History TabletopGame / Cyberpulp

* AnyoneCanDie: The combat system is intended to be extremely lethal. One lucky (or unlucky, depending on your perspective) shot can kill you even if you are the strongest man alive. Generally, you don't want to get into a firefight unless the odds are heavily stacked in your favour.
** One of the test games currently being run, Gangster Squad, has surprisingly managed to avert this trope thus far. Despite the lethality of the combat system, and despite the fact that the game is a combat test that purposely throws the player characters into a lot of dumb gunfights, the GM has failed to kill a ''single'' PC thus far, though a few have come fairly close to dying.
* ApatheticCitizens: Union City is a city of these.

* ArtificialLimbs: Augmentations.

* CityNoir: Union City.

* DirtyCommunists: The Networked Commune.

* HardboiledDetective

* LandOfOneCity

* LostTechnology: Archaeotech.

* SchizoTech: The game's setting shares similarities with the 1920s, but some of the tech available includes {{RayGun}}s, ArtificialLimbs, {{FreezeRay}}s, and Nanomachines.
** Servos use magnetic tape to store their memories.
* TheMafia: Usually made up of Viteli immigrants.
* TheMorlocks: Morlocs. They're humanoid monsters that live BeneathTheEarth or in the unexplored parts of the world. While their culture is savage and primitive, they are capable of constructing very sophisticated [[SchizoTech tech]],even though their understanding of technology is [[LowCultureHighTech is entirely instinctual]].
* TheNightThatNeverEnds: Union City is located right in the middle of the dark side of the planet.

** The Morlocs may have some, buried well beneath the surface.
* VastBureaucracy: Xian is run by one.
* WeaponsKitchenSink: The firearms run a gamut from mid-19th century muskets (though fired with sparkplugs) through revolvers and bolt-action rifles of the early 20th, a few post-UsefulNotes/WW2 autoloaders and assault rifles, and onto strange pulp sci-fi weapons that shoot lightning, laser beams and disintegration rays.

Union City itself is just one of several other massive city states on a tidally locked world, such as the [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire Anglian Empire]], the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Golden City]], the [[DirtyCommunists Networked Commune]], [[FarEast Xian]], and [[TheRomanEmpire Viteli]]. The world is not Earth, but it bears an [[FantasyCounterpartCulture uncanny resemblance to our own world]].

Union City itself is just one of several other massive city states on a tidally locked world, such as the [[TheBritishEmpire Anglian Empire]], the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Golden City]], the [[DirtyCommunists Networked Commune]], [[FarEast Xian]], and [[TheRomanEmpire Viteli]]. The world is not Earth, but it bears an [[FantasyCounterpartCulture uncanny resemblance to our own world]].

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Home to sewer gators and other things. Not so much sewers as a very ''extensive'' and ''deep'' labyrinth of catacombs, tunnels, and caves. It should be noted that most of this underground was around long before Union City was founded.

It is presently still in development, but the development team is running a [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/a-sleuths-quest-hardboiled.261861/ few]] [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/gangster-squad-hardboiled-gunfight-rp-quest-interest-signup-thread.269170/ games]] on SpaceBattles to iron out the flaws in the system.

* WeaponsKitchenSink: The firearms run a gamut from mid-19th century muskets (though fired with sparkplugs) through revolvers and bolt-action rifles of the early 20th, a few post-WW2 autoloaders and assault rifles, and onto strange pulp sci-fi weapons that shoot lightning, laser beams and disintegration rays.

* VastBureaucracy: Xian is run by one.

''Cyberpulp Adventures - Hardboiled'', more simply known as ''Hardboiled'', is a tabletop roleplaying game, drawing upon noir-style detective stories.

It is presently still in development, but the person writing it is running a [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/a-sleuths-quest-hardboiled.261861/ few]] [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/gangster-squad-hardboiled-gunfight-rp-quest-interest-signup-thread.269170/ games]] on SpaceBattles to iron out the flaws in the system.

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Home to sewer gators and other things. Not so much sewers as a very ''extensive'' and ''deep'' labyrinth of catacombs, tunnels, and caves. It should be noted that most of this underground was around long before Union City was founded.

* LightIsNotGood: The Golden City. Located on the opposite side of the world, it is a city with EndlessDaytime. It is also based on such things as ''UsefulNotes/NaziGermany, Literature/BraveNewWorld and Literature/NineteenEightyFour''.

* HiveMind: The Networked Commune is a giant hive mind consisting of servos, all connected by radio signals. This actually works quite badly for them; if focused on a single goal they'd be utterly terrifying; fortunately for the rest of the world, it's very difficult for them to focus on a single task.
** The extreme schizophrenia of the Networked Commune is the reason why they haven't crushed the life out of the hilariously underequipped and outnumbered Vagarian resistance, despite their vastly superior manpower and technology - a lot of the Commune's members don't want to.

It also features a small number of expansions/spin-offs in varying stages of early development: Adventure Awaits!, with players taking on the role of an AdventurerArchaeologist or colonial era explorer searching the world for LostTechnology; Shadow Precinct, where the protagonists are comic book styled vigilantes; and War Stories, with a stronger combat focus, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin with stories from the wars in the setting backstory]].

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Swords with pulse engines attached tend to be this. ''PoweredArmor'' won't even slow it down.

* AdventurerArchaeologist: What the player characters will be in one of the planed expansions, ''Adventure Awaits''.

** The Golden City is built on a philosophy of eugenics.

* BlackAndGrayMorality/EvilVersusEvil: All of the major nations are at the very least morally dubious.

* LightIsNotGood: The Golden City. Located on the opposite side of the world, it is a city with EndlessDaytime. It is also based on such things as ''NaziGermany, BraveNewWorld and NineteenEightyFour''.

** One of the test games currently being run, Gangster Squad, has surprisingly managed to avert this trope thus far. Despite the lethality of the combat system, and despite the fact that the game is a combat test that purposely throws the player characters into a lot of dumb gunfights, the GM has failed to kill a ''single'' character thus far, though a few have come fairly close to dying.