Re: Cyberpunk v3 - analysis

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>, Andrew Sayman 
<lorien@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>Grebo wrote:
>> Ross Winn wrote:
>>
>>> I think this is one of the worst games I have seen
>>> in some time, and considering the number of reviews
>>> I do that is quite something.
>>
>> Yes, I agree. There were so many bad choices made to reach the end
>> product... It's just mind-boggling.
>>
>> I mean, I can understand the reasons why most of the bad choices were
>> made. It's just that I feel the wrong decision was reached virtually
>> every time.
>>
>> What kind of choices? Well, for example: In the third edition of
>> Cyberpunk, netrunning and cybernetics have been done away with. In
>> their place, we have were-whales.
>>
>> I can understand the reasons why netrunning and cybernetics were
>> dropped. Classically, netrunning took a lot of time away from the game
>> as it required some lengthy one-on-one time between the referee and the
>> netrunner. Cybernetics had the humanity cost mechanic.
>>
>> For CPv3, netrunning's time-consumption and cyberware's humanity costs
>> were to be done away with. But instead of, say, making it possible for
>> any/every character to run the net, and, say, simply declaring that
>> humanity cost was cured... netrunning and cybernetics were both just
>> dumped. Talk about throwing out the baby with the bathwater!
>
>Woa... they got rid of netrunning and cybernetics? I hadn't heard that
yet.
>
>You know, I was going to ignore these bad reviews and pick the book up
myself,
>but I think not now. Too many people have said the same thing: "They
ruined a
>game that I love."
>
>I hope this isn't just new version break-in gone bad.
Mike P always said he was planning to remove the 'eye candy' but game 
destroying Netrunner and replace it with his original concept of an 
electronics and computer intrusion specialism who would run with the 
other players rather than in some dark room elsewhere.

I haven't seen the new book ( I don't think it's available in the UK 
yet) but the only think I recall being said about C-Ware was that Mike 
was creating a 'nation' where the citizens were borged at birth (or 
shortly after) thus taking the advantages already published rules of 
kids not suffering Humanity loss. I never heard anything about 
cybernetics being dumped.
-- 
Ian Birchenough