un-derachievers
A Netrunner unset by harmonbee and the rest of the Warwick meta

Netrunner is a game about the latest and greatest runners fighting against the ruthless efficiency machines of the best megacorporations that the world has to offer. These runners and corps have shown themselves to be the best of the best, the sleekest well-oiled machines you can find. Unfortunately, this set has you instead playing the equivalent of vehicles made on Scrapheap Challenge - the weird startups and overexcited runner groupies for whom "coherent plans" and "synergy" are afterthoughts.

un-derachievers is an unset, which means that it focuses on silliness and unexpected mechanics rather than tiny issues such as "being fully compliant with the rules of Netrunner". That being said, it is still designed to be playable and strategic - the set contains some more sensible (but still new) cards to help the silly ones shine more.

This set is designed for draft play rather than constructed. It consists of two 360-card cubes (one for Corp and one for Runner) along with starter cards and a wide variety of identities. There are 441 unique cards for you to experience with a variety of mechanics:

• Shapers have harnessed entropy via a pool of dice, which they can manipulate and use for various effects.
• Anarchs bargain for favours from eldritch gods by making offerings such as films and podcasts to them.
• Criminals can take the cards they've accessed and steal nick them.
• The minifactions have seen some love too with some new directives, an Apex combo suite and some cards that say "link" on them.
• Weyland has ice with jigsaw edges, which can attach to each other to form a full jigsaw.
• Jinteki has a new pet, which they can feed and genetically modify to help them with the day-to-day running of the corp.
• NBN has taken advertising to a new level by sticking billboards up everywhere, including in their own headquarters.
• HB have researched brojans, ice which glue onto other ice to give them bonuses.

The set has been developed and playtested over the past two years and is currently on version 0.8 (codenamed Thermal Paste, released 11/4/2024). The full set is not ready for public release yet, but if you'd like to keep tabs on it you can keep an eye on my personal cohost account or on the Green Level Clearance Discord server (I am not affiliated with the server, but it's a good place to put advertisements).

Set Credits

Project Lead: harmonbee
Set Development (design/art): AceEmpress, Hello, Ams
Additional Designs/Art/Playtesting: ORCH1D, crowphie, Lewis.P, Artock, Mandoline, JayRed, znsolomon, l0velace, Snuggie