#Cyberware jydge game Pc#

Five years (two graduate degrees, two children and two relocations) later I began to run my (semi) home-brew Space Opera game. So, to my spouse’s mild alarm (I was running Shadowrun, 2nd Edition at the time, chummer), I set to work.

Perfect, but DEFINITELY a DIY situation: NO support for it except for an incredible pair of toolkit books-CORPS Vehicle Design System and Guns, Guns, Guns. And then, in a remainder bin in the regional gaming store, I found it: CORPS, the Complete Omniversal Role-Playing System, by Greg Porter. Well, I was looking for a high-realism system that was not TOO encumbered with specificity, and was desperate to the point of beginning to design one, with a lotta fear and trepidation.

#Cyberware jydge game Pc#

They frequently used the term ‘simulation’ in those early days-the RPG version of the ‘Kobayshi Maru’ test would occasionally occur to PC groups. Generally, the concept of those early games was along the lines of ‘sometimes you get the bear, and sometimes the bear gets you.’ Modern games are generally a LOT more plot/judge driven, in which you are guaranteed not to go off the track until the climax, or not get wiped out early on. I am an old-school RPG gamer, and came up playing/judging games like Traveller, Universe, Morrow Project, Cyberpunk 2020, Mechwarrior, and 2300, where men were men, women were women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri – you got the idea. They could impress the locals, but not tower over them like gods-īut I digress.

It would have the players be heroic-but generally human. I came to CORPS after a wearying search for the ultimate rules system that would be realistic, but not too much so. CORPS Rules Expansion is wonderful, with some rules that probably should have been included with the basic CORPS book-primarily the Bestiary-as well as great rules for a particular genre-Horror and Cyberpunk come to mind, but there is one problem with it….