Studio Set off’s anime sequence Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (opens in new tab) appears to have revitalized lots of people’s curiosity in Night time Metropolis as a setting, with mods based mostly on it taking up Cyberpunk 2077’s mod scene and now writer R. Talsorian asserting a Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Mission Equipment for the tabletop RPG.
R. Talsorian says the package will likely be “Made along side CD PROJEKT RED utilizing the Cyberpunk RED tabletop roleplaying recreation engine”. It sounds just like the sort of introductory set aimed toward gamers who’re new to the pen-and-paper RPG, just like the Cyberpunk Purple Jumpstart Equipment was. “The Cyberpunk Edgerunners Mission Equipment will information followers of the sequence new to tabletop roleplaying by way of the method of telling their very own tales in Night time Metropolis”, the announcement says. “On the similar time, current gamers of Cyberpunk RED will get their first glimpse into the cyberware, firepower, and netrunning abilities of the 2077 period.”
Whereas Cyberpunk Purple is about within the 12 months 2045, with the nuclear fallout of the Fourth Company Struggle nonetheless staining the sky, R. Talsorian has mentioned it plans to publish a e book detailing the setting within the videogame’s timeline too. “There will likely be a full 2077 sourcebook down the road as effectively”, the writer mentioned on Twitter (opens in new tab).
Our senior editor Wes Fenlon loved Edgerunners, saying the anime sequence made him need to give Cyberpunk 2077 one other shot. “I used to be stunned by how a lot its little snapshots of life in Night time Metropolis pulled me in”, he wrote. “Early on David saunters by way of his block on the best way to high school with the precision of somebody who’s stepped over the identical drunk, dodged the identical pile of puke, and brought the identical shortcut a thousand instances; it instantly jogged my memory of leaving V’s residence in Cyberpunk 2077, but it surely’s a lot more practical to observe than to play.”
No launch date for the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Mission Equipment was introduced. It is “at present in improvement and extra info will likely be forthcoming within the close to future”, R. Talsorian says.
