Cyberpunk 2077 quest director Pawel Sasko says he originally fell in love with the Night City setting after playing the 1988 TTRPG and finding "traditional D&D" a little too "generic" in comparison.
In an interview with TheNeonArcade, Sasko spoke at length about the early games that sparked his love for the Cyberpunk universe, the kernel of which was a TTRPG series that started in 1988. Sakso explained that his initial interest in TTRPGs came from playing the 2000 RPG Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption as a teenager, which inspired him to pick up the original Vampire: The Masquerade pen-and-paper book. After playing through that, he moved to the Cyberpunk TTRPG and found it "inspiring, intriguing, and different."
