28. "RE: a few more general thoughts"
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.