We don't choose our cyberpunk, it's chosen for us. Companies like Wal-Mart, Monsanto, Del-Monte, Halliburton, BP, Fannie Mae,........
Greed.... the elite capitalist dogma of Profit above all else and damn repercussions. That is what is creating our dystopia. People who treat 1984 like a how-to book, and see Ayn Rand as a visionary. Governments beholden to corporations, and too divided by party lines to work for the greater good. That is what is creating the overriding sense of paranoia leaving us handicapped in the onslaught of the future. The cyberpunks are the ones who see this coming, who warn us it's happening now, who fight against it, or retreat altogether to try and whether the storm.
Utopia requires people to work together, united in their efforts to promote harmony, tolerance, and community. It requires a governing body concerned with the well being of it's citizens. This is not something we are moving towards, it's something we are actively moving away from.
Tabletop Wisdom000
Friday, August 23, 2013
Friday, August 2, 2013
Sunday, July 21, 2013
New E-Mail
After
17 years, my e-mail provider, Arkansas.net, decided they would change
their provided e-mails to gmail accounts, then they decided they wanted
their customers to pay 5 dollars a month to keep their e-mail
addresses. That's right, 5 dollars a month, for free a-mail accounts.
To make matters worse, their website does not have any sort of page to
sign up or pay for this account, it all has to be done by phone, and
they NEVER answer their bloody phone.
So screw them, if I am going to have a gmail account, I damn sure am not going to pay for it. Over the next few months, I will be slowly changing all the e-mail links on the site to reflect this, but right now, if you need to get a message to me, the e-mail button link on the main menu of Datafortress 2020, and the e-mail at the bottom of the page are the best way to contact me. wisdom000 at gmail.
So screw them, if I am going to have a gmail account, I damn sure am not going to pay for it. Over the next few months, I will be slowly changing all the e-mail links on the site to reflect this, but right now, if you need to get a message to me, the e-mail button link on the main menu of Datafortress 2020, and the e-mail at the bottom of the page are the best way to contact me. wisdom000 at gmail.
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Thinking of IU rules changes.... Range and weapon skills
The range mechanics have never quite sat right with me... For IU I have already made minor alterations, but I am thinking something more drastic is needed.
The idea that when using a non-scoped rifle, it is as difficult to hit a target at 500m as it is to hit a target a 50 meters with a pistol. Now having shot before, I can tell you, this isn't really accurate. In fact with a non-scoped rifle, it is only slightly less difficult to hit a target at 50 meters than it is with a handgun. That's about half a football field. This is a pretty significant distance.
Now its true completely that a rifle will generally have a longer reliable range than a handgun. But just because the bullet travels farther does not mean you are going to be significantly more accurate with it.
I am thinking all firearms should operate at the range difficulties of the handgun. With scopes allowing that range to be increased out to rifle ranges in varying degrees depending on the scope.
I need to giver it a bit more thought though before I make the changes... tweak it until it sits right with me.
Another thing I have been wrestling with for a loooooooooong time are the gun skills themselves. Why is there a submachinegun skill? What purpose does it actually serve. If I am Shoulder firing an mp5 with a stock, or even an Ingram Mac 10 with a stock, is that really any different than firing an AK-47 or an M-16 from a practical standpoint? If I am shooting a micro uzi without a stock, how much different is that really from shooting a Baretta... If you say because its fully auto, then what about when I am firing that micro-uzi on single shot setting, or firing a Handgun with a 3-round burst setting? Does the micro Uzi suddenly use the handgun skill? Does the Handgun suddenly require the submachinegun skill? Why does the full-auto and burst difference not translate to rifles? Firing a lever action Winchester uses the same skill as firing an M-16.
I am thinking of dropping the smg skill altogether. And thinking of changing the rules for full auto.burst fire to incur addition penalties on top of the standard modifiers. -4 with no skill, -3 with a 1, -2 with a 2, -1 with a 3, skill level 4 on receives no additional penalties.
I will probably have to word it a bit better, but I think the idea is solid enough. I understand they spread the skills out to prevent people from becoming overpowered in combat too quickly, but I don't think it really works.
Any ideas on this?
I am cross posting this across several forums, to get the broadest collaboration possible. I have other small changes to make to the IU core rules, but these 2 bits have been eating at me for a couple of years now, and I am finally getting something worked out in my head to correct the issues I have.
As always anyone with a suggestion that makes the final cut will be credited in the core rules.
Oh, and the Datafortress 2020 File Project and Forums are back up, doubtful they will stay up long, but if you are looking for files I would grab them now.
The idea that when using a non-scoped rifle, it is as difficult to hit a target at 500m as it is to hit a target a 50 meters with a pistol. Now having shot before, I can tell you, this isn't really accurate. In fact with a non-scoped rifle, it is only slightly less difficult to hit a target at 50 meters than it is with a handgun. That's about half a football field. This is a pretty significant distance.
Now its true completely that a rifle will generally have a longer reliable range than a handgun. But just because the bullet travels farther does not mean you are going to be significantly more accurate with it.
I am thinking all firearms should operate at the range difficulties of the handgun. With scopes allowing that range to be increased out to rifle ranges in varying degrees depending on the scope.
I need to giver it a bit more thought though before I make the changes... tweak it until it sits right with me.
Another thing I have been wrestling with for a loooooooooong time are the gun skills themselves. Why is there a submachinegun skill? What purpose does it actually serve. If I am Shoulder firing an mp5 with a stock, or even an Ingram Mac 10 with a stock, is that really any different than firing an AK-47 or an M-16 from a practical standpoint? If I am shooting a micro uzi without a stock, how much different is that really from shooting a Baretta... If you say because its fully auto, then what about when I am firing that micro-uzi on single shot setting, or firing a Handgun with a 3-round burst setting? Does the micro Uzi suddenly use the handgun skill? Does the Handgun suddenly require the submachinegun skill? Why does the full-auto and burst difference not translate to rifles? Firing a lever action Winchester uses the same skill as firing an M-16.
I am thinking of dropping the smg skill altogether. And thinking of changing the rules for full auto.burst fire to incur addition penalties on top of the standard modifiers. -4 with no skill, -3 with a 1, -2 with a 2, -1 with a 3, skill level 4 on receives no additional penalties.
I will probably have to word it a bit better, but I think the idea is solid enough. I understand they spread the skills out to prevent people from becoming overpowered in combat too quickly, but I don't think it really works.
Any ideas on this?
I am cross posting this across several forums, to get the broadest collaboration possible. I have other small changes to make to the IU core rules, but these 2 bits have been eating at me for a couple of years now, and I am finally getting something worked out in my head to correct the issues I have.
As always anyone with a suggestion that makes the final cut will be credited in the core rules.
Oh, and the Datafortress 2020 File Project and Forums are back up, doubtful they will stay up long, but if you are looking for files I would grab them now.
Monday, June 3, 2013
Hunger Games... the worst movie I have seen this year....
First off let me preface this by saying if a film is remotely Cyberpunk
or Post Apocalyptic, I feel compelled to watch it. It's a weakness
that has led to me enduring some goddawful movies. I have watched
R.OT.O.R. and Slipstream back to back and survived. I have watched
sci-fi originals so horrible that I have burned their titles from my
memory... Hunger Games was worse than all of them.
First off let me say, this is not me trying to compare Hunger Games to the incomparable Battle Royale or even the low budget Series 7: The Contenders... No I am going to judge this steaming pile of shit on its own steaming merits...
It's quite obvious that this story was written by a women, and panders to teen girls with every bullshit cliche you can imagine.... to the point I am genuinely surprised the whole thing wasn't covered in glitter and unicorns. Now normally I wouldn't care about this, as there is more than enough crap out there that panders to teen boys and men in general. And I believe that some movies should cater to women, and that girls should have strong role models. But this was simply so overblown in its obvious grab for attention from the teen girl market it makes Expendables look subtle... (Note that's not a dig on Expendables, I love me some expendables, but it caters to a pretty specific crowd too... just one that I happen to be a part of.)
From the very opening scene, with young Catniss (I don''t really know or care if I am spelling that right), the fact that this is a young girls fantasy movie is apparent. As Catniss runs through town, literally every single person in the town is absolutely filthy, dressed in clothes the amish would think were frumpy... I guess its supposed to be a mining town, because it seems the only reference the filmmaker used for this town was Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner's Daughter.... hideous "Little House on the Prairee" dresses for the girls and filthy overall's for the men. And everyone is just smeared in grime as though bathing was somehow a lost technology... Yet here comes our our heroine, clean as a whistle, unblemished, and wearing brand new black jeans, a black tight shirt, a brand new leather jacket and boots... In a town where people are trading squirrels for.... well everything it seems, she steps right out of Teen Beat...
However, soon the lottery or whatever to select the "tribute" is chosen, and she "uglies up" by putting on a dress just like all the other hideous dresses, only hers doesn't make her look like she is more afraid of getting knocked up by her father than everyone else somehow. It only gets worse from there. Her sister is chosen, so she volunteers to go in her sisters place, yadda yadda yadda....
This is where it starts to really get awful...
2 things immediately become apparent... everyone in this movie is either hideous, or ridiculous looking.... except the people we are supposed to be sympathetic towards, or afraid of, and the level of ridiculousness of their appearance directly corresponds to how "important" they are to this nonsense.
Every male from Catniss's (fuck that's a stupid name) looks so inbred that you might think they were extras from Deliverance, except for the two guys who form the "all too obvious from the beginning" love triangle... The first guy, who you get the feeling is supposed to be her true love, is Thor's little brother, who could probably actually pull off a decent Clark Kent if they rebooted Smallville. The second guy starts out looking like a wimp, but you know that due to his looks he is gonna be the third leg of this triumvirate of teen angst...
Then you get to the city, where everyone looks like they were vomited out of a pride parade float. The outfits and hairstyles are so bloody ridiculous that if you lived in this society you would poke out your eyes with a rusty melon scoop just so you wouldn't have to be witness to the clown parade constantly going on before you eyes. Of course the actors and celebrities who actually have talent and clout managed to avoid the worst of this... Woody Harrelson, Lenny Kravitz, and Donald Southerland seemed to take one look at this and unanimously screamed..." I will accept heaping piles of money to be in this bubbling cauldron of awful, but I will not let you make me look like Christopher Lowell tried to decorate my face..."
But all of that only illustrates how pandering it all felt... none of that has anything to do with how horrible the story is.... and it is.... dear god it is.....
So... I am sure the whole idea behind making these kids hunt each other down makes sense to someone.... I caught something about how 75 years or some shit prior there was a rebellion, and once it was put down they decided that every year, each of the districts the rebellion took place in would pick 2 teenagers, between 12 and 18 (the fuck? how is that even remotely sensible) to fight to the death in an annual televised death match. Because somehow making children murder each other keeps people in line! But you know what, I can deal with that, I have seen a lot thinner plots in some otherwise pretty great movies...
So the kids get trained, we actually get a pretty neat scene where Catniss is in her last interview and shoots an apple out of roasted pigs mouth... then the games start. I am not sure how far into the movie this actually is, it seems like at least an hour... and I had heard that this movie got pretty brutal... I was lied too. And when I remember who told me this lie, I will perpetrate real violence upon them so they are not mistaken in the future, but I digress. Anyway, the "games" finally start, and it is quite possibly the least interesting "slaughter" I have ever seen.... Nothing is really shown, its just quick edits where you see people kind of limply swinging at each other. It's not filmed in a poignant enough manner to be disturbing, it's not bloody or gory enough to be controversial, and its not exciting enough to be entertaining. The whole scene is just kind of..... meh. Supposedly in this scene 13 kids die... but it has zero impact on the audience, unless they have only ever watched Disney teen shows... which is the intended audience I guess....
From there Catniss sleeps in trees a lot... until finally she is cornered by a group of kids who have banded together, including tertiary love table leg guy. She climbs a tree and waits em out, while they just sit at the bottom waiting for her to get tired and come down and have the worlds most awkward camping trip... instead of using their axes and swords to maybe chop the tree down, or using the fire they build to set it aflame. So in the morning, while the kids below are still asleep, she sees TBGSLS (Token Black girl surrogate little sister) who points out above her head is a gigantic wasps nest, full of super deadly post-apocalypse acid wasps... of course she has been in the tree all night, ten feet below, but I guess these wasps don't fly very far. So she climbs up, and slowly cuts the limb holding their nest down, which falls and the thousands of wasps swarm the kids below. Now we are just told how utterly deadly these wasps are, and literally thousands of them, pissed as hell, swarm over the kids... one girl, the girl who just happened to be carrying the bow, gets engulfed and is killed. We see the other 4-5 kids (I lose count, they all looked the same to me) getting stung as well. But they manage to run off. Less than 30 seconds later, Catpiss comes down from the tree, all tripping out and shit from the 4 or five stings she took. She can barely walk, but all the thousands of wasps that were just there swarming like crazy not one minute prior have utterly and inexplicably vanished. She gets the bow and just kind of wanders away to pass out in the woods where she sleeps for 2 days while being taken care of TBGSLS. Now here is the thing... she was stung around 4 or 5 times max and slept for two days. The other kids, including obligatory boyfriend material guy, were covered in the wasps as they went running... but only the one girl with the bow died... I dunno, maybe she was allergic or something, but damn...
Oh and of course when she wakes up, thanks to TBGSLS and her application of leaves, there is not a blemish on Catniss.
Really, the movie just gets dumber from here. There never really is any action or violence worth speaking about. And somehow, even though everyone is starving, they can just create hologram dogs that are real enough to bleed and kill you. If they can do this, why don't they just create holographic cows and feed everyone? ugh... this movie just sucks....
Now beyond all that, the performances weren't bad... The girl playing Catniss is cute, and can act well enough, she proved that in X-Men first Class. Woody Harrelson, Donald Sutherland, and my boy Lenny do the best with what they are given... but nothing in this movie makes any sense. And there are only so many times you can wonder.... "why the fuck is she just standing around crying? Why is she having a funeral while people are hunting her down? Why the fuck is she crying again? Why the fuck am I watching this?" before you just stop caring....
Sadly, no actor could have pulled this crap from the mire of this trite little story and its inept director.
I watched this festering pile of celluloid excrement so you don;t have to.... be thankful.
First off let me say, this is not me trying to compare Hunger Games to the incomparable Battle Royale or even the low budget Series 7: The Contenders... No I am going to judge this steaming pile of shit on its own steaming merits...
It's quite obvious that this story was written by a women, and panders to teen girls with every bullshit cliche you can imagine.... to the point I am genuinely surprised the whole thing wasn't covered in glitter and unicorns. Now normally I wouldn't care about this, as there is more than enough crap out there that panders to teen boys and men in general. And I believe that some movies should cater to women, and that girls should have strong role models. But this was simply so overblown in its obvious grab for attention from the teen girl market it makes Expendables look subtle... (Note that's not a dig on Expendables, I love me some expendables, but it caters to a pretty specific crowd too... just one that I happen to be a part of.)
From the very opening scene, with young Catniss (I don''t really know or care if I am spelling that right), the fact that this is a young girls fantasy movie is apparent. As Catniss runs through town, literally every single person in the town is absolutely filthy, dressed in clothes the amish would think were frumpy... I guess its supposed to be a mining town, because it seems the only reference the filmmaker used for this town was Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner's Daughter.... hideous "Little House on the Prairee" dresses for the girls and filthy overall's for the men. And everyone is just smeared in grime as though bathing was somehow a lost technology... Yet here comes our our heroine, clean as a whistle, unblemished, and wearing brand new black jeans, a black tight shirt, a brand new leather jacket and boots... In a town where people are trading squirrels for.... well everything it seems, she steps right out of Teen Beat...
However, soon the lottery or whatever to select the "tribute" is chosen, and she "uglies up" by putting on a dress just like all the other hideous dresses, only hers doesn't make her look like she is more afraid of getting knocked up by her father than everyone else somehow. It only gets worse from there. Her sister is chosen, so she volunteers to go in her sisters place, yadda yadda yadda....
This is where it starts to really get awful...
2 things immediately become apparent... everyone in this movie is either hideous, or ridiculous looking.... except the people we are supposed to be sympathetic towards, or afraid of, and the level of ridiculousness of their appearance directly corresponds to how "important" they are to this nonsense.
Every male from Catniss's (fuck that's a stupid name) looks so inbred that you might think they were extras from Deliverance, except for the two guys who form the "all too obvious from the beginning" love triangle... The first guy, who you get the feeling is supposed to be her true love, is Thor's little brother, who could probably actually pull off a decent Clark Kent if they rebooted Smallville. The second guy starts out looking like a wimp, but you know that due to his looks he is gonna be the third leg of this triumvirate of teen angst...
Then you get to the city, where everyone looks like they were vomited out of a pride parade float. The outfits and hairstyles are so bloody ridiculous that if you lived in this society you would poke out your eyes with a rusty melon scoop just so you wouldn't have to be witness to the clown parade constantly going on before you eyes. Of course the actors and celebrities who actually have talent and clout managed to avoid the worst of this... Woody Harrelson, Lenny Kravitz, and Donald Southerland seemed to take one look at this and unanimously screamed..." I will accept heaping piles of money to be in this bubbling cauldron of awful, but I will not let you make me look like Christopher Lowell tried to decorate my face..."
But all of that only illustrates how pandering it all felt... none of that has anything to do with how horrible the story is.... and it is.... dear god it is.....
So... I am sure the whole idea behind making these kids hunt each other down makes sense to someone.... I caught something about how 75 years or some shit prior there was a rebellion, and once it was put down they decided that every year, each of the districts the rebellion took place in would pick 2 teenagers, between 12 and 18 (the fuck? how is that even remotely sensible) to fight to the death in an annual televised death match. Because somehow making children murder each other keeps people in line! But you know what, I can deal with that, I have seen a lot thinner plots in some otherwise pretty great movies...
So the kids get trained, we actually get a pretty neat scene where Catniss is in her last interview and shoots an apple out of roasted pigs mouth... then the games start. I am not sure how far into the movie this actually is, it seems like at least an hour... and I had heard that this movie got pretty brutal... I was lied too. And when I remember who told me this lie, I will perpetrate real violence upon them so they are not mistaken in the future, but I digress. Anyway, the "games" finally start, and it is quite possibly the least interesting "slaughter" I have ever seen.... Nothing is really shown, its just quick edits where you see people kind of limply swinging at each other. It's not filmed in a poignant enough manner to be disturbing, it's not bloody or gory enough to be controversial, and its not exciting enough to be entertaining. The whole scene is just kind of..... meh. Supposedly in this scene 13 kids die... but it has zero impact on the audience, unless they have only ever watched Disney teen shows... which is the intended audience I guess....
From there Catniss sleeps in trees a lot... until finally she is cornered by a group of kids who have banded together, including tertiary love table leg guy. She climbs a tree and waits em out, while they just sit at the bottom waiting for her to get tired and come down and have the worlds most awkward camping trip... instead of using their axes and swords to maybe chop the tree down, or using the fire they build to set it aflame. So in the morning, while the kids below are still asleep, she sees TBGSLS (Token Black girl surrogate little sister) who points out above her head is a gigantic wasps nest, full of super deadly post-apocalypse acid wasps... of course she has been in the tree all night, ten feet below, but I guess these wasps don't fly very far. So she climbs up, and slowly cuts the limb holding their nest down, which falls and the thousands of wasps swarm the kids below. Now we are just told how utterly deadly these wasps are, and literally thousands of them, pissed as hell, swarm over the kids... one girl, the girl who just happened to be carrying the bow, gets engulfed and is killed. We see the other 4-5 kids (I lose count, they all looked the same to me) getting stung as well. But they manage to run off. Less than 30 seconds later, Catpiss comes down from the tree, all tripping out and shit from the 4 or five stings she took. She can barely walk, but all the thousands of wasps that were just there swarming like crazy not one minute prior have utterly and inexplicably vanished. She gets the bow and just kind of wanders away to pass out in the woods where she sleeps for 2 days while being taken care of TBGSLS. Now here is the thing... she was stung around 4 or 5 times max and slept for two days. The other kids, including obligatory boyfriend material guy, were covered in the wasps as they went running... but only the one girl with the bow died... I dunno, maybe she was allergic or something, but damn...
Oh and of course when she wakes up, thanks to TBGSLS and her application of leaves, there is not a blemish on Catniss.
Really, the movie just gets dumber from here. There never really is any action or violence worth speaking about. And somehow, even though everyone is starving, they can just create hologram dogs that are real enough to bleed and kill you. If they can do this, why don't they just create holographic cows and feed everyone? ugh... this movie just sucks....
Now beyond all that, the performances weren't bad... The girl playing Catniss is cute, and can act well enough, she proved that in X-Men first Class. Woody Harrelson, Donald Sutherland, and my boy Lenny do the best with what they are given... but nothing in this movie makes any sense. And there are only so many times you can wonder.... "why the fuck is she just standing around crying? Why is she having a funeral while people are hunting her down? Why the fuck is she crying again? Why the fuck am I watching this?" before you just stop caring....
Sadly, no actor could have pulled this crap from the mire of this trite little story and its inept director.
I watched this festering pile of celluloid excrement so you don;t have to.... be thankful.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
MASSIVE UPDATE!
DATAFORTRESS 2020 has an absolutely massive update.
The Autumn Blade weapon catalog has been updated, not only with new guns and gear, but I have replaced the images of some of the old guns that just didn't look up to snuff. I have also reorganized them. For the guns this means they are organized not only by type, but by caliber, and alphabetically. With the gear, and exotic weapons, its broken down by type and alphabetized as well. I also did my best to correct some of the stats, especially prices, to make things more consistent. Now due to the weapon and gear catalog, a few other catalogs got updated as well... like the weapon, armor and gear sections of Nomad Market, and the clothing and armor from Cyber Fashion.
If Guns and gear isn't your thing... then I have also updated Miracle Mile, the civilian vehicle catalog... hundred of new rides are now available, plus like Autumn Blade, the whole thing has been re-organized. Vehicles are broken up into specific types, and then appear according to either Speed (for vehicles where thats what is important) or by Size (for the other vehicles), and of course you can still sort through them by manufacturer as well. And like Autumn Blade I went through and corrected a bunch of the stats and prices.
Special thanks to Seth Skorkowsky, who brings us Interlock Unlimited: Alchemy Unlimited. Seth is working on smoothing out the arcane rules and working on a fantasy bestiaries and fantasy sourcebooks for IU as well, but in the meantime he has given us magic potions and how to make them to tide us over.
While Miracle Mile is available as its own updated PDF, the Autumn Blade update is broken up into the "Ultimate" series of PDF files. (Ultimate Handguns, Ultimate Rifles, Ultimate Submachineguns, Ultimate Shotguns, Ultimate Heavy Weapons, Ultimate Exotic Weapons, Ultimate Equipment)
And speaking of PDF files... I have saved the best for last. Long time friend Andrew James (of Node 16 fame) has done us all the ultimate favor. He, being a long time UK fan of Cyberpunk 2020 happened to possess the single most sought after fanzine in CP 2020 circles. Something I myself have long been searching for... I have exhausted the web looking for some way to contact the mag's original publishers, but with no avail. Andrew scanned in the pages of this incredibly rare magazine, and sent them to me, where I cleaned them up and re-assembled them, so we could make it available to everyone. Have you guessed what I am talking about... PUNK 21' issue 1, the holy grail of Cyberpunk rarities! If you are in the UK, buy Mr. James a beer, I prefer Scotch.
Oh, and as an afterthought, while the Datafortress 2020 File Project is down, I went ahead and made a single downloadable bundle of all the Datafortress 2020 Pdf's and files, the Archive Files, and all the Interlock Unlimited files... the only files this bundle doesn't contain are the images from my gallery. It's a huge file (almost 800meg), but if you want it, it's in there, including all the newest files. These files as well as several of the most recent or popularly requested files have been put on DROP BOX for immediate download, the links are found below.
Get it all from Datafortress 2020
http://datafortress2020.oliwy.net/
The Autumn Blade weapon catalog has been updated, not only with new guns and gear, but I have replaced the images of some of the old guns that just didn't look up to snuff. I have also reorganized them. For the guns this means they are organized not only by type, but by caliber, and alphabetically. With the gear, and exotic weapons, its broken down by type and alphabetized as well. I also did my best to correct some of the stats, especially prices, to make things more consistent. Now due to the weapon and gear catalog, a few other catalogs got updated as well... like the weapon, armor and gear sections of Nomad Market, and the clothing and armor from Cyber Fashion.
If Guns and gear isn't your thing... then I have also updated Miracle Mile, the civilian vehicle catalog... hundred of new rides are now available, plus like Autumn Blade, the whole thing has been re-organized. Vehicles are broken up into specific types, and then appear according to either Speed (for vehicles where thats what is important) or by Size (for the other vehicles), and of course you can still sort through them by manufacturer as well. And like Autumn Blade I went through and corrected a bunch of the stats and prices.
Special thanks to Seth Skorkowsky, who brings us Interlock Unlimited: Alchemy Unlimited. Seth is working on smoothing out the arcane rules and working on a fantasy bestiaries and fantasy sourcebooks for IU as well, but in the meantime he has given us magic potions and how to make them to tide us over.
While Miracle Mile is available as its own updated PDF, the Autumn Blade update is broken up into the "Ultimate" series of PDF files. (Ultimate Handguns, Ultimate Rifles, Ultimate Submachineguns, Ultimate Shotguns, Ultimate Heavy Weapons, Ultimate Exotic Weapons, Ultimate Equipment)
And speaking of PDF files... I have saved the best for last. Long time friend Andrew James (of Node 16 fame) has done us all the ultimate favor. He, being a long time UK fan of Cyberpunk 2020 happened to possess the single most sought after fanzine in CP 2020 circles. Something I myself have long been searching for... I have exhausted the web looking for some way to contact the mag's original publishers, but with no avail. Andrew scanned in the pages of this incredibly rare magazine, and sent them to me, where I cleaned them up and re-assembled them, so we could make it available to everyone. Have you guessed what I am talking about... PUNK 21' issue 1, the holy grail of Cyberpunk rarities! If you are in the UK, buy Mr. James a beer, I prefer Scotch.
Oh, and as an afterthought, while the Datafortress 2020 File Project is down, I went ahead and made a single downloadable bundle of all the Datafortress 2020 Pdf's and files, the Archive Files, and all the Interlock Unlimited files... the only files this bundle doesn't contain are the images from my gallery. It's a huge file (almost 800meg), but if you want it, it's in there, including all the newest files. These files as well as several of the most recent or popularly requested files have been put on DROP BOX for immediate download, the links are found below.
Get it all from Datafortress 2020
http://datafortress2020.oliwy.net/
Friday, March 15, 2013
Just a progress report...
So.... the File Project and Forums were up for about a week, then went down again, hard... and I didn't get the opportunity to download current copies of them, to try and put them elsewhere... sigh... because I am an idiot... and mostLY because my computer was already screaming at me as I was tacxing it to its limit on my current projects...
The update to Miracle Mile is done... both the PDF version and the Website version have been somewhat re-organized, new vehicles added, fixed a lot of the prices and stats, yay... but I am not putting either version up yet... as I am knee deep in the middle of updating the Ultimate Weapons Catalogs/Autumn Blade gear and equipment.... again new stuff, plus a total re-organization.. Each weapon type will be subdivided first into type and size, then further into ammunition type, and done in alphabetical order. The Doc file for Handguns is done, almost done with SMG's, will probably do Rifles after that... I also not only am fixing up the prices and stats, but also replacing a lot of the old images. So that french site that has copied half my site is going to have a lot of work to do to remain viable, as at least 50% of the weapons I have done so far have required a change on some level... usually in price or ammo capacity or both.
I am waiting till I am done with the weapons to post the Miracle Mile Update... but I also have a very special treat for all the fans, made possible by my awesome connection in the UK, Andrew James of Node 16... I don;t want to reveal the details too soon, but its something that every hard core Cyberpunk 2020 collector has been looking for, and most thought they would never see it.
So keep checking in, good things are coming.
The update to Miracle Mile is done... both the PDF version and the Website version have been somewhat re-organized, new vehicles added, fixed a lot of the prices and stats, yay... but I am not putting either version up yet... as I am knee deep in the middle of updating the Ultimate Weapons Catalogs/Autumn Blade gear and equipment.... again new stuff, plus a total re-organization.. Each weapon type will be subdivided first into type and size, then further into ammunition type, and done in alphabetical order. The Doc file for Handguns is done, almost done with SMG's, will probably do Rifles after that... I also not only am fixing up the prices and stats, but also replacing a lot of the old images. So that french site that has copied half my site is going to have a lot of work to do to remain viable, as at least 50% of the weapons I have done so far have required a change on some level... usually in price or ammo capacity or both.
I am waiting till I am done with the weapons to post the Miracle Mile Update... but I also have a very special treat for all the fans, made possible by my awesome connection in the UK, Andrew James of Node 16... I don;t want to reveal the details too soon, but its something that every hard core Cyberpunk 2020 collector has been looking for, and most thought they would never see it.
So keep checking in, good things are coming.
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