Scripts I use to run Cyberpunk Red

Running Cyberpunk Red can be a pain in the ass. Don’t get me wrong they did a lot of work slimming down the existing Cyberpunk rules, but there are so many little things to roll especially with all the DLC. There are lots of tools to help like the Cyberpunk Red Companion app¹ but a nicely designed little app isn’t exactly cyberpunk (also that app is a little slow to update). What is cyberpunk are shell scripts!

This post is going to serve as a rolling list of what scripts I am using to run my online games, so I will come back and add stuff as I find it. Now without further ado, the scripts.

Bash

So far the only bash script I use for running games is a dice rolling function from the excellent (if still unreleased) zine Script Wizards². Now technically this is a Python script that pipes the output into glow³ to make it pretty. So in addition to glow you need the Python package d20⁴.

function dice () {
        if [ -n "$1" ]; then
                local cmd
                cmd="from d20 import roll;
print(str(roll('$1')))"
                python -c "$cmd" | glow -
        else
                echo "Missing statement"
        fi
}

It’s pretty simple but the output is pretty and readable.

Python

These are straight Python scripts. Alias those bad boys and you have some instant power in your shell. For those wanting to replicate my setup, I clone the git repos for these scripts into a ~/.scripts folder and then add aliases to my .bashrc. I will include the alias for each script as well.

Net-arch generator

Github Repo

Your netrunner is out to get you. We all know it. That bastard will find net-archs you never planned for and expect to sit there and hack the damn thing. This script lets you blast out a whole arch in moments to deal with their plug-head addiction.

alias netarch='python ~/.scripts/Cyberpunk-Red-Net-Arch-generator/net_arch_gen_2.0.py'

Gunpath

Github Repo

This one is of my design. The Toggle’s Temple⁵ DLC introduced the gunpath for adding gun flavour. It’s cool but a lot of work, and this removes that hassle and adds in its place flags to theoretically save time.

alias gunpath='python ~/.scripts/CyberpunkRedGunGenerator/CyberpunkRedGunGenerator.py'

1. https://cyberpunkred.com/#/ ↩︎

2. https://scriptwizards.itch.io/issue-1 ↩︎

3. https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow ↩︎

4. https://pypi.org/project/d20/ ↩︎

5. https://rtalsoriangames.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/RTG-CPR-DLC-TogglesTemplev1.1.pdf ↩︎