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Solo of Fortune
Types of Solos, specializations and skill packages. The lowdown on the most dangerous Solos of all. Where-to find combat action. Chromers, Boosters, Posers and 'Dorphers as player characters. CIA; KGB, Interpol and Mossad operations in 2013. Plus vehicle combat rules, corporate wars, new weapons, new cyberwear and more!
80 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1989
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Mike Pondsmith
46 books90 followersMichael Alyn Pondsmith is an American roleplaying, board, and video game designer. He founded the publisher R. Talsorian Games in 1982, where he developed a majority of the company's role-playing game lines. Pondsmith is the author of several RPG lines, including Mekton (1984), Cyberpunk (1988) and Castle Falkenstein (1994). He also contributed to the Forgotten Realms and Oriental Adventures lines of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, worked in various capacities on video games, and authored or co-created several board games. Pondsmith also worked as an instructor at the DigiPen Institute of Technology.
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July 3, 2018
This is game source-book for Cyberpunk series but man what a sourcebook.
The topic is Cyberpunk mercenaries, aka Solo's. Basically, these are what are today called private military contractors but it is even more than that. These are specialists that are also PI's, close protection guards, intelligence operatives, extraction specialists (and believe me this is not so do-good activity in this universe :) ) and gun-totting-walking weaponized behemoths. Players are given all possible stats, risks ... everything.
Now what actually makes this sourcebook notch above the others [for me at least] is the presentation. Whoever made this book seems to be a fan of old-style "Soldier Of Fortune" magazine. Everything is told through editorials, articles, and ever-present ads for both jobs and equipment. It is so immersive and detailed that it is truly work of art. It is not even necessary to be an active game player - entire content is organized in such a minute way (e.g. article having a single page at the beginning and then continues with column or two among the classifieds on page 75) that it will be like you are actually reading true soldier-for-hire magazine brought to you from the future.
Highly recommended for all SF [and in general adventure genre] fans.
The topic is Cyberpunk mercenaries, aka Solo's. Basically, these are what are today called private military contractors but it is even more than that. These are specialists that are also PI's, close protection guards, intelligence operatives, extraction specialists (and believe me this is not so do-good activity in this universe :) ) and gun-totting-walking weaponized behemoths. Players are given all possible stats, risks ... everything.
Now what actually makes this sourcebook notch above the others [for me at least] is the presentation. Whoever made this book seems to be a fan of old-style "Soldier Of Fortune" magazine. Everything is told through editorials, articles, and ever-present ads for both jobs and equipment. It is so immersive and detailed that it is truly work of art. It is not even necessary to be an active game player - entire content is organized in such a minute way (e.g. article having a single page at the beginning and then continues with column or two among the classifieds on page 75) that it will be like you are actually reading true soldier-for-hire magazine brought to you from the future.
Highly recommended for all SF [and in general adventure genre] fans.
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