>>95480264
>The Red setting is an unfocused mish mash of ideas and most players/GMs ignore the official lore anyway.
>Also low key I think they're jealous that people love 2077/Edgerunners and are extremely critical of Red's writing.
Honestly, the more that gets added to the RED era from a lore perspective, the less I like it. It could've been an even darker look at the Cyberpunk world, with a greater emphasis on survival and trying to carve out a place for yourself. Instead, we have a disjointed mess that you have to treat like a buffet, carefully picking and choosing what you want.

To drift into /v/ territory for a bit, I've been checking out the gameplay and lore of The Forever Winter and it's way better at being Cyberpunk RED than Cyberpunk RED, even if it crosses over into being full-on grimdark. Everything in that world is grungy and pieced-together, like shattered images of what the world used to be, which you'd *think* is what RED should be like given the sales pitch and how, twenty years after the 4CW, the world is still rebuilding.

It's a classic case of wanting to have your cake and eat it, too. RTG knew that they had to advance the timeline to link 2020 with 2077, but they also wanted memberberries, and they couldn't resist letting every man-jack in the office contribute something to the setting, even if it's extremely dumb and is funny or interesting only to the person who came up with it.
>>95480491
>I really liked how the adventure in the edgerunners kit encouraged you to just throw Adam Smasher on the players if they pissed of the corpos to teach them that punching above their weight will lead to certain death or worse.
Smasher has always been a "rocks fall, everyone dies" kind of encounter, but I'm pretty sure his inclusion in The Jacket is meant to be a direct reference to the anime, since he kills nearly all of the important characters in there (including my sweet 'Becca), and is not them suddenly deciding to take the kid's gloves off.

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