The GURPS Cyberpunk PDF isn't just a nostalgia trip. It is a brutal, simulationist look at the gap between human life and corporate profit. It assumes you are smart enough to track your own debt, your own humanity loss, and your own bullet wounds.

The legacy of is one of the most unusual chapters in gaming history, famously blending tabletop roleplaying with real-world international intrigue. Written by Loyd Blankenship and published by Steve Jackson Games , the book became a legend not just for its "high-tech, low-life" mechanics, but for being seized by the U.S. Secret Service in 1990 under the mistaken belief it was a "handbook for computer crime". The Book That Was Too Realistic

If you want to run a session where the players hide in a flophouse, terrified of a corporate sniper, use GURPS. If you want to blow up a convoy with grenades, use RED.

: The core genre book covering high-tech/low-life roleplaying, netrunning, and cybernetics. GURPS Classic: Cyberpunk Adventures

: Detailed, separate mechanics for hacking and navigating cyberspace.