Interface Magazine

Interface was a game magazine published by Prometheus Press between 1990 and 1992, which was licensed by R. Talsorian Games to publish articles about their Cyberpunk 2013 and Cyberpunk 2020 tabletop role-playing games. Due to not being published by R. Talsorian Games, the Interface Magazines are considered non-canon.

Overview

In 1990, Kevin DeAntonio, Chris Hockabout, and Thaddeus Howze, three dedicated fans of Cyberpunk who lived in Alameda, California, approached R. Talsorian Games about producing an independent magazine about the game. R. Talsorian agreed to license them, and the three formed Prometheus Press to publish their fanzine Interface. Six issues of the magazine were published. Each issue featured a full-color cover and black & white interior.

Issues

Volume 1, #1: Keeping the Peace

• NuCyber, NuTech, NuMed: New cybernetic implants, new gear, new medicine.
• Walking the Beat in Night City
• LawTech Unlimited: New law enforcement armor, weapons, and gear.
• Design and augmentation rules for Robohounds (mechatronic K9 units).
• Police Profile: The Givers of Pain
• Inmate Penal Corps
• Corporate Review: Ocean Technology & Energy Corp (OTEC)
• Altered States: New Drugs
• Cyber-Reviews: Street Lethal, Vacuum Flowers

Volume 1, #2

• NuCyber, NuTech: New cybernetic hand and leg implants; new gear
• New Skills: Skating / Skateboarding, Electronic Counter-Measures, Cadre Tactics
• "Getting Along": Roleplaying COOL and EMPATHY attributes in Cyberpunk
• "Your Money or Your Life": Wages in Cyberpunk
• Police Profiles: Ripperdocs
• Hardware Closeup: The OTEC SEV-1 stealth hovercraft.
• Subordinate/Alternate Character Classes
• Cyber-Reviews: Batman: Digital Justice, Hardware, RoboCop 2, Total Recall (1990)

Volume 1, #3

• NuCyber, NuWare: New cybernetics; New Cyberdeck programs
• Government Profile: Antarctican Collective
• Corporate Review: Revolution Genetics Incorporated
• New Service Organization: Troubleshooter Cabs
• Artificial Intelligence: AIs in Cyberpunk RPGs
• Altered States: New drugs
• NuScience: Skinmask pollution filter, Vend-a-Mod chip vending machine
• Fashion: NewLook faux cybernetics.
• "Interview With a Predator": Q&A with Colonel "Butch" Schaffer IPC, commander of the "Predators" Centron
• "What's that up ahead?": Random driving encounters in Cyberpunk 2020.
• Subordinate/Alternate Character Classes 2:
  • Solo subtypes (Military Op, Corporate Op, Cyber-Soldier, Bodyguard, Bounty Hunter, Street Samurai).
  • Netrunner subtype (Rogue AI Hunter).
• Cyber-Reviews: ME: A Novel of Self-Discovery, Akira, Trancers

Volume 1, #4

• Nomad Chronicles: Nomad characters; types of Nomad Packs.
• Corporate Review: Consolidated Agriculture
• Artificial Intelligence: "Dragons and Dragonslayers" Rogue AIs and Rogue Hunter NPCs.
• "Night City Blues": Fiction by Chris Hockabout
• "To Bear Arms": How to Manage Weapons and Armor
• Subordinate/Alternate Character Classes 3
• Cyber-Reviews: Trancers II, Class of 1999, Moon 44, Bladerunner: The Director's Cut, Highlander II: The Quickening

Volume 2, #1

• NuCyberware and NuTech: New Cybernetics and equipment for Medias
• "Just the Fax, Ma'am": Playing as a Media
• Electric Nightmares: Wireheadding, Braindances, and Virtual Reality
• UpClose Reporter Profiles
• Facing the Consequences: Punishing your players for messing around
• "Talk Hard!": Pirate radio stations and how to operate them
• "A job with ATTITUDE": Alternate style of playing as dissuading against pre-established character roles, instead sorting characters depending on personality
• Data Sampling: Alien3, Mann and Machine, The Lawnmower Man, Night's Edge

Volume 2, #2: The Dark Time (Call of Cthulhu Crossover)

• NuCyberware and Ectotechnology: New freaky cybernetics from Unspeak Cyberware
• Cults - Hope and Horrors: Eldritch cults in the Cyberpunk world
• Call of Cthulhu–Cyberpunk Conversion Rules
• Cult Profiles
• Scenarios: "Transference" and "A Policy of Pain"
• Data Sampling: Book of the Wyrm, Chromebook Volume 2, Necrology