Studio Set off’s anime collection Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (opens in new tab) appears to have revitalized lots of people’s curiosity in Evening Metropolis as a setting, with mods primarily based on it taking on Cyberpunk 2077’s mod scene and now writer R. Talsorian asserting a Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Mission Package for the tabletop RPG.
R. Talsorian says the equipment will likely be “Made at the side of CD PROJEKT RED utilizing the Cyberpunk RED tabletop roleplaying recreation engine”. It sounds just like the sort of introductory set geared toward gamers who’re new to the pen-and-paper RPG, just like the Cyberpunk Crimson Jumpstart Package was. “The Cyberpunk Edgerunners Mission Package will information followers of the collection new to tabletop roleplaying by way of the method of telling their very own tales in Evening Metropolis”, the announcement says. “On the identical time, current gamers of Cyberpunk RED will get their first glimpse into the cyberware, firepower, and netrunning expertise of the 2077 period.”
Whereas Cyberpunk Crimson is about within the 12 months 2045, with the nuclear fallout of the Fourth Company Battle nonetheless staining the sky, R. Talsorian has stated it plans to publish a guide detailing the setting within the videogame’s timeline too. “There will likely be a full 2077 sourcebook down the road as properly”, the writer stated on Twitter (opens in new tab).
Our senior editor Wes Fenlon loved Edgerunners, saying the anime collection made him need to give Cyberpunk 2077 one other shot. “I used to be stunned by how a lot its little snapshots of life in Evening Metropolis pulled me in”, he wrote. “Early on David saunters by way of his block on the way in which to high school with the precision of somebody who’s stepped over the identical drunk, dodged the identical pile of puke, and brought the identical shortcut a thousand instances; it instantly jogged my memory of leaving V’s house in Cyberpunk 2077, nevertheless it’s a lot simpler to observe than to play.”
No launch date for the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Mission Package was introduced. It is “presently in growth and extra data will likely be forthcoming within the close to future”, R. Talsorian says.
