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Accidental Survivors: the Modern Gaming Podcast|Episode 043 - Cyberpunk'd Episode
WARNING: Instances of very strong language may offend some listeners.Accidental Survivors: the Modern Gaming PodcastAll music in podcast by Mindscape Music 1. News & Views
Rogue Trader, a game of
exploration and profit in the grim darkness of the far future of
Warhammer 40,000.Kazei 5 the
anime-cyberpunk setting for Hero System 6th Edition and Mutants and
Masterminds 2nd Edition. Modern20 is in print. 2. Feature - Cyberpunk'dSome of the things we talked about:Literature like the Sprawl Trilogy, Snowcrash, and Jennifer Government.
RPGs like Shadowrun, Cyberpunk 2020/Cyberpunk, and SLA Industries.Mass Media like Bubblegum Crisis, Blade Runner, and Ghost in the Shell 3. The HookDark Cauldron:
A hook for a modern or cyberpunk game, submitted by Chuck.
Dark Cauldron is the latest craze in online interactive gaming. In
fact, it's so interactive and addictive that one client, a wealthy
billionaire, wants you to take extreme measures to get his son away
from the game, which he calls a cult.
As a cyberpunk adventure, the game takes place in cyberspace and
the PCs will jack in remotely and attempt a rescue as fantasy avatars
of their normal personas. They will find that the company that runs the
game has dealt with "griefers" like them before, and has avatars with
safety protocols disengaged to deal with them. The PCs will have to
learn how to hack their avatars to be able to fight back, take out the
cyberguards, then talk some sense into the boy they're trying to rescue.
As a modern adventure, the game takes place at a "cafe", where
players sit back in specially made sofas looking up at large 3-d
displays and taking "herbal drinks" (that are drugged) that enhance the
experience. Again a physical conversation with the boy is impossible
and the PCs must enter the fictional world of the game to make contact
with him. And again, cyber-warriors in the game will try to stop them
and are capable of inflicting real damage, thanks to the PCs' drugged
state making everything seem real. Here, rather than hacking
the game for better chances in combat, the PCs realizing they are being
drugged and either getting off the substances, or spiking the guards'
cocktails will help even the odds.
Either way, once their client's son is free, he tasks them to go after the game's servers, taking it offline, permanently.
This will be a much more normal adventure, with the PCs either
using their tech savvy to permanently crash the game's servers, or
their skill at breaking and entering to deal with the problem more
directly, either through a well-placed bomb or perhaps something as low
tech as a big sledgehammer.
4. FeedbackIf you want to contact us, you can email us at accidental@swordsedgepublishing.ca
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You can find Fraser and Rob on Twitter. Chuck don't play that. And Chris is illiterate.
Hey You! Don't forget about
Rogue Trader and Kazei 5, both of which should be hitting the street around GenCon 2009!
[ Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:37:00 GMT ]
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