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There should be a section on the first edition of Cyberpunk. Does anyone have the original material to help verify material? --
Rossumcapek02:15, 23 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Should we have 3 pages (one for each of the editions)? I don't think so, but the name of the page actually refers to the 2nd edition. (first ed. was "Cyberpunk 2013"...)
Tajoman02:30, 23 March 2006 (UTC)reply
I think this page should move to
Cyberpunk (role-playing game) with material on all three editions. 2020 came out only a few years after 2013, and 203X only has the one book thus far; While 2020 has more material, it's impossible to talk about one edition without discussing and incorporating the others.
Rossumcapek06:39, 31 March 2006 (UTC)reply
I think that sounds like a good idea. I think we should still have the CP2020 page, but have it be an "alias" (ie, have it redirect automatically) to the Cyberpunk Rpg page... I guess that would work alright. If we find that we start to have to much to say about a particular edition, then we could split the page into one per edition. Right?
Tajoman22:11, 31 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Sorry for the edit, added a link to 2013 because I wanted more info on it before checking the discussion page... Gomez 01:54, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
I concur with all the above, it makes sense for a relatively small RPG franchise to be discussed all within one article. --
Agamemnon207:44, 21 April 2006 (UTC)reply
While having them all in one place makes sense for convenience, 2020 definately has the largest fan base.
Wisdom000 23:55, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Er... there's something wrong indeed. The first edition (1988) was called "Cyberpunk" only and not "Cyberpunk 2013". The suffix 2013 only came later to differentiate it from the second edition, "Cyberpunk 2020". Until this new edition, no one ever talked about CP as CP2013. —Preceding
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81.57.187.76 (
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23:55, 15 April 2010 (UTC)reply
Sure you could, Aggy, but that wouldn't be very nice. Sure, BH3 is my own site, but I was hoping to be able to link to other CP3 sites in addition to mine in the links portion of the page.
The HellHound 101
Other than your site Hound, the only V3 sites I have come across have been yahoo clubs and the like, none of them ever seemed very active either.Wisdom000 23:54, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
BlackHand & SilverHand
I'm removing the reference to Morgan Blackhand & Johnny Silverhand being brothers because I haven't been able to find a reference to it in any of the cyberpunk 2020 literature. If anyone has a reference for this, cite it please. --
The HellHound 10104:20, 24 February 2007 (UTC)reply
I very much doubt one exists. Both of them have their full statblocks written out multiple times in the books, and this bit of history has never surfaced in them. --
Agamemnon207:43, 24 February 2007 (UTC)reply
I suggest the subsection is split off into its own article, as it's getting to be quite weighty, and would add to the clarity of the CP2020 article, as well as allow for more information on the Cybergeneration products to be added. --
Agamemnon217:34, 22 July 2007 (UTC)reply
The carbon plague is explicitly mentioned as part of the 203X timeline under 2020 along with it's attendant side effects of cyberevolution on kids, so it's part of the same core timeline and setting. Just FYI.
I took out this sentence "The fictional timeline, trying to depict an early 21st century from a 1980s perspective, contains some anachronisms such as not foreseeing the adoption of
cell phones as the preferred mode of communication." This is a reference to William Gibson saying his early books seemed strange because there were no cellphones. However, Cyberpunk 2020 does have cellphones. --
Mujokan (
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16:59, 30 September 2011 (UTC)reply
Timeline section is problematic
The setting timeline takes way, way, way too much space, is utterly trivial and should not exist in its present form. If reference is to be made to the specific events in the setting timeline, they need to be seriously condensed from the current year-by-year listing. --
Agamemnon2 (
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19:34, 6 June 2012 (UTC)reply
The location of Night City on the map also appears to be near Marina, CA. However, the Cyberpunk creator has said that the actual location is Morro Bay, CA:
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"I'm surprised that this is news; I wrote this out years ago and it's no secret. I picked the location because it matched the general terrain and geology I wanted, and was at a choke point on the Cali coast that would be perfect for the Free State. The names were generally picked out of a hat from all the places I've lived in California over the years--there's no real rhyme or reason there.
Here's a reconstruction of what I was doing back then in 1980-something...
https://ibb.co/crT0j7
Yes, the Rock is to the very north of Night City in my original design. I just didn't point it out at the time. In my personal campaigns, it's been built into a fortress/arcology kind of like a mini Gibraltar. But your mileage may vary.
However, remember that Night City is a heavily fictionalized locale and there's no reason that the end result has to look like Morro Bay. I've given CDPR plenty of room to mess with stuff as they see fit. So don't take this musing about a 30 year old decision too seriously, neh?" - therealmaxmike (R. Talsorian Games)
There was also a J2ME 2D platformer game named Cyberpunk: Arasakas's Plot by Mayhem Studio. All official links on game or studio websites are now dead unfortunately. It was released in 2007 as this[1] page says, and there is no cached version of their old site because it made in Flash.
I added it to the 'Video Game' section. — Preceding
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82.208.126.122 (
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17:37, 4 April 2017 (UTC)reply
There are now secondary sources linking to BoardGameGeek, ComicBook.com, Dicebreaker, Meeple Mountain, Polygon, RPGGeek and RPGnet. I believe it is now suitably encyclopedic, and that we can remove the Refimprove and Primary sources notices. Any thoughts, please?
Hexene (
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17:56, 23 May 2020 (UTC)reply
Currently notes on the game setting and game mechanics are beneath the headings for the first and second editions of the game. I propose extracting essentially universal details out into their own sections. The sections for each edition would keep information unique to that edition (fictional timeline for example).
Hexene (
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19:46, 30 April 2020 (UTC)reply
I see a LOT of articles in the Category:Cyberpunk (role-playing game), but I didn't see any kind of
navbox for the bottom of the pages. Would anyone be opposed to me building one?
StevePrutz (
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14:48, 15 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Specifically for this game category? Honestly most of those articles should probably be deleted as non-notable. The supplements fail general Wikipedia notability standards and realistically shouldn't have articles. I don't have the heart to nominate them, but if someone else comes along half the articles in RPGs in general should likely be gotten rid of as non-notable.
Canterbury Tailtalk20:11, 15 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Well science fiction is the general overall genre. Ultimately rather than dystopian it's quite clearly, Cyberpunk. All depends on whether we want to use the top level genre or a specific sub-genre. Dystopian is not the right answer in my mind. For the opening sentence I'd actually use science-fiction here.
Canterbury Tailtalk13:19, 10 March 2021 (UTC)reply
How many Cyberpunk 2020 books and supplements were there?
I believe the statement that there were six Cyberpunk 2020 novels is false, so I've marked it as "Citation needed". I believe there were only two novels specifically written for 2020. Goodreads.com lists them, The Ravengers (1995) and Holo Men (1996), both by Stephen Billias.
Hexene (
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21:17, 10 March 2021 (UTC)reply