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Topic ID: 165
Message ID: 28
#28, RE: a few more general thoughts
Posted by Zemyla on Dec-16-20 at 00:50 AM
In response to message #27
>>> But yeah, proper rpg'ing Cyberpunk is FUN.
>>
>>As I've just mentioned in the CP2020 thread elsewhere, Peg and I just
>>got invited to a game by a friend. And we've never done CP, but we're
>>willing to give it a try. I'm hoping it'll be fun, as you say.
>
>I suspect the key is not to take the setting as seriously as it takes
>itself. That's certainly how we did it in the campaign I was in way
>back at WPI. The player characters were a Trauma Team™ unit.
>We... might have been the worst Trauma Team™ unit. I
>mean, you wouldn't think so if you were the patient. We always saved
>the patient! But we often did it in ways that were probably not to
>the company's marketing department's taste. Not for nothing was our
>crew ID number 4077.
>
>In the game lore, there's a long-standing, unfriendly, often violent
>rivalry between Trauma Team™ and their chief competitor, the
>lower-budget, less effective, but much-better-named REO MeatWagon. TT
>and MeatWagon teams are known to get into firefights when they rock up
>on a scene where both of them have customers in need of assistance.
>At one point, we pissed off the local MeatWagon crew so bad they
>came after us, no patients necessary. :)

If you wrote those stories, I would definitely read and share them.