Cyberpunk plus fantasy plus space?
Iam currently in the planingphase for my next book. In it matic had been sealed away as last act of defiance of an ancient empire when it fell and it pnly came back short while ago.
Humanity has made many advances like in bio Engineering but also with cybernetics
Big corps are the powers behind the throne with them needing deniable assets.
So far so good. But it sounds a bit tooo much like shadowrun in its basic idea and that could be problematic (cyberpunk there are a lot of rpgs out there but cyberpunk plus returning magic only one large one. Without the cyberpart there was also a large one: fireborn)
Thus i looked for something that could increase the distance to lore safe proportions. Idea was thus why not set it in the far future where humanity already went to the stars and thus many of the other races are from other alien empires.
Thus the deniable assets (players) sometimes even need to travel from planet to planet,…. But main setting would be in a human controlled sector on a few worlds that are corp controlled with wars for supremacy between them,…
Or as a second alternative i thought of a more typical time. Thus near future with a moon colony but no other space travel. When magic returned. Portals opened to pocket dimensions into which the races that were mroe magic reliant than humans had fled to. Some comign back in peace. Others to retake what is theirs. And others again just hungry.
Both settings wpuld enable players to be from humans and non human heritages. And also have as much cyber as they need/want while surviving as dekiable assets in a corp controlled setting.
The question for me is mostly twofold:
1.) a full scifi background does it move too much from a cyberpunk theme? (Soemthing disturbs me about the idea snd incant lay a finger onto what).
2.) which one of rhe two could garner more interest or be more interesting for players and gms alike