Cyberpunk 2020: Open Highway - RPG Review
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2018
- Review and Game Master tips for the Cyberpunk 2020 scenario Open Highway. It takes the Player Characters out of the city for a cross-country adventure.
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The players are members of the Smokey and the Bandit poser gang. One of the encounters has nothing to do with cargo. They are just randomly attacked by members of a Fast and Furious poser gang who are pulling a "heist". This will allow for a truck top fist fight between "Burt Reynolds" and "Vin Diesel". For extra immersion have the theme song to both movies playing at the same time.
"I AM GOING TO BBQ YOUR ASS!!!
You get a like just for going through the effort required for that costume.
This can also be modified for a number of other adventures just by changing the McGuffin and the actors. A very versatile scenario
Okay, so idea for one of the waves (perhaps the petrochem one). Basically, you have a bunch of guys attacking the truck and the blocker cars to keep them occupied, then in the second round you have a final vehicle pull up behind the trailer, using the action in front as a diversion.
While everything is going on up front, the vehicle in the back does its best to stay just behind the trailer to keep their visibility low (and cause penalties for whatever notice checks are in the game. I don't have Cyberpunk yet) and pop the trailer open. They then take as many barrels as they can before being noticed. If they get spotted after getting at least a few of the barrels, they then just GTFO because that's the prize for petrochem, and even one barrel is worth a lot to them.
This could lead to a side-quest where the party must hunt down the truck with the barrels on the thought that if they don't get it back, they won't get paid.
7:26 Dayum! That truck has a pair of zero/zero ejection seats?!
I guess Biotechnica wasn't afraid to blow some money on the ruse!
Please do more Cyberpunk reviews. Loved it.
OH Man, the memories. I ran that scenario maybe 6 or 7 times with different groups as their first or second job as a way of gauging how well their sense of do-or-die was in tune with the corrupt world of CP2020. I even made a set of maps of the route including two zoomed-in annotated submaps of the Utah and Colorado portions. Map had commentary from their netrunner friend congradulating them on scoring a high-level job and wishing them a safe trip.
I am loving that sweet mohawk Jack is rocking along with that awesome cyber visor. Great job, man! Thought you should know that cos of your videos I actually ran my first D&D game a couple of weeks ago. Thanks for the inspiration!
I love what you say at 10:02. I remember a multi-table game of 2020 which was run back at GenCon Socal in '03... and I remember Max Mike looking around the room and telling the lead GM that the players were not paranoid enough.
All of the tables started getting awareness checks for things like a 6 y/o kid walking down the street... at 1 am... in the CZ. Turns out it was just a kid, but I'm pretty sure that one of the groups took him out "just in case".
>1 page adventure
>16 minute video
God I love this channel
Just one thing: can we not call Cyberpunk "CP" that abbreviation has some rather negative other uses.....
Like what? Cheese pizza?
Cheese pie?
Can of pop?
Literally all I can think of is running this module with a techno remake of the Smoky and the Bandit theme song
‘What a day, what a lovely day’. I love this scenario too. a personal favourite 💜. I remember a player straddling a truck, spraying bullets from his mini-Gat (Chromebook 1 I believe ), mowing down Nomads like grass. Good times 😎
Bio-Techne is an actual biotech company, lol. We use their antibodies in the lab all the time.
Hey! Another cyberpunk review!
Great to see you putting out more content for the game that got me interested in your channel. Keep up the amazing work.
The choper noises now live rent free in my brain
Getting ready to run this with my group soon. It is gonna be awesome. They're about to head on the road. Our Nomad is actually driving the truck, and called in back up from their clan. 3 support cars. I have 5 players total, so the Nomad is driving, with our Fixer riding shotgun in the truck, while our Solo, Medtech, and Netrunner are each riding shotgun in a support vehicle, with one of the Nomad's clan mates driving the support vehicles. So looking forward to the action and chaos as I throw enemies at them!
Good luck, choomba.
Savage Worlds has good number of adventures that are only on one sheet of paper.
If you ever run this a third time, one idea you could steal from one of the Fast and Furious films is to use some kind of magnetic gadget to hack into the cars electronics and take control of certain functions, that the PC have to remove.
Have you ever put the PCs on the other side of this scenario, having to hijack a vehicle?
I was thinking something similar; What if one of the attacks was a straight-up cyber attack? The truck's systems begin shutting down, maybe even feigning an engine breakdown. The truck might even pull itself over then just turn off.
Once the PCs are out and trying to figure out what happened, that's when they hear choppers in the distance...
Thanks Seth! I been gearing up to start my home crew on cyberpunk, and cut their teeth on this very job, very helpful, my best to Jack!
The first time I was in a group running this it was the starting adventure of our first Nomad focused campaign with most of the characters belonging to a clan that had a grudge against Petrochem either losing their homes to Petrochem, losing loved ones in failed efforts to resist Petrochem seizing their faamily's land, or both. We didn't ask for extra money for the job but did ask for bonuses if we could prove we had taken out any Petrochem agents or mercs we could show were working for Petrochem.
Sorry was that fallout new vegas background through the truck?
Man, I have to revisit that setting. It must been close to 20 years that I last played it. Thanks for the video.
Awesome as usual Seth. Love your acting/skits they always crack me up. Exceited for the next bit you do
This was awesome! I can always count on your videos to inspire me when I need a bit of cool stuffs for my campaigns. Thanks Seth!
The helicopters on little plastic cups is a great effect
Oh man, the cut with Seth making the chopper noises was hilarious.
I really like how you did this review with your own tips. I would dig your look at the other scenarios.
My friend presented me this system literally yesterday and said to me to DM a session for him and some other people, this really helps me a lot since i didn´t have any idea for a great introduction for a Cyberpunk 2020 session, thanks Seth !
I suspect MST3K ep.814 "RIDING WITH DEATH" had some influence on this adventure, specifically the first part (Gemini Man ep.1, 'SMITHEREENS', 23rd sep 1976) lol
Great help! Love your cyberpunk videos please do more tips on the other starter adventures found in the core book please.
More CP 2020 reviews please! Great job!
Good review, sir, thanks. My group started in Night City, but quickly moved HQ to Kansas City - it's less population dense than the West or East Coast, but right on the edge of a Dead Zone and Central to most of the country, making adventure hooks plentiful (plus we lived near it, so were very familiar with it). This would flow nicely, and you could even make your players go to Cali first by whatever route they wanted and have another couple of encounters on that leg before really getting started.
And when you're done with this adventure, I suggest checking out Gaslands. You already have the cars for it, the rules are cheap, and it's really growing in popularity.
i'm running this next weekend, over videochat but still its my first game in over five years and my first time running Cyberpunk 2020
So... eastbound and down?
Damn right.
Seth Skorkowsky, I got the hushpuppies.
..loaded up and truckin'.
Hrmm.. I wonder where the creators got the idea for this scenario? * wink wink nod nod *
We got a great big Convoy...ain't she a beautiful sight!?
Given how Seth ran this "Texas bound and Flyin'" from Smokey and the Bandit 2 is a better fit.
3 minutes in and this quest sounds like the first half of Riding with Death
Love the toy cars idea.
My GM linked one of your excellent "How to" Traveller videos to me. Wow, I wish I had known about you years ago!
Awesome! new to the channel but honestly, with cyberpunk 2077 in the works i found your channel in interest. Would love more instructional videos for newbies like myself.
While I don't use the Cyberpunk rule system I use it as inspiration for my ModernAGE games. This sounds like a great mission concept!
Great video. This sounds like a great game to play over a single night. Also I now want to make a Cyberpunk version of Ulysses Solomon Archer.
Sweet flashback chromeboy !
Honestly, I think the only change I would make as a DM would be for the corperate guy being so flustered that he lets it slip that the truck was never supposed to make it. Probably something along the lines of "F**k the truck, kill those bastards."
Also as an alternative way to complete the module if the players manage to total the truck and they don't have a nomad connection is that you could have another group of nomads come by that are *really* interested in the truck. Perhaps they are severely low on cargo space for one reason or another, so they could offer to transport the cargo in exchange for the broken truck and a cut of the pay. No sense in picking a fight if you can make allies instead, plus, a little extra money never hurts, especially if you're overflowing with resources at the moment.
Alternatively, if the players decide to shoot first, you can have a glorious showdown to end the adventure on.
Think I totaly salvage the scenario for Shadowrun.
I have the old CP 2020 rulebook somewhere in my collection. But as I never had the chance to play it properly - and have some oneshot adventures between my 3-weekly Call of Cthulhu campaign every so often.... yeah. I totaly use that.
Starting location: Rhine/Rhur Megaplex in the German Alliance - then right across Europe to somewhere in Russia. Plenty of war zones (or however you want to call the Marienbad Council) and other fun places to be.
Have to account for magic somehow. But hey - some pissed of elementals or nature ghosts might be fun...
Seth - I love your series. It gets those old creativity-gears grinding....
I want to see if I can use this for "A Time of Total War." A semi escorted by Battletech Mechs in a periphery Hellhole!
Hey Jack the NPC, i totaly wanted your glasses when i was younger. Still do, thinking about it.
Nice shades, dude! Radical!
Wait wait wait... Is this about to be a grown man playing with some toy cars?!
You're damn right it is!!
You get a light just for that one haha! Awesome channel dude!
12:36 Now you've sold me on buying toy vehicles for my campaign
Beautiful man, beautiful!
Thanks, man.
that was cool :D makes me want to run cyberpunk :D
This would make a great Car Wars scenario as well.
It was worth a like just for the helicopter sound effect, much less the rest of the video.
Cyberpunk Jack is my favorite Jack
I kind of want to see dnd/western setting version of this with wangons. I think if done right it would be fun
Since you mentioned it, I have to ask what do you think about 2077?
I'm looking forward to it. No telling how many times I watched that original teaser trailer and the new one. Lots of tiny Easter Eggs for fans of the old pen and paper game. I'm crossing my fingers that knowing the original game might give me a slight edge once it finally releases. Mike Pondsmith has been working closely on this one and I trust he won't let his baby be anything but perfect. He's had many opportunities over the years to make a video game form CP2020 and it wasn't until CDPR came along that he believed anyone could even pull it off.
Or, you know, take this opportunity to introduce a whole slew of people to the world of tabletop roleplaying and hope they come out with a version of the game with slightly updated equipment (not TOO updated, of course. Dataterminals are a staple of cyberpunk, but still).
@@jesternario Well, you called it haha
Well, you get corpo-ed.
Welcome to Glitch city
I think if I ever run this, and I have a nomad PC the truck/SUVs could be part of the reward.
Thanks for the video. I use to play an to based on post apocalyptic cars. It had car cards and tiles for weapons and armour. I can't remember the name. We played it in the late 1980s but the game was older than that.
Car Wars? A buddy of mine found his old copy buried in his game stash and has been promising to show it to me.
Steve Jackson's "Car Wars" most likely. I had the old plastic black box "pocket edition" back in the '80s too.
I think there was a re-release of it within the last few years.
Boy they really gave the year 2020 alot of credit.
I have to wonder now, given Cyberpunk's New United States is basically Articles of Confederation US, is the Department of Transportation still a thing and do trucker still have to abide by the _Hours of Service_ rules.
That would be a mean thing for a GM to do, the party pulls into the yard where they're supposed to drop the load, but they get caught over on their drive and have to pay that Big, Big Fine. But that's Truck Drivin'
Thanks for another great video Seth! Do you have any plans for more cyberpunk reviews in the future?
This really gives me a _Black Dog_ vibe. If I GMed this I have encounters based on that movie, Namely this one scene where they tried stop the rig with other rigs on a Mountain road. But I use Weight Station rather then boarder crossings. And I had always thought of play a trucker PC in a game like this, Like Patrick Swayze's character Jack Cruise, probably go as far as he had seen the dog.
I bet Seth is excited for the nomad story in the upcoming cyberpunk game
Mad max and the bandit meets fast and blade runner
I love a good Cyberpunk or Shadow Realms plunge to shake things up now and then! Such a fun palate cleanser! Stick it to those bastard multicorps! Anarchy in the arcology!!
The costumes are sooo cheese Seth, yet somehow adorable ;P
Cheese!?! Mark my words, in 2 years, when we're finally in 2020, that outfit will be the absolute height of fashion (otherwise I'm really going to have to rethink the wardrobe I've been stockpiling).
Dat Checkov's Toy Truck (Checkov's Chevy?) in the back...
A cyberpunk review just in time for the E3 trailer for the video game adaptation
Late to the party, but I might have a few little suggestions, lifted from being a trucker IRL.
Maybe you get pulled into a weigh station or stopped by DOT cops for an inspection. Do you have a 'runner or tech that can falsify your logs and/or bill of lading? Did you get legit papers from Biotechnica before you left? Maybe the cops are going to jam you up.
Or maybe the DOT inspection would have uncovered the transponder and put you on to the con, but one of your party got an itchy finger and blew away the officer, and now you also have the local law on your tail.
Maybe you break down or BioTechnica programmed the cybertruck to stall out at a predetermined location and won't take your calls to get repairs. Can your party fix it? You gonna pay out of pocket for repairs? Maybe call up a party members clan, or just hijack/steal some trucks, transfer the load right there, and ditch the rig?
Amazing review! I have a question though. What exactly did you do when it came to the downtime between check points in the adventure?
A few Awareness checks here and there. Some moments when a second car started getting close and they got paranoid until the other car took an exit or drifted further ahead or behind them. The radar detector going off when they were passing speed traps. Needing gas. A drive check to bypass road debris. Nothing too much, then a fast-forward to the next scene.
Also am I the only one to catch the mysterious iPod looking object that pops up behind Jack's head?
I'm going to have to modify this for a post-apoc fantasy game.
how'd it go?
Kudos from 444 Gematria!
10:03
Don't know if that was intentional but it does make me paranoid
Eastbound and down
SHADOWRUN 4 LIFE!!!
Chummer...
LOL I love Cyber Seth
OK, i'm now unsure which i am more disturbed by... CyberPunk Jack or Female Jack
Great! But why isn't the cargo flown to its destination?
The route you listed is gonna be super hard to make on time. That's over a 30 hour drive
Just wondering, where did you get that shirt? been trying to find it bat cant anywere...
For anyone who hasn't seen Edgerunners avoid this comment:
This scenario factors into the plot
It being so open means it will work with Cyberpunk Red
Love the vid, not a big cyber punk guy
I seriously have not been able to find old Cyberpunk 2020 modules. And finding PDF files that aren't being sold on Gaming sites is pretty damn tough.
Atlas Games made a few CP2020 modules. You can find them on Ebay and Amazon, but they're pricey (put "Atlas Cyberpunk" in the search). I suppose the renewed hype for the game is to blame because they used to be dirt cheap only a couple years ago. The best luck I had was waiting for Ebay Lots. I'd pick up several in one go.
I really wish Atlas would release the rest of their old Cyberpunk Modules on Drivethru RPG, and also allow for POD physical copies. It's a real shame that some of them aren't listed there.
Holy crap, Amazon has copies of "Thicker than Blood" for $86. That's insane!
Hey, where's my after credit "You know..."?
i have a doubt, can you play cyberpunk 2020 adventures using the 3º edition rules? or should i just learn the older rulebook? thanks in advance.
You'll want to play it with the Cyberpunk rules, which uses the Interlock System.
Neotribes map: No Go! So-Cal!
@UCQs8-UJ7IHsrzhQ-OQOYBmg So what would you recommend as a great grab'n'go intro adventure for a new GM and new players?
Kudos*Sudoku
i find that snipers tend to one shot someone.
could you please review "Investigator's Weapons, Vol. 1" for Call of Cthulhu" ?
I've been meaning to start reviewing some of the CoC supplements. I reference that book a lot, but mostly the legal stuff of the 1920's. The rest is just kind of there.
Thank you, looking forward to it (:
Stop making videos all the time and get working on the 5th Valducan novel already!!
Just kidding... great video, keep'em coming :)
But a 5th Valducan novel would be great, too :)
Right now I'm trying to score an agent for my latest novel (It's a New Weird with a good shot of horror, Urban Fantasy, and Carcosa). Once I can get that into an agent's hands, it'll free my brain up to start plotting out Valducan #5.
Tbh, I wish the Battletech ppl. would hire him. The Dark Ages have been a train wreck. They need someone willing to do homework and has a love for the setting to write their books and get the fluff back on track.
Or a Valducan RPG.
But how do you build encounters for this damn game? I got the storyline for the scenario down. Then it came time to build the encounters and there is no balancing stuff like in dnd. I hope 77 has something like cr ratings
Challenge Ratings are really only possible in a Level-Based game like D&D. In Skill-Based games there's no was to do it because there's no character levels. More so in a system where any character can go out and pick up a missile launcher that straps to their assault rifle. Best method is to look at the PCs and guess what they can handle.
I suggest looking at the Goon and Supergoon stats from the Cyberpunk 2020 book (they're in the sidebars in the Never Fade Away story). That should give you a decent starting point.
For low risk you're looking at more handguns, a few SMGs, and a couple rifles. As it escalates, you can bring in more body armor, armor-piercing rounds, and explosives.
I changed this scenario to fit a bit more in my spanish scenario and the low street level of it.
I mean, firsts days on the edgerunners life and already getting a job from biotechnia transportint something so important? I know, biotechnia knows that the cargament is no important but the characters think is for real.
I made an adventure where a rustler recently get a few pigs from a job an needed to transport it to another place but he have a debt with a loan shark and this one could assault the truck to get the pigs as payment. They are gonna transport a decoy truck loaded of a sound system doing pigs noises and mature for the smell
09:45 is that Fallout NV outside the windows?
I don't know how to contact you directly but did you get to a Free RPG Day event today and get both CoC books?
I did. All I got was the CoC Scritch Scratch scenario. I tried sweet-talking Delta Green or Unknown Armies, but they were reserving those for people who did the event games at the shops and I wasn't able to stay long enough for any of those.
If you want I can send those to you, I have two of all the common things to make sure my favorite you tubers get them.
I will gladly take you up on that. Can you shoot me an email to seth.skorkowsky@gmail.com
la Jolla? San Diego strikes again!
Just like old times eh choom?
Hey where’d you get your T-shirt?
Here you go. www.cafepress.com/+cybertech+mens-classic-t-shirts
2077 came with the rulebook as PDF. This video shall prove most useful.
Mua-ha-ha, and all that.
Yaaaayyy Go nomads !!! total nomad war !!!!!
If I ever run this, I’m going to have them deliver bananas; to Scranton Pennsylvania, and they will need to shift to low gear or else.