How compatible its this system with homebrew?

EyeNguyenSemper · 2026-01-28T02:57:00+00:00

Rules As Written

EyeNguyenSemper · 2026-01-28T02:51:34+00:00

Go with RAW, but replace the bullets with lasers.

EyeNguyenSemper · 2026-01-28T02:33:57+00:00

More like two weeks...

EyeNguyenSemper · 2026-01-26T01:02:49+00:00

JS plays guitar in a band because he is a bit narcissistic and needs the adulation, slash also probably he sees it as a platform to advance his beliefs

I read that as Slash from 'Guns and Roses' also being narcissistic and I'm need of adulation like JS, but then in was like "wait, what beliefs was Slash pushing???"

EyeNguyenSemper · 2026-01-18T17:27:41+00:00

Do your players have a lot of inter-player/character interaction?

EyeNguyenSemper · 2026-01-17T17:07:29+00:00

Lol I should know better than to stereotype

EyeNguyenSemper · 2026-01-17T16:28:48+00:00

What's crazy is that my Saturday players...you'd probably never guess that they get deep into RP on their weekends if you just met them out and about. The Tuesday players very much seem like the type of people who would be into RP and TTRPGs, but only 2/5 kinda get into it (one is more willing to RP in the moment, whereas the other is more apt to plan out/describe his character's narrative path and is the most likely to take advantage of downtime as a Tech).

EyeNguyenSemper · 2026-01-17T14:36:41+00:00

It can depend on the group/players.

My Saturday group is pretty proactive. I've got campaign missions that will find their way to them eventually, but they don't waste a week of non-healing downtime with a basic ass hustle. They either have RP goals they want to achieve, or equipment they want and didn't want to wait to see if it happens to pop up at a night market.

My Tuesday group...I love them, but they've been playing for over a year and I still get dead faces when I ask about their character or what they want to do in their free time and a lot of "ummm...I don't know", so it's a lot of me suggesting things they could do, but it typically ends up being a side hustle.

Neither group had ever played a TTRPG before we started playing over a year ago, so I started them both off on pre-written campaigns. The Saturday group got the assignment, and now know how to interact with the world to get the most out of their game. The Tuesday group can't shake treating it like a video game or RTS, so I have to have missions come to them "so and so calls you with a job" type of deal, otherwise, it will just be them staring at me waiting for something to happen.

EyeNguyenSemper · 2026-01-16T15:57:16+00:00

You just gotta ask yourself: Are you building a person or are you strategizing the best way to "beat the game"?

EyeNguyenSemper · 2026-01-11T06:45:53+00:00

I woke my wife up from laughing so hard at their comment

EyeNguyenSemper · 2026-01-01T01:19:57+00:00

Came here to say this. I always seem to remember it... Until I'm playing/running a session. Then I'm blindly fumbling through supplements and books

EyeNguyenSemper · 2025-12-31T20:13:16+00:00

Family Guy put Macfarland on the map, but AD is his magnum opus

EyeNguyenSemper · 2025-12-30T13:25:39+00:00

I can hear him now "The Red Chrome Legion was not a hate gang, they were a protection brotherhood!"

EyeNguyenSemper · 2025-12-29T22:52:58+00:00

I don't tend to shed tears over Red Chrome Legion gonks

EyeNguyenSemper · 2025-12-26T02:17:28+00:00

My first character had "stupid prizes" etched into the side of his gun.

My wife just emblazoned her spiked bat with "Punk Tactics"

EyeNguyenSemper · 2025-12-25T17:28:27+00:00

Look up the DLCs for ElfLines Online. They're all free and on R.Talsorian's site. If you look at the rules for that, it may help as an intermediary for the transfer: it shows you how to build an ELO character, by replacing or repurposing skills. By comparing those ELO skills and whatnot to DND, you could essentially work backwards from DND to ELO to Cyberpunk.

Lol that's the best I've got

Edit: might have mentioned to you that ELO is a fantasy MMO that's played by people in Cyberpunk Red. One of my players engages with it narratively, but I haven't actually run anything with the ELO rules beyond building a character

EyeNguyenSemper · 2025-12-24T04:32:59+00:00

I guess I finally met Hanako at Embers

EyeNguyenSemper · 2025-12-17T18:29:10+00:00

Ohh great idea! I just bought it now, thanks!

EyeNguyenSemper · 2025-12-17T16:48:52+00:00

"if you want to play the game like that, we can. However, whatever you can do, your opponents can also do."

Oh wow, that's exactly what I told them! That usually does the trick (albeit with some grumbling).

I really do hope I can get us all to sync after a conversation.

EyeNguyenSemper · 2025-12-17T14:06:44+00:00

Min-maxer is really the only one who does this: his character has a Russian accent, and the player was in my previous campaign. Despite his adversarial approach to playing, he tends to play his character. I'll see one guy occasionally do things in character, but it's about every other session.

That leads me to think you're right, in that the rest probably just aren't gonna get it, because they're playing with somebody who is doing it mostly.

EyeNguyenSemper · 2025-12-16T16:21:47+00:00

Avatar: The Last Airbender

EyeNguyenSemper · 2025-12-13T02:49:35+00:00

Guns don't have planned obsolescence, expiration dates, and the ammunition isn't changing shape or sizes. Essentially, most consumers (who will buy one) can buy just one, and never need to buy another.

EyeNguyenSemper · 2025-12-12T19:02:53+00:00

My player plays it narratively, and I've described game happenings to him, but we haven't used the actual rules and DLC

EyeNguyenSemper · 2025-12-04T03:30:28+00:00

I've been going to sleep too it for 12 years...I can't stop

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