Huh...
Why am I not skipping the intro of Edgerunners? Yeah, it's only 100s, but still. I would skip them in any other show.
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@heavens_feel @sjw @LukeAlmighty iirc original versions of cyberpunk had extreme sanity losses for changing your gender and your character actually had to go to therapy otherwise they would go insane
* I think the penalty could be higher if it was an involuntary modification (if it was done, for example, by the plastic surgeon to the target of his revenge in the film "The Skin I Live In". )
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(shadowrun, though, ...)
i think CBRed reaffirmed this by adding a paragraph that if you are a veteran whos leg is blown off and replaced with a human standard equivalent it specifically does not incur cyberpsychosis rolls, and i think sex changes were made zero too.
people who like being offended took this to mean having a robot arm makes you "less of a person" (like say the CDDA crowd who basically said essense is a wokeness violation as part of the no-fun-allowed-for-CBMs campaign) but its really just a balance measure so you can't make a mage who is a living tony stark suit
@icedquinn @heavens_feel @sjw @LukeAlmighty people who are missing limbs still experience phantom pain and limbs. bodies can reject other types of blood and organs from donors. so the idea of a cyberpunk setting where people are removing stuff on purpose and swapping it out is kind of like, how far can you go until your mind kind of shatters due to the dissonance of having body parts that aren't your own?
that's why stuff like therapy exists there too, because it does in real life for people who need to get prosthetics or go through other life altering changes. only in the cyberpunk genre it's exaggerated a little because everything is and that's kind of the point.
I'm reminded of what was talked about in the Bubblegum Crisis RPG (which includes conversion notes for porting material over to CP2020).
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