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'''''Cyberpunk''''' is a [[Cyberpunk]] ([[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|duh]]) tabletop game written by Mike Pondsmith and published by R. Talsorian Games that was first released in 1988.
An Earth, somewhat divergent from our own. Central American conflict, European disagreement with the [[The United States|US]] on the matter of the [[Soviet Russia, Ukraine, and So On|Soviet Union]], meddling by an American [[Government Conspiracy]], and various disasters combine to leave the world in a worse state than [[Real Life]], albeit one with more advances in biological and cybernetic augmentation. Into the chaos and void left by collapsed societies and governments step various corporations, who are quite happy to minimise intervention in the following decades of lawlessness so long as they can turn a healthy profit.
The core of this setting focuses on "Night City", a fictional metropolis between [[Los Angeles]] and [[San Francisco]] on the US west coast. It is a [[Wretched Hive]] like a caricature of capitalism's worst excesses, where corporations and gangs thrive under a toothless government while everyone else struggles in the dirt.
One of ''Cyberpunk'''s unique features is its attempt to avert [[RPGs Equal Combat]]. Instead of all Roles (its equivalent of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' character classes) being different approaches to combat, many Roles have special abilities not directly intended for fighting (for brevity's sake, this only covers those in ''2013''):
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* Techie: Mechanicians and Technicians who can Jury Rig equipment and Scrounge what they need. Includes Medical Technicians specialised in the surgical ways.
* ''Cyberpunk'' (also ''2013'') (1988)
* ''Cyberpunk 2020'' (1990)
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