The Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime was so in style it is invading the tabletop RPG subsequent
On: November 10, 2022
Studio Set off’s anime collection Cyberpunk: Edgerunners appears to have revitalized lots of people’s curiosity in Evening Metropolis as a setting, with mods primarily based on it taking up Cyberpunk 2077’s mod scene and now writer R. Talsorian saying a Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Mission Package for the tabletop RPG.
R. Talsorian says the package can be “Made together with CD PROJEKT RED utilizing the Cyberpunk RED tabletop roleplaying game engine”. It sounds just like the form of introductory set geared toward gamers who’re new to the pen-and-paper RPG, just like the Cyberpunk Purple Jumpstart Package was. “The Cyberpunk Edgerunners Mission Package will guide followers of the collection new to tabletop roleplaying via the method of telling their very own tales in Evening Metropolis”, the announcement says. “On the similar time, current gamers of Cyberpunk RED will get their first glimpse into the cyberware, firepower, and netrunning abilities of the 2077 period.”
Whereas Cyberpunk Purple is about within the 12 months 2045, with the nuclear fallout of the Fourth Company Battle nonetheless staining the sky, R. Talsorian has mentioned it plans to publish a e book detailing the setting within the videogame’s timeline too. “There can be a full 2077 sourcebook down the road as properly”, the writer mentioned on Twitter.
Our senior editor Wes Fenlon loved Edgerunners, saying the anime collection made him need to give Cyberpunk 2077 one other shot. “I used to be shocked by how a lot its little snapshots of life in Evening Metropolis pulled me in”, he wrote. “Early on David saunters via his block on the best way to highschool with the precision of somebody who’s stepped over the identical drunk, dodged the identical pile of puke, and brought the identical shortcut a thousand instances; it instantly jogged my memory of leaving V’s condo in Cyberpunk 2077, however it’s a lot more practical to look at than to play.”
No launch date for the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Mission Package was introduced. It is “at present in growth and extra data can be forthcoming within the close to future”, R. Talsorian says.
