Feel free to reach out if you are interested, and I’ve currently got an Ares box running through digital ocean.

This question was raised on MuHaven, and I thought I’d continue it here: If Pondsmith’s masterwork Cyberpunk ruleset is too chunky to turn into MUSH - what other rules do justice to the tropes we all love about what it means to play cyberpunk?

I don’t want to detract from a discussion on alternative CP systems – that’s a topic I’m fairly interested in understanding folks perspective on, but that said… I don’t think the CP ruleset is too chunky to turn into a MUSH.

There’s nothing too tricky there – the sheet code isn’t really that particularly complex, and the dice code would just need to do an X + Y look-up against the sheet, then optionally add a modifier.

The hardest part would have been all the gear, except there’s a google doc floating around somewhere (not more than a google search or two away, think I came across it on reddit originally) that has everything all nicely formatted into a table that you could just download and treat like a little gear DB.

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On the “code heavy” end, there have been umpteen Shadowrun MUs that are super crunchy, more-or-less faithful recreations of the RPG, and various cyberpunk MUDs. No reason CP2020 or CP-Red couldn’t work too.

Oh, without a doubt! I was just wondering what else people have found out there, if they /don’t/ have the time to dedicate to faithfully recreating the games for MUSH.

There is a Genesys… setting book? I dunno… it’s Android, Up the Beanstalk. In the same world as Android: Netrunner, that FFG had the rights to for a Living Card Game, which was where most of my attention for the setting originated. Also because it has this wholesome hacking computer:

It would probably have similar issues that the Age of Rebellion/Edge of the Empire/Force and Destiny games for Sgar Wars would have, given that they have the same dice.

… which is to say, no issue at all, make the game(s) already, you cowards!

what other rules do justice to the tropes we all love about what it means to play cyberpunk?

It comes down to what you want out of a game, really.

On the “code light” end of the spectrum - there are discords and play-by-post doing cyberpunk RP with no system whatsoever, and Storium games doing cyberpunk RP with a superlight generic card system. You could absolutely translate that to a traits-based MU similar to the way superhero games work, or use a light narrative system like TinyD6, Fate, or maybe FS3 (the combat probably wouldn’t be a great fit, and cyberware might be problematic if the tech level is too high).

On the “code heavy” end, there have been umpteen Shadowrun MUs that are super crunchy, more-or-less faithful recreations of the RPG, and various cyberpunk MUDs. No reason CP2020 or CP-Red couldn’t work too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_(role-playing_game)