April Fool’s! This is a real thing though.
You all might’ve heard of the CD Projekt Red game Cyberpunk 2077, I heard they recently released a big revamp and DLC, actually. Or you might’ve heard of the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime by Studio Trigger of Inferno Cop fame.
In fact, considering the sheer amount of fanart of Edgerunner’s Rebecca with our very own homegrown Becky, I know for a fact most of you know the latter.
Well, both of those are based on Cyberpunk, the Tabletop RPG by the good folks at R. Talsorian Games.
Yes, just “Cyberpunk”, it was so groundbreaking in its time that it didn’t need any further clarifications.
Clarifications of a sort were eventually added to the title as editions of the game came and went. Cyberpunk was followed by Cyberpunk 2020 (in 1990) and its current iteration is called Cyberpunk RED.
For this latest one the folks at R. Talsorian have taken to releasing what they call “DLC”. As they explained it to me when we first talked, they’re the sort of additions and supplements that would’ve been published in magazines back in the day. Quirky and small but usable, the sort of thing to spice up your gaming sessions.
And for this one, we have the immense honor to be at the core of an April Fool’s joke. Unironically the biggest honor one can have.
No, I’m not being sarcastic. How dare you even think that.
Mixing Drinks–Changing Lives: A Cyberpunk RED/VA-11 HALL-A Crossover is a 20 page PDF that gives ideas and stat sheets to be able to add the VA-11 Hall-A cast to your gaming sessions.
And if they had stopped there it would’ve been more than enough.
But they didn’t stop.
You see, the worlds of Cyberpunk and VA-11 Hall-A are slightly incompatible despite being part of the same genre. So the R. Talsorian peeps went to work and created wholesale concepts that maintain the spirit of the wackier or softer sci-fi of VA-11 Hall-A while making them perfectly compatible with the style of sci-fi that Cyberpunk prefers.
It’s so smooth in fact that you’d swear it’s canon… but it isn’t.
Paperwork is a messy thing, if we had to make things proper canon to each other’s settings that would be a massive headache, at the very least it’s not the sort of thing you leave to just a simple supplement like this one.
As it stands this is just two companies that think what the other did was mad cool and decided to have fun together.
Of course, anything can be canon in your own gaming session! Not even the all-seeing judgment of God can reach you there.
Two questions surely remain at this point. So let’s address them:
“Where do I get this?”
Click here for the supplement.
Honestly, even if you don’t play Cyberpunk RED, you should check it. It’s such a labor of love that it’s sure to bring a smile out of you just like it got one out of us.
If you do decide to give Cyberpunk RED a try, first of all: Good choice! Second of all: You can get the Core Rulebook from their website too.
I also heard that their supplement book Black Chrome has a nod to VA-11 Hall-A for those that look carefully.
You might also be asking yourself “How did this happen? What steps had to happen for this to occur?”
They asked.
That’s it, they asked and we said “Hell yeah!”.
Guys, you just made my day a TON better!!! Both of the tbi gs I like the most come together as one, it might not be canon, but for me, in my heart and table it is. I’m in awe, truly.
Thank you Sukeban team and R. Talsorian, from the bottom of my heart ♥
what a lovely DLC and i was not expecting or even considered a cross over type thing in a TTRPG. good job to everyone involved and I’m glad we can all come together to make cool things and have fun.
That’s really cool!!!
You guys, IT’S ILLEGAL TO MAKE THIS TYPE OF ANNOUNCEMENT ON APRIL 1, its cool anyways, so happy for more content
I’m Soooo stoked to see this happened! I’ve been dming cyberpunk red for a few months now and I’m so happy to see a bonifide Collab!
Holy shit that’s awesome! It’s actually playable and not just a prank! Gongrats and good job!
This is so very amazing! The collaboration I had no idea that I needed so very badly. Ty Sukeban, Ty R.Talsorian!!!
Honestly might have to get into cyberpunk red now
Literally stoked that this happened. Was hoping for it ever since I read about the Drink Master in Black Chrome. Huge fan of both VA-11 Hall-A and Cyberpunk RED so this is a shocking, wonderful treat. Thanks for all you do!
OK this is really insane to me, this is like the biggest dream come true moment I could ever imagine in my life. Holy Shxt THIS IS CANNON LET’S COOK!!!
God I would say what a wonderful work you guys had made, after all of this years us fans got our best gift from VA-11 HALL-A and Cyperpunk
Salute to the rebles and the bartenders, we will never fade away.
Thank you!!! I play a lot at Cyberpunk RED. I’ve already created a whole campaing and run it a time ago, and Playing in this world with va11halla in it… wow. Almost every mission begins in a bar (there are a lot and every bar is the office of some fixer) so this is a lot! It’s so cool to talk about some random mission while Jill is mixing drinks in the background.
You made my day pretty happy! Thanks!
Greetings from argentina.