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High praise indeed... Thanks man.

Absolutely brilliant work! I love this!!

And El Presidente of the Disunited Kingdom is over there, suckling on those bloated orange teats.

Anyone know where I can get some sweet braindance from? Thinking of jacking-in for the next few years…

A little supplemental material inspired by Comp's Wage Slave posts:

http://neuralarchive.blogspot.co.uk/2017/0...ontractors.html

Today's update is about the release of Augmented Reality in dead tree format.

http://neuralarchive.blogspot.co.uk/2017/0...ty-kit-now.html

Doesn't have to work on the fly. An NPC book would more likely be used pre-game.

A funky NPC generator book might be the way forward. Character types defined by tables to create NPC psychology, appearance, motivation, load out, augmentations, expertise, contacts etc. is the way I'd tackle it. GMs could then stat them up for their system of choice.

As far as setting books go, smaller scale might be the way to go, much like Comp suggested. It could either cover the central districts of a city, area by area, or focus right down and just cover an arcology, a hab stack tower, a gated community or nogo zone. That way, GMs could just drop it in to their existing campaign world.

Something similar could also be done for net environments or VR nodes. Maybe…

I asked a similar question on G+ and even got 'rewrite CP2020'! Zak S made a suggestion of a 'complex, detailed adventure generator' which again could be lots of weird tables. Trouble is, there's a few decent ones out there already.

Any more thoughts?

Some sort of NPC 'builder' might be fun.

Or, as I've been using descriprions for my own purposes in CP2020, make it even simpler, rigid tiered system:

- amateurs (skill at +1 to +3 in Interlock)

- professionals (skill at +4 to +6 - those who use it at professional level)

- experts (skill at +7 to +9)

- masters (skill at +10, obviously a rare sight).

I like that. Covers many systems.

Also, someone on G+ suggested a location sourcebook (a full blown city I assume) and a 'modernising' or new Chromebook variant. Both are HUGE jobs though, particularly a setting book!

What kind of project do you have in mind?

What would be fun to work on and have the most utility for cyberpunk GMs? What's missing/unavailable?

That's as beautiful as I imagined...

 

Quite aside from the content itself, the cover is amazing. Like what every Pat Cadigan novel artist aspired to but never achieved

 

I'm glad I could pester someone into creating something beautiful!

Wow. High praise indeed. Thanks! Bot I couldn't have done it without you guys.

Next project?

Cheers! That means a lot.

Many thanks gomiville!

It's out now in free PDF format.

http://neuralarchive.blogspot.co.uk/2017/0...ur-reality.html

Be gentle…

I've released the beast.

http://neuralarchive.blogspot.co.uk/2017/0...ur-reality.html

Last blog post of the year has gone live and concerns hackable assets.

http://neuralarchive.blogspot.co.uk/2016/1...r-is-buggy.html

Love 'em! Thanks!

I've tweaked both tables (only) slightly for the city kit, but cheers, that makes me very happy! Also added a device history table…

The latest update to the blog talks about the gang table:

http://neuralarchive.blogspot.co.uk/2016/1...miscreants.html

Nice one! I'll see what I can pilfer from that. Same goes for the linked vid.

@Companero, I may just do that, but it'll be more like a Wage Slave 3.5…

Oh, and here's an update. It's a gang table.

Gig work:

What's The Agent Got Lined Up For Me Today?

1. Drone Recovery - trace and recover downed courier drones

2. Data Input - mind numbingly tedious

3. Dataterm Cleaner - DTs often used as a urinal…

4. Gig Groomer (persuades others to sign on)

5. Graffiti Hoser - clean up and removal

6. Drug Trial - neutraceuticals, pain killers, DeStress Xpress, productivity drugs etc.

7. Vendomat Restocker

8. Mobile AR 'Augvertising' Hub - body rig with AR projectors outputting adverts as you wander around

9. Human Security Camera (optics required, must allow remote access)

10. Public Branding Spammer/Human Troll - promotes a product, brand or political ideology publicly to strangers

Not entirely happy with some of these, but it gives you an idea.

Doh. Yeah... I knew that.

Honest.

Comp, I'd love to see your take on future sexuality - maybe something to consider for your blog?

@ Cabbie table:

Check your main roll. Even= male, odd= female.

The problem with that is that each entry has both odd and even numbers!

Hence gender being the GM's choice.

Also, there are too many nationalities there, you'd be hard pressed to tell, say, Kashmiri from Pakistani from Afghan from Uzbek at times (or Libyan from Syrian from Lebanese...). Also, this implies there are no cabbies who are local (wherever your campaign is happening).

I do see your point. But, the nationalities can be completely ignored if the GM wishes. They're there if you want them. If the PCs are in Tokyo for example, it would be very unlikely the taxi driver was not Japanese. None of the tables I am creating have to be taken literally. They're there to spark ideas, not to constrain.

Freaky cabbies and more previewed.

And today, I show the digital world my filthy cabbies table from the WIP city kit.

http://neuralarchive.blogspot.co.uk/2016/1...nd-hookers.html

Still here.

And I'm looking for ideas on the following:

10 or more (upto 50 max) 'Gig Economy' style jobs - the kind of job you get hired on for through your agent for only one or two days - the more future-specific, the better.

Any ideas on hackable assets - stuff you could sift and search for at street level or inside a building's foyer, using a cybermodem.

And I'm looking to do a table of 50 items you'd find on a corpse - small items in their pockets, packs etc. - again, they need to be quirkily futuristic.

Have at it chaps!