With the world the way it is, my design work has been hit or miss lately. On top of this having to more or less go into business for myself has wrecked a lot of my creative time. I've started a couple of new projects, and then stopped them because of interruptions on the business side of things. But I think that my next project is opening itself up to me. I am (tentatively) calling it Adventures In The Cyberaktive. It is going to be a cyberpunk game using the system from Adventures In The Unknown.
All of this is still early, so it is very much subject to change. But I'm going to write some form of a cyberpunk game with an antifascist vibe like Adventures In The Unknown. Anyone who knows me knows that I love cyberpunk, and if you've gamed with me, there is a very good chance that I've run a cyberpunk game of some sort that you've played in. Honestly? I never planned to write a cyberpunk game, mostly because there are so many of them already. I never had the itch to scratch for a cyberpunk game. However, ever since I started working on Adventures In The Unknown there's been a little voice that's been saying "Maybe it's time for a cyberpunk game?" And I guess I finally listened.
I'm still working out the details of what I want this game to be, but my favorite William Gibson novel is Pattern Recognition and I think that one thing that RPG publishers are missing out on is cyberpunk stuff set (more or less) in the current world. Just a current world where things like cybernetics actually work for people, rather than being a pie in the sky idea from an oligarch who no one in their right mind would let near their bodies with medical tools.
I'll be posting more as I write it. This is probably going to be longer of a manuscript than Adventures In The Unknown, but it still isn't going to be a gigantic game. I am hoping to shoot for an upper limit of about 200 pages (the current release of Adventures in The Unknown is 90 pages). A lot of this will be because of having to explain things like cybernetics. I am thinking about a system of psionics for the game too. Maybe.
Adventures In The Cyberaktive will be a standalone game, but you will be able to pull material and characters between the two games. I am not making any dramatic changes to the rules that I've already written.
Chris
You can currently find my games on itch.io and DriveThruRPG.
Action-Heroes on itch.
Adventures In The Unknown on itch and on DriveThru. (affiliate link at DriveThru)