vga2564d ago

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

Show threadDavid Dunham4d ago

@vga256 I just checked, I have that. As well as another setting. I don’t think I played either sourcebook, but I was a big cyberpunk (the genre) fan.

If you’re collecting, I might have a few things to clear off my shelf…

Show threadvga256

@radiofreelunch so very kind of you to offer - but no, not collecting - just using these for research.

that's a very fascinating setting - I've read the novel series it is based on

Mar 18 at 12:40amWeb
Show threadDavid Dunham4d ago
@vga256 It looks like I no longer have either series, I downsized much of my fiction.