Cyberpunk Red

Set after a massive war between megacorporations—ended by an atomic bomb—the world of Cyberpunk is a combination of savage, sophisticated, modern, and retrograde. Fashion-model beautiful rockerboys rub shoulders with battle-armored road warriors, all making the scene in the hottest dance clubs, sleaziest bars, and meanest streets on this side of the post-holocaust. Every single one of them has a role; an occupation they are known by on the street, and grants them each unique abilities to help navigate the mean streets of the dark future.

Creating a Character

1. Decide on your character role, there are ten to pick from; rockerboy, solo, netrunner, tech, medtech, media, exec, lawman, fixer, or nomad. You start at rank 4 in that role.
2. Run through your lifepath and role lifepath.
3. Determine your STATs and the other derived STATs.
4. Either use the suggested skills for your role, or pick some.
5. Take the starting outfit listed for your character role and 500ed, or instead spend 2550ed on anything you want, plus an additional 800ed on just fashion and fashionware.
6. Think about selling out for more starting money.

Multiple Roles

You can't start with more than one role, but you can buy rank 1 in a new role by spending improvement points. When you switch role, you are locked from changing role again until your new role is at least rank 4, but you can continue to increase your rank in a previous role, and you retain all of its features.

Playing Execs and Lawmen

In the dark future, the corps and police have more power than just about anyone else. If you're playing an exec or a lawman, there's a good chance you aren't working for the good guys.

Ask yourself: In a grim world where edgerunners often rail against the tyranny of authority, where does your character fit in? Are they selfishly using the rest of the group for their own gain? Are they the classic "kid made good", hanging with old friends and caught between two worlds? Or are they starry-eyed dreamers, hoping to change the system from the inside?

What if You Get Fired?

Nothing about your role changes. Think of it as an opportunity for character development, as you and the GM work together to figure out who wants to hire you next, and the on-boarding process there. Your former employer? Maybe consider that an opportunity, too. How much revenge do you want, choomba?

Nomads in a City Game

Nomads control the highways, sea lanes, airspace and orbital flightpaths. You want to move some cargo from A to B? You'll be contracting with nomads to do it. They're also construction experts, rebuilding what the 4th Corporate War broke. See the megabuilding going up in the distance? Probably hundreds of nomads working on that job. Several nomad families maintain permanent enclaves either in the city or on its outskirts.

As for why you're hanging out with a bunch of statics (non-nomads)? Make it about a connection between your family and one or more of the other characters. Maybe the fixer is working to secure supplies and you've been assigned to keep an eye out? Or maybe your pack owes the medtech a favor? Talk to your GM. Talk to the other players. You'll figure it out.

Lifestyle & Housing

If you aren't an exec, then you start off living in a rented cargo container—either in the overcrowded suburbs or in a combat zone, and living a not-so-luxurious kibble lifestyle. The first month's rent and kibble are free, choomba, but you owe 1100 eddies on the first of next month, or you’re getting evicted!

On the other hand, if you are an exec—you start off with a conapt in a corporate zone, and living that comfortable good prepak lifestyle. You don't have to pay rent or any other fees because you're just better than other people, but maintaining your elite lifestyle will run you 600ed on the first of the month.

Nomads have an additional vehicle-based housing option, which is available as an upgrade through their role ability.

Night Markets

These markets just spring up all over the city—often without warning—when a good shipment comes in on a transport, or something really useful is uncovered. Similar to the old "swap meets" of the 20th century, they are mobile shops mounted on trailers, vehicles, shipping containers, and whatever else has mobility and enough spare volume to display some wares.

Getting to a night market is as much about connections, as it is money. Some of the best are secret affairs which require connections just to find them. Night markets can pop up for a few hours, then vanish forever, or they can regularly show up at the same spot, when they can depend on enough security. Talk to your friendly neighbourhood fixer about night markets.

Friday Night Firefight

The rules for combat, skills, and interacting with the world.

When the Music's Over

One way or another, combat ended, what do you do next?

The Time of the Red

Atmospheric particles from the nuclear blast in Night City, debris from orbital rock strikes, conventional explosives, and the wartime burning and annihilation of entire cities and agricultural areas, created an eerie red pall over skies worldwide. As well as brilliant red sunrises and sunsets, this also causes periodic "blood rains",when rainstorms pull the crimson particulate out of the skies and deposit it as a greasy, crimson slime—reminiscent of blood.

You live to rock. You're a street poet, a social conscience, and a rebel of the Time of the Red. With the advent of tiny digital porta-studios and garage mastering, every rockerboy with a message can take it to the street, stream it to the data pool, or bounce it off the comsats.

Sometimes, your message isn't something the corporations or government wants to hear. Sometimes you are going to get right in the faces of the powerful people who run this world.

But you don't care, you know it's your place to challenge authority, whether in straight-out protest songs that tell it like it is, playing kick-ass rock n' roll to get the people away from the TV sets and into the streets, firing up a crowd with speeches, or composing fiery writing that shapes hearts and minds.

The rockerboy has a proud history: Dylan, Springsteen, U2, NWA, the Who, Jett, the Stones—the hard-rock heroes who told the truth with screaming guitars or gut-honest lyrics. You have the power to get the people up; to lead, inspire, and inform. Your message can give the timid courage, the weak strength, and the blind vision.

Legends like Johnny Silverhand, Rockerboy Manson (for whom the role is named) and Kerry Eurodyne have led armies against corporations and governments. Rockerboys have exposed corruption and brought down dictators. It's a lot of power for someone doing gigs in a different city every night. But you can handle it, you're a Rockerboy!

Ability: Charismatic Impact

You can influence others by sheer presence of personality. You need not be a musical performer; you could use poetry, art, dance, or simply your physical presence. Maybe you livestream to the Data Pool. You could be a rocker, or a cult leader. As you grow in skill, you can affect larger groups and call on your fans for greater and greater requests of loyalty.

You can ask a fan, or group of fans, for a favor that is within your current Charismatic Impact rank. The size of the group of fans determines the DV against which you must roll a check:

If you succeed, the fan or group of fans makes their best effort to do whatever you asked. If you fail, you can't ask for the same favor again from those fans for one week.

Gaining New Fans

You can only use Charismatic Impact on fans, and the GM determines who is already a fan, but if you are not in combat, you can try and make people into fans (unless they are hostile towards you) by succeeding on Charismatic Impact check.

Charismatic Impact Ranks

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• Venues: The types of venue you can usually hope to play in.
• Single Fan: What you can influence a single fan to do for you, with a DV8 check.
• Groups: What you can influence up to six fans to do for you with a DV10 check, or a larger group with a DV12 check.

Ranks 1 and 2

You don't have many fans, yet.

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• Venues: Small local clubs.
• Single Fan: Small favors; buy you a drink or meal, or give you a lift somewhere.
• Groups of Fans: Ask for autographs and personal totems; stop you in the streets and try to befriend you.

Ranks 3 and 4

You have a strong local following of fans who buy your recordings and merch.

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• Venues: Well known clubs.
• Single Fan: Major favors; go to bed with you, or put a good word in for you.
• Groups of Fans: Regularly hang out with you; provide you with booze, drugs, and other party favors.

Ranks 5 and 6

Your fans are all over the city, often in nearby cities. They are very loyal and will do major favors in exchange for attention.

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• Venues: Large, important clubs.
• Single Fan: Commit a minor crime for you; shoplift, or help in a fight.
• Groups of Fans: Act as your "posse"; hang out with you, do you favors, and provide things for your personal needs.

Rank 9

Your fans are brainwashed and cult-like; they will riot, destroy property, and even kill for you.

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• Venues: Large concert halls, national video feeds.
• Single Fan: Commit a major crime for you; steal expensive items, or beat someone up.
• Groups of Fans: Commit a major crime for you; steal expensive items, or beat someone up.

Rank 10

You fans are a worldwide following with strong, cult-like attributes. They will do almost anything for you; they are a private army based on your charisma.

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• Venues: Huge stadiums and international video feeds.
• Single Fan: Sacrifice themself for you without question.
• Groups of Fans: Risk their lives for you and act as personal protection.

Rockerboy Starting Outfit

Cyberware (9 Humanity Loss)

Audio Recorder, Chemskin, Cyberaudio Suite, Tech Hair

Weapons & Armor

Very Heavy Pistol, Basic VH Pistol Ammunition x50, Heavy Melee Weapon or Flashbang Grenade, Teargas Grenade x2, Light Armorjack Body Armor, Light Armorjack Head Armor

Gear

Agent, Computer, Musical Instrument or Bug Detector, Glow Paint x5, Pocket Amp, Radio Scanner/Music Player, Video Camera

Fashion

Generic Chic: Jacket, Jewelry x3, Top x4, Leisurewear: Jewelry, Mirrorshades, Footwear, Urbanflash: Bottoms, Top

You were reborn with a gun in your hand—the flesh and blood hand, not the metallic weapons factory that covers most of your other arm. Whether as a freelance guard and killer-for-hire, or as a Corporate cybersoldier who enforce business deals and "black operations", you're an elite fighting machine.

Most solos put in military time with a corporate army during the war, or in one of the government's current "police actions" around the country.

As the battle damage piles up, you rely more and more upon tech—cyberlimbs for weapons and armor, bio-chips to increase your reflexes and awareness, combat drugs to give you that edge over your opponents.

When you're the best of the best, you might even leave the ranks of corporate samurai and go ronin—freelancing your lethal talents as a killer, bodyguard, or enforcer to whoever can pay your very high fees.

Sounds good? There's a heavy price. You've lost so much of your original meat body that you're almost a machine, and your reflexes are so jacked up, you have to restrain yourself from going berserk at any moment.

Years of combat drugs taken to keep the edge, have left you with terrifying addictions, and there are few people you can trust anymore. One night you might sleep in a penthouse condo in the city, the next in a filthy alley on the street. But that's the price of being the best. And you're willing to pay it.

Ability: Combat Awareness

Your training gives you enhanced situational awareness of the battlefield. When combat begins, anytime outside of combat, or by using an action in combat, you can divide the points you have in your Combat Awareness rank, between any of the abilities listed below. Your choices persist until you change them. Some abilities cost more points to activate than others.

Damage Deflection

You can "roll with the punches" and reduce damage you take from the first attack that hits on you in each round of combat.

Points Assigned	2	4	6	8	10
Damage Reduction	1	2	3	4	5

Fumble Recovery

You can take your time with every shot. If you assign 4 points to this ability, you can ignore any critical failures (1's) you roll while attacking. Those rolls are still counted as 1's though.

Initiative Reaction

Your reflexes allow you to respond instantly, without thinking in a firefight. Each point assigned, adds +1 your Initiative rolls.

Precision Attack

You can precisely aim your attacks, increasing your accuracy.

Points Assigned	3	6	9
Attack Bonus	+1	+2	+3

Spot Weakness

You are trained to look for weak spots, and can damage even heavily armored targets. Each point you assign adds +1 to the damage (before armor) of your first attack that hits, every turn.

Threat Detection

You have enhanced situational awareness. Each point you assigned, adds +1 to your Perception checks.

Solo Starting Outfit

Cyberware (14 Humanity Loss)

Biomonitor, Neural Link, Sandevistan, Speedware or Wolvers

Weapons & Armor

Assault Rifle, Very Heavy Pistol, Heavy Melee Weapon or Bulletproof Shield, Basic VH Pistol Ammunition x30, Basic Rifle Ammunition x70, Light Armorjack Body Armor, Light Armorjack Head Armor

Gear

Agent

Fashion

Leisurewear: Bottoms x2, Footwear x2, Jacket x3, Mirrorshades, Top x2

You're a brain-burning computer hacker and a master of the post-NET cyberverse. At the age of three, your parents first bought you an old Kirama LPD-12 cyberdeck with Zetatech 526 optical goggles, and your life was changed. By ten, you were already using meta-programming to crack into the school district's system and change your grades.

When you were thirteen, you shifted enough funds out of unprotected Trans United Bank accounts to finance your first neural interface plugs. You couldn't wait to run high and fast with the other gods of the NET: Bartmoss, Magnificent Curtis, and the rest. Then the 4th Corp War blew everything apart.

The NET infrastructure was wrecked, and what remains is just a terrifying wilderness of corrupted data, psychic booby traps, and rogue demon programs lurking in wait for anyone foolhardy (or desperate) enough to venture into cyberspace.

Netwatch eventually gave up and just shut down the whole infrastructure. Now computers are air-gapped and only linked through dedicated land lines and direct laser connections. But there are still places to netrun, you just have to go there and jack in. You traded sitting on the sofa for a bodyweight combat suit and virtuality goggles to mesh the NET with Meatspace.

The systems you crack are smaller, but even deadlier. Now, you're really part of a team, with solos to cover your back, medtechs to restart your heart if the ICE gets you, and techs to help you hot-wire your cyberdeck for more speed and software deployment. Now, nothing can stop you.

As an electronic wraith, you slip into the hardest mainframe systems: stealing, trading, and selling their deepest secrets at will. The Black ICE may kill you in the end, but until the ride runs out, you'll be bare-brained and headfirst in the new NET.

Ability: Interface

Interface is what allows a Netrunner to Netrun—to interface with electronic mind-modems (cyberdecks) and control NET architecture—computers, electronics, and their associated programs. It gives you special NET Actions you can take on your turn, as well as access to a suite of Interface Abilities.

Hardware Requirements

All netrunners have at least a little cyberware. To even use a cyberdeck, you must already have interface plugs fitted in your wrist or head, and wired to a neural link artificial nervous system. You can only plug into any one cyberdeck at a time. Switching to another cyberdeck requires a meat action.

If you ever forget your virtuality goggles, you'll be unable to overlay cyberspace imagery onto the real world, and have to do things the old fashioned way—which effectively renders your body unconscious while you are netrunning.

NET Actions

Netrunners have access to two kinds of actions: Meat actions (actions which take place in reality, or "meatspace") and NET actions (which take place purely inside the NET architecture). On your turn, you can take either one meat action or as many NET actions as your interface rank allows. No matter which actions you choose, you still get to take your move action.

Interface Rank	1-3	4-6	7-9	10
NET Actions per turn	2	3	4	5

Jack In/Out

Enter or safely leave a NET architecture via an access point within 6m. A wall between you and the access point blocks this action. If you leave a NET architecture without first jacking out, you suffer the effects of all Black ICE you encountered inside, but haven't derezzed. Moving out of an access point's range automatically jacks you out. Jacking out without first leaving behind a virus, resets the whole NET architecture—you'll have to start your run over from the very beginning.

Use Interface Ability

Use any one of your interface abilities, except for Scanner.

Activate / Deactivate Program

Activate or deactivate one of your programs.

Miscellaneous

Anything not covered by other NET actions. A virus lets you do almost anything to a NET architecture once you reach the lowest floor, but these actions sometimes cover edge cases.

What Isnt a NET Action?

Copying Files

Whenever you find a file inside a NET architecture, you can just download a copy to your cyberdeck. Without an action.

Moving in a NET Architecture

On your turn, you can just move as much as you want inside a NET architecture, but you can't skip over floors, or move past any obstructions like passwords.

Interface Abilities

Netrunners need to know more than just how to activate some programs. Mastery of the interface abilities is what separates weefle runners from the professionals they pretend to be.

To resolve using any interface ability (except Zap) roll:

Scanner

Use a meat action to find the location of any access points to NET architectures in an area. The higher the check, the more you spot from further away, but always at the GM's discretion.

Backdoor

Attempt to break through a password in the NET architecture.

Cloak

Hide traces of your presence and any virus you left inside the NET architecture. Roll a check to set the DV for anyone who tries to overcome the cloak and discover your actions. If you do not use the cloak ability before jacking out, any netrunner who uses pathfinder, automatically discovers all your actions.

Control

Control devices attached to a node in the NET architecture, like cameras, drones, turrets, laser grids, elevators, sprinklers, etc. Each node has a DV required to take control of it.

Operating each individual thing attached to the control node takes a separate NET action, but can be done from anywhere in the architecture—so long as you are still in control of the node. Each control node can only be activated once per turn.

The DV to wrest control of a node currently held by another netrunner or program, is equal to the check they made to take control of it. You lose control of all nodes when you jack out.

Eye-Dee

Determine what a piece of data you found (like a file) actually is, and any value it might have. Some files will have a DV that you must first beat, before you can learn anything about them.

Pathfinder

Partially reveal the "map" of the NET architecture, but not the DV of anything. You can see into the architecture a number of "floors" equal to your check, or up to any obstruction (usually a password) with a DV higher than your pathfinder check.

Slide

Attempt to flee from a single non-demon black ICE program. If you succeed on a check against (it's perception + 1d10), you can escape to an adjacent floor—if the way is not blocked by a password or other obstruction. The black ICE instantly stops following you, and lays in wait right where it is. You can only attempt to slide once per turn, and can't slide preemptively.

Virus

Once you reach the lowest level of a NET Architecture you can leave a virus there which performs up to 2 NET actions or changes, within reason. This is the only way you can make changes to a NET architecture that persist after you jack out.

Describe to the GM what you want the virus to do. They will assign a DV and a number of NET actions (#) to install the virus. The DV to destroy it, is equal to your check to make it.

Virus Example	DV	#
Alter the icon of all Black ICE in the NET architecture from a fierce serpent, into a cute little snek wearing a party hat	6	1
Deactivate a particular Black ICE installed in the NET architecture until the virus is destroyed	10	2
Cause a control node to malfunction in a specific way until the virus is destroyed	10	2
Permanently delete all Black ICE installed in the NET architecture	12	10
Cause lasting damage to the NET architecture itself, permanently halving the number of available floors	12	10

Zap

Attack a program or netrunner in a NET architecture with you. On a hit, you deal 1d6 damage to either the program's REZ or directly to the enemy netrunner's brain.

Net Combat

To resolve combat inside the NET architecture, you roll:

Programs which specify a type of target (like anti-personnel programs) are only effective against their intended target.

Programs

Software tools which a netrunner uses to fight, protect, and explore the electronic realm. Each program loaded on your cyberdeck can only be activated once per round.

Programs which are currently active ("rezzed") can't be activated again until they are first deactivated ("derezzed"). You can run multiple copies of a program to get around this limitation, and the effects stack, unless mentioned otherwise.

You can obtain new programs from the contact in your role lifepath, and sometimes other netrunners or night markets.

Every program has a default icon, which defines how it is percieved inside the NET. You can customize how your own programs look, but this does not affect their functionality. It takes one hour to install or uninstall cyberdeck programs.

Defeating a Program

A program is derezzed when it is reduced to 0 REZ (it's Hit Points), but is not removed from your cyberdeck or from the NET architecture—it is still running, just hobbled and useless. To restore it to full REZ and operating condition, you have to spend 2 NET actions to deactivate it, then activate it again. If a program is ever destroyed by something, it is 100% erased.

Black ICE

Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics programs able to kill an intruder. Once triggered, they hunt down other programs and netrunners across a NET architecture. They are larger than other programs, and each takes up 2 program slots in your 'deck. If you encounter Black ICE lying in wait for you, roll:

If the Black ICE beats your check, you (or one of your active programs in the case of anti-program ICE) suffers its effect. It is then placed at the top of the initiative queue. On each of its turns, the Black ICE will attack you (or one of your programs) once, and will chase you until it is either derezzed or eluded.

Anti-program Black ICE will continue to follow you until it is derezzed or you slide away from it—even if you don't have any programs rezzed—it views you as a program source.

You can activate your own Black ICE in two ways: Either set it to lie in wait on the current floor of the NET architecture (which can't be done in combat), or deploy it against a valid target. To assign a new target to your Black ICE, you must spend two NET actions to deactivate, and then reactivate it.

Demons

Specific types Black ICE programs that are intelligent, but not the true AIs of the pre-war period, which were restricted after the destruction they wrought during the 4th Corporate War.

They are designed to attack targets in meatspace—such as your body and your support team—by using control nodes that are linked to external hardware—like drones and turrets.

Demons can only use two NET actions: Zap and Control, but they are totally aware of their whole architecture, including any netrunner's presence. They ignore any passwords, and automatically beat programs in any speed contest. You cant slide away from a demon, but they can't lie in wait for you.

A demon enters the initiative queue at the top if it detects an intruder on camera, or a netrunner enters its architecture. On its turn, a demon prioritizes using control nodes, and only Zaps enemies with any spare NET actions remaining to it.

Netrunner Starting Outfit

Cyberware (14 Humanity Loss)

Interface Plugs, Neural Link, Shift Tacts

Weapons & Armor

Very Heavy Pistol, Basic VH Pistol Ammunition x30, Light Armorjack Body Armor, Light Armorjack Head Armor

Gear

Agent, Cyberdeck (Standard), Virtuality Goggles, Program: Armor, Program: Sword, Program: See Ya or Eraser, Program: Sword or Vrizzbolt, Program: Worm or Sword

Fashion

Generic Chic: Top x10, Leisurewear: Footwear x2, Jewelry, Bottoms x2, Urban Flash: Jacket

You're addicted to technology in all its forms. You can't leave anything alone—if it sits near you for more than five minutes, you've already disassembled it and made something else.

You always have at least two screwdrivers and a wrench in your pockets. Computer down? Hydrogen burner out in your metrocar? Video wont run? Your interface is glitching out?

No problem! You make your living from building, fixing, and modifying; a crucial occupation in a highly technological world that is still recovering from a war that broke the back of the global manufacturing and supply chain.

You can make a living fixing everyday stuff, but for serious money you need to tackle the big jobs: Illegal and/or stolen weapons and cybertech. Corporate espionage and counter-espionage gear for black operations. If you're any good, then you're making a lot of money that goes straight back into buying new gadgets, hardware, and information.

Your black market work isn't just making you friends—it's also racking you up an impressive number of new enemies as well—so you also invest a lot in defense systems and, if really pushed, you call in markers on a solo or two.

You've fixed up tech for everybody from black ops corporate samurai, to Ms. Zepada down the block. No one's ever come back to you with a complaint but that might be because of the turrets guarding your front door.

Ability: Maker

You fix, improve, modify, make, and invent things. Every time you increase your maker rank by one point, you also gain one level in any two maker specialties, each of your choice.

Maker Specialty Checks

When you need to resolve a maker specialty check, the DV and time it takes, are based on the price category of the item:

Price Category	DV	Time
Cheap/Everyday	9	1 hour
Costly	13	6 hours
Premium	17	1 day
Expensive	21	1 week
Very Expensive	24	2 weeks
Luxury	29	1 month
Super Luxury	29	1 month per 10,000ed

Specialty: Field Service

Your familiarity with technology makes you a valuable asset on any job, especially when something breaks down in the field. You add your rank in this specialty to Basic Tech, Cyber-tech, Electronics/Security Tech, Weaponstech, Land, Sea, or Air Vehicle Tech checks not covered by another specialty.

Instead of attempting a lengthy full repair, you can opt to temporarily repair an item to perfect condition as an action (with full SP and HP, if applicable). You add your rank in this specialty to the check. This jury-rigging holds for 10 minutes for each rank you have in this specialty, after which the item returns to its previous state, and must then be fully repaired.

Specialty: Upgrades

You can improve an item in one of the following ways. An item can only benefit from one upgrade granted by this specialty.

• Lower the humanity loss of non-borgware cyberware by 1d6, if its typical humanity loss would be 2d6 or greater.
• Increase the number slots of a type an item already has for options, attachments, programs/hardware, etc. by one.
• Simplify an item, halving the time it takes to fully repair.
• Grant a typically non-concealable one-handed weapon, the ability to be concealed.
• Increase an Average quality weapon to Excellent quality.
• Add a weapon attachment slot to an exotic weapon.
• Modify an exotic weapon to fire one variety of non-basic ammunition of its type.
• Increase an item's SP by 1, but only if it already had an SP.
• Install a vehicle upgrade that requires a nomad rank of 1.
• Install an upgrade created using the invention specialty. This requires materials of a value and price category assigned by the GM when it was invented, which are consumed when installing the upgrade. On a failed check, you realize halfway through the process that you'll have to start over again from scratch, but the materials and item are both undamaged.

Specialty: Fabrication

You can fabricate an existing item, or one designed using the invention specialty. This requires materials one price category lower than the item being fabricated—except for super luxury items, which require materials equal to half their price.

On a failed check, you realize halfway through the process that you will have to start over again from scratch, but the materials are undamaged and can be reused.

Specialty: Invention

You can invent an upgrade to an existing item or an entirely new item. To invent something, you'll need to describe the desired function as precisely as you can, in the language of existing technologies in the setting. You could draw a simple schematic, the GM and other players will appreciate it.

If the GM is satisfied with your item and okay with it in their game, they will decide how the invention will function rules-wise. The GM will also decide DV you have to beat, the time it takes to make, and a price category, based on it's value if it were to be sold on the open market. The lowest possible price category is expensive. On a failed check, halfway through the process, you realize that you have to to go back to the drawing board and start over.

Once invented, you (or another tech who you show the blueprints to) can make the item using Fabrication or Upgrade Expertise. Nobody will give your invention a second thought before you have a working prototype. Of course, that's when they'll try to steal it. Don't bother with the courts.

This ability can result in more game imbalance than any other. The GM might need to retroactively change the way your invention operates several times before finding a version that works and doesn't negatively impact game balance.

Tech Starting Outfit

Cyberware (12 Humanity Loss)

Cybereye, MicroOptics, Skinwatch, Tool Hand

Weapons & Armor

Shotgun or Assault Rifle, Basic Shotgun Shell Ammunition x100 or Basic Rifle Ammunition x100, Flashbang Grenade, Light Armorjack Body Armor, Light Armorjack Head Armor

Gear

Agent, Anti-Smog Breathing Mask, Disposable Cell Phone, Duct Tape x5, Flashlight, Road Flare x6, Tech Bag

Fashion

Generic Chic: Bottoms x8, Tops x10
Leisurewear: Footwear x2

You're an artist, and the human body is your canvas. You've got the best tools and know how to use them. If you're lucky, you attended one of the real med schools scattered around the wreck of the old USA. After the war, military hospitals everywhere needed helping hands to hold down screaming patients and splice their cyberware back together. Maybe you learned that way.

And there's always an old ripperdoc or two out there who hearkens back to that old science fiction story called "The Bladerunner"—not the flatscreen vid—the even older book about renegade doctors who performed illegal street surgery. Maybe one of those guys trained you.

Maybe that's where you are right now, patching up the wounded, mending the sick, and keeping the locals alive. For love, commitment, or maybe a just a fat payday on the side.

If you're real lucky, you've scored a berth in a Trauma Team franchise—groups of licensed paramedicals who patrol the city looking for patients. You operate from an AV-4 Urban Assault Vehicle, repurposed into an ambulance configuration, and armed with a belly-mounted minigun. It's the best of the best—Trauma Team charges preem subscription fees to save its clients, and that translates into new medical toys, faster AV ambulances, and hefty salaries for the best surgeons around.

It doesn't matter how you got there. What matters is you're on the street, doing the job.

Ability: Medicine

You can keep people alive who should be dead—using your knowledge, tools, and training. You are as much mechanic as doctor, often caring for people who are more machine than human. Each time you increase your medicine rank by one point, you also gain one point in a specialty of your choice.

Specialty: Cryosystem Operation

You can only put a maximum of 5 points into this specialty. For each point you put into this specialty, you also gain one point in the Medical Tech skill (up to a maximum of 10). Each rank in this speciality also grants you an additional benefit.

Rank 1

You gain one cryopump, which you can use to place people into metabolic stasis. They remain in this state for up to one week, during which time they do not make death saves.

Rank 2

You become a registered cryo-technician and gain unlimited 24/7 access to one cryotank at a time, at any cryotank facility operated by certified corporations and government agencies. This more advanced cryosystem can keep a person in stasis indefinitely, and also accellerates the natural healing process.

Rank 3

You gain one cryotank, installed in a room of your choosing.

Rank 4

You gain two more cryotanks, installed in the same room as the first cryotank. Your cryopump also now has two charges, and its capacity is increased to two people.

Rank 5

You gain three more cryotanks, installed in the same room as the first three cryotanks. Your cryopump also now has three charges, and its capacity is increased to three people.

Specialty: Pharmaceuticals

You can only put a maximum of 5 points into this specialty. For each point you put into this specialty, you also gain one point in the Medical Tech skill (up to a maximum of 10), and access to a template for one of the drugs listed below, which you can try and synthesize with a DV13 Medical Tech check. This takes 1 hour, and if you are successful, you turn 200ed worth of raw materials into a number of doses equal to your Medical Tech skill. If you fail, the materials are all wasted.

You can't synthesize street drugs with this specialty, and unlike using street drugs, only a specialist medtech is able to calculate the precise dosages to use pharmaceuticals safely.

Antibiotic

Targets who have already started the natural healing process, regain an extra 2 hit points every day, for seven days. Only a single dose is effective at a time.

Rapidetox

Targets who are affected by drugs, poison, or intoxicants, are immediately purged of all the effects of those substances.

Speedheal

Targets who are not mortally wounded, immediately heal for a number of hit points equal to their combined BODY and WILL. Only a single dose is effective per day.

Stim

Targets ignore all the penalties from being seriously wounded, for one hour. Only a single dose is effective at a time.

Surge

Targets can function without sleep, unimpaired, for 24 hours. Only a single dose is effective per week.

Specialty: Surgery

For each point you put into this specialty, you gain two points in the Surgery skill (up to a maximum of 10), which is used to treat severe critical injuries, and to implant some cyberware.

Medtech Starting Outfit

Cyberware (12 Humanity Loss)

Biomonitor, Cybereye, Nasal Filters or Toxin Binders, TeleOptics

Weapons & Armor

Shotgun or Assault Rifle, Basic Shotgun Shell Ammunition x100 or Basic Rifle Ammunition x100, Incendiary Shotgun Shell Ammunition x10 or Incendiary Rifle Ammunition x10, Smoke Grenade x2, Light Armorjack, Body Armor, Light Armorjack Head Armor, Bulletproof Shield

Gear

Agent, Airhypo, Handcuffs, Flashlight, Glow Paint, Medtech Bag

Fashion

Generic Chic: Jacket x3, Leisurewear: Footwear, Bottoms x3, Top x5

They're bending the truth out there, and you're going to stop them—someone has to do it! The corporations used to rule the world. They dumped toxics, destabilized economies, and committed murder with impunity. The governments back then couldn't even stop them—hell, they owned the governments. But then the war came and stripped away the facade, let everyone know exactly what had been going on. And it was the medias who made sure we all knew the score.

That's you. You've got a vidlink and press pass, and you're not afraid to use them. You're a city-wide figure, seen nightly all over the data pool. It's not like the old days, when you had a major mediacorp behind you; this time, you've gotta depend on your fans, your contacts, and your own reputation.

But it's harder for these new corps to make you disappear. So when you dig down for the dirt and slime corrupt officials and corporate lapdogs try to cover up, you can dig deep. The next morning, you put the details of their crimes all over the screamsheets and vidscreens.

The bad guys have tried to flatline you three or four times—that's why your backup's a crack solo, and you have one of the top ‘runners in the city digging through NET architectures to back your stories. You have to be good, or else.

Your ‘runner's just phoned in with a hot lead. You grab your gear and flag your backup. You're going to nail the bastards. This time, for sure.

Ability: Credibility

You can not only convince an audience of the truth of what you publish, but also gain a larger audience the more credible you are. You also have greater levels of access to sources and information; you are always in the know with your ear to the ground, to pick up on rumors and information passively.

Rumors

Assuming you aren't entirely off-grid, at least twice per week the GM will secretly roll (your credibility rank) + 1d10. If the check beats any of the DVs on the rumor table's (P)assive column, the GM will clue you in on what rumour you hear.

Rumor	Information	P	A
Vague Rumor	The bare minimum required to start hunting down the supposed truth at the core of it.	7	13
Typical Rumor	Enough to know where to investigate next. A passing glimpse at the supposed truth.	9	15
Substantial Rumor	Something concrete that is directly beneficial, like names, places, and times.	11	17
Detailed Rumor	If verified, evidence you can use in a story about the supposed truth at the core of it.	13	21

You can uncover the same rumors by hitting the street and using your information gathering skills (like Library Search, Conversation, or Interrogation). When actively searching for a rumor like this, you roll against the DV on the (A)ctive column:

Rumors, by definition, are often untrue, and are never the full story. Finding out the is your job, but remember; some threads are dangerous to pull.

Publishing Stories or Scoops

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• Access/Sources: People you can reasonably get in touch with/interview or otherwise gain information from.
• Audience: How many people you can reach.
• Believability: How well your story or exposé goes over with your audience. You need to beat this DV when you publish a story, or any time you want to find out if someone believes your story. If the story contains even one piece of verifiable evidence that is easily understood by the masses, you have +1. If it contains more than 4 such bits of evidence, you have +3. LUCK can't be spent on a credibility check.
• Impact: How much change any individual story or revelation you publish can bring about. For example, a story about an unfair economic practice at Rank 1 might only get a few local bosses to change their practices. But at higher ranks, your exposé may cause entire Megacorps to fall. Your GM will handle this. Once you publish you cannot publish on the same topic again, until you uncover new information.

Rank 1 and 2

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• Access/Sources: Local neighborhood leaders, bosses, and gang lords.
• Audience: You are known to the local neighborhood.
• Believability: 2
• Impact: Small, incremental change. Small-time bad guys are scared and may change their ways a little.

Rank 3 and 4

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• Access/Sources: City gang bosses, minor politicians, corp execs, well known neighborhood personalities.
• Audience: You're well known as a contributor on the local screamsheet or Data Pool.
• Believability: 3
• Impact: Direct effect; local small-time bad guys get arrested or thrown out of power, justice gets served.

Rank 5 and 6

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• Access/Sources: Major city players, city politicos, local celebrities.
• Audience: Your stuff goes Citywide. You're a regular columnist or contributor to local screamsheets or TV.
• Believability: 4
• Impact: Things change all over the City. Higher-level bad guys may be jailed or thrown out of power. Local laws may even get passed.

Rank 7 and 8

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• Access/Sources: Local corp presidents, mayor or city managers, city celebrities.
• Audience: You are a minor statewide celeb in your own right.
• Believability: 5
• Impact: Things change over several cities. Mid-level corporations or governments may be thrown out of power. Laws may be passed that affect people in several cities.

Rank 9

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• Access/Sources: Divisional corp heads, state politicos, well known celebrities
• Audience: You are known across the country, but not by everyone. If they've seen you, chances are it was on a national newsfeed.
• Believability: 6
• Impact: Things change over a major area like a whole nation. Large corporations or local governments may be toppled. Laws may be passed that affect people at a national level.

Rank 10

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• Access/Sources: Major world leaders, major corporation heads, world-famous celebrities.
• Audience: You are known worldwide. People stop you for autographs and people in high places use you to leak important stuff.
• Believability: 7
• Impact: Major changes sweep the world. Megacorps and powerful governments may fall or be overthrown. Global laws may be established. Millions will be affected.

Media Starting Outfit

Cyberware (10 Humanity Loss)

Amplified Hearing or Voice Stress Analyzer, Cyberaudio Suite, Light Tattoo

Equipment

Heavy Pistol or Very Heavy Pistol, Basic H Pistol Ammunition x50 or Basic VH Pistol Ammunition x50, Light Armorjack Body Armor, Light Armorjack Head Armor

Gear

Agent, Audio Recorder, Binoculars, Disposable Cellphone x2 or Grapple Gun, Flashlight, Computer, Radio Scanner/Music Player, Scrambler/Descrambler, Video Camera

Fashion

Generic Chic: Footwear, Bottoms, Top, Leisurewear: Jacket, Urbanflash: Mirrorshades

In the old days, you would have been a hard-driven, fast-track MBA on your way up the corporate ladder. Sure, it was selling your soul to the company, but face it: the corporations ruled the world. They controlled governments, markets, nations, armies, you name it. And you knew that whoever controlled the corporations controlled the world.

But things changed when the largest megacorps got into a war that was the equal of anything the national governments could have thrown down. Your life as a junior executive is anything but easy. There are those underneath you who'd kill for a shot at your job. Literally. Just as there are those over you who'd kill to keep you out of their jobs. Literally.

And they're really not kidding about the killing. Every up-and-comer in the corporation has their own team of solos and netrunners to cover important pet projects. Last week, you led a team of solos, netrunners, and techs on a headhunting run to "extract" a researcher from a rival company.

You told yourself you joined the corporation to make it a better place—"work from the inside", you said—just until you could start your own corporation that would be a little more honest. But now you're not so sure. Your ideals are getting tarnished and things are looking pretty bleak...

But you can't worry about ethics now. You've got a report due in an hour, and it looks like that gonk in sales is planning to ice your database for good. You're gonna ice him first!

Ability: Teamwork

You can build a team whose members help you accomplish your goals—legal or not and morale permitting. Members of your team will have a public job description (like secretary or driver) but also covert roles (such as netrunner, bodyguard, or assassin). Plus you get free housing and nice set of clothes!

Signing Bonus

At rank 1, you are given a businesswear suit, comprising of a jacket, top, bottom, and footwear. It identifies you as an active member of the corporate elite.

Corporate Housing

At rank 2, you get access to one of your company's Corporate Conapts. At rank 7, your housing is upgraded to a Beaverville House in the executive zone. Then, ultimately, at rank 10, it is dramatically improved to a Beaverville McMansion in the executive zone, or a Luxury Penthouse in the corporate zone.

While you remain employed by the corporation, you can live in your corporate housing without paying any rent or fees, but still have to pay for your own lifestyle expenses each month. If you join another corporation, your new employer will usually offer the same level of housing, and even cover the cost of moving all your stuff to the new property.

Corporate Health Insurance

At rank 6, you are given Trauma Team Silver coverage, paid for monthly by your company. At rank 8, your corporation will upgrade you to the Trauma Team Executive package. If you join another corporation, your new employer will usually offer to pay for the same level of health insurance coverage.

Team Members

At rank 3, your company assigns one junior employee to work for you, as a member of your team. At rank 5, and then again at rank 9, you are assigned another additional team member.

You tell company HR which job position you need filled, then roll on the table below, to determine the STATs of the person that HR sends over to you. While constructed like player characters, your team members differ in a few ways:

• Their skills are linked to your exec rank, and do not improve.
• They are controlled by the GM, and their willingness to follow your orders depends on their current loyalty to you.
• They can only wear light armorjack armor. Company policy!

Loyalty

While you are their boss, team members are not just mindless drones. Whenever you give a questionable order to member of your team, the GM must roll under their current loyalty on 1d6. On failure, they could refuse, or botch the assignment.

    If their loyalty drops to 0, they might even betray you to your enemies. Team members with a loyalty of 0 or lower at the end of a game session, will always complain to HR and receive a transfer, or just quit, depending on HR's whims.

Obviously, you want to try and inspire loyalty in your team. Loyalty caps at a maximum of 10 between game sessions, but during a game session, there is no loyalty limit.

Ways to Increase Loyalty

Example	Gain
Compliment their work	+1
Give them a bonus or other perk of at least 200ed	+4
Support them against management	+4
Give them a 20% cut of your earnings for a job	+6
Give them paid time off for an entire game session	+6
Risk physical harm for them	+8

Ways to Lose Loyalty

Example	Loss
Gain no loyalty with them during an entire game session	-1
Berate or them or their work	-2
Ignore their contribution to a job	-4
Forget their birthday	-5
Fail to come through with a promised bonus or perk	-6
Throw them under the bus to management	-6
Abandon them under fire	-8

Losing Team Members

If you lose a team member, HR will automatically repossess their equipment and send you a replacement in the next game session. This costs 200ed in "hiring fees" (bribes) to HR.

New Team Members

Job Descriptions

You decide their role on the team, and can also pick a "cover job" for them. You might not want everyone to know you've got a covert ops specialist or netrunner on your payroll.

Generating STATs

Roll 1d6 and read across the corresponding row, recording each STAT, and then derive their HP, Mortally Wounded, and Death Save values. You do not need to lower their EMP due to Humanity Loss from any cyberware. It's already factored in.

Skills, Cyberware, and Gear

Their skills, cyberware, and gear. These standard packages are provided by the company, and the skills and equipment they are willing to allocate, are based on your Exec rank.

Starting Loyalty

If they are a replacement for a lost team member, their loyalty is always 1. They heard about what happened to the last guy! Otherwise roll 1d6+1 to determine their initial loyalty to you.

Company Bodyguard

#	INT	REF	DEX	TECH	COOL	WILL	MOVE	BODY	EMP
1	3	7	7	4	7	6	4	8	4
2	5	8	6	2	7	8	4	8	2
3	4	8	5	3	7	8	6	6	3
4	4	7	8	4	7	7	4	7	2
5	3	8	5	2	8	7	4	6	7
6	5	7	7	2	7	6	5	7	4

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• Cover Jobs: Escort, Personal Trainer
• True Job: To protect you in dangerous situations.
• Skills at +2: Concentration, Conversation, Education, First Aid, Human Perception, Language (Streetslang), Local Expert (Your Home), Persuasion, Stealth
• Skills at +4: Athletics, Evasion, Interrogation, Perception, Resist Torture/Drugs, Tactics
• Skills at +6: Handgun, Brawling
• Cyberware: Enhanced Antibodies, Subdermal Armor, Cyberaudio Suite, Internal Agent, Homing Tracer
• Gear: Agent, Light Armorjack Body Armor, Very Heavy Pistol, Basic VH Pistol Ammo x50

Company Covert Operative

#	INT	REF	DEX	TECH	COOL	WILL	MOVE	BODY	EMP
1	4	8	5	4	6	8	5	7	3
2	3	8	6	2	8	6	6	6	5
3	6	7	5	5	7	6	3	7	4
4	5	6	5	3	6	8	7	6	4
5	3	8	4	4	8	7	4	8	4
6	5	8	3	7	7	8	3	6	3

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• Cover Jobs: Personal Assistant, Stylist
• True Job: Keeping you from getting your hands dirty.
• Skills at +2: Athletics, Brawling, Concentration, Conversation, Education, First Aid, Language (Streetslang), Local Expert (Your Home), Perception, Persuasion
• Skills at +4: Bribery, Bureaucracy, Business, Evasion, Human Perception, Pick Lock, Streetwise, Trading, Wardrobe & Style
• Skills at +6: Handgun, Stealth
• Cyberware: Cybereyes with paired Low Light/Infrared/UV, Color Shift, Cyberarm with Grapple Hand, Popup Ranged Weapon (Very Heavy Pistol), Realskinn™ Covering
• Gear: Agent, Light Armorjack Body Armor, Very Heavy Pistol, Basic VH Pistol Ammo x50

Company Driver

#	INT	REF	DEX	TECH	COOL	WILL	MOVE	BODY	EMP
1	5	8	6	4	6	5	6	5	5
2	5	7	7	5	5	7	4	7	3
3	6	8	8	4	7	4	5	6	2
4	8	7	4	5	4	7	5	6	4
5	7	8	3	5	7	6	4	6	4
6	6	8	6	6	8	5	3	5	3

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• Cover Jobs: Valet, Personal Driver
• True Job: Drives, pilots, and maintains your team's vehicles.
• Skills at +2: Athletics, Concentration, Conversation, Education, First Aid, Human Perception, Language (Streetslang), Local Expert (Your Home), Perception, Persuasion

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• Skills at +4: Brawling, Endurance, Evasion, Land Vehicle Tech, Pilot Air Vehicle, Pilot Sea Vehicle, Sea Vehicle Tech, Stealth, Tracking
• Skills at +6: Drive Land Vehicle, Handgun
• Cyberware: Radar/Sonar Implant, Cyberaudio Suite, Internal Agent, Homing Tracer, Radar Detector
• Gear: Light Armorjack Body Armor, Very Heavy Pistol, Compact Groundcar with Seating Upgrade, Basic VH Pistol Ammo x50

Company Netrunner

#	INT	REF	DEX	TECH	COOL	WILL	MOVE	BODY	EMP
1	6	7	8	7	5	4	5	5	3
2	7	8	4	6	8	3	4	6	4
3	5	6	8	8	6	6	4	4	3
4	7	8	5	6	4	4	6	5	5
5	5	8	8	5	5	3	6	4	6
6	8	7	6	6	4	7	4	4	4

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• Cover Jobs: I.T. Engineer, Research Specialist
• True Job: Netrunning and information gathering.
• Skills at +2: Interface (Netrunner Role Ability), Athletics, Brawling, Concentration, Conversation, Evasion, First Aid, Human Perception, Language (Streetslang), Local Expert (Your Home), Perception, Persuasion
• Skills at +4: Basic Tech, Cryptography, Cybertech, Education, Electronics/Security Tech, Forgery, Library Search, Handgun, Stealth
• Cyberware: Neural Link, Chipware Socket, Pain Editor, Interface Plugs, Cybereyes with Virtuality
• Gear: Agent, Light Armorjack Body Armor, Cyberdeck (7 slots: Sword, Sword, Killer, Worm, Worm, Armor), Very Heavy Pistol, Basic VH Pistol Ammo x50

Company Technician

#	INT	REF	DEX	TECH	COOL	WILL	MOVE	BODY	EMP
1	8	8	5	7	3	4	4	5	6
2	8	7	6	8	3	5	5	4	4
3	8	6	5	8	4	3	3	7	6
4	8	8	5	7	4	4	4	5	5
5	7	7	3	7	5	3	6	6	3
6	7	8	5	8	6	3	3	5	5

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• Cover Jobs: I.T. Engineer, Intern
• True Job: Repairs your team's gear and weapons.
• Skills at +2: Athletics, Brawling, Concentration, Conversation, Evasion, First Aid, Human Perception, Language (Streetslang), Local Expert (Your Home), Perception, Persuasion, Stealth
• Skills at +4: Education, Handgun, Weaponstech
• Skills at +6: Basic Tech, Cybertech, Electronics/Security Tech
• Cyberware: Tool Hand, Cyberaudio Suite, Internal Agent, Bug Detector, Audio Recorder
• Gear: Light Armorjack Body Armor, Very Heavy Pistol, Basic VH Pistol Ammo x50

Exec Starting Outfit

Cyberware (12 Humanity Loss)

Biomonitor or Tech Hair, Cyberaudio Suite, Internal Agent, Toxin Binders or Nasal Filters

Equipment

Assault Rifle or Shotgun, Heavy Pistol, Basic Rifle Ammunition x100 or Basic Shotgun Shell Ammunition x100 or Basic Slug Ammunition x100, Basic H Pistol Ammunition x30, Bulletproof Shield or Smoke, Grenade x2, Light Armorjack Body Armor, Light Armorjack Head Armor

Gear

Radio Communicator x4, Scrambler/Descrambler

Fashion

Businesswear: Footwear, Jacket, Bottoms, Mirrorshades, Top, Jewelry x2

Before the war, people used to just shoot at cops. Now you're lucky if you only take a slug. The street is mean these days, filled with new drugs, new gangs, and new weapons which make a Minami-10 look like a kid's toy. But even so, you're out there doing what you can to protect and serve.

There used to be a large city force, but most of the NCPD old guard have been thrown out to keep what peace they can on their own. Those who remain still take the badge seriously; they work to keep people safe and make some kind of stand against chaos. Even if you'd rather just walk a beat, you're carrying high-caliber weapons and wearing a kevlar vest—and often you're still outgunned and outflanked.

Half the gangs were cybered up with super speed, amped reflexes, darkvision, carried weapons in their arms... and that was before the war and the fall of Arasaka dropped a ton of milspec cybertech into the night markets.

The other half of the players on the street are the freelance corporate mercs; recruited for corpo armies during the war, then disbanded by the New United States. Now they're goon squads you're trying to keep under control too. Every night is a new firefight and another opportunity for a messy death.

Maybe you draw a Psycho Squad berth and get the job of hunting down heavily armed and armored cyborgs who've flipped out. A cyberpsycho can walk through machine gun fire and not even feel it, so a lot of the Psycho Squad become a bit crazy themselves; they load up with boosted reflexes, get some monstrously huge guns, and go hunt the cyborgs solo.

But you're not that crazy. Yet.

Ability: Backup

You can call upon the help of a group of fellow officers, based on your rank and the conditions under which you make the call. The backup is armed and armored based on your rank.

As you increase in rank, you are likely to be promoted within your law enforcement organization, or recruited by law enforcement agencies that you can call on for backup from.

When in danger, you can call on backup from a group of your rank or lower. As an action, you can attempt to roll your rank or lower on a d10, to get someone to respond to your call. If you abuse this, your boss will throw you off the force or fine you as they see fit.

If someone responds to your call, roll a d6 to find out how many rounds it takes for your backup to arrive on the scene. If you roll a 6, instead of your typical backup, the backup that arrives will be of the next highest level of backup—unless you are Rank 10, in which case two separate backup groups will arrive. If nobody responds to your call, you can always try and call for backup again next turn.

Backup Ranks

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• Combat Number: Add a d10 roll to this value when they make attacks, use skills, etc. Backup cannot dodge bullets.
• SP: The stopping power of their body and head armor.
• HP: The number of Hit Points they each have.
• MOVE & BODY: For anything that references their MOVE or BODY (like movement and death saves).

Rank 1 and 2

Corporate Security: Four local renta-cops arrive on foot. Each one is carrying a heavy pistol and wearing kevlar.

Combat Number	SP	HP	MOVE & BODY
8	7	20	4

Rank 3 and 4

Local Beat Cops: Four local cops arrive in a pair of compact groundcars. They each have a heavy pistol and wear kevlar.

Combat Number	SP	HP	MOVE & BODY
10	7	25	5

Rank 5 to 7

Sheriff's Department: Two "County Mounties" arrive in a high performance groundcar. They both have heavy pistols and assault rifles, and are wearing heavy armorjack.

Combat Number	SP	HP	MOVE & BODY
14	13	35	4

Rank 8

Recovery Zone Marshal: Like marshals of the Old West, these lone lawmen patrol the recovery zones and new cities. One arrives on a superbike, carrying a very heavy pistol, an assault rifle, a grenade launcher, and wearing flak armor.

Combat Number	SP	HP	MOVE & BODY
16	15	50	6

Rank 9

C-SWAT: Two heavy hitters from the Psycho Squad arrive from the air, in an AV-4. They both carry an assault rifle and rocket launcher, and are wearing metalgear.

Combat Number	SP	HP	MOVE & BODY
15	18	35	4

Rank 10

National Law Enforcement / Interpol / FBI / Netwatch: Operating under the jurisdiction of a national government or international law enforcement group, a pair of agents arrive in an AV-4. They are outfitted with very heavy pistols, assault rifles, and are wearing light armorjack.

Unlike other forms of backup, these two will stick around after the conflict ends, and assist in investigating the scene. They won't travel with you on a day-to-day basis, but after the first time they are called, the same agents (or replacements) will always respond to calls for backup which are connected to the initial call, until the "case" is closed.

Additionally, these special agents can use their combat number for the Accounting, Acting, Conceal/Reveal Object, Criminology, Cryptography, Deduction, Education, Forgery, Interrogation, Paramedic, Perception, Personal Grooming, Resist Torture/ Drugs, Stealth, and Tracking skills.

Combat Number	SP	HP	MOVE & BODY
14	11	35	6

Lawman Starting Outfit

Cyberware (10 Humanity Loss)

Hidden Holster, Subdermal Pocket

Equipment

Very Heavy Pistol, Basic VH Pistol Ammunition x50, Light Armorjack Body Armor, Light Armorjack Head Armor

Gear

Agent, Flashlight, Handcuffs x2, Radio Communicator, Road Flare x10

Fashion

Generic Chic: Jacket, Bottoms, x2, Top x3, Leisurewear: Footwear x2, Jacket x2, Bottoms x2, Mirrorshades, Top x2

You realized fast that you weren't going to get a corporate job or be a solo, but you always had a knack for figuring out what other people wanted and how to get it for them. For a price. Now your deals have moved past the nickel-and-dime stuff into the big time.

Maybe you move illegal weapons over the border. Or resell stolen medical supplies. Perhaps you're a skill broker acting as an agent for solos and runners, or even hiring a whole nomad pack to back a client's contracts.

You buy and sell favors like an old-style mafia godfather. You have connections into all kinds of businesses, deals, and political groups. You use your contacts and allies as part of a vast web of intrigue and coercion.

If there's a hot new nightclub in the city, you've bought into it. If there are military weapons on the street, you smuggled ‘em in. If there's a faction war going down, you're negotiating between sides with an eye on the main chance.

But you're not all about the eddies. If someone needs to get the heat off, you'll hide them. You find housing when there isn't any, and bring in food when the streets are blockaded.

Maybe you do it because you know they'll owe you later, or maybe not. You're one part Robin Hood and two parts Al Capone. In the past, they would have called you a crime lord. But this is the fragmented, deadly Time of the Red, and on the street, they call you a fixer.

Ability: Operator

You know how to find things on the black market, and are adept at navigating the complex social customs of the street, where hundreds of cultures and economic levels collide.

You maintain a vast web of contacts and clients who you can reach out to for goods, favors, or information. You can also source desirable resources and make favorable deals.

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• Contacts: Who you can reach out to for goods, favors, or information. You still have to pay for these, of course.
• Reach: The highest price category of items you can always source, and if you can use your influence to gather other fixers into creating a night market, which makes all price categories of items available to you for a short time.
• Grease: Your ability to blend in to the many cultures on and off the street; to know the language, social codes, and status marks for each group.
• Haggle: Your ability to strike a deal. If you succeed, you can make one deal of your rank or lower. You can only make one deal per transaction. Both negotiators roll:

Ranks 1 and 2

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• Contacts & Clients: Local honchos, gang lords, local neighborhood leaders.
• Reach: You can always source cheap and everyday items on a piece by piece basis, even when otherwise unavailable.
• Haggle: If successful, you negotiate a 10% price difference.
• Grease: You are familiar with the cultural ins-and-outs of your immediate neighborhood, including all the local gangs.

Ranks 3 and 4

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• Contacts & Clients: City gang honchos, minor politicians, corp execs, well known people in the neighborhood.
• Reach: You can always source expensive items on a piece by piece basis, even when otherwise unavailable.
• Haggle: If successful, when you buy five or more of the same item, you can get one an extra one thrown in for free.
• Grease: You get along well in 1 other culture in your area, and gain 4 points in a language from that culture.

Ranks 5 and 6

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• Contacts & Clients: Major city players, city politicos, neighborhood celebrities.
• Reach: Once each month, working with other fixers of your rank, you can set up a night market. While at a night market you organised, you can always source super luxury items.
• Haggle: If successful, you can negotiate an increase in the payout for a job, by an additional 20%.
• Grease: You get along perfectly in 2 more cultures (3 total) in your area, and gain 4 points in a language from each.

Ranks 7 and 8

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• Contacts & Clients: Local corp president, mayor or city manager, local celebrities.
• Reach: You can always source very expensive items on a piece by piece basis, even when otherwise unavailable.
• Haggle: If successful, when buying a luxury or super luxury item, you can pay half now and half in one month. But if you don't pay the second half on time, your reputation is at risk.
• Grease: You blend in perfectly with 3 more cultures (6 total) in your area, and gain 4 points in a language from each.

Rank 9

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• Contacts & Clients: Divisional corp heads, state or city zone politicos, well known celebrities.
• Reach: You can always source luxury items on a piece by piece basis, even when otherwise unavailable. When you set up a night market, you can also set up the "midnight market"—a gathering of leaders in the criminal underworld.
• Haggle: If successful, you negotiate a 20% price difference.
• Grease: You blend in perfectly with all of the many cultures in your area, and with corporate and governmental agencies.

Rank 10

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• Contacts & Clients: Major world leaders, major Corporation heads, world-famous celebrities.
• Reach: You can always source super luxury items for clients piece basis, even when otherwise unavailable.
• Haggle: If successful, you can negotiate double the pay per person for a dangerous job.
• Grease: You can blend in seamlessly with almost any group, including highly specialized or "tight" groups such as secret societies, cults, or exclusive membership groups.

Fixer Starting Outfit

Cyberware (16 Humanity Loss)

Cyberaudio Suite, Internal Agent, Subdermal Pocket, Voice Stress Analyzer or Amplified Hearing

Equipment

Heavy Pistol or Very Heavy Pistol, Light Melee Weapon, Basic H Pistol Ammunition x100 or Basic VH Pistol Ammunition x100, Light Armorjack Body Armor, Light Armorjack Head Armor

Gear

Agent, Bug Detector, Computer, Disposable Phone x2

Fashion

Generic Chic: Contacts, Jewelry, Leisurewear: Mirrorshades, Urbanflash: Footwear, Jacket, Bottoms, Top

Years ago, the corporations drove your family off their land. They just rolled in, took over, and put rent-a-cops all over the place. Before the war you were loners, homeless, until you created a nomad pack of nearly two-hundred members.

Back then, your pack was crammed into a ragtag fleet of cars, vans, buses, and RVs roaming the freeways looking for supplies, odd jobs, and spare parts in a fragmented world.

The pack was your home, it had teachers, medtechs, leaders, and mechanics—a virtual town on wheels in which everyone was related by marriage or kinship.

But in the Time of the Red, your pack has evolved. Your knowledge of roadcraft—how to get between the safezones over the savage highways—has made you the masters of transporting people, supplies, and materials to a world that desperately needs them.

Your cousins on the open seas have taken over the huge container ships and turned them into convoys that keep civilization running. Your deltajock famboys keep the supply lines to the orbital highriders open. If it has to get somewhere and get there safely, nomads get the job done.

Your vehicles are well-armored and bristling with stolen weapons. Every kid knows how to use a rifle, and everyone packs a knife. Like modern-day cowboys, you ride the hard trail. You've got a gun, a bike, and your family, and that's all you need. You're a nomad.

Ability: Moto

The difference between most people and nomads is that you have better cars. Thanks to being around vehicles since birth, you are able to drive any type of vehicle with tremendous skill.

Vehicle Familiarity

Being part of a nomad family means spending your life in the driver's seat and under the hood, improving your driving skill and vehicle knowledge enough to get by on familiarity alone, or with training to pull off impressive feats with ease.

You add your moto rank to any skill checks you make for: Drive Land Vehicle, Pilot Air Vehicle, Pilot Sea Vehicle, Air Vehicle Tech, Land Vehicle Tech, or Sea Vehicle Tech.

Family Motorpool

Each time you increase your moto rank by one point, you can either add a stock vehicle (with minimum specs, of your moto rank or lower) to the pool of vehicles you are allowed to use, or instead, upgrade one of vehicles you are already allowed to use, with a single upgrade of your moto rank or lower.

Family Vehicles

Rank	Vehicle
1 to 4	Compact Groundcar, Gyrocopter, Jetski, Roadbike
5 to 6	Helicopter, High Performance Groundcar, Speedboat
7 to 8	AV-4, Cabin Cruiser, Superbike
9 to 10	Aerozep, AV-9, Super Groundcar, Yacht

Repairing Vehicles

If any of your family vehicles are destroyed, the family will fully repair them for you, but it will take one week. You will also be expected to pay 500ed for this service—even family heads pay—it's a way of saving face for damaging family property. It might be waived if you are broke, but your reputation would suffer. Daily repairs like bullet removal are your responsibility.

Family Leadership

Upon attaining rank 10, you are promoted to a leadership position in your family, with all the responsibility that entails.

While leading by example, you can have all of your family vehicles out at one time. Any future family vehicles you wish to purchase are bought at market price, and all the upgrades you desire can be bought for 1,000ed each.

Vehicle Upgrades

Unless stated otherwise, upgrades can only be installed once per vehicle. These upgrades are also sometimes available at a night market, at very expensive prices for rank 1 upgrades, and at luxury prices for upgrades requiring a higher rank.

You can only have one of your family vehicles out at a time, but you can call someone to come get your current vehicle and swap it out with another. If your family are close by, the vehicle can even be swapped out the following morning.

Vehicle Upgrade	Rank
Armored Chassis	5
Bulletproof Glass	1
Communications Center	1
NOS	1
Onboard Flamethrower	1
Onboard Machine Gun	1
Seating Upgrade	1
Security Upgrade	5
Smuggling Upgrade	1
All Vehicles Except Bikes, Jetskis, and Gyrocopters	—
Heavy Chassis	1
Onboard Rocket Pod	5
Vehicle Heavy Weapon Mount	5
All Land and Sea Vehicles	—
Onboard Melee Weapon	1
All Land Vehicles	—
Hover Upgrade	5
AV-4 Engine Upgrade	7
Land and Sea Vehicles, Except Bikes and Jetskies	—
Combat Plow	1
All Bikes	—
Enhanced Interface Plug Integration	5
All Groundcars	—
Deployable Spike Strip	1
Aerozep, AV-4, Cabin Cruiser, Groundcar, or Yacht	—
Housing Capacity	1

AV-4 Engine Upgrade

Add a vectored thrust turbofan engine to the vehicle, allowing flight! The vehicle is controlled with the Pilot Air Vehicle skill and handles like an AV-4 while it is in the air.

Armored Chassis

Armor the vehicle at SP13. Doesn't affect the vehicle's glass.

Bulletproof Glass

All glass on the vehicle is replaced with thin bulletproof glass (15 HP). If upgraded again, it becomes thick bulletproof glass (30 HP). All the vehicle windows sustain damage individually.

Combat Plow

Whenever you slam the front of the vehicle into a piece of cover, another vehicle, or an unlucky pedestrian, your vehicle doesn't take any damage and nobody in your vehicle suffers the Whiplash critical injury. If your vehicle was boosted by NOS, any damage dealt by the plow is increased by 2d6.

Communications Center

An easily accessible touchscreen console with onboard agent and discreet storage space loaded with convenient removable tech: 6 Radio Communicators, 6 Scrambler/Descramblers, a Radio Scanner/Music Player, a Homing Tracer with 6 button-sized linked tracers, and an Audio Recorder.

Deployable Spike Strip

The driver can deploy one spike strip as an action. When it is deployed, any closely trailing vehicle with tires must beat a DV17 Drive Land Vehicle check or take 4d6 damage to the vehicle's weak point—any damage that gets through it's SP is doubled. Replacement spike strips are 10ed (cheap).

Multiple upgrades increase the number of strips that can be deployed before the mechanism needs to be reloaded, which can't happen while the vehicle is moving.

Enhanced Interface Plug Integration

When using interface plugs to ride your bike, and you or a passenger on your bike are targeted by an attack that you could dodge or otherwise avoid on foot, you can attempt to dodge or avoid that attack as if you were on foot, but only if your REF is also 8 or higher.

Your choice to dodge becomes the chosen defense of any passenger automatically. In the case of an explosive or other area attack, the bike moves out of its range if you dodge.

Heavy Chassis

Adds 20 SDP to the vehicle. This doesn't affect the vehicle's glass. A vehicle with this upgrade can tow up to 10 tons, and might have a large tow cable. This is a prerequisite upgrade for some other heavy duty vehicle upgrades.

Housing Capacity

When installed in a Groundcar or AV-4, this upgrade adds a sleeping area with 1 bed, a toilet, a shower, and a small kitchen, turning it into a Kombi. When installed in a Cabin Cruiser, Yacht, or Aerozep, the upgrade instead adds one room to the vehicle. Requires either a heavy chassis on a compact groundcar or a high performance groundcar.

Hover Upgrade

Install a series of powerful fans onto the base of the vehicle that allow it to travel across the surface of the water at the speed of a Cabin Cruiser (10 MOVE or 15 MPH).

NOS

Nitrous Oxide System: A burst of power when you need it. When used as an action, you can take one additional move action to drive the vehicle. The tank captures nitrogen and oxygen from the air to synthesize nitrous oxide on its own, taking 1 day to refill. Each additional upgrade adds one tank.

Onboard Flamethrower

Mounted on the front, either side, or the back of a vehicle. The driver can fire it as an action. It can't be reloaded while driving, or easily removed from the vehicle, or have weapon attachments fitted. Multiple upgrades can be installed.

Onboard Machine Gun

An assault rifle with 30 rounds that is only capable of Autofire, mounted on the front of a vehicle. The driver can fire it as an action. It can't be reloaded while driving, or easily removed from the vehicle, or have weapon attachments fitted. Multiple upgrades can be installed.

Onboard Melee Weapon

A very heavy melee weapon which is mounted on the front, either side, or back of a vehicle. The driver can attack with it as an action. It can't be easily removed from the vehicle. Multiple upgrades can be installed.

Onboard Rocket Pod

Requires: Heavy Chassis

A rocket launcher with a drum of three rockets, that you can mount on the front of a vehicle. The driver can fire it as an action. It can't be reloaded while driving, easily removed from the vehicle, or have weapon attachments fitted. Multiple rocket pods can be installed.

Seating Upgrade

Add two seats to the vehicle. The extra seats can come in a sidecar, which can be fully enclosed with the same glass as the rest of the vehicle, with side windows optional.

Any seats in a vehicle with this upgrade can be rigged as ejector seats, firing the contents of the seat 10m into the air above the vehicle, through a trapdoor in the ceiling, if needed. Typically, ejection seats are rigged with parachutes, but they could always be removed. An ejected passenger struck by a helicopter blade, for example, take damage from a very heavy melee weapon. This upgrade can be installed multiple times on all vehicles except Bikes, Jetskis, and Gyrocopters.

Security Upgrade

Replace all the locks on the vehicle with smart DNA locks, which can be set up to accept a thumbprint, iris scan, blood sample, or any other biometric method. They can only be unlocked by the biometric key or a DV 17 Electronics/Security Tech check. A person within 2m of the vehicle who presents an inaccurate biometric key, or fails a check to open one of the locks, is effectively hit in the body by a stun baton.

Additionally, the vehicle gains a cloaking feature, allowing it to hide from anything below a DV17 Perception check, while it remains still. The cloaking system takes a minute to engage, and operates by a coating of nanomachines on the surface of the vehicle, reprojecting video of its surroundings in real time.

Smuggling Upgrade

Adds two onboard hidden holsters (functionaly identical to the cyberware of the same name) which provide the driver and one passenger with an easily accessible concealed weapon, and one large space hidden somewhere within the vehicle for smuggling purposes.

They can only be discovered with a DV17 Conceal/Reveal Object check. This upgrade can be installed multiple times on all vehicles except Bikes, Jetskis, and Gyrocopters.

Vehicle Heavy Weapon Mount

Requires: Heavy Chassis

Transform one passenger seat into a swiveling mount for any two-handed ranged weapon. It can be fired by a passenger using an action. The passenger can reload the weapon while the vehicle is in motion. The weapon can be easily removed or reinstalled as an action.

The first time you fit this upgrade to one of your family vehicles, the family will include either a Tsunami Arms Helix, a Rhinemetall EMG-86 Railgun, or a Militech "Cowboy" U-56 Grenade Launcher as a gift. If the vehicle has bulletproof glass, that now also protects the gunner. Multiple upgrades can be installed on Cabin Cruisers, Yachts, Aerozeps, and Groundcars with the Housing Capacity upgrade installed.

Nomad Starting Outfit

Cyberware (14 Humanity Loss)

Interface Plugs or Wolvers, Neural Link

Equipment

Heavy Pistol or Very Heavy Pistol, Heavy Melee Weapon or Heavy Pistol, Basic H Pistol Ammunition x100 or Basic VH Pistol Ammunition x100, Light Armorjack Body Armor, Light Armorjack Head Armor

Gear

Agent, Anti-Smog Breathing Mask, Duct Tape, Flashlight, Grapple Gun, Inflatable Bed & Sleep-Bag, Medtech Bag, Radio Communicator x2, Rope, Techtool, Tent and Camping Equipment

Fashion

Bohemian: Jewelry, Nomad Leathers: Top x4, Bottom x2, Footwear x2, Jacket, Hat

A series of plot complications, meant to give your Cyberpunk character an authentically "dark future" background. It covers their cultural origins, family, friends, enemies, personal habits, and key life events. If you roll anything you don't think fits with your character, feel free to reroll, or choose a different option.

Cultural Origin

The world of Cyberpunk is multicultural and multinational. You either learn to deal with all kinds of people from all over the fractured and chaotic world of the dark future, or you die the first time you look side-eye at the wrong person.

Everyone speaks streetslang—the pidgin that evolved to be spoken by almost everyone in the Time of the Red. You start with two points in that skill. You also speak another language that you learned as a child. After you determine the general cultural region you grew up in, choose one language from that list. You begin with four points in that language skill.

If you want your character to speak a language that isn't listed, you can just choose that language instead.

#	Region	Languages (pick one)
1	North American	Chinese, Cree, Creole, English, French, Navajo, Spanish
2	South / Central American	Creole, English, German, Guarani, Mayan, Portuguese, Quechua, Spanish
3	Western European	Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish
4	Eastern European	English, Finnish, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian
5	Middle Eastern / North African	Arabic, Berber, English, Farsi, French, Hebrew, Turkish
6	Sub-Saharan African	Arabic, English, French, Hausa, Lingala, Oromo, Portuguese, Swahili, Twi, Yoruba
7	South Asian	Bengali, Dari, English, Hindi, Nepali, Sinhalese, Tamil, Urdu
8	South East Asian	Arabic, Burmese, English, Filipino, Hindi, Indonesian, Khmer, Malayan, Vietnamese
9	East Asian	Cantonese Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Mongolian
10	Oceania / Pacific Islander	English, French, Hawaiian, Maori, Pama-Nyungan, Tahitian

Personality

#	Personality	#	Personality
1	Shy and secretive	6	Stable and serious
2	Rebellious, antisocial, and violent	7	Silly and fluff-headed
3	Arrogant, proud, and aloof	8	Sneaky and deceptive
4	Moody, rash, and headstrong	9	Intellectual and detached
5	Picky, fussy, and nervous	10	Friendly and outgoing

Motivation and Relationships

#	What You Value?	How You Feel About People?
1	Money	I stay neutral
2	Honor	I stay neutral
3	Your word	I like almost everyone
4	Honesty	I hate almost everyone
5	Knowledge	People are tools—use them for your own goals then discard them
6	Vengeance	Every person is a valuable individual
7	Love	People are obstacles to be destroyed if they cross me
8	Power	People are untrustworthy— don't depend on anyone
9	Family	Wipe ‘em all out and let the cockroaches take over
10	Friendship	People are wonderful!

#	Most Valued Person?	Most Valued Possession?
1	A parent	A weapon
2	A brother or sister	A tool
3	A lover	A piece of clothing
4	A friend	A photograph
5	Yourself	A book or diary
6	A pet	A recording
7	A teacher or mentor	A musical instrument
8	A public figure	A piece of jewelry
9	A personal hero	A toy
10	No one	A letter

Clothing, Style, and Affectation

What you look like is (to the street) a snapshot of who you are. Your clothes, hairstyles and even personal touches can determine how people will relate to you, for good or for bad—an exec wearing a rainbow mohawk, and ritual scars probably isn't going to get that corporate promotion they wanted.

Your clothing style is more about the type of clothes, rather than individual items. You could wear a tailored business suit jacket, a rawhide fringed nomad jacket, a high-tech urban flash jacket, or even a torn and ripped leather jacket with gang colors all over the back. Each one is functionally the same item of clothing (jacket), but it is defined by the style.

#	Clothing	Style
1	Generic Chic	Standard, Colorful, Modular
2	Leisurewear	Comfort, Agility, Athleticism
3	Urban Flash	Flashy, Technological, Streetwear
4	Businesswear	Leadership, Presence, Authority
5	High Fashion	Exclusive, Designer, Couture
6	Bohemian	Folksy, Retro, Free-spirited
7	Bag Lady Chic	Homeless, Ragged, Vagrant
8	Gang Colors	Dangerous, Violent, Rebellious
9	Nomad Leathers	Western, Rugged, Tribal
10	Asia Pop	Bright, Costume-like, Youthful

#	Hairstyle	Affectation
1	Mohawk	Tattoos
2	Long and ratty	Mirrorshades
3	Short and spiky	Ritual scars
4	Wild and all over	Spiked gloves
5	Bald	Nose rings
6	Striped	Piercings
7	Wild colors	Fingernail implants
8	Neat and short	Spiked boots or heels
9	Short and curly	Fingerless gloves
10	Long and straight	Contact lenses

Family Background

Where did you come from? Were you born with a silver spoon in your mouth, or were you using it to stab your brother—so you could steal an extra bite of the dead rat you both found?

#	Background
1	Corporate Execs: Wealthy and powerful, with servants, luxury homes, and the best of everything. Private security made sure you were always safe. You went to a big private school.
2	Corporate Managers: Well-to-do, with large homes, safe neighborhoods, and nice cars. Sometimes your family hired servants. You had a mix of private and corporate education.
3	Corporate Technicians: Middle class, with comfortable conapts or suburban homes, minivans and corporate-run technical schools. 1950s America crossed with 1984.
4	Nomad Pack: You had a mix of rugged trailers, vehicles, and huge road kombis for homes. You learned to drive and fight at an early age, but the family was always there to care for you. Food was actually fresh and abundant. Mostly home schooled.
5	Ganger "Family": A savage, violent home in any place the gang could take over. You were usually hungry, cold, and scared. You probably didn't know who your actual parents were. Education? The Gang taught you how to fight, kill, and steal—what else did you need to know?
6	Combat Zoners: Your home was a decaying, heavily fortified building in ‘The Zone'. You went hungry at times, but could regularly score a bed and meal. You were home-schooled.
7	Urban Homeless: You lived in cars, dumpsters, or abandoned shipping modules—if you were lucky. You were usually hungry, cold, and scared, unless you were tough enough to fight for the scraps. Education? School of Hard Knocks.
8	Megastructure Warren Rats: You grew up in one of the huge megastructures that went up after the war. A tiny conapt, kibble and scop for food, and a mostly warm bed. Some of the better educated warren dwellers or a local corporation may have set up a school.
9	Reclaimers: You started out on the road, but then moved into one of the deserted ghost towns or cities to rebuild it. A pioneer life—dangerous, but with plenty of simple food and a safe place to sleep. You were home schooled if there was anyone who had the time.
10	Edgerunners: Your home was always changing based on your parents' current "job." Could be a luxury apartment, an urban conapt, or a dumpster if you were on the run. Food and shelter ran the gamut from gourmet to kibble.

Environment

How did you grow up? What kind of places did you and your sibs play in? Safe and calm? Crazy dangerous? Or massively oppressive? Maybe something happened, and you grew up in a completely different environment to your family background.

#	Childhood Environment
1	Ran on the street, with no adult supervision
2	Safe corp zone, walled off from the rest of the city
3	Nomad pack moving from place to place
4	Nomad pack with roots in transport (ships, planes, caravans)
5	Decaying, once upscale neighborhood, now holding off the boosters to survive
6	Combat zone, living in a wrecked building or other squat
7	Huge megastructure controlled by a corp or the city
8	Ruins of a deserted town or city taken over by reclaimers
9	Drift Nation (a floating offshore city)
10	Corporate luxury "starscraper," high above the rest of the teeming rabble

Family Crisis

The world is still recovering from a war and other disasters— chances are, something happened to you and your family.

#	Background
1	Lost everything through betrayal
2	Lost everything through bad management
3	Exiled or driven from their home/nation/corporation
4	Imprisoned, you alone escaped
5	Vanished, you are the only remaining member
6	Killed, and you were the only survivor
7	Involved in a long-term conspiracy, organization, or association, like a crime family or revolutionary group
8	Scattered to the winds due to misfortune
9	Cursed with a hereditary feud that has lasted generations
10	You are the inheritor of a family debt; you must honor this debt before you can move on with your life

Your Friends

It's not all grim. Sometimes you link up with people who have your back. Roll 1d10 and subtract 7 (minimum 0) to see how many friends you've made so far in your life. Then for each friend, roll on the table below to find their relationship to you.

#	Relationship	#	Relationship
1	Like an older sibling	6	Old enemy
2	Like a younger sibling	7	Like a parent
3	Teacher or mentor	8	Childhood friend
4	Partner or coworker	9	Street choom
5	Former lover	10	Common interest or goal

Your Enemies

Enemies are a big part of life in the Cyberpunk world. You're going in get in someone's face sooner or later, so you might as well find out who they are, why there's a beef, and what they can do to even the score, if you run into each other.

Roll 1d10 and subtract 7 (minimum 0) to see how many enemies you've made. Then for each one, decide who was the injured party and roll once on each of the columns below.

#	Enemy	What Caused it?	Threat?
1	Ex-friend	One of you caused the other to lose face or status	Just themselves but wont fight
2	Ex-lover	One of you caused the loss of lover, friend, or relative	Just themselves
3	Estranged relative	One of you caused a major public humiliation	Themselves and a close friend
4	Childhood enemy	One of you accused the other of a personal flaw	Themselves and (1d3) friends
5	Person working for you	One of you deserted or betrayed the other	Themselves and (1d5) friends
6	Person you work for	One turned down the other's offer of a job or romantic involvement	Entire gang (at least 1d10+ 5 friends)
7	Partner or coworker	You just don't like each other	Local cops or other lawmen
8	Corporate exec	You are romantic rivals	Powerful gang lord or small corporation
9	Government official	You are business rivals	Powerful corporation
10	Boosterganger	One set the other up for a crime they didn't commit	Entire city or government or agency

Sweet Revenge!

What's gonna go down when they get back in your face?

#	What are You / They Gonna do About it?
1-2	Avoid the scum
3-4	Go into a murderous rage and try to rip their face off
5-6	Backstab them indirectly
7-8	Verbally attack them
9	Set them up for a crime they didn't commit
10	Set out to murder or maim them

Your Tragic Love Affair(s)

It wouldn't be Cyberpunk if there was a happily ever-after, now would it? You've probably been involved with someone by now, but that may not be the case. We don't care about the one's that worked, we want to know about the ugly ones that ripped out your heart. Nor do we care who they were, what their gender was, or any other details, but feel free to use the personals sections above to get your own ideas about them. Not that it mattered in the end, right?

Roll 1d10 and subtract 7 (minimum 0) to see how affairs you had, then find out how each relationship ended.

#	What Happened?	#	What Happened?
1	Died in an accident	6	Insane or cyberpsycho
2	Mysteriously vanished	7	Committed suicide
3	It just didn't work out	8	Killed in a fight
4	Goal or vendetta came between you	9	Romantic rival cut you out of the action
5	Kidnapped	10	Imprisoned or exiled

Your Life Goals

Now you know your history, your personal style, and even your turbulent love life, but what do you want out of life?

#	Life Goals
1	Get rid of a bad reputation
2	Gain power and control
3	Get off the street no matter what it takes
4	Cause pain and suffering to anyone who crosses you
5	Live down your past life and try to forget it
6	Hunt down those responsible for your miserable life
7	Get what's rightfully yours
8	Save someone in your background
9	Gain fame and recognition
10	Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women!

Rockerboy - Solo - Netrunner - Tech - Medtech
Media - Exec - Lawman - Fixer - Nomad

Some things about life in the Time of the Red are universal. Others are pretty specific. One of them is how your day job (or night job or side job or whatever—we won't judge you) affects your life. The things a hard-bitten lawman has to face on the street, are different from the glittering club life of a rockerboy, and they both deal with stuff no pampered and privileged exec could even imagine.

Rockerboy Lifepath

What Kind of Rockerboy are You?

#	Type	#	Type
1	Musician	6	Orator
2	Slam Poet	7	Politico
3	Street Artist	8	Rap Artist
4	Performance Artist	9	DJ
5	Comedian	10	Idoru

Where Do You Perform?

#	Venue	#	Venue
1	Alternative cafes	4	Guerrilla performances
2	Private clubs	5	Nightclubs around the city
3	Seedy dive bars	6	On the data pool

Are You In A Group? If You Quit One, Why?

#	Reason
1	You were a jerk and the rest of the group voted you out
2	You got caught sleeping with another member's mainline
3	Rest of the group was killed in a tragic "accident"
4	Rest of the group was murdered or broken up by enemies
5	Broke up over "creative differences"
6	You decided to go solo

Who's Gunning for You/Your Group?

#	Who?
1	Old group member who thinks you did them dirty
2	Rival group or artist trying to steal market share
3	Corporate enemies who don't like your message
4	Critic or other "influencer" trying to bring you down
5	Older media star who feels threatened by your rising fame
6	Romantic interest or media figure who wants revenge

Solo Lifepath

What Kind of Solo are You?

#	Type
1	Bodyguard
2	Street muscle for hire
3	Corporate enforcer who takes jobs on the side
4	Corporate or freelance black ops agent
5	Local vigilante for Hire
6	Assassin / hitman for Hire

What's Your Moral Compass Like?

#	Moral Compass
1	Always working for good, trying to take out the "bad guys"
2	Always spare the innocent (elderly, women, children, pets)
3	Will occasionally do unethical or bad things, but it's rare
4	Ruthless and profit centered; will work for anyone, take any job
5	Willing to bend the rules (and the law) to get the job done
6	You engage in illegal, unethical work all the time, and enjoy it

Who's Gunning for You?

#	Who?
1	Corporation you may have angered
2	Boostergang you may have tackled earlier
3	Lawman who thinks you're guilty of something
4	Rival solo from another corp
5	Fixer who sees you as a threat
6	Rival solo who sees you as their nemesis

What's Your Operational Territory?

#	Territory
1	A corporate zone
2	Combat zones
3	The whole city
4	Territory of a single corporation
5	Territory of a particular fixer or contact
6	Wherever the money takes you

Netrunner Lifepath

What Kind of Netrunner are You?

#	Type
1	Freelancer who will hack for hire
2	Corporate "clone runner" who hacks for the man
3	Hacktivist who cracks systems and exposes bad guys
4	Just like to crack systems for the fun of it
5	Part of a regular team of freelancers
6	Hack for media, politico, or lawmen who hire you as needed

What's Your Workspace Like?

#	Workspace
1	There are screens everywhere
2	It looks better in virtuality, you swear
3	It's a filthy bed covered in wires
4	Corporate, modular, and utilitarian
5	Minimalist, clean, and organized
6	It's taken over your entire living space

If You Have a Partner, Who are They?

#	Who?
1	Family member
2	Old friend
3	Possible romantic partner as well
4	Secret partner who might be a rogue AI
5	Secret partner with mob/gang connections
6	Secret partner with corporate connections

Who are Some of Your Other Clients?

#	Who?
1	Local fixers who send you clients
2	Local gangers who protect your work area while you sweep for NET threats
3	Corporate execs who use you for "black project" work
4	Local solos or other combat types who use you to keep their personal systems secure
5	Local nomads and fixers who use you to keep their family systems secure
6	You work for yourself and sell whatever data you can find

Where Do You Get Your Programs?

#	Where?
1	Dig around in old abandoned city zones
2	Steal them from other netrunners you brain-burn
3	A local fixer supplies you in exchange for hack work
4	Corporate execs supply you in exchange for your services
5	You have backdoors into a few corporate warehouses
6	Hit the night markets and score whenever you can

Who's Gunning for You?

#	Who?
1	You think it might be a rogue AI or a NET Ghost—either way, it's bad news
2	Rival netrunners who just don't like you
3	Corporates who want you to work for them exclusively
4	Lawmen who consider you an illegal "black hat" and want to bust you
5	Old clients who think you screwed them over
6	Fixer or another client who wants your services exclusively

Tech Lifepath

What Kind of Tech are You?

#	Type?
1	Cyberware technician
2	Vehicle mechanic
3	Jack of all trades
4	Small electronics technician
5	Weaponsmith
6	Crazy inventor
7	Robot and drone mechanic
8	Heavy machinery mechanic
9	Scavenger
10	Nautical mechanic

What's Your Workspace Like?

#	Workspace
1	A mess strewn with blueprint paper
2	Everything is color coded, but it's still a nightmare
3	Totally digital and obsessively backed up every day
4	You design everything on your agent
5	You keep everything just in case you need it later
6	Only you understand your filing system

If you have a Partner, Who are They?

#	Who?
1	Family member
2	Old friend
3	Possible romantic partner as well
4	Mentor
5	Secret partner with mob or gang connections
6	Secret partner with corporate connections

Who are Your Main Clients?

#	Who?
1	Local fixers who send you clients
2	Local gangers who also protect your work area or home
3	Corporate execs who use you for black project work
4	Local solos and combat types who use you for weapon upkeep
5	Local nomads and fixers who bring you "found" tech to repair
6	You work for yourself and sell what you invent or repair

Where Do You Get Your Supplies?

#	Where?
1	Scavenge the wreckage you find in abandoned city zones
2	Strip gear from bodies after firefights
3	Local fixer brings you supplies in exchange for repair work
4	Corporate execs supply you in exchange for your services
5	You have backdoor into a few corporate warehouses
6	You hit the night markets and score deals whenever you can

Who's Gunning For You?

#	Who?
1	Gangers who want you to work for them exclusively
2	Rival tech trying to steal your customers
3	Corporates who want you to work for them exclusively
4	Larger manufacturer trying to bring you down because your mods are a threat
5	Old client who thinks you screwed them over
6	Rival tech trying to beat you out for resources and parts

Medtech Lifepath

What Kind of Medtech are You?

#	Type?	#	Type?
1	Surgeon	6	Ripperdoc
2	General Practitioner	7	Cryosystems Operator
3	Trauma Medic	8	Pharmacist
4	Psychiatrist	9	Bodysculptor
5	Cyberpsycho Therapist	10	Forensic Pathologist

What's Your Workspace Like?

#	Workspace
1	Sterilized daily in the morning like clockwork
2	It's not state-of-the-art anymore, but it's comfortable to you
3	Your cryo equipment is also used to cool drinks
4	Everything possible is single-use and packed away until needed
5	Not as clean as many of your patients may have hoped
6	Meticulously organized, sharpened, and sterilized

If you have Partners, Who are They?

#	Who?	#	Who?
1	Trauma Team group	4	Family member
2	Old friend	5	Possible romantic partner
3	Secret partner with mob or gang connections	6	Secret partner with corporate connections

Who are Your Main Clients?

#	Who?
1	Local fixers who send you clients
2	Local gangers who also protect your work area or home in exchange for medical help
3	Corporate execs who use you for black project medical work
4	Local solos or combat types who use you for medical help
5	Local nomads and fixers who bring you wounded clients
6	Trauma Team paramedical work

Where Do You Get Your Supplies?

#	Where?
1	Scavenge stashes of medical supplies you find in abandoned city zones
2	Strip parts from bodies after firefights
3	Local fixer brings you supplies in exchange for medical work
4	Corporate execs or Trauma Team supply you in exchange for your services
5	You have a backdoor into a few corporate or hospital warehouses
6	You hit the night markets and score deals whenever you can

Media Lifepath

What Kind of Media are You?

#	Type	#	Type
1	Blogger	4	Documentarian
2	Writer (Books)	5	Investigative Reporter
3	Videographer	6	Street Scribe

How Does Your Work Reach People?

#	How?	#	How?
1	Monthly magazine	4	News channel
2	Blog	5	"Book" sales
3	Mainstream vid feed	6	Screamsheets

How Ethical are You?

#	Ethics?
1	Fair, honest reporting, strong ethical practices —you only report the verifiable truth
2	Fair and honest reporting, but willing to go on hearsay and rumor if that's what it takes
3	Occasionally do unethical things, but it's rare —you have some standards
4	Willing to bend any rules to get the bad guys —but only the bad guys
5	Ruthless and determined to make it big, even if that means breaking the law—you're a muckraker
6	You take bribes and engage in illegal and unethical reporting all the time—your pen is for hire to the highest bidder

What Stories Do You Want to Tell?

#	Stories?	#	Stories?
1	Political Intrigue	4	Corporate Takedowns
2	Ecological Impact	5	Editorials
3	Celebrity News	6	Propaganda

Exec Lifepath

What Kind of Corp Do You Work For?

#	Type
1	Financial
2	Media and Communications
3	Cybertech and Medical Technologies
4	Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
5	Food, Clothing, or other General Consumables
6	Energy Production
7	Personal Electronics and Robotics
8	Corporate Services
9	Consumer Services
10	Real Estate and Construction

What Division Do You Work In?

#	Division	#	Division
1	Procurement	4	Human Resources
2	Research and Development	5	Public Affairs / Publicity / Advertising
3	Manufacturing	6	Mergers and Acquisitions

How Good or Bad is Your Corp?

#	How good or bad?
1	Always working for good, fully supporting ethical practices.
2	Operates as a fair and honest business all the time.
3	Will occasionally slip and do unethical things, but it's rare.
4	Willing to bend the rules to get what it needs.
5	Ruthless and profit-centered, willing to do bad things.
6	Totally evil. Engage in illegal, unethical business all the time.

Where is Your Corp Based?

#	Where?	#	Where?
1	One city	4	National
2	Several cities	5	International, a few major cities
3	Statewide	6	International, offices everywhere

Who's Gunning for Your Team?

#	Who?
1	Rival Corp in the same industry.
2	Law enforcement is watching you.
3	Local Media wants to bring you down.
4	Different divisions in your own company are feuding.
5	Local government doesn't like your Corp.
6	International Corps are eyeing yours for a hostile takeover.

Relationship with Your Boss

#	Current State
1	Mentors you, but watch out for their enemies.
2	Gives you a free hand, and doesn't want to know what you're up to.
3	Micromanager who tries to meddle in your work.
4	Psycho whose unpredictable outbursts, are offset by quiet paranoia.
5	Cool and watches your back against rivals.
6	Threatened by your meteoric rise and planning to knife you.

Lawman Lifepath

What is Your Position on the Force?

#	Position	#	Position
1	Guard	4	Special Weapons and Tactics
2	Standard Beat or Patrol	5	Motor Patrol
3	Criminal Investigation	6	Internal Affairs

How Wide is Your Group's Jurisdiction?

#	Jurisdiction	#	Jurisdiction
1	Corporate Zones	4	Outer City
2	Standard City Patrol Zone	5	Recovery Zones
3	Combat Zones	6	Open Highways

Who is Your Group's Major Target?

#	Who?	#	Who?
1	Organized crime	4	Dirty politicians
2	Boostergangs	5	Smugglers
3	Drug runners	6	Street crime

How Corrupt is Your Group?

#	Corruption
1	Fair, honest policing, with strong ethical practices
2	Fair and honest policing, but hard on lawbreakers
3	Will occasionally slip and do unethical things, but it's rare
4	Willing to bend any rules to get the bad guys
5	Ruthless and determined to control the street, even if it means breaking the law
6	Totally corrupt—you take bribes and engage in illegal, and unethical business all the time

Who's Gunning for Your Group?

#	Who?	#	Who?
1	Organized crime	4	Dirty politicians
2	Boostergangs	5	Smugglers
3	Police accountability group	6	Street criminals

Fixer Lifepath

What Kind of Fixer are You?

#	Type
1	Broker deals between rival gangs
2	Procure rare or atypical resources for exclusive clientele
3	Specialize in brokering solo or tech services as an agent
4	Supply the night markets with food, medicines, drugs, etc.
5	Procure illegal street drugs, milspec weapons, etc.
6	Supply resources for techs and medtechs
7	Operate night markets, although not as owner
8	Broker heavy mech, military vehicle, and aircraft contracts
9	Fence goods for scavengers raiding corps or combat zones
10	Agent for a media, rockerboy, or a nomad pack

What's Your "Office" Like?

#	Office
1	You don't have one—you like to keep it mobile
2	A booth in a local bar
3	All data pool messages and anonymous dead drops
4	Spare room in a warehouse, shop, or clinic
5	An otherwise abandoned building
6	The lobby of a cube hotel

Got a Partner? Who?

#	Who?	#	Who?
1	Family member	4	Mentor
2	Old friend	5	Possible romantic partner
3	Secret partner with mob or gang connections	6	Secret partner with corporate connections

Who are Your Side Clients?

#	Who?
1	Local rockerboys or medias who you get gigs or contacts
2	Local gangers who also protect your work area or home
3	Corporate execs who use you for black project procurement
4	Local solos or other combat types who you set up with jobs
5	Local nomads and fixers who use you to set up transactions
6	Local politicos or execs who depend on you for information

Who's Gunning for You?

#	Who?
1	Gangers who want you to work for them exclusively
2	Rival fixers trying to steal your clients
3	Execs who want you to work for them exclusively
4	Enemy of a former client, who wants to clean up "loose ends"—like you
5	Old client who thinks you screwed them over
6	Rival fixer trying to beat you out for resources and parts

Nomad Lifepath

How Big is Your Pack?

#	Pack Size
1	A single extended tribe or family
2	A couple dozen members
3	Forty or fifty members
4	A hundred or more members
5	A Blood Family (hundreds of members)
6	An Affiliated Family (made of several Blood Families)

What do your Pack Do?

Land Nomads

#	Type	#	Type
1	Gogang	6	Cargo transport
2	Passenger transport	7	Shipment protection
3	Training/school	8	Smuggling
4	Traveling show/carnival	9	Mercenary army
5	Migrant farmers	10	Construction work gang

What Do You Do for Your Pack?

#	What?	#	What?
1	Scout (negotiator)	4	Solo smuggler
2	Outrider (protection, weapons)	5	Loadmaster (cargo mover, trucker)
3	Transport pilot/driver	6	Procurement

What's Your Pack's Overall Philosophy?

#	Philosophy
1	Always working for good; your pack accepts others, just wants to get along
2	It's more like a family business—operates as a fair and honest concern
3	Will occasionally slip and do unethical things, but it's rare
4	Willing to bend the rules whenever they get in the way to get what the pack needs
5	Ruthless and self-centered, willing to do bad things if it will get the pack ahead
6	You rage up and down the highways, just killing, looting, and terrorizing everyone

Who's Gunning for Your Pack?

#	Who?	#	Who?
1	Organized crime	4	Dirty politicians
2	Boostergangs	5	Rival packs
3	Drug runners	6	Dirty cops

Statistics—the numbers describing your character's abilities in the game. STATs are generally rated from 1 to 8, but can go higher. A character has ten STATs, arranged into four groups:

Mental STATs

Intelligence (INT)

How bright you are. More than sheer intelligence, it includes cleverness, awareness, perception, and your ability to learn.

Willpower (WILL)

Your determination and ability to face danger and stress. It represents your raw courage and ability to survive long-term privation. This STAT also partly determines your Hit Points.

Cool (COOL)

Your ability to impress and influence people through just your sheer character and charisma. How well you can get along with others, and interact with people in social situations.

Empathy (EMP)

Your ability to relate to and care for others, and to take others into consideration. It offsets the effects of cyberpsychosis, a dangerous mental illness all too common in the dark future.

Combat STATs

Technique (TECH)

Your ability to manipulate tools and instruments. You might have a high TECH but still be unable to fence or juggle.

Reflexes (REF)

Your response time and coordination for aiming, throwing, juggling, etc. Probably most importantly though, this STAT also affects your ability to hit targets with ranged attacks.

Fortune STATs

Luck (LUCK)

A way to beat the odds and tip the scales in your favor. You can spend your pool of LUCK points to increase any d10 roll you make—except for making death saves. You regain all of your spent LUCK at the beginning of every game session.

Physical STATs

Body (BODY)

Your size, toughness, and general ability to stay alive and conscious due to your physical mass, structure, or other qualities. This STAT also partly determines your Hit Points.

Dexterity (DEX)

Your overall physical competence, as it pertains to balancing, leaping, jumping, combat, and athletic activities. Importantly, this STAT affects your ability to hit targets and dodge attacks.

Movement (MOVE)

Your speed when running, jumping, swimming, climbing, etc.

Determining Your STATs

There are three different methods you can choose from:

The Complete Package

You have a pool of 62 points you can assign to your STATs as you want. No STAT can start at lower than 2 or higher than 8.

Edgerunner

Roll 1d10 for each STAT individually and note the value listed.

#	INT	REF	DEX	TECH	COOL	WILL	LUCK	MOVE	BODY	EMP
1	6	7	7	3	8	6	5	5	6	5
2	7	8	6	3	6	6	7	5	6	6
3	5	8	7	4	7	7	6	7	8	5
4	5	8	6	4	6	7	6	5	7	6
5	6	6	7	5	7	6	7	6	8	4
6	7	7	6	5	7	6	6	7	7	5
7	7	7	6	5	6	7	7	6	6	6
8	7	8	7	5	6	6	5	6	8	4
9	7	7	6	4	6	6	6	5	6	5
0	6	6	8	5	6	6	5	6	6	5

Streetrat

Roll 1d10 on the table for your role and note the values listed for each STAT. These tables have been generated to provide an optimal range of STATs for each available character role.

Rockerboy STATs

#	INT	REF	DEX	TECH	COOL	WILL	LUCK	MOVE	BODY	EMP
1	7	6	6	5	6	8	7	7	3	8
2	3	7	7	7	7	6	7	7	5	8
3	4	5	7	7	6	6	7	7	5	8
4	4	5	7	7	6	8	7	6	3	8
5	3	7	7	7	6	8	6	5	4	7
6	5	6	7	5	7	8	5	7	3	7
7	5	6	6	7	7	8	7	6	3	6
8	5	7	7	5	6	6	6	6	4	8
9	3	5	5	6	7	8	7	5	5	7
0	4	5	6	5	8	8	7	6	4	7

Solo STATs

#	INT	REF	DEX	TECH	COOL	WILL	LUCK	MOVE	BODY	EMP
1	6	7	7	3	8	6	5	5	6	5
2	7	8	6	3	6	6	7	5	6	6
3	5	8	7	4	7	7	6	7	8	5
4	5	8	6	4	6	7	6	5	7	6
5	6	6	7	5	7	6	7	6	8	4
6	7	7	6	5	7	6	6	7	7	5
7	7	7	6	5	6	7	7	6	6	6
8	7	8	7	5	6	6	5	6	8	4
9	7	7	6	4	6	6	6	5	6	5
0	6	6	8	5	6	6	5	6	6	5

Netrunner STATs

#	INT	REF	DEX	TECH	COOL	WILL	LUCK	MOVE	BODY	EMP
1	5	8	7	7	7	4	8	7	7	4
2	5	6	7	5	8	3	8	7	5	5
3	5	6	8	6	6	4	7	6	7	4
4	5	7	7	7	7	5	8	6	5	5
5	5	8	8	5	7	3	7	5	5	6
6	6	6	6	7	8	4	7	7	6	6
7	6	6	6	7	6	5	7	7	7	6
8	5	7	8	6	8	4	8	5	7	4
9	7	6	7	7	6	3	6	5	6	5
0	7	8	6	6	6	4	7	7	5	6

Tech STATs

#	INT	REF	DEX	TECH	COOL	WILL	LUCK	MOVE	BODY	EMP
1	6	7	7	8	4	4	5	5	7	6
2	7	6	6	7	5	3	7	7	5	5
3	8	6	5	7	5	4	7	7	5	7
4	7	8	7	8	4	4	6	5	6	7
5	6	6	7	6	4	3	7	7	6	6
6	8	7	5	6	3	3	7	6	6	7
7	8	6	7	8	4	4	7	6	7	6
8	8	8	7	8	5	4	6	5	6	6
9	6	6	7	8	3	3	5	7	7	7
0	8	8	5	6	4	4	6	5	6	6

Medtech STATs

#	INT	REF	DEX	TECH	COOL	WILL	LUCK	MOVE	BODY	EMP
1	7	5	6	7	5	3	8	5	5	7
2	6	7	7	7	4	4	6	7	7	7
3	6	5	5	8	5	3	8	5	7	8
4	8	7	6	8	3	5	6	6	5	7
5	6	7	5	7	5	5	8	7	6	8
6	8	5	5	8	5	5	6	6	5	6
7	8	6	5	8	5	4	8	5	7	7
8	6	5	7	7	3	5	8	5	5	8
9	6	6	7	7	5	4	6	6	5	6
0	8	7	6	6	3	4	8	7	6	7

Media STATs

#	INT	REF	DEX	TECH	COOL	WILL	LUCK	MOVE	BODY	EMP
1	6	6	5	5	8	7	5	7	5	7
2	8	7	7	3	6	6	6	5	6	8
3	6	7	7	5	6	8	5	5	5	7
4	6	5	7	5	6	7	5	5	6	6
5	6	6	7	4	8	7	6	7	5	8
6	7	5	5	4	8	7	6	7	5	8
7	8	5	6	3	7	6	6	5	6	7
8	6	5	6	5	6	8	6	6	7	8
9	7	7	5	4	6	7	6	5	6	7
0	7	6	6	3	7	6	7	6	7	6

Lawman STATs

#	INT	REF	DEX	TECH	COOL	WILL	LUCK	MOVE	BODY	EMP
1	5	6	7	5	7	8	5	6	5	6
2	6	6	6	5	6	8	5	7	5	5
3	5	7	7	7	6	7	5	5	7	6
4	6	6	7	6	6	8	5	7	7	6
5	6	6	7	6	7	7	6	5	5	6
6	7	6	5	5	7	8	5	6	7	4
7	7	8	7	5	6	8	7	6	5	4
8	5	6	6	5	6	8	5	7	6	4
9	7	7	5	5	7	7	6	5	5	6
0	6	6	5	6	8	7	5	7	6	6

Exec STATs

#	INT	REF	DEX	TECH	COOL	WILL	LUCK	MOVE	BODY	EMP
1	8	5	5	3	8	6	6	5	5	7
2	8	6	6	4	7	6	7	7	5	7
3	8	7	6	3	8	6	7	6	4	5
4	8	5	7	5	6	5	6	5	5	7
5	7	7	6	5	8	5	7	7	5	6
6	5	7	7	3	6	7	6	5	5	7
7	6	6	7	5	8	7	6	7	4	6
8	6	7	7	3	7	5	7	5	5	7
9	7	6	7	5	7	5	7	6	5	5
0	7	7	5	5	8	6	6	7	4	7

Fixer STATs

#	INT	REF	DEX	TECH	COOL	WILL	LUCK	MOVE	BODY	EMP
1	8	5	7	4	6	5	8	5	5	8
2	8	5	5	5	6	7	8	7	5	7
3	6	6	6	4	5	6	8	6	3	8
4	7	7	5	5	7	6	7	7	5	8
5	8	6	6	3	6	5	8	7	5	6
6	8	7	5	5	6	7	7	5	3	6
7	8	6	6	5	6	5	6	7	5	8
8	6	6	7	4	7	6	7	7	4	7
9	8	7	7	5	5	5	7	6	5	7
0	6	5	6	5	5	6	8	6	4	7

Derived STATs

Once you determine your STATs, you'll also need to calculate two more values derived from them: Hit Points and Humanity.

Hit Points (HP)

These points represent your character's will to live and overall physical condition. Whenever you take damage, you subtract those points of damage from your total pool of hit points. Your number of hit points is based on your BODY and WILL STATs:

BODY→ WILL ↓	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
2	20	25	25	30	30	35	35	40	40	45	45	50	50	55
3	25	25	30	30	35	35	40	40	45	45	50	50	55	55
4	25	30	30	35	35	40	40	45	45	50	50	55	55	60
5	30	30	35	35	40	40	45	45	50	50	55	55	60	60
6	30	35	35	40	40	45	45	50	50	55	55	60	60	65
7	35	35	40	40	45	45	50	50	55	55	60	60	65	65
8	35	40	40	45	45	50	50	55	55	60	60	65	65	70
9	40	40	45	45	50	50	55	55	60	60	65	65	70	70
10	40	45	45	50	50	55	55	60	60	65	65	70	70	75

Wound States

As your HP drops to certain thresholds, you suffer penalties representing cumulative damage that makes you physically slower or mentally hazier. Each state has a DV to stabilze it.

Wound State	Threshold	Penalty	DV
Lightly Wounded	Below Full HP	No penalties	10
Seriously Wounded	Below Half HP	-2 to all actions	13
Mortally Wounded	Less than 1 HP	Mortal Wounds	15
Dead	Fail one death save	Death	—

Nomad STATs

#	INT	REF	DEX	TECH	COOL	WILL	LUCK	MOVE	BODY	EMP
1	6	6	8	3	6	7	6	6	6	4
2	5	7	6	5	8	8	8	7	5	4
3	5	8	6	3	8	7	6	5	6	5
4	5	8	7	4	8	6	7	7	7	5
5	6	6	6	3	6	7	6	7	7	4
6	7	6	8	4	6	7	6	5	6	5
7	6	7	8	4	6	6	7	5	7	5
8	5	7	8	3	8	6	7	5	5	5
9	6	7	6	4	8	6	6	6	6	6
0	5	6	7	4	7	8	7	7	7	4

Death Saves

Your base death save number is equal to your BODY STAT. At the start of each of your turns when mortally wounded, you must roll under your death save on a d10. If successful, you live and can take your turn as usual. If not, you die.

Each time you succeed, your death save increases by one point—making it progressively harder to stave off death. This penalty continues to add up until either you are brought back to 1 Hit Point by stabilization—which resets your death save to its base value—or you die. Your death save can also be increased by some of the more serious critical injuries.

Humanity (HUM)

Humanity is a measure of how well you interact with the world and other people in it. Characters with a low humanity stat will have problems with human interactions, and may become sociopathic, withdrawn, disassociated, or even homicidal.

If your HUM drops below zero, that represents the death of your character's emotional life; they slide into a state called cyberpsychosis, in which aberrant traits like homicidal mania and mental disassociation can occur. The addition of large amounts of cyberware is a common trigger of this state, but traumatic situations could also push you over the edge.

For every point in your Empathy (EMP) STAT, you have 10 points of Humanity (HUM). As you undergo humanity loss (mainly through installing cybernetics) you lose HUM points, and might also have to lower your EMP. This occurs each time your HUM is lowered to a new multiple of 10 (eg; if your HUM falls from 44 to 39, your EMP drops to 3).

Humanity can be restored with expensive therapy from a trained medtech (a medtech can't treat themselves this way).

Starting Skills

Rockerboy	#	Solo	#	Netrunner	#	Tech	#	Medtech	#
Athletics	2	Athletics	2	Athletics	2	Athletics	2	Athletics	2
Brawling	6	Brawling	2	Brawling	2	Brawling	2	Brawling	2
Concentration	2	Concentration	2	Concentration	2	Concentration	2	Concentration	2
Conversation	2	Conversation	2	Conversation	2	Conversation	2	Conversation	6
Education	2	Education	2	Education	6	Education	6	Education	6
Evasion	6	Evasion	6	Evasion	6	Evasion	6	Evasion	6
First Aid	6	First Aid	6	First Aid	2	First Aid	6	First Aid	2
Human Perception	6	Human Perception	2	Human Perception	2	Human Perception	2	Human Perception	6
Language (Streetslang)	2	Language (Streetslang)	2	Language (Streetslang)	2	Language (Streetslang)	2	Language (Streetslang)	2
Local Expert (Your Home)	4	Local Expert (Your Home)	2	Local Expert (Your Home)	2	Local Expert (Your Home)	2	Local Expert (Your Home)	2
Perception	2	Perception	6	Perception	2	Perception	2	Perception	2
Persuasion	6	Persuasion	2	Persuasion	2	Persuasion	2	Persuasion	2
Stealth	2	Stealth	2	Stealth	6	Stealth	2	Stealth	2
Composition	6	Autofire	6	Basic Tech	6	Basic Tech	6	Basic Tech	6
Handgun	6	Handgun	6	Conceal/Reveal Object	6	Cybertech	6	Cybertech	4
Play Instrument (choose any 1)	6	Interrogation	6	Electronics/Security Tech (x2)	6	Electronics/Security Tech (x2)	6	Deduction	6
Melee Weapon	6	Melee Weapon	6	Cybertech	6	Land Vehicle Tech	6	Paramedic	6
Personal Grooming	4	Resist Torture/Drugs	6	Cryptography	6	Shoulder Arms	6	Resist Torture/Drugs	4
Streetwise	6	Shoulder Arms	6	Handgun	6	Science (choose 1)	6	Science (choose 1)	6
Wardrobe & Style	4	Tactics	6	Library Search	6	Weaponstech	6	Shoulder Arms	6

Media	#	Lawman	#	Exec	#	Fixer	#	Nomad	#
Athletics	2	Athletics	2	Athletics	2	Athletics	2	Athletics	2
Brawling	2	Brawling	6	Brawling	2	Brawling	2	Brawling	6
Concentration	2	Concentration	2	Concentration	2	Concentration	2	Concentration	2
Conversation	6	Conversation	6	Conversation	6	Conversation	6	Conversation	2
Education	2	Education	2	Education	6	Education	2	Education	2
Evasion	6	Evasion	6	Evasion	6	Evasion	6	Evasion	6
First Aid	2	First Aid	2	First Aid	2	First Aid	2	First Aid	6
Human Perception	6	Human Perception	2	Human Perception	6	Human Perception	6	Human Perception	2
Language (Streetslang)	2	Language (Streetslang)	2	Language (Streetslang)	2	Language (Streetslang)	4	Language (Streetslang)	2
Local Expert (Your Home)	6	Local Expert (Your Home)	2	Local Expert (Your Home)	2	Local Expert (Your Home)	6	Local Expert (Your Home)	2
Perception	6	Perception	2	Perception	2	Perception	2	Perception	4
Persuasion	6	Persuasion	2	Persuasion	6	Persuasion	4	Persuasion	2
Stealth	2	Stealth	2	Stealth	2	Stealth	2	Stealth	6
Bribery	6	Autofire	6	Accounting	6	Bribery	6	Animal Handling	6
Composition	6	Criminology	6	Bureaucracy	6	Business	6	Drive Land Vehicle	6
Deduction	6	Deduction	6	Business	6	Forgery	6	Handgun	6
Handgun	6	Handgun	6	Deduction	6	Handgun	6	Melee Weapon	6
Library Search	4	Interrogation	6	Handgun	6	Pick Lock	4	Tracking	6
Lip Reading	4	Shoulder Arms	6	Lip Reading	6	Streetwise	6	Trading	6
Photography/Film	4	Tracking	6	Personal Grooming	4	Trading	6	Wilderness Survival	6

Awareness Skills

Concentration (WILL)

Focus and mental control, encompassing feats of memory, recall, concentration, and physiological control.

Conceal/Reveal Object (INT)

Hiding objects and finding objects that have been hidden. The skill used to conceal weapons under clothes or detect them.

Lip Reading (INT)

Reading someone's lips to tell what they are saying.

Perception (INT)

Spotting clues, traps, and people using the Stealth skill, but not things hidden using the Conceal/Reveal Object skill.

Tracking (INT)

Following a trail by observing clues left behind.

Body Skills

Athletics (DEX)

Jumping, climbing, throwing, swimming, lifting weights, etc. This skill covers all the basic elements of a sports training program, and also your ability at using thrown weapons.

Contortionist (DEX)

Manipulating your body to get out of bindings or fit yourself into otherwise inaccessible places or spaces.

Dance (DEX)

Dancing at a professional level.

Endurance (WILL)

Withstanding harsh environmental conditions and hardship. The ability to withstand pain or discomfort, particularly over long periods of time, by knowing ways to conserve strength and energy. Endurance skill checks are made whenever you go without food, sleep, or water for an extended period of time, or after periods of prolonged physical activity.

Resist Torture/Drugs (WILL)

Resist painful effects, interrogation, torture, and drugs.

Stealth (DEX)

Moving quietly, hiding, taking actions discreetly, or otherwise evading detection. It is contested by the Perception skill.

Control Skills

Drive Land Vehicle (REF)

Driving and maneuvering land vehicles.

Pilot Air Vehicle (x2) (REF)

Piloting and maneuvering air vehicles.

Pilot Sea Vehicle (REF)

Piloting and maneuvering sea vehicles.

Riding (REF)

Riding a living creature.

Education Skills

Accounting (INT)

Balancing books, creating or identifying false books, juggling numbers, creating budgets, or handling business operations.

Animal Handling (INT)

Handling, training, and caring for animals.

Bureaucracy (INT)

Dealing with bureaucrats, cutting red tape, knowing who to talk to, how to reach them, and extract information from them.

Business (INT)

Knowledge of business practices, supply and demand, employee management, procurement, sales, marketing.

Composition (INT)

Writing professional songs, articles, or stories.

Criminology (INT)

Discovering clues by dusting for prints, examining evidence, performing ballistic and forensic tests, and searching through police records and files.

Cryptography (INT)

Encrypting and decoding messages.

Deduction (INT)

Taking several clues and making a non-obvious conclusion.

Education (INT)

General knowledge, equivalent to a basic school education. You can read, write, use basic math, and know a little history.

Gamble (INT)

Knowing how to figure odds and play games of chance.

Language (INT)

Fluency with a particular language. You must choose one specific language whenever you increase this skill.

Library Search (INT)

Using databases, the Data Pool, libraries, and other compiled information sources to find facts.

Local Expert (INT)

Knowing a specific area well and knowing the agendas of its various factions, both political and criminal. You must choose a specific location whenever you increase this skill, which cannot be any larger than a neighborhood or community.

Science (INT)

Knowing how to design experiments, write scientific papers, test hypotheses, and discuss ideas with other academics in a particular field of science. Whenever you increase this skill, you must specify an area of study. (Geology, Mathematics, Physics, Anthropology, Biology, Chemistry, History, etc.)

Tactics (INT)

Managing a large-scale battle effectively and efficiently. You usually know what must be done to direct a battle, and how an enemy force may react.

Wilderness Survival (INT)

Knowing how to survive comfortably in the wilderness.

Fighting Skills

Brawling (DEX)

Fighting and grappling with brute strength.

Evasion (DEX)

Getting out of the way of someone attacking you in melee. A character with REF 8 or higher can use this skill to try and evade ranged attacks—you can dodge bullets!

Martial Arts (x2) (DEX)

Fighting with a martial arts form. Each time you increase this skill, you must choose which form you are training in: Aikido, Karate, Judo, or Taekwondo. You can learn multiple forms, but you must learn each one separately. See: Martial Arts.

Melee Weapon (DEX)

Fighting with melee weapons.

Performance Skills

Acting (COOL)

Assuming a role, disguising yourself as someone else, whether real or fictitious, and faking emotions and moods.

Play Instrument (TECH)

Professionally playing a musical instrument. You can choose which instrument when you increase this skill. Possible options include: singing, guitar, drums, violin, piano, etc.

Ranged Weapon Skills

Archery (REF)

Accurately firing bolt-or arrow-launching projectile weapons.

Autofire (x2) (REF)

Keeping a weapon's Autofire mode on target through recoil.

Handgun (REF)

Accurately firing handheld projectile weapons such as pistols.

Heavy Weapons (x2) (REF)

Accurately firing extremely large projectile weapons, including grenade and rocket launchers.

Shoulder Arms (REF)

Accurately firing shoulder-braced projectile weapons, including rifles and shotguns.

Social Skills

Bribery (COOL)

Knowing when to bribe someone, how to approach them, and how much to offer.

Conversation (EMP)

Extracting information from people without alerting them with careful conversation.

Human Perception (EMP)

Reading a person's facial expressions and body language to discern their emotional state and detect lies or deception.

Interrogation (COOL)

Forcibly extracting information from people.

Persuasion (COOL)

Convincing, persuading, or influencing individuals.

Personal Grooming (COOL)

Knowing proper grooming to maximize attractiveness.

Streetwise (COOL)

Making and using contacts for illegal goods and contraband, talking to the criminal element, and avoiding bad situations in bad neighborhoods.

Trading (COOL)

Striking a good bargain with a merchant or customer.

Wardrobe & Style (COOL)

Knowing the clothes to wear and when to wear them.

Technique Skills

Air Vehicle Tech (TECH)

Repairing and maintaining air vehicles.

Basic Tech (TECH)

Identifying, understanding, and repairing simple electronic and mechanical devices and other items which are not covered by any specific TECH skill.

Cybertech (TECH)

Identifying, understanding, and repairing cybernetics.

Demolitions (x2) (TECH)

Setting and defusing explosives, and knowing how much explosive will accomplish a desired result.

Electronics/Security Tech (x2) TECH

Identifying, understanding, countering, installing, or repairing complex electronic devices. (Computers, cyberdecks, security systems, personal electronics, bugs, tracers, pressure plates, laser tripwires, etc.)

First Aid (TECH)

Applying medical treatments to a wounded person, and treat the most common critical injuries to keep them from dying.

Forgery (TECH)

Creating and detecting false documents and identification.

Land Vehicle Tech (TECH)

Repairing and maintaining land vehicles.

Paint/Draw/Sculpt (TECH)

Producing professional paintings, drawings, or sculpture.

Paramedic (x2) (TECH)

Applying medical treatment to a wounded person, treat critical injuries not requiring surgery, and keep them from dying. The Surgery skill is only available to Medtechs via their role ability.

Photography/Film (TECH)

Producing photographs, videos, or braindances.

Pick Lock (TECH)

Bypassing non-electronic locks.

Pick Pocket (TECH)

Stealthily retrieving items from, or placing them on another person, and shoplifting small items without being noticed.

Sea Vehicle Tech (TECH)

Repairing and maintaining sea vehicles.

Weaponstech (TECH)

Repairing and maintaining of all types weapons.

Ranged Weapons

Class	Skill	Damage	Ammo	R	H	C	Special Traits	Cost
Medium Pistol	Handgun	2d6	12 (M Pistol)	2	1	Yes	—	50ed (Costly)
Heavy Pistol	Handgun	3d6	8 (H Pistol)	2	1	Yes	—	100ed (Premium)
Very Heavy Pistol	Handgun	4d6	8 (VH Pistol)	1	1	No	—	100ed (Premium)
SMG	Handgun	2d6	30 (M Pistol)	1	1	Yes	Autofire (3), Suppressive Fire	100ed (Premium)
Heavy SMG	Handgun	3d6	40 (H Pistol)	1	1	No	Autofire (3), Suppressive Fire	100ed (Premium)
Shotgun	Shoulder Arms	5d6	4 (Slug)	1	2	No	Shotgun Shell	500ed (Expensive)
Assault Rifle	Shoulder Arms	5d6	25 (Rifle)	1	2	No	Autofire (4), Suppressive Fire	500ed (Expensive)
Sniper Rifle	Shoulder Arms	5d6	4 (Rifle)	1	2	No	—	500ed (Expensive)
Bows and Crossbows	Archery	4d6	1 (Arrow)	1	2	No	Arrows	100ed (Premium)
Grenade Launcher	Heavy Weapons	6d6	2 (Grenade)	1	2	No	Explosive	500ed (Expensive)
Rocket Launcher	Heavy Weapons	8d6	1 (Rocket)	1	2	No	Explosive	500ed (Expensive)

Ranged Weapon Brand Names

Class	Poor Quality	Standard Quality	Excellent Quality
Medium Pistol	Dai Lung Streetmaster	Federated Arms X-9mm	Militech "Avenger"
Heavy Pistol	Dai Lung Magnum	Mustang Arms "Mark III"	Nova "Cityhunter"
Very Heavy Pistol	Federated Arms "Super Chief"	Sternmeyer P-35	Militech "Boomer Buster"
Bow	GunMart "Sherwood"	Eagletech "Tomcat"	Eagletech "Bearcat"
Crossbow	GunMart "Hunter"	Eagletech "Striker"	Eagletech "Scorpion"
SMG	Federated Arms Tech-Assault III	Militech "Mini-Gat"	Arasaka "Minami 10"
Heavy SMG	Chadran Arms "City Reaper"	Sternmeyer SMG-21	Militech "Viper"
Shotgun	GunMart "Home Defender"	Arasaka "Rapid Assault"	Militech "Bulldog"
Assault Rifle	Chadran Arms "Jungle Reaper"	Militech "Ronin"	Militech "Dragon"
Sniper Rifle	GunMart "Snipe-Star"	Nomad "Long Rifle"	Arasaka WSSA Sniper System
Grenade Launcher	Towa Manufacturing Type-G	Militech "Mini-Grenade"	Tsunami Arms Type-18
Rocket Launcher	Towa Manufacturing Type-R	Militech "Urban"	Militech "Hotshot"

Ranged Weapon Single Shot DVs

Class	0-6 m	7-12 m	13-25 m	26-50 m	51-100 m	101-200 m	201-400 m	401-800 m
Pistol	13	15	20	25	30	30	—	—
SMG	15	13	15	20	25	25	30	—
Shotgun (Slug)	13	15	20	25	30	35	—	—
Assault Rifle	17	16	15	13	15	20	25	30
Sniper Rifle	30	25	25	20	15	16	17	20
Bows & Crossbow	15	13	15	17	20	22	—	—
Grenade Launcher	16	15	15	17	20	22	25	—
Rocket Launcher	17	16	15	15	20	20	25	30

Ranged Weapon Autofire DVs

Class	0-6 m	7-12 m	13-25 m	26-50 m	51-100 m
SMGs	20	17	20	25	30
Assault Rifle	22	20	17	20	25

Exotic Weapons

Weapon	Quick Notes	Cost
Air Pistol	Very heavy pistol (fires paint and acid balls)	100ed (Premium)
Battleglove	Heavy gauntlet (3 Cyberarm/Cyberlimb option slots)	1,000ed (Very Expensive)
Constitution Arms Hurricane	Shotgun (2 ROF, needs BODY 11+)	5,000ed (Luxury)
Dartgun	Very heavy pistol (fires non-basic arrows)	100ed (Premium)
Flamethrower	Shotgun (incendiary shells, Heavy Weapons skill)	500ed (Expensive)
Kendachi Mono-Three	Two-handed very heavy melee (ignores <SP11)	5,000ed (Luxury)
Malorian Arms 3516	Very heavy pistol (excellent quality, does 5d6 damage)	10,000ed (Super Luxury)
Microwaver	Very heavy pistol (shuts down cyberware and electronics)	500ed (Expensive)
Militech "Cowboy" U-56	Grenade launcher (2 ROF, needs BODY 11+)	5,000ed (Luxury)
Rhinemetall EMG-86 Railgun	Assault rifle (ignores <SP11, Heavy Weapons skill, needs BODY 11+)	5,000ed (Luxury)
Shrieker	Very heavy pistol (causes the Damaged Ear critical injury)	500ed (Expensive)
Stun Baton	Medium melee weapon ("less lethal")	100ed (Premium)
Stun Gun	Heavy pistol ("less lethal")	100ed (Premium)
Tsunami Arms Helix	Assault rifle (only fires in Autofire mode, needs BODY 11+)	5,000ed (Luxury)

Air Pistol

An exotic medium pistol that fires pellets filled with acid. Each successful hit deals no damage, and cannot cause a critical injury, but it does, however, lower the SP of the target's armor by 1 point in the location that was hit. Ammunition costs the same as for a normal medium pistol.

Battleglove

A heavy gauntlet covering the hand and forearm. Contains three option slots for cyberarm or cyberlimb options. When worn, the options stored in the glove’s slots can be accessed. Putting on a battleglove or taking one off is an action.

The cost to purchase and install a cyberarm option into the battleglove, is the same as installing it in a cyberarm. Any options stored in a cyberarm or meat arm the battleglove is being worn over, are inaccessible while the battleglove is being worn. A battleglove cannot be concealed.

Constitution Arms Hurricane Assault Weapon

An exotic 2 ROF shotgun with a drum that holds 16 rounds. Reloading this weapon requires using two actions, and thus can only be done over the course of two turns. Firing this weapon requires BODY 11 or higher unless it is mounted. It cannot be used to make aimed shots.

Dartgun

An exotic very heavy pistol that can only load non-basic arrow ammunition. Unlike other weapons that fire arrows, it has a clip of 8 non-basic arrows and must be reloaded, like a pistol.

Flamethrower

An exotic shotgun fired with the heavy weapons skill, instead of the shoulder arms skill. Mechanically, the flamethrower is a shotgun that can only fire incendiary shells (ammunition cost is also the same as incendiary shotgun shells), except while the targets are ignited.

Until they spend an action to put themselves out, targets take 4 damage to their HP at the end of their turns. If they were already on fire, this effect replaces one that would deal less damage. Damage dealt by this weapon cannot cause a critical injury, and it cannot be used to make aimed shots.

Kendachi Mono-Three

A high-tech katana with a nearly transparent crystal blade. When its handle is gripped by someone with a valid biometric key, its microscopically serrated edge vibrates four thousand times a second. While active, damage dealt by this weapon ignores a target's armor entirely—if it is lower than SP11. Armor with higher SP is affected as normal.

Even in the hands of someone who is unable to activate it, the blade is still an excellent quality, two-handed, exotic, very heavy melee weapon. At no additional cost, any color of laser can be installed into the hilt, to refract within the crystal blade, giving it a flaring neon glow when it is active. Red is popular.

Malorian Arms 3516

Johnny Silverhand's famous very heavy pistol. It is excellent quality, does 5d6 damage, and comes permanently installed with a smartgun link, which must be connected via interface plugs or a subdermal grip, or the weapon can't be operated. This extremely rare firearm is even more valuable today than it ever was in the past, if you can even find one for sale.

Microwaver

An exotic very heavy pistol. Instead of dealing damage, it forces the target to try to beat a DV15 Cybertech check. If they fail, the GM chooses two pieces of their cyberware or carried electronics, which become inoperable for 1 minute. Affected cyberlimbs go limp and act as if have suffered the Dismembered critical injury. This weapon's standard battery pack is depleted after 8 shots.

Militech "Cowboy" U-56 Grenade Launcher

An Exotic 2 ROF grenade launcher. Its magazine holds four grenades. Despite being an exotic weapon, it is capable of firing all types of grenade ammunition. Reloading this weapon requires using two actions, and thus can only be done over the course of two turns. Firing this weapon requires BODY 11 or higher unless it is mounted.

Rhinemetall EMG-86 Railgun

An exotic assault rifle that is incapable of autofire or aimed shots, and is fired with the Heavy Weapons skill instead of the Shoulder Arms skill. This weapon holds 4 shots, and damage dealt by it ignores a target's armor entirely—if it is lower than SP11. Armor with higher SP is affected as normal. Reloading this weapon requires using two actions, and thus can only be done over the course of two turns. Firing this weapon requires BODY 11 or higher unless it is mounted.

Shrieker

An exotic very heavy pistol. Anyone who fires this weapon without some form of ear protection, suffers the Damaged Ear critical injury. Instead of dealing damage, a hit it forces the target to try to beat a DV15 Resist Torture/Drugs Check, or they suffer the Damaged Ear critical injury. This weapon's standard battery pack is depleted after 8 shots.

Stun Baton

A one-handed exotic medium melee weapon. If damage dealt by it would reduce a target to under 1 HP, they are instead Unconscious at 1 HP. Damage dealt by this weapon cannot cause a critical injury and doesn't ablate armor.

Stun Gun

An exotic heavy pistol. If damage dealt by it would reduce a target to under 1 HP, they are instead Unconscious at 1 HP. Damage dealt by this weapon cannot cause a critical injury and doesn't ablate armor. This weapon's standard battery pack is depleted after 8 shots.

Tsunami Arms Helix

A hex-barreled gatling shotgun, with a top-mounted laser-sighting system, that fires 10-gauge shells. It's unique recoil compensation allows for relatively controllable autofire, and makes a distinct, heavy, metallic screaming sound in use.

This exotic assault rifle can only be fired using autofire, and can't make aimed shots or fire single shots. It holds 40 bullets. When fired, the Helix consumes 20 bullets with every attack. If you hit a target, roll 2d6 damage and multiply it by the amount you rolled over the DV (maximum of 5).

Reloading this weapon requires using two actions, and thus can only be done over the course of two turns. Firing this weapon requires BODY 11 or higher unless it is mounted.

Weapon Attachments

Every non-exotic ranged weapon has three attachment slots. Attachments are made for specific weapon types and cannot be easily retrofitted for other weapons. Multiple attachments of the same type, do nothing. Some take more than one slot.

Attachment	Slots	Cost
Bayonet	1	100ed (Premium)
Drum Magazine	1	500ed (Expensive)
Extended Magazine	1	100ed (Premium)
Grenade Launcher (Underbarrel)	2	500ed (Expensive)
Infrared Nightvision Scope	1	500ed (Expensive)
Shotgun (Underbarrel)	2	500ed (Expensive)
Smartgun Link	2	500ed (Expensive)
Sniping Scope	1	100ed (Premium)

Bayonet

Compatible With: Non-exotic ranged weapons fired with the Shoulder Arms skill.

Allows you to also use the weapon as a light melee weapon.

Drum / Extended Magazine

Compatible With: Non-exotic ranged weapons except bows and crossbows.

Only one clip can be attached to a weapon at a time. While attached to a weapon, it cannot be concealed under clothing.

Class	Standard	Extended	Drum
Medium Pistol	12	18	36
Heavy Pistol	8	14	28
Very Heavy Pistol	8	14	28
SMG	30	40	50
Heavy SMG	40	50	60
Shotgun	4	8	16
Assault Rifle	25	35	45
Sniper Rifle	4	8	12
Grenade Launcher	2	4	6
Rocket Launcher	1	2	3

Grenade Launcher (Underbarrel)

Compatible With: Non-exotic ranged weapons fired with the Shoulder Arms skill.

When wielded in two hands, you can also use the weapon as a grenade launcher, with a 1-round magazine. While attached to a weapon, it cannot be concealed under clothing.

Infrared Nightvision Scope

Compatible With: Non-exotic ranged weapons.

Allows you to ignore penalties imposed by firing at a target obscured by darkness, smoke, fog, etc. Looking through the scope you can distinguish warm meat from cold metal, though nothing more specific. You can’t, for example, tell the model of a cyberam from a distance, or see any internal surprises.

Shotgun (Underbarrel)

Compatible With: Non-exotic ranged weapons fired with the Shoulder Arms skill.

When wielded in two hands, you can also use the weapon as a shotgun, with a 2-round magazine. While attached to a weapon, it cannot be concealed under clothing.

Smartgun Link

Compatible With: Non-exotic ranged weapons.

While linked to a smartgun, you have +1 to attacks made with it. Installing or uninstalling a smartgun link takes one hour. To use one you need either interface plugs or a subdermal grip, both of which also require a neural link.

You can connect your interface plugs as part of drawing a smartgun, if they aren't already jacked-in elsewhere. Being disarmed unplugs your cables, rather than snapping them.

Sniping Scope

Compatible With: Non-exotic ranged weapons.

Looking through the scope, you can see detail up to 800m away. When firing at targets over 50m away, with either single shot mode or an aimed shot, you gain +1 to the attack. This does not stack with TeleOptics cyberware.

Ammunition

Ammunition must be bought separately for each different type of weapon. Batteries, grenades and rockets are all purchased individually, any other ammunition is sold in increments of 10.

Ammunition Type	Cost
Basic Ammunition	10ed (Cheap)
Battery Pack	50ed (Costly)
Armor-Piercing Ammunition	100ed (Premium)
Biotoxin Ammunition	500ed (Expensive)
EMP Ammunition	500ed (Expensive)
Expansive Ammunition	100ed (Premium)
Flashbang Ammunition	100ed (Premium)
Incendiary Ammunition	100ed (Premium)
Poison Ammunition	100ed (Premium)
Rubber Ammunition	10ed (Cheap)
Sleep Ammunition	500ed (Expensive)
Smart Ammunition	500ed (Expensive)
Smoke Ammunition	50ed (Costly)
Teargas Ammunition	50ed (Costly)

Basic Ammunition

Types Available: All except Grenades and Rockets

Standard ammunition for the weapon. No special features.

Battery Pack

Types Available: Battery Packs only

Depleted after 8 shots. Takes 1 hour to fully recharge.

Armor-Piercing Ammunition

Types Available: All except Shotgun Shells

The standard ammunition for grenade and rocket launchers. It reduces armor by 2 points, instead of 1 point when it ablates.

Biotoxin Ammunition

Types Available: Arrows and Grenades only

This ammunition deals no damage. Instead, anyone meat it hits, must beat a DV15 Resist Torture/Drugs check, or they take 3d6 damage which ignores armor and doesn't ablate it.

EMP Ammunition

Types Available: Grenades only

This ammunition deals no damage. Instead, anyone it hits must beat a DV15 Cybertech check, or two pieces of their cyberware or carried electronics, become inoperable for one minute. Affected cyberlimbs act as if suffering a Dismembered critical injury, but are still attached and hanging there limply.

Expansive Ammunition

Types Available: Arrows, Bullets, Slugs

When you cause the Foreign Object critical injury using this ammunition, roll again until you get a second, different result. The target suffers both injuries but only 5 total bonus damage.

Meat and Non-Meat Targets

Inorganic entities like drones and full borgs, are unaffected by things that only act on "meat" creatures or body parts.

Flashbang Ammunition

Types Available: Grenades only

This ammunition deals no damage. Instead, anyone meat it hits must beat a DV15 Resist Torture/Drugs check, or they suffer the Damaged Eye and Damaged Ear critical injuries for one minute. Neither critical injury deals any bonus damage.

Incendiary Ammunition

Types Available: Arrows, Bullets, Grenades, Shotgun Shells

When you deal damage through armor using this ammunition the target ignites. Until someone takes an action to put them out, they take 2 damage each time they end their turn, which ignores armor and doesn't ablate it. This effect doesn't stack.

Poison Ammunition

Types Available: Arrows and Grenades only

This ammunition deals no damage. Instead, anyone meat it hits, must beat a DV13 Resist Torture/Drugs check, or they take 2d6 damage which ignores armor and doesn't ablate it.

Rubber Ammunition

Types Available: Arrows, Bullets, Slugs

Damage dealt using this ammunition cannot cause a critical injury. Additionally, attacks made with this ammunition cannot ablate armor. If damage from this ammunition would reduce a target with over 1 HP to less than 0 HP, they remain at 1 HP.

Sleep Ammunition

Types Available: Arrows and Grenades

This ammunition deals no damage. Instead, anyone meat it hits must beat a DV13 Resist Torture/Drugs check, or fall prone and unconscious for one minute. They are woken by taking damage, or someone using an action to wake them.

Smart Ammunition

Types Available: Arrows, Bullets, Rockets

Unless you have targeting scope cyberware installed, smart ammunition won't even fire when the trigger is pulled. When it misses by 4 or less in single shot mode, it automatically has a second chance to hit the target, and rolls (10 + 1d10) against the same DV. You can add LUCK to this roll. Targets with REF 8 or greater, can still attempt to dodge this attack as normal.

Smoke Ammunition

Types Available: Grenades only

Explodes on impact and obscures a 10m by 10m area for one minute. Any actions obscured by smoke suffer a -4 penalty.

Teargas Ammunition

Types Available: Grenades only

This ammunition deals no damage. Instead, targets with meat eyes must beat a DV13 Resist Torture/Drugs check, or they suffer the Damaged Eye critical injury for one minute. The critical injury does not deal any bonus damage.