For questions about Cyberpunk 2020 (later subtitled "The Classic Roleplaying Game of the Dark Future"), the 2nd edition of the Cyberpunk tabletop RPG created by Mike Pondsmith and published by R. Talsorian Games. Following from the 1st edition (retrospectively known as Cyberpunk 2013) released in 1988, Cyberpunk 2020 (released in 1990) advances the timeline and features updated rules for combat, Netrunning, and character generation.
For questions about Cyberpunk 2020, the second edition of the Cyberpunk tabletop roleplaying game created by Mike Pondsmith and published by R. Talsorian Games.
Following from the first edition (retrospectively known as Cyberpunk 2013) released in 1988, Cyberpunk 2020 (released in 1990) advances the timeline and features updated rules for combat, Netrunning, and character generation.
A third edition, titled Cyberpunk V3.0, was subsequently released in 2005. However, according to Mike Pondsmith, it is considered non-canon as of the release of the fourth edition, cyberpunk-red, in 2020.
Cyberpunk 2020 is set in the year 2020, in a dystopian alternate timeline where the world economy and social and political order have collapsed and are in disarray. Most sovereign states have been subsumed by massive multinational megacorporations.
Technology, especially cybernetic augmentation and "the Net", has permeated the globe, but the deepened socio-economic chasm between the rich and the poor means these technologies have relatively primitive manifestations at the street level.
Players take the role of the "edgerunners", who embrace their changing world and take control of their destinies.
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