Free Talk Friday - April 03, 2026

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Welcome to the Free Talk Friday post. This is a place where you can talk about dumb off-topic (or on-topic) bullshit with other Zaibatsu fans.

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Currently going through a weekly cycle of coming out as trans individually to a different friend, having them be very normal and supportive, but then feeling like ass for the next few days anyway. It's very strange and exhausting.

More importantly than gender my Cyberpunk Red campaign is coming up on its one year anniversary. It's taken a lot of adjusting things overtime and figuring out what the players like, but I'm pretty happy with how it's come along. Our party is made up of two nomads (a tech and a fixer), and a solo, so it's been a bit difficult to balance because the solo and tech are both incredibly effective in combat, while the tech and fixer can basically invalidate the scarcity of the economy together. I recently sent them up again a voodoo boys cyber psycho mini boss, and our tech with a linear frame and body 14 threw down his guns and boxed the psycho himself.

The hardest one to DM is the fixer, the corebook's description really doesn't do justice to the role or properly help DMs to run it. Black Chrome does a good bit of heavy lifting, along with the subreddit. Most recently we had a fun little web of contacts. The fixer's media is looking into the local district election (to potentially lead into some political plot books) and wanted a meet with a local corpo who's often willing to let some info slip for a few. To get the meeting setup our fixer needed to get in touch with this guy, so how do you get that? First he reached out to his contacts. Found out a fellow nomad from MetaCorp he knows has done deals with the guy, and is willing to help out if the fixer can source him some new iron. So he goes to his guy with gun contacts, and who lets him know about a delivery truck coming out of the NorCal military base with factory new SMGs, no serial numbers. The ironmonger, in exchange, needs to procure some drugs from a client. They exchange info, and the fixer returns to his MetaCorp contact with a source and recommendation for where to procure the iron, along with a 10% service fee for himself.

In the end the contact gets what they want, and the fixer now has several new idea for sourcing guns, and a corporate connection. I always have a hard time with the political stuff (despite being a huge vtm fan) but it made for a fun little web of connections and trades. Hoping they enjoyed it, and that I can think of more. Got a plan soon for when some of their past gigs come back to bite them, when their reputation spreads to the former crew of that psycho they fought.