i am in love with this very obscure setting and technical supplement for the Cyberpunk pencil’n’paper RPG i just picked up

HardWired is an entirely different setting from the base game, with entirely different rules and history based on a series of books by Walter Jon Williams. what blows me away is its faithful adaptation of 80s and 90s hacking: telcos, modems, bulletin board systems, sysops, and LANs

it even has a fully implemented BASIC interpreter (including file I/O!) called EBASIC that functions exactly as you’d imagine: you write scripts, read them aloud to the DM, and the DM inteprets them in realtime. 😂

#rpg #cyberpunk #ttrpg

@vga256 Dang, I remember reading this one as a wee young lad back in the day, this and the recently re-published Web of Angels by John M Ford… Good times!
@GrumpusNation wow! i completely missed this book series in the day
@vga256 I specifically remember a scene of the HardWired dude in "cyberspace" borrowing vast sums of money for fractions of a second for some kind of purpose… The ultimate day trader!