J Gray

Line Manager for Cyberpunk at R. Talsorian Games. Game writer/designer/layout artist/other stuff as needed.

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@dr3am1ngawak3 Have you tried solo play? There’s a supplement for that called Single Player Mode. You can pick it up on @DriveThruRPG .

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@GladeRiddenDeer Both, really.

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This misconception comes occasionally, so I thought I’d address it.

In Cyberpunk RED, medical grade cyberware (functional prosthetic arms, artificial hearts, etc) do not cause Humanity Loss. Neither does gender affirmation bodysculpting/surgery.

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@HornyTallarn I’m aware of the differences between editions, sure. On the other hand, 2020 didn’t cover medical implants because honestly, the writers at the time thought it was obvious. In RED we decided to spell it out.

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@FishmoderApril @lofibeatdown Those are great questions. In fact, those are questions cyberpunk as a genre was (at least in part) designed to ask. What is human and how does human interact with technology. The split-off transhumanity genre does the same. It’s an ongoing debate for sure.

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@KrazGuts No, not really. It’s also a nebulous term. When you can buy a pop-up shotgun from a hospital, what is military grade?

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@hrsprnt Medical grade cyberware can’t accept options, no. There are some exceptions. If it can be installed in a meat version it can be installed in a medical implant.
For example, ripppers.

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@SwagFish03 Biotechnica’s bioexotic packages usually include multiple cyberware pieces, all of which pushes beyond the human baseline, so it doesn’t. The packages, though, do cause tend towards Humanity Loss than the individual pieces would if installed separately.

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@Lord_Derpathon Afraid not, no. Also, most of Maelstrom isn’t so pure of ideology, in my opinion. They’re selfish about it, just like many others.

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@experimilk Even then, not if we classify it as Fashionware (which does, on occasion, give bonuses). In general, yes.

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@Piffinatour @Justwatching946 @Steven7735 @ChibisuKoshi @UMA_Nero No, you can still be homeless in RED.

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I wrote two new Cyberpunk REF missions for Gen Con 2026. One has light horror vibes and touches on a few classic tropes. The other is a retrieval mission with branching paths for GMs to follow. Feeling good about both.

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@nexilia_ Afraid that’s not a question for me to answer. At the moment anyway.

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Just wanna point out, Cyberpunk had AIs in it way back in the 1980s. Way before many modern TTRPGs. One of them was named Alt.

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@Jcstearnswriter It’s all good. I appreciate both the motivation behind the impulse and the deeper look.

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Weird things I have written into Cyberpunk canon:
* The birthdays of several legends. Alt Cunningham shares mine.
* A gang named after a weird phenomenon involving rats.
* A private furry club.
* An entire military base.
* A Raffen Shiv gang that eats toes like grapes.

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@wingland @TatenoKousetsu Ah! Yes. Thanks!

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@AlphanixYoutube That’s really for CD Projekt Red. I work on the tabletop game.

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Each of the four (2013, 2020, 2045, 2077) main eras of Cyberpunk are different in ways both subtle and blatant. Technology evolves. The world evolves. Language evolves. Eddies, for example, is 2077 slang while choombatta is rarely heard said by young people past 2020.

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@C2UXN3T Love the Devil’s Cut. Harry is a great character and the chance to do a mission that’s more heist than firefight is a delight.

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Night City 2045 is stuffed with thousands of words worth of new lore for Cyberpunk. It is also contains callbacks to the 2020 era and callforwards to the 2077 era. Some fairly obscure.

I’m curious which ones you have found. Reply and let me know, please.