You are going into Cyberpunk. D&D could work for the Fantasy World portion in cyberpunk. But if you want a system to hit all areas, you'll need a game system that handles fantasy, science fiction, post-apocalyptic and wild west. Dungeon Crawl Classics give you that type of compatibility as can Savage Worlds. You can do it with D&D, but you are going to have to create all of the classes and monsters outside of Fantasy. I mean you can reskin every monster and call them Cyber Ghouls when they are just goblins.
I'd suggest looking at Shadowrun, its probably good enough. Its the modern world where fantasy monsters spontaneously erupted. So humans turned into trolls, orcs and elves while humans still exist in downtown Seattle. So they have magic and technology together, its probably the cheapest overall solution to what you want.
Take a look there might be a cyberpunk conversion on the DM's guild, but not the core 5E.
A campaign based on The Bridges of Madison County could be interesting. Anything could be interesting, as long as it's inspiring to the DM and the players.
A lot of Cyberpunk, especially the early or "classic" cyberpunk, is teched up noir; and folks do run D&D games with a Noir tinge to it. You may want to check out the Ravenica and or Eberon settings if you want food for thought as to how other genre tropes can be used for D&D world building.
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curious on anybody's thoughts on this
You are going into Cyberpunk. D&D could work for the Fantasy World portion in cyberpunk. But if you want a system to hit all areas, you'll need a game system that handles fantasy, science fiction, post-apocalyptic and wild west. Dungeon Crawl Classics give you that type of compatibility as can Savage Worlds. You can do it with D&D, but you are going to have to create all of the classes and monsters outside of Fantasy. I mean you can reskin every monster and call them Cyber Ghouls when they are just goblins.
I'd suggest looking at Shadowrun, its probably good enough. Its the modern world where fantasy monsters spontaneously erupted. So humans turned into trolls, orcs and elves while humans still exist in downtown Seattle. So they have magic and technology together, its probably the cheapest overall solution to what you want.
Take a look there might be a cyberpunk conversion on the DM's guild, but not the core 5E.
A campaign based on The Bridges of Madison County could be interesting. Anything could be interesting, as long as it's inspiring to the DM and the players.
A lot of Cyberpunk, especially the early or "classic" cyberpunk, is teched up noir; and folks do run D&D games with a Noir tinge to it. You may want to check out the Ravenica and or Eberon settings if you want food for thought as to how other genre tropes can be used for D&D world building.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.