This is a lovely poster, but buyers ought to be made aware of the fact that it is bent in the middle and not rolled. I have attempted to get a refund because if I had known it was folded I would not have made the purchase.

Much like The Witcher Easy Mode, this one is a banger. Perhaps a bit more sandbox oriented in it's narrative than The Witcher but still generally pretty servicable for a proper session one. I'd say this is really good for TTRPG newcomers and I love, love, love the fact that this Easy Mode built off of the Jumpstart Kit and made it a homerun by adding in some Netrunning!

Overall an excellent introduction, I highly recommend it. It's free, it provides lore for those who want to check out the universe, the basic rules and ebbs and flows for those who are curious, and a decent sandbox-like starting adventure for those more committed.

Fantastic introduction into my personal favorite fantasy TTRPG. It's quick, to the point, and just as deadly as it needs to be while making a semi-open path for the characters to run on. Definitely great for new TTRPG players, too.

A very helpful collection of the free "DLCs" that R. Talsorian Games puts out, formatted nicely with beautiful artwork and presented beautifully as always. While I do also own the print version, the digital one is just as useful. Having 10 pregenned characters in a folder with an adventure makes this a no-brainer if you're going to be running a one-shot.

My rating is mostly due to Red Chrome Cargo and the additional drone DLC in the back-end. RTG's unique take on drones in the Time of the Red is worthwhile but I've found myself using these cyberbeasties very often as a DM as security measures. Highly recommended just for those.

Fun little starter introduction to the world of Cyberpunk Red set decades before the events of 2077. Pregenerated characters and 2 starter scenarios and some ideas, for a starter nicely aimed at beginning gms. When on sale well worth getting as not enough to justifiy 29.99.

This review is after reading the core rulebook and running some missions based of the Easy Mode mission and the Starter Kit adventure. Overall I like the system, I feel like I still haven't 100% "gotten" it yet.

I'm playing in Foundry VTT, and combat feels like it takes a little long, I'm wondering if I'm missing some tactics to speed things up. But I really really like the Netrunning and the Apartment was a very fun scenario.

I'll try and come back and update this review after running some more sessions.

I used The Apartment Scenario in the Jumpstart Kit to do a second learn to play experience with my friends after running the Easy Mode scenario. We took time to do a session 0 and create characters then I got to build out the apartment and it was A LOT of fun. I like the Cyberpunk system in general, I'm still learning it and getting comfortable with it, but the players overall enjoyed it a lot, very solid scenario.

There is errata in a pdf to update The Apartment per the core rules, but I wish they just updated the Jumpstart Kit as well.

Overall a great introduction into Cyberpunk RED. I think I would have liked more guidance in the stand alone adventure at the end.

Some ways to improve would be:

A read along section for players in the adventure (When the GM asks for this check, here's how it works) I know that information is in the bulk of the rulebook but having it repeated in some bold text would be nice.

More guidance in integrating the lifepath system, it felt superflous in our play session and I wasn't sure how to get the players invested.

A second adventure option using netrunning to have that with an example.

But still Cyberpunk RED was fun and I'm looking forward to trying out the full ruleset with another module soon!

I'll make it short. Is it worth the five dollars? Yes. Can you get any use from the text inside to improve your games? Yes. Does it add more to the cyberpunk world that helps the gm make a more detailed mental image of what cyberpunk 2020 is? Yes. Is it long winded sometimes? Yes. Did Mike Pondsmith go a little to deep into the best ways to tpk making the reader belive Mike Pondsmith has a fetish for slaughtering his player's characters? Yes... very.

If you have the change and need something fresh to increase your creativity this is perfect. If my review was to short then look at the review on this product by Megan R. She wrote a damn research paper and it is beautiful.

Its a solid meh. Some asset flip artwork and a dosen tables that any GM can figure out for them selves or improvise, not realy the little "expansion" i was houping for. Would make for a good reading material to beginner net runners i guess.

This has been a lifesaver for quick one shots for fast games with new friends and guests. Have had lots of fun running these games so far. 10/10

I was very excited to buy this product as there's not that much Cyberpunk red extra content and because so far the writing and the lore was so intersting and dark just the way i like my cyberpunk fiction. unfortunately that is not what I found in the supplement ; its bascically a gender studies manual with a cyberpunk coating to fool the fans into buying it. the "Edge" that is the defining feature of cyberpunk is nowehre to be seen. it is tame and safe and boring. before this prodcuct anything cyberpunk red was an automatic buy but im sad to say that is no longer the case.

I purchased the pdf, but it is a photoscan of a physical print. As such, much of the smaller text is too blurry to read. I am dissapointed

So one of my choombas mentioned that he'd like to play some Cyberpunk one of these days, after playing Cyberpunk 2077 on PC. I was delighted. I already had the Jumpstart Kit, in fact, in an earlier Cyberpunk humble bundle I bought quite a few Cyberpunk 2020 books, but I went ahead and purchased RED. I wanted to see if the game became streamlined enough so that I could throw my friend's casual butt right into it.

Yeah, we are NOT going to play this game.

Cyberpunk RED suffers from an identity crysis. It wants to be more streamlined, but in some areas it overshoots streamlining (e.g. brandless-generic weapons, or the suppressive fire rule), and in others it doesn't go far enough (I firmly believe that the number of skills could be halved in the game by conjoining massively overlapping skills, maybe even STATs). The classes are almost all one trick ponies. I just can't wrap my head around having a gargantuan library of skills that anybody can progress in and then implementing this... this "parallel skill system", I suppose, with the dumbest stuff being arbitrarily tied to classes (roles and role abilities, sorry).

Let's take for example the Charismatic Impact role ability, which influences what kind of venues the Rockerboy can play and how many fans they possibly have, or, if they can convert people to be their fans. Why?! Why tie these to a specific ability? This is exactly the character stuff that should be roleplayed, and the game even has skills to show how awesome of a performer the charater is, or how easily they can impress masses of people or can strike deals, without this dumb "role ability."

In the end, I have found myself reading through the book, thinking "okay, I'm going to have to house rule this" and "yeah, I'm just going to leave out that entirely." I got about 3/4 through, when epiphany hit and I slammed the book shut, exclaiming "you know what, f--k you man" loudly. If I have to handweave or override half of your rules in your book, then your rules are crap.

The only reason I'm not giving it 1 star is that the art is nice, and it isn't a completely, utterly disfunctional game, so you COULD play it if you wanted. IF you wanted, that is, because the layout of the book will not make it easy on you.

For myself, I think I'm just going to grab the Cyberpunk 2077 setting and play in it with a setting-agnostic game system, accepting the fact that I the only thing I got from purchasing RED is buyer's remorse.

a mix of adventures with the clear intent to "showcase" various aspects of adventuring in Night City. There's combat, social intrigue, mysteries and more. Some minor typos but art & layout is decent. Each adventure is laid out consistent with the Core Book, so you can see how beats work for yourself if you've struggled with that. Overall, a pretty decent addition to the slim product catalog for CP:Red.