Post originally by Wyvern at 2004-09-14 05:14:46
Converted from Phorums BB System

<i>You may not care what authors such as Gibson think but your players might and rightfully so since Gibson is the one who created the term "cyberpunk" in the first place.</i>

Actually, it was Bruce Bethke (http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/cpunk.htm).

<i>So if you are going to call your campaign cyberpunk it should better have something akin to Gibson's "matrix" (which is something by the way all published "cyberpunk" roleplaying games conatin.)</i>

If d20 Future advertised itself as a cyberpunk supplement, I'd concede the point. But it doesn't. I'm not saying that it <i>shouldn't</i> include rules for cyberspace, I'm saying that there are legitimate reasons why they're not an absolute necessity. You may <i>wish</i> that it had cyberspace rules, but the lack of them doesn't constitute a serious design flaw. That's all I'm saying.

Wyvern


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