I’ve been idly mulling over the concept of an AW hack for classic Gibson cyberpunk.
I’ve been idly mulling over the concept of an AW hack for classic Gibson cyberpunk. The Roles from CP2020 would be a good start, and some of them are pretty close already – Gunlugger -> Solo, Angel -> Medtech, even Brainer -> Netrunner. Reskin the Psychic Maelstrom as The Net.
I think I’d like to include “Edge” points, maybe similar to Lore in tremulus, to let characters do cool stuff somehow – either allowing a custom Move when you spend them, or allowing you to shift the results of any Move.
I think the AW engine would be much better suited to stories like those we see in the books than the CP2020 RPG is. With disparate PC groups, a Rocker or Techie in a party of Solos is more likely to be able to contribute meaningfully rather than either cowering up the back or being moulded into a de-facto Solo.
Thoughts? Has it been done? 🙂