Land of the Free (Cyberpunk)
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Land of the Free is a campaign of five adventures published by R. Talsorian Games in 1994 for the near-future dystopian role-playing game Cyberpunk 2020.
Land of the Free is a series of five linked adventures[1][2] in which a team of edgerunners (player characters) must extract a young woman, Ariana, from a pharmaceutical laboratory in New York,[1] and then safely deliver her to Night City in California.[1][2] Ariana is very valuable,[1] and on their road trip, the fugitives will be pursued by airborne mercenaries, river pirates, assassins, religious fanatics, fixers, rockers[1] and the Elvises of Graceland.[2]
Each of the five chronologically-linked adventures covers one phase of the overall campaign. The boxed set includes a 120-page softcover book, a large double-sided mapsheet, and two cardstock sheets of cut-apart vehicle counters, as well as some player handouts.[2]
Publication history
The dystopian role-playing game Cyberpunk was created by Michael Pondsmith and released by R. Talsorian Games in 1988. A second edition titled Cyberpunk 2020 was released in 1990, and one of the sourcebooks released for this edition, Land of the Brave, describes a post-apocalyptic North America similar to the setting for a Mad Max movie.[3] In 1994, William Moss created the five-part campaign Land of the Free using the setting described in Home of the Brave. The boxed set featured cover art by Doug Andersen and interior art by Patrick Gidaro, Chris Hockabout, Darrell Midgette, Jean-Michel Ringuet, and Christina Wald.[2]