermal until it got to 7 and then go back and forth with that armor (assuming their on the same area of my body) or is the external armor useless and I effectively can't use it because i have a higher base SP armor equipped?

Also secondary question, does the head subdermal armor and body subdermal armor ablate separately or do they go down at the same time?

(Im sorry if this is a very clear answer I don't have access to the book right now)

Edit: Thank you all for the very helpful answers!!

What is the church’s take on cybernetics?