What do you think of biopunk? As the name suggests it's a biological counterpart to chrome focused cyberpunk, ranging from a setting with biocorporation and biological modification, implants and tools to full on body horror settings.
Personally I'd love to try out something like Shadowrun with modern world or close future with magic and fantastical beings but with humanity developing tech like buglike exoskeleton you can put on in place of power armor, bio modifications and so on.
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Leftists will screech about "punk"
Negative xp is the only punk act of the recent years
Shooter isn't even the best musician in his own record label. Also remember that he was fine with Gaburgably because he thought she was trans, but once he found out she was actually for real an XX-chromosome having woman he flipped his shit lmao
I like it
homosexual
>Ganker incel
here's your (you)
I swear to frick there was a Giger-style RPG that looked like Scorn's aesthetics at one point
>What do you think of [-punk]
I don't. If you insist on attaching "-punk" to anything and everything, I will insist on ignoring you.
Take youd meds.
Good job NOT ignoring it then I guess?
what the frick does this have to do with traditional games
>What do you think of biopunk?
>Implying that I think anything
Are we talking warframe biopunk or cruelty squad biopunk?
Anything biopunk, it's not like the genre is popular enough to be picky, plus I wanted people to discuss the different versions of the genre.
Warframe biopunk is more interesting to me. Technology of organic design.
Essentially pointless in a primarily nonvisual medium
>genres are pointless in a hobby about genre emulation
Huh?
It's not a genre. It's an aesthetic at best.
That's what people like you say about steampunk and it is simply not true. Biopunk games like Bioshock, Prototype, and whatnot usually focus on modifying the human form with biological substances/creatures. As a genre, it questions the nature of the human form and has Faustian themes undergirding it.
This can easily be adapted for a game the same way cyberpunk does with its cybernetic augments. Just replace cyber with some biological thing and make all of the villains/antagonists the result of these biological things gone wrong.
It's very true about both. You are in denial. That you can only point to shallow, lowbrow media like Bioshock and Prototype which their creators would not consider to be part of your made-up subgenre proves my point.
Gice cruelty squad a go, mechanical applications in game for body horror augmentations.
I've always wanted to make a game where you kinda build a mech but it's organs in your body instead.
can I get an organ that never gets hurt from alcohol but I can never get drunk so I just can drink forever
Biopunk is at its most fascinating in settings where biotech are ubiquitous enough to be mishandled by any punk in an lab in a basement, but not mastered well enough to be able to manage the consequences of it.
So you can have adventures like: choomba puts in circulation a new strain of pot, which features an enzyme that creates an adverse reactions to the latest patch of antiviral epigenetics released by a megacorp. PCs are sent to investigate how the guy could have been aware of the molecular features of this then unreleased update and why he wanted to secretly add this feature.
Sadly, this kind of settings needs competent writers to pull off, so extremely rare.
TL;Dr: best biopunk is cyberpunk + DNA is just another code that can be hacked/riddled with spyware
Any game for this vibe, or Paolo Bacigalupi-style near future biopunk?
I was thinking about answering the other thread about stagnant tech worlds by suggesting worlds where people focus on biological engineering, most specifically through grafting and breeding. I got the idea after watching plastic surgeons "waltz" flesh across the body towards face during WWI and also godric the grafted from elden ring
>I was thinking about answering the other thread about stagnant tech worlds by suggesting worlds where people focus on biological engineering, most specifically through grafting and breeding.
The Bene Tleilaxu in the Dune universe are literally this.
Frick I can't make shit man
It's not exactly the same so just flesh it out.
It's not that at all. The Bene Tleilax mostly uses the same technology as everyone in Dune. They are just the only faction able to reliably do cloning -including as a way to resurrect people- and human genetic modifications.
They don't do anything related to flesh grafting as far as I remember.
Less sci fi armor, more cruelty squad body mods
Dark modern fantasy with biological body horror elements? Nah, not really into it. I like the tone of my fantasy to not reflect that of reality, moreso than the supernatural elements.
More like cyberpunk but with all the cyberware and hacking replaced with flesh and bones.
Forgot my pic.
Isn’t there a fan-setting for D&D where there’s lots of biotech, and most magical shit is psionic instead? And the world was a tropical sea? Does anyone have any idea about that, or did I dream it up?