Cyberpunk 2077 owes its rich history to R. Talsorian Games, the developer who created the cyberpunk tabletop universe in the 1980s. When CD Projekt’s video game launched in 2020, Cyberpunk Red – the latest iteration of the tabletop RPG – was released just a month earlier. Now R. Talsorian is going back to the well and developing a new starter set for his revitalized TTRPG, based entirely on the hit Netflix series. Cyberpunk: Edgerunner.
Cyberpunk Edgerunners mission kit is a new boxed starter set for the Cyberpunk Red game engine. R. Talsorian said in a press release Monday that it will include “core rules, as well as lore about the Dark Future, Night City, the Edgerunners team, and more.” No release date or price has been announced.
What’s interesting here for tabletop fans is the original Cyberpunk Red and the Cyberpunk Red: Jump Starter Kit – as well as all material published after it – takes place in the year 2045 Edgerunners Mission Kit fans will therefore first be immersed in the same type of technology and fiction found in the video game.
“That Cyberpunk Edgerunners mission kit will guide fans of the series who are new to tabletop roleplaying through the process of making their own stories in Night City,” R. Talsorian Games said in a press release. “At the same time, existing Cyberpunk RED players will get their first look at the cyberware, firepower and netrunning capabilities of the 2077 era.”
Does that mean R. Talsorian is leaving the world of 2045 behind? Absolutely not, a company spokesman told Polygon. While a 2077-themed sourcebook is also in the pipeline, the 2045 timeline will continue to be supported with additional content in the future.
