Cyberpunk 2077 Now Contains Rules For Playing Cyberpunk RED TTRPG

The latest version of the Cyberpunk 2077 video game contains the basic rules for Cyberpunk RED as bonus content. The latest patch for the popular video game added the Cyberpunk RED Easy Mode to players' Bonus Content" folder. This wasn't advertised in the latest patch notes, but exists as a cool little easter egg for video game players to discover on their own (or with the help of certain sites....like ours.)

Cyberpunk RED is technically a prequel to Cyberpunk 2077, as its set approximately 30 years before the events of Cyberpunk 2077. However, R. Talsorian Games has released content based on Cyberpunk 2077 (specifically the Cyberpunk Edgerunners Mission Kit) and has plans to continue building content that links the 2045 timeline with the Cyberpunk 2077 video game.

Cyberpunk RED Easy Mode contains the basic rules of the game along with five unique characters to play as and an introductory mission. The rulebook was originally released in 2022 and is also free to download off of DriveThruRPG. A full description can be found below:

Cyberpunk RED Easy Mode is a quick introduction to the classic tabletop roleplaying game of the Dark Future and encompasses everything you need to explore the post-War world of the Time of the Red, including:

• A dive into the history and geography of Night City and the greater Cyberpunk world.
• The basic rules for the game, set up to help you learn them and get playing right away.
• Five unique Characters for you to play: a charismatic Rockerboy, a lethal Solo, an inventive Tech, a lifesaving Medtech, and a hard-hitting Media.
• A new introductory mission: Getting Paid. Because that briefcase full of Eurobucks is the difference between making rent and living on the street in the Time of the Red

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I have to say, Cyberpunk 2077 was one of the best tools for selling my group on playing Cyberpunk Red.

 

[MGibster]

I have to say, Cyberpunk 2077 was one of the best tools for selling my group on playing Cyberpunk Red.

Were they disappointed to find Red was nothing like 2077?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I am always surprised when CRPG companies don't do something like this, especially given how many folks at the development studios tend to be avid tabletop roleplayers.

 

[2KAD77]

Super excited to run this! Love the game and the setting.

 

[Reynard]

Were they disappointed to find Red was nothing like 2077?

I think most people understand that TTRPGs don't actually play like video games. But feel -- that's 90% up to the GM.

 

[MichaelSomething]

Were they disappointed to find Red was nothing like 2077?

There's no Keanu Reeves character in Red, so what's the point??

 

[MGibster]

I think most people understand that TTRPGs don't actually play like video games. But feel -- that's 90% up to the GM.

Oddly enough, 2077 is closer to the setting of 2020 than Red is to either in terms of how things feel. I think we all know a TTRPG isn't going to be exactly the same as a video game. But, man, if I my introduction to Cyberpunk was through 2077 I'd be confused by Red.

 

[Reynard]

Oddly enough, 2077 is closer to the setting of 2020 than Red is to either in terms of how things feel. I think we all know a TTRPG isn't going to be exactly the same as a video game. But, man, if I my introduction to Cyberpunk was through 2077 I'd be confused by Red.

Why? Red is so similar to 2020 it's hardly an upgrade. The video game 2077 is awesome but, system wise, doesn't really resemble the tabletop game at all (which makes sense).

 

[MGibster]

Why? Red is so similar to 2020 it's hardly an upgrade. The video game 2077 is awesome but, system wise, doesn't really resemble the tabletop game at all (which makes sense).

Red feels more like a post apocalyptic world than 2020 ever did. The economy in Red is just bizarre.

Although the huge Sammtung factories in Korea have fallen silent from a current lack of silicon microchips and lithium batteries, that just means no one in the Time of the Red is making new phones or Agents...But in thousands of TEUs and storage warehouses....there are hundreds of millions of perfectly good phones and Agents stored away...you just have to link up with someone who knows where they are...

This is a post apocalyptic world where new phones aren't being produced but people still have cyber limbs? When your character wants a new rifle, he can't just pop into the nearest S-Mart, he's got to find a night market. And even then his rifle won't be new. Nobody cares about new anyway because a used gun sells for just as much as a brand new gun because they're both functionally the same. A cyberleg and a drum magazine for your rifle both cost 500 eddies. How does that make any sense at all? A competent machinist can make a drum magazine in his garage if he has the right machining tools. You need a whole infrastructure to produce and maintain something like a cyberleg.

Red is just a completely different vibe from both 2020 and 2077. In Red, you're making your living by picking through the bones of what was left after the 4th Corporate War.