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Lifepath is the player defined backstory to your characters. The Lifepath is featured in all forms of the [[Cyberpunk Series|pen & paper RPG Cyberpunk]], as well as the 2020 video game {{CP|2077}}.

==Cyberpunk RPG==
A '''Lifepath''' is a system used in character generation within the Cyberpunk pen and paper series. It is a method for figuring out a character's background and personal history. The system works like a set of flowcharts, each numbered for randomly-generated results. This serves as a list of "plot complications" that helps round out a character, so players are not left playing a nameless [[:Category:Roles|generic archetype]].

The Cyberpunk Lifepath is very open to new players, in the way that a Cyberpunk character cannot be killed or maimed in the middle of character creation.

The specific Lifepath options and topics deal with [[Fashion|dress & personal style]], [[:Category:Countries|ethnic origins]], family background, personal motivations, major life events, as well as finding and/or losing friends, enemies, and lovers.

In [[Cyberpunk Red]], the Lifepath system has an added Class Lifepath system, in order to determine how a player's chosen role functions in their job, with options and topics dealing in Runner choice, corporation employment, divisions, and morality, optional partnership, workspaces, clientele, equipment procurement, and personal relationships.

==Cyberpunk 2077==
[[File:CP2077 Char Customization Lifepath Selection.png|thumb|right|240px|Lifepath selection in {{CP|2077}}]]
The {{CP|2077}} video game offers three defining lifepath options to choose the backstory for the player character, [[V (character)|V]]. The lifepath alters the beginning of the game, offering three varied opening chapters as well as offering additional benefits, quests and dialogue options throughout the game.

*[[Nomad (Lifepath)|Nomad]] - Leaving behind their [[nomad]] family, V heads to [[Night City]] in search of work.
*[[Streetkid (Lifepath)|Streetkid]] - Having returned from out of town, V works favors in their old haunts.
*[[Corpo (Lifepath)|Corpo]] - Living a hectic life as an [[Arasaka]] counterintel agent, V strives to make their way to the top.

==Notes==
*The pen and paper Lifepath system was inspired by the classic space opera RPG ''Traveller'', which first introduced the concept in 1977.

==Videos==
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Cyberpunk 2077 — Lifepaths
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