Fun bad cyberpunk

Over the Edge is great, and it just got a third edition a year or two ago.

Its pretty much an adaptation of Naked Lunch to RPGs. There is an entire faction called the cut ups that make this homage clear. The book about them has an alternate resolution system where a player reaches into a bowl of words cut out of newspapers and magazines and draws a number of words equal to their ability rating. They have to integrate those words into their narration in plausible and non perfunctory ways to do well at their action. The more words they integrate, the better they do

The Cut-Ups Machine is an experimental reality-altering device that the Cut-Ups intend to activate whenever one of the groups gets too close to meeting its cruel goal. It’s powered by words, torn or cut one by one from books, newspapers, and magazines. These scraps of paper are fed en masse into the Machine, and it emits sub-random waves that alter the very nature of reality, based on the words it plucks out of its hopper at random. People change, geography changes, the weather, basic physics, the nature of time, history — all can be swished about like bingo balls by the Machine.

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Whole cities lie in ruins. Entire countries laid waste. Over 5 billion people dead, used for food, or for genetic mutation experiments. Situation: Hopeless. Can you handle it, hacker?

I do sometime wonder about Malice also. I suppose Quake 2 is cyberpunk as well as being military sci-fi?

And on reflection, SiN certainly qualifies too.

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