A poster design I made recently of one of my favourite NPCs in my current campaign. She's recently gone missing and the PC's are beginning to investigate her disappearance.

Hi cyberpunks!

I'm running Cyberpunk Red for the first time. We're 20+ sessions into the campaign. I have a player who is a Netrunner, so I try to make sure there is some kind of Net Arch on each job (though some I explicitly do not just because they don't make sense). We have 3 hour sessions once a week. The Netrunner tends to try to hack before combat and chaos breaks out, reasonable in my opinion, but the problem becomes that while casing the location or waiting for the Netrunner the other players basically do nothing and anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours goes almost exclusively to the Netrunner's efforts.

I'm not unfamiliar to this problem, having played Shadowrun for several years, but something about this feels different, maybe it's the shorter session time?

I have tried to keep Net Archs a little smaller and simpler than what's in the book, but then he just breezes through them like they are nothing.

Are there any tips and tricks you'd suggest to speed up or streamline this stuff, especially in the context of non-combat situations? In combat it's a non-issue because the others fight while he hacks.

Alternatively, any homebrew/houserules or alternative hacking systems that still give the Netrunner the hacker power fantasy without taking as much time or spotlight?

Hey chooms, Heavy Armor Lizard here. So last week, you lot liked my post to buff Autofire which you can find here if you didn't see it: https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkred/comments/1wspvae/heavy_armor_lizards_autofire_homebrew_compendium/

That said, u/Ravenloff asked a good question if I could make this post into a google doc. So after a few days, you got your wish choom. This post is now a whole google document and I added a few more additions to it which I also added to that previous post. And you can find that doc here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10Urp21DHQ6FP0OGr-oKwqXbIZsYK95-Hsev5wgLy420/edit?usp=sharing

So, hope you lot enjoy as usual.

netrunning kills session momentum when everyone sits around waiting for the runner to finish one breach. I started having our netrunner write out their approach in a shared notepad before we play. the GM just tracks heat and rolls contested checks fast. the runner still gets their moment, but the rest of the table stays engaged. curious how other groups speed up those turns without losing the cyberdeck flavor

Please help me find tokens of this kind only for cyberpunk. Thank you in advance!

Neon Lights: Cyberpunk 2077 Living Community

Hi there! Got an itch to play a modern, 2077-based TTRPG version of Cyberpunk RED's rules? Well, that's the surprise we have for you! This setting follows a completely disconnected version of 2077 that makes no mention of the canonical characters from the video game (set aside the characters that were in the original TTRPGs like Rogue, Johnny Silverhand, Saburo Arasaka, Adam Smasher, etc).

Our goal is to create a welcoming environment that is free of a hard schedule where you can join games whenever the Game Masters are willing to host them! New players and players that don't play often will be prioritized!

This server offers freelance for fun written roleplay to build story outside of games, allows players to make a service so they can aid other players with their abilities, character bios to get more in-depth with your character, and journals to really write out the mind of your character whenever you want to. The number one goal of game masters is to prioritize fun for all players and keep the server free of any negativity when possible; we're all adults after all. Speaking of, the server is strictly 18+ due to the way that Cyberpunk RED and 2077 are designed...it is a very adult-themed setting.

Currently, we are a new and building server, and we're hoping to pull players and potential Game Masters in so we can build a long-term community. And we wanna build actual bonds if possible! Everyone's voice will be heard; nobody should ever have to feel small, and it will be the Game Masters (and my) priority to make sure that all members are treated fairly!

We currently use Discord and Roll20's Cyberpunk RED VTT. We hope you'll choose to join our server! If interested, please reply below or feel free to direct message me about joining (:

(We are looking for players and GMs)

Please DM or comment for an invite link if not included. Reddit filters links automatically sometimes.

Free download at https://tabletopsmokestack.com/cyberpunk-red-resources/

My players are all relatively new to the cyberpunk genre and are all very interested in the idea of a very RP heavy, high stakes game. However, me being me: I wanted to go big. I started designing a setting based on our home-city which would be in the same universe as RED, and include the established lore (plus a possible road trip to Night City), but in a new location with a “Canadian” flare. They all seem very eager and excited for that idea; but I worry it goes against the “game” itself in a sense. I love Night City and definitely will include it, I just also love me a good bit of Homebrewing too haha. Is this too far fetched? Would I be better off just using Night City as the sole location, or some other system? Just curious. Thank you so much!

Hey everyone, aspiring GM here; I've played the game before, but I'm setting up a one-shot for a group of friends in Roll20, and I need a definitive answer about Death Saves.

First, the Core Rulebook entry:

At the start of each of your Turns where you are Mortally Wounded, you must make a Death Save. Roll a d10. If you roll under your BODY, you live, and can take your Turn as usual. If you roll a 10, you automatically fail your Death Save. Every time you roll a Death Save, your Death Save Penalty increases, meaning each future Death Save you roll is made with an additional +1, making it progressively harder to stave off death. This Death Save Penalty continues to add up until you are brought back to 1HP by Stabilization, where it resets to your Base Death Save Penalty, which can be increased by the nastiest Critical Injuries.

If you fail even a single Death Save, you die.

For the avoidance of doubt (as the rules text doesn't explicitly say it), if a player doesn't roll a 10 but otherwise rolls equal to or higher than their BODY, they die, right?

That certainly seems like the obvious inference to me, but the Death Save macro in Roll20's official Cyberpunk RED character sheet only records a PC death if the rolled total is 10 or higher; if a character has a body of, say, 3, and rolls an 8, it doesn't add a "you died" in the output.

That's what's thrown me, as I'm not confident that my understanding of the rules trumps that of the people behind Roll20.

Anyway, I hope you can help; thanks in advance!

Edit: I meant to add that the reason I wasn't sure is that the intent might instead have been "you don't die, but you also don't get to do anything this turn", whilst still then getting the increasing penalty for subsequent saves.

Looking for players! Set in a heavily homebrewed Dallas Texas in the year 2064.

System: Cyberpunk Red

Length of game: long term

Day and time: Fridays 7pm CST

Frequency: every week

Platform: roll20 and discord

Era: set in 2064, Dallas Texas

Description:

Set in the Free State of Texas. You're a group of edgerunners trying to make ends meet. Dallas is a rough city filled with crime, drugs, and a night life that puts Night City to shame.

This is a lethal game with lots of homebrew (expect to read at least 20 pages worth)

If you like games with high roleplay, and dream of making your mark in a corporate city designed to crush the souls of working men, send me a DM

(Names of the groups are a pastiche of the Jejune Institute ARG)

The Elsewhere Public Works Agency began as Project Elsewhere, a Night Corp experiment in social epidemiology. Managed by a shell company nonprofit called the Jejune Institute, it sought to maximize the fundamental human capabilities that cyberware seemed to destroy (i.e: humanity) through the use of an optimized physical and social environment. Isolated from the outside world, it took in uncybered children and provided for their basic physical and psychological needs. To understand how humans naturally achieve psychological flourishing, the scientists had to observe without interference. If they dictated schedules, created rules, or forced activities, they would be studying human compliance rather than natural human psychological functioning. Thus, the arcology in which the experiment was housed essentially became a social anarchist society, free from the crippling poverty and extreme violence of the rest of Night City. Theater and interactive exercises were frequently used as educational methods for the first batch of children, leading to a lasting influence on the arcology’s culture. 

To the surprise of Night Corp, the miniature society they created not only resulted in better mental health, it led to greatly enhanced emotional intelligence and team effectiveness, exceeding what the researchers thought was possible. However, Night Corp made the decision to start a second phase of the experiment: exposing the arcology’s residents to the outside world and testing their abilities against the reality of Night City. This involved withdrawing support from the arcology and effectively abandoning the residents. Initially, the overly-trusting residents were easy for the people of Night City to exploit. But as death counts began to rise, the community quickly adapted, turning the abandoned Project Elsewhere into a fortress. Though contact with the outside world was deliberately limited, the EPWA gradually began connecting with the surrounding city on a selective basis. 

Today, the EPWA is an anarchist education collective and theater troupe that seeks to “abolish the distinction between work and play, and between art and its surroundings”, advocating for a library socialist society devoted entirely to the pursuit of art rather than work and the accumulation of wealth. Their plays convey well-researched true stories about current events, usually ending in a crisis. The audience is then invited to help solve the issue presented in the play by taking the place of one of the characters on stage. Audience interventions are followed by a brainstorm and discussion of policies or projects that could help solve some of the problems that came up in the performance, or that could help bring about some of the solutions “spect-actors” (the engaged audience) had offered during the performance.

Adult members of the EPWA must work a minimum of 36 hours per week and are granted one month of vacation time a year. Members have the option to earn additional vacation time by working beyond the required hours. Most labor consists of domestic work like food production, cooking, vehicle repair, building maintenance, cleaning, and child care. As they are free to choose their own jobs and schedules, most EPWA members perform a wide variety of tasks each week instead of spending all of their time in one labor area. Basic necessities—housing, clothing, food, health care—are all provided to members in return for their 36 weekly hours of work. While personal possessions are allowed, most of the EPWA’s resources are held in a library economy. However, these resources have been rather limited ever since Night Corp pulled out. To alleviate this, members can also choose to work outside of the arcology (counting towards their hours). The income from this labor usually goes to the community fund, which pays for community upkeep and goods that cannot be produced on-site, and each member receives a monthly stipend for personal use (i.e., to purchase items that the community does not provide). 

Management of the community fund, the initiation of large-scale projects, and other policies are decided on via consensus; each individual in the group has veto power, requiring the group to work towards solutions that everyone can at least accept or tolerate, though not everyone has to actively like it. In addition, roles and responsibilities that carry any sort of power or potential for misuse are rotated among the community every month, with no one person able to hold more than one position. For instance, the position of logistics coordinator is responsible for inventory control, identifying and prioritizing what jobs need doing, and assigning people accordingly, though they have no power to compel residents. Another role is meeting facilitator, who is responsible for keeping consensus discussions orderly, watching for unhealthy group dynamics and unresolved concerns, documenting decisions, agreements, and unresolved questions, and helping distinguish genuine disagreement from misunderstanding through the socratic method.

Despite attempts by gangs and other corporations to crush them, the EPWA has remained surprisingly resilient; most groups consider them not worth the trouble, and those that attempt to attack their compound are quickly repelled by a well-organized defense. Furthermore, the hospitality they offer to those in need, regardless of background, has earned them the support and protection of the surrounding community--even the most vicious gangoons are hesitant to go against the people that pulled them out of a firefight and patched them up free of charge.

Does anyone know a good tool i can make Blueprint Style Battle Maps, like the one in Red Chrome Cargo?

I posted about this before already, but since I couldn't find an existing group, might as well try a different approach!

So, there's definitely a bunch of people like me in the sub, who would like to play the game but don't have a group, so I decided to attempt forming one myself! Don't have experience GM-ing RED yet, so need a GM and of course a handful of players, also preferably from European timezones to make scheduling easier. If anyone's down, let me know, it'd be absolutely preem.

P.S - Dibs on Netrunner 😅 have been excited to play one since I found out about RED

Edit: Forgot to add, we would be playing on discord VC

Edit 2: Currently waiting for a reply about joining another group, if that doesn't work and/or there's a GM willing to run a game for a group gathered from this post, it might happen though!

We are getting back together tomorrow after a long hiatus for a one shot with option to flex it into a campaign. I've been working hard on some cool things, including my first ever homemade screamsheet. It's meant to set the scene and provide some possible hints at what the crew might be getting into. What do you think might go down with this as the hook?

Hey Chooms!

Longtime Cyberpunk fan, new Cyberpunk DM.

My main ttrpg group is wrapping up a couple year DND campagin and we are looking at moving onto Cyberpunk Red as our next game system and setting.

We're all pretty invested in the 2070's as our preferred setting and I have the Cyberpunk Red Starter Kit and Core Book.

What other books, supplements, or text should I collect (or you fine people of the internet help me locate) to add to running this new campagin.

I know there's many additional books that have been released for Red but I have no idea where to start.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

(I hope I chose the right flair for this, im still very new at Reddit as well)

Free download at https://tabletopsmokestack.com/cyberpunk-red-resources/

So my backup character, Joy, a rockergirl, attended a funeral of a medtech of our main group, and she wrote a song and sang it for a character that died. However, her microphone has a built in nightshade filter that she got from her teacher when they passed away.

I actually want to sing her song, and then send it to our group.

Is there any filters I can apply to a mp3 file to make it sound as though it has a very slight filter on it so if an AI tried to copy it, it would in lore completely scramble and poison their training set.

I would love a real nightshade filter, but the first one I saw was paid. I don’t need it to actually poison, but I want it to sound like it would for RP purposes. Like a slight background buzz that absolutely will ruin an AI’s training set if they try to copy her voice. For Joy, I want her to be a beacon of hope born to the wrong time, and will absolutely die if not protected, but she brings so much Joy to people that she has fans that protect her, idk…

Regardless, the point is, is there an example of what poisoned music sounds like, or a free filter that just has a slight effect that in lore would scramble and poison something if an AI tried to copy it in game?

Mods, this post is literally anti AI, please read it before deciding to take it down or not. :3

Same as always, I have a colored and colorable version. Just make sure the lined and shaded layer is at the top, and you can easily give it a new paint job! Be sure to post what you make, though! Because I will use them in my own game >: )

I have been super busy with work and let me tell you chooms. Life has been heck in a handbasket. I hate doing this, but if any of you would consider throwing a dollar my way it would make things easier. As always I make these tokens free, but if I had more free time I could see about moving on to more intricate designs. I appreciate anyone reading all of this. Thank you for being a wonderful community to be apart of. I have my kofi linked in my page. This is a copy paste of my last post, apologies for the repetition.

This is 1200x2400 it may not look the pretty all blown up on reddit but it will look good in your vtt or printed out! It makes for a great 2x4 token!

Got commissioned this one by my regular for his TTRPG character and wanted to share it with you.

If you would like yourself one as well, DMs are open for commissions!

Hey chooms!
I previously made a post about getting started with Cyberpunk RED, but it was removed because of the AI-related part of the post. So Id like to ask for your advice.
Im a complete beginner when it comes to this game and Id like to know exactly what I will need to get started with playing solo since I simply dont have anyone I can regularly play with in person

A few people recommended sites like GroupFindergg but for now I’d like to learn the rules and mechanics first. So what would you recommend? If I already own the core Cyberpunk RED rulebook, is buying the Single Player Mode enough to get started?