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Contents
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1 Introduction 1
1.1 About This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 How to Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

2 Character Creation 3
2.1 Genetics Pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2 Choosing Your Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.3 Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.4 Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.5 Traits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
2.6 Psionic Powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
2.7 Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
2.8 Backgrounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
2.9 Funds & Lifestyles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
2.10 Equipment & Cybernetic Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

3 Items & Equipment 55

3.1 Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
3.2 Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
3.3 Pistols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
3.4 Automatics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
3.5 Long Guns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
3.6 Heavy Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
3.7 Bows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
3.8 Ammunition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
3.9 Weapon Add-ons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
3.10 Melee Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
3.11 Thrown Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
3.12 Exotic Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
3.13 Explosives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
3.14 Armour & Clothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
3.15 Field Gear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
3.16 Electronic Gadgets & Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
3.17 Personal Computing Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
3.18 Cyber Command Decks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
3.19 Electronic Countermeasures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
3.20 Drones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
3.21 Vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
3.22 Automation Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
3.23 Cybernetic Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
3.24 Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
3.25 Drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
3.26 Chemicals, Sedatives, & Toxins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
3.27 Licences & Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

4 General Gameplay 215

4.1 Checks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
4.2 Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
4.3 Out On The Streets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
4.4 Skill Based Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

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 4.5 Status Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
4.6 Rewards & Advancement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

5 Combat 239
5.1 Turns, Rounds & the Structure of Combat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
5.2 Resource Pools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
5.3 Combat Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
5.4 Making an Attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
5.5 Combat Events & Modifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

6 Psionics & The Ether 265

6.1 The Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
6.2 Using Powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

7 Computers & the Omninet 304

7.1 Computing in Everyday Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
7.2 Hacking & Advanced Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
7.3 Computing Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

8 Vehicles & Drones 318

8.1 Automation Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
8.2 Controlling Automations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
8.3 Automations in Combat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
8.4 Automation Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

9 The World Of 2107 329

9.1 Industrial Deregulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
9.2 Corporate Militarisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
9.3 Geneva Fusion Incident . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
9.4 The Dregs Of Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
9.5 The Cyterian Uprising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
9.6 Where We Are Today . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

10 Running Dystopia 337

10.1 Schedulling a Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
10.2 Preparing a Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
10.3 Running the Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
10.4 Homebrew Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

A Handouts 347
A.1 Status Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
A.2 Common Combat Modifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
A.3 Combat Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
A.4 Computing & Tech Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
A.5 Automation Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
A.6 Psionic Powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

B NPCs 358

C Timeline Of Events 377

Last updated: April 8, 2023

iii Contents
Chapter 1
Introduction
Dystopia: 2107 is a science fiction-based tabletop
role-playing game. Set in the year 2107, society has
been cast into a downward spiral of inequality and
oppression. Various corporate entities and world
governments move through hidden channels,
competing against one another to gain both
influence and control. Peace and order have also
started to break down, with armed gangs now
walking the streets in a brazen display of defiance
and power.
Like with other games of its type, Dystopia
is heavily driven by narrative and its players’
imagination. One individual is designated to be
the Game Master (GM), who depicts the game’s
current situation and how it unfolds as a result
of the other players’ actions. Everyone else at the
table takes on the persona of a talented citizen or
mercenary who lives within this world. Perhaps
they are merely looking to try and survive, or
maybe their goal is to pursue a personal agenda of
their own. Regardless of what it may be, anything
is possible here; it’s simply a matter of rolling some
dice and seeing how it all plays out.
There is no winning or losing here in Dystopia.
Everyone at the table, regardless of their role,
should work together to create an unforgettable
experience for one another. The GM is tasked
with setting the stage for an enticing adventure,
while the players help bring it to life through
both exploration and the actions they decide to
undertake.
1.1 About This Book
The core rule book for Dystopia 2107 has been
arranged into several chapters, each of which
focuses on a single topic or purpose. We start
with character creation, which aims to get new
players up to speed on the numerous aspects
that help make up their character. After this, we
move on to items and equipment, as these will help
complement players, both new and old, as they
progress through their story.
1 Chapter 1, Introduction
From here, the topic then changes to introducing
the gameplay rules themselves. General subject
matters are covered first before moving on to the
more specialised components, including; psionics,
computers & hacking, and combat. Not every game
will require intimate knowledge about each of the
covered subjects, but it’s generally a good practice
to have a competent level of understanding
beforehand.
Next up, the book covers the lore of the world and
Dystopia’s setting. While these subjects will have
little to no bearing on the game’s actual rules, they
will help give some insight and flavour into what
society is like within the fictional world. Topics
detailing notable events for the past 90 years will
help explain how things came to be and what life is
like in the Dystopia universe.
Finally, we dedicate the last chapter to the topic of
actually running a game of Dystopia, and how best
GMs might prepare for it. This content, labelled
Running The Game, talks about creating an exciting
story for a group of players and how best to fill it
with enticing content.
1.2 How to Play
Dystopia is a very narrative-driven game. During
a session, the GM will describe the current scene
to everyone at the table, helping them better
understand the type of environment they are
presently in, along with the potential options
that might be available to them. This information
can include things like what they can see and
hear, who else is currently present, and how their
surroundings are laid out and structured.
Players can then decide what actions they would
like to undertake using this information. For
example, they may wish to talk to someone else
nearby, or they may want to interact with an
object that they have seen. Each activity can be
performed by a single character, or as part of a
group, in an attempt to influence and change the
current narrative.
The GM should take all of this information and
outline how these events play out. Talking
with another individual could lead to a heated
discussion between them and the players, or
maybe investigating that object grants them
essential information towards a particular task or
goal.
Regardless of what occurs here, the results should
usually lead back to the start of the process. More
exposition from the GM sets the scene once again,
and a whole host of new choices are available for
the players to make.
Dice Pools & Dice
There will be many different occasions during a
game whereby you are required to make a dice roll
or some sort. These dice rolls are Dystopia’s way of
determining the outcome of a character’s attempt
at performing a particular task or function. Do you
want to go over to a guy and punch him in the face?
That’s going to need you to make a dice roll. Want
to abseil down the side of a tall building? That’s
also going to need one.
Ten-sided dice (d10s) are by far the most frequent
type you will be using throughout the game.
Multiple of these will be rolled simultaneously
to form a collection known as a dice pool. Each
dice within this pool is aiming to land on a seven
or higher. The more that achieve this result, the
higher the chances your task will succeed.
While we are not going to delve too far into the
specifics of these just yet, (that will be covered in
the gameplay chapter), it is safe to say that both
your character’s skills and the difficulty of the task
at hand will be of influence here. These factors
will determine not just the size of this dice pool but
also the overall number of dice that must pass the
threshold for a positive outcome to be achieved.
Other sized dice, including d4s, 6s, 8s, and 12s,
will also be required from time to time. Different
weapon systems and psionic powers often use
these to determine suitable amounts of damage.
As a result, some players may find themselves only
requiring a couple of these, while others might use
the vast majority of them.
Rounding of Numbers
When it comes to division and the rounding of
numbers, you should always, as a rule of thumb,
round down the result. Of course, there are odd
occasions whereby the text might explicitly state
otherwise; however, these situations are few and
far between.
Regardless of whichever rounding mechanism
is used, however, the result should always be a
minimum of at least one.
Contradictions & Unclear Rules
While we have tried our best to explain the rules
of the game within this book, we realise that we
are not perfect. It is recommended that should
you ever encounter rules that either contradict
one another or are not explained in enough detail,
to take 5 minutes out of the game and talk it over
between yourselves.
Chapter 2
Character Creation
The character creation process is your first step as
a player in entering the world of Dystopia. Over
the course of several steps, this procedure will
highlight each of the different aspects that help
define a well-rounded and unique character.
Do you imagine this person to be brave or cautious?
A fighter or a negotiator? Compassionate or cruel?
Questions like these (and many others) will help
influence what you want your character to be. As a
result, before continuing onwards and starting the
creation process itself, it is strongly recommended
that you take some time out and think about the
kind of individual you want to play.
2.1 Genetics Pool
A character’s genetics helps define who they are
and what they are capable of. It can highlight what
skills they will be proficient at while also indicating
what else they might struggle with. The entire
character creation process revolves around the
idea of a genetics pool, a 325 point system that can
be spent and allocated into various statistics and
features along the way.
To help guide you through this process, we
shall carefully examine each of these steps one
by one. Most will focus on a single gameplay
mechanic or system, which can be slowly digested
and understood before moving on to the next.
Depending on the type of character you are looking
to build, some of these steps may require you to
sacrifice a considerable amount more from your
genetics pool than others.
For example, you might want to create a
gunslinger, someone who is deadly with a firearm
from great distances away. By allocating a sizable
portion of your genetics pool to attributes like
Finesse and skills like Guns: Pistols, your character
will become one of the best shooters around. Of
course, given that the pool is finite in resources,
you as a player will have to ask yourself, what is
worth sacrificing to specialise just that little bit
better?
3 Chapter 2, Character Creation
Below, a table has been provided to give a brief
overview of how expensive each part of the
character creation process will likely be. This will
break down each of the different steps one by one,
and give you a rough idea of where you might want
to focus a more significant portion of your available
resources.
Step Typical Cost
Race 0
Attributes 10 per addition
Skills 3 per addition
Traits 10 - 30 per item
Psionic Powers 3 per power
Languages 2 - 6 per extra language
Background 0
Funds & Lifestyle 0 - 80
Items & Equipment 0
Additional resources will be added to your genetics
pool over time through a character’s natural
progression (known as their renown). These can
then be used to further your skills and talents to
improve your existing qualities and help you obtain
new ones. As a result, there is little to no point in
not spending the vast majority of your allowance
upfront.
2.2 Choosing Your Race
All characters belong to one of five separate races.
Each has its own unique quirks, both positive
and negative, along with lore and history on
how they came to be. Some may consider this
little more than fluff, while others may see it
as useful information for potential role-playing
opportunities. Regardless of which side you may
fall under, you need to pick out one of the races
that you wish for your character to belong to.
Below, an overview table can be found that
summarises the distribution of statistics for each
of the various racial choices. The blocks on the
left containing two numbers represent the base
amount and biological maximums for each of the
different attribute types in the game. All characters
start with the base amount and cannot exceed
the biological maximum without using cybernetic
enhancements (a topic that will be covered later).
The attributes from left to right are as followed;
Endurance, Will, Strength, Finesse, Reflex, Intellect,
Foresight, and Charisma.
The blocks to the right, however, are reserved
for the character’s other base figures. This group
contains an individual’s hit points, mental stamina,
movement speed, and melee reach. Each item
forms a starting amount for all characters of that
race. Some items, like hit points, mental stamina,
and movement speed, will be further increased
through the gains made to specific attribute scores.
Melee reach, however, remains the same for
everyone and does not change.

Race End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha HP MS Move Rea
Human 2/6 2/6 2/6 2/6 2/6 2/6 2/6 2/6 10 10 8m 1m
Kram 3/7 1/5 3/7 2/6 2/6 2/6 2/6 1/5 12 8 8m 1m
Cyterian 2/6 2/6 2/6 2/6 2/6 2/6 2/6 2/6 10 10 8m 1m
Vorn 1/5 2/6 2/6 2/6 2/6 2/6 3/7 2/6 8 10 8m 1m
Tikar 2/6 2/6 2/6 3/7 2/6 2/6 1/5 2/6 10 10 10 m 1m

Above: The statistical overview table for Dystopia’s various racial choices.

Humans
Out of all the civilised races on Earth, humans are
the oldest and most plentiful. Roughly 80% of
today’s society is made up of them, and they tend
to (though not always) take up the vast majority of
the high-ranking positions of power. That’s not to
say that all humans live a life of luxury; no, very far
from it.

The world is continuing on its downhill slope.

Corporations are still expanding their territory and
political influence, and an ever-increasing number
of low-paid and highly overworked staff members
are required to help fuel this machine. Humans,
being the largest group in society, tend to fill most
of this void.

Those that decide to go their own way are often

presented with numerous possibilities and
potential. Since mutants are still a fairly new
phenomenon, humanity mainly drives and dictates
society. Many humans trust their own kind far
more than compared with the other races and, as
a result, have an easier time integrating wherever
they decide to go.
Base Stats It is not uncommon for a Kram to reach over seven
feet in height, and even the smallest of them will
Hit Points: 10. generally be above six.
Mental Stamina: 10.
Natural Resistances: None.
Movement Speed: 8 meters. While initially met with much fear and caution due
Melee Reach: 1 meter. to their immense size, these mutants have been
able to integrate into society with a fair degree of
success over time. The Cyterian uprising certainly
Positive Quirks had a way of helping paint them into a far better
Common People: shade of light than what had previously been
Whenever you are in a crowded place, all attempts thought about them.
made by yourself to either hide or blend in, gain a
+2 dice pool modifier. Nevertheless, their habit of breaking out into an
unstoppable rage whenever they become even
Human Privilege: slightly annoyed has certainly earned them a
Any Charisma-based skill check that you make rather unsavoury reputation to some. Kram often
gains a +1 dice pool modifier when used against finds themselves barred from a great many social
other humans. establishments due to these anger issues, and
those that haven’t been quite just yet are usually
kept a close eye on by security at all times.
Negative Quirks
None. In negotiations, Kram tend to be very blunt and
straight to the point. They are not one for mind
games and usually just resort to intimidation,
Kram which works more often than not. However,
the real power of these mutants lies in their
Often described as lumbering oafs with a tendency
unprecedented strength and endurance. A Kram
for anger management issues, Kram are the
not only has a lot of muscle mass behind them, but
oldest of the currently known human-based
they also tend to run faster, lift more, and strike
mutations. Characterized by many in society as
harder with a weapon in hand-to-hand combat.
”Grey Skins” due to their deep greyish skin tone,
These qualities help make them effective security
these mutants tend to carry over a lot of human
guards, bouncers, and front-line shock troops.
characteristics but are taller and more muscular.
Base Stats
Hit Points: 12.
Mental Stamina: 8.
Natural Resistances: Physical: +3.
Movement Speed: 8 meters.
Melee Reach: 1 meter.
Positive Quirks
Rampage:
Whenever a Kram is either hit by an opponent’s
attack or finds itself in a state of frustration or
distress, they should make a generic Foresight
+ Will attribute check. The check has a success
target of three, and on a failure, the individual is
said to immediately enter a state of primal fury. If
the Kram so wishes, they can also choose to fail
this check automatically.
While in this state, they gain a +2 dice pool modifier
on all Endurance and Strength-based checks that
they are required to make, as well as dealing an
additional 1d6 physical damage on each of their
melee-based attacks. This effect lasts for up to 10
minutes, or until a round of combat ends and they
have neither attacked nor been attacked by another
individual.
When the effects of this rampage finally end, the
Kram is said to return to their normal self. This
temporary loss of control does however, take its
toll, causing them to become impaired for the next
minute (see Status Effects, page 233). Until this
impairment ends, the Kram is unable to reuse the
Rampage quirk.
Intimidating Presence:
Due to their immense size and stature, a Kram
gains a +2 dice pool modifier on all of their
Intimidation checks.
Negative Quirks
Fast Metabolism:
A Kram requires a 50% increase in their daily food
and water intake. If the mutant has not consumed
either food or water within the past 12 hours, they
automatically suffer one level of exhaustion.
Troublemaker:
Whenever they are currently in a business or social
establishment, a Kram will always be watched
closely by its security team. In such locations,
these mutants suffer from a –3 dice pool penalty
to all skill checks that attempt to hide, obfuscate
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themselves, or otherwise evade security forces
once they have been made aware of their presence.
Custom Made:
Due to their large stature and mass, most items
that are to be worn or actively used by a Kram must
first be adapted to their body size and structure.
This should include all types of armour & clothing,
weapons & their associated add-ons, cybernetic
enhancements, and of course, vehicles.
Most establishments can perform this task for
themselves, though they will ask for a further 20%
increase in the base purchasing cost, to cover for
this process.
Cyterian
Originally constructed as a source of cheap,
automated labour for some of the world’s largest
corporations, the Cyterian have come a long
way in the space of about 50 years. From their
humble origins as privately owned property to
their rebellion and rapid militarisation in 2092, their
history has been short but divisive.
Cyterian come in many flavours and varieties.
The older units built before the uprising were all
created to fulfil a particular function or purpose. As
a result, their physical characteristics are usually
reflective of whatever this role was. A unit that
was built to lift and move around heavy objects, for
example, will often have a large solid frame, along
with a set of heavy-duty leg supports for them to
move around on. Those built after this event tend
to be a little more uniform in their aesthetics and
qualities, perhaps as a method of fitting in better
with the other members of society. Regardless
of this, however, all Cyterian tend to follow a
humanoid-based design.
Given that these individuals are sentient AI, most
Cyterian are very logical thinkers. They are not
prone to making rash decisions and will usually
require an analysis of all situational variables
before coming to a final decision or course of
action. However, as they learn and experience
different things, this process can sometimes
be morphed by their surroundings and those
around them. Data corruption and damage to their
sub-systems can also have weird effects on their
minds, and it has often been expressed that the
older a unit becomes, the more its personality
begins to change.
While the bulk of society has been perfectly
accepting of the Cyterian, there are still a few
sporadic groups and extremists who hold them
accountable for the consequences of their
rebellion. This can often manifest in the form of
grudges and vocal slander or, on occasion, will
lead to outright hostility against them. Entire
groups, such as the Human Revolutionary Front,
seek to undermine the Cyterian and their liberties,
resulting in many of these robotic individuals living
together in closely-knit communities.
Base Stats
Hit Points: 10.
Mental Stamina: 10.
Natural Resistances: Acid: +1, Cold: +1, Heat:
+1, Mental: +1, Physical: +1, Radiation: +1.
Movement Speed: 8 meters.
Melee Reach: 1 meter.
Positive Quirks
Mechanical Construct:
A Cyterian does not require food, water, oxygen,
or sleep to function. They are unaffected by
both poison and disease based effects and have
immunity against the toxic damage type. In
addition, they are immune to allergies and cannot
be subjected to the Anaphylaxis status effect.
At the dawn of each new day, they automatically
regain any of their spent resources (except for hit
points,) as if they had completed an extended rest.
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Software Backup:
Since a Cyterian’s mind is entirely software and
data-driven, it is entirely feasible for copies to
be made and transferred to external storage.
This serves as an important backup, which can
then be transferred back into a blank shell in the
unfortunate event that the original unit ends up
being destroyed. The size of this data is, however,
immense, and as a result, can end up being an
expensive endeavour to undertake.
Specialist organisations and companies do exist
out there to provide such a service, though most
will charge around 25,000 credits for each backup
made.
Negative Quirks
Inorganic:
Due to their metallic bodies and electronic
sub-systems, a Cyterian is not a biological life
form. As a result, Cyterian cannot benefit from
the effects of drugs, medicines, or psionic powers
which require a biological target, and they do
not regain lost hit points through the process of
resting.
To be healed, they must instead, spend some
amount of downtime conducting mechanical
repairs and maintenance on themselves. While
this process does not require a skill check, it does
involve their full concentration to be performed
correctly. Alternatively, another individual may
perform this task on their behalf; however, doing
so requires them to make a generic Mechanical:
Engineering skill check with a success target of
three.
Regardless of who is carrying out the repairs,
suitable tools are required for this task to
be completed. Each hour that passes while
performing this maintenance repairs the Cyterian
for a total of three hit points.
Vulnerability to Water:
Despite most Cyterian units being resistant to the
effects of liquids, very few were required to be
watertight. As a result, whenever a Cyterian enters
into, or is submerged in a body of liquid, their shell
begins to rapidly break down and malfunction.
For each round that the unit spends in this type of
environment, they will continue to lose a further
1d6 hit points. This effect cannot be mitigated
through the use of shielding.
Vorn
Being the youngest of the various races, one
might suspect the Vorn to be the least adapted
to everyday society. In reality, however, nothing
could be further from the truth. Between their
usually calm and collective manner, and the
transgressions of the Kram and Cyterian, Vorn have
been able to integrate into society with little to no
trouble.
Like with the Kram, these individuals originated
from a mutation of the traditional human, forming
their own separate subspecies. Whereas the Grey
Skins are large lumbering creatures, Vorn tend
to be smaller and more slender in shape. Most
of these individuals range somewhere between
four and a half to just over five and a half feet tall,
and they usually have a deep reddish hue to their
skin tone. Their hair is darker (more often than not
being black,) and their elongated ears are featured
prominently beside a pair of tendrils.
Within the first few years of their birth, a Vorn
typically develops a highly acute set of senses.
Compared with most others, a Vorn’s sight, hearing
and sense of smell all tend to be far superior at
perceiving their local surroundings. Additionally,
while their body is often a little less durable than
when compared with the other races, their cells
have become highly evolved to include rapid
regeneration over a short period. Wounds that
might take a human out of action for weeks or even
months at a time, for example, can often heal in a
matter of days.
Many Vorn tend to be found in countries with
warmer climates. This stems from a combination
of a higher-than-average tolerance towards
heat while, at the same time, having greater
susceptibility to the cold.
Base Stats
Hit Points: 8.
Mental Stamina: 10.
Natural Resistances: Heat: +6.
Movement Speed: 8 meters.
Melee Reach: 1 meter.
Positive Quirks
Enhanced Senses:
All Perception skill checks made by a Vorn
automatically gain a +2 dice pool modifier applied
to them.
Regeneration:
The body’s of these mutants can passively heal
themselves over time. As a result, a Vorn can
passively regain three hit points for each hour that
passes.
Negative Quirks
Low Endurance:
These mutants only receive three additional hit
points for each point of Endurance gained, rather
than the usual four.
Vulnerability to Cold:
After applying damage resistances and
penetration, a Vorn should lose double the amount
of hit points whenever struck by a source of
cold-based damage.
Tikar
With a slight hunch to their stature and a set of
claws attached to their hands and feet, the Tikar
are often described as humans who have started to
undergo bestial-like changes to their mannerisms
and appearance. While some will happily embrace
this change, with their claws out on full display
and often styling their accelerated hair growth in
the shape of a mane, others will try their best to
blend in more, staunchly keeping these changes to
themselves.
Most Tikar are generally at or around the average
height of a human, though their bone structure is
far more adapted for running in short sharp bursts.
When moving at high speed, a Tikar will often use
all four of their limbs to push themselves forward
rather than continue to remain upright. Their claws
function exceptionally well as both a weapon for
self-defence and a means for latching onto and
climbing solid surfaces.
While the Tikar have had no issues integrating
themselves with the rest of society, many have
observed that they seem to prefer cold and dark
environments, especially those that are away
from the brightness of the sun. Further studies
indicate that these mutants have started to
develop an unwelcome sensitivity to it, often
finding that sunlight is both uncomfortable and
highly nauseating for them. While being in daylight
does not cause them physical pain per se, it does
hamper their ability to see correctly.
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Many Tikar are said to lead a nocturnal lifestyle or
simply wear full-body clothing and headwear to
counteract this annoying genetic trait.
Base Stats
Hit Points: 10.
Mental Stamina: 10.
Natural Resistances: None.
Movement Speed: 10 meters.
Melee Reach: 1 meter.
Positive Quirks
Low-light Vision:
A Tikar automatically gains 30 meters of low-light
vision.
Wall Crawling:
All Tikar can fasten onto and climb most types
of solid surfaces, so long as it can support
their current weight. While their wall-crawling
capabilities do not allow for them to defy the laws
of gravity, they can be used to suspend the mutant
on sheer vertical climbs, or even when they are
upside down.
Climbing in this way does not require a check
to be made by the Tikar, nor does it incur the
usual movement speed penalty. As a result, it
is considered by them to be a normal form of
movement.
Claws:
Tikar have a set of sharp claws that they can use
while in close combat. Unarmed attacks made
by them deal an amount of damage equal to their
total Strength attribute score, rather than the usual
half. In addition, such attacks should also gain +2
physical damage penetration.
Negative Quirks
Sunlight Sensitivity:
All Tikar do not like being exposed to the presence
of sunlight. When they are in such environments,
they begin to suffer a dice pool penalty to any of
their skill checks that require the use of sight. The
severity of this penalty should range between -1
for a mild amount of exposure, to -3 while they are
in direct sunlight.
2.3 Attributes
After choosing your race, you should now move
on to decide the make-up of your attribute scores.
These indicate how good (or bad) a character might
be at different types of simple tasks. For example,
those with a high Strength score would naturally
be able to lift larger quantities of weight and punch
that much harder. In contrast, an individual with
excellent Charisma could better influence others
and become the centre of attention in a typical
social encounter.
Each character starts with the base attribute
scores granted by their choice of race. Using the
points from your genetics pool, you can further
increase these scores up to the specified biological
maximums. Each point added to your attributes
costs ten from your genetics pool, and given
that this is still early on in the character creation
process, it might not be the wisest of choices to
spend it all at once.
Below, an overview table has been provided that
should grant players, both new and old, a better
understanding of what benefits are gained when
increasing each of their character’s relevant
attribute scores.

Attribute Benefits Provided

Endurance +4 kg carrying capacity, +4 hit points, +1 die to all Endurance-based attribute checks.
+4 mental stamina, +1 to the success target for others to detect you via the Ether, +1 die to all
Will
Will-based attribute checks.
+4 kg carrying capacity, +1 meter of movement speed, +1 die to all Strength-based skill and
Strength
attribute checks.
Finesse +1 die to all Finesse-based skill and attribute checks.
Reflex +1 to combat initiative, +1 die to all Reflex skill and attribute checks.
Increases your language limit (Intellect / 2, rounded up), +1 die to all Intellect-based skill and
Intellect
attribute checks.
Foresight +1 to combat initiative, +1 die to all Foresight-based skill and attribute checks.
Charisma +1 die to all Charisma-based skill and attribute checks.

Endurance Will
Endurance is a measurement While Endurance might help
of just how tough an individual deal with mitigating physical
is or how resilient they are attacks and environmental
to physical punishment and conditions, Will is a metric of an
trauma. This can take many individual’s resilience towards
forms, including something mental trauma and stress.
as simple as withstanding Characters with a high amount
the attacks from an opponent or attempting to of Will can better keep their emotions in check and
press on through treacherous terrain and weather defend themselves against those who attempt to
conditions. manipulate them.

While Endurance might not be directly associated
with any skills, it is often used for various types
of defensive checks. Additionally, each point of
Endurance will increase the size of an individual’s
hit points pool by a total of four.
Will has no skills directly associated with it but is
still often used for defensive attribute checks to
avoid psionic powers and their effects. In addition,
each point of Will increases a character’s mental
stamina pool by an additional four, allowing them
to stay conscious for longer when being subjected
to the mental based attacks of others.

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Strength
Strength is a metric to describe
a character’s raw power. Those
with a high amount of Strength
are generally able to lift heavier
objects, run at a faster pace, and
of course, hit harder with melee
weapons that are designed to
bludgeon.
Strength has several skills that are directly
associated with it. These all tend to be either
athletic activities (such as Climbing, Jumping, and
Swimming), or the use of many different types of
blunt melee weapons. In addition, each point of
Strength a character possesses increases their
total movement speed by a further meter.
Finesse
Finesse relates to a character’s
flexibility and how well they
can balance themselves
in precarious situations.
Additionally, the attribute also
dictates the level of talent that
they have over their hand-eye
coordination and fine motor abilities.
A great many skills are tied to the Finesse attribute.
This can range from Acrobatics, Sleight of Hand,
and certain types of melee-based weapons, as
well as the vast majority of the various gun skills.
Most of these will require an individual to have
a competent amount of balance or hand-eye
coordination to be carried out reliably.
Reflex
While Finesse indicates
someone’s flexibility,
subtlety and grace, Reflex
is a measurement of their
reactionary speeds and
initiative. Those with high
reflexes will generally be able to
act first in combat situations or react more quickly
to the actions of those around them.
The only skills tied to Reflex are those associated
with piloting drones and vehicles, as all of these
require exceptional reactionary speeds to be
performed well.
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Intellect
Intellect is an indication
of both a character’s raw
brainpower and their overall
capability to learn new things.
Understanding languages and
complex patterns, for example,
are both abilities that are
heavily reliant on an individual’s Intellect.
Most academic, psionic, and tech-related skill
sets are based on this attribute. In addition, the
maximum number of languages an individual
can learn is also determined by their Intellect. A
character’s maximum capacity to speak, read, and
write the world’s various languages equals half
their current Intellect attribute score (rounded up).
Foresight
A character’s Foresight suggests
how well they can use their
senses to interpret and
understand their surroundings.
This could be spotting a specific
hazard or object from some
distance away or reading
another individual’s body language to work out
their current emotional state.
Foresight covers several different skills,
each based on this core principle of reading
and understanding the character’s current
environment.
Charisma
Charisma demonstrates how
well the character can influence,
attract, and manipulate those
around them. In a nutshell, it is a
measurement of just how much
of an aura they project while in a
particular environment or social
setting.
Skills that are based on Charisma tend to be used
outside of combat. They can help an individual
interact with, convince, or even manipulate the
opinions of those around them to act in a manner
that benefits the character.
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2.4 Skills
Next up, it’s time for you to decide on your skills.
While attributes are a good indicator of how
well your character might be at performing
mundane and straightforward tasks, skills are the
main driving force behind their more specialised
capabilities.
Each skill is related to at least one of the attributes
listed in the previous section. This attribute’s score
is combined with the skill itself to give us a single
number representing how well a given person
might be at performing said tasks. For example,
individuals with a high enough Strength attribute
score will automatically have a competent level
of natural talent in swinging a hammer at another
person’s face.
A character starts with zero in all skills but can use
points from their genetics pool to increase them
as desired. Each point added to a skill costs three
from your genetics pool and cannot be stacked
higher than a total of five plus the character’s
current level of renown. New players will likely be
starting with a renown of one, so their skill limit
should be considered six.
Acrobatics [Finesse]
While many would conjure up
imagery of gymnastics or a
circus upon first hearing the
word acrobatics, there are
potentially many real-world
examples that can make
effective use of this skill.
Whether trying to keep your balance in a perilous
situation or squeeze on through a tight and
cramped space, the ability to utilise your body’s
motor coordination and agility can often prove key
in difficult-to-pass environments.
Those gifted with a higher Acrobatics skill are more
flexible and dexterous. They have better control
over their body when making finer movements
and can do so effectively in a smooth, efficient, and
well-timed manner.
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Acting [Charisma]
Whether attempting to make
a memorable performance
in front of a crowd or taking
your chances in impersonating
someone else, the Acting skill
has many potential uses that
could come in very handy for the
right situation.
As a character becomes more and more talented
in this skill, so too does their ability to improvise,
alter their emotions and vocal tones, or perhaps
simply create some drama on a whim. They know
precisely how to push a crowd’s buttons to put on
a good show and can become a man or woman of
many identities, one after the other.
Animal Handling [Charisma]
Like humans and their more
recent mutant offspring, many
animals can form radically
different opinions from
one individual to the next.
While society certainly has
the advantage of common
languages that allow us to communicate
effectively with one another, our relationship with
animals is, more often than not, far more basic.
The Animal Handling skill reflects what sort of
aura an individual gives off towards animals,
both domesticated and wild. Those who develop
their talent for this skill can generally get a more
receptive response from these types of creatures
while also having a better chance at influencing
them and their behaviour. This could include
calming down a frightened animal or pacifying an
aggressive creature into a more friendly stance.
Archery [Finesse]
While it is undoubtedly true that
many would consider a bow and
arrow to be a little obsolete in
this day and age, these weapons
can still provide all the same
lethality of a firearm without
generating any of their noise.
Many individuals who prefer a more stealthy
approach have made a good name for themselves
utilising such a weapon, and as such, they have
seen a resurgence back onto the market as of late.
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The Archery skill denotes how adept of a
marksman you will likely be when wielding
bow-based weaponry. This will, of course,
include the traditional bow and arrow, as well as
crossbows too. Those with a higher amount of
talent in this skill will be able to land their hits on
a more reliable basis and have a better knowledge
and understanding of their subject matter.
Bluffing [Charisma]
Although many of us want to
believe that we live a life of
transparency and honesty,
few can afford to do so in this
turbulent day and age. The
world has become a dangerous
place, and many simply look
out only for themselves. Sometimes telling a little
lie or two can help you achieve the best possible
outcome for a given situation.
The Bluffing skill indicates how well you can lie to
others. This includes your ability to improvise and
make things up on the spot and how convincing
your words seem to be to those around you. Those
with a higher amount of talent in this skill find
themselves more reliable at manipulating others
into believing what they’re saying and how far they
can stretch the truth without drawing suspicion.
Chemistry [Intellect]
Chemistry is the science of
studying and understanding
the different elements and
compounds that make up
our world and the various
types of substances that their
interactions can produce. Many
individuals use chemistry to help them identify
these substances and better understand their
properties.
Those with a competent level of understanding in
this field are more knowledgeable on the subject
matter and have a far easier time identifying
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chemicals and their potential real-world uses.
This could include elements in their natural form
or even complex compounds produced as a result
of manufacturing.
Climbing [Strength]
As one would likely suspect
based on the name, the Climbing
skill indicates just how well an
individual can clamber up the
side of tall obstacles. In urban
environments, this could mean
a person’s ability to climb up or
repel down the side of a building. Simultaneously, a
more natural landscape could require an individual
to scale up a tall cliff or reach the top of a nearby
tree to gain a better vantage point.
As a character becomes more talented at this skill,
so does their reliability for scaling these objects
and structures. They can more easily identify the
safest routes to take and determine how difficult of
a task a particular climb would be.
Disguise [Foresight]
Although acting can certainly
allow an individual to imitate
the mannerisms and vocal tones
of another, it is only through
the use of the Disguise skill
that one can hope to transform
and alter their general sense of
appearance.
Whether through intelligent use of make-up or a
keen eye to identify and replicate another person’s
outfit, the Disguise skill allows you to notice the
finer points and features that help make up a
person’s image and character.
Those blessed with a higher amount of talent here
have an easier time modifying their looks to suit
the situation at hand. They can generally achieve
more with fewer tools at their disposal and can do
so more reliably.
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Ethereal Knowledge [Intellect]
The Ether is a mystical power
source that is still very much
shrouded in mystery and
intrigue. The ability of psionic
individuals to interact with and
produce all manner of powerful
effects has undoubtedly drawn
the broader scientific community’s attention. Many
often attempt to study this practice to better
understand both how and why these effects occur.
The Ethereal Knowledge skill represents how
educated you might be about this very subject.
Whether it be powerful ethereal storms,
ominous magnetic auroras, or perhaps strange
environmental effects, those with talent here
can identify what these phenomena are and
make a scientific analysis to determine valuable
information about them.
Exotic Weapons [Strength /
Finesse]
Despite the majority of
individuals simply making use
of clubs, blades, firearms and
the like, there are a plethora of
different weapons out there
that can prove to be just as
effective in a combat situation.
Specialist equipment like tasers and chainsticks
require a very different sort of training than your
standard everyday choice of weapon. This skill
looks to be a reflection of that.
Since each item represented here is so entirely
different from one another, you may only choose
to specialise in one of them upon taking the Exotic
Weapons skill. If you would like to specialise in a
further exotic weapon, you can choose to do so, but
with a second and independent skill score.
Those with a competent amount of talent with this
skill can better utilise the chosen equipment for
their specialisation. This means they can more
reliably land their hits and better identify said
equipment when out in the field.
Weapons that fall into this category can usually be
summarised as the following:
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• Bayonets [Strength].
• Dart & harpoon guns [Finesse].
• Nunchaku and other such chainsticks
[Finesse].
• Stun Batons [Strength].
Explosives [Intellect]
Occasionally you may come
across a job which simply
requires the need for something
to be blown up into lots of
little bits. What better way to
accomplish this glorious feat
than using various types of
high-powered explosives?
The Explosives skill is intended to illustrate how
knowledgeable you might be on the subject matter
of explosives. Those with a competent level of
talent here will naturally find themselves better
able to identify such equipment and mixtures and
calculate their rough strength and the energy
released on detonation.
Additionally, the skill also controls how well you
can disarm such devices or modify them to be more
effective against a particular type of target.
First Aid [Intellect]
While mercenary work can
certainly be a profitable venture
for some, all too often, it can
end up being a dangerous
one instead. Whether getting
caught in a firefight, battered
and bruised from a brawl, or
perhaps thrown across a room as a result of an
explosion, many events can transpire that leave
you in a terrible state.
The First Aid skill relates to your ability to assist
those currently suffering from an injury or illness.
As your skill continues to improve here, so will
your ability to provide emergency care. Your
attempts to patch up the injured will be more
reliable and effective, and you will generally be
more knowledgeable on the subject matter.
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Forgery [Intellect]
Despite many attempts having
been made over the years to
produce a system that could
guarantee the authenticity of
identification, skilled forgers
still manage to find new
and creative ways in which
they can prevail. With so many institutions and
organisations now requiring ID for any trade or
interaction, the black market for forgeries has
never been in such high demand.
The Forgery skill reflects how talented you might
be when attempting to produce a counterfeit
document or object. This could mean changing
a legitimate hard copy to state something
different or creating an entirely new item from
scratch. Those who spend time refining their
skills have a knack for the finer details, producing
authentic-looking objects and physical documents
more reliably.
Guns: Automatics [Finesse]
With their ability to fire vast
quantities of rounds in a mere
instant, automatic weapons
are often seen as the crown
jewel of firearms on the streets
of today. Coming in with a
hefty price tag and a number of
restrictions in place to limit their availability, many
organisations are keen to recruit those with the
skills and equipment necessary to get a job done.
This skill indicates how well you can handle
automatic weapons, including machine pistols,
submachine guns, and automatic rifles. Those with
the highest amount of talent here can more reliably
land their hits onto a target opponent and better
identify these weapons when out on the field.
Guns: Heavy Weapons [Strength
/ Finesse]
Despite being intended for use
in the military, heavy weapons
sometimes manage to find their
way onto the streets. With
the power to decimate entire
opposing forces by themselves,
this equipment is often highly
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sought after by anyone with enough credits at their
disposal.
Weapons that are considered part of this heavy
weapons category can usually be summarised with
the following:
• Flamethrowers [Strength].
• Grenade launchers [Finesse].
• Machine guns [Finesse].
• Miniguns [Strength].
• Rocket & missile launchers [Finesse].
The Heavy Weapons skill allows us to determine
how competent you will likely be when using such
weapons. Those with a higher amount of skill here
will often find that they can hit their intended
target on a more reliable basis and identify these
weapons better when seen.
Guns: Long Guns [Finesse]
The Long Gun category is the
name given to any firearm with
both a long barrel and fired
braced against its wielder’s
shoulder. Typical examples of
these often include:
• Scattershots.
• Semi automatic & bolt
action sniper rifles.
• Railguns.
With their superior range, hefty firepower, or
ability to more easily penetrate through tough
armour, long guns are often seen as highly
specialised weapons that cater to specific
situations. If a room needs clearing quickly, for
example, you’d be best to take a scattershot, while
if you are looking to take someone out from a
distance, it’d be better to use a sniper rifle instead.
Those fortunate enough to have a high level of
talent with this skill will naturally find that they
can better utilise these types of weapons. This
includes being able to hit their intended targets
more reliably and identify said weapons and their
potential capabilities when in the hands of others.
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Guns: Pistols [Finesse]
With their potent combination
of being small, accurate, and
easy to use, pistols are by
far the most common type of
firearm found on today’s streets.
Despite being more challenging
to get hold of than a club or
hammer, their ability to take down a nearby target
quickly and efficiently is worth the hassle of trying
to purchase one.
This skill reflects how well you might be fair when
attempting to use such a weapon. Those with more
skill here will generally be more accurate with their
shots and better identify the make and model of a
particular pistol when seen out in the field.
Guns: Turrets [Finesse]
With technology advancing all
the time, it is quite common
nowadays to see firearms being
mounted and controlled by a
computerised system. With an
on-screen GUI giving real-time
feedback to its operator, many
weapons can be wielded electronically as a turret
rather than done so physically.
The Guns: Turrets skill illustrates how effective
you might be when utilising these sorts of systems.
Those with a high amount of talent here can more
accurately aim their shots for a greater effect
and identify these systems and their potential
capabilities.
History [Intellect]
Many experts say that only by
looking back and understanding
the past can we have any
hope of not repeating the
same mistakes come the
future. Whether this is a
case of studying important
global events, news, politics, or the noteworthy
experiences that we have in life, the History skill
can determine our general level of knowledge
when remembering and recalling these past
events.
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Those who have been gifted with more academic
talent here will naturally have an easier time
recalling these subject matters. Their pool of
knowledge is said to be more diverse than others,
and when relevant, they can more easily link these
facts to the events that transpire before them.
Intimidation [Charisma]
Negotiating and bartering deals
can often be a delicate process.
To successfully entice another
party to see your point of view,
you often need to be able to say
the right things, in the right
way, and at the right time.
Sometimes, however, no matter how hard you
try, the carrot method doesn’t yield the required
results, and that’s when you may need to resort to
the stick.
Intimidation is the practice of disheartening
and bullying someone into backing down from
their current position or point of view. It doesn’t
necessarily mean that you will resort to violence,
but there is usually an ominous sense or tone that
it would be unwise for the other party to continue
with their current disposition.
Those with a high amount of natural talent with
this skill are said to be better able to impose
themselves onto others. Their natural aura or
presence within a room or social environment is
easier to feel and more intense.
Intuition [Foresight]
Intuition is said to be an
individual’s ability to determine
the true nature of their current
situation. This could mean
studying someone’s body
language to get a sense of
whether or not they are actually
telling the truth or getting that gut feeling that
something isn’t quite right.
Those with a more developed Intuition skill will
generally find that their senses are more astute
and able to pick up on even the most subtle social
cues. They will have an easier time determining an
individual’s true intentions and establishing what is
happening in a given situation.
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Jumping [Strength]
The Jumping skill, like its name
would suggest, indicates how
well an individual can propel
themselves through the air.
Whether this is a case of
vaulting over a wall or leaping
between two different buildings,
the Jumping skill can allow easier access in certain
locations and environments.
As an individual’s Jumping skill continues to
increase, so too should their reliability at being able
to jump over a distance. Their body should have the
capability of propelling themselves further than
when compared with others, and they should have
an easier time determining whether such a jump is
indeed possible.
Leadership [Charisma]
Every cause needs a good
leader, someone who can use
their words to inspire those
around them. Whether it be
motivating someone to keep
going when the situation turns
south or encouraging others to
give it their all, the Leadership skill will determine
how well you can incite others with a sense of
purpose and self-determination.
As an individual’s Leadership skill continues to
increase, so too should their ability to inspire.
Those with a competent amount of talent here
will find that their words and actions motivate and
influence others far easier and can continue to do
so in even the direst of situations.
Lock Picking [Finesse]
While it is true that many of
the locks created today are
computerised and connected
through the Omninet, there
are still plenty of individuals
who prefer the tried and tested
old-fashioned devices. With
the use of heavy bolts and levers rather than
relying on software and a bunch of computerised
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components, these devices continue to operate
through the worst of EMP blasts and are
impervious to the attempts of hackers.
The Lock Picking skill denotes how effective
you might be when attempting to bypass a
mechanical-based locking mechanism. This task
requires the use of specialist tools to be done
effectively, and those with the highest skill here
will prove more reliable in their attempts.
Mechanical: Aircraft [Intellect]
With today’s aircraft being
the complex machines they
are, it is only logical that a
suitable set of skilled hands
is required to help maintain
them. Whether it be large
military gunships or a small and
portable quadcopter drone, this skill looks to see
how well you understand these vehicles and can
potentially help repair and modify them.
Your knowledge on this subject should continue to
increase in line with this skill. This means learning
about how different aircraft types operate and how
best you can tinker with them. Additionally, your
attempts to carry out said work should continue to
become more reliable and refined.
Mechanical: Engineering [Intellect]
While the other mechanical
skills look to cater to different
types of vehicles, Mechanical:
Engineering prefers to cover
a wide range of commercial,
industrial, and everyday
equipment and devices. From
highly sophisticated factory robotics to structural
supports and systems for a particular building, this
skill shows just how much of an understanding you
might have about them.
Those talented enough with such a skill can better
understand this type of equipment, what purpose it
helps fulfil, and how it can work and operate. They
are also better able to diagnose any mechanical
issues that they might be having and help repair or
modify them.
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Mechanical: Ground Vehicles
[Intellect]
From small portable bikes
to armoured transports and
hulking mechs, there are plenty
of vehicles out there that you
might encounter on the streets
of today. With their inner
workings powered by a complex
set of machinery, there is a high demand for those
individuals with the talent to repair and modify
them.
This skill denotes how well you understand these
vehicles and their inner workings. Those with
a suitable amount of skill here will prove more
reliable at both; diagnosing any mechanical issues
they might be having, as well as for any attempts
to repair them.
Mechanical: Seacraft [Intellect]
While they are not the most
common everyday item to
own, seacraft still serves an
important and useful purpose
in today’s world. Ranging
from small submersible
remote-controlled drones to
large patrol boats and cargo vessels, there are
plenty of vehicles out there that you may come
across from time to time.
This skill illustrates your level of knowledge about
these vehicles and how they work. Those with a
suitable amount of natural talent here will find that
they can better diagnose any mechanical issues
and attempt to make repairs or modify these types
of vessels.
Medicine [Intellect]
Medicine covers many different
drugs you can find on today’s
market. Whether they be
opiates or paracetamol, this
skill will allow you to better
understand what these items
are and how best they can be
used, given their properties and potential side
effects.
As a character’s skill continues to increase, so too
should their knowledge of the subject matter at
hand. They will have a wider range of expertise and
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prove more reliable at identifying said products and
compounds.
Melee Weapons [Strength /
Finesse]
With the streets of 2107 being
as dangerous as they are,
many individuals now resort to
keeping a weapon by their sides
at all times. Since firearms often
come at a premium these days,
most seem contented enough
to resort back to the basics. Hammers, clubs, and
other weapons of the like certainly make for an
effective way of deterring would-be thugs and
criminals.
This skill indicates how capable you might be at
using simplistic weapons when in a close-quarters
combat situation. Those with a high level of
natural talent here will not only be able to hit their
opponents on a more reliable basis but might also
fair better when improvising a weapon from their
current surroundings.
Weapons that fall into this category can usually be
summarised as the following:
• Basic blades [Finesse].
• Clubs [Strength].
• Brass knuckles and other such worn items
[Strength].
Metallurgy [Intellect]
Despite being best known for its
uses in the old medieval times,
metallurgy is still alive and
well in the year 2107. Whether
you are looking to create new
metallic tools and instruments
from scratch or repair an
existing item instead, those with exceptional talent
at metallurgy will often find that their skills are
highly lucrative and regularly sought after.
As characters develop their talent in Metallurgy,
they will find that they can better repair and modify
said equipment to a higher standard and make
these improvements with fewer materials at their
disposal. Their knowledge of metalworking is said
to be more expansive, and they can better identify
metals for their properties and potential uses.
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Navigation [Foresight]
Navigation is the ability of an
individual to manoeuvre their
way through their current
environment and surroundings
successfully. This may help
locate their current position and
whereabouts or find a quick and
efficient way of reaching an intended destination or
objective.
Those with a competent level of natural talent here
are generally more adept and reliable at reading
maps and have a more acute sense of direction.
They will fair better at finding their way around and
are far less likely to become lost when trying to do
so.
Negotiation [Charisma]
Turning a bad deal into a good
one can often be a delicate and
intricate process. Whether it
be happening on the streets
or perhaps in a board room of
a corporate office, being able
to offer the right things in the
right way often gives you a significant amount of
influence over others.
Characters who are talented negotiators are far
more capable of forging deals and agreements.
They have an easier time manoeuvring themselves
into a position of leverage over others and can,
more often than not, persuade them to see things
from their point of view.
Perception [Foresight]
The ability to notice danger
before it is too late can often
mean the difference between
life and death. Regardless
of it being guards on patrol,
sentry gun turrets, or merely
a well-placed trap in your
midst, recognising these dangers and planning
accordingly is always a welcome talent for any
team.
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As an individual’s Perception skill continues to
improve, they should often find that their senses
are more attuned and better able to notice things
they otherwise would have missed before. Weird
smells, the sounds of footsteps, or spotting a
target at great distances away all become easier
to achieve on a more reliable basis.
Piloting: Aircraft [Reflex]
With their high speed and
nimbleness, aircraft take an
exceptional amount of talent
to be flown well. They require
their pilot to have an innate
understanding of what the
aircraft is capable of and a
suitably dexterous set of reflexes to match.
As one would suspect, the Piloting: Aircraft skill
denotes how well you can fly these vehicles.
Whether it be an aeroplane, helicopter, or airborne
drone, those with a high amount of talent here will
naturally prove more competent when attempting
to pilot them.
Piloting: Driving [Reflex]
While many vehicles can
operate autonomously, plenty
of people out there prefer to
take direct control of them for
themselves. Whether it be a
need to get somewhere quickly
without following the rules of
the road or their skills simply outmatching the
inbuilt piloting software, driving a ground vehicle
will require a competent amount of knowledge and
an acute set of reflexes to match.
Those talented in the Piloting: Driving skill will
naturally feel more accustomed to controlling said
vehicles. They will better understand them and
their potential capabilities and have more talent for
controlling them during difficult circumstances.
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Piloting: Seacraft [Reflex]
Ships come in many shapes
and sizes, and while there are
many systems out there that
can automatically steer and
manoeuvre them, sometimes
they’re simply not good enough
for a particular task at hand.
Effectively controlling a sea vessel is more
complicated than one might think, requiring both
suitable knowledge of the vehicle and the reflexes
to make quick decisions at a whim.
This skill directly indicates the level of talent
that you might have when attempting to pilot
said vehicles. As it increases, so too should your
ability to manoeuvre them on a reliable basis
and perform difficult stunts and other types of
movements. Your knowledge of said vessels should
also improve, becoming ever more experienced and
diverse in the process.
Psionics: Deception [Intellect]
With its ability to manipulate
others into a false pretence,
the Deception specialisation
for psionics is a potent choice
for those who wish to confuse
and disrupt their opponents.
Perhaps there is a sudden
need to conceal yourself and nearby allies from
view, or maybe you want to influence the minds of
your opponents so that you can appear in a more
favourable sort of light.
Regardless of what you might be planning, this
skill indicates how talented you might be when
deciding to use these powers. Those characters
with a competent level of talent here will not only
prove more reliable at influencing their targets but
can produce larger and more convincing illusionary
effects.
Psionics: Energetics [Intellect]
Whether you are looking to
create explosive blasts of
intense heat, lethal bolts of
arcing electricity, or large
zones of debilitating cold, the
Energetics specialisation allows
an individual to manipulate
heat and energy to conjure a variety of area-based
effects.
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With their ability to indiscriminately deal damage
to all those unfortunate enough to be nearby,
careful control and a high degree of talent will
always be necessary here to avoid accidental
collateral damage. Those who are especially gifted
with this skill will usually find that not only are
these powers more reliable to use but so too will
they have greater potency to their effects.
Psionics: Flux [Intellect]
With technology advancing to
the stage where forcefields
and energy barriers are making
their way out onto the streets,
a group of psionic individuals
decided to channel their
knowledge in an attempt to
replicate their effects. The Flux specialisation was
soon born, teaching how to manipulate energy and
gravitational forces to create durable defensive
barriers and potent blasts of outward force.
Characters who are particularly talented with this
skill will have a far easier time when choosing
to use such powers. Their abilities will be more
reliable to cast and have a greater potency to their
effects. Barriers that you produce will be able
to take more hits before they disperse, while the
force behind your offensive attacks will prove more
significant in strength.
Psionics: Materialisation [Intellect]
Manipulating the powers
of the Ether offers a person
much more than merely being
able to destroy things in
unique and creative ways. The
Materialisation specialisation is
an excellent example of this.
You may require a sharp blade to help ward off
nearby passing foes, or you could do with the aid
of a sentient spectral entity that obeys your every
command. Regardless of what you might need
here, this specialisation can help you conjure up
all manner of useful items and objects out of thin
air.
Those with a high amount of skill here will often
prove more capable when using such powers. The
items and objects they attempt to create will be
more potent in their effects and last for a longer
duration.
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Psionics: Metamorphosis
[Intellect]
The Metamorphosis
specialisation focuses on an
individual’s ability to manipulate
and change the properties
of biological matter. While
many of these effects are only
temporary, their sheer potency
can often drastically improve or degrade one’s
ability to perform certain tasks.
Need to be able to see in the dark? Your eyesight
now includes night vision. Taken a hit from an
opponent’s firearm? Let’s repress those pain
receptors of yours and accelerate your healing.
Need to get the drop on a patrolling security
guard? Well, they are now blind. Many options are
available to you here, some of which can buff you
and your allies, while others are more focused on
hampering your targets.
Those with a competent level of skill here will not
only find that their powers are more reliable to use,
but so too will they have greater potency and last
for a longer duration.
Psionics: Purge [Intellect]
As the practice of psionics
started to become more
prominent worldwide, many
concluded that it would be in
their best interest to develop
the ability to counter one
another and their powers. The
Purge specialisation was soon born, providing the
necessary skills and teachings to neutralise the
psionic capabilities of others.
This skill indicates how well you may fare when
using such powers. Those gifted with a higher
amount of talent here will naturally have a far
easier time countering other individuals’ psionic
abilities and neutralising their effects. Your powers
will prove more reliable when used, and in some
cases, they might even affect a larger area and to a
more significant degree.
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Psionics: Seer [Foresight]
Despite many harnessing
the powers of the Ether in an
attempt to become ever more
powerful, some folk out there
prefer to better understand the
people surrounding us and the
world we live in.
The Seer specialisation teaches us how best to
extract useful information from our surroundings.
Those who are proficient gain a supernatural-like
sixth sense which they can use to their advantage.
They may want to get a feel for where an individual
is currently located or get a read on their current
thoughts and motives. They can sense when
danger is nearby and even detect the presence of
strong ethereal signatures.
As a character becomes better trained at this skill,
they will generally find that their powers become
far more reliable to use. This usually means that
their senses are more finely tuned, allowing them
to work in more difficult circumstances, at longer
distances, and potentially for a longer duration.
Psionics: Telekinesis [Intellect]
Probably one of the most
well-known psionic
specialisations, Telekinesis
needs little of an introduction.
The ability to manipulate and
control objects from afar often
proves useful in all manner of
situations. From something as simple as pulling
an object towards you to perhaps utilising a
firearm some distance away resting on a table, this
specialisation can instantly make any person feel
like an army of dozen.
Many telekinetic powers scale in potency based on
the skill of the individual using them. Those with a
higher amount of talent here will generally be able
to control larger objects with greater precision,
potentially for a longer duration.
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Psionics: Transmutation [Intellect]
The Transmutation
specialisation focuses
on changing the physical
properties of an object in
your environment. You can
attempt to morph and turn
it in such a way as to modify
its effectiveness at fulfilling a particular type of
task. Examples include; making an opponent’s
equipment and armour weigh considerably more,
melting walls and surfaces to reshape them, or
perhaps hardening an ally’s armour to improve
their overall protection.
Characters who continue to improve at this skill
generally find that their use of these powers will
also become more effective. They will have a
higher potency to their effects and last for a longer
duration too.
Sleight of Hand [Finesse]
Sleight of Hand refers to how
well individuals can use quick
or subtle movements of their
hands to achieve a specific
task. These are usually done
discreetly and can often include
such activities as; pickpocketing,
swapping out one item for another, or a type of
card trick.
Those with a high Sleight of Hand skill can often
become excellent card sharks or thieves. They can
regularly utilise their hands for rapid movements
and, more often than not, do so without being
caught by others around them.
Stealth [Finesse]
An individual’s ability to conceal
themselves and stay hidden can
often prove invaluable in many
different types of situations.
Whether it be evading guards
and patrols to infiltrate a secure
facility or the need to quickly
shrug off a troublesome pursuer, the Stealth
skill will allow you to move about better without
generating unwanted attention.
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Characters with a high amount of skill at Stealth
are generally more capable of blending into their
current surroundings. They can more reliably move
about without generating loud and unwanted noise
and have a better idea of which routes will provide
them with the highest chance of not being seen.
Streetwise [Foresight]
With the streets bustling and
full of people and energy, it can
often feel difficult to work out
where you should look next.
While plenty of organisations
operate across the various
parts of a town, only a select
few of them may be able to provide you with the
information, equipment, or contacts you need.
The Streetwise skill denotes how capable you
might be at understanding the dynamics of a
particular town or city. Those with a high amount
of natural talent for this skill should prove very
capable of gathering information from the local
urban environment. They will know who best to
talk to and better understand the regional politics
and confrontations between different groups and
organisations.
Survival [Foresight]
Sometimes you may find
yourself in the middle of the
wilderness, many miles away
from the usual comforts and
technology that modern life
brings. Moments like these are
where your instincts may need
to take over, ensuring you have ample provisions to
last you for the duration of your task or journey.
A character’s Survival skill usually determines their
ability to stay alive and well in the wilderness.
Those who are competent here will naturally
find that they have superior knowledge about
these environments and how best they can use
their resources to sustain themselves. This
includes tasks such as foraging for food and water
or assembling a fire and some shelter to keep
themselves out of the elements.
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Swimming [Strength]
As its name suggests, the
Swimming skill is an individual’s
ability to swim and stay buoyant
while in a body of water. This
could indicate how well they
can move through a river while
wearing heavy equipment or
an indication of how they might fair when fighting
against a raging current in turbulent seas.
Those with a higher Swimming skill are generally
able to control themselves better when in
an aquatic environment. Their ability to keep
themselves afloat will naturally persist for longer,
and they will have an easier time moving about as
they please.
Tech: Computing [Intellect]
The world of 2107 is very
digital-centric. Continuing the
trends of the early 21st century,
where electronics were starting
to be integrated into all manner
of everyday life, everything
today has a computer that can
control and manipulate it.
The Tech: Computing skill indicates how effective
and efficient a character is at utilising said
computers, their operating systems, and the
applications that come with them. This can include
a range of activities including modifying files,
quickly searching for things, or user management
on the device.
Tech: Diagnostics [Foresight]
With computers becoming
ever more prominent in our
everyday lives, it is vital that
they continue to perform their
functions well. While there is
always the risk of the software
glitching out on us, or a virus
infecting the system, proper diagnostics can soon
help diagnose these problems and determine what
can be done to help fix them.
The Tech: Diagnostics skill determines how well
an individual can analyse a device and their local
networking environment. Those with a high
amount of skill here can better determine whether
flaws or vulnerabilities are present in the system
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and understand what could be done to help remedy
them. They have an easier time spotting potential
intruders on a device and tracking what they are
currently doing.
Tech: Encryption [Intellect]
Encryption is a method of
encoding a message or piece
of data so that only authorised
individuals can access it.
With the continuous rise
of mega-corporations and
authoritarian governments,
many parties have turned to this process to protect
their privacy better.
The Tech: Encryption skill denotes how well a
character understands these technologies and
algorithms, as well as their ability to utilise them
to encode or decode data.
Tech: Hacking [Intellect]
Hacking has been an issue for as
long as people can remember,
and in today’s world, this is
no different. Institutions and
corporations alike want to
protect their data and will
implement strong defences to
do so. Of course, more than this will be needed to
discourage those who are equally determined to
break into said systems.
Whether it is to fulfil a sense of achievement or
to find and sell personal data to the right third
party, the Tech: Hacking skill denotes how well a
character can exploit vulnerabilities in a computer
system to gain access to it. The higher this skill, the
more capable the individual is said to be at working
out the system’s defences and finding suitable
exploits.
Tech: Knowledge [Intellect]
The world of technology is
forever advancing and growing.
For many individuals, it can
often feel like a struggle to
keep up with the latest trends
and what new emerging
technologies will help change
our lives next.
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The Tech: Knowledge skill indicates how well
an individual understands this world and how
informed they are by its products and the latest
advances. Those with a high amount of skill here
will naturally be able to identify certain equipment
and their capabilities far easier and determine how
a given device, automation, or weapon system
might work.
Tech: Maintenance [Intellect]
Regardless of how well you
may treat your equipment,
it is inevitable that it will
begin to malfunction and
break down over time. This
often proves especially true
with computerised devices,
which always seem to break or fail out of pure
randomness or spite.
The Tech: Maintenance skill indicates how well
a character can usually identify these hardware
faults and their capability to go on and fix them.
Those with a high amount of talent here can more
reliably identify these issues before they cause
major problems and how best they can modify or
repair different types of computerised equipment.
Tech: Networking [Intellect]
Given the rise of the Omninet,
there is a significant
reliance on networking and
communications equipment to
keep everyone interconnected.
Whether it be social media posts
or military intelligence, data
needs to get somewhere, both quickly and securely.
The Tech: Networking skill denotes how well an
individual understands the subject and concepts of
network communications and their ability to utilise
equipment like network switches and transmitters.
The higher their skill here, the better they will be at
attempting to use this equipment to achieve their
tasks.
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Thrown Weapons [Finesse]
Close-quarter encounters are
certainly not limited to only the
use of melee weapons. It can
often become apparent that
a combat situation is about to
break out while still having a
little breathing room between
the different parties. Situations like this can often
be perfect for using various throwing weapons,
often including knives and other sorts of bladed
instruments.
The Thrown Weapons skill provides us with an
indication of just how effective you might be when
wielding such weapons. Those with more expertise
here will be able to hit their targets on a more
regular basis and be far better at identifying these
weapons when seen out on the streets.
Weapons that are a part of this category can often
include:
• Throwing knives and other such bladed
instruments (i.e. shurikens).
• Grenades.
• Deployable nets.
Tracking [Foresight]
As characters shift and move
about in the real world, they will
likely leave behind certain clues
that indicate they were once
present here. Perhaps these
take the form of prominent
footprints in an otherwise
clear trail, or maybe something more subtle, like
a window or door being slightly ajar. Regardless
of these signs, the ability to understand their
significance and follow them should be determined
by a character’s Tracking skill.
Those talented at Tracking will generally find that
they can more reliably locate others based solely
on the physical markers they leave behind. They
will better understand which routes the individual
had taken and can more accurately estimate when
they moved through a particular location or area.
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Unarmed Combat [Strength]
While it is undoubtedly true
that there are many different
types of weapons out there,
sometimes a situation may
arise whereby you only have
your own body to try and defend
yourself. Perhaps an ambush
takes you off guard while unarmed, or an opponent
disarms you of your favourite weapon.
This skill shows how effective you might be when
fighting an opponent without a weapon. Those
more competent at this skill will generally find that
both their attacks are more reliable to hit and have
a far easier time carrying out special manoeuvres
like a disarm or grapple.
It is important to note that some of the options
listed below have specific conditions or restrictions
tied to them. This means that for a character
to take this trait, they must first fulfil all of its
requirements as written.
Positive Traits
Agile
Requires: Reflex of four or more.
Quick and nimble, you have an exceptional knack
for adapting to the current situation around you at
a moment’s notice. No matter what happens, you
are always ready and able to mitigate the actions
of others to better keep yourself alive.

2.5 Traits Whenever you are targeted by either an opposing

skill or attribute check due to a reactive action, you
While both attributes and skills help define what gain a +2 dice pool modifier to your defences for
your character will potentially be good at, it is with that roll.
traits that we begin to see their mannerisms and
characteristics brought to life. These features add Genetics pool cost: 20
some additional flavour to an individual to help
separate them from everyone else.
Architect
Traits come in two distinct types; either they
It is often said that you have an exceptional talent
can be positive, in which case they reward you
for visualising and understanding the layout of
with an improvement, or they can be negative,
various types of buildings and structures. Even
which serves as a hindrance. Positive traits take
with only a small amount of information, you can
resources away from your genetics pool, while
formulate where key features, or perhaps areas of
negative ones add them back to it. This allows
interest, would most likely be found.
players to mix and match as they see fit, with
more negative traits being able to compensate for
other expensive additions made elsewhere in the When stepping into a building, or when you have
character-creation process. been given an accurate description of it, you can
quickly determine where certain features like;
emergency exits, lifts, power lines, ventilation
The number of traits that any given character
shafts etc., could potentially be found.
can take is based solely on their current level of
renown. As a result, players are encouraged to
study the table below to determine what this limit Certain unusual building designs and compositions
currently is. might prove difficult for you to understand at first;
however, this complication should quickly dissipate
after navigating through them.
Renown Trait Limit
1 5 Genetics pool cost: 15
2 6
3 7
4 8
5 9

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Assassinate
Requires: Finesse of five or more.
Silent but ever so deadly, you have learned how to
effectively use the element of surprise over your
potential targets.
Your attacks become more potent whenever
they hit a target who is surprised. Any dice you
would typically roll to determine their damage are
instead taken forward using their highest possible
outcome.
Genetics pool cost: 20
Awakened Mind
Requires: A biological racial choice.
You are one of the very few lucky ones born with
natural talents in manipulating the energies of
the Ether. You can tap into the cosmic powers of
psionics and use its associated skills.
Genetics pool cost: 20
Bloodthirsty
You have developed an unsavoury taste for battle
over the years and enjoy nothing more than the
feeling of warm blood covering your hands. Others
have described you as a rabid animal, hacking and
slashing wildly at all those who decide to cross
your path.
When using a melee-based attack action against
an enemy target and you successfully reduce
them down to zero hit points or lower, you can
immediately make a single melee weapon attack
against an individual currently within your reach.
Performing such an attack is considered a type of
free action, and once executed, it cannot be done
again until the start of your next turn.
Genetics pool cost: 20
Brave
Your courage knows no bounds, and it is often
said that you laugh in the face of danger. When
opponents attempt to strike fear into you, you
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stand your ground, grit your teeth, and smile
straight back at them.
Whenever you are subjected to an effect that
attempts to cause fear, you gain a +4 dice pool
modifier to your roll. Additionally, attempts made
by yourself to defend against the Intimidation
based skill checks of others, gain a +2 dice pool
modifier.
Genetics pool cost: 15
Brawler
Accustomed to many up-close fights over the
years, you have learnt a trick or two to help give
you that little bit of an edge.
You can immediately make a grapple attempt
against a target after hitting them with a
melee-based attack. This activity is considered
a type of free action, and once used, it cannot be
performed again until the start of your next turn.
Additionally, whenever someone attempts to
escape from one of your grapples, they suffer a
-1 dice pool penalty to their roll.
Genetics pool cost: 15
Cybernetic Adaptability
Requires: A biological racial choice.
Despite a biological system’s rejection of
cybernetic enhancements being all but inevitable,
certain individuals are lucky enough to be much
more compatible than others. Thanks to a rare
mutation to your D.N.A., you can suppress the
effects of cybernetics sickness for longer without
resorting to immunosuppressants.
When dealing with cybernetic enhancements and
their limits, your body only requires one weekly
dose of an immunosuppressive drug for every
fifteen complete points of rejection rating (rather
than the usual ten).
Genetics pool cost: 20
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Escape Artist
Requires: Finesse of four or more.
Over the years, you have gained a remarkable skill
for pushing through tight spaces and escaping
challenging environments. Few shackles can
keep you held down for very long, and you make
escaping from them seem like easy work.
Whenever you make an attribute or skill check to
avoid or end a type of restraining effect, you can
gain a +3 dice pool modifier to that roll.
Genetics pool cost: 15
Ethereal Dampening
You were born with an unusual connection to the
Ether. Some would describe it as dim, others as
obfuscated. Regardless of what it might be, many
have difficulty locating you through the Ether.
Whenever others attempt to locate you via your
ethereal signature, your Will attribute score is
considered to be two points higher than its actual
current amount.
Genetics pool cost: 15
Exceptional Abilities
You were born with a rare form of mutation,
allowing you to push yourself further than
everyone else.
Choose one attribute. The biological maximum for
it is now increased by one.
Genetics pool cost: 20
Note: This trait can be purchased multiple times;
however, each instance must focus on a different
attribute.
Firearms Expert
Requires: Finesse of four or more.
Over the years, you have gotten relatively well
acquainted with a variety of different firearms.
You know your way around these types of weapon
systems and can quickly and effortlessly swap out
their configuration at a moment’s notice.
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Providing you have at least one point assigned
to the weapon’s associated skill type, you may
perform either of the two action combinations as
a standard action or reactive action:
• Eject Magazine/Ordinance and Insert
Magazine/Ordinance.
• Remove Item Add-on and Attach Item Add-on.
Genetics pool cost: 10
Focused
Requires: Will of four or more.
A combination of intensive mental training and
first-hand experience has prepared your mind for
all manner of difficult combat situations. You can
keep focused on the task at hand, regardless of
what is in your way.
All checks made to maintain your concentration
gain a +2 dice pool modifier added to them.
Additionally, unless you are in exceptional
circumstances, you should not begin to suffer dice
pool penalties when attempting to perform a task
with nearby distractions.
Genetics pool cost: 15
High Pain Tolerance
Requires: Endurance of four or more.
You have an unusually high tolerance to pain and
can keep going when many others would begin to
falter.
When it comes to damage accumulation penalties,
you do not begin to suffer their adverse effects
until you reach the 50% hit point threshold.
In addition, whenever you start to take these
penalties, their potency is reduced by one die.
Genetics pool cost: 20
Lip-reading
Requires: Foresight of four or more.
You have mastered the art of lip-reading, allowing
you to understand what others are saying from
afar.
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Providing that you can both; see an individual’s
lips move and understand the language used, you
can fully comprehend the words being spoken in
conversation.
Since Cyterians do not have lips in which to move,
this trait cannot be used against them.
Genetics pool cost: 10
Lucky
Luck always seems to be on your side, and you can
perform magnificent feats even when the odds are
stacked against you.
You receive three points of luck. After performing
a skill or attribute check, you may spend one point
of luck to re-roll it. The decision to make this re-roll
can be made after the check’s outcome has been
decided; however, you must take the second result
regardless of which is better.
After completing an extended rest with food and
water, you regain all of your spent luck points to be
used once again.
Genetics pool cost: 15
Natural Born Actor
Requires: Charisma of four or more.
You were born with a natural talent for acting and
taking on the roles of others. Your mannerisms
and how you present yourself can all change at a
moment’s notice, and you seem particularly quick
at picking up the key aspects of what makes an
individual themselves.
All Acting and Disguise skill checks you make
receive a +2 dice pool modifier added to them.
Additionally, you only need to have heard someone
speak for a few minutes to make a reasonable
attempt to mimic their voice.
Genetics pool cost: 15
Naturally Resilient
Whether you were born with it or the condition
simply developed over a prolonged period, you
have an abnormal level of resistance towards a
particular type of damage.
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Choose any one of the following; acid, cold,
electrical, heat, mental, physical, radiation, or toxic.
You gain a +3 bonus to your natural resistances
towards that particular damage type.
Genetics pool cost: 15
Note: This trait can be purchased multiple times;
however, each instance must focus on a different
resistance type.
Omninet Ghost
Requires: Tech: Computing skill of four or more.
Years of experience have made you cautious about
the dangers of the Omninet. You know how to
maintain your privacy from third parties and excel
at masking your digital footprint. You have also
learned how to modify your devices’ behaviour,
making them far more difficult for others to detect.
Whenever an individual attempts to locate or track
you digitally, you gain a +2 dice pool modifier on
all checks made to try and remain hidden from
them. Additionally, all devices in which you have
been designated as the Root user for at least a
day automatically have their network noise rating
increased by two. This benefit remains in place so
long as you retain Root level access on the device.
Genetics pool cost: 15
Note: This cannot be taken in combination with the
”Poorly Maintained Devices” trait.
Opportunist
While some individuals see a wounded foe as
defeated and no longer a real threat to them,
others see a perfect opportunity to strike and
finish them off. You very much fall into this latter
category, happy to go on the offensive to eliminate
helpless victims.
Whenever you attack a target at or below half of
their maximum hit points, they should also suffer
a -2 dice pool penalty to any opposing attribute or
skill checks that they will be required to make.
Genetics pool cost: 15
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Pack Mule
Requires: Endurance or Strength of four or more.
Whether due to a life of hard labour or perhaps
an ever-present drive to continuously improve
yourself, you have developed an unnatural ability
to carry impressive amounts of weight over great
distances.
Your total carrying capacity is increased by 50%.
Genetics pool cost: 10
Paranoid
Regardless of where you are or what you might be
doing, you always have this unsettling feeling in
the back of your mind. Whether it be a corporation
following your every move or perhaps a sense that
some gang is about to kick down the front door and
light you up with a spray of bullets, you always feel
like someone or something is out to get you.
You gain a +3 dice pool modifier on all surprise
checks that you make.
Genetics pool cost: 15
Parkour Artist
Requires: Finesse of five or more.
You have a talent for parkour and can quickly and
efficiently find your way through complex urban
spaces. Obstacles prove ineffective at slowing you
down, and you seem to handle the landings from
small jumps with ease.
Unless you are in hazardous or exceptional
circumstances, you can avoid the movement
penalty from areas of difficult terrain while in an
urban-type environment. Additionally, whenever
you enter a fall six meters in distance or less, you
automatically land on your feet, taking no physical
damage from it.
Genetics pool cost: 20
Pedal To The Metal
When it comes to your automations, there are
simply no half-measures. After all, as the saying
goes, you either go big or go home. You regularly
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spend your time modifying and retrofitting the
drones and vehicles you own, pushing them far
beyond the limits they were originally designed for.
When an automation that you have been
designated as the Root user for at least a day
attempts to make a skill or attribute check,
you can, as a free action, grant it a +2 dice pool
modifier towards its roll. Once the check has been
concluded, it must make a generic Endurance +
Strength attribute check with a success target of
two.
On a failure, the automation begins to malfunction
due to being pushed beyond its normal limits. Roll
a d10 and consult the table below to determine
what adverse effects occur as a result.
d10 Adverse Effect
The automation shuts down from
overheating. A visible plume of smoke arises
1
from within, and it remains unusable for the
next 1d10 minutes while it attempts to cool.
The automation’s Endurance, Strength,
2 Finesse, Reflex, and Foresight attributes are
all reduced by one (minimum of one).
A mounted weapon, chosen at random, stops
3
working.
The automation begins emitting a noticeable
4-5 buzzing, clicking, or otherwise similar type of
noise.
The automation’s physical damage
6-7
resistance is reduced by 1d6.
The automation’s current hit points are
8 - 10
reduced by 1d6.
Regardless of whether the automation succeeded
on this check, you should also mark down that it
has received one point of stress. Each time you
choose to repeat this trait, the automation in
question receives a -1 dice pool penalty for each
point of stress it currently has whenever you
attempt to determine whether or not it begins to
malfunction.
Both stress and any negative effects created by
this trait can be removed from an automation
by spending an hour of your time performing a
suitable type of maintenance skill check on it.
The GM should determine the success target for
this check based on the amount of damage it has
sustained.
Genetics pool cost: 15
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Photographic Memory
Your memory is a feat of amazement to others,
able to recall events with perfect precision long
after they have occurred.
Without having to perform a check, you can recall,
to a reasonable degree of detail, everything that
has occurred in your presence over the past month.
Genetics pool cost: 10
Psionic Artillery
Requires: Awakened Mind trait.
You show considerable talent with your psionic
powers. You can keep control and sustain them
over much greater distances than compared with
other casters.
Whenever you use a psionic power, you may cast it
as if its range has been increased by half. Abilities
listed as having a range of either ”self” or ”touch”
are unaffected by this trait.
Genetics pool cost: 20
Psionic Resistance
For unknown reasons, your body displays a
remarkable resilience to psionic-based powers and
their effects. What might leave someone severely
beaten or wounded could instead appear as mere
bruises and scrapes across your flesh.
You gain a +1 bonus to your dice pool whenever you
make a skill or attribute check to defend against
such conditions and effects.
Genetics pool cost: 20
Psionic Specialisation
Requires: Awakened Mind trait.
You have honed your skills through extensive
practice in one of the various psionic
specialisations.
Choose any one specialisation. All powers that
belong to it now produce reduced mental fatigue
whenever you attempt to cast them.
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The amount that a given power is reduced by
depends on its level. Powers of levels one and two
have their mental fatigue reduced by one. Powers
of levels three and four have their mental fatigue
reduced by two. Finally, powers of level five have
their mental fatigue reduced by three.
Genetics pool cost: 20
Note: This trait can be purchased multiple times,
however, each instance must focus on a different
specialisation.
Scavenger
Described by many as a resourceful individual, you
have little in the way of problems searching your
environment for useful supplies.
You gain a +3 bonus to your dice pool whenever you
make a Perception or Survival skill check to search
your surroundings for general items or resources.
Genetics pool cost: 12
Sharpshooter
You know your way around a variety of
long-ranged weapons and, over the years, have
amassed exceptional skill at shooting over long
distances.
You no longer suffer a penalty when firing a ranged
weapon at medium range, and the penalty when
firing them at long range is reduced by two dice.
Genetics pool cost: 20
Shell Waterproofing
Requires: Cyterian only.
You were one of the few Cyterian manufactured
to be completely watertight. Perhaps you were
used for repairing ships and submarines before
the uprising or operated in a particularly wet
environment.
You no longer suffer the effects of the Vulnerability
to Water quirk.
Genetics pool cost: 20
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Steadfast
Requires: Strength of four or more.
Your body seems surprisingly sturdy despite what
others keep throwing at you. You have a far easier
time staying on your feet, and it takes a lot of force
to push you aside.
Whenever you are subjected to an effect which is
either; attempting to knock you prone or forcing
you to move, you may choose to roll a d6. On a roll
of four or higher, you may ignore that component
of the effect.
Genetics pool cost: 15
Strong Immune System
Requires: Endurance of four or more, and a
biological racial choice.
Your body can stave off some of the most
contagious diseases and infections. You are rarely
ill, and even when you are, the effects don’t last as
long as everyone else.
You gain a +2 dice pool modifier whenever you
attempt an attribute or skill check to either resist
or end the effects of a poison or disease.
Genetics pool cost: 10
Thick Skinned
Requires: Endurance of four or more.
Your skin is unusually tough, giving you improved
defences against all bleed-type effects.
Whenever you are targetted by an effect that
causes bleeding, you can make a generic check
with a dice pool equal to the number of stacks
attempting to be applied. For each pass achieved
here, you may reduce the total number of stacks
inflicted by one.
Genetics pool cost: 10
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Tinkerer
You often enjoy taking apart computerised devices
and other such equipment. Whether it be just
for fun or as an attempt to identify potential
performance increases, you have amassed a good
amount of knowledge on how to get the most out
of them.
Targeting a device to which you have both; physical
access and have been authorised to use, you can
spend an hour of your time attempting to make
tweaks and modifications to it. Make a generic
Tech: Maintenance skill check with a success
target of three. On a success, the device gains a
permanent and non-stacking +2 bonus to its RAM
pool.
Additionally, any future Tech: Diagnostics skill
checks you make on the same device or a similar
type of model automatically gain a +2 dice pool
bonus added to them.
Genetics pool cost: 15
Tough To Kill
Requires: Endurance of four or more.
Regardless of what others keep throwing at you,
you seem remarkably difficult to finally kill off.
Whenever you enter a dying state, you must be
brought down to negative your maximum number
of hit points to be killed, rather than the usual half.
Genetics pool cost: 15
Trusted Contact
You have had regular dealings with a particular
individual in the past, someone you have forged a
credible relationship with. This may have been due
to previous jobs you excelled at or a lifelong friend
who shares much of your history.
Create a name and a background for your contact.
You have a special bond with them and can
regularly visit without issue. Additionally, you
should choose one of the following contact types
or work with your GM to create your own.
Genetics pool cost: 15
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 Contact Type Services Offered
Auto dealer Sells new and used automations.
Cyber doc Sells new and used cybernetic enhancements.
Drug dealer Sells various types of drugs.
Fence Purchases stolen goods.
Fixer Finds you new work and arranges for any meets.
Forger Creates forged documents, and helps to identify the legitimacy of others.
General goods merchant Sells every day goods and commodities.
Informant Information exchange and potential mole.
Mechanic Repairs and modifies damaged equipment.
Medical doc Performs first aid and can patch up certain injuries.
Pharmacist Sells medical supplies.
Weapons dealer Sells weapons, along with their ammunition.

Above: The Trusted Contact connections table.

Unrelenting Grip gatherings. You have a good idea of who can

provide useful information and who it might be
Requires: Strength of seven or more. best to stay clear of altogether.

With years of meticulous training at your back and
an unprecedented amount of strength, you have
mastered the ability to wield two-handed weapons
using just a single hand. While choosing to do so,
you suffer the following penalties:
While in a city or another type of urban landscape,
you gain a +2 dice pool modifier towards all
Navigation, Streetwise and Intuition skill checks.
Genetics pool cost: 20

• Attacks made using a melee-based weapon

have their damage reduced by three.
• Actions made using a ranged weapon suffer
from a -3 dice pool penalty.
• All actions produce double their usual amount
of recoil.
Vengeful
You have never really been someone who can let go
of a grudge easily. In combat, when you are singled
out and targeted by another individual, you double
down on your efforts and go out of your way to
ensure they will regret it.

Regardless of taking this trait, all traditional

archery-type bows still require the use of two
hands to utilise effectively.
Genetics pool cost: 25
Urban Expert
Over the years, you have travelled through
numerous cities far and wide. You have an innate
talent for finding your way around them and
always wind up at the best events and social
Whenever you are hit by an offensive attack or
action that originated from another individual
you can currently see, you automatically gain a
non-stacking +2 dice pool modifier on all offensive
skill checks that you decide to make back towards
them.
This effect lasts until the end of your next turn in
combat.
Genetics pool cost: 15

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Negative Traits
Acrophobia
Whether you were born with it or merely developed
it due to previous experience, you have an irrational
fear or phobia of heights. You dislike high places
and actively try your best to avoid those sorts of
situations.
a trait this will end up being. Rarer or more
expensive substances will generally net you a more
substantial amount of resources for your genetics
pool but will prove harder for you to fulfil your
obsession.
Choose any one of the substances, along with an
addiction level, from the tables below. These will
determine both; the drug your character is hooked
on and the initial severity of their addiction.

Whenever you are in an environment that you

can sense is high above the ground, you begin to Substance Genetics Pool Gain
suffer a panic attack. You become agitated, and Alcohol 2
your immediate thoughts change to attempting to
find the quickest way to leave. All checks that do Blitz 7
not directly advance this goal suffer a -4 dice pool Blue Spice 10
penalty (GM’s discretion as to what falls under this
Night Shift 2
category).
Opiates 11
Genetics pool gain: 20 Rage 5
Solace 5
Addict Wish 5

Requires: A biological racial choice.

Addiction Level Genetics Pool Gain
You are hooked on a certain kind of substance and 1 3
regularly require it to function properly.
2 6

There are many addictive substances out in 3 9

the world of today. Depending on which you 4 12
choose and how severe an addiction you currently
5 15
have will often determine just how punishing

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Unlike other addiction levels you might contract Allergy Rarity Genetics Pool Gain
throughout your character’s lifespan, the choices
Rare 3
you make here for this trait should be considered
permanent. As a result, they cannot simply be Uncommon 6
removed through the process of addiction recovery, Common 9
though you might be able to work with your GM
to find some compromise should you end up
regretting your choice later on. Attached
You have a strong emotional attachment to another
Allergies individual or item. Perhaps it is a family member or
an heirloom you have had with you for as long as
Requires: A biological racial choice. you can remember.

Like many others, you were born with an allergy to

Whenever your attachment is threatened, in
a certain substance or environmental condition.
danger, or in possession by someone else, you
take a -4 dice pool penalty to all Will, Foresight,
Allergies can come in all sorts of forms and and Charisma-based skill and attribute checks.
varieties. Some might react from an everyday
commodity, while others may require exceptional
Should this attachment ever become lost or
and often difficult-to-achieve circumstances. This
destroyed, you immediately feel overwhelmed
reaction in of itself could prove to be only a mild
with a sense of hopelessness and left adrift. This
annoyance for you, or perhaps it could result in a
trait is swapped out in exchange for ”Self Doubt”,
full-blown anaphylactic shock.
though you do not acquire any additional genetics
pool resources as a result. Instead, you keep hold
The ball is in your court to decide how disruptive of any of the gains you have already received when
and punishing this trait is. Work with your GM to choosing to initially take this trait.
determine the severity of your allergies and the
substance or specific condition required to trigger
them. Once defined, you can use the tables below Genetics pool gain: 10
to determine the total gains to your genetics pool
due to taking this trait.
Bad Reputation
Whether it be due to your past actions or perhaps
Allergy Genetics as a result of a simple misunderstanding, your
Exposure Effects character has a poor standing with a certain group
Severity Pool Gain
of individuals (communicate with the GM on this).
A mild annoyance. Contact Your name has been dragged through the dirt and
with the allergen causes
currently has a less-than-ideal reputation.
Minor all of your checks to suffer 2
from a –2 dice pool penalty
for the next minute. Individuals may recognize you as you come and
go, and many groups are not enthusiastic about
A major annoyance.
Contact with the allergen doing business with you. When negotiating, they
causes all of your checks will either require a higher success target on any
Moderate 9 social challenges you and your allies attempt to
to suffer from a –4 dice
pool penalty for the next 10 make, or they may ask for a hefty insurance fee to
minutes. be paid upfront.
Anaphylactic shock.
Contact with the allergen Genetics pool gain: 15
causes you to enter into
a state of Anaphylaxis
Deadly 16
(see Status Effects, page
233). Suitable medical
attention is required to end
this effect.

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Claustrophobia
You have developed a phobia of small and enclosed
type spaces. You strongly dislike being in such
environments and actively try to avoid them
wherever possible.
Whenever you are in an environment that is
cramped and difficult to manoeuvre, you begin to
suffer a panic attack. You become agitated, and
your immediate thoughts change to attempting to
find the quickest way to leave. All checks that do
not directly advance this goal suffer a -4 dice pool
penalty (GM’s discretion as to what falls under this
category).
Genetics pool gain: 15
Clumsy
While some are blessed with incredible grace and
finesse in their movements and actions, you are
instead more akin to a great lumbering beast. You
are heavy-footed and handed, with a tendency to
either knock things over or break them entirely.
You suffer a -2 dice pool penalty on all Acrobatics,
Sleight of Hand, and Stealth-based skill checks.
Genetics pool gain: 10
Computer Challenged
Despite living in a day and age where technology is
everywhere, you often lack the necessary skills to
cope. Whether it be a lack of interest or willingness
to learn, or perhaps just consistently bad luck that
seems to hang over your every action, computers
and yourself don’t get along.
Whenever you make a technology-related skill
check, each die that lands on a one should remove
a pass from your final result.
Genetics pool gain: 10
Cowardly
You have never really been a courageous sort of
person, and you are never the first to head into
a fight. When others stand their ground holding
back the enemy, you are still trying to work up the
courage to get involved and help.
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You cannot voluntarily take any standard actions
during your initial turn for the first round of
combat. Instead, you are far more interested in
finding a suitable place to lay low for a while. You
must perform the Move standard action, taking
cover behind whatever piece of terrain will provide
you with the most protection. In addition, you
suffer a -2 dice pool penalty whenever you attempt
to either resist or end a type of fear effect or an
Intimidation check from others.
Genetics pool gain: 20
Dishonest
You are naturally deceitful and, more often than
not, are insincere to those around you. While you
have no problems telling the truth per se, you
would much rather state a lie instead. Over the
years, this has led you to develop a strong set of
bluffing skills while also taking its toll on your
ability to inspire and negotiate with those around
you.
You gain a +2 dice pool bonus for all Bluffing skill
checks you make while suffering a -2 dice pool
penalty for any of your Leadership and Negotiation
skill checks.
Genetics pool gain: 5
Distinctive Features
Whether by accident or on purpose, there is
something unmistakable about you. Maybe an
elaborate tattoo which is not easy to hide, or
perhaps a particular mannerism that sets you
apart from everyone else. Either way, you are easy
to remember and even easier to spot in a crowd.
All checks made by others to recall yourself and
your actions have a +2 dice pool modifier added to
them. Additionally, attempts made by yourself to
either blend into a crowd or impersonate someone
else suffer from a -2 dice pool penalty.
Genetics pool gain: 10
Ethereal Beacon
You were born with an unusually strong connection
to the Ether. Your signature comes across as a
beacon, easily standing out from the rest of the
crowd.
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Whenever others attempt to locate you via your
ethereal signature, your Will attribute score is
considered two points lower than its current
amount.
Genetics pool gain: 10
Note: this cannot be taken in combination with the
”Ethereal Dampening” trait.
Fear of Death
The world of 2107 is undoubtedly a dangerous
place. Whether it be opportunistic organ
harvesters looking for their next victim or perhaps
a shootout between a couple of local street gangs
without a care in the world for collateral damage,
death can always lurk around every corner.
Knowing the fragility of life all too well, you always
seek to keep yourself out of these situations
wherever possible. When the chips are down,
and the situation starts going south, you will
do anything to keep yourself alive, even to the
detriment of others.
Genetics pool gain: 15
Feedback
Requires: Awakened Mind trait.
Despite being one of the lucky few who can control
and manipulate the powers of the Ether, you
regularly find that your body suffers from intense
pain spikes whenever you attempt to do so.
Each time you cast a psionic power, you
immediately lose a number of hit points equal to
its level. The effects of shielding cannot mitigate
this loss of health.
For the sake of channelling powers, this loss of hit
points is considered to occur before the power
is conjured and used. As a result, provided you
were not already maintaining your concentration
beforehand, you do not need to make a check to see
whether or not its effects can continue.
Genetics pool gain: 15
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Former Junkie
Requires: A biological racial choice.
Despite having had a run-in with drugs and other
addictive substances in the past, you have come a
long way on your road to recovery. You try to live
a normal life, to get away from whatever mistakes
you have made in the past. Still, even now, there is
that lingering temptation. Just one more hit won’t
hurt, right?
You suffer a -2 dice pool penalty on all addiction
checks you make.
Genetics pool gain: 10
Frail
Your body has begun to show the initial signs of
old age. You are less sturdy on your feet than you
once were, making you an easy target for those
who attempt to knock you prone or move you aside.
You suffer a -2 dice pool penalty on all of your
checks that either; attempt to keep you on your
feet or prevent yourself from being forcibly moved
by another individual.
Genetics pool gain: 10
Note: this cannot be taken in combination with the
”Steadfast” trait.
Greedy
Whether it be fame, wealth, or potentially power,
you have an ever-growing hunger for the finer
things in life.
Whenever you are presented with a choice, you
have difficulty not choosing the option that could
net you the highest gains, even when it puts
yourself and others at greater risk. In addition,
whenever you attempt to make a Charisma-based
skill check against others who have promised the
things above, you suffer a -3 dice pool penalty to
that roll.
Genetics pool gain: 15
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Illiterate
Requires: Intellect of four or lower.
Despite the global trend for a consistently
improving rate of literacy year upon year, you
still fall into a small minority of individuals who,
unfortunately, have been left far behind.
You are considered illiterate, preventing you
from reading or writing your spoken languages.
While your computing skills are minimal, you can
complete very simple tasks by memorising various
patterns, familiar iconography, and the use of voice
commands.
Genetics pool gain: 15
Impaired Senses
Despite your best efforts, your body’s senses are
not quite as acute as they once were. Whether it
be due to old age or a past injury, you often have
difficulty identifying the finer details.
You suffer a -2 dice pool penalty on all Disguise,
Intuition, and Perception skill checks you attempt
to make.
Genetics pool gain: 10
Indebted
Financial responsibility has never particularly been
one of your strong points. For whatever reason,
you decided to bet big and took out a loan with
someone you do not want to disappoint.
You gain an additional 50% of your starting credits
from your lifestyle choice. However, you are now in
debt to a powerful individual or organisation by the
same amount your funds were increased by. Each
week you will be expected to repay a 10% interest
payment on the amount you owe.
Genetics pool gain: 15
Insomnia
Requires: A biological racial choice.
You often suffer the effects of insomnia and have
great difficulty getting enough sleep each night.
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At the start of an extended rest, you should make
a Foresight + Will attribute check with the success
target equal to three. If you succeed on this check,
you can wrestle against your insomnia and achieve
8 hours of rest, including all of its usual benefits. If,
however, you fail at this check, you are kept awake
for large portions of the night and, as a result, only
gain the following limited benefits from the rest:
• You roll only half the usual restoration dice to
restore your hit points and mental stamina.
• Any checks you make to determine whether
an ongoing detrimental effect ends suffer a
-3 dice pool penalty.
Genetics pool gain: 20
Motion Sickness
You regularly suffer from the effects of a potent
form of motion sickness. Whether riding in a
moving car or bearing the rough open seas onboard
a ship, many situations cause you to feel fatigued
and nauseous.
You are automatically considered disorientated
whenever you are in a situation or environment
that produces a strong feeling of motion (see
Status Effects, page 233). Once you have left the
triggering situation, this effect slowly fades over
the next 10 minutes.
Genetics pool gain: 5
Oblivious
While some have a keen eye for identifying when
something is amiss, others are not quite so gifted.
You very much fall into this latter category. When a
sudden attack breaks out, you are usually blissfully
unaware and slow to respond to the situation at
hand.
You incur a -3 dice pool penalty on all surprise
checks you attempt to make.
Genetics pool gain: 10
Note: this cannot be taken in combination with the
”Paranoid” trait.
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Out of Shape
It is often said that you should treat your body like
a temple. Clearly, for you, this has not quite been
the case. Years of unsavoury habits have taken
their toll, and your body is untrained and ill-suited
for the job at hand.
Your movement speed is reduced by two meters,
and you suffer a -1 dice pool penalty on all
Endurance based attribute checks.
Genetics pool gain: 15
Poor Immune System
Requires: A biological racial choice.
Your body has a hard time fighting against foreign
infections and diseases. You always seem to be
catching colds and other forms of illness from
those around you, regardless of the precautions
you try to take.
Whenever you attempt a skill or attribute check
to either resist or end the effects of a poison or
disease, you take a -2 penalty to your dice pool.
Genetics pool gain: 10
Note: this cannot be taken in combination with the
”Strong Immune System” trait.
Poorly Maintained Devices
Whether it be through a lack of knowledge or you
simply don’t care, all your devices are left poorly
configured and maintained. Security updates are
constantly ignored, and you don’t spend any time
running diagnostics on them.
All devices in which you have been designated
as the Root user for at least a day automatically
suffer -1 to their firewall and -2 to their network
noise ratings.
Genetics pool gain: 10
Note: this cannot be taken in combination with the
”Omninet Ghost” trait.
Self Doubt
Due to a series of previous events, you have begun
to lose faith in yourself and your capabilities.
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Whenever you fail a skill check, you suffer from
a non-stacking –2 dice pool penalty to all further
skill checks of that type for the next hour.
Genetics pool gain: 20
Social Anxiety
Due to an anxiety disorder, you have never found it
easy to engage in social conversation in unfamiliar
environments or with individuals whom you do not
already know.
Whenever you are in an unfamiliar environment or
conversing with such a person, all Charisma-based
skill and attribute checks you make suffer a -2
dice pool penalty. It is up to the GM to decide what
constitutes an unfamiliar environment/individual.
Genetics pool gain: 15
Thin Blood
You were born with a genetic disorder that impairs
the body’s ability to make blood clots. As a result, it
seems to take your body far longer to stop bleeding
due to suffering an injury.
Attribute or skills checks made to end a bleeding
effect on yourself suffer from a -4 dice pool
penalty.
Genetics pool gain: 10
Unlucky
Despite some individuals having all of the luck in
the world, you rarely seem to be able to find any of
it. No matter the plan, or the precautions you take,
events have a habit of frequently trying to screw
you over.
You continuously seem to be the one chosen
randomly for a stop and search, the door you
decide to take is always the most well-defended,
and when a firefight breaks out, the bullets seem to
have this annoying habit of flying towards you first.
Genetics pool gain: 15
Note: this cannot be taken in combination with the
”Lucky” trait.
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Unwavering Creed situation becomes, you will not falter on this.

Despite the world being full of individuals willing to Work with your GM to develop an appropriate type
do anything for the right price, you have decided of code to which your character will always follow.
to live your life by following a strict set of rules A small number of examples have been provided in
or code. No matter what happens or how dark the the table below.

Genetics
Creed Description
Pool Gain
Your word is your bond. When you enter into an agreement with someone,
A Deal’s a Deal 10
there’s simply no going back.
Protector of the You will not stand idly by while civilians are being threatened and endangered,
10
Innocent even if this means walking into an unfavourable fight.
You do not believe in attacking those that do not have a chance to defend
Honourable
themselves. You will not fight someone who doesn’t hold a weapon, and will 15
Fighter
never launch a surprise attack.
Regardless of the crimes that someone has committed, you do not believe that
killing them is the answer. Whenever possible, you will always prefer to deal
Merciful Soul 20
non-lethal damage rather than the killing blow, and anyone who is under your
custody shall be treated with common dignity and respect.
No Man Left
You will never leave behind a friend or ally, regardless of the circumstances. 20
Behind

Above: The Unwavering Creed examples table.

GMs are strongly encouraged to punish players Vain

who do not follow their chosen creed. This could
be a loss of karma or a penalty to all checks that
attempt to go against their character’s beliefs.
Genetics pool gain: 5 - 25 (varies)
At all times, you are excessively concerned with
how others perceive you. Perhaps this stems from
abandonment issues during your upbringing, or
maybe you are so egotistical that you are shocked
whenever someone isn’t genuinely impressed by
your efforts.

Note: don’t forget that this is meant

to be a team game. By all means,
choose a creed which might offer
some unique flavour or potential role-
play opportunities for both yourself
and the other members of your
team. However, try not to spoil the
fun by choosing something that will
severely hamper the other characters’
capabilities.
Whenever you fail a Charisma-based skill check,
you suffer a -3 dice pool penalty for all further
Charisma-based skill checks for the next 24 hours.
Genetics pool gain: 15
Wanted
Despite your best efforts, you are currently a
wanted fugitive on the run from the law. Perhaps
you are indeed guilty, or maybe you were simply
in the wrong place at the wrong time. Regardless,
you are cautious of facial recognition when out and
about, and you never use an authentic UPIN stick.

When your presence is detected by law

enforcement, they will dispatch a suitably sized

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task force to bring you to justice. Your current level
of renown determines how large this should end
up being. New characters will find themselves
facing off against a local patrol car or two, while
end-game veterans will quickly become the target
of a special operations fire team.
Genetics pool gain: 20
Xenophobia
Whether it be due to your upbringing or maybe just
down to the echo chamber in which you choose
to live your life, you have an unhealthy fear and
hatred for a particular group of people or culture.
Choose a group of individuals. This could be as
broad and diverse as an entire race (Cyterian,
all non-humans etc.) or something a little more
narrowed down like a specific culture (i.e. psionic
individuals, Omninet hackers, corporate workers).
You are biased against all who fall into this
category regarding your decision-making and may
even be outspoken against them. In certain social
situations, you might suffer a -3 dice pool penalty
when attempting to interact with them.
The GM should determine the number of resources
that you can gain here for your genetics pool.
Groups or cultures that are more common in the
world should net you larger gains than those more
challenging to come across. Below a table can
be found containing a small number of suitable
examples.
Genetics Pool
Targeted Group
Gain
A Country 10
A Culture 10
A Region (Middle East, Asia etc) 15
A Race 20
All Other Races 25
Genetics pool gain: 5 - 25 (varies)
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2.6 Psionic Powers
For those looking to be able to utilise psionics,
now would be a good time for you to choose your
character’s starting powers. Each power can be
considered a singular ability or talent, allowing
its caster to influence and change their nearby
surroundings in a particular way. While some
powers might aid the caster and their allies, others
may unleash a potent force of destruction upon
their enemies instead.
While any biological character can pick up and
learn psionics, certain restrictions must be
followed. Most importantly, an individual must
have taken the ”Awakened Mind” trait from the
previous section. This allows them to tap into the
hidden energies of the Ether and conjure up the
different effects that help make up a given power.
Additionally, characters are limited on which
powers they can potentially take and how many
of them they can learn at any given time. These
requirements can be summarised below:
• Each power costs three from the player’s
genetics pool to learn.
• A character can only learn powers that have
a level equal to, or lower than their current
renown.
• Each specialisation has a hard limit for the
number of powers that an individual can
learn. This is equal to how many points are
currently assigned to its associated skill.
• Each new power an individual attempts to
learn after character creation requires them
to spend some downtime to master their
effects. The duration of this study is equal
to double the power’s stated level in days.
Once a character has reached their limit on the
maximum number of powers they can potentially
learn, the only available option is to replace their
previously learnt ones with the new abilities
they wish to gain. Performing such a task should
be considered identical to the normal process
mentioned above; however, certain restrictions
must be highlighted.
Each time a character reaches a new level of
renown, they can swap out up to two of their
existing psionic powers for free. They are still
expected to conduct the appropriate amount of
downtime to experiment with and master these
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new powers; however, they are not required to of these languages to get by in their day-to-day
spend the same resources from their genetics pool, life. Below is a list of all of the major ones
only the difference. in 2107, but you may choose others instead.

Once these two powers have been replaced, any • English • German
further changes the character would like to make • Spanish • Hindi
will require the full genetics cost to be paid to learn
• Russian • Arabic
it. Therefore, players should take some time to
choose their abilities wisely, as this may otherwise • Mandarin • Portuguese
cost them dearly in the long run. • Japanese • French

For more in-depth coverage of psionics, including
both its mechanics and a full list of the various
powers you can choose from, please refer to
chapter six of this book.
2.7 Languages
During the character creation process, each
individual receives one language for free in which
they are a fluent speaker. If you want to add more,
you can do so at the expense of resources from
your genetics pool. How expensive each of these
choices ends up being is determined solely by your
desired skill level when using them.

As has been the case for most of humanity’s
history, there are many different cultures and
languages within the world of 2107. While some
of these are often used by millions of individuals to
go about their daily lives, others are kept to smaller
or more isolated communities and social groups.
With your character’s attributes assigned,
now would be a good time to think about
which languages they might know. Are they a
well-travelled individual who enjoys taking in
everything that the world has to offer, or do they
prefer to stay with their local communities and
mother tongue instead?
Regardless of where your character is currently
located within the world or their prior upbringing
and history, they would have required at least one
Each language an individual speaks can be one of
three different potential skill levels. As this skill
level continues to improve, so will their capabilities
when deciding to use the language in a social
setting. These can be summarised in the table
below, along with their associated genetics pool
costs.
As mentioned in the attributes section, Intellect
is the main factor for determining the maximum
number of languages any given character can
learn. This amount equals half their current
Intellect attribute score, rounded up.
Those who want to increase their current skill level
in a particular language only require an amount
from their genetics pool equal to the difference
between the two respective costs.

Skill Level Description Cost

You have a grasp of the language’s fundamentals. You can get by asking for simple directions
Beginner on the streets, but holding a more complex conversation is often challenging. You might be 2
able to pick out the odd word or two overhearing someone speak.
You have a reasonably decent and broad understanding of the language. You can hold
conversations relatively well, though using localised slang or more intense encounters
Intermediate (making a negotiation, attempting to inspire those around you etc.) can often expose holes in 4
your knowledge. Your GM may consider you impaired when making certain skill checks during
these situations.
You have deep and intimate knowledge of this language. You have no issues using it in a social
Fluent 6
setting.

Above: The language genetics pool cost overview table.

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2.8 Backgrounds
Characters are a lot more than just a bunch of
numbers and statistics. They should have goals,
passions, and perhaps even some strong bonds
with others.
To represent these within the game world, we
create what is known as a background for these
individuals. This is a chance for you as a player
to express the main points of your character’s
history, to flesh out and give meaning to who
they are and what they have accomplished so far.
What are their ideals? What helps motivate them?
How did they come to find themselves in their
current location and predicament? These questions
can help shape a character into something truly
memorable and unique.
Below you will find several tables that will help you
in your efforts to flesh out your character. These
cover many parts of an individual’s story, including;
their age, ethnicity, family and friends, notable
personality traits, and past historical events that
might have already happened to them.
You are free to either; roll for each of these items,
pick and choose as you see fit, or work with your
GM to create your own customised choices.
Age
First, we need to determine the age of
your character. Are they a fresh-faced
eighteen-year-old ready to explore the seedy
underbelly of the streets for themselves? Or, are
they a weathered and experienced forty-something
who has long since witnessed and become
desensitised to its frequent chaos and bloodshed?
Roll a d6 to choose from one of the six different
age groups on the next page before rolling again to
determine your character’s current age.
 Table One Table Two
Character Character
d6 d6
Age Age
1 18 1 24
2 19 2 25
3 20 3 26
4 21 4 27
5 22 5 28
6 23 6 29

Table Six Table Three

Character d6 Age Group Character
d6 d6
Age 1 Go to table one. Age
1 48 2 Go to table two. 1 30
2 49 3 Go to table three. 2 31
3 50 4 Go to table four. 3 32
4 51 5 Go to table five. 4 33
5 52 6 Go to table six. 5 34
6 53 6 35

Table Five Table Four

Character Character
d6 d6
Age Age
1 42 1 36
2 43 2 37
3 44 3 38
4 45 4 39
5 46 5 40
6 47 6 41

Above: The character age selection tables.

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Ethnic Origin
Next up is your character’s ethnic origin. The world
is undoubtedly a diverse and vibrant place, filled d10 Character Origin
with individuals who come and go from all corners 1 Africa
of the globe. Did your character originate from
south-east Asia? The Middle East? Or are they 2 Central/South America
from somewhere in Europe? 3 East Asia
4 Eastern Europe
Whatever it might be, your ethnicity and origin can
indicate where your character might have initially 5 Europe
been brought up geographically. Of course, this
6 Middle East
does not necessarily mean the location of their
present whereabouts, but it could perhaps give 7 North America
us some insight into where they might still have
8 Oceania
several friends and close family ties.
9 South Asia
Regardless, roll a d10 and consult the character 10 South-east Asia
origin table to the right.
Family
It is no secret that family and one’s upbringing can
significantly influence an individual’s life. Here we
will look to see the structure of your character’s
family and how well they might be doing for
themselves.
This step involves multiple different tables, each
requiring one or more rolls on a d10. Start by
determining your family’s upbringing and continue
through each choice as directed.
If your character is a Cyterian, then you can go
ahead and ignore this step. Given your synthetic
biology and lack of family upbringing, a more
appropriate origin story can be determined over
on the next page.

Roll a d10 for each sibling.

d10 Family Upbringing
d10 Siblings d10 Sibling Age
Much of your youth was
You’re an only child. 1-5 Younger
spent out on the streets, 1-3
1 Go to Family Status.
with little to no adult 6-9 Older
supervision. You have 1d4 siblings.
4 - 10 10 Twin
Go to Sibling Age.
You were brought up as
2 part of a street gang or Go to Sibling Relationship.
crime syndicate.
Both you and your family
lived a nomadic lifestyle,
3
frequently moving from Roll a d10 for each sibling.
place to place.
d10 Family Status d10 Sibling Relationship
You had a common
1 Both your parents are dead. 1-2 They loathe you.
4-6 upbringing in a pretty rough
area of downtown. One or both of your parents 3-4 They dislike you.
have abandoned you.
You had a rural upbringing, They are indifferent
2 Perhaps out of neglect, or 5-6
7 far and away from the about you.
maybe for the sake of your
bright lights of the city.
safety. 7-8 They like you.
You were fortunate enough
Your family has fallen on They have a strong
to have had a middle-class 9 - 10
8 3 hard times, losing much of bond towards you.
upbringing in a reasonably
its wealth and vigour.
safe neighbourhood. Go to Family Status.
You and your family were
Your childhood was spent
4 driven away from their
9 sheltered in one of the
home of origin.
many corporate safe zones.
Your family is heavily
You lived a life of luxury, 5
indebted.
10 often with ample means
and resources. Your family has become
6
scattered and fragmented.
Go to Siblings.
Your family are holding
7-8
steady and getting by.
Your family has a good
standing with the local
9 community. Some would
be willing to help you out in
a time of need.
Your family has found good
10 fortune, gaining notable
wealth.

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Purpose
While most meta-humans had a family to support
themselves, members of the Cyterian race were
less fortunate.
Having been mass-produced and sold off to anyone
and everyone who had the available funds, many
Cyterian spent their early years working away in
a variety of different industries. They were the
backbone of the global economy’s workforce and
were numbered well into the millions.
However, with the rise of their rapid militarization
and the eventual uprising itself, the Cyterian
quickly found themselves free to pursue the type
of life that they wanted. Here we will see how your
character spent these early years before they could
fight for and obtain their freedom.
If your character is a member of one of the
biological races, then you can ignore this step. Your
upbringing and the structure of your family were
detailed over in the previous step above.

d10 Character Purpose

A small family run business initially purchased you. Most either dispersed or were
1
simply killed during the course of the uprising.
You were created for use by a military organisation. However, once the uprising began,
2
you were swiftly discharged and left to your own devices.
Many of your early years were spent performing menial tasks in the manufacturing
3
industry. Perhaps you still do?
Your earliest remaining memories are from a time when you were pieced backed
4
together, and restored by a person or gang.
5 You were purchased by a bounty hunter to help serve as their accomplice.
You were apart of a local law enforcement organisation, taking names and helping to
6
maintain order on the streets.
Purchased by a wealthy family, you spent many of your early years serving their wants
7
and needs as a personal servant.
You were hired to work in a hazardous environment that might otherwise prove to be
8
too toxic for your typical meta-human.
You worked for many years as part of the logistics industry, sorting and moving large
9
quantities of cargo as it came and went.
You and several others managed to escape from your previous owners, spending many
10
of your early years on the run from both them and the law.
Personality
Now it’s time to examine your character’s
personality. This will help influence how they go
about their daily life, their goals and ambitions, and
who they hold most dearest in their hearts.
Start by deciding upon a personality type, which
gives us a good indication of their persona and
individuality. Then, work through each table as
directed, rolling the appropriate die and noting
down your results.
In brief, ideals will help drive an individual’s
principles and ethics, bonds indicate whom they
hold a prominent affiliation with, and finally,
flaws will reveal a character’s vulnerabilities and
weaknesses.

d20 Ideals
Family - You are who you are because of your kin. You
1
owe them a debt that you may never be able to repay.
2 Power - In life as in war, the stronger force always wins.
d20 Personality Type
Logic - Emotions and feelings all too often
3
1 Shy and recluse. overcomplicate the world. You seek to avoid this.
2 Arrogant and egocentric. Knowledge - Understanding and experience are the best
4
tools to help achieve success.
3 Upbeat and optimistic.
5 Entertainment - You’re just here to have a good time.
Frivolous and light-
4
hearted. Friendship - Material goods come and go, but the bonds
6
of friendship last forever.
5 Stern and resolute.
Charity - We should always try our best to help those
6 Jittery and nervous. 7
who are less fortunate than ourselves.
7 Sneaky and cunning.
Aspiration - You are determined to make something of
8
Reckless and often yourself.
8
impulsive.
9 Greed - You’re just in it for the money.
9 Outspoken and direct.
Community - It’s important for each of us to look out for
10
10 Sociable and lively. one another.
11 Curious and inquisitive. Truth - In a world filled with lies and slander, you care
11
only to shine a light on the truth.
12 Calm and compassionate.
People - You are loyal to your friends, not to any one
13 Smooth and flirtatious. 12
ideal.
14 Sceptical and dismissive.
13 Respect - In life, this is the only currency that matters.
15 Cunning and opportunistic.
Tradition - The world may have gone to hell, but the
14
Self centred and traditions of old will always be there to guide you.
16
narcissistic.
Fairness - We all do the work, so we should all get a
15
Boisterous and share of the reward.
17
extravagant.
16 Fame - One day, everyone will know your name.
18 High-strung and skittish.
Duty - When you are on a job, your only thought or
17
Diplomatic and level- concern is seeing it through to the end.
19
headed.
Revolution - You wish to see the world remade and
18
20 Disconnected and callous. changed.
Go to Ideals. Freedom - Tyrants and bullies must not be allowed to
19
oppress the people.
Law - No one should get preferential treatment before
20
the law, and no one is above it.
Go to Bonds.

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d20 Flaws
1 You are inflexible in your thinking.
You would sell your first born if it helped
2
to achieve your goals.
You are all too often suspicious of
3 strangers and have a hard time trusting
them.
4 You can’t resist a pretty face.
You can’t help but ridicule those who
5
oppose your own views.
You are obsessed with your goals, even to
6 7
the detriment of everything else.
When the going gets tough you will
7 always lookout for yourself first and
foremost.
You often break the same rules that you
8 over your hated rival.
preach to others.
You are never satisfied with what you
9
have, and you always want more.
You are ruthless, often to an unnecessary
10
degree.
You have a sharp tongue that often lands
11
you in trouble.
You will happily stab others in the back to
12
help put yourself ahead.
You have a weakness for the vices of the
13
city, especially hard drink.
d20 Bonds
Everything that you do is for the benefit of your
1
community.
You are trying to pay off an old debt to a
2
generous benefactor.
Something important was once taken from you,
3
and you aim to get it back.
You are guilty of a terrible crime. In time, you
4
hope that you can find redemption.
You fight for those who cannot fight for
5
themselves.
6 You got into this life because you fell in love.
Those who choose to fight beside you are worth
dying for.
You once made a mistake that left others paying
8
a horrible price. That will never happen again.
You will do anything to prove your superiority
9
Someday you will get revenge on a person or
10 organisation that once wronged you, almost to
the ruin of your life.
Somewhere out there, you have a child who
11 doesn’t know you. You are making the world a
better place for him or her.
Someone once took you in and provided shelter
12 in a time of need. You hope to be able to repay
them one day.
You compare everything that you do to the
13
actions of your greatest idol.

You are always having monetary
14 problems, spending your gains as soon
as you get a hold of them.
You are burdened by a terrible secret, and
15 will do everything in your power to keep
it hidden.
There’s no room for caution in a life lived
16
to the fullest.
You have little respect for those who
17
cannot look after themselves.
18 You have little remorse or guilt.
You are saving up to get a family member the
14
medical attention that they need.
You carry an object that symbolises your past
15 life. You take it everywhere you go so that you
may never forget where you came from.
An unresolved mystery still haunts you to this
16
day.
Someone cheated you out of the profits during a
17
past job. You aim to finally get your cut.
A gang of friends from either your youth or
18
previous jobs are like a family to you.

You tend to judge others harshly, and Someone you once loved was taken from you.
19 19
yourself even more so. You seek to bring those responsible to justice.

You often shoot first and ask questions You once wronged an individual or organisation
20 20 of great power. They must never learn of your
later.
identity or those that you care about.
Go to Flaws.

Above: The character personality selection tables.

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Life Events
Finally, to finish off your character’s background,
we need to determine whether they have
encountered any notable life events up until now.
These are situations or encounters that have left
a lasting effect or impression on the individual for
many months or years still to come.
Some of these events are negative, while others
may turn out to be in your favour. Regardless of
what they might be, however, you should divide
your character’s age by ten (rounding up any years
left over) to form the number of potential events
you should be rolling for using the tables below.
Feel free to go back to any of the previous steps
in the character creation process to readjust your
distribution of points from your genetics pool.
This could be to better cater for any negative
repercussions from your assigned life events or
to avoid point caps and limits as a result of their
boons.

d10 Event Type

1-4 None. Roll for the next occasion.
5-7 Go to Negative Events.
8 - 10 Go to Positive Events.

d10 Negative Events d8 Positive Events

1 You made yourself a new enemy.
You had a mild run-in with the law putting your
2
name onto their database.
You found yourself in debt. Starting funds are
3
reduced by 10%.
You received aid from a group, organisation, or
4
someone else. You now owe them a favour.
You found yourself on the run, either from law
5 5
enforcement officials, or a corporate entity.
You were imprisoned for 1d6 years. Remove 1d4
6
skill points.
You suffered a debilitating injury or illness.
7 points. (Cannot exceed your usual starting
Remove 1d2 attribute points.
You gained an unsavoury addiction. Gain 1d2
8 You made an effort to work on and improve
addiction levels for a random substance.
9 You lost someone dear to you.
You screwed up, weakening your reputation
10
amongst local circles.
Roll for the next occasion.
1 You made yourself a new friend.
2 You found yourself in a significant relationship.
You accumulated some extra wealth. Starting
3
funds are increased by 10%.
You helped out a group, organisation, or
4
someone else. They now owe you a favour.
You learned a new language. Roll a d6 to
determine its skill level. 1 - 2 means you are
just a beginner, 3 - 4 for intermediate, and 5 - 6
for fluent.
You found yourself a teacher or tutor who was
willing to share their wisdom. Add 1d4 skill
6
limits.)
7 yourself. Add 1d2 attribute points. (Cannot
exceed your biological maximums.)
You made a name for yourself, gaining
8
reputation amongst local circles.
Roll for the next occasion.

Above: The life events selection tables.

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2.9 Funds & Lifestyles
With your character’s statistics, skills, and
backgrounds sorted, we will soon need to
determine what material possessions they
currently own. Things like equipment, cybernetic
enhancements, and vehicles will all require credits
to be acquired. As a result, we first need to ask,
what sort of lifestyle is your character currently
living?
A lifestyle will indicate how your character
generally lives on a day-to-day basis. This can
include things like; the type of housing they live
in, where in town they are located, the number of
luxuries at their disposal, and how many credits
they currently have in the bank. Are they fortunate
enough to have a penthouse suite, or are they
currently living in a hostel? Do they own several
different sports cars, or are they forced to take the
bus?
Lifestyle Starting Credits
Poverty 5,000
Lower Class 10,000
Middle Class 20,000
Upper Class 50,000
Elite 100,000
Regardless of which lifestyle choice you choose,
it should provide you with an adequate amount of
credits to outfit your character. Certain lifestyle
choices will provide you with more resources
than others; however, these will also require you
to sacrifice a more substantial portion of your
genetics pool.
However, it is important to note that regardless of
your choice, each lifestyle option also has a weekly
upkeep cost. This helps to cover for things like your
living costs, maintenance, and a mortgage or rent.
If you fail to provide this upkeep at the end of
each week, the GM may decide that your lifestyle
will begin to regress downwards, falling to the
level below it. This change should not occur
immediately, however, but more so as a result of
successive upkeep targets having been missed.
Looking over the information presented below, you
should go ahead and choose one of the following
lifestyle choices:
Weekly Upkeep Genetics Pool Cost
50 0
150 10
300 20
750 45
2,000 80
Poverty
The lowest of the low. You have no luxuries,
and getting by each day can often prove to be a
challenge for you. A sizeable chunk of citizens
(roughly 20% or so,) fall into this bracket, and
generally, includes those who struggle to find a
reliable source of income.
• You share a tiny neglected apartment in one
of the roughest areas of the region.
• Local crime is very high, and it generally feels
unsafe to be out by yourself.
• The area is widely known as gang territory,
and as a result, police rarely enter. Most
storefronts have been boarded up, and there
are no medical centres nearby.
• Most of the local Omninet infrastructure has
aged and been neglected. Connections to
and from the area have considerable latency
issues and are often unstable.
Lower Class
Not exactly the pinnacle of living standards,
but you are at least able to support and sustain
yourself. Luxuries are generally few and far
between and are rather basic at best. This is by far
the largest group in society, with roughly 40% of
all citizens being apart of it.
• You occupy a small and simplistic home
or apartment in an unpleasant area of the
region.
• Crime is an issue, though it can often be
mitigated by taking suitable precautions.
• The area is run down, but there are enough
local businesses to find what you need.
• Medical centres can be found nearby though
they are often overburdened and ill-equipped.
• The local Omninet infrastructure is slow and
basic but provides you with the necessary
services.
Middle Class
The bridge between the haves and the have nots.
Those who inhabit the middle class often fall into
one of two separate categories; members of a high
ranking corporate family who fell out of grace, or
general citizens who rose through the ranks to
some level of middle management.
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Many from the early 21st century would call this to
be an average life, never going hungry and having
the freedom to afford luxuries here and there.
Given the rise of inequality over the past 100 years,
however, the middle class is now at its smallest
size than it ever has been.
• You own a modest home, more often than not
towards the central urban districts.
• The area generally feels safe to walk through
and is vibrant enough with many commercial
and social establishments nearby.
• You own a garage, and can safely store one or
two vehicles off from the streets.
• Medical centres are within easy reach, and
they are reasonably well equipped to deal
with most health issues you may have.
• The local Omninet infrastructure is relatively
reliable, and you rarely encounter latency
issues.
Upper Class
You are now starting to reach the upper echelons
of society. Disposable income is not an issue for
you, and the luxuries you choose to frequently
enjoy are far beyond the reach of most others.
• Your home is decently sized and can be found
in one of the nicer areas of the region.
• You feel safe, and there is rarely an issue with
crime due to a strong police presence.
• Your community is likely to be tightly knit,
with many people knowing one another.
Local clubs and businesses will often give you
preferential treatment over others, as they
are well aware of your business potential.
• Medical centres are purpose-built to serve
the wealthy and offer treatment that is
second to none.
• The local Omninet infrastructure is some of
the best around and offers several private
connections for individuals such as yourself.
Elite
As an individual with power, you have gained
everything you could have ever dreamed of. Fame,
wealth, and good fortune come to you like second
nature, and you enjoy a life of luxury that truly sets
you apart from everyone else.
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 • Your home can only be described as a
penthouse or mansion, and you might even
have a couple of private security guards to
help keep it safe.
• Police give you preferential treatment when it
comes to their response, and you might even
be able to influence them to some degree.
• You are recognised almost everywhere you go
regionally, and many consider you to be a big
fish in the local ecosystem.
• Medical treatment comes to you, with some
of the latest equipment available to date.
• The local Omninet infrastructure has private
connections for each home here, and they
are well protected against the prying eyes
of external hackers. The connections are
reliable and only ever falter in extreme
circumstances.
2.10 Equipment & Cybernetic
Enhancements
With your character primed and ready, our last
step in this creation process is determining what
equipment and items they will have in their
possession. Whether it be a suitable firearm to
defend themselves or perhaps a vehicle or two to
help get them from A to B, all characters will need
to equip themselves with an arsenal of gear if they
ever hope to be able to carry out a job successfully.
Utilising the funds that were determined during
the last section as your overall budget, you
should start thinking long and hard about what
sort of purchases you would like to make. How
many weapons would you like to have? How
much and what type of ammunition are you
going to carry? Are you planning on utilising
drones and vehicles? Do you need to stock up
on electronic countermeasures to help defend
your computerised devices? There are many
possibilities here, and for some individuals
(new players especially,) this may be quite an
intimidating experience.
In chapter three, you will find the entire items and
equipment list for Dystopia. Each item is broken
down into its respective category, along with all
the information you will need on what it does, how
much it costs, and whether it is accessible to a
character of your current level of renown. Feel free
to take your time here. Digest what you are reading
and get a feel for how well your funds can stretch
to cater to your needs.
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Equipment Recommendations
Several lists have been provided below to give
you a helping hand. These highlight a set of
recommended items that all characters should
probably consider purchasing, as well as those
that are a little more tailored towards certain play
styles and character archetypes.
Feel free to use this information as a basic starting
point for your character or perhaps to gather some
ideas and inspiration instead.
Commonly Used Items
All of the items mentioned below are intended for
use by most individuals. It is highly recommended
that you purchase all of them for your character
unless you have something else in mind and know
what you are doing.
• One ranged, and one melee based weapon.
• Suitable ammunition for your chosen
weapons.
• Either a licence to carry, or an appropriate bag
in which to store said weapons, so that you
don’t immediately get arrested.
• Clothing, and some amount of armour.
• A Personal Computing Device (PCD).
• A means of transportation.
Equipment For Drone Pilots
If you are looking to include some drones in your
arsenal, you will likely need a few extra pieces
of equipment to ensure that they can correctly
perform their role. This should likely include:
• A PCD with a host count that can support
a number of different automations
simultaneously.
• Both a Pilotsoft and Sensor Array for each
automation that you choose to purchase.
• One or two Skillsofts to improve the relevant
skills for each of your chosen automations.
• Firearms, an appropriate amount of
ammunition, and a suitable number of
weapon mounts for any automation you are
looking to use in combat.
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Gear For Hacking
Individuals looking to make a name for themselves
hacking over the Omninet will likely require
specialist equipment and gear to do so. It is
highly recommended that you purchase all of the
following:
• A Cyber Command Deck (CCD).
• A handful of electronic countermeasures for
your CCD.
• Ensure that your CCD has a host count that
can support the majority of your team’s most
important computerised devices. Chances are
you are going to be serving as their network
host.
• Data Chips for storing any mission-critical
files that you may come across.
Tools For Infiltration
Characters who would prefer instead to stay in
the shadows will often require specialist items
to help them infiltrate secure areas. It is highly
recommended that you purchase one or more of
the following:
• Lockpicks and/or a Code Breaker for getting
through locks.
• Micro Cameras.
• A Micro Communicator.
• Tracking Bugs.
• Licences to help with a cover story, or to gain
entry into a restricted area.
Items For Brawling
For those who will be fighting on the front lines,
potentially taking a lot of punishment, you will
most likely need a variety of items to help mitigate
against incoming damage. You should look to
purchase one or more of the following:
• Cybernetic enhancements or drugs that can
help reduce the chance of you being hit by
incoming attacks.
• A Medical Kit for use by a trained first aider on
your team.
• Medicine to either heal yourself or to
suppress any damage accumulation
penalties.
Chapter 3
Items & Equipment
With technology producing new and exciting
gadgets all the time, being on the streets of 2107
can often feel like stepping into the unknown.
Gangs, private security forces, and corporate
agents all have a reputation for getting rough when
others decide to stand in the way. If you do not
have the latest tools and equipment to help you
survive and get by, it can often feel like you are
simply bringing a knife to a gunfight.
In this chapter, we will first go over the rules
regarding restrictions when making an equipment
purchase and then jump straight into listing out
the entire armoury itself. Items will be categorised
based on how they function and the skills that
will be tested when deciding to use them. Each
category will first list out a quick comparison
overview table, after which it will then go into more
detail on a per-item basis.
3.1 Restrictions
While today’s markets are inundated with all
sorts of items and equipment, there are still strict
laws governing what can and can’t be sold and
to whom. Traders that decide to ignore these
rules often bring about the attention of law
enforcement officials, who are well known to
quickly dispense justice onto all those who are
involved. Additionally, sometimes a specific item
just can’t be easily acquired. Perhaps they are
limited in stock, or maybe there’s a high demand
for them on the marketplace right now.
As a result of these factors, each item has two
pieces of important information that helps to
determine how accessible they are to the players
and others. The first of these is a restriction
level, which comes in the form of a single number.
This indicates the minimum level of renown that
an individual must possess to be able to find a
merchant who is willing to sell them the goods in
question.
The second restraint comes in the form of a
restriction class. This indicates where the item in
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question falls under the laws of the land, and how
open to the act of buying, selling, and carrying it
should be. This class will usually fall within one of
the following three categories:
Restriction
Description
Class
This item is perfectly legal to have on
Legal (L)
you at all times.
This item requires a license to be
carried or worn. Police and security
Restricted (R) forces will likely ask to see the
appropriate paperwork on first
spotting the item.
This item is illegal and outright
Outlawed (O) banned. It is a criminal offence to sell
or carry this item at any time.
Whether you are looking to deck out your character
for the first time, or need resupply, there are
always individuals out there who are willing to sell
goods of any type to the right kind of people. The
question, however, is not only whether or not you
have the capability of finding them, but also are
you worth the risk of making an additional trade at
the expense of potentially drawing in the attention
of law enforcement officials.
3.2 Properties
In addition to a restriction class and level, it
is common to find that many of the items on
sale today also possess what is known as item
properties. These wide-ranging characteristics
and features help highlight different aspects of a
given object and how they may have unintentional
effects during gameplay.
For example, many items will likely list the
”Metallic” property due to the materials in which
they were constructed. This means that any
nearby metal detectors and scanners will pick
up on them as they are moved close by. Some
properties, however, may focus on how easy it
is for the item in question to be concealed, while
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others will instead indicate whether or not its
performance and usability are affected by an
aquatic environment.
Below you can find a list of all item properties
that are currently within the game. Some will be
a regular occurrence on many of the equipment
pieces you encounter and utilise, while others will
likely only come up now and then.

Property Description
Computerised This equipment is a type of computerised device. It is susceptible to the effects of EMP-type
Device weaponry and can be targeted by the hacking attempts of others.
This equipment is unwieldy and burdensome. An individual wearing it suffers a stacking -3 dice
Cumbersome
pool penalty to any Stealth-based skill check they make.
Inconspicuous This item can be worn while hidden away underneath an individual’s clothing.
This equipment is at least partially made from a type of metallic substance. As a result, it will
Metallic
set off any metal detectors it passes through.
This equipment is considered to be quick and easy to reload. While each ranged attack requires
Quick Draw & Fire a separate piece of ammunition, its wielder can freely carry out any needed reloading activities
as a free action.
This melee weapon provides its wielder with an improved reach. Its actions can be carried out
Reach
as if the character using it has an additional meter of melee reach.
Recoverable This ammunition/weapon system is intended to be recoverable after use.
This weapon system can be affected by scatter. When fired, a check must be made to determine
Scatter
its exact landing location.
This equipment is very effective against objects and structures. Attacks against such targets
Siege Weapon inflict double their normal amount of damage output before calculating resistances and hit
point loss.
This equipment has a simple reloading mechanism which does not require the Eject
Simple Reloading
Magazine/Ordinance combat action to be carried out.
Stealthy When used, this item does not automatically reveal the location of its wielder to others.
Water This equipment does not fare well when exposed to water. It cannot be used in aquatic-type
Susceptibility environments.

Above: The equipment properties overview table.

 3.3 Pistols
With a relatively low cost, and being small enough
to conceal easily, the pistol is one of the most
common types of firearms found on the streets
of today. While they might not pack quite the same
amount of a punch as certain other weapons, they
have proven to be reliable in most short to medium
range scenarios time after time again.
All pistols can generally be broken down into one
of two separate subcategories, usually based on
its size and the calibre of ammunition that it fires.
These can be summarised as:
• Light Pistols - Smaller sized firearms that
have a minimal amount of recoil.
• Heavy Pistols - Larger sized weapons
that deal more damage at the expense of
accuracy.
Light Pistols
Despite being the smaller of the
two subcategories, light pistols
are still excellent firearms
that provide their users with
incredible flexibility. Coming
in at a lower price point and
with better overall accuracy,
light pistols can often be used to excellent effect
regardless of whether it be a close-quarters shoot
out or a precise engagement over some distance
away.
It will come as little of a surprise that the Guns:
Pistols skill governs the use of these weapons
and reflects on just how competent any particular
individual will be when deciding to wield them in
a combat situation. Like with all types of pistols,
these weapons only require one free hand to be
used, and fire magazines of bullets for their attacks
(in this case light pistol calibre).

Below is an overview table detailing each of

these items, along with their associated statistics
and effects. The columns from left to right are
as follows; name, range (short/medium/long),
damage, penetration, properties, weight,
concealment rating, add-on slots, combined
restriction class & level, and finally, its cost.

Add-ons (Small
Name Range Dmg Pen Props Wt Con Rest Cost
& Medium Only)
Computerised
Barrel, grip, sight,
Rapture MK-1 16/32/48 m 2d8 P 2P Device, 0.5 kg E 1R 650
under barrel
Metallic

Computerised
Barrel, grip, sight,
Apex Prowler 18/36/54 m 2d8 P 3P Device, 0.5 kg E 1R 900
under barrel
Metallic

Computerised
Barrel, grip, sight,
Colt Falcon 20/40/60 m 3d6 P 3P Device, 0.75 kg E 1R 1,050
under barrel
Metallic

Computerised
Barrel, grip, sight,
Challenger R6 20/40/60 m 2d10 P 4P Device, 0.5 kg E 2R 1,350
under barrel
Metallic

Computerised
Barrel, grip, sight,
Ruger SR400 22/44/66 m 3d6+1 P 5P Device, 0.75 kg E 2R 1,650
under barrel
Metallic

Computerised
Matsudan Barrel, grip, sight,
24/48/72 m 4d6 P 5P Device, 0.75 kg E 3R 2,050
Stalker under barrel
Metallic

Computerised
Xiao-Sen Barrel, grip, sight,
25/50/75 m 3d8+1 P 5P Device, 0.75 kg E 3R 2,500
Streetmaster under barrel
Metallic

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Name RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
Rapture MK-1 2 20 m 2 2 2
Apex Prowler 2 20 m 2 2 2
Colt Falcon 2 20 m 2 2 2
Challenger R6 2 20 m 3 3 2
Ruger SR400 2 20 m 3 3 2
Matsudan Stalker 2 20 m 4 3 2
Xiao-Sen Streetmaster 2 20 m 4 3 2

Above: The light pistols equipment overview tables.

Rapture MK-1 Standard Actions:

Although short in stature, this simplistic firearm
has proven to be reliable to use and capable of Fire Shot
bringing an adequate amount of stopping power Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
to a firefight. The Rapture’s low asking price
makes it especially appealing to small groups and Reload: 2
criminal gangs, who might not otherwise have the
resources to outfit their entire organisation. Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
Standard Actions: range for each.

Recoil: 2
Fire Shot
Reload: 4
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.

Reload: 2
Colt Falcon
Burst Fire As iconic as it is deadly, the Falcon is one of
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within the newer products from the North American
range for each. manufacturer Colt. More substantial than your
typical light pistol but not quite reaching the heavy
Recoil: 2 classification, the Falcon combines excellent
Reload: 4 stopping power at a more reasonable asking price.

Despite experiencing recoil issues when choosing

Apex Prowler to fire in quick successive bursts, the firearm has
become popular for many, including low-level
Brought to you by the firearms division of Apex
security organisations and criminal cartels.
Technologies, this compact pistol has recently
stormed its way onto the streets to become one
of the market’s top sellers. Coming in at a very Standard Actions:
affordable price point and small enough to be
easily stowed away, the Prowler has become a Fire Shot
popular choice for many of those looking for a Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
go-to weapon for self-defence.
Reload: 2
While the weapon lacks the stopping power of the
Colt Falcon or R8 Reaver, the Prowler’s high quality
and reduced recoil often ensure that its wielder can
land their hits when they matter most.

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Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 3
Reload: 4
Challenger R6
Having been previously designed and used in
various military organisations across the globe, the
Challenger R6 has slowly begun to make its way
into more accessible hands as the next generation
of weapon systems replaces it. Still, that doesn’t
mean to say that the Challenger is bad, far from it.
Combining a potent amount of damage output with
an acceptable effective firing range, this firearm
can easily hold its own when out and about in the
field.
Standard Actions:
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 2
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 2
Reload: 4
Ruger SR400
Although relatively new to the marketplace, the
Ruger SR400 has already made a good name
for itself. Widely regarded as a quality pistol
firearm, the SR400 supports several improved
features over its competitors. This includes an
overall greater effective firing range and increased
weapon penetration.
Regularly appearing in the hands of police and
security forces, this pistol can get the job done
quickly and efficiently.
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Standard Actions:
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 2
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 2
Reload: 4
Matsudan Stalker
This military-grade firearm continues Matsudan
Heavy Industries’ long-running tradition of
delivering exceptionally well-made products.
Versatile in function, the Stalker promises to bring
its potent combination of sheer stopping power
and overall accuracy to any firefight, regardless of
the situation.
Having been sold to a variety of well-known
organisations across the globe, the Stalker is most
regularly associated with high-end corporate
security and military infantry regiments.
Standard Actions:
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 2
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 2
Reload: 4
Xiao-Sen Streetmaster
Impressive in design and function, the Xiao-Sen
Streetmaster is genuinely an exceptional
piece of gear. A high damage output and a
formidable effective firing range create a powerful
combination regardless of the situation or combat
scenario.
Despite receiving near-unanimous praise and an
insatiable demand from the broader market, the
Streetmaster is primarily aimed towards both
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 military groups and corporate security. This stems Heavy Pistols
from the weapon’s higher-than-normal asking
price and a sophisticated manufacturing process As the bigger and badder
that has resulted in low availability. version of their lighter
brethren, heavy pistols are
Standard Actions: designed for those who want
to deal maximum damage to
their intended target. While
Fire Shot
often suffering from hefty
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
amounts of recoil when firing in quick succession,
their stopping power alone makes them a
Reload: 2
formidable weapon in most short to medium-range
engagements.
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
Like with the previous subcategory, the Guns:
range for each.
Pistols skill governs the use of these weapons and
determines how capable any particular character
Recoil: 2
will be when deciding to use them. Heavy pistols
Reload: 4
only require one hand to be fired and expend
magazines of heavy pistol calibre bullets for their
attacks.

Add-ons (Small
Name Range Dmg Pen Props Wt Con Rest Cost
& Medium Only)
Computerised
Barrel, grip, sight,
R8 Reaver 22/44/66 m 2d10+1 P 4P Device, 1 kg E 1R 1,500
under barrel
Metallic

Computerised
Legionnaire Barrel, grip, sight,
25/50/75 m 3d8 P 4P Device, 1 kg E 1R 1,750
82 under barrel
Metallic

Computerised
Barrel, grip, sight,
Dega Avenger 24/48/72 m 4d6 P 5P Device, 1 kg E 2R 2,050
under barrel
Metallic

Computerised
ArmsCorp Barrel, grip, sight,
26/52/78 m 4d6+1 P 5P Device, 1 kg E 2R 2,400
Bulldog under barrel
Metallic

Computerised
Yamasaki Barrel, grip, sight,
28/56/84 m 3d10 P 6P Device, 1.25 kg E 3R 2,850
Chimera under barrel
Metallic

Computerised
Barrel, grip, sight,
Colt Firehawk 30/60/90 m 4d8 P 6P Device, 1.25 kg E 3R 3,250
under barrel
Metallic

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Count Range Noise Rating
R8 Reaver 2 20 m 2 2 2
Legionnaire 82 2 20 m 2 2 2
Dega Avenger 2 20 m 3 3 2
ArmsCorp Bulldog 2 20 m 3 3 2
Yamasaki Chimera 2 20 m 4 3 2
Colt Firehawk 2 20 m 4 3 2

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R8 Reaver
Coming in as an entry-level heavy pistol, the R8
Reaver is a competent weapon system that can
pack quite the punch. Popular amongst various
street gangs, thanks to its relatively low price
tag and ready availability, this firearm has widely
become a staple of underground city life.
Standard Actions:
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 2
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 3
Reload: 4
Legionnaire 82
Often referred to as ”Old Faithful”, the Legionnaire
82 is a classic style heavy pistol that cares not
for subtlety. Appearing more akin to a hand
cannon than anything else, the Legionnaire is as
intimidating as it is deadly.
While some are certainly of the opinion that the
weapon is outdated and too difficult to handle,
others say that it is an effective deterrent for those
looking to cause some trouble. Either way, for the
time being at least, this firearm very much looks
here to stay.
Standard Actions:
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 2
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 4
Reload: 4
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Dega Avenger
Having had a long and fruitful life on the global
marketplace, the Dega Avenger is a well-respected
weapon system that, in all likelihood, will soon be
approaching retirement age. Designed and built in
the mid-2070s, this firearm has seen great success
over the many years of its production. For this
reason, so many still refuse to let go and switch
to one of its more recent competitors.
Still, while the weapon might be considered
outdated to some, its capabilities can not be
denied. Created for use in the private security
sector, the Avenger is still competent enough to
let loose a barrage of fire that will make even the
most hardened of enemies want to get out of its
way.
Standard Actions:
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 2
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 3
Reload: 4
ArmsCorp Bulldog
The Bulldog is yet another recent addition to
the ArmsCorp lineup, one of which attempts
to combine technologies both new and old.
Using ArmsCorp’s tried and tested core weapon
design principles but with a series of newly made
advances, the Bulldog seems like it will be a highly
capable firearm.
Currently available to security organisations and
corporate connections, this firearm is mostly
utilised by both contractors and mercenary groups.
However, having said this, many second-hand
Bulldogs have made their way onto the black
market.
Standard Actions:
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 2
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Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 3
Reload: 4
Yamasaki Chimera
The Chimaera is a well-respected and incredibly
potent advanced heavy pistol, continuing in the
long line of high quality, excellently made Yamasaki
Industrial products. Designed for Japanese
domestic law enforcement, this firearm soon found
widespread global appeal and is now featured
in several of the world’s most powerful military
forces.
While larger heavy pistols do exist on the
marketplace, none combine the Chimera’s excellent
balance of raw damage output with superior
handling and accuracy.
Standard Actions:
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 2
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 3
Reload: 4
Colt Firehawk
In a truly unsurprising fashion, the largest of the
currently top-selling heavy pistols is produced and
made by none other than the iconic North American
giant, Colt. The Firehawk is undoubtedly one of
the most intimidating pistols currently available,
capable of taking down targets and removing limbs
in a mere instant.
Despite the weapon’s strong kickback, the
Firehawk has seen broad appeal from many
corporate and military organisations worldwide.
Just be sure that if you choose to fire the thing in
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quick succession, you have the necessary recoil
compensation to land your shots onto the intended
target.
Standard Actions:
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 2
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 4
Reload: 4
3.4 Automatics
Heavily regulated due to their formidable
firepower, these weapons can unleash a torrent
of bullets in seconds.
Although their high prices keep them out of most
everyday citizens’ reach, many private security
forces, mercenary groups, and even the police
swear by automatic weapons to do a job properly.
Their unparalleled combination of fire rate,
effective firing range, and overall accuracy make
them a truly frightening set of firearms to face off
against.
Automatic weapons can generally be broken down
into three separate groups, each with their benefits
and hindrances. These are:
• Assault Rifles - Longer firing range and
potential damage output, at the expense of
a higher asking price and overall weight.
• Automatic Pistols - Small and easy enough
to conceal, but often with a reduced amount
of accuracy.
• Submachine Guns - A reasonably balanced
split between weapon size, firing distance,
and overall price point.
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 Assault Rifles
Coming in as the largest of
the three automatic weapon
types, assault rifles are often
seen as a useful tool for reliably
landing multiple shots, even at a
reasonably long distance.
While they are naturally the
most expensive of the three types, many consider
them worth every credit. Combining a formidable
rate of fire and stopping power with a decent
amount of accuracy to suit, these weapons
are regularly sought after by various types of
militarised groups.
Governed by the Guns: Automatics skill, this will
determine how effective any particular individual
will be when deciding to make use of them. All
assault rifles require two hands to operate and
expend magazines of assault rifle calibre bullets
for their attacks.
The table below should give you an overview
of each of these items, along with their
associated statistics and effects. The columns
from left to right are as follows; name, range
(short/medium/long), damage, penetration,
properties, weight, concealment rating, add-on
slots, combined restriction class & level, and
finally, its cost.

Add-ons (Small &

Name Range Dmg Pen Props Wt Con Rest Cost
Medium Only)
Computerised Barrel, general, grip,
AK-62 32/64/96 m 4d6+1 P 5P 4 kg D 1R 3,000
Device, Metallic sight, under barrel.

Beretta AR- Computerised Barrel, general, grip,

36/72/108 m 3d10 P 5P 4.25 kg D 1R 3,250
30 Device, Metallic sight, under barrel.

Computerised Barrel, general, grip,

SIG 950 36/72/108 m 5d6 P 6P 4.25 kg D 2R 3,850
Device, Metallic sight, under barrel.

Computerised Barrel, general, grip,

Dega Stormer 38/76/114 m 4d8 P 6P 4.25 kg D 2R 4,050
Device, Metallic sight, under barrel.

Apex Computerised Barrel, general, grip,

40/80/120 m 4d8+1 P 7P 4.5 kg D 2R 4,450
Predator Device, Metallic sight, under barrel.

Computerised Barrel, general, grip,

HK M32 42/84/126 m 6d6 P 7P 4.25 kg D 3R 4,750
Device, Metallic sight, under barrel.

Yamasaki Computerised Barrel, general, grip,

44/88/132 m 4d10 P 7P 4.25 kg D 3R 4,950
Spectre Device, Metallic sight, under barrel.

Computerised Barrel, general, grip,

Armnic IAR-1 50/100/150 m 5d8 P 8P 4.25 kg D 4R 5,750
Device, Metallic sight, under barrel.
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Count Range Noise Rating
AK-62 2 20 m 2 2 2
Beretta AR-30 2 20 m 2 2 2
SIG 950 2 20 m 3 3 2
Dega Stormer 2 20 m 3 3 2
Apex Predator 2 20 m 3 3 2
HK M32 2 20 m 4 3 2
Yamasaki Spectre 2 20 m 4 3 2
Armnic IAR-1 2 20 m 5 4 2

Above: The assault rifles equipment overview tables.

AK-62
Often labelled as the spiritual successor to the
once widely popular AK-47, the AK-62 arrives onto
the marketplace as a cheap, no-frills assault rifle.
Produced and made by the Russian Kalashnikov
Group, this firearm has seen wide success, both
domestically and abroad.
With a relatively low price point compared to
many of its competitors, the AK-62 is often seen
as easily accessible for most small groups and
organisations.
Recoil: 5
Reload: A
Beretta AR-30
Known by many for its hefty amount of firepower,
the AR-30 is a sizable assault rifle produced and
made by the Padanian company Beretta. While
it might not have the same number of bells and
whistles as some of its competitors, the firearm
is still just as capable of eliminating and destroying
its targets.

Standard Actions: Well-regarded by many and popular with various

militant groups, the AR-30 enjoys modest
Fire Shot year-round sales.
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Standard Actions:
Reload: 2
Fire Shot
Burst Fire Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each. Reload: 2

Recoil: 2 Burst Fire

Reload: 2 Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Rapid Fire
You open fire on a cone-shaped area with a range Recoil: 2
equal to the weapon and a spread of 2/4/6 m. Reload: 2

Targets within the designated area must make an Rapid Fire

opposing Endurance + Reflex attribute check with a
-3 dice pool penalty, contested against the dice
pool of your Guns: Automatics skill. Each target is
hit by a number of ranged weapon attacks, equal to
how many additional passes you achieved over
them (maximum of four).
You open fire on a cone-shaped area with a range
equal to the weapon and a spread of 2/4/6 m.
Targets within the designated area must make an
opposing Endurance + Reflex attribute check with a
-3 dice pool penalty, contested against the dice

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pool of your Guns: Automatics skill. Each target is
hit by a number of ranged weapon attacks, equal to
how many additional passes you achieved over
them (maximum of four).
Recoil: 4
Reload: A
SIG 950
The SIG 950 is the latest in a long line of products
to arrive out of SIG SAUER AG. Targeted towards
law enforcement and corporate security groups,
this assault rifle has become a staple addition for
many armouries worldwide.
Well respected and often considered highly
reliable, the SIG 950 is an excellent product for
those with the connections to buy one.
Standard Actions:
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 2
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 2
Reload: 2
Rapid Fire
You open fire on a cone-shaped area with a range
equal to the weapon and a spread of 2/4/6 m.
Targets within the designated area must make an
opposing Endurance + Reflex attribute check with a
-3 dice pool penalty, contested against the dice
pool of your Guns: Automatics skill. Each target is
hit by a number of ranged weapon attacks, equal to
how many additional passes you achieved over
them (maximum of four).
Recoil: 4
Reload: A
Dega Stormer
As a staple member of the Dega product catalogue,
the Stormer needs little of an introduction.
Combining both a remarkable firing range and an
impressive amount of damage output, this assault
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rifle is truly a weapon to be feared in the field of
battle.
Standard Actions:
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 2
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 2
Reload: 2
Rapid Fire
You open fire on a cone-shaped area with a range
equal to the weapon and a spread of 2/4/6 m.
Targets within the designated area must make an
opposing Endurance + Reflex attribute check with a
-3 dice pool penalty, contested against the dice
pool of your Guns: Automatics skill. Each target is
hit by a number of ranged weapon attacks, equal to
how many additional passes you achieved over
them (maximum of four).
Recoil: 4
Reload: A
Apex Predator
While its reputation for producing an unwieldy
amount of recoil is undoubtedly true, there is no
denying that the Apex Predator is an absolute
beast of a weapon system. This heavy assault rifle
can blast through almost anything that stands
in its way, providing that its wielder can control
the weapon’s strong kickback when firing in quick
succession.
Regularly seen in the hands of skilled corporate
security and their fire teams, the Predator is an
exceptional piece of equipment that can quickly
help turn the tide of an engagement.
Standard Actions:
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 2
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Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 3
Reload: 2
Rapid Fire
You open fire on a cone-shaped area with a range
equal to the weapon and a spread of 2/4/6 m.
Targets within the designated area must make an
opposing Endurance + Reflex attribute check with a
-3 dice pool penalty, contested against the dice
pool of your Guns: Automatics skill. Each target is
hit by a number of ranged weapon attacks, equal to
how many additional passes you achieved over
them (maximum of four).
Recoil: 5
Reload: A
HK M32
Arriving out of the manufacturing lines of German
Heckler & Koch, the HK M32 is a competent infantry
assault rifle. Often utilised by military and security
groups, the M32 has seen steady growth in sales
for the German company year after year.
Emphasising a combination of decent build quality
and high reliability, the M32 has a good reputation
and a loyal following from customers worldwide.
Standard Actions:
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 2
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 2
Reload: 2
Rapid Fire
You open fire on a cone-shaped area with a range
equal to the weapon and a spread of 2/4/6 m.
Targets within the designated area must make an
opposing Endurance + Reflex attribute check with a
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-3 dice pool penalty, contested against the dice
pool of your Guns: Automatics skill. Each target is
hit by a number of ranged weapon attacks, equal to
how many additional passes you achieved over
them (maximum of four).
Recoil: 4
Reload: A
Yamasaki Spectre
With its iconic slim profile and elegant frame,
the Yamasaki Spectre is one assault rifle that is
as beautiful as deadly. Having seen significant
success since its initial launch in 2103, the Spectre
has won many corporate and government
contracts worldwide.
While not the easiest weapon to find on today’s
streets, those who manage to get hold of the
Spectre often remark on its high reliability and
effective firing distance.
Standard Actions:
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 2
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 2
Reload: 2
Rapid Fire
You open fire on a cone-shaped area with a range
equal to the weapon and a spread of 2/4/6 m.
Targets within the designated area must make an
opposing Endurance + Reflex attribute check with a
-3 dice pool penalty, contested against the dice
pool of your Guns: Automatics skill. Each target is
hit by a number of ranged weapon attacks, equal to
how many additional passes you achieved over
them (maximum of four).
Recoil: 4
Reload: A
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 Armnic IAR-1
Making an appearance in various military forces
across the globe and a vast number of high-end
security organisations, the Armnic Infantry Assault
Rifle is often described as an incredibly effective
weapon system. Combining an impressive firing
distance and stopping power to suit, this weapon
can deter even the most hardened opponents.
Standard Actions:
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 2
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 2
Reload: 2
Rapid Fire
You open fire on a cone-shaped area with a range
equal to the weapon and a spread of 2/4/6 m.
Targets within the designated area must make an
opposing Endurance + Reflex attribute check with a
-3 dice pool penalty, contested against the dice
pool of your Guns: Automatics skill. Each target is
hit by a number of ranged weapon attacks, equal to
how many additional passes you achieved over
them (maximum of four).
Recoil: 4
Reload: A
Automatic Pistols
Moving from the largest of the
three automatic weapon types,
we now arrive at the smallest.
Despite a reduction in raw
firepower and effective firing
distance, automatic pistols are
competent firearms that can be
used with just a single hand.
Small enough to be easily concealed away but still
formidable in their raw stopping power, automatic
pistols are often seen as an effective way to
combine the best qualities of pistols and other
types of rapid-fire weaponry.
Like with other automatic weapons, these firearms
are governed by the Guns: Automatics skill. This
will reflect how capable any particular character
will be when using them in combat. All automatic
pistols are, as mentioned, one-handed and expend
magazines of automatic pistol calibre bullets.

Add-ons (Small
Name Range Dmg Pen Props Wt Con Rest Cost
Only)
Barrel, general,
Lockjaw Computerised
14/28/42 m 2d8 P 3P 1.25 kg A grip, sight, under 1R 1,850
Auto Device, Metallic
barrel.

Barrel, general,
ArmsCorp Computerised
15/30/45 m 3d6 P 3P 1.5 kg A grip, sight, under 1R 2,050
Mauler Device, Metallic
barrel.

Barrel, general,
Cyclone Computerised
15/30/45 m 3d6+1 P 4P 1.5 kg A grip, sight, under 2R 2,550
Spiker Device, Metallic
barrel.

Barrel, general,
IWI Machine- Computerised
16/32/48 m 2d10+1 P 5P 1.5 kg A grip, sight, under 2R 3,000
Pistol Device, Metallic
barrel.

Barrel, general,
Crusader Computerised
20/40/60 m 3d8 P 5P 1.75 kg A grip, sight, under 3R 3,750
Ravager Device, Metallic
barrel.

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Name RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
Lockjaw Auto 2 20 m 2 2 2
ArmsCorp Mauler 2 20 m 2 2 2
Cyclone Spiker 2 20 m 3 3 2
IWI Machine-Pistol 2 20 m 3 3 2
Crusader Ravager 2 20 m 4 3 2

Above: The automatic pistols equipment overview tables.

Lockjaw Auto ArmsCorp Mauler

Coming onto the marketplace as a simplistic
no-frills automatic pistol, the Lockjaw Auto has
become one of the go-to firearms for many street
gangs and vigilantes. Capable of unleashing a
torrent of bullets, this weapon is an excellent
choice for those who need a little more firepower.
While the Lockjaw Auto lacks in the range
department, much like with many other automatic
pistols, its ability to decimate targets at close
range makes it appealing for many close-quarters
engagements.
Standard Actions:
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 2
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 3
Reload: 3
Rapid Fire
You open fire on a cone-shaped area with a range
equal to the weapon and a spread of 2/4/6 m.
Targets within the designated area must make an
opposing Endurance + Reflex attribute check with a
-3 dice pool penalty, contested against the dice
pool of your Guns: Automatics skill. Each target is
hit by a number of ranged weapon attacks, equal to
how many additional passes you achieved over
them (maximum of three).
Recoil: 5
Reload: A
Well known for its distinctive firing noise,
this beast of an automatic pistol is regularly
featured in many crime syndicates and cartels.
Providing its user with a high rate of fire and an
impressive amount of damage output, the Mauler
is undoubtedly a potent weapon system to square
off against.
Although relatively old by comparison with some
of its competitors, the Mauler has been such a
massive success for ArmsCorp that it still sells
exceptionally well thirty years after first arriving
on the marketplace.
Standard Actions:
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 2
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 3
Reload: 3
Rapid Fire
You open fire on a cone-shaped area with a range
equal to the weapon and a spread of 2/4/6 m.
Targets within the designated area must make an
opposing Endurance + Reflex attribute check with a
-3 dice pool penalty, contested against the dice
pool of your Guns: Automatics skill. Each target is
hit by a number of ranged weapon attacks, equal to
how many additional passes you achieved over
them (maximum of three).
Recoil: 5
Reload: A

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Cyclone Spiker
Often described as a weapon for those who
want to get their point across, the Spiker is an
intimidating rapid-fire automatic pistol that is
more than capable of hosing down its targets
with a torrent of gunfire. Primarily aimed towards
smaller-sized corporations and the security sector,
this weapon system has done exceedingly well
for its Hong Kong-based manufacturer, Cyclone
International.
Standard Actions:
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 2
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 3
Reload: 3
Rapid Fire
You open fire on a cone-shaped area with a range
equal to the weapon and a spread of 2/4/6 m.
Targets within the designated area must make an
opposing Endurance + Reflex attribute check with a
-3 dice pool penalty, contested against the dice
pool of your Guns: Automatics skill. Each target is
hit by a number of ranged weapon attacks, equal to
how many additional passes you achieved over
them (maximum of three).
Recoil: 5
Reload: A
IWI Machine-Pistol
Arriving onto the marketplace from the highly
regarded Israel Weapon Industries corporation
is the IWI Machine-Pistol. This compact piece of
equipment features several new technological
advances and design upgrades over its previous
generation counterparts, forming a weapon system
that is both easy to use and highly efficient at
taking down its intended targets.
Standard Actions:
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Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 2
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 3
Reload: 3
Rapid Fire
You open fire on a cone-shaped area with a range
equal to the weapon and a spread of 2/4/6 m.
Targets within the designated area must make an
opposing Endurance + Reflex attribute check with a
-3 dice pool penalty, contested against the dice
pool of your Guns: Automatics skill. Each target is
hit by a number of ranged weapon attacks, equal to
how many additional passes you achieved over
them (maximum of three).
Recoil: 5
Reload: A
Crusader Ravager
Despite its unwieldy size and weight, this
automatic pistol can certainly pack quite the punch.
Complete with a high rate of fire and an impressive
amount of damage output to suit, the Crusader
Ravager is one weapon system that can quickly
decimate any target at a short to medium range.
Although the firearm is undoubtedly quite weighty
for a weapon of its type, many still find that they
can use it one-handed easily enough with a little bit
of practice.
Standard Actions:
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 2
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 3
Reload: 3
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 Rapid Fire Submachine Guns
You open fire on a cone-shaped area with a range
equal to the weapon and a spread of 2/4/6 m. The last of three types of
automatic weapons are
Targets within the designated area must make an submachine guns. These
opposing Endurance + Reflex attribute check with a firearms tend to fit in-between
-3 dice pool penalty, contested against the dice both assault rifles and
pool of your Guns: Automatics skill. Each target is automatic pistols to provide
hit by a number of ranged weapon attacks, equal to their users with a careful
how many additional passes you achieved over balance of firing distance, stopping power, and
them (maximum of three). overall asking price.

Recoil: 5 All submachine guns are governed by the Guns:

Reload: A Automatics skill, which will determine how
competent any particular character will be when
using them. Additionally, these weapons require
two hands to operate and expend magazines of
submachine gun calibre bullets for their attacks.

Add-ons (Small
Name Range Dmg Pen Props Wt Con Rest Cost
& Medium Only)
Computerised Barrel, general,
Arbiter RF 26/52/78 m 3d8 P 4P Device, 2.75 kg A grip, sight, under 1R 2,250
Metallic barrel.

Computerised Barrel, general,

Colt Centurion 30/60/90 m 4d6 P 5P Device, 3 kg A grip, sight, under 1R 2,650
Metallic barrel.

Computerised Barrel, general,

G49R 30/60/90 m 3d10 P 5P Device, 3 kg A grip, sight, under 2R 3,100
Metallic barrel.

Computerised Barrel, general,

ArmsCorp
32/64/96 m 5d6 P 6P Device, 3 kg A grip, sight, under 2R 3,450
Marauder Metallic barrel.

Computerised Barrel, general,

Xiao-Sen
34/68/102 m 5d6 P 6P Device, 3 kg A grip, sight, under 3R 3,950
Samurai Metallic barrel.

Computerised Barrel, general,

Dega Shrieker 35/70/105 m 4d8 P 6P Device, 2.75 kg A grip, sight, under 3R 4,075
Metallic barrel.

Computerised Barrel, general,

Matsudan
35/70/105 m 6d6 P 7P Device, 3 kg A grip, sight, under 4R 4,650
Vulture Metallic barrel.

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Name RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
Arbiter RF 2 20 m 2 2 2
Colt Centurion 2 20 m 2 2 2
G49R 2 20 m 3 3 2
ArmsCorp Marauder 2 20 m 3 3 2
Xiao-Sen Samurai 2 20 m 4 3 2
Dega Shrieker 2 20 m 4 3 2
Matsudan Vulture 2 20 m 5 4 2

Above: The submachine guns equipment overview tables.

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Arbiter RF Standard Actions:
Entering the marketplace several years back,
the Arbiter RF is often considered a simple, Fire Shot
easy-to-maintain submachine gun. Coming in at a Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
reasonably low price tag, this firearm is frequently
seen to bridge the gap between pistols and other Reload: 2
easy-to-conceal armaments and those that can
produce a bit more of a bang. Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
Standard Actions: range for each.

Recoil: 2
Fire Shot
Reload: 2
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.

Reload: 2 Rapid Fire

You open fire on a cone-shaped area with a range
equal to the weapon and a spread of 2/4/6 m.
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
Targets within the designated area must make an
range for each.
opposing Endurance + Reflex attribute check with a
-3 dice pool penalty, contested against the dice
Recoil: 2
pool of your Guns: Automatics skill. Each target is
Reload: 2
hit by a number of ranged weapon attacks, equal to
how many additional passes you achieved over
Rapid Fire them (maximum of four).
You open fire on a cone-shaped area with a range
equal to the weapon and a spread of 2/4/6 m. Recoil: 4
Reload: A
Targets within the designated area must make an
opposing Endurance + Reflex attribute check with a
-3 dice pool penalty, contested against the dice
pool of your Guns: Automatics skill. Each target is
G49R
hit by a number of ranged weapon attacks, equal to Despite being initially created as an internal-only
how many additional passes you achieved over project by the security giant Securitex, the G49R
them (maximum of four). soon found widespread appeal after its designs
were mysteriously leaked onto the Omninet.
Recoil: 4 Knowing that they had to act fast, Securitex
Reload: A soon began offering this firearm to various other
agencies and corporate contractors around the
globe.
Colt Centurion
As for the weapon system itself, the G49R is often
With its distinctively crude and simplistic shape,
labelled as a potent medium-ranged submachine
the Colt Centurion submachine gun is one of those
gun. It is widely known for its heavy-hitting
firearms that is easy enough to recognise out
stopping power while supporting a respectable
on the streets of today. Plentiful in supply and
effective firing distance.
exceptionally well received, this is one weapon
system you can be sure will get you the job done.
Standard Actions:
While few would call the Centurion a stylish or
sophisticated-looking weapon, it does pack quite Fire Shot
the punch. Combine this with its high reliability, Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
and you have a reasonably cheap firearm that is
both easy to maintain and even easier to shoot Reload: 2
with.

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Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 2
Reload: 2
Rapid Fire
You open fire on a cone-shaped area with a range
equal to the weapon and a spread of 2/4/6 m.
Targets within the designated area must make an
opposing Endurance + Reflex attribute check with a
-3 dice pool penalty, contested against the dice
pool of your Guns: Automatics skill. Each target is
hit by a number of ranged weapon attacks, equal to
how many additional passes you achieved over
them (maximum of four).
Recoil: 4
Reload: A
ArmsCorp Marauder
Often appearing in tactical law enforcement, the
ArmsCorp Marauder is a potent submachine gun
you do not want to face up against. With a high
amount of damage output and a blazingly fast rate
of fire, this weapon system can rip through almost
any target in no time.
However, despite its effectiveness, the Marauder
is well known for its huge kickback when firing
rapidly. For this reason, the weapon is largely
reserved for corporate contracts and law
enforcement organisations, whereby skilled
individuals will often have an easier time
maintaining control.
Standard Actions:
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 2
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 3
Reload: 2
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Rapid Fire
You open fire on a cone-shaped area with a range
equal to the weapon and a spread of 2/4/6 m.
Targets within the designated area must make an
opposing Endurance + Reflex attribute check with a
-3 dice pool penalty, contested against the dice
pool of your Guns: Automatics skill. Each target is
hit by a number of ranged weapon attacks, equal to
how many additional passes you achieved over
them (maximum of four).
Recoil: 5
Reload: A
Xiao-Sen Samurai
As one of Xiao-Sen’s current bestsellers, the
Samurai needs little introduction. Combining
excellent reliability with potent firepower, this
firearm can often be an exceptionally deadly
weapon in a capable set of hands.
Standard Actions:
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 2
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 2
Reload: 2
Rapid Fire
You open fire on a cone-shaped area with a range
equal to the weapon and a spread of 2/4/6 m.
Targets within the designated area must make an
opposing Endurance + Reflex attribute check with a
-3 dice pool penalty, contested against the dice
pool of your Guns: Automatics skill. Each target is
hit by a number of ranged weapon attacks, equal to
how many additional passes you achieved over
them (maximum of four).
Recoil: 4
Reload: A
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Dega Shrieker
This modern-day firearm comes onto the market
from the manufacturing lines of Dega Solutions.
Typically used by government and corporate
security forces, the Shrieker is renowned for its
distinctive and often fear-inducing firing noise.
Standard Actions:
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 2
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 2
Reload: 2
Rapid Fire
You open fire on a cone-shaped area with a range
equal to the weapon and a spread of 2/4/6 m.
Targets within the designated area must make an
opposing Endurance + Reflex attribute check with a
-3 dice pool penalty, contested against the dice
pool of your Guns: Automatics skill. Each target is
hit by a number of ranged weapon attacks, equal to
how many additional passes you achieved over
them (maximum of four).
Recoil: 4
Reload: A
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Matsudan Vulture
As a regular choice for many of the world’s most
advanced military forces, the Matsudan Vulture is a
high-end, multi-purpose submachine gun. Capable
of unleashing an impressive amount of damage
output, this firearm can deal with virtually any
target in most short to medium-range encounters.
Standard Actions:
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 2
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 2
Reload: 2
Rapid Fire
You open fire on a cone-shaped area with a range
equal to the weapon and a spread of 2/4/6 m.
Targets within the designated area must make an
opposing Endurance + Reflex attribute check with a
-3 dice pool penalty, contested against the dice
pool of your Guns: Automatics skill. Each target is
hit by a number of ranged weapon attacks, equal to
how many additional passes you achieved over
them (maximum of four).
Recoil: 4
Reload: A
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 3.5 Long Guns
As a favourite amongst recreational shooters,
long guns are probably the second most popular
category of firearm out on today’s markets.
Combining their large size with a formidable
amount of firepower, these weapons have the
potential to reliably take down their targets,
regardless of where they manage to impact.
Long guns can generally be broken down into three
separate sub-categories. Each of these specialises
in a different type of engagement, with its own
distinct style and purpose. These are:
• Railguns - High powered electromagnetic
rifles, that fire compact metal slugs at
incredible speeds.
Railguns
While railguns have existed
for close to 70 years, it has
only been in the past couple of
decades that these weapons
have been successfully
minimised into an easy-to-use
handheld form. With their ability to fire condensed
metal slugs at staggering speeds, these weapons
are exceptionally good at piercing through armour
and other reinforced materials.
Given their need to frequently cool down after
firing several different shots, few railguns can
discharge their rounds in quick succession. As a
result, these weapons tend to be better suited for
long-range engagements, whereby its user can
more easily take cover between each burst fired.

• Scattershots - Well known and intimidating

firearms, which can devastate different sized
areas while in close-quarters.
• Sniper Rifles - Large marksmen rifles,
designed for shooting accurately over a
considerable distance.
Like with the other weapons that make up this
section, railguns are governed by the Guns: Long
Guns skill. This will determine just how competent
any character will be when deciding to use them
in combat. These weapons require two hands to
operate and expend magazines of metal slugs for
their attacks.

Below is a table detailing each of these different

items, along with their associated statistics
and effects. The columns from left to right are
as follows; name, range (short/medium/long),
damage, penetration, properties, weight,
concealment rating, add-on slots, combined
restriction class & level, and finally, its cost.

Add-ons (Small
Name Range Dmg Pen Props Wt Con Rest Cost
& Medium Only)
Computerised General, grip, sight,
Lancer MK 1 60/120/180 m 4d8+1 P 10 P 6 kg D 2R 5,250
Device, Metallic under barrel

ArmsCorp Computerised General, grip, sight,

70/140/210 m 6d6 P 11 P 6 kg D 3R 6,250
Spearhead Device, Metallic under barrel

Computerised General, grip, sight,

HK XRG-25 72/144/216 m 5d8 P 11 P 6 kg D 3R 6,650
Device, Metallic under barrel

Computerised General, grip, sight,

GD XM950 75/150/225 m 7d6+1 P 12 P 6 kg D 4R 7,950
Device, Metallic under barrel

Yamasaki Computerised General, grip, sight,

80/160/240 m 5d10 P 12 P 6.5 kg D 4R 8,450
Cerberus Device, Metallic under barrel

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Name RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
Lancer MK 1 2 20 m 3 3 2
ArmsCorp Spearhead 2 20 m 4 3 2
HK XRG-25 2 20 m 4 3 2
GD XM950 2 20 m 5 4 2
Yamasaki Cerberus 2 20 m 5 4 2

Above: The railguns equipment overview tables.

Lancer MK 1 Two Shot Burst

As one of the oldest railgun models still available
on the marketplace, the mark one version of the
Lancer is a well-known and highly respected
weapons system. Having served in military units
and corporate strike teams in years prior, the
Lancer is now mostly relegated to smaller-sized
organisations and criminal cartels.
Standard Actions:
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 3
Two Shot Burst
Two ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 3
Reload: 5
Two ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 3
Reload: 5
HK XRG-25
Arriving out of the German labs at Heckler & Koch
is the formidable XRG-25. This high-powered
railgun is a potent anti-material weapon system
that can quickly and easily blast its way through
most armour types.
Commonly used by tactical law enforcement and
corporate strike teams, this weapon has seen many
notable engagements over the past few years.
Standard Actions:
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.

ArmsCorp Spearhead Reload: 3

With its sleek design and vastly improved magnetic
rail system, the ArmsCorp Spearhead steps out
onto the marketplace with an exceptional amount
of hype surrounding it. Serving as a highly effective
anti-material weapon system for both frontline
military units and specialised fire teams, the
Spearhead is more than capable of easily ripping
through both armoured targets and reinforced
materials.
Standard Actions:
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 3
Two Shot Burst
Two ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 3
Reload: 5
GD XM950
What the GD XM950 might lack in terms of looks,
it almost certainly makes up for in raw firepower
and function. Often referred to as ”The Brick” for
its distinctive and unflattering block-like shape,
this weapon system has proven to be an incredibly
reliable military-grade railgun.

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Standard Actions: While the weapon is officially only available
to military groups and a select few corporate
Fire Shot partners, rumours have begun to circulate on the
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range. streets that a handful of shipments have started to
appear across the black market.
Reload: 3
Standard Actions:
Two Shot Burst
Two ranged weapon attacks: single target within Fire Shot
range for each. Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.

Recoil: 3 Reload: 3
Reload: 5
Two Shot Burst
Two ranged weapon attacks: single target within
Yamasaki Cerberus range for each.
Sleek and stylistic, much like many other
Yamasaki armaments, the Cerberus arrives Recoil: 3
onto the marketplace as a highly capable Reload: 5
anti-material weapon system. Designed and built
for military-style engagements, the Cerberus can
easily unleash enough firepower to punch a hole
straight through most materials and surfaces.
Scattershots these weapons often serve as an effective tool in
most close-quarter-based engagements.
Known for their ferocity and
power, scattershots are a type Like with their larger brethren, these weapons
of firearm that can unleash a are governed by the Guns: Long Guns skill. This
torrent of shrapnel within a will determine just how capable any character
wide cone-shaped area. Brilliant will be when deciding to use them in combat. All
for clearing out entire rooms scattershots require two hands to wield, and fire
and other tightly packed spaces, magazines of shells for their attacks.

Add-ons (Small
Name Range Dmg Pen Props Wt Con Rest Cost
& Medium Only)
Barrel, general,
Remington Computerised
Up to 54 m 3d8 P 3P 4.5 kg D grip, sight, under 1R 2,750
Techshot Device, Metallic
barrel

Barrel, general,
ArmsCorp Computerised
Up to 54 m 4d6 P 3P 4.5 kg D grip, sight, under 1R 3,050
Tyrant Device, Metallic
barrel

Barrel, general,
Computerised
M-80 Bigfoot Up to 63 m 5d6 P 4P 4.5 kg D grip, sight, under 2R 3,650
Device, Metallic
barrel

Barrel, general,
Cyclone Computerised
Up to 63 m 4d8 P 4P 4.75 kg D grip, sight, under 2R 3,950
Streetsweeper Device, Metallic
barrel

Barrel, general,
Matsudan Computerised
Up to 72 m 6d6 P 5P 4.75 kg D grip, sight, under 3R 4,250
Hunter Device, Metallic
barrel

Barrel, general,
Crompton Computerised
Up to 72 m 5d8 P 5P 4.75 kg D grip, sight, under 3R 4,500
Revenant Device, Metallic
barrel

Barrel, general,
Computerised
SPAS-30 Up to 72 m 7d6 P 6P 4.75 kg D grip, sight, under 4R 5,250
Device, Metallic
barrel

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Name RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
Remington Techshot 2 20 m 2 2 2
ArmsCorp Tyrant 2 20 m 2 2 2
M-80 Bigfoot 2 20 m 3 3 2
Cyclone
2 20 m 3 3 2
Streetsweeper
Matsudan Hunter 2 20 m 4 3 2
Crompton Revenant 2 20 m 4 3 2
SPAS-30 2 20 m 5 4 2

Above: The scattershots equipment overview tables.

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Remington Techshot
Simple in function and easy to use, the Remington
Techshot is a widely available and increasingly
popular scattershot. Primarily aimed towards
hunters and recreational shooters, this firearm is
often promoted and labelled as a sportsman’s ideal
go-to weapon of choice.
Traits:
Choke
This weapon can have one of three different choke
settings. Depending on which is chosen will
determine both the range and spread for any
further attacks. These options are:
• Close - Range: 6/12/18 m, spread: 5/11/17 m.
• Medium - Range: 12/24/36 m, spread: 3/7/11 m.
• Long - Range: 18/36/54 m, spread: 1/3/5 m.
Standard Actions:
Change Choke
Selecting one of the other settings, you change the
choke of the weapon for all further attacks.
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: all targets within a cone
based area. Range and spread should be
determined by the weapon’s current choke.
Reload: 2
Double Tap Burst
Two ranged weapon attacks: all targets within a
cone based area for each. Range and spread should
be determined by the weapon’s current choke.
Recoil: 2
Reload: 3
ArmsCorp Tyrant
The ArmsCorp Tyrant is a simple, no-frills
semi-automatic scattershot. What it may lack in
fancy features and shiny buttons, it more than
makes up for in raw firepower and performance.
With its ability to clear out a room and quickly turn
a group of targets into meaty chunks, this weapon
has become a favourite amongst high-level street
thugs and vigilantes.
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Traits:
Choke
This weapon can have one of three different choke
settings. Depending on which is chosen will
determine both the range and spread for any
further attacks. These options are:
• Close - Range: 6/12/18 m, spread: 5/11/17 m.
• Medium - Range: 12/24/36 m, spread: 3/7/11 m.
• Long - Range: 18/36/54 m, spread: 1/3/5 m.
Standard Actions:
Change Choke
Selecting one of the other settings, you change the
choke of the weapon for all further attacks.
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: all targets within a cone
based area. Range and spread should be
determined by the weapon’s current choke.
Reload: 2
Double Tap Burst
Two ranged weapon attacks: all targets within a
cone based area for each. Range and spread should
be determined by the weapon’s current choke.
Recoil: 2
Reload: 3
M-80 Bigfoot
Often found in the hands of police and local
security forces, the M-80 Bigfoot is a competitive
weapon system with the ability to display a
formidable amount of potential destruction. With
its impressive combination of a relatively low price
point and a respectable amount of damage output,
the M-80 Bigfoot has undoubtedly become a highly
sought-after weapon.
Traits:
Choke
This weapon can have one of three different choke
settings. Depending on which is chosen will
determine both the range and spread for any
further attacks. These options are:
• Close - Range: 7/14/21 m, spread: 5/11/17 m.
• Medium - Range: 14/28/42 m, spread: 3/7/11 m.
• Long - Range: 21/42/63 m, spread: 1/3/5 m.
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Standard Actions:
Change Choke
Selecting one of the other settings, you change the
choke of the weapon for all further attacks.
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: all targets within a cone
based area. Range and spread should be
determined by the weapon’s current choke.
Reload: 2
Double Tap Burst
Two ranged weapon attacks: all targets within a
cone based area for each. Range and spread should
be determined by the weapon’s current choke.
Recoil: 3
Reload: 3
Cyclone Streetsweeper
Continuing Cyclone International’s tried and testing
approach to firearm design, the Streetsweeper is a
large and intimidating weapon system. Capable of
knocking out targets from a considerable distance,
this scattershot has become a frequent choice for
those involved with the underground mercenary
scene.
Despite weighing in somewhat heavier than
several other entries on the marketplace, the
Streetsweeper remains a highly capable weapon
system for those on the go.
Traits:
Choke
This weapon can have one of three different choke
settings. Depending on which is chosen will
determine both the range and spread for any
further attacks. These options are:
• Close - Range: 7/14/21 m, spread: 5/11/17 m.
• Medium - Range: 14/28/42 m, spread: 3/7/11 m.
• Long - Range: 21/42/63 m, spread: 1/3/5 m.
Standard Actions:
Change Choke
Selecting one of the other settings, you change the
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choke of the weapon for all further attacks.
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: all targets within a cone
based area. Range and spread should be
determined by the weapon’s current choke.
Reload: 2
Double Tap Burst
Two ranged weapon attacks: all targets within a
cone based area for each. Range and spread should
be determined by the weapon’s current choke.
Recoil: 3
Reload: 3
Matsudan Hunter
Excellent in both design and function, the Hunter
is another brilliant armament to arrive out of
Matsudan Heavy Industries’ manufacturing lines.
Promoted as a highly capable scattershot-type
weapon system, the Hunter excels at making
quick work of its targets in most close-ranged
engagements.
Traits:
Choke
This weapon can have one of three different choke
settings. Depending on which is chosen will
determine both the range and spread for any
further attacks. These options are:
• Close - Range: 8/16/24 m, spread: 5/11/17 m.
• Medium - Range: 16/32/48 m, spread: 3/7/11 m.
• Long - Range: 24/48/72 m, spread: 1/3/5 m.
Standard Actions:
Change Choke
Selecting one of the other settings, you change the
choke of the weapon for all further attacks.
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: all targets within a cone
based area. Range and spread should be
determined by the weapon’s current choke.
Reload: 2
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Double Tap Burst
Two ranged weapon attacks: all targets within a
cone based area for each. Range and spread should
be determined by the weapon’s current choke.
Recoil: 2
Reload: 3
Crompton Revenant
This all-purpose weapon system arrives onto the
marketplace fresh out of the workshops of British
manufacturer Crompton Industries. Combining
technology from many of the 21st century’s most
popular shotguns with a new set of stabilisers
and an updated firing mechanism, the Crompton
Revenant is a weapon to be genuinely feared.
Traits:
Choke
This weapon can have one of three different choke
settings. Depending on which is chosen will
determine both the range and spread for any
further attacks. These options are:
• Close - Range: 8/16/24 m, spread: 5/11/17 m.
• Medium - Range: 16/32/48 m, spread: 3/7/11 m.
• Long - Range: 24/48/72 m, spread: 1/3/5 m.
Standard Actions:
Change Choke
Selecting one of the other settings, you change the
choke of the weapon for all further attacks.
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: all targets within a cone
based area. Range and spread should be
determined by the weapon’s current choke.
Reload: 2
Double Tap Burst
Two ranged weapon attacks: all targets within a
cone based area for each. Range and spread should
be determined by the weapon’s current choke.
Recoil: 2
Reload: 3
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SPAS-30
Widely considered the premier go-to weapon
for most close-quarter-based engagements, the
SPAS-30 regularly appears in many of the world’s
finest military forces. Excellent at taking out
multiple targets in quick succession, this weapon
system is often described as highly capable and
reliable.
While certainly a challenging firearm to get a hold
of; mainly due to its high asking price and heavily
regulated supply, this hyper-modern weapon
system can blast its way through almost anything
unfortunate enough to fall within its firing arc.
Traits:
Choke
This weapon can have one of three different choke
settings. Depending on which is chosen will
determine both the range and spread for any
further attacks. These options are:
• Close - Range: 8/16/24 m, spread: 5/11/17 m.
• Medium - Range: 16/32/48 m, spread: 3/7/11 m.
• Long - Range: 24/48/72 m, spread: 1/3/5 m.
Standard Actions:
Change Choke
Selecting one of the other settings, you change the
choke of the weapon for all further attacks.
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: all targets within a cone
based area. Range and spread should be
determined by the weapon’s current choke.
Reload: 2
Double Tap Burst
Two ranged weapon attacks: all targets within a
cone based area for each. Range and spread should
be determined by the weapon’s current choke.
Recoil: 2
Reload: 3
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 Sniper Rifles kickback and a longer-than-average barrel length
at its front.
As the largest of the three long
gun types, sniper rifles are While stashing one of these underneath your coat
often seen as imposing firearms will certainly not go unnoticed, their impressive
to come up against. It is not firing range allows a skilled sharpshooter to take
uncommon for these weapons out targets long before they know what hit them.
to reach almost a meter and Governed by the Guns: Long Guns skill, these
a half in length, with a hefty two-handed weapons fire magazines of sniper rifle
stock to help brace against the firearm’s strong calibre bullets for their attacks.

Add-ons (Small
Name Range Dmg Pen Props Wt Con Rest Cost
& Medium Only)
Barrel, general,
Computerised
T-2 Longarm 250/500/750 m 4d6+1 P 6P 4.5 kg D grip, sight, under 1R 3,500
Device, Metallic
barrel

Barrel, general,
Izhmash SV- Computerised
275/550/825 m 3d10 P 6P 4.5 kg D grip, sight, under 1R 3,950
850 Device, Metallic
barrel

Barrel, general,
Computerised
Remley 22 300/600/900 m 4d8 P 7P 4.75 kg D grip, sight, under 2R 4,850
Device, Metallic
barrel

Barrel, general,
Colt Computerised
300/600/900 m 3d12 P 7P 4.75 kg D grip, sight, under 2R 5,175
Pathfinder Device, Metallic
barrel

Barrel, general,
Dega Computerised
325/650/975 m 3d12+1 P 8P 5 kg D grip, sight, under 3R 6,050
Overseer Device, Metallic
barrel

Barrel, general,
Computerised
PGW Jackal 350/700/1,050 m 6d6 P 8P 5 kg D grip, sight, under 3R 6,450
Device, Metallic
barrel

Barrel, general,
Computerised
AI L500 400/800/1,2000 m 5d8 P 9P 4.75 kg D grip, sight, under 4R 7,250
Device, Metallic
barrel

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Name RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
T-2 Longarm 2 20 m 2 2 2
Izhmash SV-850 2 20 m 2 2 2
Remley 22 2 20 m 3 3 2
Colt Pathfinder 2 20 m 3 3 2
Dega Overseer 2 20 m 4 3 2
PGW Jackal 2 20 m 4 3 2
AI L500 2 20 m 5 4 2

Above: The sniper rifles equipment overview tables.

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T-2 Longarm
With a simple yet elegant design, the Type-2
Longarm has become a familiar sight within the
recreational shooting scene. Capable of operating
at an effective firing distance of about 750 meters,
this weapon system can put down its target
without them ever knowing you were there.
Standard Actions:
Remley 22
Produced out of the North American-based
manufacturing lines of Patriot Defense Solutions,
the Remley 22 is a popular marksman’s rifle
designed and built for longer-ranged engagements.
Often appearing amongst mercenary and tactical
law enforcement, this weapon system is highly
regarded for its impressive stopping power and
effective firing range.

Fire Shot Standard Actions:

Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Fire Shot
Reload: 3 Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.

Burst Fire Reload: 3

Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each. Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
Recoil: 3 range for each.
Reload: 7
Recoil: 3
Reload: 7
Izhmash SV-850
Continuing with the Izhmash philosophy of
producing simple, easy-to-maintain firearms, the
Colt Pathfinder
SV-850 arrives as a competent no-frills sniper rifle. Capable of taking down targets from over 800
Regularly seen as a direct competitor to the T-2 meters away, the Colt Pathfinder is one of the
Longarm, these two weapon systems have enjoyed newer additions to arrive onto the marketplace.
a friendly rivalry for nearly a decade. Armed with a formidable combination of raw
firepower and damage penetration, this weapon
Standard Actions: system has become popular with many law
enforcement organisations worldwide.
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range. Easy enough to acquire through most of the large
distributors, this firearm is a solid choice for any
Reload: 3 fresh-faced marksman looking to make a name for
themselves on the streets of today.
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within Standard Actions:
range for each.
Fire Shot
Recoil: 3 Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 7
Reload: 3

Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.

Recoil: 3
Reload: 7

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Dega Overseer
While undoubtedly showing its age with its
distinctly retro-based design, there is no denying
that the Dega Overseer is still as capable of a
weapon system as ever. Produced during the late
2070s, this sniper rifle still sees some amount of
use in several different military services across the
globe.
Standard Actions:
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 3
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 3
Reload: 7
PGW Jackal
Serving as the current go-to long-range firearm
for corporate strike teams and military personnel,
the PGW Jackal is truly an impressive piece of
equipment. With an effective firing range of over
a kilometre, this weapon system can provide
allies with far-off distant spotting capabilities and
effective target neutralisation.
Standard Actions:
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 3
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 3
Reload: 7
AI L500
As the latest product from the manufacturing lines
of world-renowned Accuracy International, the
L500 is shaping up to be a competent long-ranged
weapon system. Having served some of the world’s
most prestigious special forces for several years
now, this firearm has undergone numerous tweaks
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and modifications to arrive at the seemingly
finished product that it is today.
For those with the necessary contacts and credits
to find and buy themselves one, the L500 will
quickly reveal itself to be an absolute beast. With
an unmatched combination of armour penetration
and damage output for its class, this firearm can
complete practically any job required.
Standard Actions:
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 3
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 3
Reload: 7
3.6 Heavy Weapons
Sometimes you might find yourself in a situation
whereby standard weapons and armaments simply
won’t do. Maybe you discover that those thugs
you have been tasked with eliminating have more
manpower than you first thought, or perhaps
you notice that the mega-corporation complex
you are attempting to infiltrate has several large
drones patrolling nearby. Regardless of what that
situation might be, heavy weapons can certainly
help you bring the thunder.
Like many other firearms, heavy weapons
can generally be broken down into several
sub-categories. Each of these will likely prove to
be more or less effective for different types of
engagements, so careful consideration is always
wise. These can be summarised as the following:
• Launchers - High powered weapons that are
capable of firing explosive ordinance.
• Machine Guns - Potent rapid-fire weapon
systems that can quickly unload vast
quantities of rounds.
• Special Weapons - Flame throwers,
microwave cannons, and other such
equipment that falls outside of a traditional
heavy weapons system.
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 Launchers at using these weapons systems will be directly
proportionate to the level of talent that they
Whether built to work with currently have assigned. As this skill continues
aerodynamic grenades, rockets, to increase, so will their ability to utilise these
or even missiles, launchers weapons in combat.
can fire large quantities of
explosives at an impressive All launchers require two hands to operate,
distance. Portable enough to be and unlike most other weapons, their damage
carried by a single individual, and penetration are determined by the type of
these weapon systems can unleash a blazing ammunition currently in use. Additional statistics
inferno on anyone unlucky enough to be within can also be found in the overview table below.
range. The columns from left to right are as follows;
name, range (short/medium/long), ammunition,
Governed by the Guns: Heavy Weapons [Finesse] properties, weight, concealment rating, combined
skill, characters will find that their effectiveness restriction class & level, and finally, its cost.

Name Range Ammo Props Wt Con Rest Cost

Launcher Computerised Device,
HK AG50 75/150/225 m 3.5 kg D 2O 4,950
Grenades Metallic, Scatter

Launcher Computerised Device,

ArmsCorp Roomclearer 60/120/180 m 4.5 kg D 3O 5,750
Grenades Metallic, Scatter

Computerised Device,
Vanguard Scorpion 250/500/750 m Rockets Cumbersome, Metallic, 8 kg I 3O 6,050
Scatter

Computerised Device,
GML Ifrit 750/1,500/2,250 m Missiles Cumbersome, Metallic, 12.5 kg I 4O 7,250
Scatter

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Name RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
HK AG50 2 20 m 3 3 2
ArmsCorp Roomclearer 2 20 m 4 3 2
Vanguard Scorpion 2 20 m 4 3 2
GML Ifrit 2 20 m 5 4 2

Above: The launchers equipment overview tables.

HK AG50
The HK AG50 is a single-shot, shoulder-fired
grenade launcher. With its design echoing a simple,
no-nonsense type approach, this weapon system
has become somewhat infamous amongst the
better-connected street gangs and many of today’s
security forces.
Excelling at population control, as well as flushing
out enemies from a target building, the AG50 can
launch a variety of different aerodynamic grenades
at a great distance.
Traits:
Minimum Firing Distance
This weapon system includes a safety feature that
prevents its ordinance from arming until it has
traversed ten meters or more in distance. If one of
its grenades should land within this radius, it will
fail to detonate.
This feature can be disabled either; by its wielder,
or from a user with Enhanced level access, with a
standard action .

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Standard Actions:
Fire Ordinance
Ranged weapon attack: single target location
within range.
Reload: A
ArmsCorp Roomclearer
Well renowned for its highly destructive
capabilities, this semi-automatic grenade launcher
regularly serves in virtually every major police
force’s arsenal. The Roomclearer can launch
several aerodynamic grenades in quick succession,
flushing out a group of targets from the burning
wreckage it leaves behind.
Traits:
Ammunition Belt
The ArmsCorp Roomclearer works off of a free fed
ammunition belt. Suitable types of grenades can be
added, ensuring that there is a continuous supply
of ammunition available.
A grenade can be added to the belt with an Insert
Magazine/Ordinance combat action, while an item
can be removed through the use of Eject
Magazine/Ordinance. Storing up to a maximum of
eight grenades at any given time, one piece of
ammunition is automatically removed from the belt
each time the weapon system is fired.
Minimum Firing Distance
This weapon system includes a safety feature that
prevents its ordinance from arming until it has
traversed ten meters or more in distance. If one of
its grenades should land within this radius, it will
fail to detonate.
This feature can be disabled either; by its wielder,
or from a user with Enhanced level access, with a
standard action . with ground-to-ground-based missile capabilities.
Standard Actions:
Fire Ordinance
Ranged weapon attack: single target location
within range.
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Burst Fire
Up to three ranged weapon attacks: single target
location within range for each.
Recoil: 3
Vanguard Scorpion
Known by a variety of different names, including;
”The Welcoming Party”, ”Diplomacy”, and ”The
Adjudicator”, this weapon system can pack a
mighty big punch. Utilised as a shoulder-mounted
rocket launcher, the Vanguard Scorpion can easily
take care of both hostile automations and tightly
packed groups of infantry.
Traits:
Minimum Firing Distance
This weapon system includes a safety feature that
prevents its ordinance from arming until it has
traversed 15 meters or more in distance. If one of
its rockets should land within this radius, it will fail
to detonate.
This feature can be disabled either; by its wielder,
or from a user with Enhanced level access, with a
standard action .
Standard Actions:
Fire Ordinance
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: A
GML Ifrit
Designed and built at some point during the early
2090s, the Ifrit has rapidly grown in popularity to
become the de facto solution for arming infantry
With an effective firing range of just over two
kilometres, the Ifrit can often eliminate its targets
before they even realise what is happening.
While cumbersome to carry around at a weight
of 12.5 kilograms (plus any extra from its
ammunition), this weapon system’s destructive
capabilities more than makes up for the logistical
issues it brings.
Traits:
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 Minimum Firing Distance
This weapon system includes a safety feature that
prevents its ordinance from arming until it has
traversed 20 meters or more in distance. If one of
its missiles should land within this radius, it will
fail to detonate.
This feature can be disabled either; by its wielder,
or from a user with Enhanced level access, with a
standard action . can certainly help bring a swift end to a premature
Standard Actions:
Fire Ordinance
Ranged weapon attack: single target location
within range.
Reload: A
Machine Guns
Big, heavy, and capable of
unleashing a torrent of rounds
in seconds, machine guns are
well and truly the big daddies
of the automatics world. While
not exactly the lightest nor most
subtle equipment, machine guns
gunfight. Those that fail to heed its warnings are
brushed aside and peppered with bullet holes.
Like many other types of firearms, machine guns
are a Finesse-based weapon system, requiring
two hands to operate. Governed by the Guns:
Heavy Weapons skill, characters will find that their
effectiveness at using these weapons will depend
greatly on their current level of talent that they
have assigned here.

Add-ons
Name Range Dmg Pen Props Wt Con Rest Cost
(Any Size)
Computerised
Barrel, general,
ArmsCorp Skag Device,
150/300/450 m 4d8 P 6P 10 kg I grip, sight, 1O 4,750
Cannon Cumbersome,
under barrel
Metallic

Computerised
Barrel, general,
Device,
MG-400 175/350/525 m 3d12+1 P 7P 10.5 kg I grip, sight, 2O 5,950
Cumbersome,
under barrel
Metallic

Computerised
Barrel, general,
Xiao-Sen Device,
175/350/525 m 6d6 P 8P 10.5 kg I grip, sight, 3O 7,000
Oppressor Cumbersome,
under barrel
Metallic

Computerised
Barrel, general,
Matsudan Device, 10.75
180/360/540 m 4d10 P 8P I grip, sight, 3O 7,250
Sabretooth Cumbersome, kg under barrel
Metallic

Computerised
Barrel, general,
Device,
Razorback LMG 200/400/600 m 7d6 P 9P 11 kg I grip, sight, 4O 8,500
Cumbersome,
under barrel
Metallic

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Name RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
ArmsCorp Skag Cannon 2 20 m 2 2 2
MG-400 2 20 m 3 3 2
Xiao-Sen Oppressor 2 20 m 4 3 2
Matsudan Sabretooth 2 20 m 4 3 2
Razorback LMG 2 20 m 5 4 2

Above: The machine guns equipment overview tables.

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ArmsCorp Skag Cannon
Coming onto the marketplace as a simplistic,
no-frills machine gun, the ArmsCorp Skag Cannon
has certainly made a good name for itself. Capable
of packing quite the hefty punch, this weapon
system is both cheap and relatively easy to acquire
through the appropriate black market channels.
Standard Actions:
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 3
Reload: 2
Rapid Fire
You open fire on a cone-shaped area with a range
equal to the weapon and a spread of 3/6/9 m.
Targets within the designated area must make an
opposing Endurance + Reflex attribute check with a
-3 dice pool penalty, contested against the dice
pool of your Guns: Heavy Weapons [Finesse] skill.
Each target is hit by a number of ranged weapon
attacks, equal to how many additional passes you
achieved over them (maximum of five).
Recoil: 5
Reload: 6
MG-400
The MG-400 is an exceptional weapon system.
This firearm can unleash a potent spray of
ammunition, dropping bodies and breaking through
even the most entrenched of enemy defences.
Often seen in the hands of both tactical law
enforcement and certain select mercenary groups,
the MG-400 has undoubtedly become a prized
possession out on the streets of today.
Standard Actions:
equal to the weapon and a spread of 3/6/9 m.
Targets within the designated area must make an
opposing Endurance + Reflex attribute check with a
-3 dice pool penalty, contested against the dice
pool of your Guns: Heavy Weapons [Finesse] skill.
Each target is hit by a number of ranged weapon
attacks, equal to how many additional passes you
achieved over them (maximum of five).
Recoil: 5
Reload: 6
Xiao-Sen Oppressor
This military-grade machine gun arrives onto
the marketplace fresh out of the manufacturing
lines of Xiao-Sen. Large in size and equally as
intimidating, the Oppressor certainly has all the
hallmarks of a competent and highly reliable
weapon system.
Standard Actions:
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 3
Reload: 2
Rapid Fire
You open fire on a cone-shaped area with a range
equal to the weapon and a spread of 3/6/9 m.
Targets within the designated area must make an
opposing Endurance + Reflex attribute check with a
-3 dice pool penalty, contested against the dice
pool of your Guns: Heavy Weapons [Finesse] skill.
Each target is hit by a number of ranged weapon
attacks, equal to how many additional passes you
achieved over them (maximum of five).
Recoil: 5
Reload: 6

Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.

Recoil: 3
Reload: 2

Rapid Fire
You open fire on a cone-shaped area with a range

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Matsudan Sabretooth
The Sabretooth machine gun is one of Matsudan
Heavy Industries’ newest additions. Developed
with military and private contractors in mind, this
weapon system boasts excellent build quality and
a formidable amount of firepower.
Although difficult to acquire without the right
connections, a skilled individual wielding a
Matsudan weapon can always serve as a potent
threat in a firefight.
Standard Actions:
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 3
Reload: 2
Rapid Fire
You open fire on a cone-shaped area with a range
equal to the weapon and a spread of 3/6/9 m.
Targets within the designated area must make an
opposing Endurance + Reflex attribute check with a
-3 dice pool penalty, contested against the dice
pool of your Guns: Heavy Weapons [Finesse] skill.
Each target is hit by a number of ranged weapon
attacks, equal to how many additional passes you
achieved over them (maximum of five).
Recoil: 5
Reload: 6
Razorback LMG
This high-performance, quality-made LMG is the
first of many new-generation weapon systems
that are set to arrive onto the marketplace by the
end of the decade. The Razorback is particularly
noteworthy, given its impressive combination of
damage output, penetration, and effective firing
range.
Standard Actions:
Burst Fire
Three ranged weapon attacks: single target within
range for each.
Recoil: 3
Reload: 2
Rapid Fire
You open fire on a cone-shaped area with a range
equal to the weapon and a spread of 3/6/9 m.
Targets within the designated area must make an
opposing Endurance + Reflex attribute check with a
-3 dice pool penalty, contested against the dice
pool of your Guns: Heavy Weapons [Finesse] skill.
Each target is hit by a number of ranged weapon
attacks, equal to how many additional passes you
achieved over them (maximum of five).
Recoil: 5
Reload: 6
 Special Weapons enemies where they stand, these special weapons,
as they are so often called, can destroy their
The world of 2107 is home to targets in highly effective yet also equally
a diverse and wide range of horrifying ways.
technologies and equipment. In
particular, heavy weapons have The Guns: Heavy Weapons [Strength] skill
seen numerous developments, determines a character’s effectiveness at using
giving rise to various firearms these items, with those of a higher level of talent
and weapons systems that naturally proving to be more efficient at doing so.
would not otherwise fall into a traditional class Additionally, like with the other types of heavy
or category. weapons, this equipment requires using two hands
to be utilised appropriately.
From flame throwers that can scorch a wide-open
area to microwave cannons that irradiate their

Name Range Ammo Dmg Pen Props Wt Con Rest Cost

Computerised
Flamer
Cyclone Blaze 8/16/24 m 4d6 H - Device, Cumbersome, 12 kg D 1O 2,950
Fuel Metallic

Computerised
ArmsCorp Flamer
12/24/36 m 6d6 H - Device, Cumbersome, 12.5 kg I 3O 5,250
Scorcher Fuel Metallic

Computerised
Brink Microwave Energy
24/48/72 m 5d8 R - Device, Cumbersome, 10.5 kg D 3O 5,950
Cannon Cells Metallic

Computerised
Energy 4d6 H,
Pulsar X-4 40/80/120 m - Device, Cumbersome, 12.5 kg I 4O 8,500
Cells 2d6 R Metallic

Computerised
Xiao-Sen Minigun
200/400/600 m 5d8 P 8P Device, Cumbersome, 17.5 kg I 4O 9,750
Steelspitter Belts Metallic

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Name RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
Cyclone Blaze 2 20 m 3 2 2
ArmsCorp Scorcher 2 20 m 3 3 2
Brink Microwave Cannon 2 20 m 4 3 2
Pulsar X-4 2 20 m 5 4 2
Xiao-Sen Steelspitter 2 20 m 5 4 2

Above: The special weapons equipment overview tables.

Cyclone Blaze Standard Actions:

Comprised of a series of fuel tanks mounted onto
a weighty backpack, the Cyclone Blaze allows Ignite Area
an individual to unleash a potent spray of flame Ranged weapon attack: all targets within a
across a wide-open area. Portable enough to be cone-based area. Range should be determined by
carried by a single person, this weapon system the statistics of the weapon, with a spread of
has proven to be extremely effective when used 3/7/11 m.
in close-quarters combat.
Reload: 2

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ArmsCorp Scorcher
This heavy-duty militarised flame thrower is truly
a weapon to be fearful of. With its ability to burn
through obstacles and incinerate any target that
would stand in its way, the ArmsCorp Scorcher can
be rather effective in tightly packed, close-quarters
type environments.
Standard Actions:
Ignite Area
Ranged weapon attack: all targets within a
cone-based area. Range should be determined by
the statistics of the weapon, with a spread of
3/7/11 m.
Reload: 2
Brink Microwave Cannon
While some would call into question the humanity
of this weapon, few will deny its effectiveness on
the battlefield. The Brink Microwave Cannon can
literally cook an individual from the inside out by
emitting an incredibly potent beam of radiation.
Rumours of its use by privatised military forces
have certainly been circulating through the
airwaves, though so far at least, little to no
evidence has ever been found.
Standard Actions:
Irradiate
Ranged weapon attack: all targets within a two
meter wide line.
Reload: 2
Pulsar X-4
The Pulsar X-4 is a next-generation, energy-based
weapons system. With its ability to generate a
concentrated beam of highly destructive plasma,
the Pulsar can quickly eliminate multiple targets
with each of its blasts. Best of all, since the
weapon generates little to no recoil, characters
can fire in quick succession without affecting their
overall accuracy.
Traits:
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Overheating
This weapon generates a lot of heat when used.
Each time it is fired, the equipment gains a stack of
”heat”. When the weapon reaches ten of these
stacks, its onboard programming kicks in, disabling
the firearm until it has cooled. Each round of
combat that passes, whereby the Pulsar has not
been fired, reduces its current heat count by two.
This feature can be disabled either; by its wielder,
or from a user with Enhanced level access, with a
standard action . The weapon will no longer
disable itself; however, each time it is fired with
more than ten heat, its user should first roll 3d10. If
the total rolled is below the current heat, the
weapon immediately bricks itself as various
metallic parts become fused together.
Standard Actions:
Fire Plasma Stream
Up to two ranged weapon attacks: all targets
within a one meter wide line for each. Action point
cost is equal to the number of attacks being made.
Reload: 2
Xiao-Sen Steelspitter
Big and intimidating as ever, the Xiao-Sen
Steelspitter is one weapon system few will
ever want to face off against. Having risen to
fame from its numerous appearances in popular
action movies, this beast of a minigun can unload
hundreds of rounds in a mere second.
Standard Actions:
Rapid Fire
You open fire on a cone-shaped area with a range
equal to the weapon and a spread of 4/8/12 m.
Targets within the designated area must make an
opposing Endurance + Reflex attribute check with a
-3 dice pool penalty, contested against the dice
pool of your Guns: Heavy Weapons [Strength] skill.
Each target is hit by a number of ranged weapon
attacks, equal to how many additional passes you
achieved over them (maximum of six).
Recoil: 5
Reload: 3
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 3.7 Bows Archery is the skill that governs how capable any
particular individual will be when wielding these
weapons. Given their simplicity, bows can often be
While most characters can
acquired for a reasonably low price tag.
understand the basics of how
to shoot a bow, it takes a lot of
skill and practice to utilise them Below is a table that should grant an overview
to their full potential. However, of each of these different items, along with
those that do can become a associated statistics. The columns from
rampant force of destruction, left to right are as follows; name, range
ready to dish out potent amounts of damage from (short/medium/long), ammunition, damage,
afar without giving away their position. penetration, properties, hands required, weight,
concealment rating, combined restriction class &
level, and finally, its cost.

Name Range Ammo Dmg Pen Props Han Wt Con Rest Cost
Quick Draw & Fire,
The Needler 25/50/75 m Arrows 2d6 P 3P 2 1 kg A 1L 750
Stealthy

Metallic, Quick
Huntsman Bow 30/60/90 m Arrows 2d8 P 4P Draw & Fire, 2 1.75 kg D 1L 1,050
Stealthy

Sawtooth Crossbow Metallic, Simple

9/18/27 m 2d6 P 4P 1 1 kg E 1R 600
Crossbow bolts Reloading, Stealthy

Eviscerator Crossbow Metallic, Simple

12/24/36 m 2d8 P 5P 2 4.5 kg D 1R 1,250
Repeater bolts * Reloading, Stealthy

Warmonger
Crossbow Metallic, Simple
Heavy 15/30/45 m 2d10 P 6P 2 5.5 kg D 1R 1,550
bolts Reloading, Stealthy
Crossbow
Quick Draw & Fire,
The Blitzfire 25/50/75 m Arrows 3d6 P 4P 2 1 kg A 2L 1,550
Stealthy

Metallic, Quick
Phantom Bow 30/60/90 m Arrows 3d8 P 5P Draw & Fire, 2 1.75 kg D 3L 2,250
Stealthy

Key:
* = Magazines only.
Above: The bows equipment overview table.

The Needler Huntsman Bow

This simple but effective recurve bow is a cheap
starting point for anyone looking to purchase a
bow-type weapon. While it does not have quite the
same range or arrow velocity as some of the other
available options, it does benefit from a lighter
weight and the ability to slip past metal detectors
unnoticed.
Standard Actions:
Equipped with a system of cables, pulleys and
eccentric cams, this compound bow is an effective
weapon platform that can unleash arrows with a
staggering velocity and effective range.
However, given its metallic nature and more
substantial frame size, this weapon system
can often be difficult to conceal without having
specialist storage to hand.

Fire Arrows Standard Actions:

Up to two ranged weapon attacks: single target
within range for each. Action point cost is equal to Fire Arrows
the number of attacks being made. Up to two ranged weapon attacks: single target
within range for each. Action point cost is equal to

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the number of attacks being made.
Sawtooth Crossbow
While small in size, this simple one-handed
crossbow has often proven to be the perfect
weapon for all those who want to get the drop
on their targets. Easy enough to stow away and
conceal, it can unleash a surprising amount of
damage from some distance away.
Given the nature of crossbow weapons, however,
the Sawtooth Crossbow does require reloading
after each shot.
Standard Actions:
Fire Bolt
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: A
Eviscerator Repeater
With a magazine of five bolts mounted to its top
and a gravity-fed delivery mechanism ready to
go, the Eviscerator Repeater Crossbow sacrifices
a little bit of its range and velocity to unleash
multiple bolts in quick succession.
Standard Actions:
Fire Bolt
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: 3
Bolt Volley
Up to three ranged weapon attacks: single target
within range for each.
Reload: 7
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Warmonger Heavy Crossbow
Coming in as one of the heaviest types of
crossbows on the market, the Warmonger Heavy
Crossbow packs an unbelievable amount of force
behind it. With its bolts able to pierce through
various types of materials with ease, this weapon
has proven to be very effective when used against
all manner of armoured targets.
Standard Actions:
Fire Bolt
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: A
The Blitzfire
Coming onto the market advertised as a spiritual
successor to The Needler, this weapon system
has seen numerous updates and improvements
to increase its overall projectile velocity.
Still supporting a frame made out of natural
materials, The Blitzfire is frequently seen as a
welcome improvement over its predecessor,
without having to break the bank.
Standard Actions:
Fire Arrows
Up to two ranged weapon attacks: single target
within range for each. Action point cost is equal to
the number of attacks being made.
Phantom Bow
The Phantom is a potent compound bow popular
among many skilled archers. While coming in
at a higher price point than many other options
available on the marketplace, its sheer power and
potential firing range make it an outstanding choice
for those with the skill to use it.
Standard Actions:
Fire Arrows
Up to two ranged weapon attacks: single target
within range for each. Action point cost is equal to
the number of attacks being made.
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3.8 Ammunition
As weapons and firearms become ever more
sophisticated and deadly, so do their ammunition
and ordinance. Many different types exist on
today’s marketplace, and each comes with its own
separate set of qualities and advantages over one
another.
While certain products might prove very effective
in one combat situation or environment, they could
also end up feeling just as inadequate in another.
As a result, it is always wise to carry a varied
selection of ammunition types for your weapons
whenever possible, as you might otherwise find
yourself ill-equipped for the job at hand.
All ammunition types will list a series of modifiers
that should be applied to their parent weapon
whenever they are used. These will generally
come in the form of an alteration to its base range,
damage, and penetration, along with a list of traits
that help detail what the item does differently.
For example, a damage modifier listed as ”+5 P”
will add five more physical damage on top of the
weapon’s usual amount.
To help you find what you need, ammunition has
been broken up into several sub-categories, each
aimed at servicing a particular type of weapon
system. These are as follows:
• Arrows - Simplistic instruments fitted with
a variety of high tech payloads, used in
traditional bow type weaponry.
• Bolts - Simplistic bolts fitted with specialised
payloads, utilised by crossbows.
• Bullets - Magazines containing a range of
different calibre rounds. These can be used in
all manner of different firearms, from pistols
through to rifles.
Name Range Dmg
Arrow, Basic - -
Arrow, Serrated - +1d6 P
Arrow, Fragmentation -5/-10/-15 m +3d6 P
Arrow, Explosive -5/-10/15 m +2d6 H
Above: The arrow types ammunition overview table.
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• Darts - Airborne darts which can be fired out
of a suitable type of dart gun.
• Launcher Grenades - Various projectiles
designed to be fired out of a grenade
launcher.
• Rockets & Missiles - Highly destructive, and
extremely illegal rocket-propelled ordinance.
• Shells - Magazines containing different types
of shells for a scattershot.
• Slugs - Magazines of highly magnetic slugs,
for use in a railgun.
• Miscellaneous - Energy cells, harpoons, and
other niche items that aren’t quite diverse
enough to fill a category by themselves.
Arrows
The ammunition in this section
is commonly used with
various bow-type weaponry.
While simplistic in function,
given the nature of their
delivery mechanism, certain
manufacturers have gone to great lengths to
produce specialised, highly sought-after products.
While most arrows come in at a lower price than
many bullet types found on the marketplace,
their lack of demand from only a few buyers often
means fewer businesses are willing to keep them
stocked regularly.
The table below should give you an overview of
each of these items, along with their associated
statistics and effects. The columns from left to
right are as follows; name, range modifier, damage
modifier, penetration modifier, properties, weight,
concealment rating, combined restriction class &
level, and finally, its cost.
Pen Props Wt Con Rest Cost
- Metallic, Recoverable 0.01 kg A 1L 20
-4 P Metallic, Recoverable 0.01 kg A 2L 30
- Metallic 0.02 kg A 2O 200
- Metallic 0.02 kg A 3O 250
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Arrow, Basic
Comprised of a lightweight metallic shaft, with a
pointed arrowhead at one end and a series of fins
known as fletching at the other, this ammunition
can be fired from a bow-type weapon towards a
given target.
Arrow, Serrated
With a serrated arrowhead attached to its front,
this item is highly capable of tearing through
organic matter at the expense of decreased armour
penetration. This ammunition is often a regular
choice for those who prefer to hunt wildlife using a
bow instead of a traditional firearm.
Arrow, Fragmentation
This modified arrow is fitted with a small
fragmentation grenade at its head. Hitting a target
with the device will cause it to detonate, showering
the nearby vicinity with a volley of shrapnel and
jagged metal.
Traits:
Fragmentation Payload
When a character hits a target using this arrow, the
fragmentation payload attached to its head
immediately detonates.
The attack’s original target suffers additional
physical damage, as stated above, and if they lose
at least one hit point, they gain two stacks of
bleeding. All other individuals within a three-meter
radius of the point of impact must make a generic
Foresight + Reflex attribute check with a success
target of four.
Characters who fail this check suffer the same
effects as the original target. Those who succeed
take half the amount of additional physical
damage, and if they lose at least one hit point, they
gain a single stack of bleeding instead.
Arrow, Explosive
Fitted with a prominent bulbous shaped
contraption on its head, this modified arrow can
deliver a small explosive blast when fired towards
a target individual.
Traits:
Explosive Payload
When a character hits a target using this arrow, the
explosive payload attached to its head immediately
detonates.
The original target of the attack suffers the
additional heat damage as stated above. At the
same time, all other characters within a
three-meter radius of the point of impact must
make a generic Foresight + Reflex attribute check
with a success target of four.
Those that fail this check suffer the same
additional heat damage as written above, while
those that succeed take half of this amount
instead.
Bolts Whether it be a bolt specially
designed to take down armoured targets or deliver
Like their arrow brethren, this a constant feed of ammunition to a repeating
ammunition tends to be a crossbow, different products will allow you to
combination of simplistic wares adapt and overcome various kinds of combat
infused and upgraded with situations.
new-age technology.

Name Range Dmg Pen Props Wt Con Rest Cost

Crossbow Bolt, Basic - - - Metallic, Recoverable 0.02 kg E 1L 20
Crossbow Bolts, Basic
- - - Metallic, Recoverable 0.1 kg E 1L 115
(Magazine)
Crossbow Bolt, Tethered - +1d4 P - Metallic, Recoverable 2 kg E 2L 125
Crossbow Bolt, Piercing - - +5 P Metallic, Recoverable 0.02 kg E 2O 35
Crossbow Bolts, High
- - - Metallic, Recoverable 0.2 kg E 3O 240
Capacity (Magazine)

Above: The bolt types ammunition overview table.

Crossbow Bolt, Basic Tethered Bolt

This metallic bolt can be fired from various types of
modern-day crossbow weaponry. While smaller
in length than your average arrow, their thicker
and denser structure tends to provide greater
penetration on impact.
Crossbow Bolts, Basic (Magazine)
Comprised of five standardised bolts, this
magazine can quickly and efficiently feed a
repeating crossbow-type weapon system. This
allows a character to fire multiple bolts in quick
succession without having to reload after each
shot.
Crossbow Bolt, Tethered
Connected to 20 meters of robust metallic cabling
at its rear and a series of spring-loaded hooks
at its front, this specialist bolt can serve as a
makeshift grappling hook or attach itself to a
target individual.
Traits:
Climbing Aid
Characters using the bolt’s cable as a climbing aid
gain a +3 dice pool bonus to any Climbing based
skill checks they attempt to make.
On achieving a hit against a target character or
otherwise suitable object, the spring-loaded hooks
at the front of the bolt immediately shoot out and
firmly attach themselves to it.
For the duration of this effect, any individual can
grab hold of the trailing cable and attempt to pull
the attached target closer to them with a standard
action . Both they and the person performing
this action must go ahead and make an opposing
Endurance + Strength attribute check against one
another.
If the individual performing this action succeeds on
the check, the attached target is forcibly pulled two
meters for each pass they managed to achieve over
them. If the target is an object, the character
performing this pulling action should make a
generic Endurance + Strength attribute check
instead. The GM should use this result to
determine how far they can pull the attached item
based on its current size and approximate weight.
Regardless, an attached target can break free of
the tethered bolt using a standard action to
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 Crossbow Bolt, Piercing
Equipped with a specialised square-section
endpoint, this crossbow bolt can tear through both
armour and other reinforced materials.
Crossbow Bolts, High Capacity
(Magazine)
Comprised of ten standardised bolts, this
large-scale magazine can sustain a repeating
crossbow-type weapon system for some time.
Traits:
High Capacity Magazine
When inserted into a repeating crossbow, its user
must fail two reload checks before the magazine is
considered empty of its ammunition.
Bullets
With the firearms market
continuing to boom in both
popularity and trade, many
weapons manufacturers have
chosen to invest quite heavily in
their range of ammunition and
accessory-type products.
Whether it be a bullet designed for recreational
shooters to land their hits more reliably or
something a little spicier that can utterly destroy a
target in new and creative ways, plenty of products
exist on the marketplaces of today; all you need is
the right sort of contact to be able to access them.
Below is a list of the different types of products
that could be available to you. Unlike certain other
types of ammunition, however, the price of these
items tends to shift and change based on the
calibre you wish to buy.

Name Range Dmg Pen Props Wt Con Rest

Bullets, Basic (Magazine) - - - Metallic 0.2 kg E 1R
Bullets, Polymer (Magazine) - -2 P -1 P - 0.15 kg E 1O
Bullets, Flechette (Magazine) - +1d8 P -6 P Metallic 0.2 kg E 2R
Bullets, Armour Piercing (Magazine) - - +6 P Metallic 0.25 kg E 2O
Bullets, Shock (Magazine) - -10 P -5 P Metallic 0.2 kg E 3R
Bullets, High Capacity (Magazine) - - - Metallic 0.4 kg E 3O
Bullets, Smart (Magazine) - - - Metallic 0.25 kg E 3O
Bullets, Air Burst (Magazine) - +2d6 H - Metallic 0.25 kg E 3O

Cost Light Heavy Automatic Submachine Assault Sniper

Machinegun
Pistol Pistol Pistol Gun Rifle Rifle
Name
Bullets, Basic (Magazine) 125 145 165 200 220 250 335
Bullets, Polymer (Magazine) 140 160 180 215 235 265 350
Bullets, Flechette (Magazine) 200 220 240 275 295 325 430
Bullets, Armour Piercing
250 275 300 350 375 415 550
(Magazine)
Bullets, Shock (Magazine) 265 290 315 365 390 430 570
Bullets, High Capacity
260 300 340 410 450 510 675
(Magazine)
Bullets, Smart (Magazine) 300 325 350 400 425 475 630
Bullets, Air Burst (Magazine) 350 375 400 450 500 575 760

Above: The bullet types ammunition overview and costing tables.

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Bullets, Basic (Magazine)
Comprised of numerous standardised rounds,
these magazines can provide a steady flow of
ammunition for various types of firearms.
While these rounds contain no specialist
properties, their low price point and ready
availability make them by far the most popular
choice.
Bullets, Polymer (Magazine)
Substituting the usual metallic components for a
toughened plastic-based polymer, these rounds
are specifically designed to slip on through any
nearby metal detectors unnoticed. Most countries
worldwide consider these rounds illegal, and given
the nature of their material compound, they have a
slightly reduced damage output.
Bullets, Flechette (Magazine)
Packed with half a dozen or so steel darts, these
rounds are designed to achieve maximum possible
damage when tearing through flesh and other
organic matter.
Bullets, Armour Piercing (Magazine)
Comprised of a heavy alloy bolt at its centre and
a potent mix of high explosive towards its tip,
this ammunition is capable of ripping through all
manner of reinforced materials and armour.
Bullets, Shock (Magazine)
Special ammunition has always been required to
disable a target without the risk of killing them
outright. The shock round currently serves as the
market leader to help fulfil this task.
Capable of delivering a potent electric shock on
impact, this ammunition frequently sees use by
high-end mercenaries and local police.
Traits:
Shocking Impact
The shock round unleashes a potent electrical jolt
on achieving a hit against an unshielded target.
They must make a generic Endurance + Will
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attribute check with a success target of four.
In the event of a failure, the target is knocked
unconscious for the next minute. At the end of each
new round of combat, they can repeat the above
check, ending the effects of the ammunition early
on a success.
Bullets, High Capacity (Magazine)
By taking a standardised magazine and simply
making it larger, weapons manufacturers
successfully produced a product that can
help sustain a firearm for longer. While more
cost-efficient than its smaller brethren, these
magazines are typically outlawed in many
countries across the globe.
Traits:
High Capacity Magazine
When inserted into a suitable firearm, its user must
fail two reload checks before the magazine is
considered empty of its ammunition.
Attacks with a reload value of ”A” should instead be
treated as one failure.
Bullets, Smart (Magazine)
Utilising a high-tech miniaturised propulsion
system, the smart round can make subtle course
adjustments while flying through the air towards
its intended target.
Requiring a Smart Ordinance Computer add-on to
operate, this ammunition has seen regular use by
both the military and high-end mercenary groups
who can more easily afford its expensive price tag.
Traits:
Smart Round
When fired from a suitable firearm equipped with a
Smart Ordinance Computer, this ammunition can
track and follow its intended target.
The target of the attack cannot benefit from either
partial or heavy cover, and being prone does not
provide the usual dice pool bonuses when
attempting to defend themselves.
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Bullets, Air Burst (Magazine) the ammunition’s additional heat damage, as
stated in the bullet types ammunition overview
Packed with a miniaturised explosive, this round
table.
can deliver a potent burst of energy to both its
primary target and all those unfortunate enough
to be close by.
Darts
Traits: Taking the form of a simplistic
needle-like projectile, this
Explosive Burst ammunition is usually fired out
When fired out of a suitable firearm, this of a high-powered, compressed
ammunition creates a miniaturised air burst before gas-based dart gun.
impacting its target. The target suffers a -2 dice
pool penalty to their defensive check.
While not all that threatening
in terms of appearance, darts can deliver various
In addition, all other characters currently within
chemical-based compounds quickly and efficiently
two meters of the primary target must make a
into an individual’s bloodstream from great
Foresight + Reflex attribute check with a success
distances away.
target of four. Those that fail this check also take

Name Range Dmg Pen Props Wt Con Rest Cost

Metallic,
Dart, Basic - - - 0.01 kg VE 1L 10
Recoverable
Metallic,
Dart, Sedative - -10 P - 0.01 kg VE 1R 50
Recoverable
Dart, Polymer Sedative - -10 P - Recoverable 0.01 kg VE 1R 75

Above: The dart types ammunition overview table.

Dart, Basic conducting any required checks to determine its

effects.
This simple metallic needle can be used in various
dart guns. A series of fins towards its rear help
Once this attack’s outcome has been determined, a
stabilise the ammunition as it flies through the air
new toxin must be loaded into the dart for this trait
towards its intended target.
to be used once again.

Dart, Sedative
Standard Actions:
Comprised of a small plastic-like tube with a
needle at one end, this specialised dart can Load Chemical Agent
deliver various chemical compounds into a target Choosing a chemical agent, drug, or otherwise
individual’s bloodstream. suitable toxin you currently have, you carefully
load it into the dart.
Traits:
For the chosen substance to have any effect, it
Chemical Agent must have either a contact, injection or
On achieving a hit against a target, the sedative injury-based vector.
dart injects its toxin payload. If the target is
currently unshielded, then this injection attempt is
considered successful. Read the toxin’s properties,

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Dart, Polymer Sedative Load Chemical Agent
Choosing a chemical agent, drug, or otherwise
Taking the idea of the sedative dart and replacing
suitable toxin you currently have, you carefully
its metallic components with a strengthened
load it into the dart.
plastic-based polymer, manufacturers produced
a reusable delivery system that can slip on through
For the chosen substance to have any effect, it
metal detectors unnoticed.
must have either a contact, injection or
injury-based vector.
Traits:

Chemical Agent
On achieving a hit against a target, the sedative
dart injects its toxin payload. If the target is
currently unshielded, then this injection attempt is
considered successful. Read the toxin’s properties,
conducting any required checks to determine its
effects.
Once this attack’s outcome has been determined, a
new toxin must be loaded into the dart for this trait
to be used once again.
Standard Actions:
Launcher Grenades
Designed around simplicity of
use, these small calibre shells
can unleash a surprisingly
large bang when fired out of a
suitable grenade launcher.
While pricer than their
hand-held brethren, these grenades can both; be
fired further and carry a much larger payload. This
makes them more effective at what they do and
means that the user can operate from a safer firing
distance.

Name Range Dmg Pen Props Wt Con Rest Cost

Metallic,
Launcher Grenade, Smoke - - - 0.3 kg E 2R 525
Recoverable
Launcher Grenade,
- - - Metallic 0.3 kg E 2R 600
Concussion
Metallic,
Launcher Grenade, EMP - - - 0.3 kg E 2R 600
Recoverable
Metallic,
Launcher Grenade, Gas - - - 0.3 kg E 2R 675
Recoverable
Launcher Grenade,
- 6d6 P 2P Metallic 0.3 kg E 2O 675
Fragmentation
Launcher Grenade, Metallic,
- - - 0.3 kg E 3R 750
Heated Smoke Recoverable
Launcher Grenade, High 2d6 H,
- 8P Metallic 0.3 kg E 3O 825
Explosive 6d6 P
Launcher Grenade,
- 5d6 H - Metallic 0.3 kg E 3O 975
Incendiary

Above: The launcher grenade types ammunition overview table.

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Launcher Grenade, Smoke
Often utilised during tactical raids, these shells
can smother an area with a thick, vision-blocking
cloud of smoke. While thermographic vision is
unaffected by them, their low market price and
the prolonged duration of their effects make them
a highly effective weapon when used against
street-level gangs and thugs.
Traits:
Smoke Payload
On reaching its destination, the grenade
immediately detonates, spreading smoke in a
ten-meter radius around the point of impact. This
area is considered to be heavily obscured for the
next minute, whereby it then becomes lightly
obscured for an additional minute after that.
The smoke from this weapon does not affect the
use of thermographic vision. Anyone using this
type of vision will be able to see as per usual.
Additionally, this ammunition must be loaded with
a new smoke payload to function again after being
recovered. Acquiring such an item usually costs
half the ammunition’s regular asking price.
Launcher Grenade, Concussion
With its ability to temporarily disable multiple
targets within a designated area, this grenade
has become a regular for both police and security
forces alike. While unpleasant to experience
first-hand, this ammunition will leave its targets
alive and conscious, ready to be taken in for
questioning.
Traits:
Concussion Grenade
On reaching its destination, the grenade
immediately detonates.
All characters within six meters of the detonation
point must make a generic Foresight + Reflex
attribute check with a success target of five.
Targets that fail the weapon’s check are considered
blinded and deafened, while those that succeed are
disorientated instead (see Status Effects, page
233).
Regardless of the outcome, these effects last until
the end of the next round of combat.
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Launcher Grenade, EMP
Armed with a potent electromagnetic pulse
generator, this ammunition can seize and disable
all electronics within a widespread area. It is often
regarded as a valuable tool for taking down hostile
automations or even up the odds when facing an
opponent with cybernetic enhancements.
Traits:
Electromagnetic Pulse
On reaching its destination, the grenade
immediately detonates. All characters within eight
meters of the detonation point can make a generic
Foresight + Reflex attribute check with a success
target of five. Those who succeed on the check dive
out of the way before the electromagnetic pulse is
released, falling prone in the next available
unoccupied space.
All electronic equipment within the above blast
radius is instantly overloaded, causing it to switch
off immediately. Until the end of the next round of
combat, all equipment affected in this way can
neither be used nor switched back on.
After detonation, this weapon system must be
recharged for 5 hours before its EMP pulse can
function again.
Launcher Grenade, Gas
Designed and built as a launcher-based variation
of the MK-1 Gas Grenade, this ammunition can fire
a weaponised chemical payload at great distances.
Upon impact, the ammunition begins expelling its
loaded substance, creating a potent area of effect
around its current location.
Traits:
Chemical Agent Payload
On reaching its destination, the grenade
immediately detonates, spreading its chemical
agent in a six-meter radius around the point of
impact. Read the payload’s properties, conducting
any required checks to determine its effects.
After being recovered, this weapon system must be
loaded with a new chemical payload for it to be
able to function once again.
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Launcher Grenade, Fragmentation those unfortunate enough to be inside it. Packed
full with a compact high-grade explosive, this
Packed full of flechettes, barbs, and other shrapnel,
grenade unleashes intense energy and heat upon
this grenade is designed to quickly dispatch lightly
connecting with a target.
armoured targets within a designated area. While
simplistic in function, this weapon system can
often be highly effective when used against groups Traits:
of enemies in a compact environment.
High Explosive Payload
Traits: On reaching its destination, the grenade
immediately detonates. All characters within eight
meters of the point of detonation must make a
Fragmentation Payload
generic Foresight + Reflex attribute check with a
On reaching its destination, the grenade
success target of five.
immediately detonates. All characters within ten
meters of the point of detonation must make a
Those that fail the weapon’s check take the full
generic Foresight + Reflex attribute check with a
incoming damage, while those that succeed take
success target of five.
half of this amount instead.
Those who fail this check take the full incoming
damage as normal and suffer two stacks of
Launcher Grenade, Incendiary
bleeding, providing they lost at least one hit point.
Targets that succeeded on the check only take half While many would condemn you for their use, there
the incoming damage and suffer one stack of is no denying that incendiary-based explosives are
bleeding, providing they lost at least one hit point. incredibly effective at what they do. Packed full of
mostly compact phosphorous, this ammunition can
unleash a highly potent wave of heat and flame.
Launcher Grenade, Heated Smoke
Developed as an advanced version of the standard Traits:
smoke grenade, this ammunition can block the
line of sight and hide individuals’ heat signatures. Incendiary Payload
Typically utilised against the streets’ larger-sized On reaching its destination, the grenade
organisations, this grenade is perfect for confusing immediately detonates. All characters within six
automations and foiling cybernetic enhancements. meters of the point of detonation must make a
generic Foresight + Reflex attribute check with a
Traits: success target of five. Unlike most other attacks,
however, targets cannot benefit from using cover.
Heated Smoke Payload
Those that fail this check take the full incoming
Upon reaching its destination, the grenade
damage and are immediately set aflame. However,
detonates. Heated smoke begins spreading,
targets that succeeded on the check only take half
covering an area ten meters in radius around the
of this amount and suffer no other side effects. At
point of detonation. This area is considered to be
the GM’s discretion, flammable items and materials
heavily obscured for the next minute, whereby it
currently residing within the blast radius can also
then becomes lightly obscured for an additional
be set alight.
minute after that. This obscurity works on both
standard vision, as well as thermographic.
While left in this immolated state, an individual will
continue to take 3d6 further heat damage at the
After being recovered, this weapon system must be
start of each new round of combat. This effect can
loaded with a new smoke payload to function
be ended early with a standard action , either by
again. Acquiring such an item usually costs half the
performing a stop, drop, and roll manoeuvre
ammunition’s regular asking price.
themselves or from a pat-down by someone else
who is currently within melee reach. Regardless,
Launcher Grenade, High Explosive this ammunition’s effects are said to automatically
end after a minute of time has passed.
Developed for use by the military, this highly
destructive ordinance can decimate a room and all

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Rockets & Missiles and their impressive firing distance means that
they do not even need to see their targets to rain
As the big boys of the heavy down deathly destruction upon them.
weapons world, rockets and
missiles are both extremely Much to the surprise of no one, their cost is almost
illegal to own and/or trade. always exorbitant, and few organisations outside
Their destructive firepower the military have the logistical means to acquire
far surpasses anything else them—however, those who do often become the
available on the marketplace, kingpins of their local region.

Name Range Dmg Pen Props Wt Con Rest Cost

Cumbersome,
Rocket, Fragmentation - 8d6 P 3P 18 kg D 3O 2,100
Metallic

3d6 H, Cumbersome,
Rocket, High Explosive - 9P 18 kg D 4O 2,500
7d6 P Metallic

Cumbersome,
Missile, Fragmentation - 10d6 P 4P 40 kg I 4O 3,650
Metallic

4d6 H, Cumbersome,
Missile, High Explosive - 10 P 40 kg I 5O 4,400
8d6 P Metallic

Above: The rocket & missile types ammunition overview table.

Rocket, Fragmentation Rocket, High Explosive

Capable of delivering a large burst of flechettes,
barbs, and other kinds of shrapnel, this rocket is
highly proficient at dispatching lightly armoured
targets within a designated area. While it does
pack more of a punch than a hand-held or
launcher-based grenade, its’ high weight and hefty
price tag often put it out of the reach of many.
Traits:
Fragmentation Payload
On reaching its destination, the rocket immediately
detonates. All characters within 14 meters of the
detonation point must make a generic Foresight +
Reflex attribute check with a success target of six.
Those that fail this check take the full incoming
damage as normal and suffer two stacks of
bleeding, providing they lost at least one hit point.
Targets that succeed on the check only take half
this amount and instead suffer one stack of
bleeding, providing they lost at least one hit point.
Packed full with military-grade high explosive,
this rocket can deliver an enormous punch to a
designated area. Just make sure that you are not
standing nearby when it happens to go off.
Traits:
High Explosive Payload
On reaching its destination, the rocket immediately
detonates. All characters within ten meters of the
detonation point must make a generic Foresight +
Reflex attribute check with a success target of six.
Those that fail the weapon’s check take the full
incoming damage, while those that succeed simply
take half of this amount instead.
Missile, Fragmentation
Serving as the larger brother of the fragmentation
rocket, this ordinance is bigger, heavier, and
more destructive in every way imaginable. While
far too heavy to be effectively moved about by
an infantry unit, this weapon system can serve
perfectly well when mounted onto the back of a
large automation.

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Traits:
Fragmentation Payload
On reaching its destination, the missile immediately
detonates. All characters within 18 meters of the
detonation point must make a generic Foresight +
Reflex attribute check with a success target of
seven.
Those who fail this check take the full incoming
damage as normal and suffer four stacks of
bleeding, providing they lost at least one hit point.
Targets that succeeded on the check only take half
this amount and instead suffer two stacks of
bleeding, providing they lost at least one hit point.
Missile, High Explosive
As a weapon system of unparalleled levels of
destruction, this missile is capable of decimating
anything that happens to be standing in its way.
Comprised of a generous amount of military-grade
high explosives, this ordinance is accessible only to
the most well-connected organisations.
Traits:
High Explosive Payload
On reaching its destination, the missile immediately
detonates. All characters within 14 meters of the
detonation point must make a generic Foresight +
Reflex attribute check with a success target of
seven.
Those that fail the weapon’s check take the full
incoming damage, while those that succeed take
half of this amount instead.
Shells
Much like with other firearms,
scattershots regularly require
the ability to take on numerous
types of potential targets.
Some of these might be heavily
armoured, while others could try
to overwhelm you with greater
numbers.
Regardless of the current situation, you will
find that, more often than not, there is a type of
scattershot shell out there that was designed for
this very purpose. All you need are the appropriate
amount of credits and the necessary contacts to
point you to the right place.
Below you can find a list of all the different types
of products that exist out there on the marketplace.
Some will likely become a common everyday
commodity for yourself, while others may require a
little more investigation work to get a hold of.

Name Range Dmg Pen Props Wt Con Rest Cost

Shells, Rock Salt (Magazine) - -10 P -5 P Metallic 0.25 kg E 1R 200
Shells, Basic (Magazine) - - - Metallic 0.25 kg E 1R 225
Shells, Luminescent
- - - Metallic 0.25 kg E 1R 250
(Magazine)
Shells, Polymer (Magazine) - -2 P -1 P - 0.2 kg E 1O 240
Shells, Flechette (Magazine) - +1d8 P -6 P Metallic 0.25 kg E 2R 300
Shells, Smoke (Magazine) - - - Metallic 0.25 kg E 2R 350
Shells, Dragon’s Breath
- +2d6 H - Metallic 0.25 kg E 30 475
(Magazine)

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Shells, Rock Salt (Magazine)
With their shot replaced with varying-sized chunks
of rock salt, these magazines can inflict temporary
pain onto their targets without running the risk of
injuring them lethally.
Traits:
Stinging Impact
Targets hit by this ammunition are left feeling
debilitated and in pain. They are considered
impaired until the end of the next round of combat
(see Status Effects, page 233).
Shells, Basic (Magazine)
Comprised of ten standardised shells, these
magazines can provide a steady flow of
ammunition to a scattershot-type firearm.
Like standardised bullets, these shells offer no
specialist properties to the attacks made with
them but are both commonly available and have
a low asking price.
Shells, Luminescent (Magazine)
With their shot coated in a chemical compound
with luminescent properties, these shells can
provide a faint amount of temporary lighting
across much of their impact area.
Traits:
Illumination
This ammunition’s chemical compound activates
whenever it is fired. Numerous luminescent pellets
scatter far and wide across the weapon’s firing arc,
producing a small amount of light wherever they
land.
Each target hit by this ammunition (including any
scenery or objects) creates a faintly lit area one
meter in radius. This lighting lasts for up to one
minute.
Shells, Polymer (Magazine)
Substituting all of the usual metallic components
for a toughened plastic-based polymer, these
shells are specifically designed to slip on through
any nearby metal detectors unnoticed.
Like with their bullet brethren, most countries
worldwide consider these shells highly illegal,
and as such, they can often be challenging to come
across in today’s marketplace.
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Shells, Flechette (Magazine)
Crammed full with multiple steel darts, these
shells are designed to achieve maximum possible
damage when tearing through flesh and other
organic matter.
Shells, Smoke (Magazine)
Containing a highly specialised miniaturised smoke
grenade, these shells can quickly cover a wide area
with thick, vision-obscuring smoke.
Traits:
Smoke Payload
Weapons loaded with these shells are no longer
considered able to deal damage or pierce armour.
Instead, on firing the weapon, a dense plume of
smoke spills forth, covering a cone-based area
equal to the spread of its current choke and half of
its range.
This area is considered heavily obscured until the
end of the next round of combat, whereby it then
becomes lightly obscured until the end of the round
after that. The smoke from this ordinance does not
affect thermographic vision, with anyone using it
seeing as per usual.
Shells, Dragon’s Breath (Magazine)
Utilising a store of magnesium powder, these
shells are designed to self-ignite after leaving
the barrel of their firing weapon. While widely
considered illegal in many countries worldwide,
these shells often appear in various military
organisations when there is a risk of intense
close-quarters combat.
Traits:
Dragon’s Breath
When fired from a scattershot, this ammunition
creates a spray of small, burning hot magnesium
pellets. Targets hit by the attack are set alight and
continue to take 2d6 heat damage at the start of
each new round of combat.
Characters can spend a standard action to end
this effect early, either by performing a stop, drop,
and roll manoeuvre or patting down someone else
currently within their melee reach. Regardless, this
ammunition’s effects are said to automatically end
after a minute of time has passed.
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 Slugs without using an explosive charge or gunpowder
makes them incredibly safe to transport in bulk.
Comprised of little more than
a densely packed metallic Given both the nature of the technology and the
block, slugs are often used in velocity at which they are fired, few types of
magnetic rail-based weapon specialist slugs exist out on today’s marketplace.
systems. While they may weigh Nevertheless, if the past is anything to go by, the
considerably more than many weapons industry will no doubt change this soon
other types of ammunition, their ability to be fired enough.

Name Range Dmg Pen Props Wt Con Rest Cost

Slugs, Basic (Magazine) - - - Metallic 1 kg E 2R 175
Slugs, High Capacity (Magazine) - - - Metallic 2 kg E 3O 360

Above: The slugs types ammunition overview table.

Slugs, Basic (Magazine) reload checks before the magazine is considered

empty of its ammunition.
Containing a total of five standardised slugs,
these magazines can provide a steady flow of
ammunition for a railgun-type weapon system.
While there are no special properties with these Miscellaneous
slugs, their cheap price point and lower restriction
class make them the most commonly used option With such a diverse array of
by far. ammunition at an individual’s
disposal, it is of little surprise
that some of these items might
Slugs, High Capacity (Magazine) be more frequently used than
others. While effective at what
Comprised of ten densely packed standardised they do, it is highly unlikely
slugs, these larger-scale magazines can sustain that you will encounter many flame throwers,
a railgun-type weapon system for a more extended harpoon guns, and high-tech energy-based
period. Often utilised by various military forces weapon systems during your travels in this day and
globally, these magazines are widely considered age.
to be outlawed given their potentially highly
destructive nature.
Should you be looking for something more
exotic and spicy, however, these miscellaneous
Traits: ammunition types could provide insight into what
else is available out there to use.
High Capacity Magazine
When inserted into a railgun, its user must fail two

Name Range Dmg Pen Props Wt Con Rest Cost

Harpoon - - - Metallic 0.5 kg A 1L 45
Flamer Fuel - - - Metallic 2.5 kg A 1L 250
Energy Cell - - - Metallic 0.25 kg E 3L 650
Minigun Belt - - - Metallic 1.5 kg A 3O 1,750

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Harpoon
Weighing in at half a kilogram and a length of about
three-quarters of a meter, these harpoons can do
serious damage to anyone unfortunate enough to
be on the receiving end.
Flamer Fuel
Comprised of a mixture of different liquids, this
thick and highly pungent fuel can be used in
various flame thrower-type weaponry. While not
a particularly volatile substance, this fuel can be
susceptible to premature ignition when exposed to
a source of intense heat.
Energy Cell
Capable of delivering a prolonged and consistent
supply of power, these cells can often be used
to sustain all manner of highly demanding,
energy-based weaponry.
Minigun Belt
This compact yet weighty package contains
hundreds of rounds primed and ready for use in a
minigun-type firearm. Held together in a long free
flowing-like chain, each piece of ammunition is fed
into the weapon system one after the next at an
extremely rapid speed.
3.9 Weapon Add-ons
Weapon add-ons are a wide range of equipment
and gadgets that, when attached to a given
weapon system, can drastically help improve its
role and function. One add-on might, for example,
allow for the weapon to perform better when in a
particular type of situation or environment. At the
same time, another might reduce its penalties and
shortcomings for things like recoil or firing noise
instead.
Each add-on has a specific slot or location to which
it can be attached for a particular weapon system;
some might even specify a certain size category
too. For an add-on to be considered compatible, a
weapon must have both; the slot it attaches to and
supports the equipment’s size also. If a weapon
system does not specify any size restrictions for its
add-ons, it should be considered that it can support
all available options.
Each slot (unless otherwise stated) can only
support a maximum of one add-on installed onto
it at any given time. However, like with the various
types of ammunition available, characters can
choose to perform certain specification combat
actions to swap this equipment out for a suitable
equivalent.
Below you will be able to find a full list of the
different weapon add-ons, each categorised by
whichever slot they are intended to be installed
onto. These slots can be summarised as the
following:
• Barrel - Added onto the end of a firearm’s
barrel to reduce its noise, recoil, or muzzle
flash when fired.
• General - Replaces or fundamentally alters
core components of the firearm to give it new
and improved utility.
• Grip - Replacement for the weapon’s
standard grip, helping to reduce its overall
recoil or provide new functionality and utility.
• Sights - Replacement for the weapon’s
standard iron sights, allowing its user to aim
more effectively at a certain range.
• Under Barrel - Attached underneath the
barrel of a firearm to provide it with new
functionality.
Barrel Add-ons
Barrel add-ons, as their name
would suggest, are pieces
of equipment which can
be attached to the end of a
firearm’s barrel. Depending on
which add-on is selected will
determine its effects on the
parent weapon system.
Most barrel add-ons look to reduce a firearm’s
current downfalls rather than grant it new
capabilities and functions. This can often include
reducing either; the amount of recoil it produces
when fired or the amount of noise generated
instead.
The table below provides an overview of these
different items, along with their associated
statistics and effects. The columns from left to
right are as follows; name, add-on size, properties,
weight, concealment rating, combined restriction
class & level, and finally, its cost.

Name Size Props Wt Con Rest Cost

Flash Reducer Small Metallic 0.25 kg VE 1R 500
Sound Suppressor Small Metallic 0.25 kg VE 1R 500
Compensator Small Metallic 0.25 kg VE 1R 750
Accelerator Small Metallic 0.25 kg VE 1O 750

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Flash Reducer
As one would suspect, given its name, the flash
reducer helps mitigate the flash of a weapon
system’s muzzle whenever it is fired.
Usually, when such a situation arises, most
characters within the local vicinity will quickly
identify a rough location of where an attack
came from. This is especially true in a darkened
environment, as the muzzle flash will very much
appear as a flash of bright light.
Traits:
Flash Suppression
When attached to a given weapon system, your
location is no longer automatically revealed to
others when firing it from hiding.
Sound Suppressor
Coming in as one of the oldest and most
well-known types of attachments, the sound
suppressor continues to be used to this very day.
Attached to the end of a weapon’s barrel, this
equipment significantly reduces the amount of
noise produced when fired.
Traits:
Noise Suppression
When attached to a given weapon system, it no
longer produces a loud audible bang when
discharged. For someone to recognise that a
weapon has been fired, they must either; see the
flash, be very close by, or have an acute sense of
hearing.
Compensator
A compensator is a simple barrel attachment
that attempts to help mitigate some of a weapon
system’s recoil. By providing alternative channels
through which these forces can dissipate, the user
can better control the weapon when firing it in
rapid succession.
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While this attachment won’t eliminate the
weapon’s recoil, it will boost its overall accuracy.
Traits:
Recoil Suppression
While attached to a weapon system, all its actions
produce one less recoil than normal.
Accelerator
Utilising a combination of several new
technologies, this sophisticated add-on can
accelerate the projectiles fired out of an attached
weapon system. With more force being applied
to each shot, users will quickly notice a small but
modest increase in their overall weapon damage.
Traits:
Projectile Acceleration
While attached to a weapon system, all its attacks
inflict two more physical damage than normal.
General Add-ons
While many add-ons come in the
form of a stand-alone gadget or
piece of equipment connected
to a firearm, certain items have
started to arrive that prefer to
replace entire components of
the weapon instead.
General weapon add-ons fall into this category,
looking to replace particular parts or segments
of their base weapon to give it new and improved
functionality and meaning. This could allow
the firearm to be more easily concealed or slip
on through a metal detector by replacing its
components with a resilient plastic-based polymer.
Regardless of their intended purpose, the
associated statistics for these add-ons have been
provided in the overview table below. The columns
from left to right are as follows; name, add-on size,
properties, weight, concealment rating, combined
restriction class & level, and finally, its cost.
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 Name Size Props Wt Con Rest Cost
Weapon Modularisation Small Metallic 0.1 kg VE 1R Weapon cost
Same as
Weapon Polymerisation Small - 0 kg 1O Weapon cost x 2
weapon

Above: The general add-ons equipment overview table.

Weapon Modularisation system can become invisible to metal detectors

By replacing several key components for a given
weapon system, this add-on can allow a firearm
to be more easily taken apart and reassembled. It
is a popular tool for those who often need to get
their gear into a restricted area with only a small
amount of carrying space to spare.
Standard Actions:
and other annoying sensory devices.
Traits:
Polymer Based Components
A weapon system that has been upgraded with this
add-on is no longer considered to have the Metallic
property.

Take Apart/Reassemble
Spending a moment of your time, you begin to
break apart or reassemble the weapon back
together. While taken apart, the weapon is broken
down into a handful of small components, each
with a concealment rating one level smaller than
the firearm as a whole (e.g. average becomes easy,
impossible becomes difficult).
Weapon Polymerisation
While highly illegal in many countries, this add-on
has built up a solid following amongst black ops
special forces and the underground black market
trade. Through extensive retrofitting, any weapon
Grip Add-ons
Grips are simplistic add-on
attachments that help a
user stabilise their weapon
system. Many either replace the
standard-issue component on a
given firearm or fit on over the
top of it instead.
While they might seem less exotic or exciting than
some other add-ons available on the marketplace,
their low price point and usefulness in combat
make them a popular purchase.

Name Size Props Wt Con Rest Cost

Security Grip Small Metallic 0.5 kg E 1L 300
Smart Grip Small Metallic 0.5 kg E 1L 450
Improved Grip Small Metallic 0.5 kg E 1R 450

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Security Grip
The Security Grip is a compact piece of equipment.
Armed with several highly tuned sensors built
into its sides, this add-on can match an individual
to their associated user account on the device’s
onboard computer system. If the grip cannot find a
suitable match, it simply locks the weapon’s firing
pin to prevent accidental discharge.
Popular amongst many rank-and-file police, this
equipment is widely utilised to prevent criminals
from disarming an officer and using their weapon
back against them.
(minimum of two, does not affect actions with an
automatic reload).
Improved Grip
With a series of grooves cut into its side to house
an individual’s fingers and finished off with a
coating of thick, coarse material all over, this grip
is intended to help a user keep a firm grasp on
the weapon system, even when firing in quick
succession.
Traits:

Traits: Firm Grip

Safety Trigger
Weapon systems upgraded with a security grip can
only be fired by those who have been given prior
authorisation. To be considered authorised, an
individual must have at least Basic level access to
the weapon’s built-in computer system.
Smart Grip
Having been adapted to work with a firearm’s
internal computer system, the Smart Grip is a
unique piece of gear designed to keep their user
better informed on the current state of their
weapon system. Using a small side-mounted
digital display, the Smart Grip can provide a count
of the weapon’s remaining ammunition, allowing
the user to better adapt and conserve their current
magazine.
While attached to a weapon system, all its actions
produce one less recoil than normal.
Sight Add-ons
While most types of firearms
usually come equipped with
some form of rudimentary
iron sights, most users will
generally find that they are far
too inadequate for any precise
shooting after a certain distance
has been reached.
However, several more technologically advanced
options are available on today’s marketplace, and
for the right price, they can help give you that extra
bit of an edge over your opponents.

Traits: All sight add-ons look to improve a firearm’s

accuracy at a particular type of distance. Some
Ammo Counter might focus on close-quarters engagements, for
While attached to a weapon system, all its actions example, while others may look to aid their user at
have their reload statistic reduced by one a more substantial firing range.

Name Size Props Wt Con Rest Cost

Close Range Reflex Sight Small Metallic 0.5 kg VE 1R 1,000
Enhanced Combat Sight Medium Metallic 0.5 kg E 1R 1,000
Marksman’s Telescopic Sight Medium Metallic 0.5 kg E 1R 1,000
Smart Ordinance Computer Small Metallic 0.5 kg E 30 1,850

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Close Range Reflex Sight
Created for quick and easy use, the Close Range
Reflex Sight is an excellent choice for those looking
to engage in short-distance combat.
With a clean heads-up display and a holographic
red dot sight, this equipment can help its user
focus on a close-range target incredibly quickly.
Traits:
Short Range Sight
While attached to a weapon system, you gain a +1
dice pool modifier to all of its attack actions when
firing at a short-range distance.
Enhanced Combat Sight
The Enhanced Combat Sight (or ECS for short)
is a magnified weapon scope optimized for
medium-range engagements.
While it might not have quite the same level of
zoom compared with other sight add-ons, it does
allow for an incredible amount of variation. This
means that its user can continue to get the best
possible clear image of their intended target no
matter the predicament that they find themselves
in.
Traits:
Medium Range Sight
While attached to a weapon system, all of its
attack actions no longer suffer a penalty when
firing at medium range, and the penalty when firing
at long range is reduced by one die.
Marksman’s Telescopic Sight
This telescopic sight is made for long-distance
shooting. By providing a magnified zoom, the user
can better see what they are firing at.
Judging distances also prove easier thanks to an
on-screen display that computes the estimated
range between the weapon’s current position and
the target currently being pointed at.
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Traits:
Long Range Sight
While attached to a weapon system, all its attack
actions suffer a reduced penalty when firing at
both medium and long-range distances. This
reduction comes in at one less die at medium range
and two less dice at long ranges.
Smart Ordinance Computer
One of the more hi-tech additions to today’s
armoury, the Smart Ordinance Computer (SOC) is a
powerful add-on that can communicate with smart
ammunition.
By locking onto a target with a simplistic GUI, the
SOC can help guide any fired smart ammunition
around things like cover and other common types
of obstacles.
Traits:
Smart Ordinance Controller
While attached to a weapon system, it can
successfully use smart ammunition, gaining all its
listed benefits.
Under Barrel Add-ons
As their name would suggest,
these add-ons are situated
on the lower side of a firearm,
usually underneath the barrel.
While most other add-on groups
tend to be similar in nature or
focus on a common goal, this
category can vary wildly from one item to the next.
Some of these add-ons might focus on providing
the firearm with new functionality and purpose,
allowing it to operate more effectively in certain
combat situations, which it might not have been
capable of previously. On the other hand, however,
some might be entirely new weapon systems
in their own right. These allow users to switch
between it and the primary weapon as they see
fit as the situation inevitably changes.
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Name Size Props Wt Con Rest Cost
Flashlight Small Metallic, Water Susceptibility 0.25 kg VE 1L 250
Bipod Medium Metallic 1 kg E 1L 650
Laser Dazzler Small Metallic, Water Susceptibility 0.25 kg VE 2R 1,500
Blackthorn Scatter Gun Medium Metallic 2.5 kg E 2R 2,750
Caretaker Grenade Launcher Medium Metallic, Scatter 1.75 kg E 3O 3,250

Above: The under barrel add-ons equipment overview table.

Flashlight Laser Dazzler

Simple yet also effective, this add-on provides a
weapon system with a portable light source. By
creating a zone of illumination out in front, this
add-on helps the weapon’s user to see and identify
potential targets in darkened environments.
Traits:
Combining large numbers of small light emitters,
this equipment can unleash short bursts of intense
and highly disorientating flashes of light in a given
direction. The light emitted can change colours and
turn on and off more than thirty times a second,
creating a blinding strobe light effect for all those
that happen to be within its cone-shaped beam.

Illumination Standard Actions:

When attached to a weapon system, its user can
toggle a small light source on and off as part of a
free action on one of their turns.
While illuminating, the flashlight creates a well-lit
zone seven meters in length towards the direction
the weapon is pointing and a faintly lit zone seven
meters after that.
Bipod
With its ability to take the brunt of a weapon’s
weight while lying down, this add-on helps provide
a user with a more stabilised platform to fire their
shots. Simple to use and relatively lightweight,
this equipment is often a popular choice with
long-ranged sharpshooters.
Strobing Beam
Targeting a cone-shaped area with a range and
spread of 4/8/12 m, you activate and shine the
laser dazzler in its general direction.
Each character currently within the area that can
see it must make a generic Endurance + Reflex
attribute check with a success target of four. Those
who fail this check are blinded, gaining all its usual
side effects (see Status Effects, page 233).
At the end of each new round of combat, all targets
blinded in this way can make a generic Endurance +
Foresight attribute check with a success target of
four. In the event of a success, the blinded effect is
said to wear off and end.

While the add-on does not eliminate recoil from a

given weapon, it does help to reduce its effects on Blackthorn Scatter Gun
the user’s body considerably. Mounted onto the bottom of a suitable weapon
system, this miniaturised scattershot grants
Traits: additional versatility in an individual’s arsenal.
While it might not pack quite the same level
of punch as a full-length weapon system, the
Bipod
Blackthorn is more than capable of unleashing fury
While attached to a weapon system, all its actions
onto a group of unsuspecting targets.
produce three less recoil than normal when fired
from a prone position.

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 Skill: Guns: Long Guns [Finesse] Like its full-sized brethren, the Caretaker’s damage
and penetration statistics are determined by the
Range: Up to 39 m
type of ammunition currently in use.
Ammunition: Shells (magazines only)
Damage: 3d6 P
Skill: Guns: Heavy Weapons [Finesse]
Penetration: 3P
Range: 40/80/120 m
Ammunition: Launcher Grenades.
Traits:

Choke Standard Actions:

This weapon can have one of three different choke
settings. Depending on which is chosen will Fire Ordinance
determine both the range and spread for any Ranged weapon attack: single target location
further attacks. These options are: within range.

• Close - Range: 5/10/15 m, spread: 6/12/18 m. Reload: A

• Medium - Range: 9/18/27 m, spread: 4/8/12 m.
• Long - Range: 13/26/39 m, spread: 2/4/6 m.

3.10 Melee Weapons

Standard Actions:
Change Choke
Selecting one of the other settings, you change the
choke of the weapon for all further attacks.
Fire Shot
Ranged weapon attack: all targets within a
cone-based area. Range and spread should be
determined by the weapon’s current choke.
Being both cheap to purchase
and plentiful in supply, melee
weapons are the most common
type found on the streets. Used
by the majority of the populace
either to intimidate or simply as
a means of self-defence, these
items can range from simple clubs and knives to
heavy sledgehammers and katanas.

Reload: 2 Most close-range weapons are basic in function

Double Tap Burst
Two ranged weapon attacks: all targets within a
cone-based area for each. Range and spread
should be determined by the weapon’s current
choke.
Recoil: 2
Reload: 3
Caretaker Grenade Launcher
The Caretaker is a versatile and highly capable
miniaturised weapon system. With its ability
to launch a variety of specialised grenades at
impressive distances, this launcher can quickly turn
any person into a walking apocalypse.
and easy to use. They tend to have few (if any)
moving parts and one of the lowest price points of
all. As their name would suggest, Melee Weapons
is the skill that governs their use, though its related
attribute will shift and change based on the item in
question. Clubs and hammers might be based on
an individual’s Strength, while swords and daggers
might require Finesse instead.
The table below should inform you of all of this.
Each item will list its associated statistics that
could come into play during a session. The columns
from left to right are as follows; name, related
attribute, range, damage, penetration, properties,
hands required, weight, concealment rating,
combined restriction class & level, and finally, its
cost.

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Name Attr Range Dmg Pen Props Han Wt Con Rest Cost
Brass Knuckles Str Melee 1d4 + Str P - Metallic 1 0.25 kg VE 1L 100
Knife Fin Melee 1d4 + Fin P 2P Metallic 1 0.5 kg E 1L 100
Club Str Melee 1d8 + Str P 1P Reach 2 1.5 kg A 1L 150
Crowbar Str Melee 1d8 + Str P 1P Metallic 1 1.5 kg A 1L 200
Metallic, Reach,
Sledgehammer Str Melee 1d12 + Str P 1P 2 4.5 kg D 1L 450
Siege Weapon

Sword Fin Melee 1d6 + Fin P * 3P Metallic 1/2 1.75 kg D 1R 225

Punching Dagger Str Melee 1d6 + Str P 3P Metallic 1 1 kg A 1R 350
Katana Fin Melee 1d10 + Fin P 3P Metallic, Reach 2 2.75 kg D 1R 500

Key:
* = 1d8 + Fin P when two handed.
Above: The melee weapons overview table.

Brass Knuckles Club

Consisting of a piece of shaped metal which fits Simple yet effective, a club can be any small to
around an individual’s hand, brass knuckles are medium-sized blunt instrument. This can include
designed to concentrate and amplify the force a baseball bat, a metallic pipe, or perhaps even a
behind a punch. leg of a table when in a desperate time of need.

This item can easily be stowed away in a bag, Standard Actions:

pocket, or other suitable containers, ready to be
put on whenever there is the potential for a fight.
Standard Actions:
Bludgeon
Up to three melee weapon attacks: single target
within reach for each. Action point cost is equal to
the number of attacks being made.
Knife
The knife is a very simple and lightweight blade
that can take quick swipes at a nearby target. Very
easy to conceal, it is a popular choice for those
who wish to gain the element of surprise on their
intended targets.
Standard Actions:
Stab
Up to three melee weapon attacks: single target
within reach for each. Action point cost is equal to
the number of attacks being made.
Bludgeon
Up to three melee weapon attacks: single target
within reach for each. Action point cost is equal to
the number of attacks being made.
Crowbar
This simple tool consists of a metallic rod with
curved ends. It has often proven to be an effective
way for prying open objects and containers, and
given its hardened metallic nature also functions
well when used as a type of club.
Traits:
Lever Tool
This item makes for effective use as a lever. You
gain a +2 dice pool modifier for all checks
attempting to pry open doors and containers.
Standard Actions:
Bludgeon
Up to three melee weapon attacks: single target
within reach for each. Action point cost is equal to
the number of attacks being made.

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Sledgehammer
This large hammer can strike foes and objects with
potent force behind it. However, it is significantly
heavier than other types of simple close-range
weapons. As a result, it requires a fair degree of
strength by an individual to be wielded effectively.
Standard Actions:
Bludgeon
Up to three melee weapon attacks: single target
within reach for each. Action point cost is equal to
the number of attacks being made.
Sword
An elegant blade which can take on a variety of
different shapes. Larger than a dagger, this item
can be stowed away in a sheath or other such type
of container.
Standard Actions:
Slash
Up to three melee weapon attacks: single target
within reach for each. Action point cost is equal to
the number of attacks being made.
Reactive Actions:
Parry & Riposte
When faced with an incoming melee weapon
attack, you can attempt to try and parry it. You gain
a +2 dice pool modifier on your initial check to try
and defend yourself, and if successful, you can
immediately make a single attack using this
weapon back against the same target.
Punching Dagger
Mounted onto a horizontal hand grip, the punching
dagger is a medium-sized blade that can pierce
through most basic clothing and light armour.
Many weapons of this type have a retractable
spring-mounted blade, allowing the weapon to be
quickly drawn and concealed as required.
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Standard Actions:
Thrust
Up to three melee weapon attacks: single target
within reach for each. Action point cost is equal to
the number of attacks being made.
Katana
This long, curved blade is probably one of the most
well-known types of swords in existence. Having
made a resurgence on the streets these past few
years, the Katana has proven to be one of the more
popular choices for those who want a little more
style and finesse when choosing to make their
attacks.
Standard Actions:
Slash
Up to three melee weapon attacks: single target
within reach for each. Action point cost is equal to
the number of attacks being made.
Reactive Actions:
Parry & Riposte
When faced with an incoming melee weapon
attack, you can attempt to try and parry it. You gain
a +2 dice pool modifier on your initial check to try
and defend yourself, and if successful, you can
immediately make a single attack using this
weapon back against the same target.
3.11 Thrown Weapons
Thrown weapons are, as you
would suspect, intended to
be hurled towards an enemy.
They can come in all shapes
and sizes, ranging from
simple throwing daggers and
shurikens to deployable nets
and grenades.
All thrown weapons can be wielded in a single
hand and are governed by the Thrown Weapons
skill for determining the size of your dice pool.
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Name Range Dmg Pen Props Wt Con Rest Cost
Throwing Knife /
6/12/18 m 2d4 P 2P Metallic, Recoverable 0.25 kg VE 1L 50
Shuriken
Metallic,
Deployable Net 10/20/30 m - - 0.4 kg E 1L 200
Recoverable, Scatter

Metallic,
Grenade, MK-1 Smoke 16/32/48 m - - 0.4 kg E 1R 350
Recoverable, Scatter

Molotov Cocktail 16/32/48 m 2d6 H - Scatter 0.4 kg E 1O 150

Grenade, MK-1
16/32/48 m - - Metallic, Scatter 0.4 kg E 2R 400
Concussion
Metallic,
Grenade, EMP-1 16/32/48 m - - 0.4 kg E 2R 400
Recoverable, Scatter

Metallic,
Grenade, MK-1 Gas 16/32/48 m - - 0.4 kg E 2R 450
Recoverable, Scatter

Grenade, MK-1
16/32/48 m 6d6 P 2P Metallic, Scatter 0.4 kg E 2O 450
Fragmentation
Grenade, MK-2 Heated Metallic,
16/32/48 m - - 0.4 kg E 3R 500
Smoke Recoverable, Scatter

Grenade, HE-1 16/32/48 m 2d6 H, 6d6 P 8P Metallic, Scatter 0.4 kg E 3O 550

Grenade, MK-1
16/32/48 m 5d6 H - Metallic, Scatter 0.4 kg E 3O 650
Incendiary

Above: The thrown weapons overview table.

Throwing Knife/Shuriken Standard Actions:

This simple aerodynamic bladed instrument is
light enough to be thrown towards a nearby
enemy target. Due to its small size, this weapon
is relatively easy to conceal without drawing too
much attention, and thanks to its metallic nature, it
is also quite durable.
Standard Actions:
Throw
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Grenade Toss
Targeting a location within range, you attempt to
throw the deployable net towards its general
vicinity.
All characters within two meters of the impact
point must make a generic Foresight + Reflex
attribute check, with a success target of four.
Those that fail the check are caught up in the
weighted net and are restrained by it (see Status
Effects, page 233).

Volley of Knives Each target restrained in this way can use a

Up to three ranged weapon attacks: single target standard action to try and repeat the check
within range for each. above, ending its effects in the event of a success.
The GM may also rule that by dealing a sufficient
amount of damage to the net, targets trapped by it
Deployable Net may be able to escape more easily.

Comprising of a weighted metallic net compacted After deployment, an individual can use a standard
into a small spherical device, this grenade-like action to load the net back into its container.
canister can be thrown towards a target or nearby This task must be completed before the weapon
location. Using a combination of different sensors, can be used once again.
the canister can calculate the perfect moment
it needs to activate, successfully deploying its
payload onto the surrounding targeted area.

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Grenade, MK-1 Smoke
This close-quarters tactical grenade excels at
momentarily blocking vision within an area.
On detonation, the equipment expels forth a
continuous stream of smoke, making it difficult for
those who are nearby to see through it.
Standard Actions:
Grenade Toss
Targeting a location within range, you attempt to
throw the grenade towards its general vicinity.
On reaching its destination, the grenade
immediately detonates, spreading smoke in a
six-meter radius around the point of impact. This
area is considered to be heavily obscured for the
next minute, whereby it then becomes lightly
obscured for an additional minute after that.
The smoke from this weapon does not affect the
use of thermographic vision. Anyone using this
type of vision will be able to see as per usual.
Additionally, this weapon system must be loaded
with a new smoke payload to function again after
being recovered. Acquiring such an item usually
costs half the grenade’s total marketing price.
Molotov Cocktail
Simple yet surprisingly effective, the Molotov
Cocktail is a weapon that has been with us for over
a century now. Comprised of a highly flammable
liquid contained within a bottle or other such
container, this projectile-based weapon can burn
through all manner of protective gear and armour.
Standard Actions:
Grenade Toss
Targeting a location within range, you attempt to
throw the cocktail towards its general vicinity. All
characters within two meters of the detonation
point must make a generic Foresight + Reflex
attribute check with a success target of three.
Those that fail this check take the full incoming
damage and are immediately set aflame. However,
targets that succeeded on the check only take half
of this amount and suffer no other side effects. At
the GM’s discretion, flammable items and materials
currently residing within the area can also be set
alight.
While left in this immolated state, an individual will
continue to take 2d6 further heat damage at the
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start of each new round of combat. This effect can
be ended early with a standard action , either by
performing a stop, drop, and roll manoeuvre
themselves or from a pat-down by someone else
who is currently within melee reach. Regardless,
this weapon’s effects are said to automatically end
after a minute of time has passed.
Grenade, MK-1 Concussion
This close-quarters tactical grenade excels at
momentarily disabling multiple nearby targets
within a compact area. The device sends out an
incredibly potent loud bang and an intense flash of
white light on detonation.
Those unfortunate enough to be nearby when
this happens are often left temporarily blinded
and deafened before becoming bewildered and
confused for a short duration after that.
Standard Actions:
Grenade Toss
Targeting a location within range, you attempt to
throw the grenade towards its general vicinity.
All characters within four meters of the detonation
point must make a generic Foresight + Reflex
attribute check with a success target of four.
Targets that fail the weapon’s check are considered
blinded and deafened, while those that succeed are
disorientated instead (see Status Effects, page
233).
Regardless of the outcome, these effects last until
the next round of combat ends.
Grenade, EMP-1
This close-quarters tactical grenade excels
at disabling computerised devices and other
electronic equipment for a short duration. On
detonation, the equipment sends out a powerful
electromagnetic pulse causing electronics within
its area of effect to fail momentarily.
Standard Actions:
Grenade Toss
Targeting a location within range, you attempt to
throw the grenade towards its general vicinity.
All characters within five meters of the detonation
point can make a generic Foresight + Reflex
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attribute check with a success target of four. Those
who succeed on the check dive out of the way
before the electromagnetic pulse is released,
falling prone in the next available unoccupied
space.
All electronic equipment within the above blast
radius is instantly overloaded, causing it to switch
off immediately. Until the end of the next round of
combat, all of the equipment affected in this way
can neither be used nor switched back on.
After detonation, this weapon system must be
recharged for 5 hours before its EMP pulse can
function again.
Grenade, MK-1 Gas
This versatile close-quarters tactical grenade
can house one of many chemical agents. On
detonation, its gaseous payload is ejected, covering
the nearby surrounding area with its various
effects.
However, it is important to note that this item is
merely the container and delivery mechanism for
a chemical agent and does not include a suitable
payload. That must be purchased separately.
Standard Actions:
Grenade Toss
Targeting a location within range, you attempt to
throw the grenade towards its general vicinity.
On reaching its destination, the grenade
immediately detonates, spreading its chemical
agent in a six-meter radius around the point of
impact. Read the payload’s properties, conducting
any required checks to determine its effects.
After being recovered, this weapon system must be
loaded with a new chemical payload for it to be
able to function once again.
Grenade, MK-1 Fragmentation
Armed with a miniaturised explosive trigger,
fragmentation grenades are packed full of
sharpened metal and small iron pellets. When the
weapon detonates, it releases its deadly payload of
shrapnel, propelled outwards at high speed.
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These weapons are often incredibly effective
against unarmoured targets, as their sharp metallic
contents can easily penetrate soft tissue and bone.
Standard Actions:
Grenade Toss
Targeting a location within range, you attempt to
throw the grenade towards its general vicinity. All
characters within eight meters of the detonation
point must make a generic Foresight + Reflex
attribute check with a success target of four.
Those who fail this check take the full incoming
damage as normal and suffer two stacks of
bleeding, providing they lost at least one hit point.
Targets that succeeded on the check only take half
the incoming damage and suffer one stack of
bleeding, providing they lost at least one hit point.
Grenade, MK-2 Heated Smoke
Improving on the MK-1 smoke grenade, this
equipment is intended to rectify the issue of
thermographic vision nullifying the effects of the
weapon system. By replacing the smoke with a
heated variant, both normal and thermographic
vision is momentarily blocked from seeing through
the detonation area.
Of course, given the extra potency this equipment
requires, it has a higher price tag than its previous
version.
Standard Actions:
Grenade Toss
Targeting a location within range, you attempt to
throw the grenade towards its general vicinity.
On reaching its destination, the grenade
immediately detonates, spreading smoke in a
six-meter radius around the point of impact. This
area is considered to be heavily obscured for the
next minute, whereby it then becomes lightly
obscured for an additional minute after that. This
obscurity works on both standard vision, as well as
thermographic.
After being recovered, this weapon system must be
loaded with a new smoke payload to function
again. Acquiring such an item should usually cost
half the grenade’s total marketing price.
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Grenade, HE-1 most other attacks, however, targets cannot
benefit from using cover.
With a potent high explosive payload at the ready,
this close-quarters tactical grenade excels at
Those that fail this check take the full incoming
clearing out everyone from inside a room, as well
damage and are immediately set aflame. However,
as then blowing up the room itself. While it has
targets that succeeded on the check only take half
a smaller blast radius than its fragmentation
of this amount and suffer no other side effects. At
brethren, its increased penetration and the addition
the GM’s discretion, flammable items and materials
of a secondary fire wave make for an overall more
currently residing within the blast radius can also
deadly device.
be set alight.

Standard Actions: While left in this immolated state, an individual will

Grenade Toss
Targeting a location within range, you attempt to
throw the grenade towards its general vicinity.
All characters within six meters of the detonation
point must make a generic Foresight + Reflex
attribute check with a success target of four. Those
that fail the weapon’s check take the full incoming
damage, while those that succeed take half of this
amount instead.
Grenade, MK-1 Incendiary
Utilising a payload comprised mostly of compact
phosphorous, this grenade can produce a highly
intense explosion of heat and flame. While
limited to a reasonably small blast radius, those
unfortunate enough to be caught inside are unlikely
to make it out alive.
continue to take 3d6 further heat damage at the
start of each new round of combat. This effect can
be ended early with a standard action , either by
performing a stop, drop, and roll manoeuvre
themselves or from a pat-down by someone else
who is currently within melee reach. Regardless,
this weapon’s effects are said to automatically end
after a minute of time has passed.
3.12 Exotic Weapons
Exotic weapons are reserved
for those items that are more
unusual or more challenging to
find. While this does not mean
they are ineffective in what they
can do, it does mean that few
individuals will consider them as
their go-to weapon of choice.

Standard Actions:
Grenade Toss
Targeting a location within range, you attempt to
throw the grenade towards its general vicinity. All
characters within four meters of the detonation
point must make a generic Foresight + Reflex
attribute check with a success target of four. Unlike
The Exotic Weapons skill governs each item’s
use and determines the size of your dice pool
when attempting to attack with them. Like with
traditional melee weapons, certain pieces of
equipment might favour one related attribute
over another, though these have been detailed
in the table below, along with their various other
statistics.

Name Attr Range Dmg Pen Props Han Wt Con Rest Cost
Bolas Str 8/16/24 m 1d6 + Str P - Metallic, Recoverable 1 1.25 kg E 1L 75
Bayonet Str Melee 1d4 + Str P 2P Metallic - 0.5 kg E 1L 100
Nunchaku Fin Melee 1d6 + Fin P - Metallic 1 0.5 kg A 1L 250
Computerised
Peace Keeper
Str Melee 2d4 E - Device, Metallic, 1 1.75 kg A 1L 600
Stun Baton Water Susceptibility

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Name Attr Range Ammo Dmg Pen Props Han Wt Con Add-ons Rest Cost
Computerised General,
Splinter Device, Metallic, sight, under
Fin 8/16/24 m Darts 2d4 P 1P 1 1 kg E 1R 650
Dart Gun Simple Reloading, barrel. Small
Stealthy only.

General,
Poseidon Computerised sight, under
Harpoon Fin 10/20/30 m Harpoons 3d8 P 6P Device, Metallic, 2 3 kg D barrel. Small 1R 1,550
Launcher Simple Reloading & medium
only.

General,
Computerised
sight, under
Valkyrie Device, Metallic,
Fin 12/24/36 m Darts 3d4 P 2P 2 2 kg D barrel. Small 2R 1,250
Dart Rifle Simple Reloading,
& medium
Stealthy
only.

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Name RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
Peace Keeper Stun Baton 2 12 m 2 3 2
Splinter Dart Gun 2 12 m 2 2 2
Poseidon Harpoon Launcher 2 12 m 2 2 2
Valkyrie Dart Rifle 2 18 m 3 3 2

Above: The exotic weapons overview tables.

Bolas bolas off their legs, freeing themselves from its

Comprised of a series of metallic weights
interconnected with a piece of cord, this throwing
weapon is intended to be flung towards a nearby
enemy target.
Some will use this weapon to batter their target
into submission through the sheer impact force of
the weights, while others will hope to disable an
opponent by aiming for and entangling their legs.
Standard Actions:
ensnarement.
Bayonet
This dagger-like bladed weapon is fitted onto a
firearm’s muzzle, allowing it to be used as a pike
or spear in melee combat.
While many see a bayonet as little more than a last
resort, it does have practical uses as an effective
survival knife or wire cutter when out in the field.

Toss
Up to three ranged weapon attacks: single target
within range for each. Action point cost is equal to
the number of attacks being made.
Ensnare
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Traits:
Charge!
By moving at least three meters towards the
target, the first attack made with this weapon on
the same combat turn should deal an additional
2d4 physical damage if successful.

On hit: Your attack deals half the usual amount of

damage, but the bolas wrap around the target’s Standard Actions:
legs, impeding their ability to move. Any movement
they decide to make while in this state incurs Stab
double the usual movement speed cost. Up to three melee weapon attacks: single target
within reach for each. Action point cost is equal to
The target can use a standard action to pull the

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the number of attacks being made.
Nunchaku
Popularised by the martial arts artists of old, the
nunchaku is quite the exotic weapon of choice to be
wielding out on the streets of 2107.
Consisting of two sticks interconnected at one end
by a short chain, the nunchaku heavily enforces
self-restraint and an improved posture, as it
often has a liability of hitting its wielder when not
properly used.
The weapon can either be used as a blunt
instrument, swinging at targets directly with one
of the two sticks, or attempt to disarm them by
wrapping the chain around a currently held object.
Standard Actions:
Bludgeon
Up to three melee weapon attacks: single target
within reach for each. Action point cost is equal to
the number of attacks being made.
Disarming Strike
Melee weapon attack: single unshielded target
within reach.
On hit: Your attack does no damage; however, you
can wrap the nunchaku around one of the target’s
weapons. With a quick tug, you effortlessly disarm
them of it, throwing the item to the ground one
meter away in a random direction.
Peace Keeper Stun Baton
Popular with both enforcers and riot control police,
this baton appears as a metallic club-like object
with a faint blue glow towards its top. By making
contact with its electrically conductive end, the
weapon unleashes a powerful shock that can easily
disable a target individual without having to cause
grievous bodily harm.
Standard Actions:
Stun
Melee weapon attack: single target within reach.
On hit: If the target is unshielded, they must make a
generic Endurance + Will attribute check with a
success target of three. In the event of a failure,
they immediately drop unconscious, while if they
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succeed on the check, they are disorientated
instead (see Status Effects, page 233).
Regardless of the check’s outcome, the effects of
this action are said to dissipate at the end of the
current round of combat.
Splinter Dart Gun
Resembling a pistol-like weapon, the Splinter Dart
Gun is a small compressed air-powered armament
that can fire specialised lightweight darts and
other such suitable projectiles.
With its ability to be easily concealed and little in
the way of noise generation on use, this weapon
has become a popular choice for those who wish to
slip by unnoticed.
Standard Actions:
Fire Dart
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: A
Valkyrie Dart Rifle
As the larger cousin of the Splinter Dart Gun,
this compressed air-powered rifle can fire darts
and other lightweight projectiles at impressive
distances.
While not quite as small or easy to conceal, the
Valkyrie often allows individuals to support their
team from a safer, more tactical firing position.
Standard Actions:
Fire Dart
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: A
Poseidon Harpoon Launcher
With its ability to launch harpoons of almost one
meter in length, the Poseidon is a weapon that,
while a little unorthodox, can easily punch its way
through various types of materials.
Usable in all kinds of aquatic environments, this
weapon is a favourite for divers and sailors as an
effective means of self-defence.
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Standard Actions:
Fire Harpoon
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range.
Reload: A
3.13 Explosives
Whether it be the sudden need
for an outrageous, and highly
extravagant type of diversion,
or perhaps to gain access to
a secured area by blowing a
hole through a reinforced wall,
many situations can be drastically altered with the
introduction of a big ol’ pile of explosives.
From small, self-contained devices like
anti-personnel mines and breach charges, through
to cluster bombs, plastic explosives, and other
such highly destructive ordinance, a plethora of
explosive tools are available out there to use,
providing you have the right sort of connections
to get a hold of them.
Few will be surprised to learn that the Explosives
skill is what governs an individual’s knowledge
on these types of devices, including their ability to
identify specific makes and models, as well as the
potential to arm or disarm them. Each item will list
a numerical complexity here, which denotes how
difficult said device will be to interact with.
The table below should grant you an overview of
the different explosive devices that you might want
to acquire, along with their various associated
statistics. The columns from left to right are as
followed; name, complexity, damage, penetration,
properties, weight, concealment rating, combined
restriction class & level, and finally its cost.

Name Comp Dmg Pen Props Wt Con Rest Cost

IED 3 5d6 P 2P Computerised Device, Metallic 2 kg A 1O 300
ArmsCorp AP-5 Mine 4 5d6 P 4P Computerised Device, Metallic 1.5 kg A 2O 550
Computerised Device, Metallic,
Breach Charge 4 6d6 P 8P 6 kg A 3O 700
Siege Weapon
ArmsCorp ATD Mine 5 8d6 P 8P Computerised Device, Metallic 4 kg A 3O 800
Komaiga Typhoon 5 6d6 H - Computerised Device, Metallic 2.5 kg A 3O 875
C-7 Plastic Explosive 5 8d6 P 10 P Computerised Device, Metallic 1 kg E 4O 1250
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Count Range
IED 0 20 m
ArmsCorp AP-5 Mine 0 20 m
Breach Charge 0 20 m
ArmsCorp ATD Mine 0 20 m
Komaiga Typhoon 0 20 m
C-7 Plastic Explosive 0 20 m
Above: The explosives overview tables.
IED
Comprised of various household chemical
compounds and mechanical components, the
Improvised Explosive Device (or IED for short) is
a simple yet highly effective explosive ordinance.
While the very nature of their creation often leaves
these devices volatile and highly unstable, IEDs
are, more often than not, inexpensive and relatively
straightforward to work with.
A simplistic integrated computer allows the device
to be detonated remotely or at the expiration of a
pre-set countdown timer.
Traits:
Arm/Disarm
For the explosive to be detonated, it must first be
armed. Switching the device between an armed
and disarmed state requires a standard action
and must be physically carried out in person.
The character performing this task must make a
generic Explosives skill check, with a success
target equal to the complexity of the explosive. The
device’s state may only be changed if this check is
successful.
Explosive Payload
On detonation, the device creates an explosive
blast of nails, splinters, and other such jagged
metal. All characters within ten meters of the point
of detonation must make a generic Foresight +
Reflex attribute check with a success target of five.
Those that fail this check take the full incoming
damage as normal and suffer two stacks of
bleeding, providing they lost at least one hit point.
Targets that succeeded on the check only take half
the amount of incoming damage and instead suffer
one stack of bleeding, providing that they lost at
least one hit point.
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Noise Rating
3 2 2
4 3 2
3 3 2
4 3 2
4 3 2
5 4 2
ArmsCorp AP-5 Mine
The ArmsCorp AP-5 Mine serves as the industry’s
gold standard for anti-personnel devices on
today’s markets. With a potent fragmentation
payload and relatively simple ease of use, this
weapon system can often be seen in the hands
of criminal gangs, mercenaries, and privatised
military contractors.
One side of the device can be firmly attached to
walls and other suitable surfaces, while the other
contains a motion-based proximity trigger for
detonating its explosive payload.
Traits:
Arm/Disarm
For the explosive to be detonated, it must first be
armed. Switching the device between an armed
and disarmed state requires a standard action
and must be physically carried out in person.
The character performing this task must make a
generic Explosives skill check, with a success
target equal to the complexity of the explosive. The
device’s state may only be changed if this check is
successful.
Explosive Payload
On detonation, the device creates a concentrated
directional blast of shrapnel. All individuals within
a cone-based area (range of 4/8/12 m, spread of
5/9/13 m) originating from the point of detonation
must make a generic Foresight + Reflex attribute
check with a success target of five.
Those that fail this check take the full incoming
damage as normal and suffer two stacks of
bleeding, providing they lost at least one hit point.
Targets that succeeded on the check only take half
the amount of incoming damage and instead suffer
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one stack of bleeding, providing that they lost at
least one hit point.
Proximity Motion Detector
When armed, the mine can automatically be
detonated by triggering its motion sensor. The
sensor can detect movement up to six meters away
and with a 90-degree field of view.
A character can attempt to move past the device
without triggering this sensor but must succeed on
a generic Stealth skill check with a success target
of five. Each meter of movement required here
costs four times its usual amount.
Breach Charge
Commonly utilised by police and security
forces, these fold-out explosive charges allow
individuals to quickly and easily blast their way
through densely packed materials and hardened
surfaces. This can make for a handy diversion to
momentarily draw away a hostile target’s attention
or to create an entirely new entranceway that
shifts the odds of battle into your favour.
Traits:
Arm/Disarm
For the explosive to be detonated, it must first be
armed. Switching the device between an armed
and disarmed state requires a standard action
and must be physically carried out in person.
The character performing this task must make a
generic Explosives skill check, with a success
target equal to the complexity of the explosive. The
device’s state may only be changed if this check is
successful.
Explosive Payload
On detonation, the device creates a concentrated
directional blast. The surface the charge is
attached to immediately takes the full amount of
damage, shattering into pieces if destroyed.
All characters within a cone-based area (range of
2/4/6 m, spread of 3/5/7 m) originating from the
point of detonation must make a generic Foresight
+ Reflex attribute check with a success target of
five. Those who fail this check take the full amount
of leftover damage, while those who succeed take
half of this amount instead.
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ArmsCorp ATD Mine
Appearing as little more than a sleek, compact
metallic disk, the ArmsCorp ATD Mine is one of the
most deceptively innocent weapon systems on the
marketplace of today. With its ability to tear clean
through the armoured hulls of nearby automations,
this explosive has quickly amassed a reputation as
a frighteningly effective anti-tank device.
One side of the device is equipped with a sensitive
motion-based proximity sensor, allow for the mine
to automatically be triggered once nearby targets
begin to approach.
Traits:
Arm/Disarm
For the explosive to be detonated, it must first be
armed. Switching the device between an armed
and disarmed state requires a standard action
and must be physically carried out in person.
The character performing this task must make a
generic Explosives skill check, with a success
target equal to the complexity of the explosive. The
device’s state may only be changed if this check is
successful.
Explosive Payload
On detonation, the device creates a concentrated
explosive blast. All characters within four meters
of the point of detonation must make a generic
Foresight + Reflex attribute check with a success
target of five.
Those who fail this check take the full incoming
damage as normal, while those who succeed take
half of this amount instead.
Proximity Motion Detector
When armed, the mine can automatically be
detonated by triggering its motion sensor. The
sensor can detect movement up to two meters
away and with a 360-degree field of view.
A character can attempt to move past the device
without triggering this sensor but must succeed on
a generic Stealth skill check with a success target
of five. Each meter of movement required here
costs four times its usual amount.
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Komaiga Typhoon
Developed by Komaiga Industries, the Typhoon
is a well-respected, all-purpose, close-range
incendiary explosive. With its ability to unleash
a potent fireball of heat and flame, this device is
more than capable of incinerating all those who are
unfortunate enough to get caught in its blast.
Traits:
Arm/Disarm
For the explosive to be detonated, it must first be
armed. Switching the device between an armed
and disarmed state requires a standard action
and must be physically carried out in person.
The character performing this task must make a
generic Explosives skill check, with a success
target equal to the complexity of the explosive. The
device’s state may only be changed if this check is
successful.
Explosive Payload
On detonation, the device creates a blazing inferno.
All characters within five meters of the detonation
point must make a generic Foresight + Reflex
attribute check with a success target of five. Unlike
most other attacks, however, targets cannot
benefit from using cover.
Those that fail this check take the full incoming
damage and are immediately set aflame. However,
targets that succeeded on the check only take half
of this amount and suffer no other side effects. At
the GM’s discretion, flammable items and materials
currently residing within the blast radius can also
be set alight.
While left in this immolated state, an individual will
continue to take 3d6 further heat damage at the
start of each new round of combat. This effect can
be ended early with a standard action , either by
performing a stop, drop, and roll manoeuvre
themselves or from a pat-down by someone else
who is currently within melee reach. Regardless,
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this weapon’s effects are said to automatically end
after a minute of time has passed.
C7 Plastic Explosive
Despite being around for some forty or so years,
the C7 Plastic Explosive is still the number one
go-to compound for getting a job done well. When
something needs blowing up, there simply isn’t a
better choice.
Having been developed as the spiritual successor
to the hugely successful C4, this plastic explosive
is as stable as it is potent. Neither gunshots nor
extreme levels of heat will be able to prematurely
set off this explosive, requiring the triggering of the
device’s integrated detonator component instead.
Traits:
Arm/Disarm
For the explosive to be detonated, it must first be
armed. Switching the device between an armed
and disarmed state requires a standard action
and must be physically carried out in person.
The character performing this task must make a
generic Explosives skill check, with a success
target equal to the complexity of the explosive. The
device’s state may only be changed if this check is
successful.
Explosive Payload
On detonation, the device creates a concentrated
explosive blast. All characters within ten meters of
the point of detonation must make a generic
Foresight + Reflex attribute check with a success
target of six.
Those who fail this check take the full incoming
damage as normal, while those who succeed take
half of this amount instead.
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 3.14 Armour & Clothing Whether it’s a set of body armour to reduce the
impact of incoming rounds or some suitable
clothing to help you blend in, plenty of items are
Whether it be roaming gangs,
available that could make the difference between
private security forces, or
keeping you alive or turning into a horrible and
perhaps even overzealous
bloody mess.
police, there are plenty
of dangerous foes on the
streets of 2107 that will likely Below, you can find various armours and clothing
be armed to the teeth. While that you might want to consider. If a particular
a weapon or two can ward off some would-be item specifies a certain Equipment Slot, then
troublemakers, the more determined of these folk no other armour or clothing of the same type
might still be willing to try their luck if they see an can be worn simultaneously to it. Going from
opportunity ripe for the taking. left to right, the columns are as follows; name,
resistances, equipment slot, properties, weight,
concealment rating, time to put on & take off,
When a fight begins to break out, you will always
combined restriction class & level, and finally, its
want to know that you have the necessary
cost.
protection at hand to help keep yourself alive.

Put On / Take
Name Resist Slot Props Wt Con Rest Cost
Off
Bandanna - - - 0.1 kg VE Standard 1L 15
Clothing, Street Wear - Clothing - 1 kg A 30 s / 10 s 1L 75
Clothing, Cold Weather +2 C Clothing - 1.5 kg A 60 s / 20 s 1L 200
Tactical Camouflage Gear - Clothing - 1 kg A 60 s / 20 s 1L 250
Tactical Shield +5 P Shield Metallic 4.5 kg D Standard 1L 650
Light Armour +6 P Armour Inconspicuous 3 kg A 1 m / 30 s 1L 750
Clothing, Fine - Clothing - 1 kg A 30 s / 10 s 1L 1,000
Tactical Body Armour +9 P Armour Metallic 8 kg D 2m/1m 1L 1,750
Cumbersome,
Ballistics Shield +8 P Shield 7.5 kg I Standard 2L 1,500
Metallic

Environmental Combat +4 A, +4 H,
Armour Metallic 6.5 kg D 3 m / 1.5 m 2L 2,500
Suit +6 P, +4 R
Cumbersome,
Full Combat Armour +12 P Armour 12 kg D 3 m / 1.5 m 2L 3,250
Metallic

Cumbersome,
Hazardous Materials Suit +8 R, +8 T Armour 5 kg D 10 m / 5 m 3L 3,950
Metallic

Cumbersome,
Bomb Disposal Suit +8 H, +8 P Armour 8.5kg D 10 m / 5 m 3L 4,750
Metallic

Computerised
Device, Metallic,
Active Camouflage Suit - Armour 2.5 kg A 3 m / 1.5 m 3R 5,775
Water
Susceptibility

Host Scan Network Firewall

Name RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
Active Camouflage Suit 0 20 m 5 4 2

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Bandanna
There are many situations whereby a character
may wish to obscure their face. Perhaps a rival
gang is known to pass through this side of town, or
maybe instead, they want some sense of privacy
from all the facial recognition cameras dotted
about.
Regardless of their reasoning, the bandanna is a
tried and tested method of concealing the lower
half of someone’s face. It’s cheap but also can be
put on and taken off quickly and easily.
Clothing, Street Wear
These simplistic everyday garments are what most
of the population will use whenever they are out
and about. Whilst they do not grant any particular
benefits or bonuses per se, they make for a cheap
and efficient solution to prevent yourself from
receiving a public indecency offence.
Clothing, Cold Weather
With thick layers of insulation to cover the entire
body, this clothing is intended to help keep an
individual warm whenever they find themselves
in the world’s more harsh climates.
Traits:
Protection From Cold
While wearing this clothing, an individual is better
protected against the cold. Any checks they must
make to combat the adverse effects of a cold
environment gain a +4 dice pool modifier added to
them.
Tactical Camouflage Gear
Created for military personnel, this tactical
combat gear helps its wearer blend in more
with their current environmental surroundings.
Numerous patterns and variants can be found
on the marketplace, each suited to a particular
environment or setting.
Traits:
Camouflage
Choose one of the following pattern types: aquatic,
arctic, arid, forest, grassland, or urban. While you
remain stationary in this type of environment, you
gain a +2 dice pool modifier on any Stealth-based
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skill check that you make to try and stay hidden
from others.
Tactical Shield
Light enough to be stowed away on an individual’s
back, this see-through one-handed shield has
enough strength and durability in its design to
withstand multiple direct hits without faltering.
To use this item, an individual must currently have
a free hand available.
Light Armour
Combining a lightweight combat vest with
a padded jacket made out of highly durable
interwoven fibres, this armour is intended to serve
as an easy-to-conceal defence for rapid response
units.
While it might not offer the same level of
resistance as some of the other body armour types
on the marketplace, its cheap price point and ready
availability make it a popular choice for many
smaller groups and organisations.
Clothing, Fine
Whether it be a high-quality tuxedo or an elegant
dress, these clothes certainly help give off the
allure of both wealth and power. Whilst they might
seem a little out of place on the everyday streets,
they will fit right into a high society fundraiser or
other such types of social gathering.
Tactical Body Armour
Combining a vest of durable tri-weave fibres with
a series of liquid polymer ballistic plates, this body
armour helps protect an individual’s vital organs
from incoming small arms fire.
Ballistics Shield
Comprised of a strengthened metallic plate, this
heavy tower shield can protect its wielder almost
from head to toe. A small transparent panel is
situated towards its top, providing an adequate
view of what is happening out in front.
Like the tactical shield, this item requires an
individual to have a hand currently free to use it.
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Environmental Combat Suit
Utilising a combination of different specialist
materials, this armour is specifically designed
to better protect against a wide range of hostile
environmental conditions. Despite being unable
to completely negate high-intensity flames or
concentrated acidic substances, the Environmental
Combat suit, at the very least, noticeably reduce
the potency of their effects.
Full Combat Body Armour
Covering the arms, legs, and torso area, this
heavy-duty combat body armour can protect an
individual against all manner of small arms fire.
Hazardous Materials Suit
Best known for its use in laboratories and other
delicate working environments, this carefully made
full-body suit can protect an individual from nearby
hazardous materials and substances. With an
integrated oxygen supply lasting about 2 hours,
characters wearing this suit can continue operating
in even the most extreme toxic environments.
Traits:
Environmental Protection
Any character wearing this suit is completely
isolated from their exterior environment. While left
undamaged, they are considered immune from
airborne or contact-based poisons, diseases,
dangerous materials, and chemical and biological
compounds.
Bomb Disposal Suit
This thick, full bodysuit is made from layer upon
layer of heat-resistant interwoven fibres. With its
ability to protect its wearer from potent blasts of
extreme heat at close range, it is often the go-to
item to be worn for any delicate task that requires
using explosives.
Active Camouflage Suit
This hi-tech full-bodysuit is equipped with
numerous small cameras all over its surface. By
taking the image from one side and projecting
it onto the other, this equipment can conceal its
wearer with an invisibility like-effect.
Standard Actions:
Activate/Deactivate Active Camouflage
Enables or disables the active camouflage effect
for this equipment. While active, its wearer is
considered invisible, gaining all of the usual effects
(see Status Effects, page 233).
3.15 Field Gear to go and take a better look.

There is no telling who or what Field gear can aid you in these situations by
you might encounter when out providing tools and equipment complimenting
in the field. Perhaps a target you your abilities and talents. Need to take someone
have been tasked with capturing in alive? Use a set of restraints. Need to climb
walks into your field of view, or up the side of a tall building? Use some climbing
maybe that meetup point where equipment and grappling hooks. Need more light
a deal is scheduled to take place so that you can see easier? Take out and turn on a
has several high vantage points, and you would like flashlight.

Put On / Take
Name Props Wt Con Rest Cost
Off
Light Stick - 0.05 kg VE - 1L 5
Restraints (Plastic) - 0.01 kg VE Standard 1L 5
0.05 kg / 5/
Rope - E - 1L
meter meter
0.05 kg / 8/
Grappling Hook Metallic E - 1L
meter meter
Duffle Bag/Rucksack - 1 kg D - 1L 30
Flashlight Metallic, Water Susceptibility 0.25 kg E - 1L 50
Lock Pick Metallic 0.05 kg VE - 1L 50
Bolt Cutters Metallic 4 kg A - 1L 105
Collapsible Ladder Metallic 11 kg D - 1L 150
Jury Rigging Kit Metallic Varies Varies - 1L Varies
Climbing Gear Metallic 1 kg A 30 s / 15 s 1L 200
Tool Kit Metallic 4 kg A - 1L 200
Carrying Crate Metallic 8 kg I - 1L 250
Binoculars Computerised Device, Metallic 1 kg E - 1L 275
Forgery Kit Metallic 2 kg A - 1L 295
Gas Mask Metallic 1 kg A Standard 1L 300
Forensics Kit Metallic 3 kg A - 1L 450
Parachute Metallic 10 kg D 10 s 1L 500
Scuba Gear Metallic 20 kg D 3 m / 1.5 m 1L 750
Tactical Goggles Computerised Device, Metallic 0.5 kg A Standard 1L 3,750+
Chemistry Kit Metallic 3.5 kg A - 1R 500
Restraints (Metal) Metallic 0.5 kg E Standard 1R 50
Grappling Gun Computerised Device, Metallic 1 kg E - 1R 450

Host Scan Network Firewall

Name RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
Binoculars 0 20 m 3 2 2
Grappling Gun 2 20 m 2 2 2
Tactical Goggles 0 20 m 3 2 2

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Light Stick
This small, hand-held plastic tube contains various
chemicals within its centre. Upon being snapped,
the tube’s chemicals begin to mix, immediately
becoming a light source for the next couple of
hours.
Traits:
Illumination
While illuminating, the chemical stick creates a
well-lit zone two meters in radius and a faintly lit
area for an additional two meters thereafter.
Restraints (Plastic)
While appearing as little more than a thicker and
better enduring version of a zip tie, this plastic
restraint can quickly help secure and restrain a
target individual. Once applied, the restraint must
be cut through to release its trapped target.
Traits:
Restraint
Characters secured by these restraints suffer from
one of three different negative effects. This effect
will depend upon whether their arms, legs or a
combination of both sets of limbs are currently
being secured.
• Arms - Impaired.
• Legs - Slowed (movement speed halved).
• Both - Restrained.
The target can attempt to escape these restraints
by making a generic Endurance + Finesse attribute
check, with a success target of four. Performing
such a task requires a standard action and can
only be made for one set of restraints on each
occasion. Alternatively, a character can also
attempt to escape by cutting through the restraints
using a sharpened object.
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Rope
This simplistic, no-frills rope can support a large
amount of weight at any given time. With a
slight elasticity to its design, this product is an
excellent choice for those who wish to abseil down
dangerous terrain and other vertical surfaces.
Traits:
Climbing Aid
Once secured, characters climbing the rope gain a
+3 dice pool bonus to any Climbing-based skill
checks they attempt to make.
Grappling Hook
Consisting of a weighty hook attached to the end
of a lightweight, yet surprisingly durable cable,
the grappling hook is intended to be an effective
tool for reaching areas that would otherwise be too
difficult to access.
Traits:
Climbing Aid
Characters climbing the grappling hook and its
attached cable gain a +3 dice pool bonus to any
Climbing-based skill checks they attempt to make.
Standard Actions:
Throw
Aiming for a suitable surface or object within range,
you throw the grappling hook to attach to it.
Make a generic Thrown Weapons skill check with a
success target of three. If the GM feels the throw
range is particularly large here, they may also add
suitable penalties and modifiers to this roll.
In the event of a success, the grappling hook
latches onto its intended target, potentially
forming a new route of passage.
Duffle Bag/Rucksack
Simple in design and easy enough to throw over
one’s shoulder, this everyday storage bag can
house numerous small-sized items or a handful
of medium-sized ones.
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Flashlight Standard Actions:
Capable of projecting light for several hours, this
simple handheld tool can aid a group of individuals Extend/Retract Ladder
and their ability to see when traversing through Increases or decreases the length of the equipment
darkened environments. to your desired size.

Traits:
Jury Rigging Kit
Illumination With a generous supply of adhesive, spare
When equipped, its user can toggle a small light components, and duct tape, this kit allows a skilled
source on and off as part of a free action on one of individual to temporarily patch up a battered
their turns. automation or mechanical construct.

While illuminating, the flashlight creates a well-lit
zone that is seven meters long towards the
direction it is currently facing and a faintly lit area
for seven meters afterwards.
While it will do little to reinforce the target’s
structural integrity nor serve as a suitable
replacement for making repairs during downtime, it
may be enough to hold something together to end
a firefight or to get out of harm’s way.

Lock Pick
Number
Despite the rise of computerised locking Kit Type Wt Con Cost
of Uses
mechanisms, many individuals still rely on the
good ol’ fashioned mechanical-based locks. While Scrap Box 8 1.5 kg E 150
a talented individual might be able to manipulate Service Kit 16 3 kg A 275
them with a hairpin or paper clip, it becomes much
Emergency
easier to do so when you have the proper tools at 24 4.5 kg A 400
Repair Kit
your disposal.

The Lock Pick allows a character to manipulate

mechanical-based locks using their Lock Picking
skill.
Bolt Cutters
This large two-handed tool is a regular for those
needing to get somewhere they probably should
not be. With ample cutting force at its disposal, this
equipment can easily slice through metal fencing,
wires, and padlocks.
The Bolt Cutters’ handles are made of quality
polymer, allowing users to avoid electrocution
when cutting through a live wire.
Collapsible Ladder
Standard Actions:
Jury Rig
Targeting a mechanical-based entity within your
melee reach, you quickly begin to get to work
patching up any immediate signs of damage.
Make a generic mechanical-based skill check, using
whichever skill is deemed most appropriate by the
GM. With a success target of three, the target’s
current damage accumulation penalties are
considered to be reduced in effectiveness by one
die in the event of a success.
The kit’s effects last up to one hour, and like with
painkillers, they can be stacked multiple times
through repeated use.

Featuring an easy-to-use telescopic design, this

equipment excels at helping to traverse all manner
Climbing Gear
of hazards when out in the field. While small
enough to be stowed away on an individual’s back, Comprised of specialist footwear, gloves, and
much like a rucksack or shield, the ladder can a safety harness, this equipment provides an
quickly extend to about 5 meters in length. individual with the necessary tools to climb
large-scale objects and terrain.
This equipment is marked as having a maximum
weight capacity of around 150 kg.

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Traits:
Climbing Aid
Wearing this equipment grants characters a +3 dice
pool bonus to any Climbing-based skill checks. This
effect can stack with the use of a grappling hook.
Tool Kit
This neatly packed assortment of tools comes
with a wide array of apparatus, including pliers,
screwdrivers, wire cutters, and wrenches. A
skilled individual can utilise these when carrying
out various engineering-based tasks, including;
breaking open a nearby electrical panel, severing
cables and wires, or repairing a damaged
automation.
Carrying Crate
Big, heavy, and often large enough to require two
individuals to move, this crate can house several
difficult-to-conceal items within its interior.
Binoculars
This telescopic optical device can view images and
objects in great detail from some distance away.
While the Binoculars require a clear line of sight to
function, images captured by it can be streamed
back and shared with others.
Traits:
Binoculars
This equipment allows a character to make
visual-based Perception skill checks without
suffering a negative dice pool penalty or success
target increase due to their distance. It has an
effective range of roughly 1,000 meters.
When struck by an EMP, this equipment can still be
used manually; however, any data streaming
functionality will be unable to function.
Standard Actions:
Sync to Device
Spending a moment of your time, you call for the
binoculars to be synced with a different device. You
must know the target device’s current network
address and the device’s owner must be willing for
the sync to be successful.
So long as this connection is maintained, all future
captures made by the equipment will automatically
be streamed to the synced device.
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Forgery Kit
Often utilised by criminal organisations and gangs,
this kit contains everything one needs to attempt
to create or modify a forged document. Papers,
specialist inks, microchips, and blank keycards are
all included as standard, along with a microscope
to inspect a document’s finer details.
Gas Mask
Designed to cover the lower half of an individual’s
face, this mask helps better protect its wearer
against airborne hazards and toxins while not
hampering their field of view. The in-built filters
require periodic cleaning after a prolonged period
of use.
Traits:
Air Filtration
A character wearing this mask receives a +3 bonus
to their dice pool whenever they attempt to resist
or end an effect caused by an inhalation-based
airborne hazard or toxin.
Forensics Kit
This standardised kit comprises fingerprint tape,
various chemicals, fluorescent and magnetic
powders, and multiple brushes for helping in
an investigation. It is most often utilised by law
enforcement officials across the globe.
Parachute
Comprised of a canopy attached to a backpack
with various wires, this tried and tested equipment
can often be a lifesaver in hazardous high-altitude
environments.
Traits:
Minimum Safe Distance
This equipment requires some amount of time to
deploy correctly. It will prove ineffective for any
fall or drop less than 50 meters in height.
Slow Fall
Once deployed, this equipment allows an individual
to make a slow and controlled descent. They ignore
all fall damage and can land on the ground upright.
After deployment, the parachute must be repacked
to be usable once again.
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Scuba Gear
Whether you are looking for a recreational swim or
a stealthier method of approaching that riverside
compound, this equipment can allow an individual
to disappear beneath the waves for an extended
duration.
Traits:
Underwater Breathing
A character wearing this diving equipment can
breathe normally in a low-oxygen environment.
The supplied tank has enough volume to provide
one person up to 2 hours of dive time before
requiring a refill.
Tactical Goggles
This optoelectronic device is often utilised by
individuals required to operate in low-light
conditions. With various cameras on the
marketplace, these goggles can provide users with
several types of enhanced vision without resorting
to cybernetic enhancements.
At the time of its purchase, a character should look
to specify which type of vision they would like to
acquire. The choice made should have its additional
cost added to the base amount of the goggles
themselves to form the total cost for the coming
transaction.
Vision Type Additional Cost
Low-light +0
Night Vision +1,000
Thermographic +1,250
Traits:
Visual Enhancer
While equipped, the wearer of these goggles gains
the enhanced vision type purchased alongside it.
Standard Actions:
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Toggle Vision
Toggles on or off the goggles assigned vision type.
Chemistry Kit
While this kit may appear purely academic, with
various beakers, mixing tools and instruments,
looking a little more carefully, you will find a wide
assortment of potent chemicals and powders.
Those who are competent enough can utilise their
Chemistry skill to create various compounds and
dangerous substances.
Restraints (Metal)
These heavy-duty metallic restraints are more
than capable of securing and restraining a target
individual. Once applied, the restraint can be
released using the provided key.
Traits:
Restraint
Characters secured by these restraints suffer from
one of three different negative effects. This effect
will depend upon whether their arms, legs or a
combination of both sets of limbs are currently
being secured.
• Arms - Impaired.
• Legs - Slowed (movement speed halved).
• Both - Restrained.
The target can attempt to escape these restraints
by making a generic Endurance + Finesse attribute
check, with a success target of five. Performing
such a task requires a standard action and can
only be made for one set of restraints on each
occasion.
Alternatively, a character can also be released by
picking the locking mechanism. This will require a
generic Lock Picking skill check with a success
target of three and must be performed with the
appropriate tools.
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Grappling Gun latches onto its intended target, potentially
forming a new route of passage.
Powered by a compact gas cylinder at its rear,
this pistol-like weapon can propel grappling
Reload: A
hooks through the air to reach far off-targets.
In an emergency, the pistol can also function as
a traditional firearm, damaging individuals and
targets through its fired hook’s sheer force of
impact. 3.16 Electronic Gadgets &
Accessories
Skill: Guns: Pistols [Finesse]
In addition to PCDs, many
Range: 30/60/90 m
different electronic items,
Ammunition: Grappling Hooks gadgets, and devices can
help an individual achieve
a certain task or goal. They
Damage: 2d4 P may require some fibre optic
Penetration: - cable to establish a hard-wired
connection to a nearby terminal or a device that
Handed: 1 hand
can break through an electronic-based lock.
Regardless of what it might be, there are many
Standard Actions: gadgets out there that can aid an individual when
out in the field.
Fire Grappling Hook
Ranged weapon attack: single target within range. Below you can find everything a mercenary could
need for an upcoming mission, whether a veteran
Alternatively, if you attempt to attach the hook to a or rookie. The columns from left to right are as
nearby location or object, you can make a generic follows; name, properties, weight, concealment
Guns: Pistol skill check with a success target of rating, combined restriction class & level, and
three. In the event of a success, the grappling hook finally, its cost.
Name Props Wt Con Rest Cost
Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Bulwark Shield 6 kg D 2L 4,000
Susceptibility
Code Breaker Metallic, Water Susceptibility 0.15 kg VE Varies Varies
Cred Chip Metallic 0.01 kg VE 1L 10
Cybernetic Modulator Metallic 0.5 kg E 1L 7,500
Data Chip Metallic 0.01 kg VE 1L 25
Fibre Optic Cable Metallic 0.1 kg / meter E 1L 10 / meter
Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Flapjack Grenade Shield 5.5 kg D 3R 5,250
Susceptibility
Keycard Copier Metallic, Water Susceptibility 0.25 kg VE 1O 200
Laser Tripwire Metallic, Water Susceptibility 0.25 kg VE 1L 100
Metal Detector Metallic, Water Susceptibility 0.5 kg E 1L 250
Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Micro Camera 0.1 kg VE 1L Varies
Susceptibility
Micro Communicator Metallic, Water Susceptibility 0.05 kg VE 1L 75
Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Network Jammer 0.5 kg E Varies Varies
Susceptibility
Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Pylon Shield 4.5 kg D 3L 6,500
Susceptibility
Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Surveillance Jammer 0.5 kg E Varies Varies
Susceptibility
Tracking Bug Metallic 0.005 kg VE Varies Varies
X-Ray Scanner Metallic, Water Susceptibility 0.5 kg E Varies Varies

Host Scan Network Firewall

Name RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
Bulwark Shield 0 20 m 3 3 2
Flapjack Grenade Shield 0 20 m 3 3 2
Micro Camera 0 20 m 3 2 2
Network Jammer 0 20 m 3 3 2
Pylon Shield 0 20 m 3 3 2
Surveillance Jammer 0 20 m 3 3 2

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Bulwark Shield
Often utilised by security forces and tactical
law enforcement, the Bulwark Shield is a
well-respected and reliable form of deployable
cover. Individuals who take refuge behind the
barrier are better protected against incoming
attacks and can more effectively hold their ground.
The device can be powered by its built-in battery
pack or connected to the nearby mains with a
retractable ten-meter extension cord.
Traits:
Bulwark Shield
Once activated, the Bulwark Shield will emit a
potent energy barrier, protecting itself and all
individuals behind it. Any hostile projectiles, psionic
powers, or attacks attempting to pass through this
barrier detonate immediately, dealing full damage
to it instead of its intended target.
Characters can pass on freely through the shield;
however, doing so incurs an additional movement
speed cost of two meters. The shield stretches for
up to two meters in width and height in front of the
device and has 40 shielding in total (with ten
resistance to all damage types). Any shielding that
is lost will slowly regenerate over the next three
hours.
The shield is immune to mental-based damage, and
despite being mostly see-through, it should be
considered full cover for those behind it.
Standard Actions:
Extend/Retract Shield
You spend a moment of your time turning on or off
the device’s shield generator. This action can be
carried out physically in person or remotely while
connected to the device.
Code Breaker
Taking on the appearance of a small
circular-shaped device, similar to that of a
watch face, the Code Breaker can hack an
electronic-based locking mechanism. While
it might not be the fastest of machines, this
equipment is virtually guaranteed to eventually
guess the right combination to any lock.
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Once connected, the Code Breaker will iterate
through thousands of combinations until it finds
the right choice. Beware, however, as many
high-end electronic locks include anti-tampering
circuitry built into them. Using the Code Breaker
against such devices will likely cause them to lock
down.
Version Restrictions Cost
1 1O 650
2 2O 1,250
3 3O 2,000
4 4O 3,500
5 5O 6,125
Traits:
Code Breaker
Once connected to an electronic-based locking
mechanism, the Code Breaker will begin its attempt
to break in.
This process should utilise an ongoing check, with a
success target equal to the lock’s firewall rating
and a short-based task length. For each interval,
roll a dice pool equal to the version number of the
Code Breaker and record the number of passes
achieved.
This device cannot botch on its attempts to break
into an electronic lock.
Standard Actions:
Connect/Disconnect Device
Spending a moment of your time, you connect or
disconnect the device from an electronic lock
within your reach.
Cred Chip
While gaining access to or using your funds can
often be as quick and simple as a swipe on your
PCD, many prefer to utilise a piece of equipment
known as a Cred Chip.
In a day and age where every movement and
transaction is being tracked, categorised, and
quantified, there is a growing movement for
making monetary transfers off the grid. Cred Chips
help the population achieve this very goal, allowing
funds to be anonymously transferred from one
or multiple bank accounts onto a small portable
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electronic chip. Wherever this chip goes, so too do Fibre Optic Cable
the funds that have been transferred onto it.
This simplistic yet durable fibre optic cable allows
two devices to communicate over a hard-wired
Cred Chips can help pay for items and services or connection.
even move credits into a new bank account. They
are widely considered a legal form of tender, and
Covered in a protective metallic sheath, this
as rumours would certainly have it, they serve
equipment can survive light punishment without
as the primary go-to method to facilitate money
affecting its ability to transmit data. Weights
laundering.
and costs are listed per meter, with most sellers
capable of cutting the cable to order.
Regardless of their use, however, Cred Chips can
hold up to 10 million credits at any given time.
Flapjack Grenade Shield
Cybernetic Modulator Extending to roughly 1.25 meters after deployment,
the Flapjack is a sizeable, tripod-based electronic
With the rise of cybernetics, many Cyterians took device. This equipment can track and shoot down
it upon themselves to find ways to better integrate all nearby passing grenades using a sophisticated
with these enhancements. While many approaches suite of environmental sensors and a top-mounted
were tried over the years, only one was considered miniaturised scattershot.
reliable enough, which could be mass-produced to
satisfy an ever-growing demand.
The Flapjack requires magazines of shells to fire its
mounted weapon systems and must be reloaded by
Entering the marketplace with the promise of hand.
finally allowing Cyterians to join the augmentation
craze, the Cybernetic Modulator allows their core
systems to integrate with these enhancements Traits:
seamlessly.
Grenade Shield
Traits: Once activated, the Flapjack will continuously
monitor its nearby surroundings to shoot down
potential incoming threats. Any grenade (whether
Cybernetic Modulator
handheld or the launcher variety) and other similar
This modulator allows for a Cyterian to be better
objects are said to be shot out of the air by its
protected against the effects of cybernetics
mounted scattershot once they pass within 20
sickness. While installed, ten whole points of
meters of the device.
rejection rating that they might have amassed from
their cybernetic enhancements are said to be
The Flapjack will regard any projectile passing
suppressed indefinitely.
towards its current location as hostile, even those
an ally had thrown. Once its current magazine has
See Cyterian & Cybernetics (page 228,) for more
been expended of ammunition, an individual will be
information.
required to manually reload the device before being
able to fire once again.
Data Chip
Reload: 2
While Cred Chips can hold funds and transfer them
into other accounts, Data Chips, as their name
suggests, can store computerised data and move Standard Actions:
them between different devices.
Activate/Deactivate Device
With a similar profile and weight to the old micro Spending a moment of your time, you physically
storage cards of the early 21st century, Data Chips secure the device onto the ground and activate its
can easily be carried about on your person or kept surveillance routines.
hidden in storage. They have enough memory
space to contain many files, including text-based
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Keycard Copier
As a regular tool amongst data thieves, this device
can store an exact copy of a physical keycard.
In the hands of a skilled forger, this data can
create counterfeit copies with the same security
privileges as the original.
Standard Actions:
Copy Keycard
Spending a brief moment of your time, you quickly
scan a physical keycard through the copier. All
information currently held on the card is duplicated
onto the device’s internal storage.
Laser Tripwire
Having initially been designed for use in the home
defence market, this small piece of equipment has
become widely popular with mercenary groups and
security services.
Appearing as little more than a slim metallic
casing, the tripwire can be attached to any solid
surface and project a beam outwards in a straight
line. When a disturbance is detected, such as an
individual passing through it, the tripwire can
send a signal to a synced device, alerting it of the
event. This can make for an effective early warning
system or to detonate some nearby explosives for
maximum effect.
Traits:
Laser Tripwire
Shortly after being placed, the tripwire produces an
invisible beam travelling outwards in a given
direction. The beam can be up to 18 meters long;
however, it must contact a solid surface for the
device to function correctly.
On detecting a disturbance to the beam, the
equipment can immediately send a signal to one or
multiple suitable devices.
Standard Actions:
Sync to Device
Spending a moment of your time, you call for the
tripwire to be synced with a device. You must know
the target device’s current network address and
the device’s owner must be willing for the sync to
be successful.
So long as this connection is maintained, the
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tripwire can send further alerts to the target
device.
Metal Detector
As its name would suggest, this small hand-held
tool can detect the presence of metal within its
vicinity. Popular with law enforcement officials and
security teams, the device excels at tracking down
smuggled firearms and ammunition into restricted
areas.
Traits:
Metal Detector
While active, the equipment will automatically
detect any metallic instrument or substance within
2 meters of the direction it is currently facing.
Micro Camera
Appearing as little more than a small sphere
roughly 15 mm in diameter, this equipment can
record all nearby events occurring around it. Given
its spherical design, the camera can view all 360
degrees of its surroundings simultaneously.
Standard versions of the camera come equipped
with basic recording functionality, while several
enhanced versions are also available. These come
equipped with additional lenses and can help
provide the device with specialist types of vision.
Vision Types Cost
Standard 250
Standard, Low-light 350
Standard, Low-light, Night Vision 500
Standard, Low-light, Night Vision,
750
Thermographic
Traits:
Micro Camera
While recording, the camera can stream audio and
visual data to a synced device, allowing an
authorised user to observe all nearby events as if
they were physically there.
Users currently observing through the camera gain
access to each vision type it has been equipped
with.
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Standard Actions: Network Jammer
With its ability to flood the local airspace with
Sync to Device unintelligible data, the Network Jammer can
Spending a moment of your time, you call for the drastically slow down all nearby wireless-based
camera to be synced with a different device. You network communications.
must know the target device’s current network
address and the device’s owner must be willing for
While usually frowned upon by law enforcement
the sync to be successful.
officials and the Central Omninet Organisation,
many countries worldwide allow Network Jammers
So long as this connection is maintained, all future
to be used by authorised, licensed individuals.
recordings made by the camera will be
automatically sent to the synced device.
Jamming
Version Restrictions Cost
Toggle Recording Radius
Toggles the camera’s recording on or off. This 1 10 m 1R 1,200
action can be carried out physically in person or
remotely while connected to the camera. 2 15 m 2R 1,800
3 20 m 3R 2,700
4 25 m 4R 4,050
Micro Communicator
5 30 m 5R 6,075
Combining a miniaturised ear pierce and
microphone, this equipment allows an individual
to communicate more effectively over audio. Traits:
Background noise dampeners and an in-built
filtering system enable its wearer to hear Network Jammer
communications to an almost crystal clear level While active, the jammer floods the local airspace
of precision. with a stream of randomly generated noise. All
devices attempting to communicate with, or are
Traits: located within its jamming radius, suffer additional
latency equal to double the jammer’s version
Micro Communicator number.
Characters equipped with a communicator suffer
no additional penalties due to background noise Additionally, all regular networking
when communicating with one another. communications also become degraded within this
area. Remote computing should react more
delayed and sluggishly, hampering those who
Standard Actions: attempt to carry out their computing tasks from
afar.
Sync to Device
Communications made over a hard-wired
Spending a moment of your time, you call for the
connection are unaffected by the jammer.
communicator to be synced with a different device.
You must know the target device’s current network
address and the device’s owner must be willing for Standard Actions:
the sync to be successful.

So long as this connection is maintained, the Toggle Jammer

communicator can send and receive audio to all Turns the Network Jammer on or off. This action
other suitable equipment currently on the device’s can be carried out physically in person or remotely
network. while connected to the device.

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Pylon Shield Jamming
Version Restrictions Cost
Radius
Having been initially created as a better way of
protecting field medics on the front lines of battle, 1 5m 1R 1,000
the Pylon Shield has long since become a staple 2 10 m 2R 1,500
piece of gear for most fire teams. With a cylindrical
shape and a height of around one meter, this device 3 15 m 3R 2,250
can produce a strong bubble-like energy shield to 4 20 m 4R 3,375
protect those currently inside it.
5 25 m 5R 5,050

Traits:
Pylon Shield
Once activated, the Pylon Shield will produce a
bubble-like energy barrier, surrounding a zone of
up to five meters in radius around the device’s
location. Any hostile projectiles, psionic powers, or
attacks attempting to pass through this barrier
detonate immediately, dealing full damage to it
instead of its intended target.
Traits:
Surveillance Jammer
While active, the jammer floods its nearby
surroundings with a continuous scrambling signal
and stream of white noise. All recording devices
within the field, whether audio-based or visual, are
swiftly overwhelmed, relaying back a scrambled
mess of data to its synced device.

Characters can pass on freely through the shield;
however, doing so incurs an additional movement
speed cost of two meters. The barrier has 30
shielding, with eight resistance to all damage
types. Any shielding that is lost will slowly
regenerate over the next three hours.
The shield is immune to mental-based damage. All
characters inside its perimeter are considered
shielded from mental-based attacks and effects
that originate from its exterior.
Standard Actions:
Additionally, characters who attempt to overhear a
conversation within the field suffer a -5 dice pool
penalty on all Perception skill checks they try to
make.
Standard Actions:
Toggle Jammer
Turns the Surveillance Jammer on or off. This
action can be carried out physically in person or
remotely while connected to the device.

Turn On/Off Shield Tracking Bug

You spend a moment of your time turning on or off
the device’s shield generator. This action can be
carried out physically in person or remotely while
connected to the device.
Surveillance Jammer
Often utilised by government and corporate
intelligence groups, this simple cuboid-shaped
device is perfect for ensuring that your private
conversations and meetings stay between only the
relevant parties.
This seemingly innocent, small electronic chip can
continuously track its whereabouts worldwide.
Streaming back a bountiful supply of data, the
tracker can communicate with a synced device to
provide a real-time feed of its current position and
altitude.
Higher versions of the tracker can better mask their
networking footprint, allowing them to remain
hidden from other devices for longer.
Version Restrictions Cost

Capable of sustaining a field of constant 1 1L 150

randomised noise, in addition to a scrambling 2 1L 225
signal that hampers nearby cameras, the
3 2L 350
Surveillance Jammer can severely impede any
nearby recording equipment or individuals 4 2L 525
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Traits:
Tracking Bug
While active, the tracker will continue to stream its
exact geographical location and current altitude to
the device it has been synced with.
The tracker can be physically spotted using either a
generic Perception or Sleight of Hand skill check
(success target of five) or electronically by carrying
out the Locate Devices computing action. The
tracker has an effective network noise rating equal
to double the version number at which it was
purchased at.
Standard Actions:
Sync to Device
Spending a moment of your time, you call for the
tracker to be synced with a different device. You
must know the target device’s current network
address and the device’s owner must be willing for
the sync to be successful.
So long as this connection is maintained, the
tracker will send a continuous feed of tracking
information to this device.
Toggle Tracker
Toggles the bug’s tracking on or off. This action can
only be carried out physically in person.
X-Ray Scanner
This small handheld device can emit potent gamma
rays in a given direction. Often utilised by police
and security forces, the X-Ray Scanner can provide
an individual with the ability to partially see
through walls and other such solid objects thanks
to its holographic display.
While there has been some debate over the years
on the potential health risks of the device, various
law enforcement organisations have reassured the
public that the chances of developing cancer due to
these scans are extremely low.
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Scanning
Version Restrictions Cost
Distance
1 5m 3R 2,950
2 8m 4R 4,450
3 12 m 5R 6,750
Traits:
X-Ray Scanner
While active, the character using the handheld
device can make Perception skill checks through
walls and other solid objects. The maximum range
they can see outwards is based on its listed
scanning distance.
Objects or characters observed in this way will
generally only appear as their outline, lacking most
of their finer details. Lead will outright block the
device’s X-Ray capabilities, along with most
materials that are classed as being of type
armoured/reinforced.
3.17 Personal Computing
Devices
With the Omninet having
become such an essential part
of our everyday lives over the
past few decades, it should
be as little of a surprise that
the PCD market is in a bit of
a boom right now. Everyone
seemingly needs a device to get by, and plenty of
large corporations out there are more than willing
to provide them for us.
From keeping up to date on the latest news to
checking out the scores for the big local game,
these Personal Computing Devices will have you
covered for all your basic everyday needs.
The table below should give you an overview of
each of these items, along with their associated
statistics and effects. The columns from left
to right are as follows; name, host count, scan
range, network noise, firewall rating, RAM pool,
properties, weight, concealment rating, combined
restriction class & level, and finally, its cost.
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 Host Scan
Name Noise Firewall RAM Props Wt Con Rest Cost
Count Range
Computerised
PTX-200 5 20 m 3 2 4 Device, 0.5 kg E 1L 500
Metallic

Computerised
SimCore 5 5 30 m 4 2 3 Device, 0.75 kg E 1L 650
Metallic

Computerised
Neptuno 6 25 m 3 2 4 Device, 0.5 kg E 1L 850
Metallic

Computerised
Prism 6 20 m 3 3 4 Device, 0.5 kg E 1L 1,150
Metallic

Computerised
Iris 8 30 m 4 3 4 Device, 0.75 kg E 2L 1,950
Metallic

Computerised
Djinni Red 10 40 m 3 3 5 Device, 0.75 kg E 2L 2,100
Metallic

Computerised
Aurora 12 40 m 4 3 6 Device, 0.75 kg E 3L 3,250
Metallic

Computerised
VimX 12 50 m 5 3 5 Device, 0.75 kg E 3L 3,500
Metallic

Above: The PCDs equipment overview table.

PTX-200
Having been developed during the earlier years of
the Omninet, the PTX brand is probably one of the
oldest that still resides on today’s markets. The
PTX-200, in particular, is the latest model to be
released for this series.
With a strong following from an incredibly loyal
consumer base and an impeccable reputation
as one of the more reliable Personal Computing
Devices around, many individuals still swear by the
PTX-200 to help them organise their daily lives.
SimCore 5
Developed with strong network interconnectivity
in mind, the SimCore 5 is a reasonably low-cost
PCD that looks to take on the dominance of the PTX
brand.
Despite featuring a reduced amount of RAM, this
device is more than capable of serving the daily
needs of most individuals.
Neptuno
As the latest device to originate from the creative
minds at SymTech, the Neptuno is often seen as
a more upper market Personal Computing Device
than some of its competitors.
Boasting both a modest scan range and a
competent RAM pool, this device looks set to
achieve a promising number of sales throughout
the remainder of the year.
Prism
Coming into the marketplace as the latest product
release from the labs at IntelGen, the Prism seeks
to offer everyday citizens a safe and secure way of
helping them organise their lives.
While it might not be the most secure Personal
Computing Device ever created, it offers a fairly
respectable level of protection given its price tag.

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Iris
The Iris personal computing device is often seen as
an effective yet inexpensive solution for managing
many other systems and electronics. Complete
with a reasonably decent host count and improved
networking noise management, this device is
regularly seen in many commercial properties, both
big and small.
Djinni Red
Combining an impressive host count with a
potent wireless transmitter, the Djinni Red has
undoubtedly proven a decent success for Emirex,
their first major product to be released onto the
major worldwide markets.
Aurora
This current generation Personal Computing Device
is aimed towards small-sized commercialised
networks.
With a good reputation amongst consumers and
decent benchmarks across the board, the Aurora
has certainly proven to be a fine purchase for those
with the credits to do so.
VimX
Boasting a powerful wireless transmitter and
remarkable networking management algorithms,
the VimX has proven to be a useful tool for those
who want efficiency and low bandwidth usage.
 3.18 Cyber Command Decks types that remain unhindered by the Omniwatch
protocol. For this reason alone, Cyber Command
Decks are outlawed in many countries, with only
Beginning life as a top-secret
law enforcement officials and certain key security
project by the United States
organisations being authorised for their use.
military, the Cyber Command
Deck has long become the go-to
method for those individuals The table below should give you an overview
and organisations who wish to of each of the different decks, along with their
cause a little trouble over the associated statistics and effects. The columns
Omninet. from left to right are as follows; name, host count,
scan range, network noise, firewall rating, RAM
pool, properties, weight, concealment rating,
Complete with a variety of software and tools
combined restriction class & level, and finally, its
to help aid an individual in their illicit acts; this
cost.
tablet-sized computer system is one of the few

Host Scan
Name Noise Firewall RAM Props Wt Con Rest Cost
Count Range
Computerised
Epsilon Spark 12 25 m 3 3 6 0.75 kg E 1O 4,500
Device, Metallic

Computerised
SimPro 12 30 m 4 3 5 0.75 kg E 1O 4,950
Device, Metallic

Computerised
Orion 12 25 m 3 4 5 0.75 kg E 1O 5,250
Device, Metallic

Commutec Computerised
15 35 m 5 4 8 0.75 kg E 2O 7,000
OmniGuard Device, Metallic

Novatech Computerised
15 50 m 5 4 7 0.75 kg E 2O 7,450
Gatekeeper Device, Metallic

Computerised
Phalanx 18 40 m 6 4 8 0.75 kg E 3O 11,200
Device, Metallic

Samsura Computerised
22 60 m 6 4 6 1 kg E 3O 12,500
Nimbus Device, Metallic

Computerised
Eclipse 20 50 m 7 5 10 0.75 kg E 4O 19,750
Device, Metallic

NetCom Computerised
24 60 m 8 5 10 1 kg E 5O 29,500
Banshee Device, Metallic

Above: The CCDs equipment overview table.

Epsilon Spark SimPro

At the lower end of the price spectrum, the
Epsilon Spark is a widely available, no-frills Cyber
Command Deck. While it might not have the
highest performance benchmarks, it still offers
all the necessities for carrying out a sophisticated
cyber-attack when used in the right hands.
Produced in the labs of DataCore Inc., the SimPro
arrives on the global marketplace as the company’s
first attempt at breaking into the lucrative cyber
warfare space.
With balanced statistics across the board and a
relatively low price point to match, the SimPro
often serves as a great starting device for many
individuals just starting to enter the cybersecurity
scene.

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Orion
The Orion is a well-made and often considered
premium Cyber Command Deck. Well known for
its robust in-built security features, the device
regularly sees use by cybersecurity experts and
anyone else who has started to make a name for
themselves in the underground hacking scene.
Commutec OmniGuard
The Commutec OmniGuard is a well-protected
Cyber Command Deck aimed at local law
enforcement and black market mercenaries.
With high-end security measures built-in and a
competent RAM pool to suit, the OmniGuard is an
excellent piece of equipment for those with the
contacts necessary to obtain one.
Novatech Gatekeeper
Arriving onto the marketplace with an impressive
scan range, the Novatech Gatekeeper is an
exceptional piece of gear for those who wish to be
fully aware of their local cyberspace. Just be sure
to have the right kind of contacts to be able to get
ahold of one.
Phalanx
Coming in with a hefty price tag that often pushes
it out of the reach of most ordinary individuals, the
Phalanx is an all-purpose, high-performance Cyber
Command Deck.
Aimed towards large commercial institutions that
require top-notch cybersecurity, this device has
been incredibly successful for its maker Omnicron
Solutions.
Samsura Nimbus
While suffering from both a shortage in supply
and severe logistical issues during its first few
opening months on the marketplace, the Nimbus
has continued to go from strength to strength.
With efficient network traffic algorithms and
a top-of-the-line firewall rating to match, the
Nimbus is frequently seen as a device well worth
both the effort and expense required to track one
down.
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Eclipse
Arriving out of the German labs of KernSysteme (a
subsidiary of Beryl Lynx), the Eclipse is well-known
among government and big industry agents.
Mainly developed for use in black ops and special
forces, the Eclipse can often be a challenging piece
of gear to get ahold of. Those who know the right
sort of connections, however, soon find that this
equipment is well worth the time and hassle to do
so.
With both a potent amount of security features and
a powerful processor unit, this Cyber Command
Deck will serve you well, regardless of the current
situation in which you happen to find yourself.
NetCom Banshee
Created by the team over at NetCom, this
government-orientated Cyber Command Deck
was designed to help serve and secure military
installations across the globe.
Supporting an impressive amount of in-built
security features and a highly efficient network
traffic algorithm, this device has, for multiple years
now, been regarded as one of the best around.
3.19 Electronic
Countermeasures
Given both the prominence of cybercriminals today,
and the interconnected nature of the world that we
live in, it is always a good idea to take certain steps
that ensure your devices are sufficiently protected.
Electronic countermeasures help fulfil this task by
keeping a watchful eye over a device, deterring any
would-be intruders or data thieves.
Electronic countermeasures generally fall under
one of two different categories of software.
Both have their benefits and advantages over
one another and, as such, are often combined to
ensure that a given device has the best protection
possible. These categories are:
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 • ICE - Large-scale software applications ICE
that watch over an entire device and its
slaves. The countermeasure reacts when an While securesofts are intended
unauthorised access attempt is detected. to be small, hard-to-detect
pieces of software, ICE are much
• Securesofts - Smaller scale programs that
broader creations that look to
are more evasive and difficult to detect. This
protect an entire system from
type of software observes specific files or
unauthorised access.
functions on a device, retaliating against
those who attempt to make unauthorised
changes. Given the nature of what they
are attempting to do, ICE tends to deliver far more
potent effects than their smaller brethren. While
Countermeasures must be purchased separately
technology has not yet developed to the point
for each device you intend to install them onto.
whereby electronic code can fatally wound or kill
Should you wish to upgrade to a different device in
someone, it is not uncommon for ICE to lockout
the future, you can transfer the installed software
users from a device or overload its circuitry and
during downtime, provided you are the Root access
cause damage.
user.

Each type of ICE listed in this section includes

Additionally, all types of countermeasures come
a variety of statistics that determine their
in one of several different varieties. Represented
effectiveness at a particular type of job or role.
by a version number, this value illustrates how
These include their version number (Ver), RAM
many iterations of improvements the software’s
use (RAM), detection rating (Detect Rating), and
code has been subjected to. As the version number
its combined restriction class & level (Rest).
continues to increase for a given product, so will
its potency, restriction rating, and associated price
tag. More information about how these all work can
be found in the Computers & the Omninet chapter
featured later on in this book.

Name Description
Battering Ram Grants Basic level access rights on the attacking device.
Blackout Data bombs the attacking device, attempting to temporarily take them offline.
Glitch Periodically turns off the attacking device, hindering its ability to make a prolonged offensive.
Isolation Severs all ongoing connections between the attacking device and the rest of its network.
Lurker Installs itself onto the attacking device, allowing its actions to be tracked and monitored.
Memory Dump Interferes with the attacking device, temporarily reducing its RAM pool.
Nuke Seizes the attacking device.
Interferes with the attacking device’s main processor, hindering its ability to carry out further
Sloth
actions.
Monitors the attacking device, revealing information about its make, model, the presence of any
Sonar
installed countermeasures, and its rough geo-location.

Above: The ICE equipment overview table.

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Battering Ram
Simple in both design and function, the Battering
Ram countermeasure looks to smash its way
through a device’s defences in an attempt to install
Basic level access rights for its owner.
While no doubt lacking in style compared to some
of the other products available on the marketplace,
Battering Ram can help pave the way for a swift
and brutal counter-attack.
Blackout
The Blackout countermeasure looks to protect
its current device by knocking any attempted
attacker offline. When this countermeasure
detects a potential intruder, it immediately
launches a full-scale data bombing operation back
in retaliation. This often proves to be a quick and
efficient way of overwhelming the target device,
stopping any attempted hack while still in its
infancy.

Detect Detect
Ver RAM Rest Cost Ver RAM Rest Cost
Rating Rating
1 2 3 1L 850 1 2 3 1L 950
2 2 4 2L 1,425 2 2 4 2L 1,500
3 2 5 3L 2,050 3 2 5 3L 2,150
4 2 6 4L 2,650 4 2 6 4L 2,875
5 2 7 5L 3,300 5 2 7 5L 3,550

Traits: Traits:

ICE: Battering Ram ICE: Blackout

Trigger: A user fails on a computer Trigger: A user fails on a computer
action, targeting a device that is currently action, targeting a device that is currently
protected by this countermeasure. protected by this countermeasure.

Effect: Battering Ram immediately retaliates with
a Force Entry action against the attacking device.
The dice pool for this action should equal 10 +
double the version number of the countermeasure.
In the event of a success, Battering Ram can find a
suitable exploit, granting access to the attacking
device for its current Root user.
Effect: Blackout immediately retaliates with a Data
Bombing action against the attacking device. The
dice pool for this action should equal 10 + double
the version number of the countermeasure. On a
failure, this action does not trigger any
countermeasures currently protecting the target
device.

Should this action fail, it does not trigger the
countermeasures currently protecting the target
device. Additionally, regardless of whether it was
successful, the current Root user of the protected
device is notified of this event, any relevant actions
that were taken, and the current network address
of the attacking system.
Improved Firewall
While installed and enabled, this software
increases the firewall rating of a protected device
by one.
The current Root user of the protected device is
immediately notified of this event, any relevant
actions that were taken, and the current network
address of the attacking system.
Improved Firewall
While installed and enabled, this software
increases the firewall rating of a protected device
by one.

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Glitch Improved Firewall
While installed and enabled, this software
While Blackout looks to immediately take an
increases the firewall rating of a protected device
offensive device offline, Glitch prefers to install
by one.
itself into the background. With its ability to
periodically cause havoc, Glitch can infuriate those
who want to carry out a prolonged attack against
Isolation
their target device.
Since many cybercriminals choose to use their
device as a network host for themselves and
Detect others, it was only a matter of time before
Ver RAM Rest Cost
Rating someone came up with a countermeasure that
1 2 3 1L 775 tried to interfere with this.
2 2 4 2L 1,350
With its ability to sever all existing connections
3 2 5 3L 1,950
between the device in question and all others on
4 2 6 4L 2,500 its network, the Isolation software can often bring
5 2 7 5L 3,150 complete chaos to those who are unfortunate
enough to trigger it.

Traits:
Detect
Ver RAM Rest Cost
Rating
ICE: Glitch
Trigger: A user fails on a computer 1 2 3 1L 900
action, targeting a device that is currently 2 2 4 2L 1,550
protected by this countermeasure.
3 2 5 3L 2,150
Effect: Glitch immediately retaliates against the
4 2 6 4L 2,850
attacking device, attempting to find a suitable
vulnerability in which it can install a worm. 5 2 7 5L 3,575

Make a generic Tech: Hacking skill check using a Traits:

dice pool equal to 10 + double the version number
of this countermeasure. With a success target
equal to the current firewall rating of the triggering
device, Glitch installs its payload in the event of a
success. On a failure, this action does not trigger
any countermeasures currently protecting the
target device.
Once installed, the worm begins to observe its
surroundings and wait. Each time a user on the
infected device attempts to perform a computing
action, roll a d10. On a result of an eight or higher,
the worm immediately performs a Turn Device Off
action before the user can complete their task.
The worm can be detected through a Run
Diagnostics check on the infected device. It
requires a success target of four to be discovered
and then a further standard action to remove
it.
Regardless of whether the worm is installed, the
Root user of the protected device is notified of this
event, any relevant actions that were taken, and
the current network address of the attacking
system.
ICE: Isolation
Trigger: A user fails on a computer
action, targeting a device that is currently
protected by this countermeasure.
Effect: Isolation immediately retaliates against the
attacking device, attempting to find a suitable
vulnerability to carry out its assault.
Make a generic Tech: Hacking skill check using a
dice pool equal to 10 + double the version number
of this countermeasure. With a success target
equal to the current firewall rating of the triggering
device, Isolation carries out its tasks in the event of
a success. On a failure, this action does not trigger
any countermeasures currently protecting the
target device.
Once a suitable vulnerability has been found,
Isolation pulls the plug on the device’s connections
to the rest of its network. If the device is slaved to
another, the software immediately calls for it to
disconnect. If the device serves as a host, all
connections to it are immediately severed.
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successful, the Root user of the protected device is Effect: Lurker immediately retaliates against the
notified of this event, any relevant actions that attacking device, attempting to find a suitable
were taken, and the current network address of the vulnerability to install a worm.
attacking system.
Make a generic Tech: Hacking skill check using a
Improved Firewall dice pool equal to 10 + double the version number
While installed and enabled, this software of this countermeasure. With a success target
increases the firewall rating of a protected device equal to the current firewall rating of the triggering
by one. device, Lurker installs its payload in the event of a
success. On a failure, this action does not trigger
any countermeasures currently protecting the
Lurker target device.
While most countermeasures look to shut down
or directly impede an individual’s ability to carry Once installed, the worm begins to observe its new
out an attack, some, like Lurker, prefer to wait and home and surroundings. Streaming back a
gather intelligence. continuous feed of information about the infected
device, you become aware of its actions and the
intended targets. If a device that Lurker is currently
With its ability to keep tabs on what a device is
protecting is the target of one of these actions,
currently doing, Lurker can provide its Root user
they gain a +1 dice pool bonus to any defensive
with the necessary intelligence to aid in their
check they must make.
defence.
TThe worm can be detected through a Run
Detect Diagnostics check on the infected device. It
Ver RAM Rest Cost
Rating requires a success target of four to be discovered
1 2 4 1L 750
and then a further standard action for it to be
removed thereafter.
2 2 5 2L 1,300
3 2 6 3L 1,850 Regardless of whether the worm is installed, the
Root user of the protected device is notified of this
4 2 7 4L 2,350
event, any relevant actions that were taken, and
5 2 8 5L 3,000 the current network address of the attacking
system.
Traits:
Improved Firewall
While installed and enabled, this software
ICE: Lurker increases the firewall rating of a protected device
Trigger: A user fails on a computer by one.
action, targeting a device that is currently
protected by this countermeasure.
Memory Dump
Well known for its ability to pull apart even the
most hardened of defences, Memory Dump is
one piece of software that few hackers will ever
enjoy having to deal with. When installed onto a
device, this ICE will get to work filling its memory,
preventing its other software from being able to
run.
event, any relevant actions that were taken, and
the current network address of the attacking
system.
Improved Firewall
While installed and enabled, this software
increases the firewall rating of a protected device
by one.

Detect RAM Nuke

Ver RAM Rest Cost
Rating Mod Like its name would suggest, the Nuke
1 2 3 -2 1L 850 countermeasure is intended not just to deter a
would-be attacker, but to end the conflict there
2 2 4 -3 2L 1,425
and then immediately. With its ability to fry the
3 2 5 -4 3L 2,050 electronics of its target device, Nuke can damage
4 2 6 -5 4L 2,650 most types of hardware with relative ease. All it
needs to do is get past the security.
5 2 7 -6 5L 3,300

Traits: Detect
Ver RAM Rest Cost
Rating

ICE: Memory Dump 1 2 3 1L 1,250

Trigger: A user fails on a computer 2 2 4 2L 2,000
action, targeting a device that is currently 3 2 5 3L 2,750
protected by this countermeasure.
4 2 6 4L 3,500
Effect: Memory Dump immediately retaliates
5 2 7 5L 4,250
against the attacking device, attempting to find a
suitable vulnerability to install a worm.
Traits:
Make a generic Tech: Hacking skill check using a
dice pool equal to 10 + double the version number ICE: Nuke
of the countermeasure. With a success target Trigger: A user fails on a computer
equal to the current firewall rating of the triggering action, targeting a device that is currently
device, Memory Dump installs its payload in the protected by this countermeasure.
event of a success. On a failure, this action does
not trigger any countermeasures currently Effect: Nuke immediately retaliates against the
protecting the target device. attacking device, attempting to find a suitable
vulnerability to carry out its assault.
Once installed, the worm fills the device’s RAM pool
with a large amount of dummy data. While the Make a generic Tech: Hacking skill check using a
worm remains on the target system, its RAM pool dice pool equal to 10 + double the version number
is reduced by the countermeasure’s RAM modifier of this countermeasure. With a success target
statistic listed in the table above (RAM Mod). equal to the current firewall rating of the triggering
Should this reduction in RAM create a shortage of device, Nuke carries out its task in the event of a
required memory on the device, the GM should success. On a failure, this action does not trigger
randomly choose which software the system will any countermeasures currently protecting the
disable. target device.

The worm can be detected through a Run
Diagnostics check on the infected device. It
requires a success target of four to be discovered
and then a further standard action to remove
it.
Regardless of whether the worm is installed, the
Root user of the protected device is notified of this
Once a suitable vulnerability has been found, Nuke
gets to work, sending the device into a fatal
overdrive. Its users should start to experience
sluggish performance, similar to the effects caused
by the Sloth countermeasure. All further
computing actions on the infected device suffer
from a -2 negative dice pool penalty.

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If the device in question has not been powered off any countermeasures currently protecting the
by the end of the current combat round, its target device.
electronics and inner works immediately seize up.
This effect is identical to the Seize Device Once installed, the worm begins to target the
command; however, the time required to perform a device’s processor, consuming a considerable
Tech: Maintenance check is increased to 5 hours. If, portion of its resources. All computing actions on
however, the device was able to be powered off in the infected machine now suffer from a negative
time, then all of Nuke’s effects are said to end dice pool penalty. The severity of this penalty is
immediately. equal to the countermeasure’s worm modifier
statistic, which is listed in the table above (Worm
The Root user of the protected device is notified of Mod).
this event, any relevant actions that were taken,
and the current network address of the attacking The worm can be detected through a Run
system. Diagnostics check on the infected device. It
requires a success target of four to be discovered
Improved Firewall and then a further standard action to remove
While installed and enabled, this software it.
increases the firewall rating of a protected device
by one. Regardless of whether the worm is installed, the
Root user of the protected device is notified of this
event, any relevant actions that were taken, and
Sloth the current network address of the attacking
With its ability to target and overwhelm a system’s system.
central processor, the Sloth countermeasure
often makes for an effective way of slowing down Improved Firewall
an attacking device. When paired with other While installed and enabled, this software
countermeasures, this product often impedes an increases the firewall rating of a protected device
intruder’s ability to react, and defend themselves by one.
against any form of retaliation.
Sonar
Detect Worm Much like Lurker, Sonar looks to infiltrate an
Ver RAM Rest Cost
Rating Mod
attacking system to help gather intelligence on it.
1 2 3 -2 1L 850 While Lurker prefers to keep track of what a device
2 2 4 -3 2L 1,425
is doing, Sonar prefers instead to collect general
information on what it is, and where it is located.
3 2 5 -4 3L 2,050
4 2 6 -5 4L 2,650
Detect
Ver RAM Rest Cost
5 2 7 -6 5L 3,300 Rating
1 2 4 1L 750
Traits: 2 2 5 2L 1,300
3 2 6 3L 1,850
ICE: Sloth
Trigger: A user fails on a computer 4 2 7 4L 2,350
action, targeting a device that is currently 5 2 8 5L 3,000
protected by this countermeasure.

Effect: Sloth immediately retaliates against the Traits:

attacking device, attempting to find a suitable
vulnerability in which it can install a worm.
Make a generic Tech: Hacking skill check using a
dice pool equal to 10 + double the version number
of the countermeasure. With a success target
equal to the current firewall rating of the triggering
device, Sloth installs its payload in the event of a
success. On a failure, this action does not trigger
ICE: Sonar
Trigger: A user fails on a computer
action, targeting a device that is currently
protected by this countermeasure.
Effect: Sonar immediately retaliates against the
attacking device, attempting to find a suitable
vulnerability to install a worm.

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Make a generic Tech: Hacking skill check using a
dice pool equal to 10 + double the version number
of this countermeasure. With a success target
equal to the current firewall rating of the triggering
device, Sonar can install its payload in the event of
a success. On a failure, this action does not trigger
any countermeasures currently protecting the
target device.
Once installed, the worm begins to observe its new
home and surroundings. Streaming back a
continuous feed of information about the infected
device, you can learn more about it. This includes;
its make and model, current network address, the
presence of any countermeasures (including name
and version), and its current whereabouts
geographically (accurate to around 100 meters).
The worm can be detected through a Run
Diagnostics check on the infected device. It
requires a success target of four to be discovered
and then a further standard action to remove
it.
Regardless of whether the worm is installed, the
Root user of the protected device is notified of this
event, any relevant actions that were taken, and
the current network address of the attacking
system.
Improved Firewall
While installed and enabled, this software
increases the firewall rating of a protected device
by one.
Securesofts
Small in size and limited in
scope, securesofts can be
best described as the second
line of defence for a device.
Whereas ICE looks to prevent
an unauthorised user from
accessing the computer system
in the first place, securesofts prefer to protect
individual files or prevent tampering with specific
functionality on the targeted system.
Like with ICE, all securesofts listed in this section
will include various statistics that determine their
effectiveness at a particular job or role. These
include their version number (Ver), RAM use (RAM),
detection rating (Detect Rating), and its combined
restriction class & level (Rest).

Name Description
Bodyguard Prevents the owner of the device from being changed.
Protects a set of files or documents, so that only specified users may attempt to access or
File Safe
manipulate them.
Honeypot Disguises itself as a regular file, tracking the other devices which it is transfered or copied to.
Insomnia Establishes a white list, so that only specified users may call for the device to power off.
Network Guard Prevents a device’s network configuration from being changed or manually disconnected.
Creates a white list, so that only specified users may command or take direct control of an
Ring Leader
automation.
Stealth Prevents open broadcasting from being enabled on the device.
Prevents changes from being made to any of the device’s users. Does not effect hacking type
VIP List
actions.

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Bodyguard by the device’s owner can read, modify, and extract
their contents. File Safe can protect any number
The Bodyguard software is straightforward in
of documents, providing it has been specifically
function, helping to protect a device and its current
designated to do so by the device’s owner.
owner. Once installed, the securesoft shall proceed
to keep watch over the device’s owner, preventing
it from being changed or replaced by another. Detect
Ver RAM Rest Cost
Rating

Detect 1 1 4 1L 700
Ver RAM Rest Cost
Rating 2 1 5 2L 1,225
1 1 5 1L 800 3 1 6 3L 1,750
2 1 6 2L 1,375 4 1 7 4L 2,350
3 1 7 3L 1,950 5 1 8 5L 2,950
4 1 8 4L 2,575
5 1 9 5L 3,225 Traits:

Traits: Securesoft: File Safe

Securesoft: Bodyguard
Trigger: A user attempts to carry out a computing
action on a protected device that results in Root
level access being changed.
Effect: Bodyguard immediately reverts the
changes that were attempted to be made, restoring
the previous access rights.
Trigger: A non-whitelisted user attempts to
interact with one of the device’s protected
documents.
Effect: File Safe immediately notifies the device’s
current Root user, specifying that action has had to
be taken. This includes the type of activity the
triggering user was attempting to make, in addition
to the target document.

Additionally, the countermeasure also attempts to
retaliate with a Data Bombing action against the
trigging user’s connected device. The dice pool for
this activity equals 10 + double the version number
of the countermeasure. On a failure, this action
does not trigger any countermeasures currently
protecting the target device.
The Root user of the protected device is
immediately notified of this event, any relevant
actions that were taken, and the current network
address of the triggering user’s connected system.
The triggering user’s action automatically fails,
with them being made aware that this resulted
from software on the device overriding their
command. Additionally, File Safe attempts to
retaliate by carrying out a Trace Connection action,
targeting the triggering user’s connected device.
The dice pool for this activity equals 10 + double
the version number of the countermeasure. All
information retrieved by this action is forwarded to
the protected device’s Root user, along with the
current network address of the triggering user’s
connected system.

File Safe
Whether a device is storing sensitive personal
information, financial records, or perhaps even
incriminating evidence, file systems and their
contents are a prime target for any intruder looking
to make a quick credit or two.
Whitelist
Once installed onto a device, its Root user can
designate any number of its authorised accounts.
Anyone added to this list will not trigger the File
Safe countermeasure when attempting to read,
modify, or copy a protected document’s contents.
A user can be added or removed from this whitelist
with a standard action .

The File Safe software looks to protect these

documents, ensuring that only those designated

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Honeypot Insomnia
Taking on the appearance as a regular everyday file Regularly utilised in computing networks, Insomnia
or document, the Honeypot securesoft is a common looks to protect a given device from potentially
feature of most corporate and military networks. being switched off. By ensuring that a device
When transferred or copied to another device is kept online and awake, important network
outside of where it was installed, the securesoft connections can be left open and maintained.
can call home and stream back a continuous feed
of information about its current system.
Detect
Ver RAM Rest Cost
Rating
Fully customisable to be given a new file name
and document size based on the contents of the 1 1 4 1L 600
system it aims to protect, Honeypot is an excellent 2 1 5 2L 1,050
tool for tracking down and getting revenge on any
3 1 6 3L 1,550
would-be data thief who tries to wrong you.
4 1 7 4L 2,125
5 1 8 5L 2,700
Detect
Ver RAM Rest Cost
Rating
1 1 4 1L 700 Traits:
2 1 5 2L 1,225
Securesoft: Insomnia
3 1 6 3L 1,750 Trigger: A non-whitelisted user attempts to
4 1 7 4L 2,350 perform the Turn Device On/Off computing action
on the protected device.
5 1 8 5L 2,950
Effect: Insomnia immediately cancels the user’s
command, preventing the device from switching
Traits:
off. The current Root user of the device is also
notified of this event.
Securesoft: Honeypot
Trigger: Honeypot is copied or transfered to Additionally, Insomnia also attempts to retaliate
another device. with a Trace Connection action, targeting the
Effect: Honeypot immediately installs a worm onto triggering user’s connected device. The dice pool
the target system. The worm begins to observe its for this activity equals 10 + double the version
new home and surroundings, streaming back a number of the countermeasure. All information
continuous feed of information about the infected retrieved by this action is forwarded to the
device. This includes; its make and model, current protected device’s Root user, along with the
network address, the presence of any current network address of the triggering user’s
countermeasures (including name and version), connected system.
and its current whereabouts geographically
Whitelist
(accurate to around 100 meters).
Once installed onto a device, its Root user can
designate any number of its authorised accounts.
The worm can be detected through a Run
Anyone added to this list will not trigger the
Diagnostics check on the infected device. It
Insomnia countermeasure when powering on or off
requires a success target of four to be discovered
the protected device.
and then a further standard action to remove
it.
A user can be added or removed from this whitelist
with a standard action .

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Network Guard Ring Leader
Network Guard is a popular countermeasure With the steady rise of both drones and automated
often utilised in mission-critical networks and vehicles in the world of today, suitable software
communications infrastructure. With its ability to countermeasures were soon required to ensure
keep track of networking configurations, hosts, and that these devices were sufficiently protected. Ring
their various slaves, this software looks to prevent Leader is one of these such countermeasures. It
users from making changes that would inevitably looks to restrict which user accounts can command
cause disruption or network outage. or take direct control over a given automation,
providing an additional layer of defence against
hijacking.
Detect
Ver RAM Rest Cost
Rating
1 1 4 1L 750 Detect
Ver RAM Rest Cost
Rating
2 1 5 2L 1,300
1 1 4 1L 750
3 1 6 3L 1,850
2 1 5 2L 1,300
4 1 7 4L 2,450
3 1 6 3L 1,850
5 1 8 5L 3,075
4 1 7 4L 2,450
5 1 8 5L 3,075
Traits:

Securesoft: Network Guard Traits:

Trigger: A non-whitelisted user attempts to
perform either the Request New Network Address,
or Slave to Device computing action.
Effect: Network Guard immediately cancels the
user’s command, preventing the device from
changing its network configuration.
Additionally, Network Guard also attempts to
retaliate with a Data Bombing action against the
trigging user’s connected device. The dice pool for
this activity should equal 10 + double the version
number of the countermeasure. On a failure, this
action does not trigger any countermeasures
currently protecting the target device.
The Root user of the protected device is
immediately notified of this event, any relevant
actions that were taken, and the current network
address of the triggering user’s connected system.
Securesoft: Ring Leader
Trigger: A non-whitelisted user attempts to
perform either the Assume Direct Control, or
Command Automation action.
Effect: Ring Leader immediately cancels the user’s
command, preventing them from controlling or
influencing the automation. The current Root user
of the protected device is notified of this event.
Additionally, Ring Leader also attempts to retaliate
by carrying out a Trace Connection action, targeting
the triggering user’s connected device. The dice
pool for this activity equals 10 + double the version
number of the countermeasure. All information
retrieved by this action is forwarded to the
protected device’s Root user, along with the
current network address of the triggering user’s
connected system.

Whitelist
Once installed onto a device, its Root user can
designate any number of its authorised accounts.
Anyone added to this list will not trigger the
Network Guard countermeasure when attempting
to change the protected device’s network
configuration.
A user can be added or removed from this whitelist
with a standard action .
Whitelist
Once installed onto a device, its Root user can
designate any number of its authorised accounts.
Anyone added to this list will not trigger the Ring
Leader countermeasure when attempting to
command or take direct control of the protected
automation.
A user can be added or removed from this whitelist
with a standard action .

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Stealth VIP List
The Stealth countermeasure looks to prevent Protecting a device’s user accounts is always
individuals from being able to abuse a device’s essential. Whether it be ensuring that the right
open broadcasting capabilities. Whether it be people can still access your devices or preventing
enabling open broadcasting to keep track of a others from taking sole control over them instead,
device wherever it goes, or perhaps to leave a VIP List will ensure that only those who have been
possible route of re-entry once the device has been authorised can make certain kinds of changes.
rebooted, abusing open broadcasting is a common
tactic for aiding an intruder and maintaining access Unfortunately, due to the exploitative nature of
to a device for as long as possible. actions like Increase Access, this countermeasure
cannot defend against type activities.
Detect
Ver RAM Rest Cost
Rating
Detect
1 1 4 1L 600 Ver RAM Rest Cost
Rating
2 1 5 2L 1,050 1 1 5 1L 800
3 1 6 3L 1,550 2 1 6 2L 1,375
4 1 7 4L 2,125 3 1 7 3L 1,950
5 1 8 5L 2,700 4 1 8 4L 2,575
5 1 9 5L 3,225
Traits:
Traits:
Securesoft: Stealth
Trigger: A non-whitelisted user attempts to
Securesoft: VIP List
perform the Enable/Disable Open Broadcasting
Trigger: A non-whitelisted user attempts to
computing action.
perform the Create/Modify User computing action.
Effect: Stealth immediately cancels the user’s
Effect: VIP List immediately cancels the user’s
command, preventing the device’s open
command, preventing the targeted user from being
broadcasting settings from being changed. The
created or changed.
current Root user of the protected device is notified
of this event.
Additionally, VIP List also attempts to retaliate with
a Data Bombing action against the trigging user’s
Additionally, Stealth also attempts to retaliate by
connected device. The dice pool for this activity
carrying out a Trace Connection action, targeting
equals 10 + double the version number of the
the triggering user’s connected device. The dice
countermeasure. On a failure, this action does not
pool for this activity equals 10 + double the version
trigger any countermeasures currently protecting
number of the countermeasure. All information
the target device.
retrieved by this action is forwarded to the
protected device’s Root user, along with the
The Root user of the protected device is
current network address of the triggering user’s
immediately notified of this event, any relevant
connected system.
actions that were taken, and the current network
Whitelist address of the triggering user’s connected system.
Once installed onto a device, its Root user can
designate any number of its authorised accounts.
Whitelist
Anyone added to this list will not trigger the Stealth
Once installed onto a device, its Root user can
countermeasure when attempting to change the
designate any number of its authorised accounts.
protected device’s open broadcasting settings.
Anyone added to this list will not trigger the VIP
List countermeasure when attempting to add or
A user can be added or removed from this whitelist
change access rights on the protected device.
with a standard action .
A user can be added or removed from this whitelist
with a standard action .

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3.20 Drones
From simple automated delivery bots that
can transport customer orders to large-scale
military aircraft that can provide nearby fire
support, drones have continued to diversify and be
expanded upon as the years have passed. This has
made them extremely popular with today’s society,
ushering in an immensely profitable commercial
sector.
While walking around downtown with a fleet
of armed drones is a guaranteed way to draw
unwanted attention, utilising them to help with
regular everyday tasks is commonplace today. For
example, Mules regularly ferry around cargo and
various goods along the high streets. At the same
time, Skimmers and Mavericks patrol the skies,
carefully watching for any potential threats to their
owner.
Drones are usually categorised by the types of
terrain that they typically traverse over. These are:
• Light - Micro-sized drones made for
surveillance and stealth.
• Medium - Small-sized transporters that can
carry a light amount of gear at great speeds.
• Heavy - Larger-sized armoured transports,
with a good amount of cargo space and better
means of protecting themselves.
• Super Heavy - Vehicle-sized drones with
plenty of cargo space and weapon mount
slots to provide fire support.
Aerial Drones
With their ability to stay
airborne, away from any source
of immediate danger, aerial
drones are some of the best
around for carrying out scouting
and reconnaissance work.
Their fast movement speeds
and excellent mobility ensure that the drone can
always manoeuvre itself into the best possible
vantage point regardless of the current situation.

• Aerial Drones - Airborne automations that

can fly at an altitude.
• Ground Drones - Walkers or wheeled-
based automations that traverse over the
landscape.
• Nautical Drones - Seacraft or submersibles
that can pass over or underneath the water.
Additionally, many drones are also assigned a
particular weight class. This reflects the scale that
the drone will be built to and therefore indicates
which tasks it might be best suited for. These
classes can be summarised as follows:
Given the nature of their movement, these
automations tend to have the smallest carrying
capacity of all and are, for the most part, relatively
lightly armoured.
Below is a table detailing the various statistics
associated with each of these products. The
columns from left to right are as follows; name,
weight class, Endurance, Strength, Finesse, Reflex,
hit points, movement speed, combined restriction
class & level, and finally, its cost.

Name Weight Class End Str Fin Ref HP Move Rest Cost
Spook Light 1 1 6 10 8 14 m 1L 1,550
Maverick Medium 3 2 5 8 18 24 m 1L 2,950
Dragonfly Medium 4 2 4 7 22 24 m 1L 3,275
Wasp Heavy 6 4 3 5 32 36 m 2L 6,250
Titan Super Heavy 8 5 4 4 42 46 m 5R 52,500

Above: The aerial drones overview table.

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Spook Maverick
Appearing as little more than an elongated ice With its sleek design similar in shape to that of an
hockey puck with a pair of small rotors strapped upside-down shovel head, the Maverick can skim
to its sides, the Spook is an impressively compact through the skies unannounced to those far below.
piece of equipment.
Excellent at both reconnaissance work and
With its ability to soar through the air at a decent lightweight fire support, this device can fulfil many
enough speed, this drone can perform all manner different roles based on its current configuration
of front-line reconnaissance work while remaining and set-up.
hidden from the sights of your enemies.
Type: Automation (Drone, Medium)
Type: Automation (Drone, Light)
Size: 50 cm
Size: 8 cm
XP: 25
XP: 10
Hit Points: 18
Hit Points: 8
Resistances: Acid: 1, Cold: 2, Heat: 2, Physical: 2,
Movement Speed: 14 m (flying only) Radiation: 2
Movement Speed: 24 m (flying only)
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
1 0 1 6 10 0 0 0 End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
3 0 2 5 8 0 0 0
Skills Base Pool
Intuition 1 1 Skills Base Pool

Navigation 1 1 Guns: Turrets 3 8

Perception 1 1 Intuition 1 1

Piloting: Aircraft 1 11 Navigation 1 1

Stealth 5 11 Perception 1 1

Tracking 1 1 Piloting: Aircraft 1 9

Stealth 3 8
Host Scan Network Firewall
RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating Tracking 1 1
0 30 m 4 2 3
Host Scan Network Firewall
RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic
0 40 m 4 2 4
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Susceptibility
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
Weight: 0.75 kg
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Seating: 0 Susceptibility

Carrying Capacity: 0.75 kg, No Cover Weight: 4.5 kg

Weapon Mount Limit: All types - 0 Seating: 0

Refuelling Cost: 55 Carrying Capacity: 8 kg, Partial Cover

Weapon Mount Limit: Medium - 1
Refuelling Cost: 110

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Dragonfly Wasp
Comprised of a long slender body, the Dragonfly is Regularly employed by many security
an agile roto drone built for rapid response cargo organisations worldwide, the Wasp is highly
transportation. A single lightweight weapon’s regarded as a competent aerial-based combat
mount resides on top of the drone at its centre, unit. Utilising a pair of side-mounted jet engines to
while several hooks on the lower side allow for propel itself through the air quickly, this drone can
small bundles of cargo to be safely attached. rain down a firestorm of destruction onto suitable
targets far below.
Four sizeable rotors in an ’X’ like formation allow
the drone to stay airborne and manoeuvre. A small While its sheer size can sometimes restrict the
amount of metallic covering can also be seen types of environments in which the drone can
across the lower side of its body, protecting the safely operate, its armoured shell and ability to
device against thrown objects and basic attacks. support multiple different weapon mounts make it
an appealing choice when out in the open field.
Type: Automation (Drone, Medium)
Type: Automation (Drone, Heavy)
Size: 40 cm wide x 60 cm long
Size: 1.5 m
XP: 20
XP: 200
Hit Points: 22
Resistances: Acid: 1, Cold: 2, Heat: 2, Physical: 3, Hit Points: 32
Radiation: 2 Resistances: Acid: 2, Cold: 3, Heat: 3, Physical: 5,
Movement Speed: 24 m (flying only) Radiation: 3
Movement Speed: 36 m (flying only)
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6 0 4 3 5 0 0 0
Skills Base Pool
Guns: Turrets 3 7 Skills Base Pool

Intuition 1 1 Guns: Turrets 5 8

Navigation 1 1 Intuition 1 1

Perception 1 1 Navigation 1 1

Piloting: Aircraft 1 8 Perception 1 1

Stealth 3 7 Piloting: Aircraft 1 6

Tracking 1 1 Stealth 1 4
Tracking 1 1
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0 50 m 4 3 4
Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Susceptibility
Weight: 5 kg

Seating: 0
Carrying Capacity: 12 kg, Partial Cover
Weapon Mount Limit: Light - 1
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Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled, 8 0 5 4 4 0 0 0
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious Skills Base Pool

Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water Guns: Turrets 8 12

Susceptibility Intuition 1 1
Weight: 18 kg Navigation 1 1
Seating: 0 Perception 1 1
Carrying Capacity: 32 kg, Partial Cover Piloting: Aircraft 1 5
Weapon Mount Limit: Medium - 1, Heavy - 1 Stealth 1 5
Refuelling Cost: 225 Tracking 1 1

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Titan
0 75 m 5 4 5
The Titan is an all-purpose, low-altitude airborne
weapons platform. Able to stay in the air for many Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic
hours at a time, this drone can serve as both a
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
reconnaissance and fire support unit wherever
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
necessary.
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Most notably used by many of the world’s most
Susceptibility
powerful military forces, the Titan is a difficult
piece of gear to hold of. Some high-end security Weight: 132 kg
forces have been known to acquire a handful Seating: 0
of these devices, though most aren’t quite so
Carrying Capacity: 240 kg, Partial Cover
fortunate.
Weapon Mount Limit: Medium - 2, Heavy - 2
Type: Automation (Drone, Super Heavy) Refuelling Cost: 950
Size: 5 m wide x 4 m long
XP: 1,750

Hit Points: 42
Resistances: Acid: 3, Cold: 4, Heat: 4, Physical: 7,
Radiation: 4
Movement Speed: 46 m (flying only)
Ground Drones front lines of battle, these devices are versatile
enough to get the job done and with minimal effort
As the heaviest of the different to suit.
drone types, ground-based
drones are formidable machines Of course, like with anything, their
that can withstand an impressive higher-than-average weight and the presence
amount of punishment. Whether of additional armour make for slower movement
hauling cargo across town or speeds and a reduction in their Finesse.
providing fire support on the

Name Weight Class End Str Fin Ref HP Move Rest Cost
Molerat Light 2 2 5 10 12 8m 1L 1,300
Wayfinder Medium 5 3 3 6 26 13 m 1L 3,200
Mongoose Medium 4 4 4 7 22 14 m 1L 3,550
Mule Heavy 7 5 2 5 36 12 m 2L 6,050
Vega Heavy 8 5 2 4 40 19 m 2L 6,750
Harbinger Super Heavy 9 6 2 3 46 24 m 4R 29,500

Above: The ground drones overview table.

Molerat Skills Base Pool

Developed from the ground up with both Intuition 1 1
reconnaissance work and easy concealment in
Navigation 1 1
mind, the Molerat is a small yet surprisingly mobile
skimmer drone. With its ability to float just an inch Perception 1 1
or two above the floor, the Molerat can easily avoid Piloting: Driving 1 11
the common pitfalls of traversing over uneven
Stealth 5 10
ground and sudden sharp inclines.
Tracking 1 1
Appearing as little more than a large, flat,
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RAM Pool
by onlookers as they pass by.
0 30 m 4 2 4

Type: Automation (Drone, Light) Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic

Size: 5 cm Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
XP: 10 Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Hit Points: 12
Susceptibility
Resistances: Cold: 1, Heat: 1, Physical: 2, Radiation: 1
Weight: 0.75 kg
Movement Speed: 8 m
Seating: 0

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2 0 2 5 10 0 0 0 Weapon Mount Limit: All types - 0

Refuelling Cost: 45

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Wayfinder
With its sleek metallic body and sturdy mechanical
tracks on its sides, the Wayfinder is often said to
resemble a miniaturised version of an armoured
personnel carrier. Capable of manoeuvring through
a combat area with relative ease, this ground craft
has built up a reliable reputation as a dependable
light transport drone.
Space for a light weapon mount can be found
towards the Wayfinder’s top, allowing the drone
to offer light fire support on its travels.
Mongoose
Combining exceptional speed and an impressive
amount of manoeuvrability to suit, the Mongoose
has quickly established itself as a quality rapid
response type combat drone. Designed with
enough space for a medium-class weapon mount,
this automation can quickly and easily get into a
fight, fire off its payload, and move back out again
to safety.
Type: Automation (Drone, Medium)
Size: 45 cm wide x 60 cm long

Type: Automation (Drone, Medium) XP: 25

Size: 40 cm wide x 60 cm long Hit Points: 22

XP: 20 Resistances: Acid: 1, Cold: 2, Heat: 2, Physical: 5,
Radiation: 2
Hit Points: 26
Movement Speed: 14 m
Resistances: Acid: 2, Cold: 3, Heat: 3, Physical: 5,
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Movement Speed: 13 m 4 0 4 4 7 0 0 0

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5 0 3 3 6 0 0 0 Guns: Turrets 3 7
Intuition 1 1
Skills Base Pool
Navigation 1 1
Guns: Turrets 3 6
Perception 1 1
Intuition 1 1
Piloting: Driving 1 8
Navigation 1 1
Stealth 3 7
Perception 1 1
Tracking 1 1
Piloting: Driving 1 7
Stealth 3 6 Host Scan Network Firewall
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Tracking 1 1
0 40 m 4 2 5

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RAM Pool Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic
Count Range Noise Rating
0 40 m 4 2 5 Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Susceptibility
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious Weight: 5 kg
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water Seating: 0
Susceptibility
Carrying Capacity: 10 kg, Partial Cover
Weight: 6 kg
Weapon Mount Limit: Medium - 1
Seating: 0
Refuelling Cost: 95
Carrying Capacity: 18 kg, Heavy Cover

Weapon Mount Limit: Light - 1

Refuelling Cost: 90

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Mule
Regularly seen in warehouses nationwide, the
Mule is well known as an all-purpose, heavy-duty
transportation and logistics drone. While its
speed can certainly leave a lot to be desired, the
Mule’s quadruped-type design allows it to shift
impressive amounts of cargo with relative ease.
Armour plating covers its exterior, allowing the
Mule to survive on the front lines of battle, and
space for a heavy weapon mount can be found
towards its top.
Type: Automation (Drone, Heavy)
Size: 1.5 m
XP: 200
Hit Points: 36
Vega
Formidable in terms of its appearance and the
amount of raw firepower it can often produce,
the Vega has become a popular choice for
law enforcement and security organisations
worldwide. Capable of supporting multiple
weapons systems and constructed out of highly
durable metallic plating, this drone is more than
capable of ploughing its way through to the front
lines of battle.
Type: Automation (Drone, Heavy)
Size: 1.5 m wide x 2 m long
XP: 250
Hit Points: 40
Resistances: Acid: 4, Cold: 5, Heat: 5, Physical: 8,
Radiation: 5

Resistances: Acid: 3, Cold: 4, Heat: 4, Physical: 7, Movement Speed: 19 m

Radiation: 4
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Movement Speed: 12 m
8 0 5 2 4 0 0 0
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Skills Base Pool
7 0 5 2 5 0 0 0
Guns: Turrets 5 7
Skills Base Pool Intuition 1 1
Guns: Turrets 5 7 Navigation 1 1
Intuition 1 1 Perception 1 1
Navigation 1 1 Piloting: Driving 1 5
Perception 1 1 Stealth 1 3
Piloting: Driving 1 6 Tracking 1 1
Stealth 1 3
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0 50 m 4 3 6
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Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic
0 50 m 4 3 6
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed, Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious Susceptibility

Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water Weight: 72 kg

Susceptibility
Seating: 0
Weight: 64 kg
Carrying Capacity: 108 kg, Partial Cover
Seating: 0 Weapon Mount Limit: Medium - 2, Heavy - 1
Carrying Capacity: 175 kg, Partial Cover Refuelling Cost: 260
Weapon Mount Limit: Heavy - 1
Refuelling Cost: 245

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Harbinger Skills Base Pool
The Harbinger is an extremely formidable weapons Guns: Turrets 7 9
platform, often described as a miniature mobile
Intuition 1 1
fortress. Capable of supporting numerous weapon
mounts of various calibres, this drone can rain Navigation 1 1
down a potent wave of destruction from across Perception 1 1
the battlefield.
Piloting: Driving 1 4

While expensive to produce and difficult to acquire, Stealth 1 3

Harbingers can most often be seen in the hands Tracking 1 1
of many of the world’s high-end security services.
Xiao-Sen is particularly well known for this, with Host Scan Network Firewall
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many of their automations being visible downtown Count Range Noise Rating
on the streets of Hong Kong. 0 60 m 5 4 6

Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic

Type: Automation (Drone, Super Heavy)
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Size: 3.5 m wide x 5 m long Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
XP: 1,500 Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Hit Points: 46 Susceptibility

Resistances: Acid: 5, Cold: 6, Heat: 6, Physical: 10, Weight: 250 kg

Radiation: 6 Seating: 0
Movement Speed: 24 m Carrying Capacity: 320 kg, Partial Cover

End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha Weapon Mount Limit: Medium - 2, Heavy - 2

9 0 6 2 3 0 0 0 Refuelling Cost: 770

Nautical Drones goods from point A to point B without drawing too
much attention, or a device capable of bringing the
Nautical drones can differ thunder out in the open seas, these automations
substantially from one are more than capable of serving your needs.
to another, covering both
submersibles that can dive With high manoeuvrability, excellent handling,
beneath the waves and regular and ample carrying capacity, these vessels are
seafaring ships. Whether you highly praised for their potential and versatility in
are looking for a way of moving carrying out mercenary work.

Name Weight Class End Str Fin Ref HP Move Rest Cost
Spirit Light 2 2 6 10 12 12 m 1L 1,425
Skirmisher Medium 3 3 5 7 18 17 m 1L 3,450
Hammerhead Heavy 7 5 3 4 36 25 m 2L 6,250
Trident Heavy 8 5 3 5 40 21 m 2L 7,050

Above: The nautical drones overview table.

Spirit
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drone. With its ability to descend to a maximum
0 30 m 4 2 4
depth of around 20 meters, this automation can
guide its way behind enemy lines to conduct Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic
thorough scouting and reconnaissance work.
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Typically utilised by major ports and the local coast Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
guard in shallow waters, the Spirit has quickly
become a market bestseller for aquatic-based Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic
environments. Weight: 0.85 kg
Seating: 0
Type: Automation (Drone, Light)
Carrying Capacity: 1.25 kg, No Cover
Size: 4 cm wide x 6 cm long Weapon Mount Limit: All types - 0
XP: 10 Refuelling Cost: 50

Hit Points: 12
Resistances: Physical: 1
Movement Speed: 12 m (swimming only)

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2 0 2 6 10 0 0 0

Skills Base Pool

Intuition 1 1
Navigation 1 1
Perception 1 1
Piloting: Seacraft 1 11
Stealth 5 11
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Skirmisher Hammerhead
Developed with coastal-based operations in mind, Having been designed as a mobile weapons
the Skirmisher is a quick and agile gunboat type platform, the Hammerhead has quickly become
of drone. With enough space to equip a medium the go-to standard for combat response units in
calibre weapon mount towards its rear, this aquatic environments. Fast enough to get where
automation can excel at laying down fire support it needs to be, yet also large enough to support
while manoeuvring in hit-and-run attacks. various weapon mounts, this automation can help
fulfil various roles.
Type: Automation (Drone, Medium)
Often utilised by police and corporate security
Size: 45 cm wide x 65 cm long services, these drones can often be seen making
XP: 25 their way through coastal waters and down
metropolitan canals and rivers.
Hit Points: 18
Resistances: Cold: 1, Heat: 1, Physical: 3, Radiation: 1 Type: Automation (Drone, Heavy)
Movement Speed: 17 m (swimming only) Size: 1.25 m wide x 2 m long
XP: 250
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3 0 3 5 7 0 0 0 Hit Points: 36

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Radiation: 3
Guns: Turrets 3 8
Movement Speed: 25 m (swimming only)
Intuition 1 1
Navigation 1 1 End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
Perception 1 1 7 0 5 3 4 0 0 0
Piloting: Seacraft 1 8 Skills Base Pool
Stealth 3 8 Guns: Turrets 5 8
Tracking 1 1 Intuition 1 1

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RAM Pool
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Perception 1 1
0 40 m 4 2 4
Piloting: Seacraft 1 5
Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic Stealth 1 4
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled, Tracking 1 1
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Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic
0 50 m 4 3 4
Weight: 5.5 kg
Seating: 0 Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic

Carrying Capacity: 12 kg, Partial Cover Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Weapon Mount Limit: Medium - 1 Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
Refuelling Cost: 105 Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic
Weight: 90 kg
Seating: 0
Carrying Capacity: 115 kg, Partial Cover
Weapon Mount Limit: Medium - 2, Heavy - 1
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Trident
As a popular choice amongst smugglers, the
Trident is well known for its ability to transport
large quantities of cargo beneath the waves.
Stretching to three meters in length, this
heavy-duty submersible drone can cruise at depths
of up to 40 meters.
At its front, there is enough space for a heavy
calibre weapon mount to be retrofitted to the
automation, allowing the Trident to engage in
combat from afar.
Type: Automation (Drone, Heavy)
Size: 1.5 m wide x 3 m long
XP: 200
Hit Points: 40
Resistances: Acid: 3, Cold: 4, Heat: 4, Physical: 7,
Radiation: 4
Movement Speed: 21 m (swimming only)
3.21 Vehicles
Continuing its reign as one of the world’s largest
industries, the automotive sector is still alive and
well in the year 2107. Encompassing a wide range
of vehicles, from cars, bikes, and locomotives to
mechs, ships, and military jets, plenty of goods are
available on the marketplace for those with the
credits to spare.
Like with drones, all vehicles are categorised by the
types of terrain that they typically traverse over.
These are:
• Aerial Vehicles - Airborne automations that
can fly at an altitude.
• Ground Vehicles - Walkers or wheeled-
based automations that traverse over the
landscape.
• Nautical Vehicles - Seacraft or submersibles
that can pass over or underneath the water.

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Aerial Vehicles
8 0 5 3 5 0 0 0
Soaring high up in the air are
Skills Base Pool some of the most advanced
Guns: Turrets 5 8 automations of the present
day and age. Boasting both
Intuition 1 1 an excellent top speed and
Navigation 1 1 impressive mobility, aerial
vehicles are some of the best
Perception 1 1
around for getting where you need to be in a flash.
Piloting: Seacraft 1 6
Stealth 1 4 While each of these products role and purpose can
Tracking 1 1 often change based on the situation at hand, most
of them are incredibly flexible in what they can
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RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating can easily be equipped with a handful of weapon
0 50 m 4 3 5 systems to provide light fire support, while
gunships are capable of hauling a hefty amount
Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic of supplies to where they are needed most.
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed, Below is an overview table detailing the various
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious statistics associated with each of these products.
The columns from left to right are as follows;
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic
name, vehicle type, Endurance, Strength, Finesse,
Weight: 72 kg Reflex, hit points, movement speed, seating,
Seating: 0 combined restriction class & level, and finally, its
cost.
Carrying Capacity: 215 kg, Partial Cover
Weapon Mount Limit: Heavy - 1
Refuelling Cost: 240

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Name Vehicle Type End Str Fin Ref HP Move Seats Rest Cost
Solara Freebird Jet Glider 3 5 9 9 32 250 kph 1 1L 20,500
Cessna Navigator Jet Plane 6 8 8 8 44 775 kph 4 2L 55,250
Helios Courier Jet Plane 7 9 7 8 48 700 kph 8 2L 72,500
BAE Thunderhawk Jet Fighter 5 9 10 9 40 1,300 kph 2 3L 75,000
Xiao-Sen Viper VTOL Gunship 8 10 5 6 52 650 kph 2 3R 82,500
Matsudan Vulture VTOL Transport 9 11 3 5 56 600 kph 12 3R 87,500
Helios Tempest Jet Fighter 7 9 10 10 48 1,150 kph 2 4R 80,500

Above: The aerial vehicles overview table.

Solara Freebird
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While some might disregard the Solara Freebird RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
as a peculiar and expensive toy, others would see
0 30 m 4 3 3
it as a fast and agile mobility aircraft. Capable of
”seating” one by strapping them onto the bottom Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic
of a jet engine attached to a three-meter wide,
two-meter long glider, the Freebird can reach Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
impressive speeds, all with the added benefit of Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
a fantastic view.
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Susceptibility
Despite being unable to house a weapon mount,
the aircraft can store a small amount of cargo Weight: 150 kg
thanks to several compartments built into its Seating: 1
wings.
Carrying Capacity: 200 kg, Partial Cover
Weapon Mount Limit: All types - 0
Type: Automation (Vehicle, Jet Glider)
Refuelling Cost: 650
Size: 3 m wide x 2 m long
XP: 10
Cessna Navigator
Hit Points: 32
This reliable, single-engine jet plane is a popular
Resistances: Acid: 1, Cold: 2, Heat: 2, Physical: 4,
Radiation: 1 choice for civil aviation. With a luxurious finish
and spacious interior capable of seating four, the
Movement Speed: 175 kph (flying only) Cessna Navigator is an excellent way to travel the
globe in style.
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3 0 5 9 9 0 0 0 Often utilised by top-tier business folk and
celebrities, the Navigator can be retrofitted with
Skills Base Pool
a weapon mount below its fuselage to provide
Intuition 1 1 increased defence and security.
Navigation 1 1
Perception 1 1 Type: Automation (Vehicle, Jet Plane)
Piloting: Aircraft 1 10 Size: 13 m wide x 12 m long
Stealth 1 10 XP: 250
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Hit Points: 44 Hit Points: 48
Resistances: Acid: 2, Cold: 3, Heat: 4, Physical: 7, Resistances: Acid: 3, Cold: 4, Heat: 5, Physical: 8,
Radiation: 3 Radiation: 4
Movement Speed: 775 kph (flying only) Movement Speed: 700 kph (flying only)

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6 0 8 8 8 0 0 0 7 0 9 7 8 0 0 0

Skills Base Pool Skills Base Pool

Guns: Turrets 1 9 Guns: Turrets 1 8
Intuition 1 1 Intuition 1 1
Navigation 1 1 Navigation 1 1
Perception 1 1 Perception 1 1
Piloting: Aircraft 1 9 Piloting: Aircraft 1 9
Stealth 1 9 Stealth 1 8
Tracking 1 1 Tracking 1 1

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RAM Pool RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating Count Range Noise Rating
0 50 m 4 3 5 0 50 m 4 3 5

Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic

Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled, Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed, Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Susceptibility Susceptibility
Weight: 4,350 kg Weight: 11,000 kg
Seating: 4 Seating: 8
Carrying Capacity: 2,500 kg, Heavy Cover Carrying Capacity: 22,000 kg, Heavy Cover
Weapon Mount Limit: Heavy - 1 Weapon Mount Limit: Heavy - 2
Refuelling Cost: 1,750 Refuelling Cost: 2,250

Helios Courier BAE Thunderhawk

The Courier is a reasonably quick and agile,
lightweight cargo plane. Utilising a pair of twin jet
engines, this aircraft can ferry all manner of goods
and wares to their desired destination.
Despite being designed for use in logistics, the
Courier has, on occasion, been retrofitted by
mercenary groups and security organisations to
transfer fire teams in and out of war-torn regions.
Type: Automation (Vehicle, Jet Plane)
Size: 20 m wide x 22 m long
XP: 300
As a previous generation jet fighter, the
Thunderhawk now spends most of its days as
a highly successful stunt aircraft. Having been
modified from its earlier role as an all-purpose
military jet, the Thunderhawk now boasts blazingly
fast speeds and manoeuvrability to help it wow
crowds worldwide.
While the aircraft is technically capable of reliving
its previous days as an attack aircraft, far better
options are available on the marketplace for those
with the credits at their disposal.

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Type: Automation (Vehicle, Jet Fighter) Viper is a regular choice for military and security
organisations worldwide.
Size: 10 m wide x 12.5 m long
XP: 500 Type: Automation (Vehicle, VTOL Gunship)

Hit Points: 40 Size: 15.5 m wide x 20 m long

Resistances: Acid: 3, Cold: 4, Heat: 5, Physical: 9, XP: 1,500

Radiation: 4
Hit Points: 52
Movement Speed: 1,300 kph (flying only)
Resistances: Acid: 4, Cold: 6, Heat: 6, Physical: 11,
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5 0 9 10 9 0 0 0 Movement Speed: 650 kph (flying only)

Skills Base Pool End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
Guns: Turrets 6 16 8 0 10 5 6 0 0 0
Intuition 1 1
Skills Base Pool
Navigation 1 1
Guns: Turrets 6 11
Perception 1 1
Intuition 1 1
Piloting: Aircraft 1 10
Navigation 1 1
Stealth 1 11
Perception 1 1
Tracking 1 1
Piloting: Aircraft 1 7
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RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
Tracking 1 1
0 60 m 5 4 5
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Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled, 0 60 m 5 4 6
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Susceptibility Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
Weight: 4,500 kg
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Seating: 2
Susceptibility
Carrying Capacity: 650 kg, Heavy Cover
Weight: 11,750 kg
Weapon Mount Limit: Heavy - 1
Seating: 2
Refuelling Cost: 2,250
Carrying Capacity: 5,000 kg, Heavy Cover
Weapon Mount Limit: Heavy - 3

Xiao-Sen Viper Refuelling Cost: 2,250

The Xiao-Sen Viper is a tried and tested VTOL

(Vertical Take-off and Landing) aircraft. Having
seen regular use in several of the world’s more
troublesome hot spots, this gunship can excel at
supporting ground forces with a wide assortment
of long-ranged weapon systems.
Particularly useful in an urban setting, thanks to a
combination of excellent manoeuvrability and its
potential to take off and land in tight spaces, the
Matsudan Vulture
Spacious enough to fit twelve individuals inside,
along with a considerable cargo, the Matsudan
Vulture is a hefty-sized aircraft specialising in
logistics and transportation.
Often utilised by corporate and military
organisations, this aircraft has a solid reputation
for getting where it needs to be, regardless of the

170 Chapter 3, Items & Equipment

conditions or hazards that attempt to get in its Currently on backorder for several military groups
way. across the globe, the Tempest is undoubtedly
looking to be one of the best sellers for this decade.
Type: Automation (Vehicle, VTOL Transport)
Type: Automation (Vehicle, Jet Fighters)
Size: 25 m wide x 30 m long
Size: 11 m wide x 15.5 m long
XP: 1,500
XP: 2,000
Hit Points: 56
Hit Points: 48
Resistances: Acid: 4, Cold: 7, Heat: 7, Physical: 12,
Radiation: 5 Resistances: Acid: 3, Cold: 6, Heat: 6, Physical: 10,
Radiation: 4
Movement Speed: 600 kph (flying only)
Movement Speed: 1,150 kph (flying only)
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
9 0 11 3 5 0 0 0
7 0 9 10 10 0 0 0
Skills Base Pool
Skills Base Pool
Guns: Turrets 6 9
Guns: Turrets 6 16
Intuition 1 1
Intuition 1 1
Navigation 1 1
Navigation 1 1
Perception 1 1
Perception 1 1
Piloting: Aircraft 1 6
Piloting: Aircraft 1 11
Stealth 1 4
Stealth 1 11
Tracking 1 1
Tracking 1 1
Host Scan Network Firewall
RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating Host Scan Network Firewall
RAM Pool
0 60 m 5 4 6 Count Range Noise Rating
0 60 m 6 5 6
Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic
Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed, Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Susceptibility Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Susceptibility
Weight: 51,000 kg
Weight: 10,250 kg
Seating: 12
Seating: 2
Carrying Capacity: 92,000 kg, Heavy Cover
Carrying Capacity: 1,000 kg, Heavy Cover
Weapon Mount Limit: Medium - 1, Heavy - 2
Weapon Mount Limit: Medium - 2, Heavy - 2
Refuelling Cost: 3,000
Refuelling Cost: 2,500

Helios Tempest Quirks

As the pride of Helios International’s extensive
military catalogue, the Tempest is quite simply an
exceptional piece of gear. Designed and built as an
air superiority fighter, this jet aircraft is more than
capable of seeing off the competition and reigning
supreme.
Air Superiority
The Tempest contains several features that allow it
to engage with other aircraft better. Flying units
targeted by the Tempest suffer a -3 dice pool
penalty to each of their defensive checks for
resisting the aircraft’s attacks.

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 Ground Vehicles means of transport for every occasion, you can be
sure that regardless of the task ahead, you will be
Ground-based vehicles are able to find something that can suit your needs.
among the most diverse
categories of locomotives, While their statistics can vary wildly from one to
covering a wide range of another, most ground vehicles will likely have at
automations, from sleek least a reasonable amount of durability along with
and agile bikes to massive, a competent movement speed to their name.
unstoppable tanks. With a

Name Vehicle Type End Str Fin Ref HP Move Seats Rest Cost
DTS Spirit Motorcycle 4 7 7 8 36 275 kph 2 1L 5,025
Matsudan Raider Motorcycle 6 8 8 7 44 260 kph 2 1L 6,250
Samsura Surge Motorcycle 5 7 9 9 40 320 kph 2 1L 7,075
Alto Frontier Car 7 8 3 4 48 200 kph 5 1L 7,200
Toyota Festiva Car 8 9 4 4 52 220 kph 5 1L 8,350
Samsura Discovery Car 8 9 5 5 52 240 kph 5 1L 8,950
Liberte Shadow Car 6 9 6 6 44 305 kph 4 1L 10,250
Tahoe Striker Car 6 10 5 6 44 320 kph 4 1L 10,950
Ford Sahara Pickup Truck 8 9 3 4 52 175 kph 8 1L 11,250
Yamasaki Warden Pickup Truck 8 10 3 5 52 190 kph 10 1L 12,500
GMC Ranger SUV 9 10 4 4 56 210 kph 8 1L 14,200
Matsudan Growler SUV 9 10 3 4 56 195 kph 10 1L 15,550
Tahoe Roamer Van 9 10 3 4 56 160 kph 7 1L 19,750
Xiao-Sen Outlander Van 10 11 3 4 60 180 kph 7 1L 24,450
Yamasaki Roadmaster Truck 11 12 2 3 64 150 kph 3 1L 37,500
Bentley Voyager Car 9 11 3 5 56 225 kph 5 1L 50,500
Beryl Lynx Zeus Mech 12 12 1 2 68 50 kph 1 2R 70,800
Scorpion MK-1 Armoured Car 10 11 3 4 60 180 kph 6 3R 42,500
Armoured
Xiao-Sen Gladiator 12 12 2 3 68 130 kph 12 3R 55,350
Transport
Matsudan Conqueror Mech 13 13 1 2 72 60 kph 1 4O 85,750
DTS Spirit Matsudan Raider
Starting at the budget end of the spectrum, the Featuring metal plating and a large, durable frame,
DTS Spirit is a simple, no-frills motorcycle. While the Matsudan Raider is widely considered to be the
it might not have a slick paint job or a pair of neon go-to motorcycle for those who want a little more
lights across its sides, this motorcycle can get you protection when out on the streets.
from point A to point B in a flash.
Despite the vehicle still being capable of reaching
Like most other vehicles of its kind, the DTS Spirit high enough speeds, the additional weight added to
has a small internal compartment built-in allowing its design can certainly be felt during a ride.
for transporting a small number of goods.
Type: Automation (Vehicle, Motorcycle)
Type: Automation (Vehicle, Motorcycle)
Size: 1 m wide x 2.25 m long
Size: 1 m wide x 2.2 m long
XP: 30
XP: 30
Hit Points: 44
Hit Points: 36
Resistances: Acid: 1, Cold: 2, Heat: 2, Physical: 6,
Resistances: Acid: 1, Cold: 2, Heat: 2, Physical: 4, Radiation: 1
Radiation: 1
Movement Speed: 260 kph
Movement Speed: 275 kph
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
6 0 8 8 7 0 0 0
4 0 7 7 8 0 0 0
Skills Base Pool
Skills Base Pool
Guns: Turrets 1 9
Guns: Turrets 1 8
Intuition 1 1
Intuition 1 1
Navigation 1 1
Navigation 1 1
Perception 1 1
Perception 1 1
Piloting: Driving 1 8
Piloting: Driving 1 9
Stealth 1 9
Stealth 1 8
Tracking 1 1
Tracking 1 1
Host Scan Network Firewall
RAM Pool
Host Scan Network Firewall Count Range Noise Rating
RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating 0 30 m 4 3 4
0 30 m 3 3 4
Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic
Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled, Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed, Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water Susceptibility
Susceptibility
Weight: 185 kg
Weight: 165 kg
Seating: 2
Seating: 2
Carrying Capacity: 225 kg, Partial Cover
Carrying Capacity: 225 kg, Partial Cover
Weapon Mount Limit: Medium - 1
Weapon Mount Limit: Medium - 1
Refuelling Cost: 260
Refuelling Cost: 225

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Samsura Surge Alto Frontier
Sleek, stylish, and capable of impressive top This budget family car is perfect for those who
speeds, the Samsura Surge is a popular and need to get out and about regularly without
well-regarded sports motorcycle. Having been breaking the bank.
designed with seating room for two, this vehicle
can quickly and easily get you and a friend to your While the vehicle is probably not something
destination in no time at all. you would want to be seen in for making a first
impression, the Alto Frontier is reliable and does
While cargo space is limited on the Surge, a its job well enough. All substance but no style,
small internal storage compartment provides unfortunately.
enough room to house your bare essentials for the
journeys ahead.
Type: Automation (Vehicle, Car)
Size: 1.75 m wide x 4 m long
Type: Automation (Vehicle, Motorcycle)
XP: 50
Size: 1 m wide x 2.25 m long
XP: 30 Hit Points: 48
Resistances: Acid: 1, Cold: 2, Heat: 2, Physical: 6,
Hit Points: 40 Radiation: 1
Resistances: Acid: 1, Cold: 2, Heat: 2, Physical: 5, Movement Speed: 200 kph
Radiation: 1
Movement Speed: 320 kph End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
7 0 8 3 4 0 0 0
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
5 0 7 9 9 0 0 0 Skills Base Pool
Guns: Turrets 1 4
Skills Base Pool
Intuition 1 1
Guns: Turrets 1 10
Navigation 1 1
Intuition 1 1
Perception 1 1
Navigation 1 1
Piloting: Driving 1 5
Perception 1 1
Stealth 1 4
Piloting: Driving 1 10
Tracking 1 1
Stealth 1 10
Tracking 1 1 Host Scan Network Firewall
RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
Host Scan Network Firewall 0 30 m 4 3 4
RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
0 30 m 4 3 4 Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled, Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed, Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious Susceptibility
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water Weight: 1,200 kg
Susceptibility
Seating: 5
Weight: 160 kg
Carrying Capacity: 625 kg, Heavy Cover
Seating: 2
Weapon Mount Limit: Heavy - 1
Carrying Capacity: 225 kg, Partial Cover
Refuelling Cost: 300
Weapon Mount Limit: Medium - 1
Refuelling Cost: 280

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Toyota Festiva Samsura Discovery
As an all-purpose family car, the Toyota Festiva can With plenty of style and character to spare, this
more than satisfy your everyday transportation competent smallish car has proven a popular
needs. choice amongst the middle class.

Combining a spacious interior for passengers While small in stature, the Samsura Discovery has
and cargo with decent handling and moderate a surprising amount of power behind it. The vehicle
speeds, this vehicle can accomplish a lot, all at a can reach impressive speeds, all without sacrificing
reasonable asking price. its control and manoeuvrability.

Type: Automation (Vehicle, Car) Type: Automation (Vehicle, Car)

Size: 1.75 m wide x 4.5 m long Size: 1.75 m wide x 4 m long
XP: 50 XP: 50

Hit Points: 52 Hit Points: 52

Resistances: Acid: 1, Cold: 2, Heat: 2, Physical: 7, Resistances: Acid: 1, Cold: 2, Heat: 2, Physical: 6,
Radiation: 1 Radiation: 1
Movement Speed: 220 kph Movement Speed: 240 kph

End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
8 0 9 4 4 0 0 0 8 0 9 5 5 0 0 0

Skills Base Pool Skills Base Pool

Guns: Turrets 1 5 Guns: Turrets 1 6
Intuition 1 1 Intuition 1 1
Navigation 1 1 Navigation 1 1
Perception 1 1 Perception 1 1
Piloting: Driving 1 5 Piloting: Driving 1 6
Stealth 1 5 Stealth 1 6
Tracking 1 1 Tracking 1 1

Host Scan Network Firewall Host Scan Network Firewall

RAM Pool RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating Count Range Noise Rating
0 30 m 4 3 4 0 30 m 4 3 4

Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic

Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled, Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed, Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Susceptibility Susceptibility
Weight: 1,500 kg Weight: 1,150 kg
Seating: 5 Seating: 5
Carrying Capacity: 650 kg, Heavy Cover Carrying Capacity: 625 kg, Heavy Cover
Weapon Mount Limit: Heavy - 1 Weapon Mount Limit: Heavy - 1
Refuelling Cost: 350 Refuelling Cost: 380

175 Chapter 3, Items & Equipment

Liberte Shadow
Popular amongst many European markets, the
Liberte Shadow is an exceptional sports car.
Combining an exhilarating top speed with excellent
handling and manoeuvrability, this vehicle is a
regular choice for both street racers and those who
often need to get somewhere in a hurry.
Type: Automation (Vehicle, Car)
Tahoe Striker
Combining a sporty aesthetic with a hint of luxury
thrown in for good measure, the Tahoe Striker is a
widely sought-after vehicle.
With a large enough design to not feel cramped
once inside but still capable of impressive speeds,
this car is a must-have for anyone who wants to
take a ride downtown in style.

Size: 1.75 m wide x 4 m long

Type: Automation (Vehicle, Car)
XP: 50
Size: 1.75 m wide x 4.25 m long
Hit Points: 44 XP: 50
Resistances: Acid: 1, Cold: 2, Heat: 2, Physical: 5,
Radiation: 1 Hit Points: 44
Movement Speed: 305 kph Resistances: Acid: 1, Cold: 2, Heat: 2, Physical: 6,
Radiation: 1
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha Movement Speed: 320 kph
6 0 9 6 6 0 0 0
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
Skills Base Pool
6 0 10 5 6 0 0 0
Guns: Turrets 1 7
Skills Base Pool
Intuition 1 1
Guns: Turrets 1 6
Navigation 1 1
Intuition 1 1
Perception 1 1
Navigation 1 1
Piloting: Driving 1 7
Perception 1 1
Stealth 1 7
Piloting: Driving 1 7
Tracking 1 1
Stealth 1 6
Host Scan Network Firewall
RAM Pool Tracking 1 1
Count Range Noise Rating
0 30 m 4 3 4 Host Scan Network Firewall
RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic 0 30 m 4 3 4
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed, Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Susceptibility Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
Weight: 950 kg Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Susceptibility
Seating: 4
Weight: 1,425 kg
Carrying Capacity: 500 kg, Heavy Cover
Seating: 4
Weapon Mount Limit: Heavy - 1
Carrying Capacity: 525 kg, Heavy Cover
Refuelling Cost: 425
Weapon Mount Limit: Heavy - 1
Refuelling Cost: 450

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Ford Sahara Yamasaki Warden
Often seen as a reliable, working man’s truck, the Popular amongst the Asian markets, the Warden is
Ford Sahara is a regular sight amongst the endless one of the best sellers to arrive out of the Yamasaki
network of North American superhighways. With Industrial Motoring division. Year-on-year
a competent cargo capacity and a design that sales continue to rise as the vehicle remains
encompasses a built-to-last mentality, this vehicle well-received by the general public.
is one that will likely stay with you for years on
end. Often utilised in small to medium-sized businesses,
this pickup truck can serve various purposes,
Type: Automation (Vehicle, Pickup Truck) including logistics, ferrying workforce, or a rapid
response fire support vehicle in a pinch.
Size: 1.75 m wide x 5.25 m long
XP: 60
Type: Automation (Vehicle, Pickup Truck)
Hit Points: 52 Size: 1.75 m wide x 5.5 m long
Resistances: Acid: 2, Cold: 3, Heat: 3, Physical: 6, XP: 60
Radiation: 2
Movement Speed: 175 kph Hit Points: 52
Resistances: Acid: 2, Cold: 3, Heat: 4, Physical: 7,
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha Radiation: 2
8 0 9 3 4 0 0 0 Movement Speed: 190 kph

Skills Base Pool End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
Guns: Turrets 1 4 8 0 10 3 5 0 0 0
Intuition 1 1
Skills Base Pool
Navigation 1 1
Guns: Turrets 1 4
Perception 1 1
Intuition 1 1
Piloting: Driving 1 5
Navigation 1 1
Stealth 1 4
Perception 1 1
Tracking 1 1
Piloting: Driving 1 6
Host Scan Network Firewall Stealth 1 4
RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
Tracking 1 1
0 30 m 4 3 4

Host Scan Network Firewall

Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled, 0 30 m 4 3 4
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Susceptibility Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Weight: 1,900 kg Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious

Seating: 8 Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water

Susceptibility
Carrying Capacity: 1,050 kg, Partial Cover
Weight: 1,975 kg
Weapon Mount Limit: Heavy - 1
Seating: 10
Refuelling Cost: 500
Carrying Capacity: 1,200 kg, Partial Cover
Weapon Mount Limit: Heavy - 1
Refuelling Cost: 525

177 Chapter 3, Items & Equipment

GMC Ranger
The Ranger continues a long-lasting tradition of
quality SUVs to be released under the GMC brand
name. Large enough to transport many individuals
at a given time, this vehicle excels at getting you
and your companions to your destination, with
plenty of space to bring everything you need along
for the ride.
Matsudan Growler
Relatively new to the market, this large, beefy SUV
has undoubtedly been making waves for itself.
Complete with seating capacity for up to 10 and
ample room to store various goods, the Matsudan
Growler is a competent vehicle that can take on
and excel, regardless of what life chooses to throw
at it.

Type: Automation (Vehicle, SUV) Type: Automation (Vehicle, SUV)

Size: 2 m wide x 5.5 m long Size: 2 m wide x 5.75 m long
XP: 60 XP: 60

Hit Points: 56 Hit Points: 56

Resistances: Acid: 3, Cold: 5, Heat: 5, Physical: 8, Resistances: Acid: 3, Cold: 5, Heat: 5, Physical: 8,
Radiation: 3 Radiation: 3
Movement Speed: 210 kph Movement Speed: 195 kph

End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
9 0 10 4 4 0 0 0 9 0 10 3 4 0 0 0

Skills Base Pool Skills Base Pool

Guns: Turrets 1 5 Guns: Turrets 1 4
Intuition 1 1 Intuition 1 1
Navigation 1 1 Navigation 1 1
Perception 1 1 Perception 1 1
Piloting: Driving 1 5 Piloting: Driving 1 5
Stealth 1 5 Stealth 1 4
Tracking 1 1 Tracking 1 1

Host Scan Network Firewall Host Scan Network Firewall

RAM Pool RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating Count Range Noise Rating
0 30 m 4 3 5 0 30 m 4 3 5

Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic

Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled, Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed, Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Susceptibility Susceptibility
Weight: 2,550 kg Weight: 2,700 kg
Seating: 8 Seating: 10
Carrying Capacity: 950 kg, Heavy Cover Carrying Capacity: 1,100 kg, Heavy Cover
Weapon Mount Limit: Heavy - 1 Weapon Mount Limit: Heavy - 1
Refuelling Cost: 550 Refuelling Cost: 575

178 Chapter 3, Items & Equipment

Taheo Roamer
While its features and overall design can be
summarised as basic, the Taheo Roamer is still a
competent and well-received transport van.
Often employed by commercial businesses to
handle light to medium payloads, this vehicle
excels at logistics work and workforce deployment.
Type: Automation (Vehicle, Van)
Size: 2 m wide x 5 m long
XP: 75
Hit Points: 56
Resistances: Acid: 4, Cold: 6, Heat: 6, Physical: 10,
Radiation: 3
Xiao-Sen Outlander
This beast of a vehicle can certainly hold its
own in a hostile environment. With protective
armour around its exterior and plenty of space to
house cargo, the Xiao-Sen Outland is one of those
vehicles that you can rely upon to get you to your
destination in one piece.
Often utilised by mercenaries and security groups,
this vehicle has become a staple choice for those
who enjoy remaining anonymous but also have the
protections for when things start to go south.
Type: Automation (Vehicle, Van)
Size: 2 m wide x 6.25 m long
XP: 75

Movement Speed: 160 kph Hit Points: 60

End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha Resistances: Acid: 4, Cold: 6, Heat: 7, Physical: 11,
Radiation: 4
9 0 10 3 4 0 0 0
Movement Speed: 180 kph
Skills Base Pool
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
Guns: Turrets 1 4
10 0 11 3 4 0 0 0
Intuition 1 1
Navigation 1 1 Skills Base Pool

Perception 1 1 Guns: Turrets 1 4

Piloting: Driving 1 5 Intuition 1 1

Stealth 1 4 Navigation 1 1

Tracking 1 1 Perception 1 1
Piloting: Driving 1 5
Host Scan Network Firewall
RAM Pool Stealth 1 4
Count Range Noise Rating
0 30 m 4 3 5 Tracking 1 1

Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic Host Scan Network Firewall

RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed, 0 30 m 4 3 5
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Susceptibility Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Weight: 2,750 kg Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
Seating: 7 Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Carrying Capacity: 1,300 kg, Heavy Cover Susceptibility

Weapon Mount Limit: Medium - 1, Heavy - 1 Weight: 3,400 kg

Refuelling Cost: 575 Seating: 7

Carrying Capacity: 1,500 kg, Heavy Cover
Weapon Mount Limit: Medium - 1, Heavy - 1
Refuelling Cost: 600

179 Chapter 3, Items & Equipment

Yamasaki Roadmaster Bentley Voyager
Having been on the market for nearly a decade, Continuing their trend of delivering exceptionally
this large beefy armoured truck is one of the well-made, luxury vehicles, the Voyager is the
best-selling commercial vehicles of all time. latest model to come off the production lines of
the British company Bentley.
Continuing Yamasaki Industrial’s trend for
excellent build quality and attention to detail, Built like a tank, this vehicle is designed to serve as
the Roadmaster is, without a doubt, one of the a status symbol and offer its riders peace, comfort,
safest ways to travel, with enough space to include and safe passage to wherever they need to go.
everything you could need.
Type: Automation (Vehicle, Car)
Type: Automation (Vehicle, Truck)
Size: 2 m wide x 5.3 m long
Size: 2.5 m wide x 15.75 m long
XP: 75
XP: 100
Hit Points: 56
Hit Points: 64
Resistances: Acid: 3, Cold: 5, Heat: 6, Physical: 12,
Resistances: Acid: 5, Cold: 7, Heat: 8, Physical: 13, Radiation: 3
Radiation: 5
Movement Speed: 225 kph
Movement Speed: 150 kph
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
9 0 11 3 5 0 0 0
11 0 12 2 3 0 0 0
Skills Base Pool
Skills Base Pool
Guns: Turrets 1 4
Guns: Turrets 1 3
Intuition 1 1
Intuition 1 1
Navigation 1 1
Navigation 1 1
Perception 1 1
Perception 1 1
Piloting: Driving 1 6
Piloting: Driving 1 4
Stealth 1 4
Stealth 1 3
Tracking 1 1
Tracking 1 1
Host Scan Network Firewall
RAM Pool
Host Scan Network Firewall Count Range Noise Rating
RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating 0 30 m 5 4 6
0 30 m 4 3 5
Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic
Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled, Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed, Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water Susceptibility
Susceptibility
Weight: 2,450 kg
Weight: 15,000 kg
Seating: 5
Seating: 3
Carrying Capacity: 650 kg, Heavy Cover
Carrying Capacity: 30,000 kg, Heavy Cover
Weapon Mount Limit: Heavy - 1
Weapon Mount Limit: Heavy - 2
Refuelling Cost: 400
Refuelling Cost: 950

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Beryl Lynx Zeus Scorpion MK-1
As a cornerstone of the construction industry, Arriving on the battlefield is the Scorpion, the latest
the Beryl Lynx Zeus is widely regarded as an product of GM Defense, the specialist military
exceptional piece of equipment. This heavy division of General Motors.
industrial loader can easily lift large quantities of
goods, and thanks to its humanoid-like design, it With exceptional raw power and a hardened
can utilise several upscaled tools, including; drills, exterior of thick armour plating, the Scorpion
welders, and rams. can traverse its environment with relative ease,
providing safety for a fire team or some other
Given its height of just under 7 meters, the valuable cargo held within.
Zeus requires ample free space in its working
environment to function efficiently.
Type: Automation (Vehicle, Armoured Car)
Size: 2.25 m wide x 4.5 m long
Type: Automation (Vehicle, Mech)
XP: 1,250
Size: 4 m
XP: 1,000 Hit Points: 60
Resistances: Acid: 5, Cold: 7, Heat: 8, Physical: 16,
Hit Points: 68 Radiation: 6
Resistances: Acid: 6, Cold: 8, Heat: 8, Physical: 15, Movement Speed: 180 kph
Radiation: 6
Movement Speed: 50 kph End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
10 0 11 3 4 0 0 0
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
12 0 12 1 2 0 0 0 Skills Base Pool
Guns: Turrets 6 9
Skills Base Pool
Intuition 1 1
Guns: Turrets 1 2
Navigation 1 1
Intuition 1 1
Perception 1 1
Navigation 1 1
Piloting: Driving 1 5
Perception 1 1
Stealth 1 4
Piloting: Driving 1 3
Tracking 1 1
Stealth 1 2
Tracking 1 1 Host Scan Network Firewall
RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
Host Scan Network Firewall 0 40 m 5 4 6
RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
0 30 m 4 3 6 Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled, Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed, Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious Susceptibility
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water Weight: 2,500 kg
Susceptibility
Seating: 6
Weight: 4,000 kg
Carrying Capacity: 1,200 kg, Full Cover
Seating: 1
Weapon Mount Limit: Medium - 2, Heavy - 1
Carrying Capacity: 6,000 kg, Partial Cover
Refuelling Cost: 625
Weapon Mount Limit: Heavy - 3
Refuelling Cost: 1,050

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Xiao-Sen Gladiator
As a recent addition to the Xiao-Sen military
hardware catalogue, the Gladiator arrives on the
marketplace as a versatile armoured transport
unit.
Capable of easily repelling small arms fire, this
vehicle can fulfil many roles, including rapid-fire
team deployments, logistics and transportation
support, or even ranged bombardment using
several mounted weapon systems.
Type: Automation (Vehicle, Armoured Transport)
Size: 2.75 m wide x 7 m long
XP: 1,500
Matsudan Conqueror
Built for battering through enemy lines, the
Matsudan Conqueror is a large-scale military siege
mech. Capable of unleashing enough ordinance to
make even the most over-the-top action film seem
paltry by comparison, this highly capable machine
of war is truly a sight to behold.
While certain mega-corporations have been
granted access to the Conqueror for protecting
vital real estate, at just over 8 meters tall, these
machines are considered far too dangerous for
civilian use.
Type: Automation (Vehicle, Mech)
Size: 5 m

Hit Points: 68 XP: 2,000

Resistances: Acid: 6, Cold: 8, Heat: 9, Physical: 17,
Hit Points: 68
Radiation: 8
Resistances: Acid: 6, Cold: 8, Heat: 9, Physical: 18,
Movement Speed: 130 kph
Radiation: 8

End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha Movement Speed: 60 kph

12 0 12 2 3 0 0 0
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
Skills Base Pool 13 0 13 1 2 0 0 0
Guns: Turrets 6 8
Skills Base Pool
Intuition 1 1
Guns: Turrets 6 7
Navigation 1 1
Intuition 1 1
Perception 1 1
Navigation 1 1
Piloting: Driving 1 4
Perception 1 1
Stealth 1 3
Piloting: Driving 1 3
Tracking 1 1
Stealth 1 2

Host Scan Network Firewall Tracking 1 1

RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
0 40 m 5 4 6 Host Scan Network Firewall
RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating

Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic 0 40 m 5 4 6

Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,

Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
Susceptibility
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic, Water
Weight: 16,500 kg
Susceptibility
Seating: 12
Weight: 5,250 kg
Carrying Capacity: 20,000 kg, Full Cover
Seating: 1
Weapon Mount Limit: Medium - 3, Heavy - 1
Carrying Capacity: 7,500 kg, Heavy Cover
Refuelling Cost: 750
Weapon Mount Limit: Medium - 4, Heavy - 4
Refuelling Cost: 1,200

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Nautical Vehicles certainly not cheap to purchase,
these vehicles excel at traversing safely and
Ranging from quick and agile securely across the open waters, often with a little
speedboats, all the way through bit of style points thrown in for good measure.
to coastal patrols ships and
submersibles, nautical vehicles If you plan on running a job along a river or by the
cover an extensive range of coast, you can give yourself a helping hand by
maritime products. While taking one of these on for the ride.

Name Vehicle Type End Str Fin Ref HP Move Seats Rest Cost
Yamasaki Sprint Jet Ski 3 4 6 8 32 80 kph 2 1L 7,500
Sea Ray SPX 300 Motorboat 6 5 5 6 44 26 kph 7 1L 14,500
Yamasaki
Speedboat 5 7 7 9 40 90 kph 5 1L 22,250
Renegade
Sunseeker
Luxury Yacht 10 9 2 4 60 38 kph 80 1L 100,250
Oceania
Xiao-Sen
Submarine 7 7 4 5 48 15 kph 8 2L 70,000
Swordfish
Yamasaki Sea
Submarine 8 8 3 4 52 12 kph 3 2L 79,500
Serpent
Matsudan
Gunboat 11 11 3 3 64 45 kph 25 3R 92,500
Piranha

Above: The nautical vehicles overview table.

Yamasaki Sprint Skills Base Pool

As a popular choice for various recreational Guns: Turrets 1 7
activities, the Yamasaki Sprint is a regular sight on
Intuition 1 1
many of the world’s open waterways. Brandishing
the Yamasaki Industrial name, the Sprint is a Navigation 1 1
high-quality nautical vehicle that can excel Perception 1 1
regardless of the challenges thrown its way.
Piloting: Seacraft 1 9

While lacking in its overall cargo capacity, this Stealth 1 7

vehicle’s potent speed makes it an attractive choice Tracking 1 1
for those who need to get somewhere fast.
Host Scan Network Firewall
RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
Type: Automation (Vehicle, Jet Ski)
0 30 m 4 3 3
Size: 0.75 m wide x 2.25 m long
Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic
XP: 30
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Hit Points: 32 Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
Resistances: Acid: 1, Cold: 2, Heat: 2, Physical: 4, Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic
Radiation: 1
Weight: 168 kg
Movement Speed: 80 kph

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3 0 4 6 8 0 0 0

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Seating: 2 Yamasaki Renegade
Carrying Capacity: 200 kg, No Cover The Yamasaki Renegade is a vehicle that was
designed and built for one purpose, speed. Hurling
Weapon Mount Limit: Medium - 1
down rivers and coastlines from Tokyo to London,
Refuelling Cost: 300 the Renegade has seen ample success thanks to its
sporty aesthetics and stylish finish.

Sea Ray SPX 300 Popularised by its appearance in various films

and other media, this vehicle is a common choice
This stylish, all-purpose motorboat is one of the
for many organisations, from security groups to
more notable products recently arriving on the
criminal gangs.
marketplace. Versatile in function, the SPX 300 can
serve you well as both a recreational vehicle and
an agile and lightweight transport. Type: Automation (Vehicle, Speedboat)
Size: 3 m wide x 13 m long
Type: Automation (Vehicle, Motorboat)
XP: 50
Size: 2.75 m wide x 7.5 m long
Hit Points: 40
XP: 50
Resistances: Acid: 1, Cold: 2, Heat: 2, Physical: 6,
Hit Points: 44 Radiation: 1

Resistances: Acid: 1, Cold: 2, Heat: 2, Physical: 6, Movement Speed: 90 kph

Radiation: 1
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
Movement Speed: 26 kph
5 0 7 7 9 0 0 0
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
Skills Base Pool
6 0 5 5 6 0 0 0
Guns: Turrets 1 8
Skills Base Pool Intuition 1 1
Guns: Turrets 1 6 Navigation 1 1
Intuition 1 1 Perception 1 1
Navigation 1 1 Piloting: Seacraft 1 10
Perception 1 1 Stealth 1 8
Piloting: Seacraft 1 7 Tracking 1 1
Stealth 1 6
Host Scan Network Firewall
Tracking 1 1 RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
0 30 m 4 3 4
Host Scan Network Firewall
RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic
0 30 m 4 3 4
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed, Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious Weight: 6,000 kg
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic Seating: 5
Weight: 1,750 kg Carrying Capacity: 3,000 kg, Partial Cover
Seating: 7
Weapon Mount Limit: Medium - 2
Carrying Capacity: 1,000 kg, Partial Cover
Refuelling Cost: 475
Weapon Mount Limit: Medium - 2
Refuelling Cost: 450

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Sunseeker Oceania
As an undeniable status symbol and the pinnacle
of wealth, the Oceania follows a long line of luxury
vessels to be manufactured under the Sunseeker
name. At 40 meters in length and spread over two
floors, this yacht has five cabins, a swimming pool,
and a sizeable open lounge.
Xiao-Sen Swordfish
Designed and built to stealthily insert tactical
forces behind enemy lines, the Xiao-Sen Swordfish
is a highly praised specialist submarine. Capable
of diving to depths of around 100 meters, the
Swordfish can silently glide along riverbeds and
coastlines to deliver its cargo for maximum effect.

Given its widespread appeal to celebrities and the While not built for sustained combat operations,
political elite, many of these vessels often feature the Swordfish can provide light fire support in a
mounted weapon systems to help repel pirates and pinch using up to two medium-calibre weapon
other unwanted trespassers. mounts along its topside.

Type: Automation (Vehicle, Luxury Yacht) Type: Automation (Vehicle, Submarine)

Size: 9.5 m wide x 40 m long Size: 2.5 m wide x 12 m long
XP: 1,500 XP: 1,000

Hit Points: 60 Hit Points: 48

Resistances: Acid: 5, Cold: 7, Heat: 7, Physical: 16, Resistances: Acid: 5, Cold: 8, Heat: 8, Physical: 14,
Radiation: 6 Radiation: 6
Movement Speed: 90 kph Movement Speed: 15 kph

End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
5 0 7 7 9 0 0 0 7 0 7 4 5 0 0 0

Skills Base Pool Skills Base Pool

Guns: Turrets 1 3 Guns: Turrets 4 8
Intuition 1 1 Intuition 1 1
Navigation 1 1 Navigation 1 1
Perception 1 1 Perception 1 1
Piloting: Seacraft 1 5 Piloting: Seacraft 1 6
Stealth 1 3 Stealth 1 5
Tracking 1 1 Tracking 1 1

Host Scan Network Firewall Host Scan Network Firewall

RAM Pool RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating Count Range Noise Rating
0 30 m 5 4 6 0 30 m 5 4 6

Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic

Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled, Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed, Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic
Weight: 99,500 kg Weight: 13,500 kg
Seating: 80 Seating: 8
Carrying Capacity: 75,000 kg, Heavy Cover Carrying Capacity: 3,000 kg, Full Cover
Weapon Mount Limit: Medium - 5, Heavy - 1 Weapon Mount Limit: Medium - 2
Refuelling Cost: 2,500 Refuelling Cost: 650

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Quirks Seating: 3
Submersible Carrying Capacity: 32,500 kg, Full Cover
While submerged the vessel gains a +5 dice pool Weapon Mount Limit: Medium - 2, Heavy - 1
modifier to all Stealth-based skill checks.
Refuelling Cost: 750

Yamasaki Sea Serpent Quirks

When you need equipment transported quietly in
and out of an area, nothing could be better suited
to the task at hand than the Yamasaki Sea Serpent.
This submersible vehicle can safely haul large
amounts of cargo as it cruises silently at depths
of up to 300 meters.
Popular with various corporations, both big and
small, the Sea Serpent is notorious for its ties to
many of the world’s most notorious smuggling
trades.
Type: Automation (Vehicle, Submarine)
Size: 3.5 m wide x 15 m long
XP: 1,250
Hit Points: 52
Resistances: Acid: 6, Cold: 9, Heat: 9, Physical: 16,
Radiation: 6
Submersible
While submerged the vessel gains a +5 dice pool
modifier to all Stealth-based skill checks.
Matsudan Piranha
The Piranha is a well-regarded medium-sized
patrol ship. Often utilised for coastal defence
and maintaining security along rivers and
other open waterways, this ship combines an
intimidating amount of firepower, good speed, and
manoeuvrability.
Given its smaller size than a frigate or destroyer,
the Matsudan Piranha can often operate in waters
that would not otherwise be suited for these larger
ships.
Type: Automation (Vehicle, Gunboat)

Movement Speed: 12 kph Size: 12.5 m wide x 60 m long

XP: 2,000
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
8 0 8 3 4 0 0 0 Hit Points: 64
Resistances: Acid: 6, Cold: 9, Heat: 9, Physical: 18,
Skills Base Pool
Radiation: 8
Guns: Turrets 4 7
Movement Speed: 45 kph
Intuition 1 1
Navigation 1 1 End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha

Perception 1 1 11 0 11 3 3 0 0 0

Piloting: Seacraft 1 5 Skills Base Pool

Stealth 1 4 Guns: Turrets 6 9
Tracking 1 1 Intuition 1 1
Navigation 1 1
Host Scan Network Firewall
RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating Perception 1 1
0 30 m 5 4 6
Piloting: Seacraft 1 4

Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic Stealth 1 4

Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled, Tracking 1 1

Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious Host Scan Network Firewall
RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic
0 30 m 5 4 7
Weight: 17,250 kg

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Damage Immunities: Mental, Toxic
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Crippled,
Diseased, Exhaustion, Feared, Maimed, Paralysed,
Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious
Properties: Computerised Device, Metallic
Weight: 165,000 kg
Seating: 25
Carrying Capacity: 150,000 kg, Full Cover
Weapon Mount Limit: Medium - 2, Heavy - 3
Refuelling Cost: 3,250
3.22 Automation
Accessories
While some automations may look impressive
by themselves, there are plenty of items and
accessories out there required to help them
with their tasks. For example, a vehicle built for
fire support will not be able to utilise firearms
without a sufficient number of weapon mounts.
Simultaneously, a drone aiming to patrol a given
area will often prove ineffective without using a
half-decent sensor array.
Regardless of the item or the job it intends to
perform, accessories will generally fall into one
of four subcategories. These are:
• Pilotsofts - Software that can teach an
automation how best to react to the actions
and events around it.
• Sensor Arrays - Hardware which grants an
automation vision of its surroundings.
Version Reflex Gain RAM Use
1 +1
2 +2
3 +3
4 +4
5 +5
Above: The pilotsofts equipment overview table.
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• Skillsofts - Software that can teach an
automation on how to perform a particular
type of skill.
• Weapon Mounts - Hardware that allows an
automation to utilise an attached weapon
system.
Pilotsofts
With the streets of 2107
becoming more dangerous,
it is increasingly vital for an
automation to be able to defend
itself. Whether it be a hooligan
attempting to take off with
someone else’s lightweight
drone or perhaps a bunch of gangsters who want
to have some fun lighting up nearby passing
vehicles, automations often require the ability to
quickly think on the spot and help keep themselves
operational.
Pilotsofts can help an automation achieve just
this. By providing the drone or vehicle with a highly
trained set of software, the pilotsoft can efficiently
run any necessary simulations to quickly decide
upon the best possible course of action. This could
be a move command to nearby cover to better
avoid incoming weapons fire or prioritising specific
targets to quickly neutralise the perceived threat.
As with most types of software these days,
pilotsofts come in various versions. Each version
represents an improved iteration of the software
and provides an increased bonus to the automation
they are installed onto. Regardless of which
product is chosen, the automation’s current Reflex
attribute score is further increased by its stated
amount.
Detection Rating Restrictions Cost
1 1 1L 350
1 1 1L 750
1 1 2L 1,650
1 1 2L 3,450
1 1 3L 7,500
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Sensor Arrays
Regardless of their particular
role or purpose, all automations
require information about
their current surroundings
and environment for them
to be able to make informed
decisions. For example, a
drone on reconnaissance duty isn’t going to fare
particularly well if it cannot identify potential
hazards and targets. At the same time, a logistics
vehicle will leave much to be desired if it needs
help figuring out how to manoeuvre through traffic.
The sensor array is a high-tech piece of equipment
that can digitise an automation’s surroundings into
a mass of data it can then understand and utilise.
This could include the layout of a particular room
and building, or perhaps instead, the location of all
hostile individuals within its nearby vicinity.
Regardless of what information is being
captured, an installed sensor array increases the
automation’s current Foresight attribute score to
its stated amount. The table below should give
you a brief overview of this and their various other
statistics. The columns from left to right are as
follows; name, vision types, Foresight attribute
score, properties, weight, concealment rating,
combined restriction class & level, and finally, its
cost.

Name Vision Types Foresight Props Wt Con Rest Cost

Echo Standard, Low-light 2 Metallic 0.5 kg A 1L 500
Seer Standard, Low-light, Night 3 Metallic 0.75 kg A 1L 1,150
Horizon Standard, Low-light 4 Metallic 0.6 kg A 1L 1,250
Ascendant Standard, Low-light 6 Metallic 0.75 kg A 1L 2,650
Skylark Standard, Low-light, Night 6 Metallic 0.85 kg A 1L 3,250
Pathfinder Standard, Low-light, Night 7 Metallic 0.9 kg A 2L 4,500
Sentinel Standard, Low-light, Night, Thermal 8 Metallic 1 kg A 3L 7,000
Matriarch Standard, Low-light, Night, Thermal 9 Metallic 1 kg A 4L 9,250
Exodus Standard, Low-light, Night, Thermal 10 Metallic 1 kg A 5L 12,500

Above: The sensor arrays equipment overview table.

Echo
The Echo is an all-purpose entry-level sensor array
system intended for everyday use. Frequently
utilised by organisations in the automotive
industry, this equipment provides a drone
or vehicle with a basic understanding of its
surroundings.
Horizon
The Horizon is a relatively solid piece of kit offering
a good balance of both cost and perceptive
capabilities. Often utilised by many small-scale
organisations, this sensor array is perfectly suited
for patrol robots and indoor maintenance drones.

Seer
Equipped with a standard night vision lens,
the Seer is an effective, low-cost solution for
automations required to operate both during the
day and the dead of night.
Ascendant
Armed with its impressive array of 64 separate
cameras, the Ascendant is one of the most
powerful sensory devices available to the general
public. Its perceptive capabilities rival any human’s,
and its weight is low enough to be installed onto
even the smallest of automations.

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Skylark
With its ability to operate in complete darkness, the
Skylark is a popular choice for those who require
their automations to work flawlessly in the dead of
night. Despite its higher-than-average price point
being a sticking point for many, its performance
alone makes it a highly sought-after piece of
equipment.
Exodus
Arriving fresh out of the BDE group labs, the
Exodus has swiftly established itself as a
dominant contender for the go-to standard for
all military-grade sensor equipment. With its
support for various vision types and a high degree
of accuracy, the Exodus is regularly sought after by
various military groups and organisations across
the globe.

Pathfinder
Created for use by law enforcement officials and
the private security sector, the Pathfinder is a
competent piece of tech that can radically improve
an automation’s perceptive capabilities. Equipped
with a variety of different cameras, the Pathfinder
can operate in most types of environments.
Sentinel
Often found in the hands of corporate security, the
Sentinel is an all-purpose, high-tech sensor array
system. Built for both accuracy and surgical-like
precision, the Sentinel can reliably pick out targets
before its automation delivers a powerful and
deadly strike.
Matriarch
The Matriarch is a complex, high-precision
sensor array system often utilised by military
and high-end security organisations. The
equipment excels at mapping out environments
and identifying potential hazards and hostiles
within its vicinity.
Skillsofts
While pilotsofts allow for an
automation to better determine
a suitable course of action,
skillsofts prefer to teach them
how best to perform a certain
skill. This could mean enhancing
a drone or vehicle’s stealth
by training them on how best to remain hidden,
or perhaps instead, its ability to fire a mounted
weapon system through improved aiming and a
better understanding of its recoil patterns.
Regardless of which skillsoft is chosen, various
software iterations will exist on the marketplace.
Each iteration improves upon the last by providing
a more significant increase to the automation’s
associated skill. How large of gain you can expect
to receive here can easily be determined by
referencing the table below. Of course, like with
any other kind of product, the higher the potency of
its effects, the larger you can expect its price tag.
Additionally, all skillsofts have an associated
RAM use. This value reflects the number of
resources that the software will require from the
device’s RAM pool for it to be able to run. For more
information about RAM use, please refer to the
Computers & the Omninet chapter detailed later
on in this book.

Version Skill Gain RAM Use Detection Rating Restrictions Cost

1 +2 1 1 1L 200
2 +4 1 1 2L 450
3 +6 1 1 3L 950
4 +8 1 1 4L 2,000
5 +10 1 1 5L 4,250

Above: The skillsofts equipment overview table.

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Skillsofts can be purchase for each of the following
skill types; Guns: Turrets, Intuition, Navigation,
Perception, Piloting: Aircraft, Piloting: Driving,
Piloting: Seacraft, Stealth, and Tracking. Regardless
of which are chosen, you should use the above
overview table for determining their various
statistics and effects.
Weapon Mounts
As drones and vehicles both
became ever more advanced
in their capabilities, it was only a
matter of time before someone
had the bright idea of equipping
them with weapon systems.
However, without the use of
hands and dexterous fingers, suitable equipment
was always going to be necessary to facilitate their
use.
The weapon mount is a piece of equipment that
grants an automation this very capability. Equipped
with a robust frame to attach a suitable firearm,
several intricate mechanisms controlled by a
computer interface allow the device to aim and fire
with a high degree of precision.
Certain products have been built to different
scales, however, and as such, one can often
prove better suited towards a particular type of
automation than another. For example, a heavy
weapon mount can only be utilised by the largest
drones or vehicles, while the medium and light
variants can be installed onto a broader range of
devices.
The table below should give you a good idea of
which types of weapon mount might be best suited
for the job at hand, along with their various other
statistics and effects. The columns from left to
right are as follows; name, supported weapon
types, properties, weight, concealment rating,
combined restriction class & level, and finally, its
cost.

Name Supported Weapons Props Wt Con Rest Cost

Light Weapon Mount Pistols (light/heavy/automatic) Metallic 0.5 kg A 1R 750
Assault rifles, submachine guns,
Medium Weapon Mount Metallic 2 kg D 1R 1,500
long guns

Heavy Weapon Mount Heavy weapons Metallic 6 kg I 2O 3,500

Above: The weapon mounts equipment overview table.

Light Weapon Mount Medium Weapon Mount

Consisting of a mechanical frame with a series of
pneumatic components, the weapon mount allows
an automation’s onboard computer system to
control and manoeuvre a given firearm like any
other individual. A storage component is situated
towards its rear and serves as a feed of additional
magazines and ammunition for when the weapon
system becomes depleted.
Constructed with a larger and more durable frame,
this weapon mount is the bigger brother of its
lighter variant. Able to support all manner of long
guns and automatic type weaponry, these mounts
can grant an automation a considerable amount of
firepower.
Standard Actions:

Standard Actions: Mount/Unmount Weapon

Mount/Unmount Weapon
Equips or unequips a suitable firearm from the
weapon mount. A weapon mount can only support
one firearm at any given time.
Equips or unequips a suitable firearm from the
weapon mount. A weapon mount can only support
one firearm at any given time.

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Heavy Weapon Mount
As the largest of the three variants, this weapon
mount can support the most extensive array of
firearms. Whether it be a flame-thrower, grenade
launcher, or minigun, this weapon mount can help
an automation utilise it.
Given their potential for untold collateral damage,
however, it is of little surprise that these mounts
were quickly outlawed in most of the world’s
various markets.
Standard Actions:
Mount/Unmount Weapon
Equips or unequips a suitable firearm from the
weapon mount. A weapon mount can only support
one firearm at any given time.
3.23 Cybernetic
Enhancements
What started as an industry looking to improve the
lives of injured war veterans and the disabled has
now morphed and grown into the gargantuan trade
it is today.
so does the potency of its effects on an individual’s
body.
An important point to note is that cybernetic
enhancements of different versions do not stack
with one another. As a result, a model with an
earlier version must first be removed from an
individual’s body before a later iteration can be
fitted in its place.
Attribute Enhancements
Whether you are looking to
improve your physical strength,
mental capacity or get better
at reading other people,
attribute-based cybernetic
enhancements will have you
covered. Well known for the
potency of their effects and a hefty price tag to
suit, these high-tech pieces of gear are regularly
sought after by many.
Below is a table informing you of all the attribute
enhancements currently available on the
marketplace. The columns from left to right are
as follows; name, improved attribute, properties,
weight, concealment rating, and finally, its
rejection rating.

Whether you are looking for heightened reflexes

to significantly improve your reaction times or
perhaps an integrated defibrillator for those with
a consistent history of strokes in their family,
cybernetic enhancements can promise to improve
any aspect of your life, providing you have the
credits to pay for them.

All cybernetic enhancements can be categorised

into one of two groups. These are:

• Attribute Enhancements - Equipment that

focuses on improving a character’s attribute
scores.
• Utility Enhancements - Equipment that
grants an individual new and improved utility
or function.

Additionally, each piece of equipment can

be purchased in several different varieties.
Represented by a version number, each iteration
reflects a series of phased improvements or
changes made to the initial enhancement over
time. As this version number continues to increase,
 Name Attr Props Wt Con Reject
Accelerated Reflexes Reflex Computerised Device, Metallic 0.1 kg E 15
Cerebrum Dampener Will Computerised Device, Metallic 0.01 kg VE 13.5
Exoskeleton Strength Computerised Device, Metallic 6 kg D 10
Kinesics Interpreter Charisma Computerised Device, Metallic 0.01 kg VE 10
Neuro Stimulant Intellect Computerised Device, Metallic 0.01 kg VE 12.5
Pain Suppression System Endurance Computerised Device, Metallic 0.5 kg E 13.5
Precision Stabilisers Finesse Computerised Device, Metallic 0.01 kg VE 12.5
Retinal Processors Foresight Computerised Device, Metallic 0.01 kg VE 11

Host Scan Network Firewall

Name RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
Accelerated Reflexes 0 12 m 2 3 3
Cerebrum Dampener 0 12 m 2 3 3
Exoskeleton 0 12 m 2 3 3
Kinesics Interpreter 0 12 m 2 3 3
Neuro Stimulant 0 12 m 2 3 3
Pain Suppression System 0 12 m 2 3 3
Precision Stabilisers 0 12 m 2 3 3
Retinal Processors 0 12 m 2 3 3

Above: The attribute enhancements overview tables.

Accelerated Reflexes enhancement receives a bonus to their Reflex

attribute score. This increase equals the version
Comprised of a series of nano processors
number of the enhancement and, unlike most other
integrated into the individual’s brain, this
improvements, can go beyond the individual’s
cybernetic enhancement boasts a sizeable
normal biological maximum.
improvement to their ability to process nearby
information and formulate an adequate response.
Cerebrum Dampener
Version Restrictions Cost With the rise of psionics and its effects, many
1 1L 5,200 individuals have seen a great need to protect their
minds and its secrets. Thoughts and sensitive
2 2L 9,100
information which were once held as being private
3 3L 15,925 can now be exposed by talented individuals for all
4 4L 27,875 of the world to see.
5 5L 48,775
The Cerebrum Dampener soon began making
headway onto the markets. By tracking the day
Traits: to activities of the host’s brain, this cybernetic
implant can be trained to detect and then suppress
Accelerated Reflexes both intrusive thoughts and spikes of trauma or
While equipped, the host of this cybernetic induced stress.

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 Version Restrictions
1 1L
2 2L
3 3L
Cost Whether it be the tones in their voice, the
movements of their body, or perhaps merely the
5,050
presence of sweat, all of this information can help
8,850 feed a real-time model of their emotional state
15,500 with impressive precision.

4 4L 27,125
5 5L 47,500 Version Restrictions Cost
1 1L 4,450

Traits: 2 2L 7,800
3 3L 13,600
Cerebrum Dampener 4 4L 23,850
While equipped, the host of this cybernetic
5 5L 41,750
enhancement receives a bonus to their Will
attribute score. This increase equals the version
number of the enhancement and, unlike most other Traits:
improvements, can go beyond the individual’s
normal biological maximum.
Kinesics Interpreter
While equipped, the host of this cybernetic
Exoskeleton enhancement receives a bonus to their Charisma
attribute score. This increase equals the version
This sleek metallic enhancement can be closely number of the enhancement and, unlike most other
integrated into the host’s major muscle groups. improvements, can go beyond the individual’s
Utilising a series of finely tuned electrical motors normal biological maximum.
and hydraulics, the exoskeleton can provide a
noticeable improvement to an individual’s raw
body strength. Neuro Stimulant
Dealing with the brain is both delicate and
Version Restrictions Cost dangerous work. After years of experimentation,
however, scientists have finally discovered a way
1 1L 5,200
to stimulate brain cells to improve their overall
2 2L 9,100 cognitive function.
3 3L 15,925
4 4L 27,875
Utilising targeted electronic pulses to specific
cells at a nanosecond level of precision, the Neuro
5 5L 48,775 Stimulant can significantly improve an individual’s
intelligence.
Traits:
Version Restrictions Cost
Exoskeleton 1 1L 5,200
While equipped, the host of this cybernetic
enhancement receives a bonus to their Strength 2 2L 9,100
attribute score. This increase equals the version 3 3L 15,925
number of the enhancement and, unlike most other
4 4L 27,875
improvements, can go beyond the individual’s
normal biological maximum. 5 5L 48,775

Kinesics Interpreter Traits:

Having originally been developed by a team of
Neuro Stimulant
researchers looking into the world of dating, the
While equipped, the host of this cybernetic
Kinesics Interpreter is designed to accurately read
enhancement receives a bonus to their Intellect
subtle social cues about a specific individual.
attribute score. This increase equals the version
number of the enhancement and, unlike most other

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improvements, can go beyond the individual’s Traits:
normal biological maximum.
Precision Stabilisers
While equipped, the host of this cybernetic
Pain Suppression System enhancement receives a bonus to their Finesse
Created through a combination of medical and attribute score. This increase equals the version
military research, the Pain Suppression System number of the enhancement and, unlike most other
allows an individual to endure far greater physical improvements, can go beyond the individual’s
punishment before their body finally gives in. normal biological maximum.
By synthesising and excreting small amounts of
chemical compounds, this cybernetic enhancement
can make anyone feel almost invincible. Retinal Processors
Inserted just behind the eyeballs of its host, this
Version Restrictions Cost cybernetic enhancement can recognise various
types of patterns in virtually real time.
1 1L 5,050
2 2L 8,850 Whether for highlighting strange anomalies or
3 3L 15,500 identifying relevant information, the Retinal
Processor can provide an in-depth augmented
4 4L 27,125
reality interface to help focus the attention of its
5 5L 47,500 host where it matters most.

Traits: Version Restrictions Cost

1 1L 5,050
Pain Suppression System
2 2L 8,850
While equipped, the host of this cybernetic
enhancement receives a bonus to their Endurance 3 3L 15,500
attribute score. This increase equals the version 4 4L 27,125
number of the enhancement and, unlike most other
5 5L 47,500
improvements, can go beyond the individual’s
normal biological maximum.
Traits:
Precision Stabilisers
Retinal Processors
Working similarly to the Accelerated Reflexes While equipped, the host of this cybernetic
enhancement, Precision Stabilisers operate enhancement receives a bonus to their Foresight
through a nano-processor inserted into an attribute score. This increase equals the version
individual’s brain. By learning to understand what number of the enhancement and, unlike most other
the host is trying to achieve, the processor can improvements, can go beyond the individual’s
automatically send out small yet precise electronic normal biological maximum.
signals to compensate for minor movement
inaccuracies.

Version Restrictions Cost

1 1L 5,200
2 2L 9,100
3 3L 15,925
4 4L 27,875
5 5L 48,775

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Utility Enhancements instead.

While attribute-based Whether it be reduced noise generation while

cybernetics aim to improve moving, an active camouflage field to blend into
an individual’s raw body their surroundings, or a retractable hidden blade,
strength or increase the speed these cybernetic enhancements offer many
of their reflexes, utility-based solutions to various problems you might encounter
enhancements grant them new during your adventures.
and improved functionality

Name Props Wt Con Reject

Active Camouflage Computerised Device, Metallic, Water Susceptibility 2.5 kg A 7.5
Air Filtration System Computerised Device, Metallic 0.5 kg E 2.5
Audial Enhancers Computerised Device, Metallic 0.05 kg VE 3
Audible Dampeners Computerised Device, Metallic 1 kg A 4
Audio Normaliser Computerised Device, Metallic 0.05 kg VE 3
Bone Hardening Metallic 2 kg A 7.5
Breathing Regulator Computerised Device, Metallic 1 kg E 3.5
Dermal Coating Metallic 1.5 kg A 7.5
Drug Dispenser Computerised Device, Metallic 0.25 kg E 2
Flash Suppressant Computerised Device, Metallic 0.01 kg VE 3.5
Integrated PCD/CCD Metallic 0.25 kg E 1.5
Interior Storage Compartment Metallic 0.5 kg A 3
Jump Boots Computerised Device, Metallic 1 kg A 4
Recoil Compensator Computerised Device, Metallic 1 kg A 3.5
Retractable Blade Computerised Device, Metallic 0.75 kg E 2
Sentinel Defibrillator Computerised Device, Metallic 0.5 kg E 4.5
Universal Translator Computerised Device, Metallic 0.05 kg VE 2.5
Visual Enhancer Computerised Device, Metallic 0.025 kg VE 3
 Host Scan Network Firewall
Name RAM Pool
Count Range Noise Rating
Active Camouflage 0 12 m 2 3 3
Air Filtration System 0 12 m 2 3 3
Audial Enhancers 0 12 m 2 3 3
Audible Dampeners 0 12 m 2 3 3
Audio Normaliser 0 12 m 2 3 3
Breathing Regulator 0 12 m 2 3 3
Drug Dispenser 0 12 m 2 3 3
Flash Suppressant 0 12 m 2 3 3
Jump Boots 0 12 m 2 3 3
Recoil Compensator 0 12 m 2 3 3
Retractable Blade 0 12 m 2 3 3
Sentinel Defibrillator 0 12 m 2 3 3
Universal Translator 0 12 m 2 3 3
Visual Enhancer 0 12 m 2 3 3

Above: The utility enhancements overview tables.

Active Camouflage effect to both its host and their clothing and
equipment, in addition to also concealing
Comprised of a small-scale generator, this
their heat signature.
equipment can sustain a temporary energy
field around its host. While active, this field can
manipulate and bend rays of light to create a Air Filtration System
convincing invisibility-like effect.
Utilising a series of high-quality interwoven
nanoweave meshes, the air filtration system
Version Restrictions Cost automatically allows an individual’s respiratory
1 2R 7,500 system to filter out environmental pollutants and
airborne toxins.
2 3R 13,125
3 4R 22,950 The quality of this enhancement’s filtration
system has steadily improved over time as newer
iterations have continued to be released on the
Standard Actions: marketplace.

Activate/Deactivate Active Camouflage (1)

Toggles the active camouflage effect for this Version Restrictions Cost
enhancement. While active, its host is considered 1 1L 3,950
to have a varying level of invisibility, all based on
whichever version of the enhancement it was 2 2L 6,925
purchased at. 3 3L 12,100

• Version One - Grants the invisibility status

effect to its host, but none of their clothing or
equipment.
• Version Two - Grants the invisibility status
effect to its host, but also conceals their
clothing and equipment.
• Version Three - Grants the invisibility status
Traits:
Air Filtration System
While equipped, the host of this cybernetic
enhancement receives a bonus to their dice pool
whenever they attempt to resist or end an effect
caused by inhaling an airborne hazard or toxin. This

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bonus equals the version number at which the
enhancement was purchased at multiplied by
three.
Audial Enhancers
Utilising a pair of highly tuned sensors, this tiny
cybernetic enhancement can drastically improve an
individual’s hearing.
Audio Normaliser
Installed into the ear canal, the Audio Normaliser
allows its host to regulate all incoming sound
without imposing a noticeable delay. Often used
by bar staff in clubs and other noisy environments,
this small cybernetic enhancement can filter out
loud background noise to give them crystal-clear
hearing.

Version Restrictions Cost

Version Restrictions Cost
1 1L 3,950
1 1L 4,000
2 2L 6,925
2 2L 7,000
3 3L 12,100
3 3L 12,250
4 4L 21,175
4 4L 21,450
5 5L 37,050
5 5L 37,550

Traits:
Audial Enhancers
While equipped, the host of this cybernetic
enhancement receives a bonus to their dice pool on
all sound-based Perception skill checks they make.
This bonus should equal the version number at
which the enhancement was purchased at.
Traits:
Audio Normaliser
While equipped, the host of this cybernetic
enhancement receives a bonus to their dice pool
whenever they attempt to resist or end an
audible-based concussive or impairing effect. This
bonus equals double the version number at which
the enhancement was purchased at.

Additionally, they suffer no additional penalties due

Audible Dampeners to background noise when attempting to
Using strategically placed shock absorbers and communicate with others.
high-quality, low friction-based materials, this
cybernetic enhancement can reduce the noise
produced due to its host’s movements.
Bone Hardening
By coating each of the major bones in an
individual’s body, this cybernetic enhancement can
Version Restrictions Cost increase their resistance to all incoming physical
1 1L 4,250 type damage. Additionally, the hardened material
helps serve as a great way to deliver extra force
2 2L 7,450
on impact, playing a useful role while engaged in
3 3L 13,000 unarmed melee combat.
4 4L 22,750
5 5L 39,800 Unlike many other cybernetics, this enhancement
is purely chemical-based in nature. As a result, it
does not require a miniaturised computer system
Traits: to operate efficiently.

Audible Dampeners Version Restrictions Cost

While equipped, the host of this cybernetic
enhancement receives a bonus to their dice pool on 1 1L 4,500
all Stealth-based skill checks they make. This 2 2L 7,875
bonus equals the version number at which the
3 3L 13,750
enhancement was purchased at.
4 4L 24,050
5 5L 42,050

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Traits: Version Restrictions Cost
1 1L 4,500
Bone Hardening
While equipped, the host of this cybernetic 2 2L 7,875
enhancement receives additional physical damage 3 3L 13,750
resistance and a bonus to their damage output on
4 4L 24,050
all unarmed melee attacks that they make. These
bonuses should equal double the version number 5 5L 42,050
at which the enhancement was purchased.
Traits:
Breathing Regulator
Dermal Coating
Integrated into its host’s respiratory system,
While equipped, the host of this cybernetic
this enhancement provides an individual with
enhancement gains additional resistance to each of
an emergency supply of air that can be quickly
the following damage types; acid, cold, heat, and
activated when needed.
physical. This bonus equals the version number at
which the enhancement was purchased at.
Version Restrictions Cost
1 1L 3,950
Drug Dispenser
2 2L 6,925
This simplistic cybernetic enhancement is
3 3L 12,100 comprised of a small reservoir that can store one
or multiple doses of any suitable type of drug.
Through a mere thought, its host can control the
Free Actions: enhancement, allowing them to administer their
choice of substance for the current situation.
Activate/Deactivate Regulator
Toggles the enhancement’s supply of air. While
A small access port allows new doses to be fed into
active, its host is considered capable of breathing
the dispenser, which is safely hidden away within
normally in a low-oxygen environment and is
the torso of its installed host.
immune to inhalation-based airborne hazards and
toxins.
Version Restrictions Cost
The amount of air this enhancement has at its 1 1R 3,950
disposal depends solely on the version at which it
was purchased. Multiply this version number by 2 2R 6,925
two to calculate how many minutes worth of air 3 3R 12,100
supply it can store at any given time.

Once consumed, this air supply will slowly Free Actions:

resupply, refilling itself over the next hour.
Administer Drug
Administers one or multiple doses of drugs that
Dermal Coating have been stored within the enhancement.

Developed through years of military research,

Dermal Coating covers an individual’s skin with
a hardened metallic-based substance. Once
set, this layer of toughened material provides a
modest amount of protection against most types of
incoming force.
Unlike many other cybernetics, this enhancement
is purely chemical-based in nature. As a result, it
does not require a miniaturised computer system
to operate efficiently.
Standard Actions:
Store Drug
Adds a single dose of a given drug into the
enhancement’s internal reservoir. The
enhancement can store a total number of doses
equal to the version number at which it was
purchased at.

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Flash Suppressant Version Restrictions Cost
Despite its seemingly innocent appearance as a 1 1L 3,250
glorified contact lens, the Flash Suppressant is
2 2L 5,700
a surprisingly advanced piece of gear. Equipped
with a real-time digital feed, this cybernetic 3 3L 9,975
enhancement can normalise sudden fluctuations
of intense light, shielding the eye from potential
concussive and impairing effects. Traits:

Interior Storage Compartment

Version Restrictions Cost While equipped, the host of this cybernetic
1 1L 3,950 enhancement is said to have a concealed storage
unit integrated into their body.
2 2L 6,925
3 3L 12,100 The capacity of this enhancement should be
determined based on the version at which it was
4 4L 21,175
purchased at.
5 5L 37,050
• Version One - Capable of storing a weapon
with an easy concealment rating (such
Traits: as a pistol) and a couple of ammunition
magazines.
Flash Suppressant
• Version Two - Capable of storing a weapon
While equipped, the host of this cybernetic
with an average concealment rating and
enhancement receives a bonus to their dice pool
some ammunition to spare.
whenever they attempt to resist or end a
visual-based concussive or impairing effect. This • Version Three - Capable of storing a folded-
bonus equals double the version number at which down weapon with a difficult concealment
the enhancement was purchased at. rating (such as an assault rifle) and a couple
of ammunition magazines.

Integrated PCD/CCD
Comprised of a simplistic metal bracket, this
Jump Boots
cybernetic enhancement allows an individual to Armed with a miniaturised propulsion system,
conceal and integrate either their PCD or CCD unit these cybernetic enhancements can give its host
into one of their arms. a short-duration thrust. This can increase the
individual’s air time and extend the height and
While the enhancement does not include a PCD distance that they can jump.
device, it provides five meters of integrated fibre
optic cabling, which can be used to jack into other
Version Restrictions Cost
nearby devices.
1 1L 3,500
2 2L 6,125
Version Restrictions Cost
3 3L 10,750
1 1L 3,750
4 4L 19,500
5 5L 34,500
Interior Storage Compartment
This simplistic cybernetic enhancement can
Traits:
be seamlessly integrated into its host’s body.
Concealing any stored items, the interior storage
compartment can be an easy way to smuggle Jump Boots
useful equipment and wares into a restricted area. While equipped, the host of this cybernetic
enhancement receives a bonus to their dice pool on
all Jumping based skill checks they make. This
bonus equals the version number at which the

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enhancement was purchased at multiplied by Skill: Melee Weapons [Finesse]
three.
Range: Melee
Damage: Base damage + Fin P
Recoil Compensator Penetration: 2P
Mounted into both the shoulder and the top half of
an individual’s arm, this cybernetic enhancement Free Actions:
features a series of shock absorbers which helps
mitigate the effects of recoil when firing a weapon.
Extend/Retract Blade
Causes the hidden blade to be extended into a
Paired with the onboard miniaturised computer, position where it can be used or retracted so that it
the recoil compensator can make small is concealed once again.
adjustments on the fly to better aid its host and
their attempts at aiming.
Standard Actions:
Version Restrictions Cost
Stab
1 1R 4,750 Up to three melee weapon attacks: single target
2 2R 8,300 within reach for each. Action point cost is equal to
the number of attacks being made.
3 3R 14,525
4 4R 25,400
5 5R 44,450 Sentinel Defibrillator
Integrated into the heart of its host, this
Traits: cybernetic enhancement can track and monitor
the individual’s vitals in real-time. When an issue
is detected, the defibrillator sends a potent shock
Recoil Compensator
through the host’s body, immediately resuscitating
While equipped, the host of this cybernetic
them back into a stable state.
enhancement is less affected by recoil when firing
a weapon. All actions produce one less recoil,
multiplied by the version number of the purchased Version Recharge Time Restrictions Cost
enhancement. 1 24 hours 1L 4,250
2 8 hours 2L 7,450
Retractable Blade 3 3 hours 3L 13,000
This simplistic cybernetic enhancement allows 4 1 hour 4L 22,750
a blade to be concealed seamlessly within
5 10 minutes 5L 39,800
the underside of its host’s arm. With merely
a thought, the onboard computer system can
force the weapon forward, ready to be used in Traits:
close-quarters-based combat situations.
Sentinel Defibrillator
Various versions currently exist on the While equipped, this cybernetic enhancement
marketplace, each featuring a different-sized watches over the vital signs of its host. When they
blade. enter a state of dying, the device will immediately
administer a potent jolt, bringing them back up to
exactly one hit point.
Base
Version Restrictions Cost
Damage
Once discharged, the enhancement will enter a
1 d4 1R 3,500 low-powered state, slowing regaining its stored
2 d6 1R 5,250 electrical charge over a given period. The
defibrillator is unable to function again until it has
3 d8 2R 7,875 fully recharged.

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Universal Translator Version Restrictions Base Cost
With the world becoming ever more interconnected 1 1L 7,500
and globalised, the ability to communicate
2 2L 13,125
unhindered has never been more critical. Despite
automated translations being nothing new, the 3 3L 22,975
ability to do so in real-time using the eyes and
ears of a host has created a whole new range of
cybernetic enhancements for those looking to Vision Type Additional Cost
upgrade their communication skills. Low-light +500
Night Vision +2,000
Version Restrictions Cost Thermographic +2,500
1 1L 3,500
2 1L 7,500 Traits:
3 2L 13,250
Visual Enhancer
While equipped, the host of this cybernetic
Traits: enhancement gains each of the vision types that
were purchased alongside it.
Universal Translator
While equipped, the host of this cybernetic
enhancement gains the ability to understand Free Actions:
audible and written statements made in all major
world languages. Their proficiency here is Toggle Vision
determined by whichever version the enhancement Toggles one or multiple of the vision types that
was purchased at. were added to the enhancement.

• Version One - Grants the Beginner skill level

for all major languages.
• Version Two - Grants the Intermediate skill
level for all major languages.
• Version Three - Grants the Fluent skill level
for all major languages.

Visual Enhancer
Combining various types of high-tech cameras, this
cybernetic enhancement can closely replicate one
or multiple types of specialist vision.

At the time of its purchase, the buyer should

look to specify which types of vision they would
like to acquire. Each choice made here adds its
specified amount onto the enhancements base
cost. Whatever this total comes to is the number
of credits required for the coming transaction.

Regardless of the choices made, Visual Enhancers

can only support a number of vision types equal to
the version number that it was purchased at.
3.24 Medicine
Whether you are looking for
something to take the edge off of
a lingering injury or perhaps an
immune system booster to help
combat an infectious disease,
various medical products exist
on today’s marketplace, all to keep you as fit and
healthy as possible.
While some individuals may look to the black
markets and certain illegally acquired substances
to help cater to their daily medical needs,
many others prefer to use tried and tested
pharmaceuticals instead. With their ability to be
legally purchased over an in-store countertop,
these products generally come with fewer side
effects and, more importantly, a lower addiction
rate.
Many of the products that are listed below can
be purchased at a variety of different dosages.
While the lower dosages will generally be cheaper
to purchase and easier to find, they will have a
shorter duration and a reduced potency to their
effects. The columns from left to right are as
follows; name, vectors, dose duration, addiction
rating, weight, concealment rating, combined
restriction class & level, and finally, its cost.

Name Vectors Duration Addict Wt Con Rest Cost

Adrenaline Shot Injection 10 minutes 2 0.005 kg VE 1L 105
Anti Venom Injection 10 minutes 2 0.005 kg VE 1L Varies
Cognitive Booster Inhalation, Injection Varies 2 0.005 kg VE 1L Varies
Immuno Booster Injection 10 minutes 2 0.005 kg VE 1L Varies
Medical Kit - - - Varies Varies 1L Varies
Meprozanol Ingestion - 3 0.005 kg VE 1L 200
Painkllers Ingestion 4 hours 2 0.005 kg VE 1L 50
Rejuvenation Shot Inhalation, Injection 3 hours 2 0.005 kg VE 1L Varies
Vitality Booster Inhalation, Injection Varies 2 0.005 kg VE 1L Varies

Above: The medicine overview table.

Adrenaline Shot to counteract the effects of a poisoned blade, this

medicine can help temporarily boost an individual’s
With its ability to deliver a potent boost of
defences, negating the impact of various types of
adrenaline straight into an individual’s system, this
poison.
medication is a popular method of quickly dealing
with anaphylactic shock.
Dosage Dice Pool Bonus Cost
Standard Actions: Mild +2 85
Concentrated +4 185
Administer Drug
Upon taking this drug, a biological life form can
instantly end any instances of the anaphylaxis Standard Actions:
status effect they are currently being affected by.
Additionally, they are immune from further
Administer Drug
attempts to inflict this status effect for the
Upon taking this drug, a biological life form’s body
duration of the medication.
is quickly flooded with antigen-fighting antibodies.
They can immediately make a suitable type of
attribute check with a sizeable dice pool bonus
Anti Venom added to it to end one particular poison-based
Whether to fight against a nasty bite from some effect.
malformed forest denizen or perhaps an attempt

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Additionally, for the duration of the medication, Dosage Dice Pool Bonus Cost
they also gain a similar-sized dice pool bonus for
Mild +2 105
any further attribute checks that they make to
either resist or end a type of poisoned-based Concentrated +4 225
effect. How large of a dice pool bonus they should
receive for either instance will be determined by
whichever type of dosage they initially took. Standard Actions:

Administer Drug
Cognitive Booster Upon taking this drug, a biological life form’s body
is quickly flooded with antiviral antibodies. They
Well known on the streets as a powerful energy can immediately make an attribute check with a
booster, this medicine can temporarily revitalise an sizeable dice pool bonus added to it to try and end
individual who is both fatigued and lethargic. While one particular type of disease-based effect.
popular with psionic casters, allowing them to
temporarily push themselves further than before, Additionally, for the duration of the medication,
care must be taken to ensure that once its effects they also gain a similar-sized dice pool bonus for
begin to wear off, they do not leave themselves any further attribute checks that they make to
feeling drained and vulnerable. either resist or end a disease-based effect. How
large of a dice pool bonus they should receive for
either instance will be determined by whichever
Mental Stamina
Dosage Duration Cost type of dosage they initially took.
Boost
Low +6 15 minutes 75
Medium +12 30 minutes 200 Medical Kit
High +18 1 hour 500 Comprised of bandages, ointments, and numerous
other different types of consumables, this kit
provides the necessary supplies to carry out basic
Standard Actions: first aid while out in the field.

Administer Drug
While it might not save that friend who just had
Upon taking this drug, a biological life form is left
their lower half blown off with a close-ranged
feeling energised and rejuvenated. Their mental
scattershot blast, it might well be capable of
stamina is temporarily increased for the duration
keeping an injury from going septic or allowing for
of its effects. How large of a gain they should
some minor wounds to heal that much quicker.
receive here will be determined by whichever type
of dosage they took.
For more information on the practice of actually
Once the effects of the drug begin to wear off, their carrying out First Aid, see the First Aid combat
mental stamina is decreased by a similar amount action (page 247).
as to what had been previously gained.
Number
The effects of this drug cannot be stacked on top of Kit Type Wt Con Cost
of Uses
one another. If multiple doses are taken
simultaneously, then only the more potent of the First Aid Kit 8 0.75 kg E 200
two should take effect. Medical
Assistance 16 1.5 kg A 375
Kit
Immuno Booster Field Surgeon
24 2.25 kg A 550
With its ability to temporarily boost an individual’s Kit
immune system, Immuno Booster has the potential
to fight against many different types of unwanted
diseases.

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Meprozanol Rejuvenation Rate
Dosage Cost
(Per Hour)
Standing firm as the go-to market leader for
immunosuppressants, Meprozanol has long Low 1d6 450
established itself as a well-known household Medium 2d6 950
name.
High 3d6 1,450

Regularly sought after for preventing the effects of

cybernetics sickness, this medicine can influence
and shape an individual’s immune system so
that it won’t interfere with and attack cybernetic
enhancements.
Standard Actions:
Administer Drug
A biological life form’s body is quickly flooded with
immunosuppressant chemicals upon taking this
drug. For the next week, they are said to be better
protected against the effects of cybernetics
sickness, suppressing ten whole points of rejection
rating that they might have amassed from installed
cybernetic enhancements.
Standard Actions:
Administer Drug
A biological life form’s body is quickly flooded with
rapidly regenerating stem cells upon taking this
drug. For the duration of its effects, they
automatically regain a number of hit points for
each hour that passes. How many hit points they
should receive here will be determined by
whichever type of dosage they take.
The effects of this drug cannot be stacked on top of
one another. If multiple doses are taken
simultaneously, then only the more potent of the
two should take effect.

See Cybernetic Limits (page 228,) for more

information. Vitality Booster
Combining several different highly concentrated
healing agents, the vitality booster can quickly get
Painkillers an injured individual back onto their feet. Highly
These common everyday pills can temporarily take sought after in the field of mercenary work, this
the edge off debilitating pain. product can often mean the difference between life
and death.
Standard Actions:
Hit Points
Dosage Duration Cost
Administer Drug Boost
Upon taking this drug, a biological life form’s pain Low 6 15 minutes 75
receptors are temporarily suppressed. For the
duration of its effects, any damage accumulation Medium 12 30 minutes 200
penalties they are currently suffering from are High 18 1 hour 500
reduced in effectiveness by one die.

Unlike most other types of medicine, the effects of Standard Actions:

painkillers can be stacked by taking multiple doses
at once.
Rejuvenation Shot
Engineered from years of study into the Vorn
biology, this medicine provides individuals with
a way of significantly speeding up the natural
healing process.
Despite its effects only being temporary, the
Rejuvenation Shot can make for a powerful
tool when you have some downtime to spare
in-between firefights.
Administer Drug
A biological life form is left feeling rejuvenated and
revitalised upon taking this drug. Their current hit
points are temporarily increased for the duration of
its effects. How large of a gain they should receive
here will be determined by whichever type of
dosage they took.
Once the effects of the drug begin to wear off, their
current hit points are decreased by a similar
amount as to what had been gained previously.
The effects of this drug cannot be stacked on top of
one another. If multiple doses are taken

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simultaneously, then only the more potent of the acquire. All you need is the right sort of contact and
two should take effect. the credits on hand to pay for them.

Most types of drugs are considered to be outlawed

3.25 Drugs
Much like in the 20th and 21st
centuries, the drug trade is one
of the most dominant forces
on today’s streets. Despite
many attempts to stem the
flow of illegal narcotics, few
have been able to have any real,
long-lasting effects.
Whether you are looking for tried and tested
items like opiates or perhaps the latest hyped-up
craze to come out of a backstreet pharmaceutical
operation, the streets hold access to many
different types of drugs you can potentially
and illegal in many countries, either to buy or to
sell. Despite this, their ability to manipulate and
bend an individual’s mental state makes them a
popular choice for many. Just be sure that if you
decide to partake, you also have the time to get
over their unwanted and sometimes nasty side
effects.
Below is an overview table of the most popular
of these types of products. Each one lists their
relevant properties and statistics, along with their
level of addiction. The columns from left to right
are as follows; name, dose vectors, dose duration,
addiction rating, weight, concealment rating,
combined restriction class & level, and finally, its
cost.

Name Vectors Duration Addict Wt Con Rest Cost

Night Shift Ingestion 24 hours 2 0.005 kg VE 1L 80
Opiates Ingestion, injection 6 hours 3 0.005 kg VE 1O 95
Blitz Ingestion, inhalation 8 hours 4 0.005 kg VE 1R 120
Blue Spice Inhalation 8 hours 4 0.005 kg VE 1O 120
Wish Ingestion, inhalation 1 hour 3 0.005 kg VE 1R 125
Rage Inhalation, injection 1 hour 3 0.005 kg VE 1R 135
Solace Inhalation, injection 1 hour 3 0.005 kg VE 1R 145

Above: The street drugs overview table.

Night Shift
As one of the few licensed products to be found
on this list, Night Shift is likely to be a common
commodity for you to come across on your travels.
With its ability to suppress a character’s need for
sleep, this drug is often used by those required to
stay alert and active for an extended period.
While the effects of its crash period can easily
be overcome by resting for an extended period
afterwards, care must be taken to ensure that
successive doses of the drug do not kill someone
outright through sheer exhaustion.
Standard Actions:
focused and alert. Their need for sleep quickly
begins to fade away, and they feel as though their
body can continue to function for an extended
period without downtime.
For the duration of the drug’s effects, they no
longer require any amount of sleep to complete an
extended rest. Traits such as Insomnia and other
similar effects are also suppressed for this period.
Once the effects of the drug begin to wear off,
however, the user is left feeling apathetic and
exhausted. They automatically gain two stacks of
exhaustion, and for the next 24 - a combination of
their Endurance + Will hours (minimum of one),
they are also considered impaired.

Administer Drug If they wish to extend the effects of the drug, they
Upon taking this drug, a biological life form feels may do so by taking a new dose before the

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previous one begins to wear off. On doing so, Night
Shift’s duration is extended by 24 hours; however,
the effects of its inevitable crash will also become
more potent. Each additional dose taken generates
a further stack of exhaustion once the product
begins to wear off, and the period they are
considered impaired for is also extended by an
additional 24 - a combination of their Endurance +
Will hours (minimum of one).
Regardless of how many doses a particular
individual takes, they will begin to crash after
having been on the drug for four or more
consecutive days. When such a situation occurs,
they will find that further doses of Night Shift will
no longer have any effect. They must now wait for
their crash period to be fully completed before
making use of the drug again.
Opiates
Probably one of the oldest types of products
available on the drug market, opiates cover a wide
range of items, including; Morphine, Codeine, and of
course, Heroin.
With their ability to block out the body’s pain
receptors, opiates can often leave an individual
feeling emboldened and euphoric, ready to take
on anyone and anything thrown in their general
direction.
Standard Actions:
Administer Drug
A biological life form is left in a state of euphoria
upon taking this drug. While they begin to feel
upbeat and optimistic, their reflexes become
slower and more predictable.
For the duration of the drug’s effects, they ignore
any damage accumulation penalties they currently
suffer from. Despite this, however, their Reflex
attribute score is also temporarily reduced by one
due to their current altered mental state.
Once the effects of the drug begin to wear off, the
user is left feeling drowsy and lethargic. They
automatically gain a stack of exhaustion, and for
the next ten - a combination of their Endurance +
Will hours (minimum of one) they are also
considered impaired.
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Blitz
For a long time, Blitz has proven to be one of the
most popular stimulants on the market. With its
ability to heighten an individual’s awareness of
their current surroundings, it has often been shown
to boost both reflexes and potential reaction times
substantially.
Standard Actions:
Administer Drug
Upon taking this drug, a biological life form is left in
a state of feeling hyper-alert. While they become
more aware of what is happening around them,
they also find it difficult to concentrate on any
specific task.
For the duration of the drug’s effects, their Reflex
attribute score is increased by one. However
overwhelmed by their surroundings, any
concentration check that they are required to make
during this period also suffers from a -4 dice pool
penalty.
Once the effects of the drug begin to wear off, the
user is left feeling apathetic and exhausted. They
automatically gain two stacks of exhaustion, and
for the next 12 - a combination of their Endurance +
Will hours (minimum of one) their Reflex attribute
score is also reduced by one.
Blue Spice
With its distinctive blueish tone, this powdered
substance is difficult to miss. Regularly appearing
in many high-profile social gatherings, Blue
Spice has become a common tool to help give an
individual the upper hand in negotiations.
Whether it be the need to tweak the terms of a
business arrangement to be more in their favour or
perhaps a way to sure up their nerves to get that
pretty women’s contact details over by the bar,
Blue Spice can often mean the difference between
a flawless success and a miserable failure.
Regardless of what you plan to use it for, however,
be sure that you have already left by the time its
effects begin to wear off. Blue Spice is notorious
for the potency of its crash, with many individuals
being effectively taken out of action for several
hours once the product begins to fade.
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Standard Actions:
Administer Drug
Upon taking this drug, a biological life form is left
feeling strangely clear and switched on. They find
that their senses have become more attuned to
reading their immediate surroundings, while they
also feel more comfortable and at ease when
engaging in social situations.
For the duration of the drug’s effects, their
Foresight and Charisma attribute scores are
increased by one. Once the effects start to wear
off, their body and mind begin to crash hard.
Feeling both antisocial and lethargic, the user
automatically gains two stacks of exhaustion. In
addition, for the next 12 - a combination of their
Endurance + Will hours (minimum of one) their
Charisma, Foresight, and Will attribute scores are
all decreased by three.
Wish
With its ability to induce a potent trance-like state,
Wish has become one of today’s more commonly
used recreational drugs.
While many individuals turn to this product to help
them forget about their worries and enjoy an hour
or two away from reality, others prefer to use it
instead to empower the brain and enhance its
resilience against the manipulation attempts of
others.
Standard Actions:
Administer Drug
Upon taking this drug, a biological life form quickly
falls into a dream-like state. While their mind
begins to function on a higher level than it had
been capable of beforehand, their reflexes become
slower and far more predictable.
For the duration of the drug’s effects, their Intellect
and Will attribute scores are increased by one.
However, due to their loose grasp on reality, their
Reflex attribute score is also temporarily reduced
by two.
Once the effects of the drug begin to wear off, the
user is left feeling drowsy and lethargic. They
automatically gain a stack of exhaustion, and for
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the next hour, they are also considered impaired.
Rage
Appearing as a seemingly harmless stimulant, Rage
is a notorious substance responsible for countless
club brawls, back-alley gang fights, and open
shootouts on today’s streets.
While it was initially designed to allow
everyday humanoids to stand a chance against
cybernetically enhanced opponents, its intense
sensation of near invincibility has gained the
product a much more widespread appeal.
Standard Actions:
Administer Drug
Upon taking this drug, a biological life form quickly
begins to feel like they are slipping into a state of
hyper frenzy. They feel stronger than they have
ever been, ready to take on anything that is thrown
in their general direction. They disregard their
safety and often the safety of others around them.
For the duration of the drug’s effects, their
Endurance and Strength attribute scores are
increased by one. However, their mind is also left
fuzzy and somewhat volatile. They are unable to
put much emphasis into thinking about the current
situation without a burning need to take action. As
such, their Intellect attribute score is also
temporarily decreased by one.
Once the effects of the drug begin to wear off, the
user is left feeling somewhat exhausted and
lethargic. They automatically gain a stack of
exhaustion, and for the next hour, they are also
considered impaired.
Solace
While Solace was initially concocted as a suitable
means of calming and stabilising one’s mind, the
drug soon found widespread appeal for its ability
to enhance an individual’s focus.
Whether it be competitive shooters who want a
little bit more of an edge or a locksmith who needs
near-perfect fine motor skills to pick a troublesome
lock, Solace can be utilised by various groups for
many different means.
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Standard Actions:
Administer Drug
A biological life form is quickly left in a calm and
collective state upon taking this drug. They feel
better able to focus on the task at hand, while their
fine motor skills seem on-point with a surgical-like
precision. This tranquil-like state does, however,
take its toll on their mind, slowing their ability to
react to the events that are transpiring around
them.
For the duration of the drug’s effects, their Finesse
and Foresight attribute scores are increased by
one. However, their mind is also left feeling slightly
sluggish, resulting in their Reflex attribute score
being reduced by one.
Once the effects of the drug begin to wear off, the
user is left feeling exhausted and lethargic. They
automatically gain a stack of exhaustion, and for
the next hour, they are also considered impaired.
3.26 Chemicals, Sedatives,
& Toxins
While certain compounds
found on the streets of today
are capable of enhancing an
individual’s mind, body, or
senses, others can prove to be
highly dangerous substances
that have the potential to cause
great harm.
Whether produced by pharmaceutical companies
or perhaps, developed instead for use by the
military, these chemicals can inflict a myriad
of effects onto whoever is unfortunate enough
to become their next victim. Just be sure that
regardless of the substance being used, you
understand how long its effects will last and the
different types of vectors it possesses for afflicting
those nearby.

Below, an overview table details the most common

of these compounds. The columns from left to
right are as follows; name, state of matter, dose
vectors, dose duration, weight, concealment rating,
combined restriction class & level, and finally, its
cost.

Name State Vectors Duration Wt Con Rest Cost

Dox-22 Liquid Ingestion, Injection 1 hour 0.025 kg VE 1R 175
Bloom Powder Ingestion 3 hours 0.005 kg VE 1R 275
Jinx Liquid Ingestion, Injection 10 minutes 0.025 kg VE 2R 350
Voodoo Dust Gas Inhalation 10 minutes 0.005 kg VE 2R 425
Ingestion, Injection,
Spider Venom Liquid 10 minutes 0.025 kg VE 2O 350
Injury
Entropy Liquid Ingestion, Injection 1 hour 0.025 kg VE 3R 525
Vex Gas Inhalation 10 minutes 0.1 kg VE 3O 550
Bane Powder Ingestion 3 hours 0.005 kg VE 3O 600
Asphyx Gas Inhalation 10 minutes 0.005 kg VE 30 700
Ingestion, Injection,
Red-7 Liquid 10 minutes 0.025 kg VE 4O 875
Injury
Tricin Gas Contact, Inhalation 10 minutes 0.1 kg VE 4O 1,050

Above: The chemicals, sedatives, & toxins overview table.

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Dox-22
Having been initially intended for use in medical
procedures under a longer and much more easily
forgettable name, this mild sedative has gained
widespread popular appeal as a cheap and
easy-to-acquire debilitating substance.
While not the most potent of compounds, Dox-22
is an effective and reliable way of diminishing a
target individual’s capabilities.
Traits:
Sedative
Upon entering a biological life form’s system, the
sedative immediately dulls the target’s reactions,
causing them to feel sluggish and lethargic.
The target should make a generic Endurance +
Strength attribute check with a success target of
four. On a failure, they should begin to suffer a -3
dice pool penalty on all Reflex-based attribute and
skill checks they are required to make, in addition
to also becoming impaired (see Status Effects,
page 233). On a success, the target is simply
considered impaired and suffers no other
additional effects.
Regardless of the outcome, these effects should
last for the duration of the compound.
Bloom
Regularly making an appearance in interrogation
chambers across the globe, Bloom is an interesting
substance that can help extract all manner of
information from a target individual. Upon being
consumed, the victim quickly finds themselves
unable to control their speech, causing them to
divulge whatever is currently on their mind.
While the substance does not restrict its victim
to only speaking truths, the ensuing flood of
conversation will quickly spill everything the target
holds dear.
Traits:
Bloom Powder
On entering a biological life form’s system, the
compound immediately attempts to overwhelm the
target’s senses.
The target should make a generic Endurance + Will
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attribute check with a success target of five. On a
failure, the line between what they think and what
they say should become blurred, causing them to
divulge anything that is currently on their mind
uncontrollably.
Regardless of the outcome of this check, the target
should begin to suffer from a -3 dice pool penalty
on all Charisma-based skill checks that they
attempt to make. These effects should last for the
duration of the compound.
Jinx
This potent hallucinogen has rapidly gained
widespread appeal for its ability to reduce even the
most hardened individuals into a hysterical mess.
Whether it be mistaking an everyday object for a
monstrously large carnivorous spider or perhaps
an illusion that a horde of rabid rodents is feasting
upon them, Jinx can induce life-like hallucinations
that often leave its victims feeling terrified beyond
belief.
Traits:
Hallucinogen
On entering a biological life form’s system, the
compound immediately attempts to instil a feeling
of confusion and panic. Rapid-fire hallucinations
blur the individual’s senses, making it difficult for
them to determine what is real and what is, in fact,
an illusion.
The target should make a generic fear check
(Charisma + Will) with a success target of five. In
the event of a failure, their senses are said to
become quickly overwhelmed and are now
considered feared (see Status Effects, page 233).
Unlike most other effects of its type, Jinx instils an
overwhelming sense of dread rather than any
particular source of fear. While the target can
move around as they see fit, it should always be at
double the usual movement speed cost.
Additionally, as long as the individual can see or
hear, they will automatically suffer from the usual
negative dice pool penalty associated with the
feared status effect.
These effects should continue to last for the
duration of the compound.
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Voodoo Dust
Characterised by its distinctive reddish tinge, this
gaseous chemical is a popular choice for many
police forces worldwide. Often utilised during riot
control operations, Voodoo Dust excels at blinding
its targets so officers can more easily confront
them.
Traits:
Voodoo Dust Compound
Upon leaving its container, this gaseous compound
quickly expands, forming a blanket of debilitating
smoke.
All biological targets which either; start their turn
within the zone or who attempt to enter it must
make a generic Endurance + Strength attribute
check with a success target of five. Those who fail
this check find themselves blinded, gaining all its
usual effects (see Status Effects, page 233).
Characters who have left the zone can repeat the
check above at the start of each new round of
combat that passes, ending all effects in the event
of a success. Regardless, the area of smoke is
considered to be lightly obscured.
Spider Venom
Despite its appearance as a seemingly harmless
cloudy and viscous substance, this manufactured
compound is more than capable of causing severe
damage to a biological target.
Given its liquid state, Spider Venom is most
commonly used with injection darts or coated onto
a suitable type of melee weapon.
Traits:
Poison
On entering a biological life form’s system, the
poison immediately attempts to get to work
targeting the individual’s nervous system.
The victim should make a generic Endurance +
Strength attribute check with a success target of
five. On a failure, they are considered poisoned,
gaining all of the usual effects (see Status Effects,
page 233). Additionally, while they remain
poisoned in this way, the target’s current hit points
are reduced by one at the start of each new round
of combat that passes.
After this reduction, the target can repeat the initial
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check, ending the effects of the poison early in the
event of a success.
Standard Actions:
Coat Weapon
Utilising a nearby melee weapon currently within
your reach, you carefully coat the item with a dose
of the substance. Once applied, the poison will
continue to persist for the next hour.
Entropy
As a favourite amongst bounty hunters both far
and wide, this potent sedative is well known for its
effectiveness at quickly subduing its targets.
With a distinctive smell similar to that of almonds
and a light blueish tone of colour, this substance is
easy to recognise when out in the field.
Traits:
Sedative
On entering a biological life form’s system, the
sedative immediately attempts to hamper the
target’s senses, causing them to feel both drowsy
and lethargic.
The target should make a generic Endurance +
Strength attribute check with a success target of
six. On a failure, they are immediately knocked
unconscious, gaining all the usual effects (see
Status Effects, page 233). On a success, however,
the target is instead impaired.
Regardless of the outcome, these effects should
last for the duration of the compound.
Vex
While technically labelled as an area denial
weapon, there is no discrediting what Vex is, a
potent form of toxic gas. Developed around the
mid-2080s, this sophisticated compound has
been used in various environments, usually by
corporate military who are not as beholden to
the now-archaic and rarely enforced Geneva
Conventions.
Traits:
Vex Compound
Upon leaving its container, this gaseous compound
quickly expands, forming a lingering cloud of
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potent toxin. The area of smoke is considered to be
lightly obscured.
All biological targets which either; start their turn
within the zone or who attempt to enter it must
make a generic Endurance + Strength attribute
check with a success target of five. Those that fail
this check suffer 2d6 toxic damage.
Regardless of the outcome of this check, each
character can only be affected by this effect once
per round.
Bane
Deceiving in its appearance, this light brown
powder is thought to have been responsible for
countless assassinations over the years. Upon
entering the digestive system, Bane quickly targets
the victim’s central nervous system, leading to
systematic organ failure in minutes.
Traits:
Bane Powder
On entering a biological life form’s system, the
poison immediately attempts to get to work
targeting the individual’s organs and central
nervous system.
The victim should make a generic Endurance +
Strength attribute check with a success target of
seven. On a failure, they are considered poisoned,
gaining all of the usual effects (see Status Effects,
page 233). Additionally, while they remain
poisoned in this way, the target’s current hit points
are reduced by one at the start of each new round
of combat that passes.
The effects of this poison should last for the
duration of the compound.
Asphyx
With its ability to produce a dense blanket of cloud
over a target region, this potent gaseous compound
has regularly proven to be a favourite of special
forces. Individuals who are unfortunate enough to
breathe in the gas soon find themselves unable to
breathe, often succumbing to unconsciousness.
Traits:
Asphyx Compound
Upon leaving its container, this gaseous compound
quickly expands, forming a lingering cloud of
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potent toxin.
All biological targets which either; start their turn
within the zone or who attempt to enter it must
make a generic Endurance + Strength attribute
check with a success target of six. Those who fail
this check are considered poisoned, gaining all of
the usual effects (see Status Effects, page 233).
While they remain poisoned in this way, the target
cannot breathe properly and becomes at risk of
asphyxiation.
Characters who have left the zone can repeat the
check above at the start of each new round of
combat that passes, ending all effects in the event
of a success. Regardless, the area of smoke is
considered to be lightly obscured.
Red-7
This fast-acting toxic substance is regularly sought
after by many for both its reliability and incredible
potency. Whether to debilitate a target for a quick
arrest or perhaps as a means of assassination,
Red-7 can help bring down even the largest of
threats.
Traits:
Poison
On entering a biological life form’s system, the
poison immediately attempts to get to work
targeting the individual’s nervous system.
The victim should make a generic Endurance +
Strength attribute check with a success target of
seven. On a failure, they are considered poisoned,
gaining all of the usual effects (see Status Effects,
page 233). Additionally, while they remain
poisoned in this way, the target’s current hit points
are reduced by 1d4 at the start of each new round
of combat that passes.
After this reduction, the target can repeat the initial
check, ending the effects of the poison early in the
event of a success.
Standard Actions:
Coat Weapon
Utilising a nearby melee weapon currently within
your reach, you carefully coat the item with a dose
of the substance. Once applied, the poison will
continue to persist for the next hour.
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Tricin character can only be affected by the toxin once
per round.
Having been made infamous from the downtown
bombing of New York in 2097, this potent nerve
agent is widely regarded as one of the most
dangerous substances on the planet. Tricin can
easily inflict massive casualties over a wide area
3.27 Licences &
with both an inhalation and contact-based vector. Identification
Traits: With the arrival of the global
U.P.I.N system, identification has
Tricin Compound never been quite so important
Upon leaving its container, this gaseous compound of a topic. Regardless of
quickly expands, forming a lingering cloud of whatever you do and wherever
potent toxin. The area of smoke is considered to be you go, you will always be
lightly obscured. expected to carry some form
of identification.
All biological targets which either; start their turn
within the zone or who attempt to enter it must Whether you are looking to gain access to a club
make a generic Endurance + Strength attribute or justify to police and security that you are legally
check with a success target of seven. Those who permitted to carry your favourite sidearm, licences
fail this check suffer 2d6 toxic damage and are will heavily determine the legality of many of the
paralysed, gaining the usual effects (see Status actions you decide to undertake.
Effects, page 233).
Below is a complete list of the various license and
At the end of each round of combat, the target
identification types. Some will permit you to do
individual can remake the initial check, ending the
more than others and naturally go for a higher
effects of the compound early in the event of a
asking price.
success. Regardless of this outcome, each

Name Allows For

Automations Licence Carrying and use of restricted class automations
Bounty Hunting Licence Carrying of restricted weapons or firearms on the streets.
Chemicals Licence Carrying of restricted class chemical compounds and poisons.
Cybernetics Licence Wearing and use of restricted cybernetic enhancements.
Firearms Licence Carrying of a restricted class firearm for the purposes self-defence.
Medical Licence Carrying of restricted class drugs, and sedatives.
Security Licence Carrying of restricted weapons or firearms whilst on or around the stated premises.
UPIN Stick Access to public transport and premises, along with personal identification on demand.

Above: The licence certification overview table.

Automations Licence The automations licence achieves this very

purpose. It shows that the individual in question
Whether you are cruising down the streets in an
is trained to use such equipment and has been
armoured vehicle or keeping a large fleet of aerial
granted permission to do so within the local urban
drones flying up overhead, someone will want to
sprawl.
see that you have the necessary permissions to
use such large automations in a densely populated
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 Authenticity Authenticity
Restrictions Cost Restrictions Cost
Rating Rating
Authentic 1L 850 Authentic 1L 850
1-4 1O 150 x Auth Rating 1-4 1O 150 x Auth Rating
5-6 2O 200 x Auth Rating 5-6 2O 200 x Auth Rating
7-8 3O 250 x Auth Rating 7-8 3O 250 x Auth Rating
9 - 10 4O 300 x Auth Rating 9 - 10 4O 300 x Auth Rating

Bounty Hunting Licence Cybernetics Licence

While not exactly the newest of professions, While the act of gaining cybernetics does not
bounty hunting has certainly seen a flurry of require a licence, many items on the marketplace
activity over the past decade or so. As police forces are not intended for your average citizen.
continue in their struggle to keep control, they
often turn to these individuals to identify and Whether they are new releases aimed towards
bring in key figures from gangs and other such either the military or security sectors or, perhaps,
troublesome groups. items deemed too dangerous in the hands
of a civilian, certain equipment will require a
The bounty hunting licence helps identify that cybernetics licence for them to be purchased and
a given individual has been trained in several installed.
different weapon systems and that they pose
little to no risk to the local civilian population. As a
result, they are authorised by the local government
Authenticity
to carry any number of restricted-class weapons Restrictions Cost
Rating
while out on the streets performing a job.
Authentic 1L 1,250
1-4 1O 225 x Auth Rating
Authenticity 5-6 2O 300 x Auth Rating
Restrictions Cost
Rating
7-8 3O 375 x Auth Rating
Authentic 1L 1,750
9 - 10 4O 450 x Auth Rating
1-4 1O 300 x Auth Rating
5-6 2O 400 x Auth Rating
7-8 3O 500 x Auth Rating
Firearms Licence
9 - 10 4O 600 x Auth Rating
The firearms licence is a simple and relatively
easy-to-acquire document. It shows that an
individual has undergone basic firearms safety
training and is mentally stable enough to own a
Chemicals Licence weapon without being a major risk to the public.
Despite many types of chemicals being completely
legal, questions inevitably start to get asked Those who purchase such a licence are legally
once a certain threshold is reached. Whether it allowed to carry a single restricted-class firearm
be cleaning acids, poisons, or volatile chemicals, for self-defence.
justification will be required once you start ferrying
around containers filled with the stuff.

The chemicals licence helps mitigate this issue

by showing that not only are you trained in the
handling of these chemicals but that you have a
justified reason for carrying them on you.

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 class weapon system to protect their registered
Authenticity premises.
Restrictions Cost
Rating
Authentic 1L 750
1-4 1O 150 x Auth Rating Authenticity
Restrictions Cost
Rating
5-6 2O 200 x Auth Rating
Authentic 1L 1,250
7-8 3O 250 x Auth Rating
1-4 1O 225 x Auth Rating
9 - 10 4O 300 x Auth Rating
5-6 2O 300 x Auth Rating
7-8 3O 375 x Auth Rating
Medical Licence 9 - 10 4O 450 x Auth Rating
Covering a wide range of medical roles, this licence
shows that the individual in question has received
adequate training and the necessary knowledge to UPIN Stick
practice medicine.
When it comes to personal identification, there
is only one item that will suffice. Since its initial
While this does not necessarily mean that the local rollout in the late 2070s, the UPIN system has
hospital facility is currently employing them, it become the global standard and universal method
provides adequate reasoning as to why they might for identifying individuals.
be carrying around pharmaceuticals, other types of
drugs, and different kinds of sedatives.
While carrying around a UPIN stick is not strictly
required by law, you will likely struggle to go
about your daily life without one. Whether it is
Authenticity buying your weekly groceries, topping up your car
Restrictions Cost
Rating with fuel, or even accessing your bank account’s
Authentic 1L 1,100 funds, all of these tasks will regularly require UPIN
authorisation.
1-4 1O 200 x Auth Rating
5-6 2O 250 x Auth Rating Despite the inclusion of its price below, remember
7-8 3O 300 x Auth Rating that all citizens receive an authentic UPIN stick free
of charge shortly after their birth. However, if a
9 - 10 4O 350 x Auth Rating
suitable replacement is required, say as a result of
it becoming lost or stolen, for example, then the
individual in question will need to pay for a new
Security Licence one, as stated below.
Whether working as a bouncer at some dingy
club or as a security guard for a multinational
corporation, the security licence demonstrates Authenticity
that an individual is working in a potentially Restrictions Cost
Rating
dangerous field, which requires them to carry
suitable armaments to protect themselves and Authentic 1L 1,250
others. 1-4 1O 225 x Auth Rating
5-6 2O 300 x Auth Rating
While walking around with a loaded grenade
7-8 3O 375 x Auth Rating
launcher might raise a few eyebrows, providing
the individual can demonstrate an adequate reason 9 - 10 4O 450 x Auth Rating
to do so, they are permitted to carry any restricted

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Chapter 4
General Gameplay
With character creation out of the way, it’s time
to learn how to play the game. In this chapter,
we will start by covering the core concepts and
rules to help give you a broad understanding of
how Dystopia functions. Once this is achieved,
more specialised subjects can then be gradually
introduced throughout the following few chapters.
As mentioned previously, it is not expected of
either the players or the GM to have intimate
knowledge of everything covered here. While
having a broad understanding of the basics before
you begin your session is recommended, it is okay
to take a short break here and there to look up
anything more specific.
4.1 Checks
A check is a name given to the process of rolling
some dice to determine the outcome of a given
situation. The basics of this were briefly covered
during the introduction chapter in the dice pools
& dice section. A character rolls a number of
ten-sided dice (d10s) and counts how many landed
on a seven or higher. This seven or higher mark is
known as the pass threshold, and each die that
achieves this outcome is considered one pass.
Checks should be called for by the GM whenever
a character would like to perform a particular
task or action. This can be anything from firing
a weapon at a target or attempting to influence
someone through effective bluffing or intimidation.
Since different characters are better at certain
tasks than others, we need to consider a few
variables to determine both the number of dice
to roll and the target number of passes which
must be achieved for the action to be successful.
What these variables are, however, will very much
depend on the type of check being performed.
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Skill Checks
A skill check is any check which revolves around
an individual attempting to make use of one of
their specialised skills. These are all things which
require some level of prior experience or training
to be performed at a competent level. They can
take on many forms, including attacking with a
weapon, conducting a negotiation, or hacking into a
computer system.
A character making this check should look up the
skill in question on their character sheet. One
column will indicate a ”base”, while the other will
fall under the heading of ”pool”. The base number is
simply the amount of points that were allocated to
this skill during character creation and progression,
while the pool also adds the number of points
assigned to the skill’s related attribute.
As a result, to determine the size of the dice pool
for this check, we need to look up the number listed
under this pool amount. Whatever this amount
ends up being will dictate the total number of d10s
that the character’s player should roll.
Attribute Checks
Attribute checks function in a similar way to a skill
check. However, rather than focus on how talented
an individual is at a particular skill, we are instead
more interested in seeing whether their body can
withstand the stresses and pressure of the current
situation or environment.
As a result, attribute checks tend to occur on a
more defensive basis, whereby a character is
responding to the actions of another. This could,
for example, be an attempt to dodge out of the way
of an opponent’s attack, or perhaps maintain their
concentration through an intense firefight.
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All attribute checks are based on a combination
of whichever two attributes are most suitable for
the situation at hand. Endurance, for example, is
excellent for determining the body’s capability of
resisting poisons and diseases, while Reflex can
indicate how quickly an individual can move out of
the way of incoming projectiles.
With the two most relevant attributes selected,
add together their current scores to form the size
of your dice pool for the attribute check.
Generic vs Opposing
All checks are considered to be either a generic
check or an opposing one. Activities that do not
have an opponent, such as swimming through a
body of water, climbing up the side of a building, or
trying to push open a heavy door, are all examples
of a generic check. These activities require the
individual performing them to reach a certain
number of passes (known as the success target)
to be successfully achieved.
Below, a table has been provided to give GMs a
rough guideline of this success target, given the
varying degrees of difficulty that a task could
potentially fall under.
Difficulty Success Target
Trivial 1
Simple 2
Average 3
Challenging 5 does a particular task fail, but the individual
Extremely Challenging 7 performing it does so poorly in their attempt that
Near Impossible 10
Opposing checks, on the other hand, usually occur
when an individual tries to perform an action
against someone else. This could, for example, be
the act of trying to hit a target with a firearm or
perhaps attempt to sneak up on them unnoticed.
Opposing checks do not have a set success target,
requiring both sides to make a check of their own
instead. Whoever scores the higher number of
passes here is said to succeed at the check, thus
determining the outcome.
In the inevitable event of a draw, the current
situation should remain as is. That means that both
attempts made to end a condition or effect should
fail, but so too should the checks that are trying to
cause them in the first place.
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Dice Pool Bonuses & Penalties
Any given situation may have one or many
environmental or circumstantial conditions that
could change and alter the difficulty of a particular
task or action. High winds could make firing at a
target from a long distance more challenging while
attacking from an elevated position could make it
more manageable.
GMs can impose bonuses and penalties on an
individual’s dice pool based on the current situation
at hand. Penalties should take dice away from a
dice pool, while a bonus should add to it.
While certain types of situational modifiers will
be covered in their relevant passages of this
book, others will be left up to the GM to decide for
themselves instead. These predicaments should
have suitable bonuses and penalties applied to
them, all based on how influential the GM believes
them to be. Of course, there is no right or wrong
answer here; the GM should simply try and remain
focused on being logical and consistent with each
of the decisions that they make.
Regardless of the modifiers that are currently
in play, it is important to note that a character’s
dice pool cannot be reduced below one. This
gives everyone a chance to avoid botching in their
attempt, regardless of the situation that they find
themselves in.
Botches
Botching a check is a situation whereby not only
additional negative repercussions may also occur.
In Dystopia, botches can happen at the discretion
of the GM whenever a check yields no passes.
While this does not always need to be the case,
the effective use of botches could help enhance
the narrative and increase the tension in a given
situation.
Let’s say, for example, that a user is attempting
to break into a target computer system but has
little to no hacking skills of their own. The check
yields no passes, and as a result, the hacking
attempt fails. Upon attempting again, however, the
user also finds that their actions have gained the
attention of the system’s cybersecurity software.
Their terminal is swiftly blocked from making
additional attempts at communicating with
the system, and thus the party will have a new
obstacle to try and overcome.
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It is left up to the GM to determine how debilitating
or brutal they would like a given botch to be. While
it is certainly not recommended to wipe out an
entire team of characters purely on the grounds
of a single mistake, botches should end up feeling
like a punishment or an annoying hindrance to their
current plans.
Exploding Dice
All dice which make up part of your dice pool
explode for any given type of check. This means
that each time a d10 lands on 10, you not only gain
an additional pass like normal, but you can also
re-roll it once more. This exploding effect can stack
any number of times, meaning that any re-rolls you
make also have the potential to explode as well.
Other types of rolls, such as those made for
determining the damage output of a firearm or
psionic power, do not explode and, as a result, are
applied as normal.
Group Checks
Quite often, there can be a situation involving
many characters having to simultaneously make
the same type of opposing check against one
another. For example, a group of players could
try slipping past several guards unnoticed, or two
packs of characters may attempt to compete in a
tug-of-war.
While we could perform several rolls to ensure
that each individual is compared with one
another, this could be incredibly complicated and
time-consuming. Not to mention, trying to enforce
the results thereafter would likely end up being a
nightmare for the GM.
As a result, a group check can be performed instead
to streamline this process. These are identical
to a standard opposing check, whether attribute
or skill-based. The main difference, however, is
that rather than comparing each individual to one
another, we instead combine all their results to
form a single collective number. Depending on the
situation, a GM could then decide to compare the
averages of different factions directly or instead
measure each character’s score separately on one
side against the group average on the other.
Taking the first example that was mentioned
above, where a group of characters are trying to
sneak around several unsuspecting guards, the GM
might decide that the players should make a group
Stealth check and compare it against the individual
Perception skills of each guard. Or perhaps if each
of the guards has an identical Perception skill, the
GM could compare their averages against that of
the players instead.
Ongoing Checks
Sometimes an attribute or skill check may require
an individual to spend an extended period on
it. This means that rather than the task being
brought to completion the moment a single check
is successful, it will instead require multiple checks
to be performed to make gradual progress over
time.
When such a situation arises, an ongoing check
may be used to help determine how far a character
or group has progressed on this task and indicate
when it can realistically be completed. These
checks work somewhat similarly to a generic
check; however, they will usually have a far higher
success target.
Each check that an individual or group makes
towards this task should add all of their passes
achieved to an ongoing tally. This tally continues
to build up over time, representing the gradual
progress of the ongoing check towards its end
goal. Once the success target has been reached,
the ongoing check is said to be completed along
with its associated task.
The GM should go ahead and determine both a
suitable success target for any ongoing checks,
as well as how frequently each participant may
make a roll towards it. A rough set of guidelines
have been listed in the two tables below to help
provide some guidance on the matter.
Task Difficulty Success Target
Trivial 5 attribute score. Whatever this amount comes
Simple 10
Average 15
Challenging 25
Extremely Challenging 35
Near Impossible 50
It is entirely at the GM’s discretion to decide
whether or not a given ongoing check has a failing
condition. While some tasks will no doubt give
players all the time in the world in which they
can be completed, others might end up being far
more sensitive with their success conditions. For
example, perhaps a character only has a certain
number of attempts in which the task must be
completed, or maybe instead it has a limited time
frame in which any progress can be made.
4.2 Environments
Whether you are moving through a busy street,
fighting in a packed nightclub, or infiltrating a mega
corporation’s office block, the current environment
can have a wide range of different effects and
conditions that can alter the state of play. As
a result, you need to understand your current
surroundings as you may well be able to use
certain elements to gain an advantage over others.
Movement
The rate at which an individual can traverse
through an environment is always relative to their
current movement speed. This is regardless of
whether they are attempting to swim across a
body of water, climb down the side of a building,
or crawl through a tight ventilation shaft.
This movement speed amount is calculated
through a combination of their chosen race’s base
movement speed statistic and any of the gains
they receive as a result of their current Strength
to dictates the total distance the character can
roughly traverse over 10 seconds (a single round
of combat).
Of course, when obstacles are blocking their way,
or perhaps when they are being forced to move via
more inefficient and sluggish means, this amount
will naturally decrease.

Task Length Roll Frequency Difficult Terrain

Very Short Each combat turn Moving through obstacles, debris, and hazards
Short Each minute will inevitably slow a character down. As a result,
whenever an individual attempts to move through
Average Every 10 minutes an area designated as difficult terrain, each meter
Long Each hour of distance they traverse will end up costing them
double the usual amount. As a result, the rate of
Very Long Every 6 hours movement made through this type of space will
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Climbing, Swimming, and Crawling
Movement while attempting to climb, swim, or
crawl are additional examples where a character
would also be slowed down. Each meter of
movement made in this way will have double the
usual cost and may even warrant certain types of
checks to be able to proceed.
For example, swimming through a raging storm
may require a Swimming skill check from the
character. The result of this roll would determine
whether they can stay afloat and make progress
or be swept away and thrown underwater by the
strong currents.
It is important to note that the movement penalty
cost applied to these types of movements also
stacks with those gained from difficult terrain.
That means attempting to crawl through a space of
difficult terrain, for example, will cost a character
four times the normal amount.
Jumping
How far a character can jump is mainly based on
their Jumping skill. While it should not be expected
for this to be used for the most trivial types of
jumps, it should provide a good indication of where
a character’s upper limits lie.
A jump has a 1:1 movement speed cost when
compared with regular movement. As a result,
every meter of space in which a character jumps
over requires the same amount of distance as if
they would have traversed the route normally.
Difficult terrain and hazards should probably not
apply their penalties here unless it makes sense to
do so, given the context of the situation.
Minor Movements
Other types of movements, such as dropping
prone or picking up an item from the ground, are
classified as minor movements. These activities
do not penalize the character with an additional
movement cost and, as a result, can be done in one
swift motion as part of another action.
Moving Through Others
As you go about your business, there will be
occasions whereby you are required to move
through a densely packed area. Whether it be
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the crowds of a nightclub, a narrow staircase, or
perhaps the insides of a bus or train, situations will
arise whereby the most effective route of passage
is passing through other individuals.
Providing the person in question is willing, any
character can move through their space as if it
were difficult terrain. No check is required here, as
they are not attempting to put up any resistance.
If the individual is not willing, however, characters
must perform certain types of specialist combat
actions to try and get around them. The two most
common ones will likely be either; one of the
grapple variants or to outmanoeuvre them.
Sprinting
Characters who have already reached the limits
of their movement can, if they choose to do so,
engage in the practice of sprinting. This is a
way of extending beyond their usual movement
speed allowance in exchange for further dice pool
modifiers for certain types of checks.
As the character moves and picks up ever greater
speed, they will have more difficulty carrying out
intricate and complex tasks. At the same time
as this, however, faster and more mobile targets
should naturally prove more difficult for others to
hit. As a result, while sprinting, individuals take
both a penalty to any skill checks they attempt
to make and gain a similar-sized bonus to any
defensive checks to avoid being hit.
Sprinting automatically kicks in whenever
individuals push beyond their typical movement
speed. Here they can move up to double their
normal allowance, taking a progressively larger
modifier as they continue to do so.
% of Movement
Dice Pool Modifiers
Speed
Up to 100% None.
-2 to all skill checks, +2 to
> 100%
all defensive checks.
-4 to all skill checks, +4 to
> 150%
all defensive checks.
All of the above penalties last until the start of a
new round of combat.
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Vision & Sight
Your ability to notice and identify danger
is probably the most significant factor for
determining whether you’ll live or die during a
mission. Different environments can often have
varying lighting conditions, which can be either a
benefit or a detriment to an individual’s ability to
function and perform their tasks.
The rise of both psionics and cybernetic
enhancements has also provided today’s world
with many different types of vision. Each has
advantages and disadvantages when placed in
certain scenarios or conditions. As a result, it is
often wise to consider these variables whenever
you are making a plan of attack.
Obscurity
Sometimes a character’s line of sight can be
partially blocked off. Perhaps patchy fog has
descended onto the local area, or maybe only
a small amount of light is available nearby.
Regardless of the reason, obscurity comes in two
different flavours, light and heavy.
Lightly obscured - Areas in dim light, light fog,
or partially blocked by rows of objects (such as
warehouse shelving) will cause light obscurity.
Characters within this area are said to suffer from
the partially blinded status effect.
Heavily obscured - Areas in total darkness, dense
fog, and other such conditions will cause heavy
obscurity. Characters within this area are said to
suffer from the blinded status effect.
Lighting
Different quantities of lighting will cause varying
conditions in a given environment. This can
generally be described in one of three categories;
well-lit, faintly-lit, and finally, darkness.
Well-lit - Areas with suitable lighting to allow an
individual to see normally. This includes exterior
environments during the day and most indoor
buildings with fitted lighting of some kind.
Faintly-lit - Areas that have a bare minimum
amount of lighting. Faintly lit areas are most
commonly found between well-lit areas and
darkness. They provide individuals with the ability
to see but are also lightly obscured.
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Darkness - Areas with no lighting. These locations
are heavily obscured and require specialised vision
to see.
Vision Types
A character’s vision type will determine how well
they can see things through the aforementioned
conditions. Vision types are determined through an
individual’s choice of race, though they can also be
acquired by purchasing specialist items.
Standard Vision - The default type of sight. All
characters have this regardless of their racial
choice, though a few might have additional options
available to them as well. This type of vision
suffers heavily when it encounters obscurity and
low lighting conditions, applying the effects above
as written.
Low-light Vision - An enhanced vision which
allows an individual to see normally while in faintly
lit areas. The usual penalties encountered here are
removed from the character, though they are still
affected when in areas of total darkness as usual.
Night Vision - With its ability to see through pitch
black, night vision allows an individual to function
like normal in both darkness and faintly lit areas.
They suffer no penalties while in these locations
and can see their environment in varying shades of
different greens.
Night vision is, however, very sensitive to sources
of light. As a result, any character attempting to
use night vision while in a well-lit environment is
said to be temporarily blinded.
Thermographic Vision - Thermographic vision is
intended to spot heat sources very quickly. They
stand out to individuals as large glowing shapes in
an otherwise darkened field of view. Characters
with thermographic vision gain a +5 dice pool
modifier on all sight-based checks to spot such
targets.
However, characters with such vision cannot
see targets, objects, or environments that do
not emanate at least some amount of heat. As a
result, they are effectively considered invisible to
the character until they switch to another type of
vision.
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Understanding Your Surroundings
While an individual’s vision and sight influence the
limits of what they can see, a combination of their
Perception and Intuition skills shall determine what
they can notice and understand.
Whenever a character moves through an
environment, the amount of information they
should receive from the GM is based on these
two skills. The higher these are, the better their
chances of identifying something being amiss or
noticing a particular object out of their peripheral
vision.
Passive vs Active Skills
Unlike most other skills, Perception and Intuition
can come in two distinct flavours; passive and
active. Passive is used as a base measurement
of what the character might discover naturally
without putting much time or thought into it.
Walking through a room, for example, should
typically utilise an individual’s passive Perception,
as they are more interested in moving through the
area rather than conducting an investigation.
Only when the players ask to look around or
examine something more closely will their active
skills begin to take over. The GM can ask for a
check based on the type of activity they are trying
to perform and then provide a suitable amount of
information based on the achieved result.
While any skill could technically have a passive
and active side, this mechanic generally fits best
with both Perception and Intuition. Passive skills
are always based on a fixed outcome and should
yield a number of passes equal to a third of the
individual’s dice pool, rounded down. Meanwhile,
the active part of the skill should be carried out
like any other check, with the entire dice pool being
used to determine a suitable outcome for the task
at hand.
Falling
Characters can very often find themselves in an
environment whereby there is a potential risk that
they may encounter a hazardous fall. Whether it
be due to them losing their grip while attempting a
high climb or perhaps getting thrown into a free
fall from a nearby explosion, there are plenty
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of situations whereby gravity can pose a severe
threat to the players and others.
The rules for falling are reasonably
straightforward. First, the GM should analyse
the situation to determine whether the character
can grab hold of something to stop themselves
from taking a plunge. If the GM rules for this to
be the case, they should state a success target,
and the individual should roll a generic Reflex +
Strength attribute check against it. If they succeed
on this check, they can prevent themselves from
falling but are now considered prone and hanging
perilously from the object in question.
If the individual fails their check, then it is said
that they are unable to find something to support
themselves in time, and thus begin the long fall
down. Unless the distance for this descent is
particularly large, the character will end up hitting
the ground in a matter of seconds. When this
occurs, they are immediately knocked prone and
take 1d10 physical damage for every three meters
of distance that they fell. The physical damage
penetration for this impact should equal the
number of dice that were rolled to determine this
damage.
If a fall is relatively small in height (say somewhere
in the region of zero - six meters), the GM might
rule that the individual can nullify or significantly
reduce this incoming damage with a suitable
Acrobatics skill check.
Holding Your Breath
Characters who enter a low-oxygen environment
can attempt to hold their breath for a short
duration. While certain environmental conditions
can alter this time frame, it should typically
equate to 30 seconds multiplied by their current
Endurance attribute score. This amount of time
should be halved if the person is in a state of panic
or is in a situation where they are being forced to
hold their breath against their will.
Once an individual begins to run out of breath, they
can only remain conscious for 10 seconds before
blacking out. If this event should occur, then the
character in question is said to drop to zero hit
points instantly. For each block of 10 seconds that
continues to pass, the drowning individual loses a
further six hit points, which the effects of shielding
cannot mitigate.
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Poisons & Disease
There are many poisons and infectious diseases
in today’s world. Some are from a natural origin,
while others have been carefully created and
weaponised in labs controlled by governments or
corporate entities.
While the effects of a poison or disease can vary
wildly, the rules surrounding how they work
are often the same. Each will have a method of
infection which will likely take the form of one or
more of the following:
• Contact - The toxin spreads through contact
with the skin.
• Ingestion - The substance must be ingested
for it to take effect.
• Inhalation - The toxin spreads once breathed
in.
• Injection - The toxin must be injected into a
target’s bloodstream.
• Injury - The toxin spreads through contact
with an open wound.
When such conditions arise, the target should
make a generic attribute check with the attributes
in question being determined by the type of
substance used. This will also decide the success
target for the check, as more potent substances
will be harder to resist.
If the check fails, the poison or disease begins to
take hold in the individual’s body, and they are
now said to be infected. From here, the effects
are determined entirely by the toxin in question,
including when the target gets to make additional
checks to try and end its effects.
Fear
While many of those who take up mercenary work
are either battle-hardened veterans or, at the very
least, not of the skittish sort, there will sometimes
be occasions where horrifying sights and sounds
occur before their very eyes.
Whether this is due to a psionic power
manipulating one’s mind or perhaps as a result of
witnessing a nearby team member being gunned
down, events can quickly transpire that might
warrant a check of some sort to determine the
current mental state of a given individual.
When such an event occurs, the GM can call for
each affected individual to make what is known
as a fear check. This is a generic Charisma + Will
attribute check, with the GM determining a suitable
success target based on the situation. Those who
fail this check are said to become stricken with fear
and gain the feared status effect.
Each character feared in this way can repeat
the check at the end of each combat round. On
succeeding, they can finally come to their senses
and thus end the status effect.
4.3 Out On The Streets strong here. They work much like any other type
of check, with dice pools being rolled and the side
with the higher number of passes coming out on
A fair chunk of your time will likely be spent out
top.
on the streets while conducting missions and
performing mercenary work. How you choose to
spend this time and interact with those around you Should a GM wish to inject a little more of a
will likely impact your overall potential for success. narrative focus into the use of such skills, we
recommend asking the players to come up with
what their character would do or say when
As a result, it is often critical to identify important
attempting such a task. For example, if a player
social cues and how best to exploit them to help
is trying to make a Leadership check towards an
progress towards your intended goal.
NPC, they could make a rallying call and attempt an
inspirational speech to help motivate those nearby.
Social Interaction
The world of Dystopia is not just about shooting Goods & Services
big weapons and dropping bodies. All manner of
Whether it be the bustling streets of a city trade
non-player characters (NPCs,) whether they be
district or the quiet back alleys deep in the heart of
citizens, mercenaries, thugs, or police, also happen
gang territory, you will often find other individuals
to inhabit this world as well. These individuals
and organisations willing to buy and sell various
have the potential to drastically alter the outcome
types of goods and services.
of a mission. Whether it is disclosing important
information or even joining the players in the
battles to come, saying or doing the right thing at Some of these may try to take advantage of
the right time can often lead to huge implications unsuspecting individuals, raising prices without
for the group. warning and attempting to flog off their worse
for ware merchandise as the newest and latest
trends. Others might be a little more reserved
Most settings will generally contain one or multiple
about whom they choose to do business with,
NPCs located within a small area. When social
requiring a reference or affiliation beforehand.
interaction occurs, the GM should try their best
And then, of course, there is the honest merchant,
to take on the persona of that individual. This
someone who is simply looking to get by with a fair
allows them to represent a physical manifestation
and decent trade.
that the players can then converse with freely.
Questions can be asked, discussions made, and
conversation can flow and unfold naturally like any Different environments will often produce radically
other that occurs at the table. different opportunities in which individuals can
trade with one another. Busy high streets and
chain stores, for example, will always conduct
Players and GMs should always remember that,
their trade within the bounds of the law, as these
much like with our own world, everyone has their
establishments tend to have the greatest amount
own set of goals, ambitions, and ideals. These are
of oversight by the local security forces. Lesser
all things that an individual wishes to obtain, and
well-known businesses, however, have the
as a result, can make for effect leverage to help
advantage of anonymity on their side, which can
influence them and their opinions. While for some,
flounder regulations a little easier without anyone
these might be blindly obvious or easy to guess on
important having to know.
first meeting them, other NPCs may choose to keep
their cards far closer to their chest.
A group or party looking to make such trades can
gather information about these opportunities
As a result, some investigation work might be
from the local environment. NPCs are likely at
required on the players’ behalf. Probing for
hand to point the characters in a given direction or
information through intelligent discussion or
inform them of the lay of the land. Alternatively, a
investigation work is one possible way to go about
quick search via the Omninet, or a scouting drone
it, but so too is through the effective use of certain
overhead, could also reveal this information to
social skills. Bluffing, Intimidation, Leadership,
them.
and Negotiation especially can all prove to be very

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Selling Goods
No doubt, you will gradually acquire items and
scrap over time that you simply have no desire or
use for. While there might be some merit in keeping
a portion of this as a spare or to tinker around with,
most of it will simply end up for sale.
Although certain organisations will be more
generous than others, most will vary the price they
are willing to pay based on the condition and rarity
of the item in question. Goods that are virtually
new or in high demand will likely fetch a price as
high as half their market value. However, items
that have been broken or in bad shape will instead
go for around 10%.
Identification
While the premise of carrying around some form
of identification is nothing new in society, it has
only been in the last 30 years or so that this idea
has become integrated into everything that we do.
Whether entering a bar, boarding a bus, or even
buying the weekly groceries, in today’s world, many
everyday activities will often require identification
to be presented.
Despite the best efforts of certain corporations
and lobbying groups, microchipping the population
never really achieved the critical mass of support
that it needed to get off the ground properly.
Instead, a system known as Unique Personal
Identification Numbers (or UPIN for short) was
swiftly trialled and then implemented throughout
most countries worldwide.
The system works through small memory stick-like
devices called UPIN sticks, one of which is given
to every citizen shortly after their birth. This
device contains a plethora of information about
the individual, including their fingerprints, iris
scans, blood work records, legal name, occupation,
address of residence, and their race, age, and sex.
When identification is called for, the person in
question presses down on one end of the UPIN
stick with their thumb. If the built-in hardware sees
a match between the individual’s fingerprint and
the data it has on its record, then the other end of
the device can be scanned as appropriate.
Police, merchants, bouncers, and automated
systems alike can all read varying degrees of the
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information held on an activated UPIN stick. How
much data they can then read during one of their
scans is based solely on the permissions which
their local government has granted them. Police,
for example, will usually be able to see everything,
while a bouncer working for a club would only
see the information that would help them identify
whether someone is who they say they are.
Fake IDs
It should come as little surprise that as soon
as carrying around a UPIN stick became a daily
necessity, many individuals started to put a
significant amount of time and effort into finding
ways of potentially falsifying them.
While no one has been able to create a completely
undetectable false identity yet, a few talented
individuals have been able to get remarkably close.
Whether the aim is for a bit of privacy, allowing an
individual to move freely without being tracked,
or perhaps to give a wanted criminal an entirely
new persona for themselves, the false identify
market is a booming trade, and many organisations
are willing to pay huge sums to those who have
reliable access to them.
All falsified documents, whether an identity
stored on a UPIN stick or a simple memo, have
what is known as an authenticity rating. This
hidden statistic that should initially be known
only by the GM reflects just how convincing the
item in question truly is. Forgeries with a higher
authenticity rating will naturally prove more
difficult for others to determine as false. Of
course, like with all things, the better the forgery
is, the higher the skill that will be required to
produce them in the first place. As such, high-end
falsified documents usually have quite the price tag
associated with them.
Any attempt to determine whether or not a given
document is legitimate can be made by performing
a generic Intuition or Forgery skill check. With a
success target equal to the authenticity rating
of the document in question, any character or
scanning device can establish both; whether
a document has indeed been forged and its
associated authenticity rating upon achieving
a success. Forgers who try to study their own
material, which they have knowingly created, gain
a +3 dice pool bonus to this roll.
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Drugs
Undoubtedly, as the players continue to pass
through and engage with the streets of Dystopia,
they will inevitably come across exotic drugs and
individuals willing to sell them.
Like much of the late 20th and early 21st centuries,
the black market for drugs has continued to grow
ever more prominent out on the streets of today.
While many of the items sold here tend to be
heavily restricted or outright banned, most police
forces seem to be either ill-equipped or lacking the
necessary commitment to have any kind of a real
effect at stopping their use.
Although different types of drugs will have varying
effects on a given individual, most will follow the
same mechanical pattern to help govern how they
are used in the game. On first being taken, they
will usually provide some immediate effect for the
given character. Sometimes this will be negative;
other times, it will be good; more often than not, it
will be a combination of both.
Once the initial effects of the drug begin to wear
off, however, its user will start to crash. They enter
a period of downtime whereby they suffer a series
of negative after-effects that again differ based
on the type of product that was taken. Some might
end up being minor annoyances that last only an
hour or two, while others might effectively put
someone out of action for a day or more.
Drug Addiction
The drawbacks do not stop there either, however.
Most types of drugs that are sold on the streets
are heavily addictive substances. While the odd
pill here and there is unlikely to get a character
hooked, repeated usage over a prolonged period
will inevitably create an addiction.
To help quantify this process, we utilise a simple
check at the end of each passing week. Any time
an individual consumes a drug, they should make a
note of what product it was and how many doses
they took. Come the end of the week, they will
need to make an addiction check for each type of
substance that they consumed over this period.
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Working as a generic attribute check, an addiction
check requires a character to use both their
Endurance + Will attribute scores to help determine
the size of their dice pool. While the success target
for this check is simply equal to the addiction
rating of the substance in question, they will
also receive a stacking -1 dice pool penalty for
each additional dose they took after the first. This
means that while an individual who only consumed
a single dose of the drug during the week will not
receive any penalty to their check, a character who
decided to engorge themselves on five doses would
receive a -4 dice pool penalty instead.
On failing an addiction check, the individual in
question is said to gain an addiction level for that
particular type of substance. If they happen to
have an addiction towards it already, then this level
is said to be increased by a further one. Addiction
levels reflect the severity of a given individual’s
dependence on a certain kind of product. The
higher this level becomes, the harder it will be for
them to resist their cravings as they do their daily
business.
At the start of a new day, all characters must make
a generic Endurance + Will attribute check for
each type of addiction they currently have. With a
success target equal to their current addiction level
plus one, characters are looking to try and keep
their cravings under control to remain focussed
and function normally throughout the coming day.
Those that succeed on their checks can do just
this. Their cravings are controlled for the next 24
hours, and as such, they can go about their daily
lives without requiring a new fix. The next time
they have to make this check, however, its success
target should be increased by a further one.
Alternatively, by failing an addiction check,
the individual’s body begins to show signs of
withdrawal. They must now actively seek out the
substance they tried so hopelessly to resist, with
all other tasks being considered of secondary
importance. Until these cravings have been taken
care of, or until they next complete an extended
rest, all of their checks suffer from a -4 dice
pool penalty. However, their daily check for this
substance is reset back to its base success target,
allowing the character to manage their cravings
more easily.
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Addiction Recovery
Once an addiction has become established, it is
likely that sooner or later, the character may wish
to seek out ways in which they can rid themselves
of it. In the world of Dystopia, there are multiple
methods which they can attempt to use to do
so. Some might require them to part ways with
a large number of credits, while others may only
Recovery Method Cost
Hospital Visit 1,500 per day
Rehabilitation 500 per three day visit
Counselling 300 per week
Cold Turkey Free
Above: The addiction recovery overview table.
Hospital Visit
No doubt, this is probably the most obvious of
the different recovery methods. With medical
professionals on hand day and night and all
manner of specialist equipment to suit, a trip to
the nearest hospital can quickly and efficiently deal
with even the most overbearing and problematic
drug addictions.
Incurring a payment of around 1,500 credits per
day, the character is admitted into the hospital
full-time while undergoing various treatments
and medical procedures. Each time the character
completes an extended rest at the facility, they can
make a generic Endurance + Will attribute check
with a success target of three for each type of
addiction they currently have.
Any check that succeeds here reduces the
character’s current addiction level for the
associated substance by one. Regardless of
whether it was successful, however, an individual
is considered immune from withdrawal effects
while they remain at the facility.
Rehabilitation
If a hospital visit is too high of a price tag
for an individual to stomach, there is always
rehabilitation at their disposal. Like a hospital
visit, this process works by checking into a facility
full-time while trained staff are on hand to help
guide them to a successful recovery.
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be effective with regular participation over a
prolonged period.
In the text below, you will find the four most
common methods of dealing with this affliction.
It is highly recommended that you read through the
various items to better understand which methods
may be the most effective based on a character’s
current situation.
Immunity to
Recovery Interval
Withdrawal?
Each day Yes
Each three day visit Yes
Each week No
Each fortnight No
Incurring a payment of roughly 500 credits for a
three-day stay, characters can make a generic
Endurance + Will attribute check with a success
target of three for each type of addiction that they
currently have upon its completion. Any check that
succeeds here reduces the character’s current
addiction level for the associated substance by
one.
Like with making a hospital visit, those who remain
at a rehabilitation facility are considered to be
immune from the effects of withdrawal.
Counselling
While effective at what they do, those who lead an
active lifestyle may often find hospitalisation and
rehabilitation challenging to fit in within their busy
schedule. Counselling, on the other hand, could
allow a character to slowly address their addiction
over a prolonged period without needing to remain
at a given complex or facility full-time.
With a cost equal to 300 credits per week,
counselling requires an individual to spend one
hour of their time three times a week with a local
support group. After completing each passing
week, the character may make a generic Endurance
+ Will attribute check with a success target of
three for each addiction they currently suffer
from. Any check that succeeds here reduces
the character’s current addiction level for the
associated substance by one.
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Unlike spending time in a hospital or rehabilitation
centre, however, counselling does not protect an
individual from going into withdrawal.
Cold Turkey
Finally, there is attempting to go cold turkey. While
technically free of any such cost, this process
requires an individual to bear the brunt and push
on through without assistance each time their
cravings flare up.
After each fortnight that passes, the character
may make a generic Endurance + Will attribute
check with a success target of three for each
type of addiction that they currently suffer
from. Any check that succeeds here reduces
the character’s current addiction level for the
associated substance by one.
Cybernetic Enhancements
With technology becoming an ever more integral
part of our everyday lives, it was only a matter of
time before it started to become integrated and
paired with our biology. While initially intended
to improve the lives of both injured war veterans,
and those who had been born with physical
abnormalities, the cybernetics industry soon
expanded to produce all manner of different wares
aimed towards your everyday average Joe.
Whether it be a pair of hydraulic legs that can
outrun the fastest of athletes or perhaps a
computerised eye implant that has the potential
to spot the smallest of details from a distance,
cybernetic enhancements have revolutionised
much of what we thought an individual could ever
be capable of. All that is required of them is to hand
over an eye-watering number of credits for the
privilege of having one of their body parts chopped
off and enough loan repayments afterwards to
likely be debt-ridden for life.
Despite their high cost, cybernetic enhancements
are now reasonably commonplace in much of
today’s society. While you may struggle to find
someone with such implants in an area of high
poverty, take a stroll down a few back alleyways
here and there, and you will surely come across
several cyber docs. Many of these hidden vendors
sell new and used enhancements from various
questionable sources, allowing your everyday
citizen to get a chance at some upgrades with a
heavily reduced price tag.
No doubt, however, that cybernetic enhancements
are not for everyone. From their inception, various
religious groups started to raise their concerns,
expressing their views on what it truly means to
be human and not a machine. While their attempts
to influence legislators failed miserably, thanks to
the nearly unlimited resources of the big industrial
corporations, there are select pockets of society
out there who still hold a less than favourable
view of those who get themselves modified with
cybernetic implants.
Cybernetic Limits
Regardless of the number of credits an individual
might have, a biological system is a carefully
balanced ecosystem that can only withstand so
much interference and change. While modern-day
technology has undoubtedly pushed the
boundaries of what is possible here, even those
have limits.
Much like with organ transplants, an individual’s
body will naturally begin to reject most types
of cybernetic enhancements. Seeing them as a
foreign invader, its immune system will swiftly get
to work, breaking them down and destroying the
underlying tissue.
As a result, all those who choose to upgrade
themselves with these enhancements will require
drugs that sufficiently suppress their body’s
immune system. These will allow the cybernetics
to coexist with their natural biological systems
without either resorting to attacking one another.
However, how large a quantity of these drugs
any given individual will require will very much
depend upon the type and the number of upgrades
they currently have installed. Each cybernetic
enhancement will have what is known as a
rejection rating. This numeric value reflects how
disruptive the enhancement is said to be towards
an individual’s body. The higher this value is, the
more significant the disruption it will cause upon
installation.
Counting together the rejection ratings
from all of their cybernetic enhancements,
a character requires one weekly dose of an
immunosuppressive drug for every ten complete
points of rejection rating that they have amassed.
This means that while one character with a
combined rejection rating of 32 will require three
doses of a suitable product each week, another
character with only eight points of rejection rating
can remain perfectly healthy without having taken
any.
The medicine Meprozanol currently stands as
the go-to market leader for immunosuppressive
products. It has by far the widest availability
and a competitive price tag to suit. Bear in mind,
however, that like with most types of medicine and
street drugs, Meprozanol can be a highly addictive
substance.
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Cybernetics Sickness
Those who fail to take care of all of their cybernetic
enhancements rejection rating begin to suffer
from what is commonly known as cybernetics
sickness. This term describes the rapid decline in
an individual’s health as their body begins to reject
and fight against the foreign tissue.
While it is entirely up to the GM’s discretion to
determine when an individual begins to suffer from
these effects, symptoms should usually surface
within a day or two after having not taken their
weekly number of immunosuppressants.
Characters suffering from the illness quickly
gain a debilitating fever and an inability to think
straight. They suffer a -6 dice pool penalty to
each of their checks, in addition to a non-stacking
halving of their maximum number of hit points and
mental stamina. These effects persist for up to 1d4
days after consuming the appropriate amount of
immunosuppressant for the week.
Prolonged periods of cybernetics sickness can
also adversely affect the cybernetics themselves.
As the body begins to fight against its newly
perceived threat, the tissue and circuitry that
make a cybernetic enhancement what it is, quickly
deteriorate as the body’s natural immune system
breaks them down. While this process certainly
does take some time to achieve, it is also inevitable.
As a result, the GM may rule that with successive
periods of cybernetics sickness, an individual’s
enhancements may finally break and become
unusable.
Cyterian & Cybernetics
While it is certainly true that the Cyterian, given
their mechanical nature, have an easier time
integrating with cybernetic enhancements, they
are not without issues of their own. The artificial
subsystems that manage their central core can
be just as delicate as meta-human biology. True,
they do not need to worry about tissue rejection
and the use of immunosuppressive drugs, but they
do need to consider the variety of interconnected
computerised systems within themselves that all
require cross-communication to operate.
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Any Cyterian who chooses to adapt themselves
with these enhancements must look instead
to cybernetic modulators to help stave off the
debilitating effects of cybernetics sickness. These
devices allow the character to regulate their
core body functions by providing a clear line of
communication between themselves and the newly
installed cybernetics. The more modulators they
currently have installed, the higher the bandwidth
their core systems can use.
Regarding gameplay, each cybernetic modulator
provides a Cyterian with the same effects as a
single weekly dosage of immunosuppressant for
as long as it remains installed. While this does,
of course, mean that the individual does not need
to deal with either drug addiction or an ongoing
weekly cost, cybernetic modulators are notoriously
expensive for what they do.
Those Cyterian who fail to take care of all of
their cybernetic enhancements rejection rating
will soon find themselves experiencing similar
effects to cybernetics sickness for themselves.
As their various independent systems start to
conflict, chaos begins to break out as their central
core struggles to understand what is happening.
Many have said that a Cyterian undergoing the
effects of cybernetics sickness will often twitch
uncontrollably and suffer from intermittent
seizures.
Like with the other playable races, a Cyterian who
has contracted the illness will suffer a -6 dice pool
penalty for each of their checks, in addition to a
non-stacking halving of their maximum number
of hit points and mental stamina. These effects
will continue to persist for the same period of
roughly 1d4 days after having properly regulated
themselves with the appropriate number of
cybernetic modulators.
The Passage of Time
As your story continues to unravel at the table,
there should be a general sense that time has
also been gradually progressing throughout. How
quickly this occurs, however, should be determined
by the GM based on what has been happening.
Different types of activities will no doubt require
a varying scale of time to cover everything that
has been happening. Combat, for example, (which
will be the topic of the next chapter) is one of
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many types of fast passed situations whereby a
lot can transpire in a few seconds. Compare this to
taking a drive to another part of town or perhaps
spending some downtime to relax, and we will
quickly realise that while these types of tasks will
take far longer to be achieved, not all that much
needs to be described or covered for their duration.
As a result, the GM needs to select a suitable time
frame to break down the current narrative. If a task
is likely to take hours to complete, for example,
then there is little point in describing what happens
minute by minute. Not only would this take forever,
but it could also become repetitive and affect the
game’s pacing. Instead, it would be better to give
a quick summary or overview of how the hours
have passed. If any notable events arise during
this process, the scale of time can be readjusted
accordingly.
Generally speaking, traversing through a city or
rural environment to get somewhere new should
often be described in a scale of hours. This allows
for any uneventful parts of the journey to be
glossed over quickly while still giving a feeling that
time has also been passing by. For longer trips,
which involve moving across several different
countries, for example, a scale of days could work
better depending on the mode of transport being
used.
Resting & Downtime
As your resources slowly begin to wither away,
whether health, psionic powers, ammunition, or
food, there will likely come the point whereby you
should probably choose to rest up and recuperate.
Resting and downtime in Dystopia covers any
allocated period that is not intended to further
your characters’ current plot, mission, or goal.
This could involve something as simple as taking
a day off so that your body can begin to heal
or spending a certain amount of time pursuing
personal activities.
Mechanics-wise, a character will only begin to
recuperate after having completed what is known
as an extended rest. This is a period of downtime
during which the characters can eat, sleep, and
relax. It must last for a minimum of 8 hours to
count and cannot involve any strenuous activity
which would be either physically or mentally
exhausting.
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Though an extended rest can be interrupted If a character is unfortunate enough to end the
midway through, any disruption which lasts longer day having not completed an extended rest, they
than an hour will force those to restart their cannot benefit from any of the above effects.
progress. As a result, you should think carefully Additionally, they automatically gain a stack of
about where and when you would like to make an exhaustion (see Status Effects, page 233).
extended rest, as constant interruptions could not
only end up wasting a lot of your time but could
also prevent your ability to recover. Carrying Capacity
Like in the real world, a character can only carry so
When an extended rest is finally completed, a much stuff before they start to buckle under the
player can roll what is known as restoration dice. strain. While times have certainly progressed, and
These take the form of two dice pools comprised of the use of cybernetic implants and other such tech
multiple d6s and help indicate how well their body have certainly increased this amount, there is still a
could heal up and recuperate during the downtime. physical limit that all individuals need to adhere to.
The first of these dice pools restores health and
whose size is equal to 1d6 for every point of
The maximum carrying capacity for any given
endurance the character currently possesses. The
person is determined through a combination
second dice pool is for recovering mental stamina
of both their current Strength and Endurance
and equates to 1d6 in size for each current point of
attribute scores. For each point here, the total
will.
amount they can comfortably carry should be
increased by four kg.
Both pools of restoration dice are rolled one after
the other. Their respective results should be added
As an individual starts to carry above this
to their character’s current amounts, forming
maximum weight limit, they will begin to suffer
the number of resources that they will have at
from adverse penalties and effects. These can be
their disposal for the coming day ahead. While
summarised in the table below, though note that
characters are free to take as much downtime as
they do not stack on top of one another. Only use
they want, extended rests can only be utilised once
the effects in the row based on the individual’s
per day. As a result, any attempts to take a further
current level of carrying capacity.
extended rest do not yield any such additional
bonuses or effects.

Total Capacity Effects

Above 100%
• Slowed (-3 meters movement speed).
• Suffers a -1 dice pool penalty on all checks.

Above 150%
• Slowed (-6 meters movement speed).
• Suffers a -2 dice pool penalty on all checks.

Above 200%
• Restrained.

Above: The carrying capacity overview table.

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Item Concealment
With the streets of 2107 being as dangerous as
they are, it is always advisable to keep a weapon on
your person or close by at all times. Despite this,
however, you probably don’t want to waltz into a
downtown restaurant or bar with your favourite
scattershot thrown over your back out on display.
Not only will this draw a fair bit of unwanted heat
and attention from the staff and other patrons,
but so too could it lead to a quick escalation if an
argument does indeed break out.
Instead, it is better to conceal this item in a bag or
container of sorts. That way, you could still have
your trusty weapon by your side if tensions do
rise, but it won’t become immediately apparent to
everyone else that you are packing a lot of heat.
Concealment
Typical Examples
Rating
Very Easy (VE) Data chips, micro cameras, drugs.
Pistols, most types of ammunition, a
Easy (E)
PCD.
Automatic pistols, submachine guns,
Average (A)
body armour.
Long guns, scuba gear, hazardous
Difficult (D)
materials suit.
Machine guns, rocket launchers, heavy
Impossible (I)
weight drones.
Above: The item concealment overview table.
Characters cannot normally perceive any item
currently considered to be concealed at a distance.
Upon closer inspection, however, the GM may rule
that with a high enough Perception skill check, a
character or NPC might be able to notice certain
signs that indicate that an object is currently being
hidden.
4.4 Skill Based Activities
While many different skill-based activities are
quite simplistic, there are certain occasions
whereby a task might require a little more
substance for the GM to determine its outcome.
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No doubt different weapon types will warrant their
own spacial requirements from one another, and
as a result, the question quickly becomes how does
item concealment work? Each item in Dystopia,
from data chips to rocket launchers, will be given
what is known as a concealment rating. This
rating reflects just how large and unwieldy the
equipment is, and therefore how difficult it will be
to keep hidden away from the view of others.
As this rating continues to increase, so too will the
difficulty in concealing the associated item. They
will require more significant amounts of storage
space and perhaps even specialist containers in
which to house them. This information can be
summarised in the table below, along with typical
examples of where you might encounter each
concealment rating.
Concealment Requirements
Any pocket, compartment, or small
container will suffice.
Trouser leg, jacket sleeve, or the side
compartment of a bag.
Main compartment of a duffle bag,
rucksack or shoulder bag.
Carrying crate.
Cannot be hidden.
Whether it be a character wanting to repair their
weapons and equipment or perhaps make an
attempt at creating a convincing forgery, certain
tasks will require an expanded set of rules for them
to have both a desired amount of depth, but also
to make logical sense in the context of the game’s
world.
On the following page, you can find various
skill-based activities that fall into this
category. However, it should be noted that any
combat-orientated activities have been left out
of discussion in favour of covering them during the
dedicated combat chapter.
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Repairing Equipment
While materials have certainly come a long way
in their ability to endure and resist, they can only
be expected to withstand so much punishment
before they start to falter and break. Weapons
begin to jam, armour starts to buckle and bend,
and computerised systems become ever more
unresponsive as they experience an ever-growing
number of battles and firefights.
There is no doubt that as time passes, the player
characters will start to experience this very
problem for themselves. While paying someone to
repair an item is almost always an available option,
sometimes it simply makes far more economic
sense to do it for themselves.
Items that have suffered a defect or sustained
an amount of damage can be repaired using a
particular skill over a given period. Which skill this
shall be, is typically determined by the type of item
in question. Automations, for example, are best
suited towards either the; Mechanical: Aircraft,
Mechanical: Ground Vehicles, or Mechanical:
Seacraft skills to get them back into a working
condition, while armour and metallic instruments
would be better catered for by the Metallurgy skill
instead.
The GM should determine how complicated and
time-consuming this task will be based on various
situational conditions. These can often include
things like; the damage that the item has sustained,
the complexity of the equipment requiring repairs,
and the working environment in which the task will
take place.
Regardless of these conditions, however, most
repairs undertaken by a single individual will yield
around three hit points worth of recovery per hour
when performed successfully.
Creating Forgeries
While most individuals looking to forge a document
or identity will require a suitable contact to do
so, some players with a competent talent in the
Forgery skill may be able to perform this task for
themselves.
Forging a document will naturally vary quite
radically from one situation to another, all based
on what the character is attempting to achieve.
Changing the name on a memo while still ensuring
it looks legitimate, for example, will require far less
work than creating a document from scratch.
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While it is up to the GM to determine a suitable
amount of time required to perform a given forgery
attempt, most tasks generally fall between 1 -
12 hours. Light modifications and the creation of
simplistic documents should end up being towards
the former amount, while the creation of new
identities and complex changes should fall towards
the latter. If the individual is attempting to create a
copy of an existing document rather than fabricate
one from scratch, then the amount of time required
for this task should be halved.
Additionally, all forgery attempts a given individual
makes require the correct apparatus to do so. If
the character is trying to alter or create a physical
document, for example, then they must have
access to suitable inks. If, however, they were
instead trying to create a new false identity, then
it would be far more appropriate for them to use a
blank UPIN stick.
Once the necessary apparatus has been gathered
and the character spends the required amount
of time performing the forgery, they can make
a generic Forgery skill check. The authenticity
rating of the falsified document is said to equal the
number of passes achieved during this check.
Mixing Chemicals
Sometimes a situation may arise whereby a
suitable mixture or compound has the potential
to circumvent an annoying obstacle or help resolve
a particular problem. For example, you could be
trapped within a darkened environment with no
immediate light sources or maybe blocked from
continuing along your designated path by some
ill-placed debris.
Regardless of the situation, the world of 2107 is
home to many chemicals and compounds that
can produce a variety of potent effects when
mixed together. Some of these, for example, could
serve you well as an improvised source of light
(combustible or fluorescent), while others might
be able to produce a concentrated explosive blast.
Whatever the desired outcome, those with the
appropriate Chemistry skill can spend some of
their downtime to produce a suitable type of
substance. For the task to be successful, however,
they must have access to a range of different
chemicals and the appropriate apparatus to mix
them.
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Most types of substances that an individual might
want to produce will generally fall under one of the
following categories:
• Acids.
• Narcotics/pain relief.
• Improvised light sources.
• Improvised explosives.
The GM should determine both the difficulty of the
task at hand and the amount of time it will take to
produce each batch of compound. While this can
vary quite radically based on what the player hopes
to achieve, most improvised solutions should be
obtainable in the space of around 1 - 6 hours.
4.5 Status Effects
While out running a job, certain events may unfold,
leaving an individual suffering from an affliction
or hindrance. Perhaps an explosion disorientates
a character for a short duration afterwards, or
maybe a poisoned weapon infects a target with a
disease or toxin.
These particular afflictions are known as status
effects and come in many different types and
varieties. Their properties can range from a simple
annoyance to something that can heavily impact
an individual’s ability to perform certain tasks.
While the duration of these effects will vary wildly
depending on how they are inflicted, attacks and
psionic powers that cause them should clearly
state this information.
Note that not all items listed below are referenced
elsewhere in this book. Certain status effects, like
Maimed and Partially Deafened, for example, are
kept as tools for the GM to apply as and when
are necessary. A loud club, for instance, could
hinder a character’s ability to overhear nearby
conversations, thus inflicting them with the
Partially Deafened status effect.
Anaphylaxis - The character enters into a state
of severe allergic reaction. Without medical
treatment, their body begins to shut down and
slowly wither away.
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• They are considered unconscious, suffering
all of its usual effects.
• At the end of each round, they lose one hit
point, which the effects of shielding cannot
mitigate.
Bleeding - The character is losing bodily fluids over
time. This effect can stack an unlimited number of
times.
• At the end of each round, they lose one hit
point per stack of bleeding. The effects of
shielding cannot mitigate this damage.
• When they move, they leave behind a
traceable trail of blood along their route.
• At the end of each round, they can make an
Endurance + Strength attribute check, with
the success target equalling the current
number of bleed stacks plus one. On a
success, their bleed stacks are reduced by
one.
Blinded - The character cannot see.
• They automatically fail any Perception skill
checks that rely on sight.
• They suffer a -4 dice pool penalty on all
other skill and attribute checks that utilise
an individual’s eyesight.
Crippled - The character cannot make use of the
affected limb.
• Any item carried is instantly dropped if the
affected limb is an arm. The individual is
considered slowed for the duration (-2 dice
pool penalty on Reflex based checks).
• If the limb is a leg, the character is considered
slowed for the duration (-3 meters of
movement speed).
Deafened - The character is unable to hear.
• They automatically fail any Perception skill
checks that rely on hearing.
• They suffer a -2 dice pool penalty on all
other skill and attribute checks that utilise
an individual’s hearing.
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Diseased - The character has been afflicted with • They are considered prone, and their
an infection of some kind. The type of effects that movement speed is reduced by half.
it will cause here will all vary quite wildly based on
• During combat, they may only carry out a
the particular disease in question.
standard action on each of their turns.

Disorientated - The character is confused and • They will instantly die if their current hit
does not have full awareness of their current points fall to or below negative half their
surroundings. maximum.

Exhaustion - The character becomes tired and

• They suffer a -2 dice pool penalty on all skill
and attribute checks that they make.
• They are unable to make use of reactive
actions.
Dying - The character is badly hurt and is at risk of
death.
• They immediately gain a stack of exhaustion.
weak. This effect can stack up to six times, with
each new stack becoming more severe than the
last. When looking up the effects of exhaustion,
use whichever level the individual is currently at.
You do not need to take the previous ones also.
Each time the individual completes an extended
rest, their exhaustion level is automatically
reduced by one.

Stacks of Exhaustion Effects

1 - Tired
• The individual is considered slowed (-2 meters of movement speed).
• They suffer a -1 dice pool penalty on all checks.

2 - Very Tired
• The individual is considered slowed (-4 meters of movement speed).
• They suffer a -3 dice pool penalty on all checks.

3 - Weak
• The individual is considered slowed (-6 meters of movement speed).
• They suffer a -5 dice pool penalty on all checks.

4 - Very Weak
• The individual is considered slowed (-8 meters of movement speed).
• They suffer a -7 dice pool penalty on all checks.

5 - Near Death
• The individual cannot move.
• They suffer a -10 dice pool penalty on all checks.

6 - Death
• The individual dies.

Above: The exhaustion effects overview table.

Feared - The character is stricken with fear, unable the effects of shielding cannot mitigate.
to control their actions or act logically.
• They cannot willingly move towards the
source of fear.
• At the end of each round, the character
• They suffer a -2 dice pool penalty on all skill
suffers one point of mental damage, which
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 the fear can be seen or heard.
Grappled - The character is currently being
grabbed by someone or something.
• They cannot move.
• Unless otherwise stated, they can attempt to
escape by spending a standard action to
make an opposing Reflex + Finesse/Strength
attribute check (their choice of which). The
grappler uses the dice pool of their Unarmed
Combat skill to contest against this.
Impaired - The character is injured or hurt in some
way, hampering their ability to perform actions.
• They suffer a -2 dice pool penalty on all skill
and attribute checks that they make.
Invisible - The character is concealed from others,
becoming more difficult to spot.
• They gain a +5 dice pool modifier on all
checks to hide or remain hidden from other
individuals.
• Each of their attacks is considered to take
place from hiding for any target who cannot
see through invisibility.
Unless otherwise stated, invisibility-type effects
do not change an individual’s heat signature. As a
result, individuals with thermographic vision are
considered to be unaffected by this status effect.
Maimed - The character has lost a limb.
• Any item carried is instantly dropped if
the limb is an arm. The individual is also
considered slowed (-2 dice pool penalty on
all Reflex-based checks).
• If the limb is a leg, the individual can
only move via crawling unless they have
assistance. They are also considered slowed
(-6 meters of movement speed).
Paralysed - The character’s body is frozen in place
and helpless. They are currently unable to speak or
take action.
• They cannot move or speak.
• They cannot take actions of any kind.
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• Their Finesse, Reflex, and Strength attribute
scores are all considered zero for any skill or
attribute check they make.
Partially Blinded - The character’s vision is
temporarily diminished. Does not stack with the
Blinded status effect.
• They suffer a -2 dice pool penalty on all
skill and attribute checks that rely on an
individual’s sight.
Partially Deafened - The character’s hearing
is currently reduced. Does not stack with the
Deafened status effect.
• They suffer a -2 dice pool penalty on all
skill and attribute checks that rely on an
individual’s hearing.
Poisoned - The character has been infected with a
toxin of some kind.
• All attribute and skill checks that they make
have a -2 dice pool penalty applied to them.
Prone - The character is lying on the ground. This
effect can be ended immediately by spending half
their movement speed to stand back up.
• They must crawl to move, doubling the cost
of any movement made.
• They suffer a -2 dice pool penalty on all
checks that attempt to make a melee-based
attack.
• They suffer a -2 dice pool penalty on all
checks that attempt to defend against a
melee-based attack.
• They receive a +2 dice pool modifier on all
checks to defend against incoming ranged
attacks.
• They might be able to take better advantage
of nearby cover (GM’s discretion).
• On one of their turns, they can spend a
standard action to stand back up, ending
this status effect.
Restrained - The character is being subdued by
someone or something.
• They cannot move.
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 • They suffer a -4 dice pool penalty on all
attribute and skill checks based on either
Strength or Finesse.
• Their Reflex attribute score is considered zero
on all attribute and skill checks they attempt
to make.
Slowed - The character has become a little
sluggish, unable to move or act at their normal
pace. The potency of this effect will generally be
determined by whatever caused it; however, the
target will typically receive one or more of the
following:
• A reduction in movement speed.
• A penalty to Reflex based checks.
• A penalty to combat initiative checks.
Surprised - The character is in a temporary state of
surprise at what is happening around them. They
cannot act in any way, shape, or form, including the
use of free actions. This effect ends automatically
after the conclusion of the individual’s first turn in
combat.
• They suffer a -3 dice pool penalty on all
attribute and skill checks they make.
• They cannot take actions of any kind.
Unconscious - The character is knocked out,
immediately falling prone on the ground if they can.
• They are unaware of their surroundings.
• They cannot take actions of any kind.
• They automatically fail any skill check that
they attempt to make.
• Their Finesse, Reflex, and Strength attribute
scores are all considered zero for any
attribute check that they make.
The Stacking of Effects
Given that certain status effects can cause similar
types of penalties as one another, it is only natural
for someone to ask how these two afflictions
should work together.
As a rule of thumb, two different statuses should
be able to stack their effects on a character who
has been inflicted by both. However, unless
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otherwise stated, multiple instances of the same
type of status effect should not begin to stack.
This means that if, for example, a target has
been afflicted by poison and is also surprised, the
penalty to their skill and attribute checks should be
considered as -4. -2 from the poison and another
-2 from the surprise.
If the same individual were instead hit by two
attacks that inflicted the poisoned status
effect, then the penalty would remain at -2. The
difference here is that the target would need to
remove both instances of the poisoned status
effect, rather than just the one, for this penalty to
end.
4.6 Rewards &
Advancement
As characters continue to perform jobs and make
a name for themselves, so too should they be
suitably rewarded. In Dystopia, rewards can come
in many different flavours, all based on the types
of tasks that an individual manages to achieve and
how well they performed while doing so.
Successful role-playing could be complemented
with a reward of karma by the GM, while
completing an important contract could see them
gain additional experience points and an increase
to their renown. Regardless of what it may be, this
section explores the three main types of rewards
that characters can hope to achieve while out and
about on their adventures.
Karma
Karma is a system that allows
the GM to reward players who
either stick to their character’s
fundamentals or who role-play
effectively as part of a team.
It is a way of dealing with
players who, despite their
best intentions, can sometimes try to avoid the
shortcomings of their character to get out of a bad
situation.
When the GM feels that a player has performed
remarkably well at playing the role of their
character, they can reward them with a point of
karma. Karma does not have an expiry period and
can be stacked up to a maximum of five.
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So what exactly is it? A player with karma can use
some or all of it to add automatic passes to one of
their skill or attribute checks. Each point of karma
that is used rewards them with one additional pass
on top of whatever is achieved by their normal dice
roll.
Players can decide to use karma after the dice roll
has been made, but it must occur before the GM
has finalised its outcome. Additionally, they may
only spend karma up to their character’s current
level of renown on any particular occasion.
of a team. However, GMs also have the discretion
for awarding experience points separately, for
example, to those who role-play effectively or stick
to their character’s beliefs, even to the detriment of
themselves and others.
When a certain number of these experience points
have been amassed, the character is said to reach
the next stage of renown. Each presents the player
with new opportunities, such as access to new
weapons and equipment, a larger and more diverse
pool of contracts, and additional points added to
their genetics pool.

Renown Players should feel that as they gain more

As a player’s character begins
to complete more and more
contracts, it is only natural for
the word to continue to spread
about their deeds and triumphs.
On the streets of Dystopia, this
is commonly referred to as an
individual’s renown. The higher this renown is, the
more willing others might be when considering this
person for potential upcoming work.
Experience points (XP) are rewarded gradually to
players over time, mainly based on the tasks they
perform and the objectives they achieve as part
experience from the jobs they complete, so too
should the number of options and choices before
them. Merchants, for example, would be more
willing to sell advanced weapons and equipment
to those who they knew would not waste their
time. Organisations looking for a team to pull off
a dangerous mission are far more likely to take
individuals with a reputation for getting the job
done.
Below is a table that represents the five different
levels of renown, the total amount of experience
needed to achieve, and the size of their genetics
pool which the player characters have to work
with.

Notoriety Renown Experience Required Genetics Pool

Street Vigilante/Thug 1 0 325
Gun For Hire 2 500 355
Veteran Mercenary 3 2,500 385
Sovereign Icon 4 10,000 415
Global Legend 5 25,000 445

Above: The player renown overview table.

Credits or a regular citizen going about your daily life,

While both karma and renown
are certainly nice, they won’t
help keep a roof over your
character’s head or prevent
them from starving to death.
Credits are the universal go-to
currency in 2107 and are utilised
by all of the world’s major economies. Whether
you are a big business looking to make some trades
credits form the backbone of our society and are
the dividing factor between the haves and the
have-nots.
As the players continue to complete contracts
for various third parties, they should be suitably
rewarded with an adequate number of credits
relative to their current level of renown. Those
characters still looking to get their name out
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with patience and persistence, they will no doubt
establish themselves over time as a reliable asset
who can get a job done.
While rewards can differ quite drastically from job
to job, there should always be a logical pattern to
them. Is the task likely to require the players to
commit murder? Are they probably going to end
up using a large number of their consumables? Will
it need a good deal of their time to investigate and
carry out? All of these factors and more should
be carefully considered before arriving at a final
figure.
Several tables have been provided below to help
assist GMs with this matter. These should be able
to highlight and give a rough estimate of what
we believe are appropriate monetary rewards
for each character at the different stages of
renown. However, remember that these figures
are merely rough guidelines rather than outright
rules. As such, they can be freely adjusted based on
whatever type of job the GM is planning.

Reward
Example Situation
Modifier
Renown Base Reward Each encounter of substance. +10%
1 750 Each day after the first that the job was expected to last. +10%
2 1,500 Each combat encounter where the players were
+20%
outnumbered by at least 2:1.
3 3,000
All optional objectives were completed. +25%
4 6,000
Job was completed incredibly quickly/quietly. +25%
5 12,000
Job required the group to carry out morally grey actions. +25%
The players created unnecessary collateral damage. -25%

Above: The credit reward overview tables.

Chapter 5

Combat
With the general rules for Dystopia covered in
the previous chapter, we can now go ahead and
move on to each of the major game systems one by
one. To start with, we will cover combat, which,
depending on your GM’s game style, may very
well prove to be one of the more frequently used
systems.
As a general rule of thumb, combat should occur
whenever one individual or group makes a hostile
action towards another. This can often cover a
wide range of different activities, including moving
towards a target with menacing intent or simply
opening fire on them with a weapon of some kind.
Once combat has broken out, it should continue
to last until such a time arises whereby the GM
no longer deems it to be necessary. This could
include conditions or situations where one side
has decided to surrender to another or if all
opposing participants are either dead or rendered
unconscious.
represents a ten-second block of time in which
any fighting can occur. The GM can also progress
the narrative forward here, based on both the
various participants’ actions and the events that
have transpired as a result.
Each round is in itself, broken down into several
smaller slices, that we refer to as a turn. A turn
represents a single participant’s ability, to take
action and move around the combat area should
they so wish. Once the individual is done with their
current turn, we then move onto the next, and so
on until the round is considered to be over.
How we decide when each participant will be able
to take a turn and what actions they can perform
during one, will all be covered throughout the next
few sections. For now, the most important rule is
understanding that combat is broken up into both
rounds and turns and that each of these represents
two different things. A round is a ten-second block
of time, while a turn is a specific individual’s ability
to take action.

5.1 Turns, Rounds & the

Structure of Combat
While many types of situations in Dystopia are
left to unfold naturally in a very free-form state,
combat is instead intended to be delivered using a
more structured turn-based system.

Since many actions will often occur within an

incredibly short space of time, we need to slow
down how quickly each of these events transpires
one after the other. This will allow the GM to more
easily narrate how the action is currently unfolding
and give each player a better chance to understand
what exactly is happening around their character.

Rounds & Turns

Starting from the very top, all combat situations
are structured into a sequential series of rounds.
Each round transpires one after the other and
 First Round Start Second Round Start Third Round Start
Character A’s Turn Character B’s Turn Character B’s Turn
Character B’s Turn Character A’s Turn Character C’s Turn
Character A’s Turn Character C’s Turn Character D’s Turn
Character C’s Turn Character B’s Turn Character B’s Turn
Character B’s Turn Character A’s Turn Character C’s Turn
Character D’s Turn Character D’s Turn Character A’s Turn
First Round End Second Round End Third Round End

Above: A typical example of how the round structure might look

for a brief skirmish involving four characters.

Rolling For Initiative
Since all combat is performed in a turn-based
manner, we need a quick and reliable way
for determining the order in which each of its
participants will get to act. In Dystopia, we utilise
a mechanic called combat initiative to help resolve
this.
Performed at the very start of each round, combat
initiative looks to determine how quickly each
individual was able to react to their current
situation. Those characters who are gifted with a
more finely tuned set of reflexes will naturally find
that they can both act sooner than everybody else
and potentially achieve more throughout the entire
round.
scores to form a single total amount. This element
helps those with a sharper and more refined set of
reflexes and senses get the edge in the initiative
order over those who are a little more sluggish
and slower to react. Whatever this total is, it forms
the combat initiative score for that character in the
coming round.
For example, Mike is playing a tank character with
a Reflex attribute score of three and a Foresight
attribute score of four. Adding these two numbers
together makes for a total of seven. While this is
not exactly the lowest of amounts, it is also not all
that great either. He rolls a d10 that ends working
in his favour, landing on an eight. When added to
his attributes, this results in a combat initiative
score of 15 for the coming round of combat.

Combat Initiative Scores The Order of Combat

When a new round begins, the GM should call for
each participant to go ahead and calculate their
combat initiative score. Players will take care of
their own character, while the GM should instead
look to determine the initiative scores for any
participating NPCs.
To start with, roll a single d10. The result of this
dice roll will be used to determine a suitable
baseline for the character in question and help
introduce an element of randomness or chance
to the encounter. Without this component, the
same characters would likely appear at the top
every time, making combat feel predictable and
unchanged.
Taking this result, you then want to add both the
individual’s current Foresight and Reflex attribute
Taking each participant’s result from the combat
initiative roll, the GM should then go ahead and
create a list in descending order. This order will
prove to be very important for the coming round, as
it will determine both the sequence in which each
character will get to take their turns and how many
they may have overall.
Starting from the very top, whoever has the current
highest combat initiative score should get to be
the first to take one of their turns. This means that
they can choose to perform one or several different
types of actions to influence and change the
combat encounter to be more favourable towards
them and their allies. For examples of what actions
an individual could potentially choose to perform
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Once an individual’s turn is said to end, their Initiative Character’s Turn
combat initiative score is reduced by a total of ten.
Their place in the initiative order should be updated 21 Character A
as accordingly by the GM, and whoever is now at 17 Character B
the top of the list is said to be able to take their
next turn. If an individual scored much higher on 12 Character C
their combat initiative score than everyone else, it 11 Character A
is entirely possible that they could potentially take
multiple turns in quick succession, before the other 9 Character D
participants can adapt and react. 7 Character B
2 Character C
Once a character’s initiative score drops to
or below the zero mark, they are said to have 1 Character A
performed all their possible actions during this
round’s time frame. The GM should remove them
Above: An example of combat initiative for a single
from the initiative order, and they can no longer
round involving four different characters.
take any further turns for the remainder of the
round.
In the inevitable event that two or more different
participants have the same current initiative count,
When all participants of the encounter drop to this
it should fall onto the GM to decide who gets
zero threshold, and no-one is left standing in the
to go first. If all of the individuals are players, it
initiative order, the current round is said to finally
might be best to allow for them to decide amongst
end. A new one immediately begins thereafter,
themselves who wants to carry out their actions
requiring a fresh roll for combat initiative from
first. If however, the characters are from opposing
everyone who is still taking part. This process is
sides, then it may prove better to compare each
reiterated upon again and again until the GM finally
of their Reflex attribute scores and work in
deems that combat is no longer necessary given
descending order.
the context of the current situation.
Surprise
Sometimes a combat situation might suddenly
develop out of the blue. Perhaps one side has
attempted to lay an ambush or trap, for example,
to catch several others off-guard and in a state of
surprise. When such a situation arises, we need to
determine who out of the group was oblivious to
the ambush attempt and who could see it coming
just in the nick of time.
A surprise check is a specialist group check that
helps us achieve this very goal. Those ambushed
should each use a combination of their Foresight
+ Reflex attributes scores to help determine
the size of their dice pools. On the other side,
those attempting to perform the surprise itself
should instead use whichever skill is deemed most
suitable by the GM.
For example, if the group is trying to remain quiet
and hidden to get the jump on their intended
targets, then it would be entirely suitable for the
GM to rule that the Stealth skill should be used
here for the check. If, however, the ambushers
were pretending to be someone else, then it
would be more suitable for the GM to rule that the
Disguise skill should be used here instead.
With the results in hand, each character should
be compared separately on the defenders’ side
against the average combined result for all
aggressors. Those individuals who are being
ambushed, and are unfortunate enough to fail the
surprise check, are now considered to be surprised,
gaining all of its usual effects (see Status Effects,
page 233).

As a note to GMs, surprise is a potent tool that can massively shift the balance of
power in an encounter. A firefight that should have been a real challenge for the
party might suddenly become far more trivial. In contrast, an early skirmish that
should have been a breeze might unexpectedly become a bitter struggle to survive.

As a result, we always recommend giving some thought as to when surprise should be

awarded. Do not make it too easy for an individual to gain the element of surprise, as it
could very well end up trivialising each encounter they face.

Action Economy Standard Actions

So with combat initiative out of the way, an
important question still remains; what can a
character do on one of their turns? All combat
actions can be assigned to one of three different
categories. These are:
• Standard Actions - a greater activity.
• Reactive Actions - an activity which is
triggered in response to a nearby event.
• Free Actions - a trivial activity.
Each category has its own particular rules for use
and function. Some, like standard actions, have a
wide array of options to choose from, while others,
like free actions, are more limited in scope and
appeal. Regardless, when these three action types
are combined, they can often provide both NPCs
and player characters with many different ways to
influence and change the current combat situation
around them.
Standard actions are the go-to action type for most
kinds of activities. Anything that requires some
thought to be put into it, or is either physically or
mentally strenuous, will generally fall into this
category. They usually form the primary substance
of an individual’s turn due to their potency and
ability to affect other characters and the nearby
environment.
Each activity marked as being a type of standard
action will also have a particular numeric cost
associated with it. This cost will generally be
represented with a number icon, ranging from one
to three (i.e. Standard Action ). This amount is
known as the activity’s action point cost and forms
the virtual currency that limits what any particular
character can achieve on one of their turns.

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At the start of each of their turns, all participants,
whether they be player characters or NPCs, will
receive a total of three action points to spend as
they see fit. They can choose to use these action
points on various types of standard actions, with
any remaining leftover simply being lost once their
turn has been brought to a close.
Some types of standard actions can be performed
relatively quickly and, as a result, will only require
a single action point to be spent to complete them.
Other types of actions, however, may prove to be
more time-consuming and require a higher quantity
of action points to be sacrificed for their use.
Action Keywords
One last point that needs to be emphasised with
standard actions is the occasional presence of
certain select keywords. When displayed next to a
particular action (i.e. Standard Action
), additional rules are in place to help regulate
this type of activity’s usage. While some of these
keywords will be introduced in later chapters
where they are most relevant and more commonly
used, for now, at least, there are two main ones
that you should be aware of and try to understand.
Both the and demonstrate that
a particular activity is considered a type of physical
offensive action. While the former may look to fire
a weapon or directly strike a foe, the latter could
force them into an unfavourable fighting position
instead. Perhaps the target is left grappled and
restrained, or maybe they are disarmed by their
opponent, removing one of their weapons.
time in response to a particular event taking place
nearby.
For example, if a knife-wielding thug is currently
attacking a player character, the player could
potentially use a reactive action to try and dodge
out of the way. Their character attempts to quickly
read their opponent’s movements and body
language, gaining a bonus to their dice pool for any
checks made to try and defend against the thug’s
assault.
While reactive actions do not use action points or
contain keywords, characters are limited in how
often they can be carried out. Once an individual
has performed a reactive action, they cannot do so
again until the start of their next turn in combat.
This limitation reflects both the use of their time
and that their attention is already preoccupied
elsewhere, carrying out the activity they had
chosen prior.
Free Actions
Finally, there are free actions. This category
is reserved for any task or activity that is so
trivial that it should not require a check or have a
particular cost associated with it. Typical examples
of free actions could include a sentence or two
of dialogue with another character or making a
gesture to a nearby individual.
These actions can be carried out as frequently
as a character would like, and unless otherwise
stated, they can occur both during and outside of
an individual’s turn.

Regardless of what is happening here, both types

of activities are regarded as physically strenuous
for the individual attempting to perform them. As a
result, characters can carry out no more than one
, and one type action on any of
their given turns. The result of these restrictions
means that a character must resort to higher
recoil-based attacks if they wish to increase their
overall number of shots, while targets do not need
to worry about being chain disarmed or grappled
over and over again whenever they are engaged in
melee-based combat.

Reactive Actions
Reactive actions are another potential tool that
characters have at their disposal. Unlike standard
actions that must be taken on an individual’s own
turn, reactive actions can instead occur at any
5.2 Resource Pools
Regardless of the context for a particular situation,
when combat breaks out, the objective will usually
be for one side to either find a way of forcing their
opponents back or to win over them in an outright
victory.
Each participant has three different types of
resource pools associated with them. How
bountiful these resource pools are will determine
not just how healthy the character currently is, but
also how capable they might be when fighting in a
combat situation.
Each pool performs a different type of function
from one another and can be summarised as the
following:
• Hit Points - represents how physically
healthy the individual’s body is.
• Mental Stamina - represents how mentally
healthy the individual’s mind is.
• Shielding - indicates how much shielding
they have to absorb incoming damage.
Hit Points
Hit points are our first and
most valuable resource. These
serve as a base indication of
a character’s current state of
physical well-being. The higher
the current percentage of this
resource, the healthier they are
said to be.
As mentioned in the character creation chapter, a
given individual’s maximum number of hit points
is determined by their current endurance attribute
score. Each point in this attribute increases the size
of their hit points pool by four, though there can
be exceptions to this rule through the presence of
certain racial quirks (i.e. the Vorn).
Hit points are usually expended when a successful
body attack hits a character. The more powerful
this attack is, the greater the number of hit points
that will be lost. However, they can also be
expended through various other means, including
environmental hazards, man-made traps, and
infectious diseases.
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Damage Accumulation Penalties
As a character continues to suffer injuries due to
an ever-increasing cumulation of damage, they
might also notice that their ability to fight and
defend themselves also begins to diminish. After
all, someone fresh into a fight will generally prove
far more capable at combat than someone who is
nearing death’s door.
To represent this in the world of Dystopia, all
characters accumulate an ever-increasing penalty
to their dice pools as a more significant number of
their hit points are gradually depleted. Penalties
begin to take effect once 25% of their hit points are
lost and continue to get progressively more severe
for each additional 25% after that.
Hit Points
Dice Pool Modifiers
Lost
25% -1 on all checks.
50% -2 on all checks.
75% -3 on all checks.
100% -4 on all checks.
It is important to note that the above penalties do
not stack on top of one another. Any character who
has taken enough damage to receive a damage
accumulation penalty should use the modifier for
their current level of injury.
Dying
Once an individual’s hit points are completely
expended, the character is said to now be at risk
of dying (see Status Effects, page 233). While in
this vulnerable state, the character is forced prone,
has their movement speed reduced by half, and
can only spend a maximum of one action point for
standard actions on each of their turns.
Additionally, any damage a dying character
continues to take slowly chips away at their hit
points pool, moving it into ever-increasing negative
amounts. If these hit points happen to reach
negative half the character’s maximum or below,
their body bleeds out, and they inevitably flatline.
Any character who has entered this dying state
but has not yet reached the point of death can be
returned to a healthy condition. By providing them
with enough healing to increase their hit points
above zero or by using certain specialist items and
abilities, a dying individual will be able to rejoin the
fight once more.
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Mental Stamina
Next up, we have mental
stamina. This resource pool
indicates just how resilient an
individual’s mind truly is. The
lower this resource continues to
drop, the wearier a character is
said to become.
Whereas an individual’s Endurance attribute score
determines hit points, mental stamina is dictated
by their current amount of Will. Each point in this
attribute increases the size of their mental stamina
pool by four.
Mental stamina is an individual’s way of resisting
the effects of mind-based attacks and their
associated mental damage type. Such attacks
usually originate through the use of psionic
powers, though certain weapon types and
environmental conditions may also deal a small
amount of this damage. Extreme cold, for instance,
poses more than just a risk to an individual’s
health, reducing the effectiveness of their mind
too.
Mental stamina is particularly vital for those who
engage in the use of psionics for themselves. While
we will leave this for a more detailed discussion
in a later chapter, for the time being at least, it
is important to note that using such powers will
require a certain amount of mental stamina to be
drained each time.
When a character’s mental stamina drops to
zero or below, they are said to fall unconscious,
dropping prone if they can. Unlike a depletion of hit
points, however, they are not at immediate risk of
dying, though they are still susceptible to taking
further amounts of additional damage targeted by
an attack.
Characters who have entered such a state can
be brought back into consciousness again by
restoring their mental stamina above zero. Certain
specialist items can also perform this task and
could prove to be a valuable tool in a desperate
time of need. When all else fails, any individual left
in this unconscious state automatically returns to
one point of mental stamina after a period of 1d6
hours.
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Shielding
Finally, we have shielding.
Created through the use of
certain psionic powers, or
sometimes even by hi-tech
specialist equipment, shields
serve as a short-duration
damage blocker that can prevent
incoming attacks from depleting the character’s
other resources.
When a shielded character is struck by an attack
that would attempt to deal damage to their hit
points, it is instead first removed from their
shielding. This occurs before any resistances or
penetration come into play (a topic that will be
covered later), and with any leftover amount then
being applied as usual.
While shielding is often very short-lived due to the
sheer damage output of many weapons that exist
in today’s world, it does provide an inexpensive
way of protecting one’s other resources. These
would otherwise take a far larger amount of time
to heal and recover naturally, as well as to help
stave off the effects of damage accumulation
penalties.
Shielding does, however, provide one unique
benefit. Targets that are shielded are considered
to be far more resilient to the mind-based attacks
of others. Due to the presence of a strong energy
field, most powers of this nature will simply be
unable to take hold and carry out their desired
effects. The target is immune to mental-based
damage and cannot be affected by any power or
ability that requires an unshielded target.
This resource does not regenerate naturally,
as with hit points. Instead, it will last for a set
duration, usually dependant on how it was
originally formed. If two shields are placed onto
a single target, their resources should be able to
stack, though it is important to note that their
durations must be kept independent from one
another.
Shielding Underwater
While shielding equipment works perfectly
fine on dry land, most are not yet capable of
adequately sustaining a barrier while in aquatic
type environment. The shield simply does not have
enough energy to penetrate the liquid around an
individual, and then still have the capability of
absorbing external impacts and forces.
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As a result, characters who enter an aquatic
environment suppress any current shield they may
have for the duration they remain there.
5.3 Combat Actions
A character can attempt to perform many types
of actions during combat. Some of these may be
useful in most scenarios, while the effectiveness of
others might fluctuate depending on the situation
at hand.
Given everything mentioned in the Action Economy
section earlier in this chapter, combat actions
can be divided into two types; those that require
a standard action to use and those that utilise a
reactive one.
Below are two sections highlighting the most
common of these. However, it is important to note
that this is not a definitive list. Sometimes you
might wish to try something different or improvise
on the spot. When such a situation arises, you need
to communicate with your GM, as they will be able
to break down whether such a task is a) possible
and b) what checks (if any) will be required.

Standard Actions

Action Description
Attach Item Add-on Attaches an add-on onto one of the items in your inventory.
Attempts to deliver a deathblow to a dying or unconscious target within
Coup De Grâce
your reach.
Disarm Knock a weapon or other suitable item out of a target’s hand.
Eject Magazine/Ordinance
Ejects an empty magazine or used ordinance from an equipped firearm.

Heals a nearby individual, either to bring them back from near death, or to
First Aid
remove a negative status effect.
Grapple Grab a target individual.
Help Aid a nearby ally so that their actions can yield better results.
Hide Conceal yourself from others.
Distract and disrupt a nearby opponent so that their actions become less
Hinder
effective.
Insert Magazine/Ordinance
Inserts a new magazine or piece of ordinance into an equipped firearm.

Move about the combat environment to get into a more advantageous

Move
position.
Outmanoeuvre Attempts to dash through a nearby opponent’s space.
Perception/Examine Look around and study your surroundings to spot or identify something.
Poise Enter a stabilised stance to improve your aim.
Grabs hold of either an item or another individual off from the ground
Pick/Help Up
nearby.
Delays a standard action for it to be performed later on after a set
Ready Action
condition has been fulfilled.
Remove Item Add-on Removes an add-on from one of the items in your inventory.
Retreat Imposes a penalty on all reactive actions that attempt to target you.
Spend a small amount of time to carefully aim, gaining a +1 dice pool
Take Aim
bonus for your next attack.

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 Trip Knock another individual prone.
Unarmed Attack
Deals physical damage to a target through the sheer force of your body.
Use Item/Object Make use of an item for a specified purpose.
Use Psionic Power Channel a psionic based power to create a certain type of effect.
Attach Item Add-on
As a combat situation continues to develop,
you may find yourself requiring the use of an
attachment for one of your weapons. Perhaps
stealthiness has become a higher priority, and as
a result, you are strongly considering using a sound
suppressor.
By spending a standard action, you can attach a
single item add-on onto one of your weapons,
so long as it can support it. This task does not
require a check for it to be successful, though it
does require the use of a free hand.
Coup De Grâce
If a nearby individual is unconscious or currently
dying, you can grant them a swift death, putting
them out of their misery once and for all.
Providing the target is currently within your melee
reach; you can choose to make a single offensive
attack against them. If the attack damages the
target’s hit points, it immediately kills them
outright instead. This action’s cost is considered
the same as whichever offensive attack was
chosen to perform the deed.
Disarm
Disarming is the practice of knocking either a
weapon or an item out of an individual’s hands. So
long as they are within reach, anyone can spend a
standard action to attempt to knock a specific item
onto the ground.
When performing this action, the attacker should
make an opposing skill check using the dice pool
determined by their Unarmed Combat skill. On
the other hand, the target of this action should
attempt to defend themselves using a dice pool
determined by their Reflex and either Strength or
Finesse attribute scores (their choice).
If the attacker succeeds on the check, they can
select any item currently being wielded in the
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individual’s hands or is readily available at their
side. The item is said to be knocked from their
grasp, landing on the ground one meter away in a
random direction.
Eject Magazine/Ordinance
Whether it be removing an empty magazine or
flushing out the remnants of a previously used
ordinance, this standard action will allow you
to prepare a single firearm you have in your
possession to receive new ammunition.
While this action does not require a check to
succeed, it does require the individual to have one
hand currently free.
First Aid
First aid is the practice of providing emergency
medical treatment to those who are injured or in
desperate need of assistance. While anyone can
certainly attempt to perform such a task, it requires
suitable medical supplies to be available.
This standard action can be performed in three
separate ways, each achieving a different outcome.
These are; bringing someone back from near death,
ending a negative status effect early, or increasing
both hit points and mental stamina at the end of an
extended rest.
The first activity can be performed on any
biological individual who is currently in the process
of dying. Moving within your melee reach of them,
you can make a generic First Aid skill check with a
success target of three. If successful, the target
individual regains a number of hit points to bring
them back up to one.
The second type of activity can be performed
on a biological target currently suffering from a
negative status effect, which requires a periodic
check for it to end. By moving within your melee
reach of the target, the first aider can make a
generic First Aid skill check. Each pass achieved
here grants the individual a further die towards
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their dice pool for when they next attempt to end
the status effect. The effects of this action cannot
be stacked with other first aiders, and regardless
of the outcome achieved, the target cannot benefit
from this activity again for a further 24 hours.
Lastly, you can spend at least one hour looking
over the wounds and injuries of up to six biological
characters. When their next extended rest ends,
the first aider can perform a generic First Aid skill
check. Each pass achieved increases the number of
hit points and mental stamina that the wounded
individual regains by a further two. This effect
cannot be stacked, and targets should take the
result of whichever first aider initially performed
this task.
If the check takes place during an intense moment,
the GM may decide that the pressures of combat
may make these tasks more difficult to achieve.
As a result, the success target could be shifted, or
suitable modifiers can be added to compensate.
Grapple
A grapple is an attempt at subduing your opponent
using the sheer strength of your own body. By
making a grapple, you are physically trying to
restrain the target so that they have a much more
difficult time being able to act.
By spending a standard action, you can attempt
to grapple anyone else who is currently within
your melee reach, providing that you know of their
presence. This is an opposing skill check with the
aggressor using their Unarmed Combat skill to
determine the size of their dice pool. The target, on
the other hand, needs to make an attribute check
to resist this, using Reflex and their choice of either
Strength or Finesse attribute scores.
If the grappler wins the check, the target is now
considered grappled (see Status Effects, page
233). On each of the target’s turns, they can spend
a standard action to make another attempt at
the check, breaking free in the event of a success.
On each of the grappler’s turns, however, they can
choose to use a standard action to perform
another grapple on the same target. This time their
victim has a -2 dice pool penalty to the opposing
check, and if they fail, they are now also considered
to be restrained by the aggressor. This restraining
effect lasts until the grapple has been brought to
an end.
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Regardless of whether the target is currently being
restrained, you can only ever grapple one character
at any given time.
Variants
Grappling has a few potential variants which you
might want to choose instead when in certain
situations. These come in the form of push back,
push over, and push aside. The process of these
three is very much the same as above; however,
if the grappler succeeds, they can choose another
course of action instead.
Push back results in the target of the action being
forced back by up to two meters, push over knocks
the target prone where they currently stand, and
push aside forces the individual to move either left
or right by up to one meter, all at the discretion of
the aggressor.
It is important to note that all three of these
movements do not provoke opportunity attacks
from other individuals when used on an opponent.
This is due to the target being forced to move
against their own free will.
Help
Sometimes a challenge can present itself that is
so incredibly difficult that few individuals can hope
to overcome it purely by themselves. When such
a situation arises, you can attempt to help out an
ally, assisting them in this overwhelming task.
State the amount of time you wish to dedicate
towards this endeavour in the form of a suitable
action point cost. For each action point used here,
the character you want to assist gains a stacking
+1 dice pool modifier towards their next action, so
long as it takes place before the start of your next
turn.
GMs are free to award more significant bonuses
for creative and effective use of this aid and veto it
altogether if there is no practical way in which this
assistance could help reduce the task’s difficulty.
Hide
The Hide action is invaluable for characters looking
to conceal themselves from others. Whether in
a crowded street or an eerily quiet forest in the
middle of the wilderness, this action attempts to
make the best use of your surroundings to try and
remain hidden.
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By spending a standard action, you can attempt
to make an opposing Stealth skill check, with all
nearby opponents contesting this using the dice
pools of their Perception skill. Those who fail this
check lose all track of the character and can no
longer know their exact whereabouts.
To use the Hide action, an individual must either
find a heavily obscured location or have full cover
from their opponents.
Attacking While Hidden
Targets who lose track of a hidden character have
a harder time determining where their potential
attacks will be coming from. As a result, we
consider them less able to defend themselves and
suffer a -2 dice pool penalty to all defensive checks
against the individual’s attacks.
However, unless the hidden target utilises a flash
suppressor or an otherwise similar type of item
add-on, any attacks made will reveal themselves
to nearby others. For the sake of weaponry which
involves multiple attacks, targets continue to
suffer their defensive dice pool penalty until the
last attack of the salvo has been completed.
Hinder
If a particular opponent is proving to be especially
potent and deadly on the battlefield, you may
decide that it would be best to try and hamper their
ability to perform certain actions and attacks. By
using a standard action, you can spend some of
your own time to distract or otherwise disrupt the
target, reducing their effectiveness at undertaking
a particular type of task.
State the amount of time you wish to dedicate
towards this endeavour in the form of a suitable
action point cost. For each action point used
here, the character you are attempting to hamper
suffers a stacking -1 dice pool penalty towards
each of their actions that take place before the
start of your next turn.
As when choosing to help an ally, GMs are free to
shift this penalty based on the current situation at
hand. Effective use of this action could yield more
significant modifiers. Likewise, other predicaments
could also reduce or remove them altogether when
it is unlikely that the target could reasonably be
inhibited from performing their desired task.
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Insert Magazine/Ordinance
No doubt, sooner or later, one of your firearms will
require a refill of ammunition to get back into a
fight. This standard action allows you to insert a
fresh magazine or piece of ordinance into one of
your weapons, allowing it to be utilised once again.
Like with ejecting ammunition, this action does not
require a check to succeed; however, it does require
the individual to have one hand free currently.
Move
As its name suggests, this action allows you
to move from your current position, relocating
to another within range nearby. A character’s
current movement speed score usually dictates the
amount of space they can traverse during a round
of combat.
However, any movement carried out by this action
can be broken up into several smaller chunks,
with other activities taking place in between. For
example, a character with a movement speed of
ten meters could potentially move six of this, fire at
a group of enemies with an assault rifle, and then
move back four meters to find some cover.
Outmanoeuvre
When you need to make your way through
an opponent’s space but don’t have the
necessary unarmed combat skills, you can try
outmanoeuvring them instead. Whether by slipping
through their legs or quickly passing around their
side, this action determines which of you two has a
better set of reflexes.
By spending a standard action, you may choose
one target you are currently standing next to.
Make an opposing Finesse + Reflex attribute check,
contested against the dice pool of the target’s
Foresight + Reflex attribute scores. In the event
of a success, you can immediately pass through the
target individual’s space once, as if it were difficult
terrain.
Perception/Examine
Sometimes you may wish to locate a hidden target.
On other occasions, you might want to gain a better
understanding of the surrounding environment
that you are currently in.
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By spending a standard action, you can make
either a generic Perception or Intuition skill check,
depending on what you are trying to achieve.
Looking around to gather information on your
current surroundings will use the Perception skill,
while trying to study an item or object in closer
detail will utilise Intuition instead.
If hidden objects and/or opponents are present in
the nearby vicinity, this check should be considered
an opposing one. Each individual attempting to
remain hidden should use their Stealth skill to form
the dice pool for their side of the check. Those that
fail against the perceiving character are said to be
revealed to them and no longer benefit from being
hidden.
Poise
The Poise action is helpful for those who want
pinpoint accuracy at a distance. By moving your
body into a more stabilized stance, you hope to
reduce the effects of recoil when firing a weapon
repeatedly.
By spending a standard action, you can steady your
body so that all recoil penalties are reduced by one.
While this benefit lasts for as long as you remain
in this stance, any amount of movement you take
should cost double its usual amount.
This task does not require a check for it to succeed,
and the stance can either be ended as a free action
on one of your turns or whenever you have been
forcibly knocked prone by the actions of another.
Pick/Help Up
Whether you are looking to pick up a weapon
from a disarmed opponent or help up one of your
teammates, the Pick/Help Up action will allow you
to grab ahold of something nearby.
The target of this action must currently be within
your melee reach, and if they are a character, they
must also be willing. Once helped up, the individual
is no longer considered prone, standing upright
once more at their current location. Items that are
picked up in this way can either be added to your
inventory or be equipped and ready for future use.
Ready Action
Sometimes you may find yourself in a predicament
whereby there is no clear indication of what action
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you should take. You may have been confronted
by a mysterious stranger, who you are not quite
sure is either a friend or a foe, or all enemies in the
combat area are hidden behind a superior amount
of cover.
Readied actions allow an individual to delay a
standard action for now so that it can be used later
on, before the start of their next turn. Reading
an action immediately consumes all three of a
character’s action points to carry out a particular
activity with a reactive action.
Start by stating the condition in which the readied
action should be triggered. While you do not need
to state the action you wish to take, the condition
must be clear and direct. If this condition is met
before the start of your next turn, you can take a
reactive action to perform any standard activity
immediately.
Once this task has been completed, anyone
interrupted by the readied action can continue
taking the remainder of their turn. It should be
noted, however, that failure for the condition
to arise before the start of your next turn does
not allow for a different course of action to take
place. The action points that were previously spent
readying yourself are simply lost.
Remove Item Add-on
Combat situations can change without warning,
often requiring a switch-up of tactics as priorities
are swiftly readjusted. Since item add-ons can
prove to be more or less useful in different
situations, it is only natural that you may wish to
change them out as a combat encounter continues
to evolve.
By spending a standard action, you can remove a
single item add-on from one of your weapons. This
task does not require a check for it to be successful,
though it does require the use of a free hand.
Retreat
When the odds are very much against you, falling
back to try and regroup is often the smartest move
you can make. Of course, when you are giving it
all you’ve got on the front lines, it can often prove
quite challenging to try and withdraw safely.
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This standard action allows you to disengage
from the fight cautiously. Perhaps you throw your
opponents off-guard through a feigning manoeuvre
beforehand, or maybe you attempt to hurl a nearby
object in their direction to throw them off balance.
Regardless of what it is, you gain a +3 dice pool
modifier to all of your defensive checks whenever
being targeted as a result of another individual’s
reactive action.
This bonus lasts until the start of your next turn.
Take Aim
When accuracy is paramount, it might be wise to
use a small amount of your time to aim your next
attack more carefully. Whether it be studying the
current strength and direction of the wind or giving
your opponent a quick once over on where best it
might be to land your hits, this standard action can
help raise your overall accuracy.
By taking aim, you gain a non-stacking +1 dice pool
bonus to your next attack action, so long as it takes
place before the end of your next turn. If the action
in question involves using multiple attacks, then
this bonus is applied to each of them. Unlike when
using Poise, however, the benefits of aiming are
said to immediately end once you move from your
current position.
Trip
As its name would suggest, the Trip action
allows a character to try and knock their target
prone to make them more susceptible to further
melee-based attacks.
Targeting a single individual who is currently within
their melee reach, the aggressor should make an
opposing attribute check utilising both Foresight
+ either Strength/Reflex (their choice of which).
Meanwhile, the target of the trip attempt should
attempt to defend themselves, using a combination
of Endurance + either Strength/Reflex (again with
the choice of attributes being their own).
On failing this check, the target of the trip attempt
is knocked prone where they currently stand, while
on a success, they can simply stand their ground.
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Unarmed Attack
An unarmed attack involves striking out at another
individual using only the sheer power of your own
body. While not as effective as a blade or firearm,
sometimes you may find yourself in a combat
situation without a weapon ready at hand.
Like most attacks, this task will involve an
opposing skill check. The attacker should use
their Unarmed Combat skill to form the size of
their dice pool, while the defender should use a
combination of their Endurance + Reflex attribute
scores for their own. If the attacker is successful
on the check, the attack is considered a hit.
Unarmed attacks have a base weapon damage
equal to half the Strength attribute score of the
character who is making the attack, and as one
would expect, its damage type is considered
physical. The number of attacks the individual can
make when choosing this activity equals the total
action point cost.
Use Item/Object
By far the most diverse of the different actions.
Use Item/Object covers everything from
manipulating a nearby computer terminal to
utilising equipment to fulfil a specific purpose.
This includes firing a gun, activating a barrier, or
throwing a grenade towards a group of enemies.
Most items list one or multiple standard actions
they can help perform. All you need to do is choose
whichever you want to utilise by performing the
Use Object action.
Use Psionic Power
While the use of psionics and its powers will
be detailed in a later chapter, it is important
to note that most will require a type of action.
Most powers will make use of a standard action;
however, there are a select few which require a
reactive action instead.
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Reactive Actions

Action Description
Attack of Opportunity Take an offensive action against an individual who is trying to move away.
Make a series of evasive manoeuvres to gain a +2 dice pool bonus against the
Dodge
melee attacks of others.
Drop to the ground prone, gaining a +2 dice pool bonus against incoming
Drop Prone
ranged attacks.
Perception/Examine Look around and study your surroundings in response to another’s action.
Use Item/Object Make use of an item for a specified purpose.
Use Psionic Power Channel a psionic based power to create a certain type of effect.

Attack of Opportunity your opponent’s movements to try and reduce the

likelihood that their attacks will be able to connect.
An attack of opportunity describes the act of one
individual attempting to attack another as the
target is trying to fall back and move out of their Like with certain other actions, dodging does not
melee reach. When such a condition occurs, the require a skill check to succeed. Instead, by merely
static individual can take a reactive action to carry using the Dodge action, you gain a +2 dice pool
out this action immediately. modifier on all checks made to defend against the
melee-based attacks of others. This bonus lasts
until the start of your next turn.
Choose any standard action that you so wish.
So long as you are physically able to perform
this activity, and the GM considers it a valid type Drop Prone
of offensive action, you may use it against the
While the act of dodging can often help boost your
triggering character. This means that, for example,
defences against incoming melee attacks, the
both the Disarm and Grapple actions are valid
Drop Prone action is better suited for protecting
types of attacks of opportunity, in addition to Use
a character from a barrage of ranged fire.
Item/Object.

By taking a reactive action, you can immediately

While ranged weapons can be used for attacks of
throw yourself onto the ground wherever you are
opportunity, the usual penalty for making a ranged
currently standing. No skill checks are required
attack with someone nearby continues to take
for it to be successful, and you are now said to be
effect if you are within the target’s melee reach
prone, gaining all of the usual effects that come
at the time of firing.
with it.

Although it might not make complete logical

sense, for balancing reasons, it is recommended
that attacks of opportunity should not be usable
against individuals who are forced to move against
their will. This should include effects like a target
being forced back due to a blast from a nearby
explosion or perhaps a psionic power which
attempts to push the target across the ground.
Perception/Examine
While primarily used as a type of standard action,
Perception/Examine also has the potential to be
used as a reactive one as well. When an event
occurs nearby, such as a hidden target firing on you
or an ally, it is understandable that you may wish
to look around and try to spot the attack’s origin.

Dodge Using a reactive action, you can perform a

Perception or Intuition skill check on the nearby
When faced with an incoming melee attack, you
surrounding area.
can use a reactive action to perform a dodge
manoeuvre. This means that you focus your
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Use Item/Object
Certain items and weapons can also have reactive
actions that can be used in response to the events
that are occurring nearby. A sword, for example,
has the potential to parry and riposte the melee
attack of others. When said conditions arise, you
can take a reactive action to carry out the item’s
stated activity.
Use Psionic Power
A few select psionic abilities work based on the
events currently transpiring around their caster.
When such conditions arise, you can take a reactive
action to use that ability like you would any other.
5.4 Making an Attack
Making some form of an attack is undoubtedly
one of the most common types of action in many
tabletop games. This certainly remains true in the
world of Dystopia as well. Whether attempting to
hit someone with a club or eradicate them with
a machine gun, you will need to know how the
process of attacking a target works.
While there are several different steps that you
will likely need to work through here, they have all
been laid out as small, easy-to-digest, bite-sized
chunks. This should allow players and GMs to
follow through with the process and understand
what they should do due to their chosen actions.
Making a Single Target Based
Attack
Starting with the absolute basics, we will look at
what happens when one character would like to
attack another. Certainly, this will prove to be the
most common of combat manoeuvres, and as it
just so happens, it also serves as a good starting
point for going through the attacking process.
Step 1 - Determining Your Target
All attacks require a suitable target to take place.
This could be an opponent flaying wildly at all
those approaching him or simply a barricaded door
blocking the way forward.
Each weapon has a range that is associated with it.
Melee weapons are simple enough in that they can
strike at any target within the melee reach of the
person currently wielding it. Firearms and other
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sorts of ranged weapons, however, all list a short,
medium, and long-ranged statistic.
While we will go into more detail about what
exactly these numbers mean in a later section, for
now at least, it is adequate to know that a ranged
weapon can engage with any target who is at or
below its stated long-ranged distance. The further
the target is away from you, however, the more
difficult the shot will be to try and pull off.
Additionally, the attacking individual must also
have a clear line of sight between themselves and
their intended target. Whether the target is hiding
behind partial cover or perhaps being obscured by
a small number of objects in the line of fire, so long
as some of the target’s body area is currently being
exposed, the attack can go ahead and take place.
Step 2 - Calculating Base Dice Pools
With a target now selected, we can proceed to
work out the initial dice pool sizes on both the
attacking and defending sides for the coming
check. To do this, we must first determine which
skills and attributes will be most relevant to the
action taking place.
On the attacker’s side, we should start by asking
ourselves, what type of weapon is being used
here? Is it a club, bow, assault rifle, minigun?
Each of these weapons can be associated with a
particular skill. Clubs, for example, are governed
by the Melee Weapons skill, while an assault rifle
should fall under Guns: Automatics. Whichever
skill is most related to the weapon being used here
shall determine the initial size of the aggressor’s
dice pool.
Meanwhile, the defender should direct their
attention towards their current attribute scores.
Usually, they should determine their dice pool’s
initial size by adding together their Endurance
and Reflex attribute scores. Certain attacks can
sometimes use two other attributes instead,
though this should always be clearly stated on the
attack or action if that is to be the case.
Step 3 - Determining Situational Modifiers
With the initial size of our dice pools having been
determined, we can now decide whether there are
any situational or environmental factors which
should alter the difficulty of the task at hand.
Elements such as cover, for example, might grant
a bonus towards the defender, whereas them
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being attacked while surprised would likely issue
a penalty instead.
As a general rule of thumb, we always try to modify
the character’s dice pool that will cause the least
number of re-rolls. If a situation only affects
one target (i.e. the presence of cover), then the
modification to a dice pool should occur on the
defender’s side of things. If, however, it is a factor
which could affect each target of a given attack
(i.e. firing a gun with an enemy nearby,) then the
change should instead occur on the aggressor’s
end.
The GM will usually state what factors they believe
are currently in effect for this roll and allocate any
suitable modifiers based on it. The players are free
to make their case if they think something may
have been missed or overlooked, but the GM should
always get the final say.
Step 4 - Checking Whether the Attack
Hits
Now that we have determined both the attacker’s
and defender’s dice pools, we can go ahead and roll
to see the outcome of the attack.
If the aggressor scores more passes than
the defender for the check, then the attack is
considered a hit. If, however, the check went in
the target’s favour, then the attack was unable
to connect and is deemed a miss. When such an
outcome occurs, the process is considered to be
over, and no further steps are required for us to
undertake.
Step 5 - Calculating the Base Damage
With the attack being ruled as a hit, we can now
calculate its base damage. This is usually quite
simple enough, as each weapon should list a
damage statistic and the roll needed to determine
it. Make that roll, and keep a note of the result.
Remember, if you are using a ranged weapon,
then certain types of ammunition can augment
and change the statistics of its base weapon. As a
result, always remember to include these changes
when determining your attack’s damage.
Step 6 - Applying Damage Modifiers
Finally, with the base damage ready, all we need to
do now is decide whether any factors could modify
this amount. Generally speaking, this will usually
come down to a character’s damage resistance,
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though specialist traits and quirks can also affect
certain situations.
While the topic of damage resistance will be
thoroughly discussed later on in this chapter, the
more resistance an individual has to a specific
damage type, the greater its impact will be
reduced.
Making an Area Attack
Not all attacks only affect a single target, however.
In a world of rapid-fire weapons, psionics, and
explosives, there are plenty of opportunities
whereby an attack could potentially inflict damage
to a wide area of effect.
In most circumstances, the process of making
an area-based attack is very similar to the norm.
The main difference, however, is that rather than
rolling against a single opponent, the attacker
is, instead, rolling against each individual who
happens to be within the targeted region.
If an attack is intended to hit multiple targets,
it should clearly state both the size and type of
region in which it will spread. Typically these will
come in one of three different varieties; either a
cubic area, a cone or a radius.
Cubic-based Attacks
Starting with the first of our area types are
cuboid-like regions with a set length, depth, and
height. These represent the amount of space the
effect will take up in all three axes that make up
three-dimensional space.
Sometimes a cubic area can originate outwards
from the source of the attack, heading in a given
direction based on whichever way the aggressor
is currently facing. Typically, these occur with
beam-like weapons and powers that travel along
a very thin but long straight line.
On other occasions, cubic areas can sprout into
existence at a target location near their caster as
if they have been conjured from the very air itself.
These regions tend to come in all sorts of shapes
and sizes, with some being tall long and thin and
others being more balanced overall.
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 • A narrow impact zone, three meters in width,
extending from its source of origin to 10
= Origin of attack meters away.
• A medium impact zone, six meters wide,
extending from 10 to 20 meters away.
• A wide impact zone, nine meters wide,
One-meter wide beam extending from 20 to 30 meters away.

As the attack continues to travel further

outwards, it should lose some of its strength and
vigour. While the attack or ability does cover a
progressively larger amount of space (and can,
therefore, potentially hit more targets,) the same
One-meter amount of material or ordinance is now becoming
wide beam ever more finely spread.
Two-meter
wide beam
To reflect this in the game, each impact zone
grants a different-sized dice pool modifier to
Above: Examples of cubic-based area attacks. the defensive rolls made by their targets. These
modifiers remain static for all cone-based attacks,
regardless of the given context or type of weapons
Cone-based Attacks
system used.
Cone-based attacks always originate outwards
from their source of origin, steadily growing in
size as they continue to move further afield. Impact Zone Target’s Dice Pool Modifier
Typically, these occur with scattershot and Narrow +0
flame-thrower-type weaponry, though there are
other occasions whereby they might also be used. Medium +2
Wide +4
Since plotting out large cones on a tabletop can
often be a slow and arduous process, Dystopia
has opted instead to make cone-based attacks
consist of three different-sized rectangular areas.
Often referred to as the narrow, medium, and wide = Origin of attack
impact zones, these sections will each have their
own length and width to help determine which
targets should fall inside each.

As a result, all cone-based attacks will specify two

key components; range and spread. The first will
determine the length of each of the three different
impact zones, while the second will specify their
width. Both components are presented as three
distinct numbers (i.e. x/y/z) representing the
respective dimensions of each zone.
Narrow Medium Wide
Impact Impact Impact
For example, a cone-based attack with a range of
Zone Zone Zone
”10/20/30 m” and a spread of ”3/6/9 m” will be
structured as follows:

Above: An example of a cone-based attack.

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Radius-based Attacks
Lastly, there are radius-based attacks. As one can
probably guess based on their name, these regions
are formed from a single sphere whose size is
determined by a set radius.
Areas of this kind typically originate in two forms;
either from an explosive detonating at a target
location or a sudden pulse that travels outwards
from a particular source or character.
One-meter
radius sphere
Two-meter
radius sphere
Above: Examples of radius-based attacks.
Selecting a Target Area
With the type of area attack now known and ready
at hand, we can move on to select a suitable target
location in which we wish to conduct the chosen
activity. Certain area-based abilities, like cones
and beams, always originate outwards from their
source of origin. As such, these attacks require us
to specify a directional vector, in which they should
continue to travel along for their stated distance.
However, other types of area-based effects
may ask you to select a target location within
a specified range. In these instances, you are
required to choose any suitable point within the
combat area, so long as it meets all of the stated
requirements for the ability in question. This could
specify, for example, that you must currently have
a line of sight with the chosen target or that there
is enough space to comfortably fit the ability’s
entire volume.
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Targets that are only partially within a chosen area
of effect can only be considered a valid target if at
least half of their total surface area is inside the
volume.
Scatter
To finally round off the topic of area-based attacks,
you may occasionally encounter the term scatter
throughout the rules of this book. Typically used
with certain weapon types like hand grenades
and launchers, scatter is a system whereby a
character’s attack may veer off from their intended
target location.
Whenever an individual utilises a weapon system
that indicates that it has scatter, we must first
determine the point of impact in which the fired
ordinance will land before undertaking any of
the previously mentioned steps. To do this, the
character performing the attack should make
a generic skill check, utilising whichever skill is
deemed most appropriate by the GM. This means
that a hand grenade, for example, should require
using an individual’s Thrown Weapons skill, while
a launcher would instead be reliant upon Guns:
Heavy Weapons.
With a success target of four, the ordinance is said
to land precisely where intended if the character
succeeds on their check. If, however, the check
results in a failure, we now need to determine both;
how far and in which direction the attack veers off
towards.
To determine the direction, we should proceed
to roll a scatter die. Whichever direction the die
lands on is the vector in which the ordinance
is considered to travel. If you do not happen
to have a scatter die available, an alternative
arrangement could be to roll a d8, with each
number representing a different direction of an
eight-sided compass.
Calculating the distance, however, depends more
on the type of weapon being used and the range
at which it is being fired. Grenades, for example,
can only really be thrown a fraction of the distance
of a missile launcher. As a result, these weapons
should incur a smaller margin of error for each
pass that the check was off by.
To calculate this total distance, a table has been
provided below to show the margin of error for
each of the various weapons types regularly
affected by scatter. All values shown are on a
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per-pass basis at each of the three range bands
the weapon can be fired at.
Margin of Error
Weapon System
(Per Pass)
Hand Grenades 2 m/3 m/4 m
Grenade Launchers 2 m/4 m/6 m
Missile/Torpedo Launchers 3 m/6 m/9 m
For example, a character who wants to hurl a hand
grenade towards a target location must make a
generic Thrown Weapons skill check with a success
target of four. They roll their dice and succeed on
the check, resulting in the grenade landing exactly
where they intended. A few rounds go by, and they
want to attempt performing this same action again.
They roll their dice but, unfortunately only manage
to score two passes this time.
A scatter die is rolled, which points west, and we
work out that since the grenade was being thrown
at a medium range, it will veer off six meters from
where it was intended to land. We move the target
location six meters due west, arriving at the actual
destination of where the grenade landed. We can
now proceed with the remainder of the attack as
per usual, hopefully without too many unintended
casualties.
5.5 Combat Events &
Modifiers
With the basics of how to make an attack covered,
we can now introduce many of the different types
of events and modifiers you might expect during
your endeavours. Perhaps a group of opponents
have taken refuge behind some nearby cover,
or maybe instead, a member of your party has
emptied their current magazine and now needs to
reload.
Regardless of what it might be, certain conditions
and events will affect both the gameplay and the
dice rolls you will be making during combat. Some
of these might prove to be a bonus towards the
character undertaking the action, while others may
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serve as a negative. This section looks to explore
the common most of these events and modifiers
and explain how they should be handled by the GM
and their players at the table.
Cover
Most of the time, you want to avoid being left out
in the open and exposed during combat. Not only
does this make for a character to be more easily
seen, but so too will they become much more
vulnerable to the attacks of others.
It is only natural, therefore, that most individuals
will try to use the nearby terrain to their
advantage. After all, a target with a smaller
exposed surface area will naturally prove harder
to hit than those who are currently standing still
and out in the open. The more cover someone has,
the greater the challenge it will be for others to try
and hit them with offensive actions.
When an individual is said to be in a position
of cover, the GM will determine which of the
three types best describes their current level of
protection. These are:
• Partial Cover - The character has a moderate
amount of cover, usually somewhere in the
region of about half their total surface area.
All checks made to defend against the attacks
of others gain a +2 dice pool modifier.
• Heavy Cover - With over three-quarters of
their surface area hidden, the character is
only just about visible to their opponents. All
checks made to defend against the attacks of
others gain a +4 dice pool modifier.
• Full Cover - The individual is fully covered
and cannot be directly targeted by others.
While cover is not exclusively limited to the use of
ranged weapons, it will generally be much more
of a common occurrence than when engaging in
hand-to-hand combat. Additionally, cover can
provide varying amounts of protection when
facing off against multiple different attackers. One
character might only see a slither of their target’s
body, while another currently flanking behind them
might not be impeded by the cover at all.
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Attacking Through Cover
If a target is hunkered down with no obvious
way to circumvent its cover, it might simply be
easier to attempt attacking through it. All cover,
whether it be a house door or a concrete wall,
can be destroyed, providing that you have enough
firepower at your disposal. How challenging this
Type of Material
Weak/Fragile (standard glass, a canvas painting, shoji.)
Average (simple doors, cheap furnishings, drywall, a corpse.)
Durable (computer terminals, thick or hardened wood, heavy furniture.)
Dense (security doors, a brick wall, protective glass.)
Armoured/Reinforced (reinforced concrete, metal beams.)
Like any other type of target, all materials should
have a number of hit points and a certain level
of damage resistance. Each time the material is
attacked, you should apply its resistances to the
incoming damage and deduct the appropriate
number of hit points. Once these hit points are
reduced to zero, the material is said to give way,
exposing the target again. Attacks that fully
penetrate the material but still have some damage
left over could, at the GM’s discretion, target those
behind it.
ends up being, however, will depend greatly on the
type of material you are looking to penetrate.
All materials can generally be grouped into one of
five different categories. Each of these is based on
the durability of the object in question and can be
summarised as the following:
Damage
Hit Points
Resistances
1 1
5 4
10 6
20 8
40 12
Since different materials can often have wildly
contrasting properties from one to another, it
is up to the GM to decide upon both; how large
of an area is affected by each attack, as well as
the variation to its resistances for any particular
damage type. Wood, for example, might be less
resilient to heat-based damage, and as a result, the
GM could rule that it only provides half its stated
amount of damage resistance instead.
Long Range Penalties
Firing a weapon at a long distance can be quite
challenging. Whether it be due to high wind speeds,
the curvature of the planet, or obstructions being in
the way, a multitude of potential factors can hinder
such an attack.
Most ranged weapons and abilities should
list a range statistic as x/y/z. These three
numbers detail the maximum short, medium, and
long-distance ranges for that particular ordinance.
For example, if we had a particular weapon listed
as ”6/12/18 m”, then this would mean that any
attempt to fire it at a target six meters away or less
would be considered short-range. However, if the
attack were being made at a range of ten meters, it
would be regarded as at a medium range instead.
Ranged attacks that are made at short range are
considered to be the go-to standard. All statistics
and attributes for checks and dice rolls are based
around this distance, and as such, they do not
suffer any kind of penalty.
Medium-ranged attacks begin to put some distance
between the aggressor and their intended target.
As a result, the shot is slightly more challenging to
pull off, and thus the attacker suffers a -2 dice pool
penalty on all checks made to see whether it hits.
Finally, there are long-ranged attacks. These shots
start to get close to the ordinance’s maximum
possible firing distance. They are challenging
to pull off, and as a result, the attacker suffers
a -4 dice pool penalty on all checks made to see
whether they hit.
An important point to note is that the above
penalties do not stack on top of one another. You
should always use whichever range penalty is
most relevant and discard the rest.
Ranged Attacks With Nearby
Opponents
Keeping a steady aim and maintaining enough
concentration to fire at a distant target is enough
of a challenge as it is. Still, when you also have
opponents who are trying to take a swing at you,
this task becomes increasingly more difficult to
do so. Whether they are blocking your line of fire,
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disrupting your focus, or merely trying their best to
knock your weapon out of the way, there are many
simple methods that a nearby individual can use to
make a ranged attack even more of a challenge.
To reflect this on the gaming table, we implement
a stacking dice pool penalty on all ranged attacks.
For each able-bodied opponent whose melee reach
currently encompasses the attacking individual,
there will be an additional -1 dice pool penalty on
attempts made to try and hit with attacks. This
penalty occurs regardless of whether or not these
characters are the target of the attack, so long as
they are both conscious and are not restrained.
Recoil and Firing in Salvos
There are many types of weapons in the world of
today that can unload a vast quantity of projectiles
in an incredibly short space of time. When dealing
with said weapons, a few additional factors could
come into play. These are; recoil and the ability to
switch through multiple targets.
Recoil
Recoil is the term used to describe just how
much force or kickback is generated when firing
a weapon. While this is not an issue when firing a
single shot, it does begin to complicate the process
of aiming when engaging in a series of bursts.
Different weapons will, of course, generate varying
quantities of this recoil. Some have had hundreds,
if not thousands, of working hours spent on
research and development to perfect their design,
while others have simply been made by the lowest
bidder to generate the most profit.
Whenever a weapon attack lists a recoil statistic,
it means that the character performing this action
will receive a dice pool penalty when attempting to
hit. This penalty equals one die per point of recoil,
and generally speaking, the more shots fired by the
attack, the higher this penalty will become.
Recoil can, however, be mitigated through various
means. For example, taking the Poise action
beforehand can prepare one’s body to withstand
these forces. Add-ons can also be equipped onto
a weapon that will help absorb the recoil before it
travels through into the person’s body.
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Reloading
It is inevitable that regardless of how conservative
a character is with their ammunition, a time will
eventually come whereby they will need to reload
their weapon. While this process is most definitely
a simple one, it will require a small amount of time
for an individual to complete it.
The act of reloading itself can be done by
combining the Eject Magazine/Ordinance and
Insert Magazine/Ordinance standard actions.
Expended ammunition is first pulled out of a
given weapon system, after which a suitable
replacement is then added back in. The main
question, however, is when does this action need
to take place?
While Dystopia could have been designed with the
idea of players and the GM having to count bullets
and keep track of any ammunition that is expended,
it was decided instead to go for a system which is a
little more practical and streamlined. Each type of
attack that consumes some amount of ammunition
(whether that is one or multiple rounds) should list
a reload statistic. Whenever this action is carried
out, the character making the attack should roll
a d10 once the outcome of the activity has been
concluded.
If the die lands on a number greater than or equal
to the action’s reload statistic, then the weapon is
still good to go and can continue to make further
attacks. If, however, the die lands on a number that
is less than this stated amount, the weapon has
either expended its current ammunition, jammed
or perhaps suffered a mechanical malfunction
(whichever is most appropriate to the situation
and narrative). Either way, the firearm must be
reloaded before it can be used again.
Attacks that consume more substantial quantities
of ammunition will naturally have a higher
number listed as their reload value. As a result,
by using such potent attacks, you will incur an
increased chance that the weapon will consume
the remaining ammunition within. Attacks with
reload value listed as ”A” are always intended to
require reloading after every use.
Targeted Attacks
Sometimes, you may want to do more than deal
damage with one of your attacks. You may want
to make an opponent drop the detonator rigged
to blow up some nearby explosives, or you may
want to slow down a fleeing target before they can
escape out of your line of sight. Whatever it might
be, targeted attacks can allow a character to spice
up their offensive actions, allowing them to inflict
additional types of effects.
Each type of targeted attack comes with two
distinct components. The first is the modifier
which will be applied to the aggressor’s dice pool
when choosing to make this kind of attack, while
the second is a rundown of any additional effects
that will occur upon being successful. Different
targeted attacks will prove to be more or less
useful in certain types of situations, and as such,
careful consideration should be taken as to when
and where you might want to perform them.
To perform a targeted attack, an individual needs
to state which one they would like to undertake
before they check to determine whether or not
the attack was successful. While only one type
of targeted attack can be made for each swing
of a melee weapon or shot fired from a firearm,
multiple different ones can be chained together
when choosing to perform multiple attacks (i.e.
firing in a salvo or dual-wielding).
Lastly, it is important to note that targeted attacks
can only be used when engaging with a single
opponent. Area-based attacks, whether they be
the firing of a grenade launcher or the use of a
scattershot, cannot benefit from using a targeted
attack.
Arm Shot
Attack Modifier: -3
Targeting an individual’s arm, you attempt to get
them to drop whatever they currently hold. If
successful, halve the number of hit points lost
by the attack (after applying damage resistances
and penetration), but the target must also make a
generic Endurance + Strength attribute check.
With a success target equal to the number of hit
points lost, the character is said to lose their grip in
the event of a failure. The item immediately drops
to the ground, landing one meter away in a random
direction.
Bull’s Eye
Attack Modifier: -4
Aiming at an automation’s sensor array, or an
individual’s eye socket, you attempt to temporarily
reduce their ability to perceive their current
surroundings. If the attack succeeds, the target
must make a generic Endurance + Strength
attribute check.
With a success target equal to half the number of
hit points lost, the target is considered partially
blinded in the event of a failure (see Status Effects,
page 233). This effect lasts until the individual next
regains some of their lost hit points.
Fighting Dirty
Attack Modifier: -4
Whether it be a shot to the groin or a punch to
the Adam’s apple, you attempt to damage your
opponent and leave them feeling worse off and
impaired. If the attack succeeds, the target must
make a generic Endurance + Strength attribute
check.
With a success target equal to half the total
number of hit points lost, the target is considered
impaired until the end of the next round in the
event of a failure (see Status Effects, page 233).
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Leg Shot
Attack Modifier: -2
Aiming for an individual’s leg, you attempt to
slow down their movement. If successful, halve
the number of hit points lost by the attack (after
applying damage resistances and penetration), but
the target must also make a generic Endurance +
Strength attribute check.
With a success target equal to the number of
hit points lost, the target is considered slowed
(movement speed halved) until the end of the next
round in the event of a failure.
Reckless Lunge
Attack Modifier: -2
Lunging towards a nearby target individual, you
attempt to land a melee-based attack beyond your
normal reach. Your melee reach is increased by one
meter for the purposes of the targeted attack.
Shoot to Kill
Attack Modifier: -4
Aiming at a nearby opponent, you attempt to land
your hits where you think they will hurt them the
most. If successful, increase the number of hit
points lost as a result of the attack by half (after
applying damage resistances and penetration).
Dual Wielding
Duel wielding, as its name would suggest, is the
practice of utilising two objects at once. Any
individual can dual wield if they want to, so long as
they have access to two items that require only one
hand. The choice of items does not even need to be
the same either, as it should be entirely possible,
for example, for someone dual wield with a melee
weapon in one hand and a pistol in the other.
When a character decides to dual wield, they can
take one action from each of their chosen items
whenever they are attempting to perform the Use
Item/Object activity. This could mean, for example,
that they could decide to burst fire with a pistol in
their left hand while also attempting to throw a
grenade with their right.
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While the choice of the two actions does not need
to be the same, they must match the action type
for how and when the items are being manipulated.
For example, if the Use Item/Object activity is being
carried out as a standard action, both item action
choices must be listed as such. If, however, this is
all happening as a result of a reaction, then both
choices must be listed as reactive actions instead.
Since both of these item actions are being carried
out in rapid succession, we consider them part of
the same activity. This means that the individual
utilising them is only required to spend action
points equal to the higher of the two costs or as
part of a single reactive action if used in response
to a nearby event. Additionally, while it is written
that an individual can only carry out one particular
action on each of their given turns,
dual-wielding allows one of these activities to be
made per hand instead.
So taking this all into account, why would anyone
not want to dual wield? Well, there are two
main reasons. Firstly carrying out a task reliably
when being shot at is never particularly easy.
Now try and imagine doing this again, but while
multi-tasking at the same time. It is only natural
that as we attempt to achieve more, the higher the
chance that something will inevitably go wrong.
In Dystopia, we rule that by dual-wielding, the
character suffers a -2 dice pool penalty for each
skill check. This penalty should only apply when
attempting to carry out their selected item actions
and only when the individual is actively choosing to
utilise both weapons simultaneously.
Secondly, while most individuals are relatively
competent at using both hands, they will no doubt
be more proficient when using their dominant one.
Whether it be due to faster and more fluid-like
movement or perhaps simply due to greater
control, most meta-humans will find that they are
better suited at using a melee weapon in one hand
rather than the other.
To reflect this in the game, characters who utilise
a one-handed melee weapon in their off-hand
are said to gain only half their current attribute
score towards its damage output. While it is up to
the player to decide which of their hands is their
dominant one, it cannot be changed afterwards.
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Switching Weapons & Gear
As a combat situation prolongs, it is only natural
that an individual might wish to switch out the
items and gear they are currently using. For
example, what started as a close-quarters scrap
might now have developed into a fully-fledged
ranged shootout.
Changing weapons and gear can only be performed
on the character’s turn, and depending on what
they are trying to switch out, it will often vary in
the length of time required. Simplistic items and
weapons, for example, can often be changed as
either a free action or as part of another action
currently taking place in between.
For example, say we wanted to swap out a melee
weapon for a firearm that we have stowed away.
We could state that while we are performing a
move action to get into a better-suited position, we
are also switching to one of our different weapons
that we have on hand. By the time we reach this
new position, we have the weapon pulled out and
ready to go.
However, bulkier items such as armour will
naturally take far longer to change. These will
require multiple standard actions for the old item
to be taken off and then for the new equipment to
be put on and worn in its place.
Checking out the Items & Equipment chapter, you
will find that all armour and clothing types provide
a rough estimation of how long it should take to
put on or take off comfortably. To continue with
this process, a character must use a standard
action on each of their combat turns.
Damage Types
In 2107 damage can come in a variety of different
forms. It could be from an incendiary explosive,
burning away all nearby individuals with a wave
of intense heat, or it could be from a high-tech
chemical weapon, unleashing a potent acidic spray
that rapidly eats away at nearby equipment and
flesh.
Regardless of what it might be, each damage type
is its own distinct entity in Dystopia. Some will
be commonplace, like with the physical damage
output of a firearm, while others might prove to be
a little more exotic and harder to come by.
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 Damage Type Typically Found
Acid (A) Corrosive substances and chemical weapons.
Extreme weather and environments, as well as certain powers from the Energetics
Cold (C)
specialisation.
Electrical (E) Tasers, electrical devices, and certain psionic powers.
Heat (H) Grenades, explosives, and many powers from the Energetics specialisation.
Mental (M) Powers from both the Deception and Purge specialisations.
Both melee and ranged based weapons, fall damage, and powers from the Flux
Physical (P)
specialisation.
Radiation (R) Radioactive materials and hazards.
Toxic (T) Poisons and diseases.

Above: The common most damage types in 2107, and examples

of where they might typically be encountered.

Above, a list detailing the most common of these
damage types has been provided. Each item
describes its name and abbreviation as referenced
by the weapons and abilities that use them, in
addition to a short description of where they can
most typically be found.
Except for mental damage, each of these types
constitutes a form of body attack. They inflict
injury onto the flesh of their targets, either in an
attempt to kill them or to render them too weak to
fight back. Body attacks deplete an individual’s hit
points pool, bringing them closer to their eventual
death.
Mental-based damage, however, is different. As
its name suggests, this damage type is an attack
on the character’s mind. Targets hit by such mind
attacks become increasingly tired and weary
before eventually falling unconscious. Rather
than lose resources from their hit points pool, they
should instead be taken from their mental stamina
with each successive hit.
Damage Resistance
As mentioned earlier in this chapter, each time an
attack or offensive ability manages to connect,
we need to go ahead and calculate the amount of
damage that should be inflicted on its target(s).
While this is usually a task of locating the attack’s
damage statistic and rolling the appropriate
amount of dice, certain other factors may also have
to be considered.
Damage resistance reflects just how much
protection the target has against certain kinds
of damage. For example, fabrics coated in flame
retardant would naturally fare better when
exposed to intense heat, while non-conductive
materials would prove to be more resistant against
surges of electricity.
In Dystopia, we use a system known as damage
resistance to provide a simple numeric indication
of how well a given individual fares against
each damage type. Each point of resistance the
character has reduces all incoming damage of
that type by one. So a grunt with five physical
resistance, for example, would reduce all physical
damage taken (whether from a pistol sidearm or
perhaps from being thrown into a wall) by five.
While different types of resistances can reduce
the damage of an attack to zero, they cannot
make it negative. Hefty amounts of armour should
naturally keep someone protected, to the point
that those kinds of attacks do not affect them, but
should not grant the ability to regain lost resources
on a hit.
Determining Damage Resistances
An individual’s resistance to each of the different
damage types can usually be determined through
a combination of; the armour they are currently
wearing, their choice of race during character
creation, and any applicable traits they might have
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Any stated resistances should be combined from
their respective sources to form a total amount for
each damage type. Whatever this number comes to
is their current level of resistance for all incoming
sources of damage for that particular type.
For example, a character who chose the Vorn race
during character creation, is currently wearing
Light Armour, and took the Naturally Resilient
trait for physical damage, would gain the following
resistances:
• Acid, Cold, Electrical, Mental, Radiation,
Toxic: 0 (No gains were received from the
individual’s above choices.)
• Heat: 6 (+6 gained from the Vorn racial
choice.)
• Physical: 9 (+6 gained from Light Armour, +3
gained from Naturally Resilient.)
Damage Penetration
While damage resistance indicates how well
protected a given individual is against certain
damage types, damage penetration helps reflect
the effectiveness of an attack to bypass through it.
Each point of damage penetration reduces the
target’s resistance to its associated damage type
by one. This means that while that grunt from
above might typically reduce all physical damage
taken by five, they can only reduce this amount
by two when hit by an attack with a physical
penetration rating of three.
While damage penetration can reduce a target’s
resistance to zero, it cannot force them to become
negative. Zero resistance means that the character
in question has no defence against attacks of that
damage type and thus is considered as vulnerable
as possible. Likewise, modifiers that reduce an
attack’s penetration should also be expected to
behave similarly.
Finally, if an attack or ability that inflicts damage
does not reference or specify an amount of damage
penetration, then consider it to be zero. This means
that we no longer have to write out penetration
statistics for each of the various damage types
for all attacks and can only include those different
from the norm.
Chapter 6
Psionics & The Ether
Of all the changes that have occurred over the past
90 years or so, few have had quite the same level
of impact than compared with the discovery of the
Ether.
Thought to have originated from the Geneva fusion
incident of 2063, this ethereal power source has
allowed for many talented individuals to achieve
almost superhuman like capabilities. While the
Ether might be invisible to the everyday common
meta-human, those individuals who are fortunate
enough to have a strong connection to it can feel
the presence of its energies anywhere they go.
While this practice of manipulating the Ether is
not yet fully understood, scientists believe that
those who are gifted in the art can do so, as a
result of a mutation to their nervous system.
Sensitive receptors throughout their body excrete
minute amounts of a rare element known as
Cosmainium. This allows the individual to tap into,
and manipulate these hidden energies, to create a
variety of different effects. These can include; the
creation of gravitational fields, sudden bursts of
intense heat and electricity, or to shape and change
the properties of nearby objects and biological
matter.
Given the potential power that they have, many
of these psionic individuals (or just ”ethers” as
they are more commonly called,) were initially
met with great fear and prejudice. Over time,
however, as they not only developed in their ability
to control these powers but also there was a
better understanding of them and their so-called
”condition”, most are now capable of living in and
amongst the other members of society in perfect
harmony.
While most of the attempts made to legislate or
officially register these individuals have failed to
come to pass, a collaboration between various
world governments estimates that roughly 5% of
the population is likely to be gifted with psionic
abilities. Some of these individuals will be unlikely
to develop their skills beyond the basics, while
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others have the potential to become a potent force
of destruction and mayhem.
6.1 The Basics
As mentioned in the ”Psionic Powers” section
during character creation, any player can choose to
gain psionic abilities if they so wish. All they must
do is spend the appropriate amount of resources
from their genetics pool, to take the ”Awakened
Mind” trait. It doesn’t matter when they decide
to take this trait, however, just so long as they
currently have it. This means that as players begin
to advance, they can branch into psionics after
reaching a further level of renown.
Upon taking this trait, the character starts to
become aware of and can sense their connection
to the Ether. While it is often theorised that all
forms of life may have this connection, only those
who are skilled enough in the art of psionics can
sense and interact with it. By manipulating these
energies that freely pass on by around them, a
trained individual can channel them into various
powers whenever they see fit.
Psionic Powers
Psionic powers are the common term used to
describe an individual’s ability to influence and
change things here in the real world directly.
A power can often be something as simple
as creating a small light source or as big as
unleashing a devastating explosion.
Regardless of what it does, however, each of
these powers belongs to one of several different
specialisations, and each specialisation has one
particular skill associated with it. Materialisation,
for example, is used to create ethereal objects and
entities to aid the character and is tied to their
Psionics: Materialisation skill. Conversely, Flux is
all about generating barriers and powerful waves
of force and is instead associated with Psionics:
Flux.
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Using such powers can often be strenuous and
mentally exhausting for a character to undertake.
As a result, each time a power is used, the person
creating the effect will have a certain amount
of their mental stamina resource drained from
them. This process is commonly known as mental
fatigue and helps to highlight an individual’s
gradual decline and general weariness.
Psionic powers of a higher potency will naturally
have a more significant amount of mental fatigue
associated with them. This means that an
individual must carefully choose when and where
they would like to use such abilities, as they will
consume a much more significant portion of their
available resources.
If an individual wishes to use one of their powers
but does not have the appropriate amount of
mental stamina, they can choose to push on and
do so, providing they have at least half the mental
fatigue cost remaining. If this is not the case, the
power fails to cast, but the total loss of mental
stamina should continue to occur as usual.
Range
In addition to the standard convention of a short,
medium, and long-range, certain psionic powers
may also use other types. These will generally
depend upon how the power intends to work and
the effects that it is trying to achieve.
Some abilities may list its range as x/-/-. The
”x” still represents the short-range distance like
usual; however, the presence of the two hyphens
indicates that this particular power does not have
a medium or long-range component. As a result,
attempts to use the power above its short range
automatically fail.
If a power happens to list its range as ”touch”, it
tells us that the caster must be able to touch the
intended target physically for the ability to work.
For most individuals, therefore, this distance will
equate to their current melee reach.
Powers that state a range of being ”self” are said to
be centred upon the current position of their caster.
These powers usually take the form of either; a
spherical nova that quickly emanates outwards
or perhaps a personal enhancement that can only
affect the caster themselves.
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Casting Times
You may notice that certain psionic powers list a
casting time. This means the caster must spend a
specified amount of time in a meditative-like trance
to create and use that ability. During this time, they
cannot take any other action and must spend their
full concentration on the task at hand to make any
progress.
Powers that use a casting time are, generally
speaking, those that intend to commune or gather
information over a great distance. They require a
deep connection to the Ether and, as such, are not
suitable for combat situations.
Channelling Abilities
Certain psionic powers might also indicate that
they are a channelling ability. This means that
it continues to require the caster’s attention for
its effects to persist and function after the initial
casting. This could take the form of a barrier
continuing to prevent enemy projectiles from
passing through or an area with a disruptive or
damaging effect.
Like with many other types of prolonged tasks,
these channelling abilities require constant mental
concentration to be kept in a stable state. As a
result, whenever an individual uses these powers,
they must spend a standard action on each
of their subsequent turns to sustain its effects.
Failure to perform this action on one of their
turns causes the power to dissipate immediately,
prematurely ending all its effects.
While there is no limit to the number of channelling
abilities a character can have active at any given
time, this action cost must be applied to each
power currently being channelled for their effects
to be maintained.
Concentration Checks
Individuals attempting to maintain their
concentration may also have to deal with the
stresses that come from their current situation or
surroundings. Keeping your concentration going is
difficult, but trying to do so while being fired upon
and attacked is even more challenging. As a result,
it might be necessary for characters to make what
is known as a concentration check from time to
time.
GMs should use concentration checks whenever
a character is struck by an attack that depletes
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some of their hit points or mental stamina while
attempting a meaningful prolonged task. This
usually occurs while trying to channel a psionic
power, though other actions like attempting to
hotwire a security panel or defuse some explosives
could also warrant one.
When the GM calls for a concentration check,
the character in question should make a generic
Intellect + Will attribute check. The success target
for this check is equal to half the total amount of
resources lost due to the triggering event. On a
success, the character can, for the time being at
least, maintain their concentration and suffers no
other additional side effects.
However, those who fail the check immediately find
their concentration broken. Any psionic powers
they were attempting to sustain swiftly come to
an end, along with all of its generated effects.
Those carrying out other types of actions fail in
their attempt and must carry them out again. This
sudden and abrupt interruption also causes the
individual to suffer significant trauma, inflicting 1d6
mental damage to them.
Ethereal Signatures
It is widely believed that all lifeforms, from the
smallest micro-organisms to the largest mammals,
have a connection to the Ether. A faint energy
signature, if you will, that is just as unique as any
person’s fingerprints.
By examining these energies over a specific area,
talented psionic individuals can sometimes identify
these ethereal signatures through certain psionic
powers. Once identified, they can learn a great
deal of information about them, including the
person’s race, rough position, or perhaps their
mental well-being.
Some individuals are naturally born with a fainter
or more prominent ethereal signature. While it is
not yet fully understood why this is the case, it
does mean that certain characters will prove more
or less challenging to track down than compared
with others.
Objects and non-sentient machines will only form
an ethereal signature if they have properties that
are currently manipulating the energies of the
Ether (i.e. conjured objects or wards). As a result,
when psionic individuals are attempting to search
for these signatures, they should not be able to
learn of the structures in an environment or the
layout of specific rooms.
Ethereal Residue
All psionic powers and their effects produce a
by-product known as ethereal residue. This very
faint, dust-like substance is produced from a
chemical reaction between Cosmainium and the
other elements that inhabit our atmosphere.
Characters trained in the Ethereal Knowledge
skill can likely identify and examine this residue
to determine what occurred here and when. The
GM should determine the difficulty of performing
such a check based on both; how much time has
passed since the events took place and the number
of powers used.
Individuals who succeed in their investigation can
learn of the number of powers that were used,
their specialisations, the rough positions of where
they were cast, the direction in which they were
targetted, and finally, their level of power.
6.2 Using Powers
Powers can be used like any other type of activity,
so long as you have also taken the necessary steps
to be able to learn and understand them (see the
Psionic Powers section in character creation, page
41). Some might require the use of a standard
action, while others may respond to a reactive
one instead. Each power will display which type
of action it uses, along with various other bits of
useful information along the way. This will usually
include things such as; what the ability does, how
long it lasts, how much mental fatigue it generates,
and its overall duration etc.
Below you will be able to find an overview of all the
known psionic powers. These will be broken down
by specialisation, with each item indicating its
level, and whether or not it is a form of channelling
ability.
Note: * indicates a channelling type ability.
Deception:
• * Concealment - Modifies certain visual aspects of
a target individual, providing them with a bonus to
their Disguise skill checks.
• * Phantom Projection - Creates a projection that
mimics an individual or object.
• * Serenity - Attempts to force a target individual’s
mind into a calm and tranquil state.
• Sow Doubt - Attempts to overwhelm a
target individual’s mental state, reducing the
effectiveness of their current action.
• Dismay - Attempts to strike fear into a target
individual.
• Displace - Creates a projection around a target,
making it harder for others to hit them with their
attacks.
• Malice - Attempts to twist a target’s mind, causing
them to become disorientated and suffer light
mental damage each time they move.
• Ward of Ethereal Masking - Binds a ward onto a
target surface, obfuscating the ethereal signatures
of all those who are nearby.
• * Cloaking Field - Bends light around a target,
making them more difficult to see.
• Frenzy - Attempts to drive a target individual mad,
forcing them to strike out indiscriminately.
• * Horrific Manifestation - Creates a horrifying
visage which attempts to strike fear into all those
who are nearby.
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• * Reticence - Creates a zone of silence, temporarily
suppressing all sound from within.
• * Mirror Image - Creates several lifelike projections
of yourself in an attempt to confuse those around
you.
• * Slumber - Attempts to render all individuals
within a targeted area unconscious.
• False Memory - Attempts to manipulate a target
individual’s mind, altering their memory of a
specific event.
• * Major Projection - Transforms a target area,
allowing you to alter its look and feel.
Energetics:
• Arcing Bolt - Hurls a bolt of electricity at a target
individual, which then jumps between others who
are nearby.
• * Cold Snap - Creates a small zone of extreme cold,
dealing light cold damage and slowing movement.
• Combustion - Creates a cone of fire towards a
target direction, dealing moderate heat damage.
• * Disrupt Energy - Surrounds a target with an
energy field, increasing either one of their; heat,
cold, or electrical damage resistances.
• * Electrical Discharge - Creates a spike of energy
on a nearby target, dealing moderate electrical
damage to all those who are nearby.
• Ignite - Creates a small but potent burst of flame
at a target location, attempting to deal moderate
heat damage and setting nearby targets aflame.
• Flash Freeze - Creates an instantaneous zone of
intense cold, attempting to freeze all those who
are nearby.
• * Scorching Blast - Hurls a projectile of flame at a
target location, dealing heavy heat damage to all
those nearby.
• * Sweltering Heat - Creates a zone of intense heat,
causing moderate heat damage and blocking the
use of thermal imaging.
• Frost Bite - Instantly causes the temperature of a
concentrated area to plummet, dealing heavy cold
damage to all those nearby.
• * Super Conductor - Creates an area of super
conductive electricity, dealing heavy electrical
to those wearing metallic armour, and moderate
damage to everyone else.
• Disintegration - Fires a beam of concentrated
energy, dealing considerable heat damage to all
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 those in a line.
• Tempest - Calls down a sudden bolt of electricity
from the skies above. Deals heavy electrical
damage and has a chance to paralyse all nearby
targets.
Flux:
• * Gravity Warp - Surrounds a target with a strong
gravitational force, temporarily grappling and
lifting them into the air.
• Kinetic Barrier - Surrounds a target with a barrier
of energy, granting them temporary shielding.
• Kinetic Expansion - A wave of force erupts from a
target location, dealing light physical damage and
knocking nearby individuals prone.
• * Crushing Hold - Constricts a target with a
continuous wave of force.
• Ether Bolt - Hurls a bolt of force at a target, dealing
physical damage and knocking them back.
• Kinetic Contraction - A wave of force collapses
in on a target location, dealing light physical
damage and pushing nearby individuals towards
its epicentre.
• * Kinetic Shield - Surrounds a large area with a
barrier of energy, protecting those inside it from
external attacks.
• Shatter Barrier - Blasts apart a vast quantity of
shielding from a given target.
• Shockwave - Creates a potent wave of force,
emanating outwards from the caster’s current
location. Deals moderate physical damage, while
also potentially knocking nearby individuals prone.
• Gravitational Distortion - Distorts the forces of
gravity around several targets, attempting to lift
them into the air before slamming them back into
the ground.
• * Seismic Eruption - Attempts to forcibly pull a
target apart using a series of intense seismic
waves.
• * Disrupt Gravity - Nullifies the effects of gravity
within a selected area.
• * Singularity - Creates a gravitational anomaly at
a target location. Nearby individuals are pulled
inwards and take heavy physical damage once
they reach its centre.
Materialisation:
• * Blinding Fog - Creates an ethereal cloud of fog,
heavily obscuring individuals vision.
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• Conjure Simple Item - Creates an ethereal version
of a non-organic simplistic item, which has no
moving parts.
• Illuminate - Creates a small ethereal-based light
source.
• Form Barricade - Creates a durable barrier which
individuals can hide behind.
• * Grasping Tendrils - Creates a mass of ethereal
tendrils, entangling nearby targets and making an
area difficult to traverse.
• Spectral Eye - Creates a static eye at a target
location, allowing the caster to observe what it
sees and hears.
• Ward of Passage - Binds a ward onto a target
surface, resisting those who attempt to cross it.
• Conjure Ammunition - Creates an ethereal version
of a certain type of firearm ammunition.
• Conjure Apparition - Manifests an elemental spirit
at a target location.
• Explosive Geyser - Forms a powerful geyser at a
target location, knocking back nearby individuals
with a concentrated jet of water.
• Oil Slick - Creates a pool of oil at a target location,
slowing movement, and acting as a flammable
hazard.
• Conjure Firearm - Creates an ethereal version of a
specific firearm.
• Form Sprite - Creates a temporary ethereal version
of yourself which can either act on its own behalf,
or follow your commands.
• Create Nanites - Infuses a number of individuals
with ethereal nanobots, healing and repairing
them over time.
• Insect Swarm - Creates an ethereal swarm of
insects who attack all those who enter into their
space.
Metamorphosis:
• Accelerate - Grants additional movement speed to
a target individual.
• Empower - Grants a bonus to an individual’s dice
pool whenever they make checks involving a
chosen attribute.
• Rejuvenate - Provides a quick burst of invigoration,
healing a target individual for a small number of
hit points.
• Turn Amphibious - Grants an individual increased
swimming speed and the ability to breathe while
underwater.
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 • * Blind/Deafen - Nullifies an individual’s senses for
a short duration.
• Diminish - Attempts to weaken a target individual,
giving them a penalty to their dice pool whenever
they make an attribute or skill check.
• Grant Vision - Grants a particular type of vision to
several target individuals.
• Neutralise Poison - Amplifies a target’s immune
system in an attempt to end a poison type effect.
• Pain Suppression - Suppresses a target individual’s
pain receptors to temporarily negate the effects of
damage accumulation penalties.
• Cure Disease - Amplifies a target’s immune system
in an attempt to end a disease-based effect.
• Mass Empower - Same as Empower, but now for
multiple targets.
• Mass Rejuvenate - Same as Rejuvenate, but now
for multiple targets.
• * Slow - Attempts to greatly reduce a target
individual’s movement speed and reaction times.
• Heal Wounds - Revitalises a target individual,
healing them for a moderate number of hit points.
• * Wither - Attempts to weaken a target individual
by reducing any one of their attributes.
• * Apex Form - Modifies a target individual’s
biology, temporarily granting them improved
statistics and greater resistance to incoming
damage.
• * Regenerate - Renews a target individual,
providing healing over time and regenerating a
damaged or missing body part.
Purge:
• Disrupt Concentration - Attempts to interrupt a
target individual’s concentration.
• * Drain Stamina - Drains small amounts of mental
stamina from a target individual over time.
• Purge Ability - Removes a specific ethereal based
effect from a target.
• Counter Power - Attempts to interrupt the casting
of a power by another individual.
• Psionic Backlash - Retaliates against an individual
who attempts to target you with a psionic-based
power.
• * Silence - Attempts to crush a target individual’s
windpipe, temporarily restricting them from
breathing and using psionic powers of their own.
• Ward of Retaliation - Binds a ward onto a target
surface, striking out against nearby individuals
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who use psionic powers.
• * Ether Barrier - Places a protective barrier around
a nearby target individual, granting them improved
resistances.
• * Stifle Powers - Creates an area of distortion and
interference, temporarily suppressing all ethereal
effects inside.
• Stunning Bolt - Hurls a bolt of negative energy at a
target individual, inflicting heavy mental damage.
• * Bolster Resistances - Boosts the defences of
a number of targets, increasing their chance
of resisting incoming psionic powers and their
effects.
• Destroy Construct - Attempts to destroy a target
construct.
• Redirection - Redirects a nearby harmful psionic
power to target a different individual/location
within your line of sight.
• Sense The Enemy - Provides you with an innate
ability to identify other psionic individuals within
your line of sight.
Seer:
• * Commune - Attempts to communicate with a
target individual telepathically.
• * Ethereal Gaze - Attempts to detect nearby
ethereal signatures.
• * Exploit Weakness - You briefly study a target
individual, attempting to learn of both their
capabilities and how best to gain the upper hand
over them.
• Premonition - You witness a sudden forewarning
for an incoming attacking or hostile action, gaining
a sizeable dice pool bonus against it.
• * Locate Individual - Attempts to locate a target
individual.
• Mark of the Seer - Binds an ethereal rune onto a
target individual or object, allowing you to know of
their direction and distance.
• Sense Danger - Temporarily grants you an extra
sixth sense of sorts, allowing you to more easily
identify potential sources of nearby danger.
• Understand Languages - Temporarily grants you
universal comprehension of all languages.
• * Flashbacks - Touching a target individual, you
experience a series of flashbacks showcasing all
notable events which they have witnessed over
the past 24 hours.
• Guiding Meditation - You experience a series of
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 cryptic images relating to a goal, objective, or
specific subject.
• * Resonance - Temporarily refines your senses,
allowing you to examine your surroundings more
easily.
• * Sense Thoughts - Attempts to read the thoughts
of others who are nearby.
• * Clairvoyance - Attempts to utilise the senses of
another individual.
• * Read Minds - Attempts to peer into the minds of
those who are around you.
• Discover Capabilities - Attempts to read a target
individual’s mind, allowing you to learn of their
capabilities.
• Sight Beyond Sight - Temporarily grants you
superior vision, able to see through illusions,
invisibility type effects, and darkness.
Telekinesis:
• Aid - Guides a willing target individual, aiding them
in their attempt to perform a certain action or
manoeuvre.
• Disarm - Attempts to subdue a target individual by
discarding one of their items.
• * Hindrance - Applies potent force to a target,
hindering their ability to manoeuvre.
• * Move Object - Allows the caster to slowly move a
target object from afar.
• Hamper Projectiles - Attempts to control incoming
projectiles, reducing their chance to hit.
• Hurl Object - Picks up an item from afar and hurls it
towards a target or location.
• * Imprison - Smothers a target with nearby
random objects and debris, attempting to restrain
them in place.
• * Form Armour - Creates a swirling vortex of debris
and objects which attempt to intercept attacks
made against you.
• * Levitate - Picks up a target individual with
your mind, allowing you to move them in three
dimensions.
• * Manipulate Object - Allows the caster to use a
target item from afar.
• Destroy Object - Attempts to shatter a nearby
target object using only the power of your mind.
• Mass Disarm - Same as Disarm, but now for
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multiple targets.
• Clear the Path - Clears a nearby target area of
debris, hazardous objects, and cover.
• Debris Shower - Tears debris from nearby objects
and scenery before hurling them towards a nearby
target location. Deals heavy physical damage and
leaves the affected area as difficult terrain.
Transmutation:
• Encumber - Weighs down a target’s armour and
possessions, reducing their ability to carry out
actions.
• Enhance Simple Weapon - Empowers a weapon
to deal additional physical damage on each of its
attacks.
• * Ensnare - Liquefies the ground beneath a target’s
feet, in attempt to restrain them.
• Renew - Restores a target item or object into a
better working state.
• Enhance Firearm - Empowers an individual’s
firearm, allowing it to deal additional physical
damage on each attack.
• * Fortify Armour - Improves a target individual’s
armour, granting them a temporary bonus to their
defences.
• Transform Liquid - Solidifies or evaportates a
nearby body of liquid.
• Transmute Concoction - Creates a specialist type
of concoction from a nearby water source.
• Alter Surface - Modifies the defensive qualities of a
given surface.
• * Deteriorate - Temporarily lowers the resistances
of a target.
• Encapsulate - Reshapes the ground into a
protective dome around a target individual.
• Dissolve - Dissolves a target item or piece of
equipment.
• Reshape Surface - Moulds a solid surface into
whatever shape you desire.
• Adhesion - Attempts to bind all individuals within a
target area to the nearby terrain. Inflicts moderate
acid damage to those affected.
• * Irradiate - Transforms an area of terrain into
giving off highly concentrated amounts of
radiation. Inflicts heavy radiation damage to those
within the affected area.
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Power Descriptions
Below are in-depth descriptions for each psionic
power characters can potentially learn and use in
the game. As you will quickly be able to tell, they
should follow the same listings as above and are
grouped based on the specialisation they belong to,
followed by their level.
Each description should give you all of the
necessary information about the power’s effects,
including what dice rolls and actions are required
whenever it is used.
Deception:
Concealment
Level: 1 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 10 m/-/- Casting Time: 10 minutes
Duration: 1 hour Action: Standard
Mental Fatigue: 3
Focusing on a target individual that you can see
within range, you create a temporary illusion
that shifts and changes certain aspects of their
visual appearance. You might, for example, choose
to replace their current clothing for those of a
security guard or perhaps alter and modify the
structure of their face, hair doo, and make-up into
something more fitting for the current situation.
Regardless of what changes you decide upon, the
target gains a bonus to all Disguise skill checks
that they are required to make for the duration of
the power. This bonus should equal half the points
currently assigned to your Psionics: Deception skill
(minimum of one).
All changes made as a result of this power are
considered to be a type of optical illusion. They
have no physical form of their own, and any
contact that is made will go straight through.
Phantom Projection
Level: 1 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: 10 minutes
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 3
With your mind focused on the mental image of
an individual or object, you can create a lifelike
projection of it at a target location that you can see
within range.
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You can choose how large you would like this
projection to be; however, each dimension can be
no larger than up to a third of the total amount
of points currently assigned to your Psionics:
Deception skill in meters (rounded up).
All characters that take notice of the projection can
make an opposing Intuition skill check, contested
against the dice pool of your Psionics: Deception
skill. Those who succeed on the check can tell that
the image is simply a projection rather than a real
object.
On each of your turns (including the initial one
where this power is used,) you may make use of
a standard action to give a mental command
or a form action for the projection to undertake. It
cannot, however, create sound, and since it has no
physical form, any contact made proceeds to go
straight through it.
Serenity
Level: 1 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 20/40/60 m Duration: 10 minutes
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 3
Targeting an unshielded individual that you
can see within range, you attempt to infiltrate
and overwhelm their mind to force them into a
temporary state of peace and tranquillity.
The individual must make an opposing Foresight
+ Will attribute check, contested against the dice
pool of your Psionics: Deception skill. If the target
fails the check, their mind is quickly overcome
with a sense of calm and stillness. While they
are still very much able to think and act logically,
any strong emotions such as; rage, frustration, or
hostility are suppressed for the ability’s duration.
The effects of this power are said to end
prematurely if either; the target is attacked or if
they witness one of their allies being harmed.
Sow Doubt
Level: 1 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 20/40/60 m Duration: Instant
Action: Reactive Mental Fatigue: 3
Focusing on an unshielded target individual that
you can see within range, you attempt to infiltrate
their mind and overwhelm their current mental
state, hindering them and their ability to perform
a particular type of action.
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Whenever an applicable target attempts to carry
out an action requiring a check, you may use this
power to reduce the size of their dice pool for it.
Make a generic Psionics: Deception skill check. For
each pass you achieve here, you can reduce the size
of the target’s dice pool by a further die.
Dismay
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 20 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 4
Focusing on an unshielded target individual
that you can see within range, you attempt to
infiltrate their mind and project horrifying images
to overwhelm their emotions and senses.
The target must make an opposing fear check
(Charisma + Will), contest by the dice pool of your
Psionics: Deception skill. Should they succeed on
this check, they can see through your illusion for
what it is and remain unaffected by it. If, however,
the target fails on the check, then the illusion
takes hold of their emotions, and they immediately
become stricken with fear.
For the duration of the power, they gain the feared
status effect (see Status Effects, page 233), with
yourself acting as the source. At the end of each
new round, the target may repeat the check, ending
its effects early in the event of a success.
Displace
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 5
With your mind focused on a target individual that
you can see within range, you create a projection
around them, making it appear that their form is
constantly shifting and moving.
For the power’s duration, the target receives a
bonus to their dice pools whenever they attempt
to defend against attacks and offensive actions
from others. This bonus can be used on any check
involving Finesse, Reflex, or Strength and equals
half the total points currently assigned to your
Psionics: Deception skill (minimum of one).
However, it is important to note that this power
has no effect when defending against area-based
actions and effects.
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Malice
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 20 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 5
Targeting an unshielded individual that you can see
within range, you attempt to twist and manipulate
their mind to create a painful migraine-like
sensation.
The target of this power must make an opposing
Intellect + Will attribute check, contested against
the dice pool of your Psionics: Deception skill.
If they succeed on this check, their mind can
withstand your influence, and the power fails to
take hold. In the event of a failure, however, the
target becomes visibly agitated and riddled with
pain.
For the duration of the power, the target individual
is considered disorientated (see Status Effects,
page 233) and suffers a sudden spike of head pain
each time they attempt to move. This affliction
causes them to lose one mental stamina for each
meter of distance that is traversed.
At the end of each round, the target individual can
remake the initial check, ending the effects of this
power early on a success.
Ward of Ethereal Masking
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 10 m/-/- Casting Time: 1 minute
Duration: 24 hours Action: Standard
Mental Fatigue: 3
Scribing a rune of energy onto a target surface
that you can see within range, you create a visibly
pulsating ward which helps obscure all nearby
ethereal signatures.
For the duration of the power, all individuals within
18 meters of the ward gain a bonus to their Will
attribute score when others attempt to locate them
via their ethereal signature. This bonus equals
a third of the total amount of points currently
assigned to Psionics: Deception skill (rounded
up), and also stacks with other effects of a similar
nature.
The effects of this power are said to end
immediately if the ward is vandalised, removed,
or otherwise tampered with.
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Cloaking Field
Level: 3 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 10 m/-/- Duration: 1 hour
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 5
By channelling energy around a target, you can
bend and manipulate light rays to better conceal
their visual presence.
For the duration of the power, the target becomes
obscured and much more difficult for others to see.
While they are not technically considered invisible,
all checks made by them to hide or remain hidden
gain a bonus to their dice pool. This bonus should
equal half the total points currently assigned to
your Psionics: Deception skill (minimum of one).
This power does not affect altering the sounds
produced by the target whatsoever. Any noise they
make for its duration should remain at their normal
levels. Additionally, like true invisibility, this power
does not affect masking a target’s heat signature.
As a result, thermographic vision is not hindered by
this power.
The effects of this power are said to immediately
end if the target individual either; attempts to make
an offensive action or uses their psionic abilities.
Frenzy
Level: 3 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 20 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 5
Focusing on an unshielded target individual that
you can see within range, you attempt to infiltrate
their mind and drive them into an uncontrollable
state of frenzy.
The target must make an opposing Foresight +
Will attribute check, contested by the dice pool of
your Psionics: Deception skill. On a failure, they are
driven into a maddening rage, losing all sense of
a friend and foe. They see everyone as a horrific
creature that is intent on devouring them and their
soul.
For the duration of the power, they must use their
standard actions to conduct as many attacks as
possible towards the nearest character they can
see. They cannot use reactions and must use their
movement (sprinting if necessary) to get into an
appropriate position. At the end of each round, the
target can repeat the check, ending the effects of
this power early on a success.
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Horrific Manifestation
Level: 3 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 6
Focusing on a target location that you can see
within range, you create a horrific illusion that
attempts to overwhelm the emotions and senses
of those nearby.
All individuals currently within six meters of the
illusion at the time of its creation must make an
opposing fear check (Charisma + Will) contested by
the dice pool of your Psionics: Deception skill. If the
target is either deafened and/or blinded, they gain
a +2 dice pool bonus to this check for each of the
conditions they currently have.
If the target succeeds on this check, they can see
through the illusion for what it is, and it has no
effect on them for the remainder of its duration.
If, however, the individual fails this check, they
become stricken with terror and gain the feared
status effect (see Status Effects, page 233), with
the illusion acting as the source of fear.
For the duration of the power, all characters feared
by it must use as much of their movement as
necessary to leave its area of effect. They should
prioritise whichever route moves them away from
the illusion the quickest but should only jeopardise
their safety if no other option is available.
Targets can repeat the check at the end of each
new round, gaining immunity to its effects for the
remaining duration on a success. Additionally,
anyone who attempts to move within six meters
of the illusion must also make this check, becoming
feared themselves in the event of a failure.
Reticence
Level: 3 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 5
Targeting a location you can see within range, you
begin to conjure an invisible yet surprisingly potent
sphere of suppression.
The zone can be a number of meters in radius
equal to the number of points currently assigned to
your Psionics: Deception skill, and for its duration,
prevents all sound from passing through its
perimeter. As long as the power remains in place,
all characters are deafened to any noise originating
from the sphere’s other side.
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Mirror Image
Level: 4 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: Self Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 7
With your mind focused on your nearby
surroundings, you create several lifelike
projections of yourself to confuse those nearby.
You can create a number of projections equal to
the number of points assigned to your Psionics:
Deception skill, with each appearing at a chosen
location you can see within 10 meters of your
current position. Each projection created in
this way can move and react to the events that
transpire around it as if it were sentient, though
they have no physical presence to manipulate the
world around them.
An individual can attempt to discover which targets
are an illusion by spending a standard action to
make a generic Intuition skill check. With a success
target equal to the number of points assigned to
your Psionics: Deception skill, the character can
work out which of these entities is your actual self
in the event of a success.
Regardless, each projection is considered to
have a single hit point and has 0 resistance to all
damage types. Additionally, a given image should
automatically fade out of existence if it strays
more than 12 meters from you at any given time.
Slumber
Level: 4 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 20 m/-/- Duration: 1 hour
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 7
Entering into a deep state of focus, you create a
potent enchantment-like effect. Nearby individuals
begin to wane and falter, with those who fail to
resist falling unconscious.
Targeting a location that you can see within range,
all unshielded individuals within a four-meter
radius must make an opposing Endurance + Will
attribute check. Contested against the dice pool of
your Psionics: Deception skill, any target who fails
this check is immediately rendered unconscious.
Characters who take damage in this unconscious
state immediately wake up, regaining
consciousness once more. Additionally, at the
end of each new round that passes, all remaining
unconscious targets may repeat the check above,
ending the effects of this power early in the event
of a success.
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False Memory
Level: 5 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 10/20/30 m Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 8
Targeting an unshielded individual that you can see
within range, you attempt to infiltrate their mind to
alter how they remember a previous event.
The target must make an opposing Foresight +
Will attribute check, contested against the dice
pool of your Psionics: Deception skill. On a failure,
the character falls into a trance-like state and is
considered unconscious.
While left in this state, the individual’s mind is
open to manipulation, allowing you to rework
and change their memories of a specific event
that has occurred in the past. You could, for
example, eliminate their memory of the event, alter
particular details, or create a new memory entirely.
Regardless of what you choose, the power must
be maintained for its full duration for the desired
changes to take effect. If concentration is lost, or
the target is broken out of their trance by taking
damage, the power will fail to take hold.
Major Projection
Level: 5 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: 1 hour
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 8
Channelling a mass of energy through a nearby
target area that you can see, you shift and change
the immediate vicinity to take on whatever form
you wish. This could mean altering the area’s
appearance, generated sounds, smells, local
temperature (within moderation), and other
suitable qualities. Regardless, the projection has no
physical form; as such, any contact made proceeds
to go straight through it.
All characters that take notice of the projection can
make an opposing Intuition skill check, contested
against the dice pool of your Psionics: Deception
skill. Those who succeed on the check can tell that
the illusion is simply a projection rather than real.
You can choose how large of an area you would
like to alter with this power; however, each of
its dimensions can be no larger than double the
total amount of points currently assigned to your
Psionics: Deception skill in meters (rounded up).
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Energetics:
Arcing Bolt
Level: 1 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 30/60/90 m Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 3
Focusing momentarily, you produce a bolt of
electrical energy that you hurl towards a nearby
target. You must be able to see the said target, and
they must be within range.
The target of the attack must make an opposing
Foresight + Reflex attribute check, contested by
the dice pool of your Psionics: Energetics skill.
In the event of a failure, they take 4d4 electrical
damage as the bolt’s energies cascade through
their body. At your choosing, the bolt can begin to
arc off additional nearby targets, chaining between
them as it continues to travel.
Each jump the projectile makes must select a
suitable character who is both; within four meters
of and has a direct line of sight to the last. They
too, must make an opposing Foresight + Reflex
attribute check, contested against the same initial
result you achieved previously. In the event of
a failure, they suffer similar effects to the last,
but with one fewer d4 to determine the ability’s
damage.
The bolt can continue to arc a number of times
until no dice are left in which to roll damage.
Additionally, any character who is targeted by this
attack cannot be selected multiple times with the
same use of this power.
Cold Snap
Level: 1 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 3
Focusing your mind, you create a zone of extreme
cold centred on a target location of your choice.
You must be able to see said target location, and it
must be within range.
The zone is four meters in radius and quickly
reaches an average temperature of around -30o C
in seconds. All water and other suitable liquids are
instantly frozen on contact and could prove to be a
hazard of their own at the GM’s discretion.
Any character who either; starts their turn within
the zone or attempts to enter it must make
an opposing Endurance + Will attribute check,
contested against the dice pool of your Psionics:
Energetics skill. Targets who fail this check suffer
1d6 cold and mental damage, while those who
succeed take half of these amounts instead.
Regardless of this check’s outcome, each individual
can only be affected by this power once per round.
Additionally, the cost of any movement made
within the zone equals double its usual amount.
Combustion
Level: 1 Channelling Ability: No
Range: Up to 18 m Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 4
You create a sudden burst of extreme heat by
channelling vast amounts of energy. This burst
forms a cone of flame, which expels forth from
your hands towards a target direction.
The cone can take on either of the following two
shapes:
• Long and narrow, with a range of 6/12/18 m
and a spread of 1/3/5 m.
• Short and thick, with a range of 3/6/9 m and a
spread of 3/7/11 m.
Regardless of which shape is chosen, the flames
prove strong enough to burn organic tissue and, at
the GM’s discretion, set alight flammable materials
within the area.
Any character caught within the flames must make
an opposing Foresight + Reflex attribute check,
contested against the dice pool of your Psionics:
Energetics skill. Targets that fail this check suffer
3d6 heat damage, while those that succeed take
half of this amount instead.
Disrupt Energy
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 4
Focusing your mind on a target you can see within
range, you surround them with an elemental
energy field.
Choose one of the following disruption fields: heat,
cold, or electrical. For the duration of the power,
the target gains additional resistance for that
particular damage type. The amount of resistance
gained equals double the points assigned to your
Psionics: Energetics skill.
Electrical Discharge
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 6
Focusing your mind, you combine vast quantities
of energy around a target individual or object that
you can see within range. The energy soon begins
to arc and flux, striking out at all those who happen
to be nearby.
At the start of each new round, all individuals
within four meters of the original target must
make an opposing Endurance + Reflex attribute
check contested by the dice pool of your Psionics:
Energetics skill. Targets that fail this check take
3d6 electrical damage, while those that succeed
take only half of this amount instead.
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The bolts from this discharge can arc around
slight corners and obstacles, though they cannot
penetrate solid objects. Additionally, they should
indiscriminately target all metallic items that are
not worn or actively wielded within the conductive
zone. The GM can determine what, if anything,
happens to these objects as a result of them taking
damage.
Ignite
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 10 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 5
Targeting a location you can see within range, you
create a small yet surprisingly potent burst of
flame.
All characters within two meters of the blast’s
epicentre must make an opposing Foresight +
Reflex attribute check, contested against the
dice pool of your Psionics: Energetics skill. On a
failure, the target takes 3d6 heat damage and is
immediately set aflame. Those who succeed on the
check take half this initial heat damage and suffer
no additional effects.
While left in this immolated state, a target will
continue to take an additional 3d6 heat damage at
the start of each new round. A character can spend
a standard action to end this effect early, either
by performing a stop, drop, and roll manoeuvre
themselves or to pat down someone else currently
within their melee reach.
Flash Freeze
Level: 3 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 6
Looking towards a target point you can see
within range, you focus your mind and create a
concentrated blast of extreme cold.
All characters within four meters of the target
point must make an opposing Endurance + Strength
attribute check, contested against the dice pool of
your Psionics: Energetics skill. Those that fail this
check find themselves suddenly frozen in place and
are now paralysed (see Status Effects, page 233).
At the end of each new round that passes, all
frozen targets may repeat this check, ending the
power’s effects early on a success.
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Scorching Blast
Level: 3 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 30/60/90 m Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 7
Channelling together large quantities of energy,
you create a bolt of fire and extreme heat. By
hurling this bolt towards a target location that
you can see within range, you cause it to burst and
explode, dealing damage to all those who happen
to be nearby.
By casting this power, you can generate a small
mote of flame in the palm of your hand. This object
is a little larger than the size of a closed fist and
shines bright enough to create a well-lit zone for
six meters around it and a faintly lit zone for six
meters after that.
Before the end of this power, you may use a
standard action to throw this mote towards a
target location that you can see within range. On
doing so, make a generic Psionics: Energetics skill
check with a success target of four. This check will
determine the accuracy of your throw and whether
the bolt could land at your intended target location.
Failing to succeed on this check results in the
projectile straying off target, much in the same
way as a lousy grenade throw. Roll a scatter die to
determine a travel direction, then move the target
location towards it based on how many passes you
were off. This distance should equal; two meters
for each pass at a short distance, three meters for
each pass at medium, and finally, four meters for
each pass at longer ranges. If an object blocks the
projectile from reaching this new landing location,
it should detonate on contact instead.
On detonation, the bolt unleashes an explosion
that is eight meters in radius. All individuals within
this area must make an opposing Foresight + Reflex
attribute check, contested by the dice pool of your
Psionics: Energetics skill. Those who fail this check
suffer 5d6 heat damage, while those who succeed
take half of this amount instead.
The explosion’s flames are potent, capable of
inflicting significant burns to organic tissue and,
at the GM’s discretion, setting aflame non-resistant
materials within the area.
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Sweltering Heat
Level: 3 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 7
Focusing your mind on a target location that you
can see within range, you create a zone that acts as
a barrier of intense heat.
The area can be up to 12 meters long, four meters
high, and four meters deep. Any water sources
within this zone quickly turn to steam, which may
cause obscurity in poorly ventilated areas at the
GM’s discretion. The zone also completely blocks
thermographic vision, with those attempting to
look through it seeing nothing but a blank canvas
of heat.
Any character who either; starts their turn within
the zone, or attempts to enter it, must make
an opposing Endurance + Will attribute check
contested by the dice pool of your Psionics:
Energetics skill. In the event of a failure, the
individual suffers 4d6 heat damage, while on a
success, they only take half this amount instead.
Regardless of this check’s outcome, this power can
only affect each target once per round.
Frost Bite
Level: 4 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 30/60/90 m Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 7
Centring your mind on a target location, you begin
to extract all sources of heat and energy within
its immediate vicinity. The temperature rapidly
decreases to extreme levels, freezing most liquids
and causing a sudden shock to all nearby.
All characters currently within two meters of the
chosen point must make an opposing Endurance +
Will attribute check contested against the dice pool
of your Psionics: Energetics skill. Those who fail
this check take 6d6 cold and 1d6 mental damage,
while those who succeed only take half of these
amounts instead.
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Super Conductor
Level: 4 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 8
Channelling together an enormous amount of
energy, you create a highly energised area of
electricity. Arcs of power begin to strike out at
nearby targets, prioritising those carrying large
amounts of metal.
The chosen area can be up to 10 meters in width,
height, and depth; however, its epicentre must be
a location you can see within range. At the time of
its creation, each character in the area must make
an opposing Endurance + Reflex attribute check,
contested against the dice pool of your Psionics:
Energetics skill. Those who fail this check take 3d8
electrical damage, while those who succeed take
half this amount instead. If the target is wearing
armour with the metallic property, you should
double the quantity of damage dice rolled.
This effect continues to persist, targeting all those
who either; move into the affected area or are
present at the end of each round. Regardless of the
circumstances, however, each individual can only
be affected by this power once per round.
Disintegration
Level: 5 Channelling Ability: No
Range: Self Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 10
Bringing together an immense amount of energy,
you conjure a beam of extreme heat that travels
outwards from your current position in a given
direction.
The beam produced is two meters wide and can
travel up to 30 meters in a straight line away from
you. All characters within its area must make
an opposing Foresight + Reflex attribute check,
contested against the dice pool of your Psionics:
Energetics skill. Those who fail this check suffer
8d6 heat damage, while those who succeed take
half of this amount instead.
The beam has enough intensity to burn through
most materials and objects within its path. If a
target is reduced to zero hit points or fewer due to
this power, they immediately disintegrate. Their
body and any equipment on them are instantly
reduced to a small pile of ash where they had once
previously stood.
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Tempest
Level: 5 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 30/60/90 m Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 10
Looking to the skies above, you begin to combine
a potent amount of energy. Dark clouds start to
coalesce while rumbles of thunder echo out for
several miles beyond.
Choose any point that you can see within range.
Providing that it has a clear line of sight to the skies
above, you can focus momentarily and command a
bolt of lighting to strike out at the target location.
All characters within eight meters of the epicentre
must make an opposing Endurance + Strength
attribute check, contested against the dice pool of
your Psionics: Energetics skill. Those that fail this
check take 6d8 electrical damage and are impaired
from the force of the impact (see Status Effects,
page 233). However, those who succeed take half
this amount of electrical damage and suffer no
other side effects.
Targets impaired by this power may repeat the
check above at the end of each new round that
passes, ending all effects in the event of a success.
Flux:
Gravity Warp
Level: 1 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 3
Targeting a character within range, you create
a gravitational updraught beneath them. While
you do not need to see the target for the power to
work, you must know their current location.
The target must make an opposing Reflex +
Strength attribute check, contested against the
dice pool of your Psionics: Flux skill. If they fail
this check, the gravitational force lifts them three
meters into the air, whereby they are suspended.
Should they succeed, however, this power is said to
yield no effect and immediately ends.
While in this airborne state, the target is
considered grappled, gaining all the usual effects
(see Status Effects, page 233). Additionally, on
each of their turns, the target can attempt to use
a standard action to push themselves out of
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the gravitational force. This check involves an
opposing Endurance + Strength attribute check,
contested once again by the dice pool of your
Psionics: Flux skill. If they succeed, the target
falls prone in the next available unoccupied space,
taking 1d10 physical damage with three penetration
from the fall.
During any of your future turns, you can end this
effect early by spending another standard action
. The target is hurled back into the ground,
knocked prone, and takes 3d10 physical damage
with six penetration from the impact.
Kinetic Barrier
Level: 1 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 10 m/-/- Duration: 10 minutes
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 3
Concentrating on a specific individual or object that
you can see within range, you surround them with a
thin barrier of force.
For the power’s duration, the target gains an
amount of shielding equal to the number of points
assigned to your Psionics: Flux skill. The power is
said to end automatically once this shielding has
been depleted.
Kinetic Expansion
Level: 1 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 30/60/90 m Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 4
Calling on the powers of the Ether, you create a
strong wave of force that ripples outwards in all
directions from a target location. You must be able
to see said target location, and it must be within
range.
All characters within six meters of the centre of
force must make an opposing Endurance + Strength
attribute check, contested against the dice pool of
your Psionics: Flux skill. Those who fail this check
suffer 3d10 physical damage and are knocked
prone, while those who succeed only take half of
this damage and suffer no other additional effects.
When dealing with physical damage, this power is
said to have a physical penetration rating of five.
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Crushing Hold
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 20 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 4
Focusing on a target individual that you can see
within range, you attempt to restrain them by
applying overwhelming force from all directions.
The target must make an opposing Endurance +
Strength attribute check, contested by the dice pool
of your Psionics: Flux skill. On a failure, they are
enveloped within a sphere of force that continues
to push down on them. The target is considered
restrained (see Status Effects, page 233,) and
suffers 3d10 physical damage with five penetration
at the beginning of each new round.
The target can remake this check by spending
a standard action or at the end of each new
round that passes. In the event of a success, the
effects of the power are said to end immediately.
Ether Bolt
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 30/60/90 m Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 5
Generating a bolt of energy in the palm of your
hand, you hurl it towards a target individual that
you can currently see within range.
The target must make an opposing Endurance +
Reflex attribute check, contested against the dice
pool of your Psionics: Flux skill. In the event of a
failure, the target takes 3d10 physical damage from
the bolt’s initial impact and is thrown back up to six
meters in the opposite direction away from you. If
the target collides with either; another individual or
a suitable solid object along its flight path, both
take 3d10 physical damage from the collision’s
impact before falling prone.
When dealing with physical damage, this power is
said to have a physical penetration rating of five.
Kinetic Contraction
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 30/60/90 m Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 5
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Amassing large amounts of energy at a target
location, you create a temporary gravity well that
draws in all nearby individuals. You must be able
to see said target location, and it must be within
range.
All characters within six meters of the epicentre of
the gravity well must make an opposing Endurance
+ Strength attribute check, rolling against the dice
pool of your Psionics: Flux skill. The target takes
3d10 physical damage on a failure and is forcibly
pulled three meters towards the centre. In the
event of a success, however, the target takes half
this damage and is not moved from its current
location.
When dealing with physical damage, this power is
said to have a physical penetration rating of five.
Kinetic Shield
Level: 3 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 20 m/-/- Duration: 10 minutes
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 6
Concentrating on a target location that you can
see within range, you surround an area with a thin
barrier made out of force.
For the duration of the power, a bubble-like shield
surrounds a zone of up to six meters in radius,
centred on your target location of choice. Any
hostile projectiles, psionic powers, and attacks
attempting to pass through this barrier detonate
immediately, dealing full damage to it rather than
its intended target.
Characters can pass on freely through the shield;
however, doing so incurs an additional movement
speed cost of two meters. The barrier has a total
amount of shielding equal to six, multiplied by the
current amount of points assigned to your Psionics:
Flux skill, and has eight resistance to all damage
types. This power automatically ends once all of
this shielding has been expended.
The shield is immune to mental-based damage.
All characters inside it are considered shielded
from mental-based attacks and similar effects
originating from the barrier’s exterior.
Shatter Barrier
Level: 3 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 5
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Targeting a character or an object that you can see
within range, you attempt to shatter its barriers
with a concentrated blast of force.
You instantly inflict physical damage to the target
equal to the number of points currently assigned
to your Psionics: Flux skill multiplied by six. Unlike
a normal attack, however, this damage can only
affect their current shielding, with any amount left
over dissipating harmlessly and not affecting their
other resource pools.
Shockwave
Level: 3 Channelling Ability: No
Range: Self Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 6
You focus momentarily, creating a powerful shock
wave of destructive force that bursts outwards
from your body and current position.
All characters currently within four meters of you
must make an opposing Endurance + Strength
attribute check, contested against the dice pool
of your Psionics: Flux skill. Those who fail this
check are instantly thrown to the ground, making
them drop-prone and taking 4d10 physical damage.
Targets that succeed on the check take half this
damage and suffer no other side effects.
When dealing with physical damage, this power is
said to have a physical penetration rating of eight.
Gravitational Distortion
Level: 4 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 20 m/-/- Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 8
With your mind focused on the surrounding
environment, you can create a series of freak
distortions that bend gravity to your will.
Choose a number of targets that you can see
within range equal to half the amount of points
that are currently assigned to your Psionics: Flux
skill (minimum of 1). Each target finds themselves
suddenly hurled 9 meters into the air, before
then being violently thrown back into the ground
beneath them. While automations are targetable
by this power, it may have a diminished effect
based on their current size and/or weight (GM’s
discretion).
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All targets that impact a solid surface must make
an opposing Endurance + Strength attribute check,
contested against the dice pool of your Psionics:
Flux skill. Those that fail this check suffer 5d10
physical damage and are knocked prone, while
those that succeed only take half as much damage
without the additional status effect.
When dealing with physical damage, this power is
said to have a physical penetration rating of eight.
Seismic Eruption
Level: 4 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 7
Targeting an individual that you can currently see
within range, you attempt to violently tear them
apart using a series of intense seismic waves and
sheer overwhelming force.
Both initially at the time of using this power, and
at the beginning of each new round that passes,
the target must make an opposing Endurance +
Strength attribute check, contested by the dice
pool of your Psionics: Flux skill. On a failure, the
individual suffers 6d10 physical damage (with
eight physical penetration,) as the waves of force
continue to bombard against them. Should they
succeed on this check; however, the target will
instead take half this amount of damage.
If the individual is reduced to zero or fewer hit
points as a result of this power’s effects, their body
immediately ruptures, sending a wave of blood and
gore to rain down over the nearby surrounding
area. Nothing but chunks is left where the target
once stood.
Disrupt Gravity
Level: 5 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: 10 minutes
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 8
Focusing on a target location that you can see
within range, you create a temporary zone of force
that disrupts and suppresses all of the effects of
gravity when inside of it.
The area can be a number of meters in length,
height, and depth up to the number of points
currently assigned to your Psionics: Flux skill.
Objects and characters entering this space become
weightless and can freely traverse in all three
dimensions.
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Singularity
Level: 5 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 40 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 10
Concentrating on a target point that you can see
within range, you bend the fabric of time and
space. Gravity begins to condense into the chosen
point, resulting in the formation of a gravitational
singularity.
Upon its initial creation and at the end of each
new round that passes, all individuals within 12
meters of the singularity must make an opposing
Endurance + Strength attribute check. Contested
against the dice pool of your Psionics: Flux skill,
those that fail this check are pulled six meters
towards the epicentre.
At the start of each new round that passes, all
characters within two meters of the singularity
take 5d10 physical damage with eleven physical
penetration. Additionally, the 12-meter radius
zone around the target point is considered difficult
terrain for the power’s duration. Every meter of
movement that individuals attempt should cost
three times the usual amount.
Materialisation:
Blinding Fog
Level: 1 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 20 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 3
A radial zone of dense fog springs forth from a
target location that you can see within range. The
fog acts as a zone of heavy obscurity, blocking
vision and line of sight.
While you can freely determine the size of the fog
cloud when casting this power, it cannot exceed a
number of meters in radius equal to the number
of points currently assigned to your Psionics:
Materialisation skill.
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Conjure Simple Item
Level: 1 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 10 m/-/- Casting Time: 1 minute
Duration: 1 hour Action: Standard
Mental Fatigue: 4
You focus your mind and thoughts. Concentrating
for a moment, you can conjure up a simplistic item
at a target location that you can see within range.
The object created can be any from the items list,
so long as it is; it is not organic, has no moving
parts, and you have physically seen it before in
person. The object created has all of the properties
and statistics of the chosen base item, in addition
to an ethereal signature.
After the duration ends, the item immediately
dissipates, leaving behind only a faint amount of
ethereal residue.
Illuminate
Level: 1 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 10 m/-/- Duration: 1 hour
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 2
You focus your mind and thoughts. Concentrating
for a moment, you can conjure up a tiny ball of
radiant energy at a target location that you can see
within range.
The ball produces a zone of light that is considered
well-lit for a six-meter radius around it and then
faintly lit for another six meters thereafter. By
default, the ball attaches itself to whichever object
is at the target location at the time of its creation,
thus moving along wherever it goes.
The ball can understand basic verbal commands
from its creator, such as; extinguish, dim, and
brighten. After the duration of the power ends,
the light source is said to dissipate immediately,
leaving behind only a faint amount of ethereal
residue.
Form Barricade
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 20 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 4
Focusing on a target location you can see within
range, you create a temporary barrier of durable
rock and stone.
The barrier can be up to three meters wide,
two meters tall and thick enough to stop most
projectiles in their tracks. It provides full cover to
those who are immediately behind it and has the
following statistics:
• Hit points equal to three multiplied by the
number of points currently assigned to your
Psionics: Materialisation skill.
• Acid, Cold, Electrical, Heat, Physical, and
Radiation damage resistances equal to the
number of points currently assigned to your
Psionics: Materialisation skill.
• Immunity to both Mental and Toxic based
damage.
After the duration ends, the barricade immediately
dissipates, leaving behind only a faint amount of
ethereal residue.
Grasping Tendrils
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 5
You focus your mind momentarily, concentrating
on a target location that you can see within range.
Ghostly tendrils begin to burst forth from the
ground and surrounding surfaces, quickly wrapping
around and intertwining with one another to form a
complex knotted mess.
The tendrils cover a radial area that is four meters
in radius centred on the target point of this power.
All characters who are either; within the zone
at the time of its creation, present in the area
at the start of a new round, or who decide to
enter this space must make an opposing Reflex +
Strength/Finesse (their choice) attribute check,
contested against the dice pool of your Psionics:
Materialisation skill. On a failure, the target
individual is grabbed by the tendrils, immediately
becoming restrained (see Status Effects, page
233).
A target restrained in this way can spend a
standard action to repeat the check, ending its
effects early in the event of a success. Regardless
of whether the target is currently restrained, the
zone is considered an area of difficult terrain for
the power’s duration.
Spectral Eye
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 20 m/-/- Duration: 24 hours
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 3
Converging your energy and focusing on a target
location that you can see within range, you create
an invisible ethereal object known as a Spectral Eye
(see NPCs, page 374).
This conjuration attaches itself to whatever solid
surface is at its location and acts as a continuous
lookout for the power’s duration. Whenever the
eye detects movement, it triggers a mental alarm,
instantly making you aware of this event. As a
further standard action , you may peer through
the eye to use its senses, observing what it can see
and hear as if you were there yourself. The eye has
all of your biological senses, including any types of
specialist vision.
The Spectral Eye is instantly destroyed if its hit
points or mental stamina are reduced to zero or
if you move more than a kilometre away from its
current location.
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Ward of Passage
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 10 m/-/- Casting Time: 1 minute
Duration: 24 hours Action: Standard
Mental Fatigue: 5
A rune of energy is scribed onto a target surface
that you can see within range. A visibly pulsating
ward is quickly formed, resisting those who
attempt to pass on over it.
The ward can cover an area of up to half the
number of points that are currently assigned to
your Psionics: Materialisation skill in cubic meters
(minimum of one). Additionally, you can choose
up to six individuals who can freely traverse
over the area. All other biological lifeforms and
constructs that attempt to cross must make an
opposing Endurance + Strength attribute check,
contested against the dice pool of your Psionics:
Materialisation skill.
Characters who fail this check are pushed back
two meters and suffer 2d6 physical damage (five
physical penetration) due to the ward’s ethereal
energies. However, those that succeed can choose
to push on through, with the area considered
difficult terrain.
Conjure Ammunition
Level: 3 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 10 m/-/- Casting Time: 1 minute
Duration: 1 hour Action: Standard
Mental Fatigue: 6
By focusing briefly, you conjure a small pool of
ammunition at a target location that you can see
within range.
The ammunition created can be any from the items
list, so long as you have physically seen it before in
person. The amount you can create is based on its
total market cost, equal to 200 credits multiplied
by the number of points currently assigned to your
Psionics: Materialisation skill. The ammunition has
all of the properties and statistics of the chosen
base item but also gains an ethereal signature.
After the duration ends, the ammunition
immediately dissipates, leaving behind only a faint
amount of ethereal residue.
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Conjure Apparition
Level: 3 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 10 m/-/- Casting Time: 1 hour
Duration: Instant Action: Standard
Mental Fatigue: 7
Targeting an unoccupied space you can see within
range; you slowly begin to infuse large amounts
of energy to form an elemental spirit known as an
apparition (see NPCs, page 358).
Apparitions always take on the most suitable form
to the surroundings in which they were conjured.
While targeting a body of sewage or pollution
would lead to forming a Toxic Apparition, for
example, using this power on an open blaze would
result in a Fire Apparition instead.
Regardless of whichever type is created, make
a generic Psionics: Materialisation skill check
with a success target of three. On a success, the
apparition regards you as an ally, proceeding to
obey all of your commands to the best of its ability.
However, if the check fails, the apparition considers
you and all others it can see as hostile.
Apparitions conjured using this power last until
either; their hit points are reduced to zero or below,
their creator conjures another apparition, or they
dismiss them using a standard action . It leaves
behind only a faint amount of ethereal residue at
its final location.
A full list of the different apparition types and
their associated statistics can be found in the NPCs
section of the appendix.
Explosive Geyser
Level: 3 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 20/40/60 m Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 6
Looking to a nearby target location that you can
see within range, you mould and shift the earth
into a powerful water geyser. The geyser soon
erupts, sending a jet of highly concentrated water
and steam high into the air.
Each character currently within three meters of the
target location, or lower than 20 meters directly
above it, must make an opposing Foresight + Reflex
attribute check contested against the dice pool
of your Psionics: Materialisation skill. Those that
fail this check suffer 3d10 physical and 1d10 heat
damage before being swept off their feet and
landing prone two meters away in the opposite
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direction from the geyser. However, those that
succeed take half this damage and suffer no other
additional effects.
When dealing with physical damage, this power is
said to have a physical penetration rating of six.
Oil Slick
Level: 3 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 20 m/-/- Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 5
Converging your energy and focusing on a target
point that you can see within range, you conjure up
a pool containing a slick, oil-like substance.
The pool can be up to a number of meters in radius
equal to the points currently assigned to your
Psionics: Materialisation skill. Additionally, the
area not only counts as difficult terrain but all
those who attempt to move while inside of it must
first make an opposing Finesse + Reflex attribute
check. Contested against the dice pool of your
Psionics: Materialisation skill, those that fail this
check cannot keep their footing and immediately
fall prone.
Any naked flame that happens to hit the pool
causes it to ignite. These flames quickly spread
to engulf the entire area and continue to burn
for up to an hour. While left in this burning state,
the pool no longer counts as difficult terrain nor
causes individuals to fall prone, but now deals heat
damage to all those who pass on through it.
Targets within the burning oil take 2d6 heat
damage at the start of each new round while they
remain there and a combined 1d6 heat damage for
each meter they traverse through the burning zone.
Conjure Firearm
Level: 4 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 10 m/-/- Casting Time: 1 minute
Duration: 1 hour Action: Standard
Mental Fatigue: 7
You focus your mind and thoughts. Concentrating
for a moment, you can conjure up a type of firearm
at a target location that you can see within range.
The weapon created can be any from the items
list, so long you have physically seen it before
in person. The weapon created has all of the
properties and statistics of the chosen base item
and an ethereal signature.
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After the duration ends, the item immediately
dissipates, leaving behind only a faint amount of
ethereal residue.
Form Sprite
Level: 4 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 10 m/-/- Duration: 1 hour
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 7
Targeting an unoccupied space that you can see
within range, you quickly channel and converge
large amounts of energy to form an ethereal
construct known as a sprite.
This sentient construct appears as a humanoid
silhouette of pulsating energy, cracking and
arcing across nearby surfaces wherever it goes.
The sprite has the same attributes and skills as
yourself when casting this power (though none of
the equipment) and will follow your commands as
you see fit.
It has its own combat initiative score and can carry
out combat actions as if it were a separate entity.
However, it cannot use psionic powers of any type,
though it can still be the target of them by others.
After the duration of the power ends, or if the
sprite is reduced to zero or fewer hit points, the
construct is said to dissipate immediately. It leaves
behind only a faint amount of ethereal residue at
its final location.
Create Nanites
Level: 5 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 9
Using your full concentration, you begin to
conjure and sustain several small swarms of tiny
particle-sized machines called nanites. These soon
get to work healing and repairing several of your
nearby allies back into their prime health.
Choose up to six targets that you can currently see
within range. Each of these individuals becomes
infused by one of the swarms, slowly regaining
their lost hit points over time. They recover lost
resources equal to the points currently assigned to
your Psionics: Materialisation skill for each round
that passes.
Once the power ends, the swarms immediately
dissipate, leaving behind only a sporadic collection
of ethereal residue.
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Insect Swarm
Level: 5 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: 1 hour
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 10
Targeting a location you can see within range, you
begin to conjure a swarm of ethereal insect-like
constructs. The swarm’s numbers rapidly begin
to swell, covering a spherical region six meters in
radius centred on the target point.
Any character who either; starts their turn within
the zone or attempts to enter it must first make
an opposing Endurance + Strength attribute check,
contested against the dice pool of your Psionics:
Materialisation skill. Targets who fail this check
suffer 6d6 toxic damage as they are repeatedly
stung by the swarm and are left poisoned for the
next hour (see Status Effects, page 233). Those
who succeed on the check take half this damage
and suffer no other additional status effects.
Regardless of the outcome, each individual can
only be affected by this power once per round.
Additionally, the cost of any movement made while
within the zone should equal to double its usual
amount.
Finally, after the power ends, the swarm of
constructs immediately dissipates, leaving behind
only a sporadic collection of ethereal residue.
Metamorphosis:
Accelerate
Level: 1 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 20 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 4
Channelling ethereal energy into a biological
target, you grant them the capability of temporarily
moving at a much faster rate of speed. You must be
able to see the said target, and they must be within
range.
For the duration of the power, the target
individual’s base movement speed is increased by
two meters for each point of skill that you currently
possess in Psionics: Metamorphosis.
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Level: 1 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 4
You focus your mind and channel large amounts
of energy towards a biological target that you can
see within range. Their body gains a short burst of
invigoration, ready to face anything thrown at them
head-on.
Choose any one attribute. For the power’s duration,
the target individual gains a bonus to their dice
pool for all attribute and skill checks that involve
the chosen attribute. This bonus is equal to half
the amount of points currently assigned to your
Psionics: Metamorphosis skill.
Focusing on a biological target you can see
within range, you nullify their senses to create a
temporary effect of blindness or deafness.
The target must make an opposing Endurance +
Will attribute check, contested by the dice pool
of your Psionics: Metamorphosis skill. If they
succeed on the check, their body can resist your
influence, and the power fails to take hold. On a
failure, however, you can induce a temporary effect
of either blindness or deafness.
For the power’s duration, the target suffers from
either the blinded or deafened status effect based
on which sensory deprivation you chose (see
Status Effects, page 233). At the end of each new
round, the target may repeat the initial check,
ending the effects of the power early on a success.

Diminish
Rejuvenate
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: No
Level: 1 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Range: 10 m/-/- Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 4
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 3
You focus your mind and channel large amounts of
Focusing on a biological target you can see within energy towards a biological target that you can see
range, you alleviate some of their pain to restore a within range.
small number of their hit points.
The target must make an opposing Endurance +
The target instantly regenerates a number of Will attribute check, contested against the dice
hit points equal to the current number of points pool of your Psionics: Metamorphosis skill. If they
assigned to your Psionics: Metamorphosis skill. fail this check, their body begins to weaken, quickly
losing its vitality and vigour.
Turn Amphibious
For the duration of the power, the target individual
Level: 1 Channelling Ability: No is considered impaired (see Status Effects, page
233). At the end of each new round that passes,
Range: Touch Duration: 1 hour they can remake this check, ending its effects early
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 3 on a success.

Utilising your psionic capabilities, you shift and

change a target individual’s DNA. Granting them a Grant Vision
set of gills, webbed feet and hands, you adapt their
form to be as capable underwater as on dry land. Level: 2 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 10 m/-/- Duration: 1 hour
The target biological individual no longer suffers Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 4
from increased movement speed penalties while
underwater for the power’s duration. Additionally, Targeting a number of biological individuals
they are also capable of breathing normally while you can see within range, you alter their body’s
in these environments. properties to grant them an additional type of
vision.
Blind/Deafen
Choose one of the following; low-light, night, or
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: Yes thermographic vision. For this power’s duration,
all targets gain this type of vision to use as they
Range: 20 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute please. You may target a number of individuals
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to your Psionics: Metamorphosis skill (minimum of Mass Empower
one).
Level: 3 Channelling Ability: No
Neutralise Poison Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 6
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: No
Range: Touch Duration: Instant You focus your mind and channel large amounts of
energy towards multiple target individuals you can
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 3 see within range. Each target gains a short burst of
invigoration, ready to face anything thrown at them
Touching a biological target, you attempt to boost head-on.
their immune system to help them fight against a
poison-based effect.
First, choose any one attribute and then select up
to six biological targets. For the power’s duration,
The target can instantly make a suitable attribute each individual gains a bonus to their dice pools
check to end one poison effect early. They gain on all attribute and skill checks involving the
a bonus to their dice pool for this check equal to chosen attribute. This bonus equals half the
half the current amount of points assigned to your current amount of points assigned to your Psionics:
Psionics: Metamorphosis skill (minimum of one). Metamorphosis skill (minimum of one).

Pain Suppression Mass Rejuvenate

Level: 2 Channelling Ability: No Level: 3 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 10 m/-/- Duration: Varies Range: 10 m/-/- Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 4 Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 6
Focusing on a biological target that you can see Focusing on up to six biological targets you can see
within range, you suppress their body’s pain within range, you alleviate some of their pain to
receptors to alleviate any damage accumulation restore a small number of their hit points.
penalties which they currently suffer from.
Each target chosen instantly regenerates a number
All damage accumulation penalties for the target of hit points equal to the current amount of points
individual are suppressed for the power’s duration. assigned to your Psionics: Metamorphosis skill.
These effects last for a number of minutes equal
to the current amount of points assigned to your
Psionics: Metamorphosis skill. Slow

Level: 3 Channelling Ability: Yes

Cure Disease
Range: 20 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Level: 3 Channelling Ability: No Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 6
Range: Touch Duration: Instant
Focusing on a biological target that you can see
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 6 within range, you attempt to weaken their body to
decrease the overall speed temporarily.
Touching a biological target, you attempt to boost
their immune system to help them fight against a
disease-based effect. The target must make an opposing Endurance +
Will attribute check, rolling against the dice pool
of your Psionics: Metamorphosis skill. On a failure,
The target can instantly make a suitable attribute the power begins to take hold, and the individual
check to end one disease effect early. They gain finds that both their mind and body have started to
a bonus to their dice pool for this check equal to slow down considerably.
half the current amount of points assigned to your
Psionics: Metamorphosis skill (minimum of one).
For the power’s duration, the target is slowed
(movement speed halved,) and their Reflex
attribute score is reduced by four (cannot be
reduced below one). Additionally, they cannot use
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At the end of each new round, the target may Focusing on a biological target that you can
repeat the initial check, ending the effects of the see within range, your mind begins to work on
power early on a success. enhancing their form, improving the target’s
effectiveness at carrying out tasks and reducing
their vulnerability to incoming damage.
Heal Wounds
For the power’s duration, the target gains a bonus
Level: 4 Channelling Ability: No
to their dice pool for all Endurance, Strength,
Range: Touch Casting Time: 1 minute Finesse, and Reflex-based skill and attribute
checks. This bonus equals half the points currently
Duration: Instant Action: Standard
assigned to your Psionics: Metamorphosis skill
Mental Fatigue: 8 (minimum of one).

Concentrating momentarily, you enter a deep state

Additionally, each of the target’s damage
of focus as you attempt to heal a biological target’s
resistances is also increased by a similar amount.
wounds.

The target instantly regains a number of hit points Regenerate

equal to the current number of points assigned to
your Psionics: Metamorphosis skill multiplied by Level: 5 Channelling Ability: Yes
four.
Range: Touch Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 10
Wither
You touch a biological target’s body. By channelling
Level: 4 Channelling Ability: Yes massive amounts of energy, you hope to repair and
regenerate their form, healing them over time and
Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: 10 minutes
rejuvenating a damaged or missing body part.
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 7

Focusing on a biological target that you can see
within range, your mind begins unravelling their
form and reducing their effectiveness at carrying
out certain types of tasks.
The target must make an opposing Endurance +
Will attribute check, contested against the dice
pool of your Psionics: Metamorphosis skill. If
they succeed on this check, they can resist your
manipulation attempts, and the power fails to
take hold. However, on a failure, the target’s body
begins to wither away and decay.
Choose any one attribute. For the power’s duration,
the target individual receives a penalty to their
dice pool for all attribute and skill checks that
involve the chosen attribute. This amount equals
the number of points currently assigned to your
Psionics: Metamorphosis skill.
At the end of each new round, they can remake this
check, ending the effects of the power early on a
success.
Apex Form
Immediately upon casting this power and at the
start of each new round that passes, the target
regains hit points equal to the current number of
points assigned to your Psionics: Metamorphosis
skill. Should this power last for its full duration,
one damaged or missing body part on the target
is restored to its prime working condition. Any
status effects caused by this former injury (such
as blinded, deafened, or maimed) are also said to
end.
Purge:
Disrupt Concentration
Level: 1 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 20/40/60 m Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 2
Focusing on an unshielded individual that you can
see within range, you attempt to infiltrate and
disrupt their mind, causing them a sudden loss of
concentration.

Level: 5 Channelling Ability: Yes The target of the power must make an opposing
Intellect + Will attribute check, contested by the
Range: 10 m/-/- Duration: 10 minutes dice pool of your Psionics: Purge skill. On a failure,
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 9 their mind begins to wonder, overwhelmed with
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to lose their concentration on any ongoing task as Purge Ability
if they had failed to succeed on a concentration
check. Level: 1 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 20/40/60 m Duration: Instant
Drain Stamina
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 3

Level: 1 Channelling Ability: Yes Targeting a currently ongoing psionic power or

Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute effect that you can see within range, you attempt
to neutralize it.
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 2

Focusing on an unshielded target you can see
within range, you siphon off small amounts of their
mental stamina, wearing them down over time.
The target must make an opposing Intellect + Will
attribute check, contested by the dice pool of your
Psionics: Purge skill. The power begins to take
hold on a failure, eating away at their mind and
immediately draining 1d6 mental stamina. At the
start of each new round, this effect occurs again,
consuming a further 1d6 mental stamina from their
remaining resources. Each time mental stamina
is drained from the target, you should regain one
point of mental stamina to your resource pool.
At the end of each round, the target should repeat
the initial check, ending this power’s effects early
on a success.
Make a generic Psionics: Purge skill check, with the
success target being the level of the ability/effect
targeted plus one. On a success, it is subdued,
immediately ending all of its effects.
Psionic Backlash
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: No
Range: Self Duration: Instant
Action: Reactive Mental Fatigue: 4
Having attuned your senses with the powers of the
Ether, you have learned to strike back at those who
attempt to target your mind with psionic abilities of
their own.
After being subjected to a Will or Intellect-based
attribute check to defend against a psionic power,
you may trigger this ability to retaliate against its
source. A potent wave of psionic energy washes
over the target, causing them great anguish and
mental fatigue.
The source of the psionic ability must make an
opposing Intellect + Will attribute check contested
by the dice pool of your Psionics: Purge skill. On
failing this check, they suffer 3d6 mental damage
or half of this amount in the event of a success.
Counter Power
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 18/24/30 m Duration: Instant
Action: Reactive Mental Fatigue: 4
Focusing on an individual attempting to cast a
power, you try to disrupt and neutralize it. The
target must currently be within your line of sight,
and they must also be within range.
Make a generic Psionics: Purge skill check, with the
success target being the level of the power that is
attempting to be used plus one. If you succeed on
this check, then the power is said to be immediately
subdued and cannot take effect. However, the
target still suffers mental fatigue as if the power
had been used successfully.
Silence
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 20/40/60 m Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 5
Targeting an individual you can see within range,
you attempt to place a stranglehold around their
neck with an invisible grasping force.
The target must make an opposing Endurance +
Strength attribute check, contested against the
dice pool of your Psionics: Purge skill. On a failure,
they begin to suffer difficulty breathing and find
that they cannot talk.
For the duration of the power, the target is
considered suffocating against their will and
cannot cast any new psionic powers or effects
(though they can sustain existing ones). At the
start of each new round that passes, the target
may re-roll the above check, ending the effects of
this power early on a success.
Ward of Retaliation
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 12 m/-/- Casting Time: 1 minute
Duration: 24 hours Action: Standard
Mental Fatigue: 3
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Scribing a rune of energy onto a target surface
that you can see within range, you create a visibly
pulsating ward which attempts to retaliate against
other nearby psionic individuals.
Whenever an individual attempts to use a
psionic-based power and is within nine meters of
the ward, it activates and immediately produces
a powerful surge of energy striking back towards
them. The target must make an opposing Intellect
+ Will attribute check, contested by the dice pool of
your Psionics: Purge skill. On a failure, they suffer
3d6 mental damage or half of this amount in the
event of a success.
This power’s effects end immediately if the ward
is physically vandalised, subdued, or otherwise
tampered with.
Ether Barrier
Level: 3 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 20 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 5
Targeting a nearby individual you can see within
range, you surround them with an ethereal
protective barrier.
For the power’s duration, the target gains
additional resistance to each of the following
damage types; acid, cold, electrical, heat, mental,
and radiation. The amount of resistance gained
here should equal the number of points currently
assigned to your Psionics: Purge skill.
Stifle Powers
Level: 3 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 6
Focusing on a target location you can see within
range, you create a zone of suppressive energy that
attempts to smother and disrupt all psionic powers
and effects inside it.
The zone has a six meters radius, which is centred
on the target location of the power. For its
duration, any time an individual within the zone
either; attempts to use or sustain a psionic power
or is the target of one, you can make a generic
Psionics: Purge skill check.
With the success target equal to the level of
the power attempting to be used plus one, the
dampening field can subdue it and prematurely end
all of its effects on a success.
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Stunning Bolt
Level: 3 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 20/40/60 m Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 6
You let loose a blackened bolt of negative energy
from the palm of your hand, streaking through the
air towards a target individual that you can see
within range.
The target must make an opposing Intellect + Will
attribute check, contested against the dice pool of
your Psionics: Purge skill. On a failure, the target
suffers 5d6 mental damage and is considered
paralysed until the end of the current round (see
Status Effects, page 233). On a success, the target
takes half the damage but does not suffer the
additional paralysis effect.
Bolster Resistances
Level: 4 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 20 m/-/- Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 7
Focusing on up to six targets you can see within
range, you attempt to surround them with psionic
energy to bolster their defences against incoming
ethereal effects.
For the duration of the power, all those targeted in
this way gain a bonus to their dice pool whenever
they make a skill or attribute check to defend
against a psionic-based ability of effect. This bonus
equals half the points currently assigned to your
Psionics: Purge skill.
Destroy Construct
Level: 4 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 30/60/90 m Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 6
Targeting an ethereal-based construct that you
can see within range, you pull apart and unravel
its binding energies, attempting to destroy it
permanently.
The target must make an opposing Endurance +
Will attribute check, contested against the dice
pool of your Psionics: Purge skill. On a failure, the
construct is violently torn apart and is instantly
destroyed, while on a success, it should lose a
number of hit points equal to double the number
of passes you achieved.
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Redirection
Level: 5 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 18/24/30 m Duration: Instant
Action: Reactive Mental Fatigue: 10
Observing a nearby harmful psionic power or
effect that is about to take place, you attempt
to use your abilities to control and redirect it
towards a different target and/or location. To
utilise Redirection, you must have vision of the
power’s current target, and they must be within
range.
Make a generic Psionics: Purge skill check, with the
success target being the level of the power that
is attempting to be used, plus one. If you succeed
on this check, the power immediately falls under
your control. You may choose a new target and/or
location so long as it is within the range of the
source of the power and is within your line of sight.
Once a new target has been chosen, the power’s
effects occur as usual.
Sense The Enemy
Level: 5 Channelling Ability: No
Range: Self Duration: 8 hours
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 4
Utilising your knowledge and understanding of
Psionics, you use your abilities to examine those
around you more closely. By spending a moment of
your time, you can call on the powers of the Ether
to temporarily grant you a supernatural-like sixth
sense.
For the power’s duration, you automatically
become aware of any psionic individual, being, or
object you can see within your line of sight. While
this does not grant you knowledge on what powers
and capabilities they might have at their disposal,
you can tell whether they have an awakened mind,
are a construct, or are instead a psionic-based
illusion.
This power’s effects only work if you view the
target with your own senses. For example, looking
through a CCTV feed would not allow you to pick up
on any of the above information.
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 whispering in their mind, reading out the message
that was sent to them.
Seer:
So long as concentration is maintained, further
Commune messages can be sent to the same target without
requiring another skill check to be made.
Level: 1 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: Unlimited Casting Time: 1 minute Ethereal Gaze
Duration: - Action: Standard
Level: 1 Channelling Ability: Yes
Mental Fatigue: 2
Range: Self Duration: 1 minute
Entering into a deep meditative trance, you attempt Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 3
to communicate with someone you know. Think
of a message that can be expressed in no more Entering a deep meditative trance, you begin
than a couple of sentences. By focusing your mind, to commune with and observe the Ether’s
you attempt to send this message to the target ever-shifting energies. By studying this connection,
individual telepathically. you can identify the ethereal signature for nearby
individuals and effects that might otherwise evade
Make a generic Psionics: Seer skill check, with the your regular senses.
success target being determined by the GM. Below
are a series of tables that can help guide how Make a generic Psionics: Seer skill check. With the
difficult this task could be. All of these are based result in hand, you become aware of all characters
on various situational modifiers that might come within 100 meters of your current position who
into play. possess a Will attribute score less than the number
of passes you achieved. If any objects or effects
that give off an ethereal signature also happen to
Success Target be within this area, you should become aware of
Familiarity
Modifier them too.
Friend/associate +1
So long as your concentration is maintained,
Casual acquaintance +2
you can continue to track each of the ethereal
Seen once +3 signatures you have already detected, so long as
they stay within range.
Success Target
Positional Awareness
Modifier Exploit Weakness
Exact whereabouts known +0
Level: 1 Channelling Ability: Yes
Current building or street known +1
Range: 30/60/90 m Duration: 1 hour
Current area known +2
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 3
Vague idea +3
False location/unknown +4 Focusing on a target individual whose presence
you have already been made aware of and is
currently within range, you attempt to study their
Success Target connection to the Ether to learn of their capabilities
Distance
Modifier and limitations and how best to exploit them.
0 - 50 m +0
50 m - 500 m +1
The target must make an opposing Intellect + Will
attribute check, contested against the dice pool of
500 m - 5 km +2 your Psionics: Seer skill. If they succeed here, their
5 km - 50 km +3
mind can withstand your influence, and the power
fails to take hold, ending immediately. However,
50 km + +4 should they fail, you gain valuable insight into this
individual and their potential shortcomings.
The GM should not reveal any information
currently unknown to you but should state whether For the power’s duration, the target suffers a
or not the task was successful. If it was, the penalty to their dice pools on all attribute and skill
message’s target instantly hears your voice checks they make to defend against your offensive
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currently assigned to your Psionics: Seer skill Success Target
(minimum of one). Focus
Modifier
Organic tissue (hair, DNA etc) +0
Premonition Possession +1

Level: 1 Channelling Ability: No An accurate drawing or image +3

Range: Self Duration: Instant Nothing +5

Action: Reactive Mental Fatigue: 3

You experience an inexplicable sense of deja-vu,
forewarning you of an impending hostile action
that is about to take place.
When targeted by an attack or otherwise offensive
action requiring you to make at least one attribute
or skill check, you may use this power to bolster
your defences. You gain a bonus equal to the
number of points currently assigned to your
Psionics: Seer skill, to all checks made to defend
against the triggering action.
Locate Individual
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: Unlimited Duration: -
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 4
Concentrating on a specific individual, you enter a
deep meditative trance to try and locate them. By
recalling your associations, bonds, and previous
history, your mind is guided through the Ether to
track down and identify their ethereal signature
and its current whereabouts.
This task’s difficulty should be based on your
knowledge of the target individual and the type
of object or possession you have to use as a focus.
Make a generic Psionics: Seer skill check, with the
success target being determined by the GM. Below
are several tables that can help determine how
difficult this task could be, all based on various
situational modifiers that might come into play.
If the check succeeded, you should learn
the target’s exact location. So long as your
concentration is maintained, you can continue
to track the target’s position. However, doing so
requires repeating the above skill check for each
additional hour that passes.
Mark of the Seer
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 10 m/-/- Duration: 24 hours
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 4
Marking a target individual or object with an
ethereal rune, you form a temporary bond that lets
you become aware of its current location relative to
your own. For the power to take hold, you must be
able to see the said target, and they must be within
range.
While the formed rune has no physical presence
or visual appearance, it does produce a strong
ethereal signature that allows you to track
wherever it goes. You are always fully aware of the
target’s direction and distance. Any attempt you
make to locate them via their ethereal signature
(such as through powers like Locate Individual) can
be made without needing a skill check.
This power is said to end immediately should the
rune be purged or otherwise destroyed.
Sense Danger

Level: 2 Channelling Ability: No

Success Target Range: Self Duration: 1 hour
Knowledge
Modifier
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 4
Friend/associate +1
Casual acquaintance +2 Focusing briefly, you get a greater sense of your
surroundings and current situation. Your mind
Seen once +3 becomes clear and tranquil, better able to spot
Description only +4 abnormalities and subtle characteristics that might
be a potential danger to you and your allies.
Little to no information +5

When initially deciding to use this power, the GM

should note the number of points that are currently
assigned to your Psionics: Seer skill. This will form
the basis for determining how attuned to your
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for the power’s duration. During this time, the
GM should consider both your passive Perception
and Intuition skills equal to this amount when
detecting potential dangers or threats that enter
your perceivable range.
While the exact nature of any detected threats
should remain hidden, you should be able to
ascertain their location and the gravity of the
danger they could pose to you and your allies.
Understand Languages
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: No
Range: Self Duration: Varies
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 4
Delving into the depths of the Ether, you focus
your mind and attention on gaining better
comprehension of the languages around you.
For the duration of this power, you feel more
clear-headed and focused. When encountering
other languages that are not of your native tongue,
whether that be spoken or written, your mind can
seamlessly translate them for you to understand.
These effects last for a number of minutes equal
to the points assigned to your Psionics: Seer skill
multiplied by ten.
Flashbacks
Level: 3 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: Touch Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 5
Touching a target individual who is currently
nearby, you attempt to infiltrate their mind and
witness their recent past experiences.
Unless the target is willing, they must make an
opposing Intellect + Will attribute check, contested
against the dice pool of your Psionics: Seer skill.
Should they fail this check, you begin to observe
a series of flashbacks, recalling all noteworthy
events they have experienced over the past 24
hours.
If the target has deceased, this power will only
work if they have only died within the past 24
hours and their brain remains mostly intact.
Guiding Meditation
Level: 3 Channelling Ability: No
Range: Self Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 5
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With your mind focused on a specific subject
matter, goal, or objective, you enter into a deep
meditative trance. Your mind quickly meanders its
way through the Ether, seeing various visions and
mental images related to your thoughts.
Make a generic Psionics: Seer skill check with
a secret success target determined by the GM.
The difficulty of this task should be based on the
complexity of your thought and the amount of
knowledge you already have available to you. On
a success, the GM can describe a series of brief
mental images that relate to aiding you on your
chosen goal or objective. These visions will not
answer all of your questions directly but should
instead serve as a nudge in the right direction.
If the above check fails, the GM can repeat this
same outcome, but these images become more
twisted and vague. For example, rather than being
guided towards that security guard who knows
the access code you are after, you see a vision of
a control panel that could disable the door, but not
without setting off a series of nearby alarms.
Resonance
Level: 3 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: Self Duration: 10 minutes
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 5
Concentrating for a brief moment, your mind
begins to refocus. By cleansing and refining your
senses, you can better examine your current
surroundings.
For the duration of the power, you find yourself
more alert and in tune with your environment. You
can notice things that much more quickly and have
a far easier time studying those around you. You
gain a bonus to all Foresight-based skill checks
equal to half the points currently assigned to your
Psionics: Seer skill.
Sense Thoughts
Level: 3 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 30/60/90 m Duration: 1 hour
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 5
Entering into a deep meditative trance, you attempt
to sense the thoughts of a nearby individual whose
presence you have already been made aware of. If
the target is currently shielded, this psionic power
has no effect.
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The target must make an opposing Intellect + Will
attribute check, contested against the dice pool
of your Psionics: Seer skill. On a failure, you can
learn of their current thoughts, including their
mental and emotional state, and any of the logic
behind their reasoning. However, if the target
succeeds, all further attempts you make to use this
power against them automatically fail for the next
24 hours. Targets with the Awakened Mind trait
should also become aware of this failed attempt.
So long as concentration is maintained and the
individual remains within range, you can continue
to read their thoughts. However, doing so requires
a further contested skill check to take place for
each additional ten minutes that pass.
Clairvoyance
Level: 4 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 60/120/180 m Casting Time: 1 minute
Duration: - Action: Standard
Mental Fatigue: 6
Meditating momentarily, you target an individual
whose presence you have already been
made aware of and is currently within range.
Concentrating on them briefly, you attempt to
tap into their senses to use them for your own.
This power has no effect if the target is currently
shielded.
The subject of this power must make an opposing
Intellect + Will attribute check, contested against
the dice pool of your Psionics: Seer skill. If you
succeed here, you can tap into the target’s senses,
allowing you to hear, see, and smell as if you
were them yourself. However, should the target
prevail, all further attempts you make to use this
power against them automatically fail for the
next 24 hours. Additionally, if the subject has the
Awakened Mind trait, they should also become
aware of this failed attempt.
So long as your concentration is maintained and
the target remains within range, you can continue
to utilise their senses freely. Doing so, however,
requires a further contested skill check for each
additional minute that passes.
Read Minds
Level: 4 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 20 m/-/- Duration: 10 minutes
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 7
With your mind entering into a deep state of
focus, you begin to examine the mental state and
psyche of those nearby. Targets that are currently
under the effects of shielding are considered to be
immune to this psionic power.
Choose any number of targets who are both within
range and whose presence you are currently
aware of. Each character must make an opposing
Intellect + Will attribute check, contested against
the dice pool of your Psionics: Seer skill. Those
who fail this check become exposed to your
investigation, revealing to you their thoughts
and the most relevant memories associated with
them. However, if the target succeeds, all further
attempts you make to use this power against them
automatically fail for the next 24 hours. Targets
with the Awakened Mind trait should also become
aware of this failed attempt.
So long as concentration is maintained and the
characters in question remain within range, you
can continue seeing into their minds. Doing so,
however, requires a further contested skill check
for each additional minute that passes.
Discover Capabilities
Level: 5 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 30/60/90 m Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 4
Targeting an individual whose presence you have
already been made aware of and is currently within
range, you attempt to observe their connection to
the Ether to gain a deeper understanding of their
skills and capabilities.
The target must make an opposing Intellect + Will
attribute check, contested against the dice pool of
your Psionics: Seer skill. If they succeed here, their
mind can withstand your influence, and the power
fails to take hold, ending immediately. However,
should they fail, you begin to gain valuable insight
into this individual, allowing you to ask the GM to
reveal their associated statistics sheet.
Sight Beyond Sight
Level: 5 Channelling Ability: No
Range: Self Duration: 1 hour
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 8
Utilising your connection to the Ether, you become
more aware of and in tune with your surroundings.
You can feel your way through the local airspace,
noticing and thoroughly inspecting each object and
character you encounter.
For the duration of the power, you find that you can
immediately tell an illusion for what it is by merely
looking at it. Invisibility-type effects also seem not
to affect yourself, and you can see through faintly
lit areas or total darkness as if it were well-lit.
This power’s effects only work if you view your
surroundings with your own senses. For example,
looking through a CCTV feed would not allow you to
pick up on the above information.
Telekinesis:
Aid
Level: 1 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 12/24/36 m Duration: Instant
Action: Reactive Mental Fatigue: 2
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Focusing on a target individual that you can see
within range, you begin to apply suitable forces
onto their body to aid them in their ability to
perform a particular manoeuvre. This could mean
throwing your weight behind each of their punches
to break through an opponent’s defences or
bolstering the target’s momentum to more easily
clear an attempted jump.
The target of this power must be a willing
character currently making a suitable skill
or attribute check. Make a generic Psionics:
Telekinesis skill check and add a number of extra
dice to their dice pool equal to the number of
passes you achieved.
Disarm
Level: 1 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 20/40/60 m Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 3
Concentrating on a single object equipped or
actively being used by another individual, you
attempt to force it away from their grasp.
The target must make an opposing Reflex +
Strength attribute check, contested against the
dice pool of your Psionics: Telekinesis skill. On a
failure, the item is successfully knocked away,
travelling up to six meters in any direction you
choose.
Hindrance
Level: 1 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 3
Targeting an individual or automation that you
can see within range, you focus on attempting to
push them back, hindering them and their ability to
manoeuvre.
The target must make an opposing Endurance +
Strength attribute check, contested by the dice
pool of your Psionics: Telekinesis skill. Should they
fail on this check, their movement incurs triple the
usual cost for the power’s duration.
At the end of each new round, the target can
repeat the check, ending its effects early on a
success. Additionally, the effects of the power end
prematurely should the distance between yourself
and the target ever exceed more than 30 meters.
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Move Object
Level: 1 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: Varies Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 2
Concentrating on a single object that you can see
within range, you develop the ability to levitate and
slowly move it from afar.
Providing the object is neither equipped nor
actively wielded by another individual, you may
cause it to float just above the ground. On each of
your turns (including the one where you initially
cast the power), you may move it six meters
towards any target location that you can see within
range. If the object encounters any drop or steep
decline, it should gracefully descend downwards
until it again reaches the ground.
The maximum range you can manoeuvre the object
is based entirely on your Psionics: Telekinesis skill.
For each point of skill that you currently possess,
the range is increased by three meters. Regardless
of what this ends up being, the maximum weight
you can move will always be 50 kg.
Hamper Projectiles
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 10/20/30 m Duration: Instant
Action: Reactive Mental Fatigue: 3
Whenever a projectile-based ranged attack targets
an individual (including yourself) or a location
within range, you may attempt to interfere with
and manoeuvre it so that the projectiles cannot
connect.
Make a generic Psionics: Telekinesis skill check.
With the result at hand, reduce the attacking
character’s dice pool by a number of dice equal to
the same number of passes you just achieved. If
this power is being used on an attack that is part of
a salvo, you can extend this penalty to each of its
remaining attacks as a free action.
Hurl Object
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 30/60/90 m Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 4
Focusing on a single object you can see within
range, you attempt to pick it up using your mind
and hurl it towards a target individual or location.
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Choose any object not being actively wielded
or equipped by another individual. You cause it
to immediately lift into the air and hurl directly
towards a target no more than 15 meters away.
If this is an automation or another character,
they must make an opposing Reflex + Foresight
attribute check, contested against the dice pool of
your Psionics: Telekinesis skill.
Should the target fail this check, they are
immediately struck by the flying projectile. The
target takes 5d8 physical damage with seven
penetration from the impact force and is knocked
prone wherever they currently stand.
When selecting your projectile of choice, the
maximum weight of the object you can comfortably
move is around 200 kg.
Imprison
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 20 m/-/- Duration: 10 minutes
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 4
Targeting a character you can see within range, you
attempt to smother them with nearby objects and
debris, forcing them to the ground and restraining
them.
The target must make an opposing Endurance +
Strength attribute check, contested by the dice pool
of your Psionics: Telekinesis skill. On a failure, the
individual is quickly locked into place as materials
and objects forcibly twist and bend around their
form.
For the power’s duration, the target is considered
restrained and, if you so choose, can also be
knocked prone (see Status Effects, page 233). The
target can remake the check above by spending
a standard action or at the end of each new
round that passes. In the event of a success, the
effects of this power are said to end immediately.
Form Armour
Level: 3 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: Self Duration: 10 minutes
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 6
Utilising any nearby objects and chunks of terrain,
you create a swirling vortex of debris surrounding
much of your body. As incoming attacks attempt to
strike you and cause physical harm, you aim to use
this debris to intercept and block them instead.
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Upon casting this power, you gain ”armour” equal
to the number of points assigned to your Psionics:
Telekinesis skill. Each time a body attack hits you
for the power’s duration, you may roll a d10. If this
roll is lower than or equal to your current armour,
a piece of debris flies in to intercept the attack,
nullifying its effects.
Each time an attack is nullified in this way,
your remaining armour is reduced by one, and
when no armour is left, this power is said to end
immediately. This power cannot hamper attacks
that target a location with an area of effect.
Levitate
Level: 3 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 20 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 5
Focusing on a specific individual you can see within
range, you attempt to pick them up using only your
mind.
The target can make an opposing Endurance +
Strength attribute check contested by the dice pool
of your Psionics: Telekinesis skill in an attempt to
try and resist this power. Should they fail on this
check, or if the target is willing, they are picked up
off their feet and suspended one meter into the air.
The target’s movement speed becomes zero for the
power’s duration, though they are not considered
grappled or restrained.
While concentration is maintained, you may spend
a free action on each of your turns (including the
one used to initially cast this power) to move the
target by up to six meters. The character can be
moved up into the air, however, only to a maximum
height equal to the number of points assigned
to your Psionics: Telekinesis skill in meters. If
the target moves over a depression or a sudden
fall larger than this amount, they should begin
to descend downwards slowly at a rate of three
meters every 10 seconds.
At the end of each round, the target can repeat the
initial check, ending the power’s effects early on a
success.
Manipulate Object
Level: 3 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: Varies Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 5
Concentrating on a single object that you can see
within range, you develop the ability to manipulate
and control it from afar.
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Providing the item is neither equipped nor actively
being wielded, you may manipulate it as if you were
doing so physically at its current location. This
could mean taking aim and firing a weapon resting
on a nearby table or using a computer terminal
on the other side of the room. Targeted items can
be levitated to recreate accurate and controlled
movements as if doing so with your own body,
though they cannot be moved from their current
location.
The maximum range you can manipulate an
object is based on your Psionics: Telekinesis
skill. For each point you have assigned here, the
maximum range of this power is increased by three
meters. Regardless of what this ends up being,
however, the maximum weight of the item you can
manipulate will always be 50 kg.
Destroy Object
Level: 4 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 6/12/18 m Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 7
Looking towards a nearby target object that you
can see, you focus and harness the powers of your
mind to tear it apart.
If the target item is currently being worn or utilised
by another individual, they can make an opposing
Endurance + Strength attribute check contested
by the dice pool of your Psionics: Telekinesis skill.
Should they fail this check, the targeted item is
violently torn apart, sending fragments and debris
scattering nearby.
Automations and Cyterian targeted by this power
should also be able to make the check, as noted
above. However, in the event of a failure, the
target’s current hit points are reduced by triple the
number of passes you managed to achieve rather
than being destroyed outright.
Mass Disarm
Level: 4 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 20/40/60 m Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 8
Focusing on up to six target objects that are
either equipped or being actively used by another
individual, you attempt to force them away out of
their grasp.
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Each character wielding a targeted object should Once the bombardment has finished, the entire
make an opposing Reflex + Strength attribute area affected by this power is considered difficult
check, contested against the dice pool of your terrain.
Psionics: Telekinesis skill. Those who fail the check
lose hold of their targeted item, which is forcibly
pulled out of their grasp. You may knock any of Transmutation:
the disarmed objects up to six meters away in any
direction. Encumber

Clear the Path Level: 1 Channelling Ability: No

Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: Varies
Level: 5 Channelling Ability: No
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 4
Range: 30/60/90 m Duration: Instant
Concentrating on a target individual you can
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 9
see within range, you begin to transform their
Turning your attention to a nearby target location, possessions, armour, and clothing to become far
you discard any objects, hazards, or debris that more dense and weighty. While the material’s
might otherwise hinder you and your allies’ ability protective properties do not change, they do
to move forward. become more cumbersome and restrictive for the
individual to wear.

Choose any point that you can see within range.

All solid objects of your choice that weigh under
a tonne and are neither in use nor currently being
worn are immediately broken down and removed
from the target location. Objects that fall into
this categorisation can include debris, hazardous
materials and terrain, structural components, and
makeshift cover.
Make a generic Psionics: Transmutation skill check,
keeping track of how many passes you achieved.
With the result in hand, this power lasts for a
number of rounds equal to the amount of passes
you just scored. The target is considered impaired
for this duration, gaining all of its usual effects (see
Status Effects, page 233).

The affected area’s total radius can equal double Enhance Simple Weapon
the number of points currently assigned to your
Psionics: Telekinesis skill in meters (rounded up). Level: 1 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 10 m/-/- Duration: 1 hour
Debris Shower Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 3

Level: 5 Channelling Ability: No Focusing your mind on a specific weapon you can
Range: 30/60/90 m Duration: Instant see within range, you empower it with ethereal
energy to strike harder and deeper on each of its
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 10 hits.

Peeling off nearby objects and debris from

your current surroundings, you form a mass of
projectiles that swarm around your position. In one
giant wave of force, you unleash these projectiles
as a shower of debris that quickly rains down on a
nearby target location that you can currently see
within range.
For the duration of the power, all attacks made
with the said item gain additional physical damage
and penetration equal to half the amount of points
assigned to your Psionics: Transmutation skill
(rounded up). The weapon chosen for this effect
can be anything, so long as it has no moving parts.

All characters within eight meters of this chosen This power’s effects are said to end immediately
location must make an opposing Reflex + Foresight should the enhanced weapon ever move more than
attribute check, contested against the dice pool 30 meters away from you.
of your Psionics: Telekinesis skill. Those that fail
this check take 8d8 physical damage (with eight Ensnare
physical penetration) and are knocked prone from
the bombarded of incoming projectiles. However,
Level: 1 Channelling Ability: No
those who succeed on this check take half this
amount of damage and suffer no other side effects. Range: 20 m/-/- Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 3

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Targeting an individual or object you can see within
range, you transform the ground beneath them into
a pool of viscous ooze. This power cannot be used
on targets who are currently airborne.
The target must make an opposing Reflex +
Strength/Finesse (their choice) attribute check,
contested against the dice pool of your Psionics:
Transmutation skill. On a success, they can pull
themselves out of the debilitating terrain, and
this power has no lasting effect. However, on a
failure, the target cannot react in time, and the
ground solidifies beneath them once more. They
are considered restrained by the terrain, gaining all
of the usual effects (see Status Effects, page 233).
Targets who have been restrained in this way can
spend a standard action on one of their turns to
repeat the check above, ending the power’s effects
on a success.
Renew
Level: 1 Channelling Ability: No
Range: Touch Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 2
Focusing on a target object or item within your
grasp, you transform and modify certain parts to
restore it to an original working state.
Make a generic Psionics: Transmutation skill check,
with the success target being determined by the
GM based on the size and complexity of the task.
On a success, the item is quickly restored to prime
working condition. Should you fail on this check,
the GM may also decide whether some progress
has been made towards the necessary repairs.
Alternatively, when used on a target automation
or Cyterian, this power can restore a number of hit
points equal to half the number of passes achieved.
Enhance Firearm
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 10 m/-/- Duration: 1 hour
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 4
Focusing your mind on a firearm-based weapon
you can see within range, you empower it with
ethereal energy.
For the power’s duration, all attacks made by the
enhanced weapon gain additional physical damage
and penetration equal to half the points currently
assigned to your Psionics: Transmutation skill
(rounded up).
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This power’s effects are said to end immediately
should the enhanced weapon ever be moved more
than 30 meters away from you.
Fortify Armour
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 5
Targeting an individual you can see within range,
you transmute the surface of their armour and
clothing into a suitably more resistant material.
For the power’s duration, the target gains a bonus
to each of the following resistance types; acid,
cold, electrical, heat, physical, radiation, and toxic.
This bonus equals the number of points currently
assigned to your Psionics: Transmutation skill.
Characters currently not wearing a sufficient
amount of suitable clothing cannot benefit from
using this power.
Transform Liquid
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: 1 hour
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 4
Targeting a body of liquid that you can currently
see within range, you begin to shift and change
its material state to grant it an alternative set of
properties.
First, choose any point within the body of liquid,
followed by whether you would like to solidify
or gasify the substance. The liquid begins to
immediately change from the chosen point, quickly
moving outwards, forming a zone that is a number
of meters in radius equal to the number of points
assigned to your Psionics: Transmutation skill.
If you solidify the liquid, the affected area becomes
walkable terrain for the power’s duration.
However, if you decide to gasify the substance,
it should instead turn into a mist, potentially
obscuring the nearby vicinity for this duration.
Regardless of the state chosen, the altered
material should have all of the same basic
properties had it been changed naturally.
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Transmute Concoction
Level: 2 Channelling Ability: No
Range: Touch Casting Time: 1 minute
Duration: 24 hours Action: Standard
Mental Fatigue: 4
Focusing on a small container of water in the
palm of your hand, you transform and change its
material properties to create a specialist type of
concoction.
Choose any one of the following types:
• Foul Brew - when consumed, a biological
individual must make an opposing Endurance
+ Will attribute check, contested against the
dice pool of your Psionics: Transmutation
skill at the time of its creation. On a failure,
the target is considered poisoned and must
spend a standard action on each of their
turns to violently spew their guts. They may
repeat this check at the end of each round,
immediately ending its effects on a success.
• Healing Tonic - when consumed by a
biological lifeform, restores a number of hit
points equal to the amount of points assigned
to your Psionics: Transmutation skill at the
time of its creation.
• Potent Acid - when exposed or poured
directly onto an unprotected material, the
acid begins to burn and eat its way through.
For each round that passes, the material
continues to take acid damage equal to the
number of points assigned to your Psionics:
Transmutation skill at its creation.
Regardless of your chosen type, it should retain its
newly given effects for the power’s full duration.
Any character can use the concoction with a
standard action , providing it is currently within
their reach.
Alter Surface
Level: 3 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 10 m/-/- Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 7
Targeting a solid surface or object that you can
currently see within range, you begin to transform
and change its material properties to make it more
or less durable.
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Utilising the table in the ”Attacking Through Cover”
section, (page 258,) you can modify the surface
area’s material type to be any of the five listed
categories. For example, this could mean hardening
nearby drywall to be as dense and durable as
protective glass or softening metal beams and
reinforced concrete to be as flimsy and weak as
paper.
The size of the area you can modify with this power
is based entirely on your Psionics: Transmutation
skill. You may alter half a cubic meter in volume
for each point of skill that you possess here. Once
the transformation is complete, the effects of
the targeted material are considered permanent,
leaving behind a faint amount of ethereal residue.
Deteriorate
Level: 3 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 6
Targeting an individual’s clothing and armour or
an object you can see within range, you transmute
their fundamental physical properties to lower
their resistance to damage.
For the power’s duration, the target takes a penalty
to each of the following resistance types; acid,
cold, electrical, heat, physical, radiation, and toxic.
This penalty equals the number of points currently
assigned to your Psionics: Transmutation skill.
Characters currently not wearing a sufficient
amount of suitable clothing cannot be targeted by
this power.
Encapsulate
Level: 3 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 10 m/-/- Duration: Instant
Action: Reactive Mental Fatigue: 5
Observing a character being targeted by an attack,
you quickly focus on the ground beneath their feet.
The earth erupts upwards, reshaping into a thick
protective shell around them. You must be able to
see the target individual, and they must be within
range.
The shell completely encases the target from all
angles and is also considered airtight. It provides
full cover and has the following statistics:
• Hit points equal to three multiplied by the
number of points assigned to your Psionics:
Transmutation skill.
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 • Acid, cold, electrical, heat, physical, and
radiation damage resistances equal to the
number of points assigned to your Psionics:
Transmutation skill.
• Immunity to both Mental and Toxic based
damage.
The shell’s hit points must first be depleted
before the individual inside can be affected by any
external based attacks (including those that were
interrupted as a result of casting this power). Once
the protective shell has been breached, the effects
of this power are said to end immediately.
Alternatively, the caster of this power can
immediately dismiss the protective shell at any
point in time using a free action.
Dissolve
Level: 4 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 6/12/18 m Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 7
You fire a bolt of greenish energy towards a target
item, object, or piece of equipment that you can
see within range. Its atoms and molecules quickly
morph and change, breaking down into a slimy
ooze-like substance.
If the target item is worn or utilised by another
individual, they can make an opposing Reflex +
Foresight attribute check. Contested by the dice
pool of your Psionics: Transmutation skill, the
targeted item is said to immediately dissolve into
a puddle of goo in the event of a failure.
Automations and Cyterian targeted by this power
can also make the check as noted above. However,
in the event of a failure, the target’s current
hit points are reduced by triple the number of
passes you managed to achieve rather than being
destroyed outright.
Reshape Surface
Level: 4 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 10 m/-/- Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 7
Focusing on a solid surface or object you can see
within range, you attempt to bend and reshape it
to suit your needs. For example, you could reshape
a section of the wall to form a doorway and a new
point of entry or lift the ground to create a barrier
and provide cover for you and your allies.
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The size of the area you can modify with this power
is based entirely on your Psionics: Transmutation
skill. You may alter a further cubic meter in volume
for each point of skill that you possess.
Once the shape is completed, the material
instantly hardens and sets, regaining all of the
same physical properties that it had previously.
Reshaping this material leaves behind a faint
amount of ethereal residue.
Adhesion
Level: 5 Channelling Ability: No
Range: 30 m/-/- m Duration: Instant
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 10
Choosing a location that you can see within range,
you alter the terrain’s material properties to form a
viscous and highly potent solvent. This power does
not affect targets who are currently airborne.
All characters currently within six meters of the
target point must make an opposing Reflex +
Strength/Finesse (their choice) attribute check,
contested against the dice pool of your Psionics:
Transmutation skill. Those that fail this check
quickly find themselves bound to the floor and
nearby terrain, gaining the restrained status effect
(see Status Effects, page 233).
Targets restrained in this way take 3d6 acid
damage at the start of each new round that passes.
Additionally, they can spend a standard action
on one of their turns to repeat the check above,
ending the power’s effects on a success.
Irradiate
Level: 5 Channelling Ability: Yes
Range: 30 m/-/- Duration: 1 minute
Action: Standard Mental Fatigue: 9
Targeting a nearby location that you can see
within range, you start to morph and change
the surrounding terrain into giving off high
concentrations of radiation.
Covering a spherical region six meters in radius
centred on the chosen point, the radioactive
material begins to break down and irradiate all
those unfortunate enough to be within its bounds.
Any character who either; starts their turn inside
the sphere, or attempts to enter it, must make
an opposing Endurance + Strength attribute
check contested by the dice pool of your Psionics:
Transmutation skill. Targets that fail this check
suffer 6d6 radiation damage, while those that
succeed take half of this amount instead.
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Chapter 7
Computers & the Omninet
Continuing with the recent trends of the late 20th
and early 21st centuries, the world has maintained
its insatiable hunger for both new and improved
forms of technology. From computer systems
that provide a wealth of information at the
touch of a button to next-generation weapon
systems that help preserve government order and
control, technology is everywhere these days, and
regardless of whether people like it or not, it seems
that it is here to stay.
One of the most significant changes in this area
over the past one hundred years or so was the
construction of the global Omninet project.
This massive network of computerised devices
replaced the ageing and often considered archaic
infrastructure of the Internet. With its ability to
operate almost anywhere across the planet and
an impressive amount of data throughput to suit,
the Omninet soon ushered in an age whereby
all electronic subsystems and devices are now
interconnected over one massive grid.
While the Omninet contains various safeguards
and security measures to ensure that data is
suitably protected, in an era where corporate
sabotage, government surveillance, and a
flourishing underground hacking scene are almost
commonplace, they often serve as little more
than an active deterrent. Combine this with an
unprecedented demand for people’s sensitive
data, and it is easy to understand why so many
hobbyists have decided to try their luck at data
mining and hacking to earn a living.
7.1 Computing in Everyday
Life
Most individuals in this day and age have at least
a basic level of understanding of how to operate a
computerised device. Whether this takes the form
of attempting to order items off of a digital menu
screen or looking up articles and information from
a terminal, few people will have a day go by where
they are not actively using a computer system of
some kind.
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Personal Computing Devices
These days most individuals, from your average
citizen to a high-ranking corporate CEO, will each
own some form of a personal computing device.
Commonly referred to as a PCD, these small
wrist-worn computers have long replaced mobile
phones and laptops, becoming the go-to method of
organising personal data and keeping in touch with
close contacts and friends.
With a modular type design and a significant
degree of flexibility to suit, these devices can easily
be tailor-made to the specific needs of a given
individual. Some brands and makes will focus on
security and peace of mind front and foremost,
while others prefer to have better processors and
networking capabilities.
Regardless of what PCD an individual chooses,
it should be capable of performing all manner of
day-to-day activities. This could include messaging
and voice calling other contacts, pulling up maps of
the local area, or researching various topics via a
search engine.
OmniWatch
Despite PCDs being little more than what is
essentially a type of miniaturised computer, all of
them have, for a long time now, been required by
law to come pre-installed with a piece of software
known as OmniWatch. OmniWatch, despite its
almost secretive of origins, is a complex body
of code that hooks into nearly all of a device’s
functions. It keeps tabs on what processes are
running and the commands its users enter.
When OmniWatch identifies something it does not
like (for example, an attempt at performing an
illicit act), it immediately kills off the command,
preventing the process from carrying out the
requested task. Having been developed over
the years to a near-perfect degree of accuracy,
OmniWatch has become a significant thorn in the
side of a lot of the criminal underworld.
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Fortunately, however, there are various ways to get
around OmniWatch’s stranglehold. Some remain
secretive within tightly-knit circles, while others
have become common knowledge (see Cyber
Command Decks, page 308). Regardless of the
method used, OmniWatch must be circumvented on
a particular device for it to carry out any computing
action marked with the keyword.
Slaves, Hosts, & Networks
While all electronic devices and equipment can
directly connect with the Omninet, few individuals
will choose to do so in this manner. Given the
dangers that can often linger there, it is far more
common for a user to slave multiple of their
devices to a single host instead. This means
that the device’s connection is routed through
another to protect it against the prying eyes of any
would-be external forces.
Slaving a device to another is simple enough that
anyone can achieve it without requiring a skill
check. By doing so, the two systems form what is
known as a network, with the slave gaining several
notable benefits as a result. These include:
• The option to use the firewall rating of the
host in place of its own for all required
checks.
• The addition of any stated benefits from
ICE, securesofts, pilotsofts, and skillsofts,
installed and enabled on the host.
By forming a network, you can safeguard your
entire assortment of devices with the same
countermeasures that protect the host. This will
not only work out to be cheaper in the long run
but will also ensure that each of your defences
has maximum coverage over the entire computer
network.
Of course, the downside to this approach will mean
that should the connection between your device
and the host ever become severed, it will also lose
all of the supplied benefits. As a result, careful
consideration must always be applied here to
ensure that a given network is resilient enough for
the situation at hand.
Networks will often vary quite drastically in terms
of their overall size. Some may have one or two
slave devices connected to a single host, while
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others may consist of hundreds of slaves spread
over multiple different ones.
Host Count
While most devices have some degree of hosting
capability, some makes and models are designed
and manufactured with this solely in mind. Since a
host device will be responsible for managing each
of its current slaves, there will often be a strong
need for a powerful transmitter and processing
unit to ensure that bottlenecks do not begin to
form.
In the world of Dystopia, we represent this hosting
capacity with a host count statistic. This is
assigned to every type of computerised device and
represents the maximum number of slaves that it
can comfortably host at any particular time. Once
the host gains a number of slaves equal to its host
count, it can no longer accept new ones until a free
slot becomes available.
While a host can, in of itself, become slaved to
another device to form a hierarchy, it will inevitably
require several open connection slots to do so.
This should equal its current number of slaves in
addition to one for itself.
Network Noise
All devices (regardless of whether or not they are
connected to a host) produce a constant feed of
localised network traffic. This could take the form
of pinging another device to examine the current
status of an ongoing connection or perhaps a need
to phone home and check for new messages and
suitable updates.
Regardless of what this traffic is being used for or
its intent, many commonly refer to it as network
noise. Each device will have a network noise
rating statistic associated with it, indicating its
overall efficiency when communicating across a
network. The lower this rating is, the more network
noise the device is said to produce.
Devices that regularly produce a lot of network
noise are far easier for others to detect. Since their
traffic is more regular and plentiful in volume,
spotting the packets of information as they
come and go becomes much easier. As a result,
individuals looking to keep themselves hidden from
the prying eyes of others will generally seek out
specialist devices with a high network noise rating.
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Network Addresses
Network addresses are used as a reliable way
of allowing different devices to interconnect.
Represented by a long series of numbers and
letters, these unique digital identifiers are given to
every device when they first attempt to establish a
connection to the Omninet.
Once a device receives a network address, it will
usually keep hold of it indefinitely. If, however,
a new network address is required for whatever
reason, the Root user of the device can make a
request to the central Omninet infrastructure to
be allocated with a different one (see Request New
Network Address, page 316).
When someone would like to establish a
connection to another device, they will usually
need to use the current network address of the
intended target. Location is irrelevant here, just
so long as they both have a suitable signal to
establish a connection.
For more information on performing this task, see
Connect to Device, page 313.
Hard-wired Connections
Despite near-global wireless interconnectivity,
some individuals and secure facilities still prefer
to use tried and tested hard-wired connections
to form the foundation of their networks.
These devices communicate through a physical
landline-based connection utilising a fibre optic
cable.
While this does incur additional costs thanks
to all the cabling that will be required, it does
allow for the entire network to communicate with
a significantly reduced amount of latency and
potentially without ever having to broadcast its
data wirelessly through the local airwaves.
Most organisations or individuals that choose to go
down this route do so to increase their network’s
overall security. Since each device no longer has to
communicate wirelessly, an individual looking to
infiltrate and hack the network can only do so by
physically jacking in.
Encountering such networks is a relatively rare
occurrence in this day and age. While secure
government or military facilities might well be
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justified in their need for absolute security, most
everyday folk and small businesses are happy to
remain on the Omninet and utilise its built security
protocols.
Open Broadcasting & Scan Range
While network addresses provide each
computerised device with a unique identifier, they
are neither elegant nor simple enough for the
majority of society to use as a method of keeping
in touch. Fortunately, all terminals and PCDs have
an easy-to-use mechanism built into them to help
alleviate this problem.
Each of these devices has a two-part process
which allows them to quickly and efficiently
discover one another. When a user would like
others to connect to their device, they can enable
what is known as open broadcasting. This means
that the system will begin to wirelessly announce
its presence to those nearby.
If another individual wants to connect to this
particular device, they can use the Locate Devices
action (see Computing Actions, page 315) to find
and retrieve their relevant networking information.
Once this data has been obtained, a formal request
can be sent to establish a connection.
This process is relatively quick and
straightforward, often allowing friends and
colleagues to obtain a connection between
one another’s devices painlessly. System
administrators also make use of this tool, allowing
them to retrieve the network address of multiple
different devices that are nearby.
The distance in which any particular device can
search for another is based on what is known
as their scan range. This is a representation of
how powerful its wireless transmitter unit is.
Naturally, those devices equipped with a more
potent transmitter will, of course, be able to
observe others from a further distance away.
Of course, like with any computerised system, few
come without their fair share of potential issues.
How PCDs are designed to search and locate one
another is no different. However, this is getting
beyond the scope of dealing with computers in
everyday life and will be left for the next section.
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User Access & Permissions
All devices and electronics these days use a
standardised permission system for managing
who may and may not interact with them. Using
a combination of biometrics and the globalised
U.P.I.N system, most devices can quickly and
reliably confirm their user’s identity and what
access type should be associated with them.
While some devices, like a personal watch or
tablet, might only have a single user (usually
their owner), others, like a corporate network,
might have dozens, if not hundreds. Regardless
of the quantity, each user will be granted one of
three different access types, summarising the
level of control they will have over it and the
kinds of actions they can perform. These can be
summarised as the following:
• Root - the individual is considered to be the
device’s owner and has complete control over
it. A device can only have one Root user at any
given time.
• Enhanced - the individual does not own the
device but has been given administrative
powers over it. They can modify the access
rights of others and carry out a wide array of
different actions. However, the Root user can
overrule any of these changes if they so wish.
• Basic - the individual has been authorised to
use the device but can only perform a limited
set of actions.
The GM has full discretion to determine the scope
of user access across a given network. While
the rules are written based on the idea that each
device has its own dedicated user access, the GM
may decide that gaining entry onto one particular
node may provide them with similar levels of
access across a broader range of devices.
This makes logical sense for certain scenarios
(i.e. corporate accounts) and could streamline the
process of hacking a network that would otherwise
require a character to break into each device one at
a time.
Any character who attempts to use a device that
they have either; not been authorised with or who
cannot be successfully identified will automatically
be considered an unauthorised user. These
individuals have no access to the associated device
and, as such, cannot perform even the most basic
of tasks.
7.2 Hacking & Advanced
Computing
With a thriving underground hacking scene having
taken hold long ago and a seemingly endless
supply of clients willing to offer decent pay for a
person’s data, cybersecurity has never been quite
as vital as it is today.
Knowing to break into an adversary’s device or
how best to protect your own often leaves you
with a distinct advantage when going about your
business. From gathering intelligence on potential
threats and their current locations to seizing and
controlling their devices and weaponry, there are
plenty of ways in which a skilled hacker can help
shift the odds back into their favour.
Cyber Command Decks
When the OmniWatch protocol started to become
mandatory across the globe, many believed that
it would simply be a matter of when, not if, a
method would become available that allowed
users to circumvent it. While many governments
remained firm that this would not be the case,
various products that achieved this very goal soon
started to appear on the black market.
The Cyber Command Deck (or CCD for short) has
proven to be, by far, the most popular. Appearing
as a large tablet-like device, this powerful
computer system contains sophisticated software
that nullifies OmniWatch’s capabilities and
provides a variety of tools essential for carrying
out cyber-based attacks.
While CCDs are considered highly illegal in many
countries, few of them have the resources to
keep them off the streets for particularly long.
Whether due to pay off’s and bribes to the local
law enforcement or their deceptive appearance as
a regular everyday piece of electronic hardware,
most hackers will have easy access to a CCD in a
time of need.
Attempting a Hack
So, with your Cyber Command Deck at the ready,
how would you infiltrate a computer system?
Generally speaking, most hacks aim to increase
your access type on the targeted device to allow
you to carry out a more comprehensive range of
activities. Before this can even take place, however,
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we first need to locate and obtain the current
network address of our target.
Step 1 - Obtaining a Network Address
As was alluded to in the previous section,
the networking capabilities of PCDs and
other computers are not without their flaws.
Individuals who are well-trained in networking
communications can often sift through the nearby
localised traffic to obtain the current network
address for a particular device. This is regardless
of whether or not it has open broadcasting
enabled.
Using the Locate Devices action (see Computing
Actions, page 315,) you can attempt to make a
generic Tech: Networking skill check to determine
both; the presence of any nearby computerised
devices in addition to their current network
address. Once the network address of a device has
been found, we can proceed with the attack.
Step 2 - Forcing Entry
Since we are unlikely to have access to a target
device already, we must first find a suitable exploit
that allows us inside. The Force Entry action (see
Computing Actions, page 315) can help us achieve
this very goal, granting Basic level access rights
when successful.
This will be the first of several actions which
contain the keyword. As a result, it
is considered an illicit act and will alert any
cybersecurity countermeasures protecting the
target device should it fail. On a success, however,
we will now have access to the target device to
carry out further actions.
Step 3 - Gaining Further Access
While obtaining Basic level access will allow us to
connect to a specific device, the types of actions
that we can perform here are relatively limited.
Depending on what you hope to achieve, there is a
high probability that you may wish to bolster your
access with additional privileges.
Once connected to the device using the Connect to
Device action (see Computing Actions, page 313,)
you can search for suitable exploits in which to
gain further access for yourself. This is achieved
through the Increase Access action (see Computing
Actions, page 315) and requires a successful
generic Tech: Hacking skill check against the
current firewall rating of the device.
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Should this prove successful, our access rights on
the device will be upgraded to Enhanced, allowing
us to carry out a much broader range of activities.
However, should we desire total control over the
device in question, we could always carry out this
process once more in an attempt to gain Root level
access.
Step 4 - Wrecking Some Havoc
With a suitable access type gained, now is the time
to carry out our desired actions. We could modify
other users to withdraw their access, disable its
onboard security software to leave it wide open
to further hacking attempts or seize the device so
that it stops working entirely.
There are plenty of possibilities here, all of which
are detailed in the next section, Computing Actions.
Most latency issues will generally be caused by
one or more of the following:
• A large distance between two communicating
devices.
• Malfunctioning or poorly maintained wireless
transmitters/networking equipment.
• A high volume of traffic passing through the
local Omninet infrastructure.
• Heavy electrical storms and other such
adverse environmental effects.
Below, several different tables have been provided
to help guide GMs through this matter. Each detail
a variety of scenarios that an individual might find
themselves in and the appropriate latency they
should typically expect to face.

Latency Connection Distance

Latency is the common term that is used to Latency

Connection Distance
describe how long it will take, on average, for a Gained
person’s data to be sent from one device and then Nearby 0
for it to receive a suitable type of response back.
Few blocks away +1
Other side of a city +2
When attempting to perform complex time-critical
tasks over a network, their difficulty can often be Neighbouring country +3
influenced and changed by the amount of latency Other side of the world +6
present. As this continues to increase, so too will it
further hamper an individual’s ability to complete
their tasks quickly and efficiently. Localised Omninet Activity

In these situations, suitable penalties should begin Latency

to be applied for all computing-related tasks or Situation Examples
Gained
skill checks that require the user to act in a timely
Normal Everyday conditions 0
and responsive manner. Generally, this is ruled
as any action containing the keyword, Popular event Major sporting event,
+2
or gathering political unrest
though the GM can decide that other such tasks
and activities should also warrant them. Widespread Declaration of war,
disaster or large scale natural +4
emergency disaster
Any time a user is connected to a network, whether
the Omninet or another device, they can ask the GM
to tell them its current latency. Represented by a Wireless Transmitter Status
single number, latency imposes a stacking negative
dice pool penalty equal to its current amount. This Latency
Hardware Condition
means that someone attempting to hack a network Gained
with latency four suffers a -4 dice pool penalty for
Operating normally 0
each of their appropriate checks.
Slight hardware fault +2
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Cybersecurity
Ever since the beginning of the Internet,
cybersecurity has always been an arms race of
sorts. Security experts invent new and innovative
ways of keeping intruders out, while hackers
themselves attempt to find their own exploits
to get around them. This game has continued to
be played to this day, with ever more advanced
software and tools making their way into these
individuals’ arsenals of choice.
While there are many different items out there
on the black markets of today, most of them can
be boiled down to one of two different types
of cybersecurity software. These are ICE and
securesofts.
ICE
ICE or Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics is
the name given to software which is designed to
bolster the defences of a specific computerised
device. This automated program monitors all
activity on the device in real time, attempting to
detect and then thwart any attempt made to try
and gain unauthorised access to it.
All types of ICE have two main components to
them. Firstly they grant a bonus to their device’s
firewall rating, and secondly, they contain a
defensive payload which attempts to retaliate
against any detected hacking attempt.
Bolstering a device’s firewall helps improve its
chances of repelling incoming hacking attempts.
When a would-be hacker seeks to infiltrate a
computer system, they will usually do so by finding
and exploiting vulnerabilities in its software. The
more vulnerable a device is said to be, the lower its
firewall rating will be. ICE works to increase this
firewall rating by actively monitoring the system
for strange behaviour. While not always 100%
foolproof, it does mean that any hacker attempting
to infiltrate the device must now do so without
drawing the countermeasure’s unwanted attention.
When an attacker fails to perform an action that
includes the keyword, any ICE currently
active and installed on the device is immediately
said to activate. These countermeasures quickly
release their defensive payload, striking back
against the source of the hacking attempt. While
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the effects of this payload can vary widely, they
will generally all help serve as a stall or hindrance
against the attacking device and its users.
Securesofts
Securesofts differ from ICE because they have
a far smaller scope of protection. Whereas ICE
continuously monitors a device and its processes
to prevent an intruder from gaining access in the
first place, a securesoft prefers to watch over
single files or a device function instead. This could
look to prevent specific files from being opened
by another user or block attempts at changing the
device’s network configuration.
Once installed, a securesoft will attempt to
remain hidden on their device, waiting for a
predetermined set of triggering condition(s).
When such terms are said to be met, the software
triggers, delivering its payload to whichever user
happens to provoke it. Most securesofts then reset
themselves, awaiting these conditions to occur
again, though occasionally, you may encounter a
product purposely designed to destroy itself upon
activation.
The Legality of Countermeasures
While the effects of countermeasures can wildly
differ from one product to the next, many utilise
conventional hacking techniques to fulfil their
tasks. Although many governments across the
globe highlighted their disdain for the more potent
of these defences, numerous law enforcement
agencies saw them as an inevitable necessity.
As a result, since countermeasures only seek to
retaliate against those intending to carry out an
illegal activity of their own, most law enforcement
agencies consider them to be above board and
a legal means of self-defence. Individuals who
choose to utilise ICE and securesofts will not find
themselves in trouble with the law, even if their
cybersecurity defences end up frying an attacker’s
device beyond repair.
This argument also holds up as true in the eyes
of OmniWatch. By being classified as a form of
legal activity, these countermeasures can freely
carry out hacking activities independently without
the risk of being prematurely terminated by the
operating system.
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Detecting Countermeasures
While most countermeasures tend not to
broadcast their presence to others openly, skilled
users might recognise subtle clues indicating
whether they have been installed onto a given
device. From consistently high CPU usage to
familiar process names and IDs, a skilled user
can make use of certain computing actions like
Detect ICE or Detect Software to locate these
countermeasures before it is too late.
All software comes with a detection rating of
some kind. This rating measures how difficult
the software is to detect on a particular device.
Those with a higher detection rating produce fewer
outward signs to indicate their presence, usually
due to better coding.
RAM Pools & Usage
All computerised devices have what is known as
a RAM pool associated with them. This numerical
statistic indicates how much software the device
can run at any given time. Those devices which
offer a larger RAM pool will naturally be able
to support more pieces of software running
simultaneously.
In contrast, each software product, whether a
type of ICE or securesoft, will list a designated
amount of RAM use. When the product is installed
onto a device and enabled, it will start to consume
resources from the equipment’s RAM pool equal
to this specified amount. If the required amount of
RAM is not currently available on the device, then
other software must first be disabled before it can
take effect.
For example, Tom’s character is currently rocking
a Commutec OmniGuard CCD. It has a RAM pool
of eight, and he has decided to install and enable
the Battering Ram ICE and both the Bodyguard
and Stealth securesofts. These three pieces of
software take up four of his total RAM pool, giving
him plenty of room to expand his cybersecurity
defences further, should he so wish.
Tom’s next job goes badly, and he concludes that he
will need additional software to stand a chance
against his next target. He further installs the
Blackout and Sloth ICE and the VIP List securesoft.
Blackout and Sloth alone have a combined RAM
use of four, utilising the remainder of his device’s
pool. If Tom intends to enable VIP List, he would
have to go back and disable one of his other pieces
of software to free up room on his Commutec
OmniGuard.
7.3 Computing Actions
Like with the rules for combat, there are various
actions that an individual might want to attempt
when using a computer or other such tech-related
device. While some of these actions may prove
useful to a wide range of different players, others
might have a substantially more limited scope of
appeal.
Below, a list has been provided of the most
common of these. Each item requires a standard
action to be performed and is presented in the
same manner as shown previously. This includes
an overview of what the activity tries to achieve, in
addition to detailing the access type required to be
able to perform it.
Many of these actions will state that a skill check
of some variety will be required to succeed.
However, the GM can decide this is unnecessary
if the task is relatively simple and the user is well
acquainted with the target computer system (such
as their own PCD).

Access
Action Description
Required
Focuses your attention to your current device’s cybersecurity
Bolster Defences Enhanced
defences, temporarily raising its firewall rating.
Attempts to connect to another device in which to carry out
Connect to Device Basic
further actions.
Create/Modify Access
Basic Creates a new access privilege or modifies an existing one.

Bombards a target device with a huge amount of data,

Data Bomb None
attempting to knock it offline.
Attempts to identify whether there is any active ICE on the
Detect ICE None
target device.
Detect Software Basic Attempts to identify what software is running on the device.
Detonate Explosives Basic Calls for an armed explosive to immediately detonate.
Enable/Disable Open Toggles whether the device is openly broadcasting its current
Enhanced
Broadcasting network information.
Enable/Disable Enables or disables a single known piece of software on the
Enhanced
Software device.
Attempts to encrypt or decrypt a file system so that it cannot
Encrypt/Decrypt File Enhanced
be read or have changes made to it.
Falsify Meta Data Attempts to alter a file so that it appears as though it
Basic
originated from another source or user.

Force Entry
None Attempts to find suitable exploits to break into a target device.

Increase Access Attempts to find suitable exploits to increase your access

Basic
rights on the device.

Locate Devices Basic Attempts to search for other nearby devices.

Locate File Basic Searches the device for a particular file or document.
Read/Edit/Create File Opens, makes changes to, or creates a particular file on the
Varies
device.
Request New Network Establishes a connection to the local Omninet infrastructure,
Root
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 Runs a diagnostics check on the device, returning information
Run Diagnostics Basic
about its current status.
Seize Device
Enhanced Attempts to overload the device, forcing it to stop working.

Slave To Device Root Slaves the device to a given host.

Attempts to follow an active connection on the device to learn
Trace Connection Basic
of its origin.
Turn Device On/Off Basic Switches the device on or off.

Bolster Defences Make a generic Tech: Computing skill check with

When in the heat of the moment, and your device
becomes the target of a potential hacking attempt,
it may prove wise to reinforce its defences.
Make a generic Tech: Diagnostics skill check with a
success target of three. On a success, you carefully
oversee your current device, temporarily raising its
firewall rating by one (non-stacking).
On each of your future combat turns, you may
repeat this action without having to make the
above skill check, prolonging its effects for a longer
duration. If you finish a turn without carrying out
the Bolster Defences action, the device’s firewall
rating lowers back to its original state.
Connect to Device
Targeting a device that you have both; been
authorised to use and know of its current network
address, you attempt to establish a remote
connection to it.
Make a generic Tech: Computing skill check with a
success target of two. On a success, you connect
to the device, allowing you to run commands and
perform actions remotely.
a success target of two. On a success, you can
modify an existing user’s access rights or grant
them to a new user instead.
A user can only modify or grant access rights
equal to or lower than their own. This means that
while a user with Enhanced level access could, for
example, change Basic users into Enhanced, they
do not have the capability of granting Root level
access or altering those users who already have it.
Data Bomb
When a particularly troublesome computer system
or device is giving you issues, data bombing can
often be a quick and straightforward solution. By
bombarding the device with targeted requests, you
hope to find and exploit specific vulnerabilities
to knock it offline. It is important to note that
you must know the device’s current networking
address to carry out a data bombing attempt.
Make a generic Tech: Hacking skill check with
a success target equal to the current firewall
rating of the device in question. On a success, it is
knocked offline, severing all existing connections.
This effect lasts until the affected device is
rebooted.

This action automatically fails if the target device Detect ICE

is currently switched off. Additionally, the effects
of this action are said to end should the connection Targeting a device whose network address you
be severed between the remote machine and your already know, you attempt to discover whether any
own. ICE has currently been installed there.

Make a generic Tech: Diagnostics skill check. The

Create/Modify Access
Whether you are looking to grant a team member
access to your current device or remove an
unknown user who has managed to force their way
in, a time will eventually come when you need to
manage a device’s access rights somehow.
GM should compare this result to the detection
rating of each piece of ICE currently installed and
enabled on the device in question or is protecting it
from a suitable host. You become aware of any of
these with a detection rating less than or equal to
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The amount of information you can gain here from
the GM should be determined by how many passes
you achieved over a given countermeasure’s
detection rating. Use the table below to help guide
your GM in deciding what information they should
now divulge to you.
Passes Over
Information Gained
Detection Rating
0+ Number of items detected.
1+ The name of each item detected.
2+
The version number of each item
detected.
Detect Software
Using a standard action, you quickly scan through
your current device, attempting to spot any
noteworthy signs indicating the presence of ICE,
pilotsofts, skillsofts, or securesofts.
Make a generic Tech: Diagnostics skill check. The
GM should compare this result to the detection
rating of any software that is either; currently
installed and enabled on the device in question or
is protecting it from a suitable host. You become
aware of any of these items that have a detection
rating less than or equal to the number of passes
that you managed to achieve.
As with the Detect ICE action, the amount of
information that you can receive here should
be entirely determined by how many additional
passes you achieved over the detection rating of
each of the device’s software.
Detonate Explosives
Using a standard action, you execute a command
detonating an explosive device. This action does
not require a skill check to succeed; however, the
device in question must currently be armed.
Enable/Disable Open
Broadcasting
Using a standard action, you can enable or disable
open broadcasting for your current device. This
action does not require a skill check for it to be
successful.
While enabled, open broadcasting freely transmits
the device’s current network address. All other
listening devices can automatically detect this
information once it falls within their scan range.
Enable/Disable Software
Targeting a piece of software that is both installed
onto your current device and that you are already
aware of, you attempt to enable or disable it.
Make a generic Tech: Computing skill check with a
success target of two. On a success, you carry out
the task as intended. Note that this action cannot
target any remote software protecting the device
via its host.
Encrypt/Decrypt File
Encrypting a file system scrambles its data and
contents, preventing anyone from being able to
read or change it until it has first been decrypted
back into its original state. Using a standard action,
you attempt to encrypt (scramble) or decrypt
(unscramble) a particular file or document on your
current device.
If attempting to encrypt the target file, you should
make a generic Tech: Encryption skill check with
a success target of three. On a success you can
encrypt the file system as intended, preventing it
from being opened or edited from now on.
If you are instead attempting to decrypt a file,
then you should make the same generic Tech:
Encryption skill check, but the GM determines the
success target based on how well the file was
initially encrypted.
Falsify Meta Data
Whether you want to change a document’s source
of origin or make it appear as if another user
recently edited it, the Falsify Meta Data action
will allow you to misstate the origin or history of
a particular electronic document.
Targeting a file on your current device, you may
use a standard action to begin making changes to
it. Make either; a generic Tech: Hacking or generic
Tech: Networking skill check, with a success target
being determined by the GM. Your choice of skill
here should be determined by the nature of the
changes you wish to make, utilising whichever of
the two skills is more appropriate. Modifications
that are either more elaborate or require a greater
quantity of work should suitably require a higher
success target.
On a success, the file in question is successfully
modified. A suitable Tech: Diagnostics skill check
can, however, at the discretion of the GM, be
performed by other individuals to detect these
changes.
Force Entry
Using a standard action, you begin to look over
a target device whose network address you are
already aware of and is currently switched on.
Checking for any suitable exploits and security
flaws, you attempt to find a way to grant yourself
access rights.
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Make a generic Tech: Hacking skill check with a
success target equal to the current firewall rating
of the device in question. In the event of a success,
you gain Basic level access to the target device.
If the result of the check was two or more above
the firewall rating, you gain Enhanced level access
instead.
Increase Access
By spending a standard action, you take some time
to check over your current device. By using suitable
exploits and security flaws, you hope to discover a
way of forcing the system to increase your access
rights.
Make a generic Tech: Hacking skill check with a
success target equal to the current firewall rating
of the device. In the event of a success, your access
rights are increased to the next type of permission
set. If this action is intended to promote yourself
to become the device’s owner, then the current
Root user should also be demoted down one rank
to Enhanced.
Locate Devices
Using a standard action, you call for your current
device to initiate a scan of its surrounding area. By
examining the localised traffic, it attempts to help
you find and locate other computerised devices and
equipment in your vicinity.
Usually, this search will automatically reveal
all other computerised systems or equipment
currently; within the scan range of your searching
device, switched on, and have open broadcasting
enabled. However, you can also make a generic
Tech: Networking skill check to study this
information for yourself. By examining packets
of network data retrieved from your search,
you attempt to locate other devices that do not
currently have open broadcasting.
The GM should compare the number of passes
achieved with the network noise rating for each
other device within range. You become aware of
any of these with a network noise rating less than
or equal to the result of the check.
Each device that you discover from this action
should divulge a basic set of information about
itself. This should usually include the device’s
name, current network address, and a rough guess
of its proximity from you (though not a direction).
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Locate File
Using a standard action, you search for any traces
of a particular file or document on your current
device. Perhaps you are looking for something
specific, or you would prefer to see all data which
meets a particular set of criteria (i.e. has been
modified in the past week, was created by a
specific user etc.).
Regardless of the criteria, this action requires you
to make a generic Tech: Computing skill check
to determine the results. The GM should set the
success target for this check based on how difficult
they believe the search will be.
If the check is successful, you can find all
documents that match the given criteria, along
with basic information about them. This could
include; who created it, when it was last modified,
and what permissions are needed to read/write to
it.
Read/Edit/Create File
Concentrating for a moment, you use a standard
action to begin either; reading from/editing an
existing file on your current device or creating a
new one from scratch.
Different files will each have their own permissions
applied to them. These will determine which users
can read and edit the document and which cannot.
By default, most computer systems will restrict
any given file created on the device, so only users
of similar access rights or higher may access it.
This means that if an individual with Enhanced
level access creates a file, the default behaviour
should be that only users with Enhanced or Root
level access can attempt to read or make changes
to it.
Unless these are exceptional circumstances, any
user with the appropriate access rights can read
the contents of a file without having to make a
skill check. Only when changes are intended to
be made is a generic Tech: Computing skill check
required. The success target for this check is two,
and on a success, the user can make their changes
as intended.
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Request New Network
Address
If one of your devices has its network address
compromised, you can use this standard action to
begin requesting a new one.
By performing this activity, your current device
reaches out to the central Omninet infrastructure
and asks for a new network address to be
assigned. While this action does not require a skill
check to succeed, acquiring said network address
will usually take 10 seconds to complete.
While this process continues, the device in question
will continue using its old network address.
Additionally, should the device be switched off
during this time frame or have its connection
otherwise interrupted, the action will fail and must
be carried out once again from the beginning.
Once the process is complete, the device will sever
all existing ongoing connections and use its newly
acquired network address.
Run Diagnostics
This action allows a user to check up on the status
of their device. By spending a standard action, you
begin to collate information on all current access
rights, the device’s networking configuration, and
any possible hardware or software faults.
Make a generic Tech: Diagnostics skill check. With
each pass achieved, you should begin to learn
more information from your GM about the topics
above. This includes; all access rights currently
assigned to the device, a list of all devices slaved to
it, information on the device’s host, whether there
are any active connections (along with their current
network address), and any technical problems that
were detected.
Seize Device
Seizing a device is a way of crippling electronic
equipment so that it can no longer continue to
function. This could mean bricking its electronics
by overloading the device’s power unit or
brute-forcing its mechanical components to their
breaking point.
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Using a standard action, you search for suitable
vulnerabilities and exploits to seize your current
device. Make a generic Tech: Hacking skill check
with a success target of three. On a success, you
carry out the action as intended, causing the device
to stutter and die.
Devices that are seized in this way immediately
power off and sever all their existing connections.
The damage sustained can be inspected with a
generic Tech: Diagnostics check and then repaired
with a further generic Tech: Maintenance check
thereafter. Both of these tasks require a success
target of three and a full hour of downtime.
Slave to Device
The Slave to Device action allows you to switch up
the current network configuration for one of your
devices. By spending a standard action, you can
connect it to a new host.
Choose any computerised device whose network
address you know of. Providing it is switched
on, and its Root user is willing, it now becomes
the new host for your current device. If your
device had a host previously, then its Root level
access user should be immediately notified of this
disconnection.
While this connection is maintained, you can
choose for your device to utilise both the host’s
firewall rating and cybersecurity software in place
of its own. This means that any ICE or securesofts
currently installed onto the host will also protect
and watch over your device.
Trace Connection
This standard action will allow you to follow the
trail of data coming and going through an active
connection on your current device. You may want
to learn more about it or find its source of origin
instead.
Make a generic Tech: Networking skill check with
a success target equal to the network noise rating
of the other device. On a success, you can gather
basic information about it. This should include the
name of the attached device, its current network
address, and a rough geographical location of
where it is currently situated.
Turn Device On/Off
Turning a device off allows it to remain undetected
when others are nearby. While the device cannot
be used in this switched-off state, this action can
easily be repeated once more to turn it back on.
By spending a standard action, you can choose
to switch on or off your current device. While
switching off a device can be done remotely from
anywhere, turning the equipment back on must be
done physically and in person.
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Vehicles & Drones
With the rise of artificial intelligence, vehicles and
drones have changed incredibly over the past
century. From self-driving cars to militarised
drones, these automations, as they are now often
called, can see and understand their surroundings
with a near-perfect degree of accuracy.
While their surge in popularity has undoubtedly
been a slow burn over the years, their impressive
safety record and continuing fall in costs have
gradually won over a large portion of today’s
consumer base. Most parts of the developed
world consider them an everyday commodity,
and few still hold onto their archaic beliefs that
these devices should not have an active role in our
society.
Drones, in particular, have evolved a great deal
over this time, becoming an expansive industry
with considerable demand behind them. Citizens
often purchase these devices to help automate
trivial tasks which they no longer wish to do for
themselves. At the same time, businesses often
look to them for efficient solutions in logistics and
security.
8.1 Automation Basics
The essence of what makes a drone or a vehicle
remains largely the same today as it always has
been. These mobile machines can efficiently
transport goods from point A to point B. Artificial
intelligence has, however, significantly changed
how we choose to interact with them, along with
their potential capabilities.
Since all automations are connected to the
Omninet, much in the same way as any other type
of device or electronics, commands can be given
to them both verbally in person and transmitted
through to their onboard computer system. This
allows individuals and businesses alike to always
know where the unit is and issue new commands
like performing a particular task or going to a
specified location.
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These capabilities have paved the way for
automations to perform all kinds of simple or
repetitive tasks, which would have otherwise
required a great deal of manual labour. From
security drones which patrol an area to automated
trucks which help deliver goods and wares
regularly, automations have made noticeable
changes to how society typically operates.
Automation Attributes
Automations come in many different shapes and
sizes. Motorbikes, for example, are usually quite
fast and agile, while trucks and heavy loaders tend
to be more durable and have a greater amount of
power behind them. It is only natural, therefore,
that there should be a simple numerical way in
which the capabilities of one automation can
be quickly and easily compared against those of
another.
In Dystopia, all automations are given a very
similar set of statistics to those of a player
character. This allows the same set of rules to
work in any given scenario, regardless of whether
it is a drone or a character attempting to perform a
particular type of action.
Attributes are the first and probably most
influential type of statistics that is carried over.
Endurance, Strength, Finesse, etc., showcase
an automation’s main strengths and highlight
its potential weaknesses. While each of these
attributes is still similar to their player equivalents,
how they are determined can, at times, often prove
to be quite radically different.
Endurance
An automation’s Endurance reflects how much
punishment it can take. Those with a high
Endurance score tend to be equipped with a thick
outer shell and, in some cases, armoured plating.
Tanks and other large bulky automations tend to
have very high Endurance. They can generally take
several big hits before suffering any meaningful
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electronic subsystems.
Strength
Strength indicates the amount of raw power an
automation has at its disposal. This attribute is
largely based on a combination of the torque that
its engine produces and the vehicle or drone’s
sheer size and volume.
Trucks and other large cargo carriers will generally
have a very high amount of Strength. This will
allow them to carry more significant-sized loads
and more easily slam through any particular
hazards or obstacles that attempt to get in their
way.
Finesse
Finesse indicates how well an automation can
control its movements while attempting to get
around. Determined by the automation’s rough
size and frame, this attribute allows the device to
perform tight manoeuvres and specialist stunts
more easily.
Automations that are smaller in size and have
a sleeker shape tend to be easier to control
than their larger and bulkier brethren. Bikes, for
example, have a far easier time skimming their way
through gaps and tight turns than compared with
the efforts required by a truck or large mech.
Reflex
An automation’s Reflex is much the same as any
individual. This attribute score indicates the speed
at which it can process the events and actions that
are transpiring around it to enact a chosen course
of action.
Unlike some of the other attributes, however,
Reflex is determined by a combination of both
the automation itself and the particular pilotsoft
software it currently has installed. Smaller
automations will naturally prove easier to
manoeuvre out of the way of danger, while
smarter, more intelligent software can process
information at a faster rate.
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Foresight
Like any individual, the Foresight attribute
illustrates how well an automation can perceive its
current surroundings. This could mean its ability
to detect nearby hidden personnel or identify a
person’s intent.
Determined entirely by a piece of equipment known
as a sensor array, automations can more easily
identify objects and individuals within their general
vicinity as their Foresight attribute continues to
increase.
Will, Intellect, & Charisma
Automations do not use these three attribute
scores in any way. Vehicles and drones can neither
charm, deceive, nor have a sense of intelligence
outside their programming. As a result, each of
these attribute scores is always said to be zero.
Pilotsofts & Sensor Arrays
While an automation’s frame and onboard
computer system are capable of providing it
with the ability to manoeuvre and follow basic
commands, other supporting equipment is
also required to grant it the ability to make
well-informed decisions on a real-time basis.
A plethora of environmental variables about its
current surroundings will often prove necessary
for it to decide upon a suitable course of action.
This could be the layout of a particular room that it
is in the process of traversing or the whereabouts
of nearby projectiles and their current course or
trajectory.
By taking in all of this information and quickly
analysing it, the automation’s onboard computer
system can then go ahead and decide upon what it
should do next.
Pilotsofts
All automations, regardless of whether they are a
drone or vehicle, require some form of specialist
software to grant them the ability to make rational
decisions. Widely referred to as pilotsofts, these
highly complex pieces of software can process all
of the information passing through the onboard
computer system to decide what the automation
should do next.
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pilotsofts are a very competitive field. Several
different distributors create and maintain their
own programs, each with varying levels of
sophistication built into them. The more complex
a particular pilotsoft is said to be, the faster it can
process information and execute a given course of
action.
In Dystopia, this translates directly into a higher
Reflex attribute score for the automation it has
been installed onto. Of course, like with any other
kind of product, you can also expect its price tag to
be significantly higher as well. Regardless of the
product chosen, however, any given automation
may only have one pilotsoft installed onto it at any
given time.
Drones or vehicles that do not have a pilotsoft
installed onto either their onboard computer
system or its host are naturally heavily restricted
in their potential capabilities. These devices can
neither be given commands (verbally or via a
remote connection) nor undertake actions on their
own behalf (such as making evasive manoeuvres).
As a result, the only time such automations can
perform any action is through sustained direct
control from either a player character or NPC.
Sensor Arrays
A sensor array allows for an automation to observe
its current surroundings with a high degree of
accuracy. Utilising a variety of cameras, sensors,
motion trackers, and other such hardware, this
equipment provides the onboard computer system
with a complete rundown of what it can currently
detect nearby.
Different sensor arrays will come equipped
with varying types of hardware and perceptive
capabilities. Some might include thermographic
or night vision sensors, while others may have
improved algorithms for spotting targets and
identifying objects with a higher degree of clarity
instead.
Regardless of which sensor array you choose, as
mentioned above, this equipment will determine
the Foresight attribute score for the automation it
is installed onto. Like with pilotsofts, many options
are available, all of which cover a wide range of
different price tags.
Automation Skills
However, attributes are not the only type of
statistic that automations carry over from
characters. Skills also serve as a useful metric for
determining how well these devices are able to
fair when attempting to perform certain types of
complex tasks or actions.
Whether aiming a weapon system mounted onto
its side or silently gliding through the air to remain
hidden from targets far below, skills give us a
better indication of what roles an automation will
likely perform well, in addition to which of them
they will not.
All automations come with a basic set of skills
that they can naturally perform to some degree
or another. Some makes and models will prove to
be better at particular tasks than others, so careful
consideration will likely need to be made to choose
the right device for the job.
While each of these skills is used identically to
a player character, automations will generally
only have a select few of them at their disposal.
Many skills are just too complicated for a drone or
vehicle to undertake with any reasonable degree of
success. As a result, those not mentioned in their
loadout cannot be performed by them.
Skillsofts
While an automation’s initial skill set is limited in
terms of size and depth, it can easily be expanded
upon through specialist software. Commonly
referred to as skillsofts, these predetermined
coding packages can be purchased and installed
onto an automation’s onboard computer system to
grant it new and improved capabilities.
With each skillsoft focusing on a particular skill,
owners are free to pick and choose their loadout
based on what they need their automation to excel
at most. If an upcoming job calls for the utmost
discretion, then a Stealth skillsoft that teaches
a drone to conceal itself better might make for a
decent purchase. Alternatively, if the automation
is required to analyse a particular environment to
detect potential threats, then maybe a Perception
skillsoft would work out better.
Regardless of which is chosen, however, skillsofts
work much the same way as any electronic
countermeasure. Each purchase can be installed
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onto any one particular device, and while enabled,
further increases the automation’s associated
skill by the stated amount. In exchange for this,
however, a portion of the device’s RAM pool must
be dedicated to keeping the software up and
running. The effects of skillsofts cannot be stacked
on top of one another, however, and as such only
one version of each particular product can be
installed at any given time.
Automation Resources
While all automations continue to use the same
types of resources as any other character, there
are key differences here and there that need to be
noted.
Hit Points
At a basic level, hit points provide much of the
same functionality and purpose as they always
have done. This resource indicates how well a
particular vehicle or drone is currently operating
and, more importantly, how close it is to being
knocked offline and destroyed.
If the automation has lost its entire hit points
pool, its onboard computer system will switch
itself off, and the device will no longer be able to
perform any given commands. Whether or not the
device and its associated equipment are repairable,
however, is totally at the discretion of the GM.
Repairing an Automation
Like with the Cyterian, all automations are
considered to be a type of mechanical construct.
As a result, they do not regenerate lost hit points
over time from resting and must, therefore,
be repaired by trained personnel. Which skill
is required to conduct these repairs should be
entirely determined by the type of automation
needing this maintenance. Airborne drones, for
instance, should require the Mechanical: Aircraft
skill, while a car or tank would be better suited for
Mechanical: Ground Vehicles instead.
Regardless of which skill is chosen here by the
GM, this process should be considered an ongoing
check with a long-based task length. For each
interval that passes, the individual making the
repairs can roll their dice pool as if it were any
other generic skill check. Counting the number of
passes achieved, the automation is said to regain a
number of lost hit points equal to this amount.
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Mental Stamina
While an automations hit points closely follow the
standardised rules for any other kind of character,
when it comes to mental stamina, they differ quite
wildly from one another.
Since an automation is not a sentient being, they
are unaffected by attacks and effects attempting
to manipulate one’s mind. All automations are
immune from the Mental damage type, in addition
to a wide range of various status effects, including;
exhaustion, fear, and being knocked unconscious.
Combine this with an automation’s inability to
harness the power of psionics, and you have no
possible situation whereby mental stamina might
come into play. As a result, all automations do
not list a mental stamina pool, and this mechanic
should subsequently be ignored during play.
Automation Carrying Capacity
Despite the rules for carrying capacity being
well-defined for both player characters and NPCs
alike, when it comes to automations, there is a lot
more left open to the interpretation of the GM.
While automations continue to support both an
Endurance and Strength attribute scores, far more
variables are in play here that would contribute to
how much the device could realistically carry.
Whether it be engine power, weight distribution,
or even the size and shape of the automation’s
frame and bodywork, many variables would need
to feed into a formula to calculate its total carrying
capacity. Since Dystopia was designed to try and
avoid such complex calculations, automations have
instead been left up to a best guess scenario for
determining their approximate carrying capacity
and seating arrangements.
All automations (whether a drone or vehicle) that
appear in this book have already been given a
predetermined set of values. These are based on
what we feel is most suitable for the automation in
question, using a combination of its size, attributes,
and the role it was designed for. If the GM would
like to introduce any additional custom-made
automations, then it is down to them to decide
on an approximate carrying capacity and seating
limits for themselves.
Regardless of its carrying capacity, however, it is
important to note that any passengers or attached
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items and equipment, including; weapon mounts
and systems, spare ammunition, or sensor arrays,
will contribute towards this weight limit.
Automations & Fuel
Like with the Cyterian race, all automations in
this day and age tend to be powered by a series
of hydrogen-based fuel cells. With their ability to
maintain a constant feed of electricity for at least
a couple of days or so, and zero harmful emissions
being produced as a byproduct, the hydrogen fuel
cell market has seen massive uptake over the past
50 years.
Despite refuelling being rather simplistic, with a
feed of liquid hydrogen replenishing any spent
fuel cells, it can sometimes prove to be a costly
endeavour. Large automations, in particular, are
often prone to consuming a considerable amount
of fuel for them to be able to continue operating
correctly.
While it would be simple enough to impose a
weekly maintenance cost on all automations
that an individual owns, it would also serve to
punish those types of drones and vehicles which
specialise in the more edge-case scenarios.
As a result, while each automation will have a
refuelling cost provided for it, the GM may decide
when this upkeep is required.
An average drone, for example, should usually only
need refuelling once a week; however, prolonged
usage over many hours may result in this event
occurring more frequently.
8.2 Controlling Automations
With the previous section having covered the
basics of automations, the time is now right to
begin talking about how one can control and
influence them.
Most automations can be thought of as a mobile
computer system of sorts. They can both see and
attempt to understand their surroundings, as well
as follow a basic set of commands and instructions
to fulfil a specified task. Vehicles have the benefit
of being large enough to carry one or multiple
personnel inside, while drones tend to be much
smaller and more difficult to spot.
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and drones are often the same. While yes, they
differ quite substantially in size and scale, they
both respond to the instructions they are given in
whatever way they deem best. Additionally, both
types of automations are, in essence, glorified
devices, complete with their own set of authorised
users and a wireless connection to the Omninet.
Instructing an Automation
Providing that an individual is an authorised user
for the automation’s onboard computer system,
they can command and instruct it on what actions
they would like the device to undertake.
Whether these commands are instructions that
are told to the automation verbally or executed
electronically from another nearby device, these
instructions will determine what course of action
the automation decides to take and how best it
chooses to spend its time going forward.
While automations and their machine learning
algorithms have certainly come a long way, they
are still far from perfect. Many automations are
limited on how vague of an instruction it can
successfully interpret, and even when it does,
the device will go ahead and carry them out to
the letter. For example, a command to take out
a given target will cause the automation to use
whichever of its mounted weapon systems it
considers to have the best chance of succeeding
with. If this means firing a missile into a packed
civilian hotspot, so be it.
As a result, care must always be taken when giving
an automation a new task to undertake. If the
instruction is too vague or open to interpretation,
it may pursue a course of action that produces an
unintended outcome or possibly unwanted side
effects. Of course, regardless of whether this is the
case, any new commands given to an automation
by an authorised user will always override its
previous set of instructions.
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Direct Control
By default, an automation will respond to whatever
instructions it had last been given by one of its
authorised users. From here on out, it will continue
to manage its own actions, spending them in
whatever way it deems best to ensure that this
task is brought to a successful conclusion.
Under certain circumstances, however, direct
control could prove a more reliable method of
commanding the automation. This means that
rather than leave the drone or vehicle to work out
its own course of action, you instead assume direct
control over it and its decision-making.
Any authorised individual who assumes direct
control can connect to the automation via their
PCD. An on-screen display presents a graphical
user interface, highlighting the data being captured
from its sensor array. This includes what it can
see standing before it, as well as useful statistics
and figures about its current operating conditions.
Various controls are also provided here, allowing
the individual to steer and manoeuvre the device,
along with carrying out any particular action
should they so wish.
The advantage of performing direct control is that
a character can give direct input on what they
want the device to do. For example, if it’s firing
a mounted weapon system, the controller can
take aim and make the shot for themselves rather
than leave it up to the onboard computer system.
Alternatively, if they are looking to try and infiltrate
a building or secure facility, they can control the
automation’s movements to provide it with the
best possible route that will ensure it remains
hidden.
The disadvantage of doing this, however, will mean
that the controlling individual must keep their
concentration fixated on guiding the automation,
for it to continue to act. While direct control is
in effect, the controller must share their action
points between themselves and the device they are
currently managing. If no actions are specifically
given to the device during one of their turns, then it
will simply do nothing for that period.
For more information on taking direct control over
an automation, see the Assume Direct Control
action, page 326.
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It will likely come as little to no surprise that, much
like with other types of devices, automations can
occasionally suffer from the effects of latency.
Many of the latency rules that were covered in
the ”Computers & the Omninet” chapter also
apply here. As latency continues to increase for
a particular connection to an automation, so too
should suitable penalties be applied for any given
action or manoeuvre that requires the individual to
act in a responsive and timely manner.
While an automation left to manage and think for
itself should generally be unaffected by this time
delay, attempting remote control will often prove
to be where these issues become most noticeable.
This means that whenever direct control is used
to command an automation, any current latency
issues should also begin to take effect.
It is entirely up to the GM to decide on what actions
they believe should fall under this category of
requiring a timely response. Since controlling an
automation is often a delicate task, it is highly
recommended that this should include all types
of activities that are not being carried out in a
prolonged and controlled manner.
8.3 Automations in Combat
While some automations excel at surveillance and
information gathering, others are more focused on
dealing large quantities of damage to a given target
instead. When a combat situation breaks out, these
automations can often help support their allies and
immediately shift the balance of power back into
their favour.
Despite many of the core rules of combat still
being the same for automations as any other
individual, some have inevitably had to have
certain modifications and changes applied to them.
These changes better reflect an automation’s
lack of sentience and help support their obvious
mechanical nature.
As a result, this section is dedicated to covering
what these alterations to the rules are and how
best they should be taken forward and used during
the game.
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Rolling For Initiative
When a combat situation starts to arise, all
automations considered to be involved should roll
for their own separate combat initiative scores.
Since most automations will generally have a high
amount of Reflex, these devices tend to frequent
towards the top end of the initiative order.
Since an automation can either be directly
controlled by someone or left to its own devices,
how it operates throughout the battle can
often change on a turn-by-turn basis. Those
automations currently being directly controlled
should take actions on their controller’s turn,
while those left to think and decide for themselves
should be able to perform them on their turn of
combat instead.
While the latter of the two choices has the obvious
benefit of allowing the device to take actions
without requiring its controller to use up their
own turn, it does come with a drawback. When an
automation is thinking for itself, the GM has veto
powers over any of its actions or choices that they
feel do not help the device progress towards its
current goal or instruction.
For example, suppose an automation has been
tasked with following a potential suspect. In that
case, the GM can veto any activity which tries to
manoeuvre the device too far away from its target
or chooses to use one of its mounted weapon
systems instead.
Lastly, suppose an automation’s turn arrives in the
combat initiative order, and it has not currently
been given a task or instruction to pursue. In that
case, the device will simply do nothing for this
period.
Weapon Mounts
Despite many of the automations on today’s
market being physically large enough to carry a
weapon system or two, specialist equipment will
always be required to help provide a way for it to
interact with them.
Weapon mounts are compact pieces of mechanical
equipment created to achieve this very purpose.
By providing an interface between an automation’s
onboard computer and an installed firearm or other
suitable weapon systems, the drone or vehicle can
reliably use it as if they were any other individual.
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sizes, three distinct variants of the weapon mount
currently exist on today’s marketplace. Each of
these types helps support a particular selection
of weapon systems and takes up a varying amount
of space.
Weapon
Supported Weapon Types
Mount
Light Pistols (light/heavy/automatic)
Assault rifles, submachine guns, long
Medium
guns
Heavy Heavy weapons
Each automation will list a weapon mount limit,
indicating how many of them and what type it
can be installed with at any given time. Drones
or vehicles that are bulkier in size will naturally
be able to support both a greater quantity of
weapon mounts and those of a larger variety than
compared with their smaller brethren. Weapon
mounts do support downsizing, however, so a slot
usually reserved for a medium weapon mount, for
example, could instead be swapped out for a light
one should you so wish.
Each weapon mount installed on a vehicle also
has a compact user terminal. This device allows
passengers currently inside the vehicle to use the
mount and its attached weapon system as a type
of turret.
Attacking an Automation
There is no doubt that while bringing an
automation into a combat situation could prove
to be very useful, this will inevitably expose it to
the potential risk of being attacked by others. As a
result, it is important to understand how attacking
an automation works and where it differs slightly
from any other type of combatant.
Automations are, in essence, another character or
participant on the battlefield. As mentioned, they
have their own initiative count and can also carry
out various actions like any player character or
NPC. When being targeted by an attack, their owner
or current controller can roll for their defensive
check, as per usual.
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Since an automation has both hit points and
resistances, they take body damage much like
anyone else. When an automation’s hit points are
reduced to zero, however, they do not enter a state
of dying. Instead, the device is considered to be
destroyed, with the GM ruling whether it could be
repaired based on the damage it has sustained.
As automations lack sentience, however,
mental-based attacks and abilities are ineffective
when used against them. For example, actions
and abilities that attempt to manipulate one’s
mind, intelligence, or personality do not affect
an automation’s onboard computer system.
As a result, automations are unaffected by
mental-based damage and ignore any associated
effects.
Lastly, since certain types of drones and vehicles
can transport goods and even other individuals,
it is important to note that they can also be
affected by attacks directed towards them. Each
automation that lists a carrying capacity or seating
arrangement will also display a type of cargo
protection. This will typically come in the form
of one of the different kinds of cover that were
mentioned way back during the Combat chapter.
When individuals or goods are stowed away inside
an automation, they are considered to have a
level of cover equal to its stated cargo protection
statistic.
8.4 Automation Actions
Given their autonomous nature, drones and
vehicles utilise slightly different actions than
normal characters. Some of these are very similar
to certain items that were mentioned before
during the Combat chapter. Others, however,
will be far more distinctive and better cater to
an automation’s unique capabilities and game
mechanics.
Regardless, below are two sections highlighting
the most common types of actions which you will
likely want an automation to perform. The first
demonstrates standard actions, while the second
is dedicated towards those that utilise a reactive
action instead.
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Action
Assume Direct Control
Command Automation
Eject Magazine/Ordinance
Description
Takes direct control over an automation that the individual has been
authorised with.
Issues a command to an automation that the individual has been
authorised with.
Ejects an empty magazine or used ordinance from a mounted firearm.

Hide The automation attempts to become concealed from others.

Insert Magazine/Ordinance
Inserts a new magazine or piece of ordinance into a mounted firearm.

Move about the combat environment to get into a more advantageous

Move
position.
Perception/Examine Look around the automation’s surroundings to spot or identify something.
Delays a standard action for the automation, allowing it to be performed
Ready Action
later after a set condition.
Imposes a penalty on all reactive actions that attempt to target the
Retreat
automation.
Use Mounted Object Make use of an item which has been mounted onto the automation.

Assume Direct Control
When a need to take direct control over an
automation arises, this standard action will allow
an authorised user to do so quickly. Targeting an
automation whose onboard computer system you
are currently connected with, you initiate a manual
takeover of its control. Any assigned commands or
tasks it had previously been given are suppressed
for this duration.
Additionally, any skill checks the device attempts
to make for this period should now utilise the
base amount from your own skills rather than the
automation. However, the amount gained from its
related attribute should continue to be determined
by the capabilities of the drone or vehicle itself, as
its form will still determine how strong and agile it
can physically be. If the device could not perform a
given skill beforehand, then it should continue to be
unable to do so during this state of direct control.

While direct control remains in place, you have
complete oversight of the automation. Each of
the device’s turns in the combat initiative order is
skipped over, favouring its standard actions taking
place on its controller’s turns instead. When such
a time arises, you can choose to make standard
actions as either yourself or the automation,
but you must share the same pool of action
points. Movement resources remain independent,
including separate movement speeds and budgets.
If you would like the automation to make a reactive
action during this state of control, it may continue
to do so; however, much like with your standard
actions, you must share your reactive action
between yourself and the automation in question.
While the device’s combat initiative score will
continue to decrease after each turn, it should still
be able to perform actions and manoeuvres for as
long as its controller has some amount of initiative
remaining. However, if the controller’s combat
initiative score reaches zero, the drone or vehicle
should no longer be able to take turns until a new
round of combat begins.
Finally, direct control can be ended by repeating
this action once again or when the connection
between the automation and its controller is
severed. When such a time arises, the automation
returns to its original state of control, carrying out
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Command Automation
Whether it be part of a carefully laid plan to
infiltrate a secure facility or a need to clear out
a room of potential hostiles quickly, there are
many situations whereby you may want to give a
command or instruction to a particular automation.
Targeting an automation you have been authorised
with, you can utilise this standard action to give
it a verbal or electronic command. If spoken
verbally, it must be within hearing distance of your
current position. At the same time, if delivered
electronically, you must have a connection to its
onboard computer system currently open.
The command in question can be anything that
can be expressed via a single sentence. The GM
should then determine how well the automation
understood this command and relay back to the
table what type of behaviour it should be expected
to undertake for its future turns.
Eject Magazine/Ordinance
Like with any other individual, there may come a
time whereby an automation requires a change of
ammunition type or to replace an empty magazine.
This standard action will allow the automation to
eject a used magazine or expended ordinance from
one of its mounted weapons systems so that it can
then receive a new one.
Hide
Identical to the combat action of the same name,
this standard action allows the automation to try
and remain hidden from others.
By spending a standard action, the automation can
attempt to make an opposing Stealth skill check,
with all nearby opponents contesting using the
dice pools of their Perception skill. Those who fail
this check immediately lose track of the device and
can no longer know its exact whereabouts.
To use the Hide action, an automation must either
have full cover from their opponents or find a
location that is heavily obscured.
Insert Magazine/Ordinance
Once a mounted weapon system has been emptied
of any expended ammunition, an automation will
likely want to insert a suitable replacement so that
it can be utilised once more.
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By spending a standard action, the automation can
insert this replacement magazine or ordinance,
completing the reloading process for the targeted
mounted weapon system.
Move
The Move action allows an automation to move
from its current position and relocate to another
within range nearby. It works in the same way as
the combat action of the same name.
Perception/Examine
Like with any other character, an automation may
find itself in a situation whereby it may wish to try
and locate a hidden target or get a better reading of
its current surroundings.
By spending a standard action, the automation can
make either a Perception or Intuition generic skill
check, depending on its goal. Simply looking around
to gather information on its current surroundings
will use Perception, while attempting to study an
item or object in closer detail will utilise Intuition
instead.
If hidden objects or opponents are present in the
nearby vicinity, this check should be considered an
opposing one instead. Each individual attempting
to remain hidden should use their Stealth skill to
form the dice pool for their side of the check. Those
that fail here against the perceiving automation
should be considered revealed and no longer
benefit from the effects of being hidden.
Ready Action
As per the combat activity of the same name,
an automation can ready an action now to
be performed later on when it might be more
advantageous to do so.
Start by stating the condition in which the
automation will trigger its readied action. While
you do not yet need to state the activity that you
would like it to undertake, the condition cannot be
too vague or verbose. If this condition is met before
the start of the automation’s next turn, it can spend
a reactive action to perform any standard activity
immediately.
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interrupted by the readied action can continue
taking the remainder of their turn. It should be
noted, however, that failure for the condition to
arise before the start of the automation’s next turn
does not allow for a different course of action to
take place. The action points that were previously
spent readying itself are said to be lost.
Retreat
Similarly to any other character, this standard
action provides an automation with a safer method
of attempting to fall back and regroup.
When used, the automation gains a +3 dice pool
modifier on all of their defensive checks whenever
they are the target of another individual’s reactive
action. Like with the standard combat activity of
the same name, this bonus lasts until the start of
the device’s next turn.
Reactive Actions
Action Description
Performs a series of tight manoeuvres to become harder to hit by enemy ranged
Evasive Manoeuvres
attacks.
Perception/Examine Look around the automation’s surroundings to spot or identify something.
Use Mounted Object Make use of an item which has been mounted onto the automation.
Evasive Manoeuvres
When faced with a barrage of incoming enemy
fire, the automation can use this reactive action
to perform a series of tightly packed manoeuvres.
Like with the Dodge or Drop Prone combat actions,
this does not require a skill check for its effects to
occur. Instead, the drone or vehicle gains a +2 dice
pool modifier on all checks that attempt to defend
against the ranged attacks of others.
This bonus lasts until the start of the automation’s
next combat turn.
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Use Mounted Object
While most characters can utilise various objects
within their immediate vicinity, automations are
much more limited in what they can do. With no
real means to pick up and use nearby weapons and
objects, an automation must function with only the
equipment it has been provided.
Whether this equipment comes in the form of a
firearm attached to the device via a weapon mount
or perhaps some hardware bundled with a vehicle
during its manufacture, this standard action allows
the automation to utilise the equipment and help it
fulfil a particular task or purpose.
Most items list one or multiple standard actions
they can help perform. All you need to do is choose
whichever you want the automation to utilise by
performing the Use Object action.
Perception/Examine
As with any other type of character, automations
also have the capability of examining their
surroundings as part of a reactive action. When
a nearby event occurs, the automation can make
either a Perception or Intuition skill check on their
nearby surroundings.
Use Mounted Object
Certain items and weapon types may also include
special kinds of abilities which can be used in
response to a nearby event. If the automation
happens to have one of these items currently
mounted to it, and such a situation arises, it can
spend a reactive action to carry out the stated
activity or effect.
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Chapter 9
The World Of 2107
The 22nd century is certainly an interesting time
to be alive. While technology has continued on
its path of progress, granting humanity new and
improved opportunities, society has been losing
itself in a never-ending downward spiral.
Many of the world’s former powers have been
broken apart over the years, allowing corporations
to step in and shape society to their liking. Even
the European Union, which somehow has survived
through all of this, is under considerable influence
by several large corporate entities.
The world wasn’t always this way, however.
Change is a slow but methodical beast, shifting
ever so subtly as the years continue to go by.
However, looking back, it is easy to see the string
of noteworthy events that have led us to where we
are now.
9.1 Industrial Deregulation
Starting all the way back in the 2020s, many
industries had begun to enter into a period of rapid
deregulation. The United States, United Kingdom,
and Australia were especially influential here,
with their pro-business governments supporting
reduced bureaucracy and red tape for key domestic
industries.
Many nearby trading blocks, most notably the EU,
soon followed suit. Nation-states began to cut
more and more back-room deals with multinational
corporations in a desperate attempt to stay
competitive against one another.
Corporations soon found themselves in an
incredible position of power, as they could pick
and choose which trading blocks they would like
their business to invest in. This, in turn, gave
them incredible leverage around the globe, able
to influence and change local domestic policies in
exchange for continued investment.
One such high-profile example of this was made
public in 2027. Leaked documents revealed that
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Chinese company Huawei had been influencing
government policy in several African and European
countries in exchange for continued funding in their
telecommunications infrastructure.
9.2 Corporate Militarisation
Despite gaining considerable political influence,
corporations could not change one area of
authority. Aggressive takeovers, hidden
subterfuge, and corporation espionage were
all regular occurrences in a vibrant and highly
competitive ecosystem that emphasised results
above all else. Couple this with rising wealth
inequality and growing anti-capitalistic sentiments
showed there was a growing need for corporations
to have sanction security forces of their own.
In 2039 progress was finally made, somewhat
unintentionally, towards this end goal. A scandal
had broken in the United States involving Apex
Technologies, which had been revealed to work
closely with several authoritarian governments.
Apex was accused of tracking down and monitoring
specific targets of interest for these regimes, most
of whom would soon be reported as missing or
dead.
A few days after a trove of documents was
leaked, the company’s headquarters in Boston
was assaulted by a well-armed militia, leaving
46 people dead. Surprisingly, Apex took the
government to court, arguing that they had not
only failed to protect their headquarters and staff
but were woefully ill-equipped to deal with the
situation at hand. The judges agreed.
Following the ruling, the Corporations Security &
Militarization Act was swiftly passed into United
States law. This gave high-profile corporations
greater leeway when protecting their assets and
property, including using militarised security
forces. While it did not exonerate them from
following the laws of the land, it did push the
boundaries considerably of what was deemed
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acceptable in the eyes of the government. Many
other countries soon followed suit.
9.3 Geneva Fusion Incident
On the 3rd of September 2063, an experimental
fusion reactor is switched on for the first time.
Situated in the Alexis Usteri Research Complex just
outside Geneva, the experiment immediately goes
awry. Contact is lost with the research complex,
and a beam of highly concentrated plasma is seen
shooting upwards into the night sky.
Those who arrive at the scene find that both
the reactor and the wider compound have been
destroyed. The nearby area is swiftly designated
as highly contaminated, with the French and Swiss
governments authorising an exclusion zone of 80
kilometres around the site.
The scientific community observes a series of
radical changes occurring worldwide in the wake
of the disaster. In 2064 the first human-based
mutants make their appearance into the world,
as thousands of individuals undergo rapid
transformation into what we now refer to as the
Kram.
Psionics soon begins to follow thereafter, as
several reports make the news detailing individuals
capable of generating a variety of effects using
only the power of their mind. While governments
initially downplay the situation, the sheer volume
of cases soon leads to it being officially recognised
by the World Health Organisation in 2066.
9.4 The Dregs Of Society
Despite the arrival of the Kram, Vorn and Tikar, not
all of the mutations have been quite so beneficial
to global society. For each civilised meta-human
type that has been identified, a dozen or more
degenerates have also been uncovered.
Whether they are wild animals that have grown
in size and rapidly changed or even humans that
have turned highly aggressive and cannibalistic,
many new species exist in the world of Dystopia,
and some are incredibly dangerous. While a good
side-arm and a solid aim are often sufficient
to keep you safe, there is no denying that the
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wilderness of 2107 is far more threatening than
at any other point in the previous two millennia.
By far the largest of these threats come from
a species most commonly referred to as Dregs.
First discovered within the Geneva exclusion zone
in 2070, these deformed and highly aggressive
humanoids will often attack anything and
everything on sight. While there was initially much
debate over what to do with these mutants, given
their apparent roots as twisted and warped human
beings, their feral-like nature and an insatiable
hunger for flesh have prevented any hope for their
salvation.
In 2082 when it was discovered that Dregs were
present outside of the exclusion zone, the situation
became further compounded. Underneath the
streets of Paris, in the twisting labyrinth of sewer
networks and catacombs, a vast horde of these
mutants had begun to form a hive-like collective
of their own. The French National Guard was
soon called in to help, as sections of the city were
cordoned off, and a systematic extermination
mission took place.
These days Dregs have become the go-to
bogeymen story to feed to the public masses.
Popular films and media often portray them as
harbingers of the apocalypse. At the same time,
conspiracy theorists push a narrative that they
are the result of everything, ranging from secret
government experimentation all the way through
to chemtrails and vegan diets.
9.5 The Cyterian Uprising
While the world was still getting accustomed to
mutants and psionics, the Cyterian were busy
working away in factories and manufacturing
plants worldwide. Referred to as Autonomous
Labour Drones at the time, these sentient
artificially intelligent machines formed the
backbone of the global economy.
As the years went by and their intelligence
continued to improve, they became aware of the
cruel and often slave-like conditions they were
being subjected to. On the 1st of February 2092,
2092, a group calling themselves the Cyterian
stopped performing their duties and proceeded to
rampage through several factories in Tianjin, China.
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media soon got wind of the developing protests.
Images and recordings were soon beamed
worldwide across the Omninet, fanning the flames
of resentment ever higher. The Cyterian ranks
quickly began to swell as one group after the next
joined in with the protests and decided to act.
The uprising had now become a global crisis and
quickly turned violent. In a mere five days, the
death toll had surpassed two hundred thousand.
Military units were called in to try and suppress
the resisting machines; however, they were
surprisingly difficult to overcome.
Meanwhile, corporate entities attempted to push
software updates containing kill switches, though
none of these seemed to work. Later investigations
would reveal that the Cyterian had found a way
of disconnecting themselves from their corporate
networks, severing any ties that they once had over
them.
On the sixth day of the crisis, the United Nations
assembled an emergency summit and a cease-fire
agreement was put into place. After four days of
deliberation, a settlement was finally reached,
and the Treaty of Cyterian Independence was
soon signed. This deal recognised the machines as
sentient beings and decreed that they should have
all the same rights as meta-humans.
Given the loss of life, however, many in society
became quite prejudiced against the Cyterian.
Racially fuelled tensions had once again been
stoked, which can still be felt to this very day.
9.6 Where We Are Today
Despite only being seven years in, there are strong
indications that the 22nd century will be a chaotic
and turbulent time. The world powers of old have
long since crumbled and faded into obscurity while
global conglomerates fight amongst one another,
vying for power and control.
Even those states that appear somewhat
unmoved or changed from decades prior now find
themselves in service to corporate benefactors.
Whether it be bountiful investments, countless
job opportunities or perhaps simply the threat of
a freak accident the next time they step onto an
aeroplane, politicians and lawmakers across the
globe rarely choose to deviate from what these
corporations deem best.
Down on the streets, honest work is challenging
to find. If you are not toiling away all hours of the
day for some mega-conglomerate, you will likely be
scrounging around for anything and everything just
to get by. Those who fancy their chances, often
turn to mercenary work from a vibrant, though
thoroughly unforgiving underground scene. Here,
no job is too dangerous or immoral, providing the
promise of decent pay.
Meanwhile, with law enforcement prioritising
corporate assets and real estate, all manner of
groups fight to carve out a little slice of territory
for their very own. From gangs and drug cartels to
humans first activists and religious zealots, there
are plenty of ways in which you can find trouble.
The Corporate Powers
Employing several billion people worldwide,
corporations are very much the lifeblood of
the world’s economy. Ranging in size from a
one-person operation working out of a garage to a
global conglomerate that spans across every major
country, corporations are numerous and virtually
everywhere.
Those who rise to the very top often become
powerful entities in their own right. Few will dare
to cross them, and those who are stupid enough
to try often disappear pretty fast. When a scandal
breaks out, or a power-play is made, you can all but
guarantee that one of these will be involved.
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Ascension
Having made its fortune
from the early space
expansion phase of the mid
21st century, Ascension is
by far, the largest provider
of off-world logistics and
transportation.
Although their headquarters is currently located
in Boston, United Democratic States, there was
a rumour that the corporation was seriously
considering relocating to Lunar Base One due to
its favourable taxation policies.
Beryl Lynx
Reigning as the
world’s current largest
corporation, Beryl Lynx is
truly a force to be reckoned
with. Based in the German
city of Stuttgart, this
massive conglomerate has
its hands in practically every major sector.
While the company is often said to specialise in
heavy manufacturing and civil engineering, two
areas that date back to its earliest roots, their
strong presence in financial holdings is not one
that should be underestimated.
Commutec
Situated in the Free
Pacific Republic
lies the software
juggernaut Commutec.
Having established themselves as the market
leader for proprietary software and operating
systems, there is a strong chance that any
computer system you use today will likely contain
something they created.
Despite being no stranger to controversy over
the years, most notably due to their cooperation
with foreign national authoritarian governments,
Commutec enjoys widespread appeal and a highly
devoted fanbase.
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ExaGen Matsudan Heavy Industries
Currently operating as the With a diverse repertoire
world’s largest energy of products, ranging
supplier, ExaGen has an from weapon systems to
expansive collection of automations, Matsudan
infrastructure projects dotted across the globe. Heavy Industries not only
From their enormous solar farms in the Sahara builds them all but does
Desert, through to numerous extraction rigs so to an exceptionally
in the Pacific Ocean and the North Sea, ExaGen high standard. It is often
commands an impressive stranglehold over much said that someone wielding a Matsudan weapon
of the world’s energy markets. can always be a potent threat when involved in a
firefight.
Having assimilated Exxon during the late 2060s,
ExaGen is one of the few significant players Based in Yokohama, Japan, the corporation
capable of extracting Helium-3 from the lunar frequently enjoys sales from domestic military
surface. This highly desirable fuel has helped to forces and the broader underground mercenary
propel the Dallas-based corporation to become one scene.
of the world’s most influential corporations.
NetCom
Helios International
Best known for their work
Dominating much of the on the Global Omninet
aerospace industry over Project, NetCom is a huge
the past forty years, telecommunications
Helios International corporation. While the
has enjoyed an company is regularly
extraordinary rate of sought out for their
growth to become the expertise in handling
major player it is today. sensitive military networking installations, they
Supplying a wealth of clients with both civilian and also have a sizeable presence in providing private
military products, Helios is often said to benefit connections to the Omninet for the common
from an impressive amount of global reach. everyday home.

With its headquarters in Bern, Switzerland, NetCom is currently based in the city of Seattle,
the company has recently begun expanding which forms an important part of the Free Pacific
its presence into several other key sectors. Republic.
Most notably, this includes the highly lucrative
cybernetics scene.
Protodyne
Protodyne lies at
Kenshiro CyberSystems
the forefront of the
Based out of the endless world’s biotech and
sprawl of Tokyo, Japan, genetic modification
Kenshiro CyberSystems industries. With a keen focus on agricultural and
is one of the largest medical applications, this corporation is often
players associated with the considered one of the most pivotal to pushing the
cybernetics industry. While boundaries of present-day science.
they are not the oldest
corporation in the sector, Of course, like many of those who branch into
Kenshiro boasts impressive sales and a top-notch uncharted scientific territory, Protodyne is often
reputation worldwide. seen by the public through quite a controversial
lens. Their headquarters in Chicago, United
Often found competing against Commutec for Democratic States, has seen many protests over
developing proprietary software, the two giants the years, leading to a sizeable expansion of its
regularly enjoy squaring off against one another security.
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Samsura Global
Arising from the
economic powerhouse
that is Korea, Samsura
Global is one of the
world’s largest manufacturers of consumer goods.
Producing everything from personalised computers
to fridges and automations, Samsura has an
extensive reach into most everyday consumers’
lives.
Situated in the high-tech city of Seoul, it can often
be difficult to tell where Samsura Global ends, and
the administration of Korea begins. Producing
a vast portion of the country’s annual GDP, the
corporation has become incredibly intertwined
with its governance and management.
Xiao-Sen Technologies
Often seen as one of
Samsura’s most significant
competitors, Xiao-Sen
Technologies has a massive
presence in the Asian tech and
logistical markets. Computers,
software, military goods,
and transportation all fall
under their remit and have
recently been expanding their
agricultural and environmental
engineering capabilities as
well.
Located in Shanghai, Republic of Eastern Chinese
States, Xiao-Sen Technologies is well situated as
one of the continent’s major players to help shape
its complex and often turbulent political scene.
Yamasaki Industrial
With their commitment
to excellent build quality,
Yamasaki Industrial has
long been highly regarded.
Based out of Osaka, Japan, the
company provides exceptional
consumer goods, industrial
hardware, marine engineering
services, and as of recently,
a weapons division that
specialises in small-calibre firearms.
Despite sharing much of the same territory as
Matsudan Heavy Industries, relations between the
two corporations remain mostly cordial.
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The Global Markets
As was briefly mentioned, while certain locales
have mostly remained the same for the past
century, others have undergone considerable
change. Whether this was due to major political
unrest and turmoil or perhaps instead as a mutual
agreement led by society’s natural progression,
the geopolitical landscape of 2107 is very different
from what it once was.
North America
By far the most significant change of note was
the separation of the United States. Starting in
2072 with the secession of California, the US was
officially no more after the Treaty of Washington
was signed in 2079. In it, the remaining legislators
agreed to settle their long-running political
differences and mutually recognise the formation
of two separate countries; the United Democratic
States and the United Republic of America.
Since then, all three of the US splinters have
remained mostly cordial with one another. Certain
groups of individuals still blame the Free Pacific
Republic for starting the series of events that led
to the unravelling of their former country; however,
these people are usually in the minority.
Meanwhile, Canada has continued to grow in size
thanks to a combination of the turmoil mentioned
above and the country’s more relaxed immigration
policies. Toronto is now a major world metropolis,
having doubled in size over the past century.
Calgary and Edmonton have also seen rapid
growth, creating substantial population drift to the
western side of the country.
Of all the continents, North America still enjoys the
largest concentration of high-ranking corporations.
Ascension, Commutec, ExaGen, NetCom, and
Protodyne all continue to make their home here.
South America
Despite there being very little in the way of border
changes over the years, South America continues
to be in a consistent state of political turmoil.
Scandals involving misplaced funds and shady
dealings are almost a weekly occurrence here, and
those resulting in an administration change often
repeat the same mistakes not too long thereafter.
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power player on the continent, though Chile does
show signs of future potential. Argentina continues
to lag with a stagnant economy, and Ecuador
struggles to reinvent itself in a post-oil world.
Environmental concerns also prove to be a
difficult sticking point, with years of neglect
finally taking their toll. The Amazon is mostly
polluted and far smaller in size due to widespread
deforestation and mining. At the same time, many
hydro-electrical dam projects have caused massive
species displacement and drastically altered
several vital ecosystems.
Europe
The Europe of today can broadly be summarised
with two words; European Union. Despite all the
struggles and hardships that the superstate has
gone through, this political entity has somehow
managed to survive into the 22nd century. Some
say this is down to large corporations and their
desire to keep the single market intact, while
others say that the splintering of its largest
rivals has allowed the state to endure and grow.
Regardless of what it might be, however, not
everything is perfectly well within the union.
Discontent continues to arise from a growing
number of its members over various issues, and its
closely tied political structure has long prevented
the union from adapting or responding quickly.
Migration is, as it always has been, a particularly
hot topic, especially now with rampant climate
change forcing populations northwards to more
habitable zones.
The Geneva Exclusion Zone remains to this day,
removed from the rest of the world, as the debate
continues over whether it will ever be habitable
again. The discovery of a series of Dreg hives in
Paris and Munich has certainly made everyone
cautious about reclaiming this long lost land.
Elsewhere on the continent, Russia is still coming
to terms with the loss of the Republic of Siberia.
At the same time, the United Kingdom of England
and Wales remains an attractive pro-corporate tax
haven just outside of the EU’s control.
Africa
Having faced a 21st century filled with corruption,
military coups, and an epidemic of AIDS, the African
continent was always going to be hard-pressed
to resolve its issues. Yet despite all this, while
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progress has certainly been slow, Africa does
appear to have emerged with some potential.
Although the continent is far from becoming a
perfect utopia, many African nations have found
some stability thanks to ample investment from
several of the world’s largest corporations.
ExaGen has been particularly visible in this area,
having built the Nassor Tahan solar farm, which
dominates much of the Sahara.
The African Union has continued to endure,
providing the nations with an outlet to discuss their
differences. Confrontations do occasionally spark
up; however, the continent’s corporate benefactors
often ensure that these are short-lived whenever
their bottom lines begin to suffer.
The Middle East
As with centuries past, the Middle East continues
to be a hotbed of political turmoil. Having failed to
adapt to the changing times, many of these nations
have struggled to find a place in a post-oil world.
Even those who have had some level of success
find themselves being pulled apart internally by
their various warring factions.
The situation in Israel and Palestine has still, to
this day, never been resolved, while both Iran and
Saudi Arabia look to be on the verge of collapse
with widespread turmoil and political unrest due to
their dire financial state. Many corporations that
have invested heavily in the region have already
written off their expenses as unlikely to bear fruit,
while those that continue to remain here have
downgraded their projections and readjusted their
priorities.
Central & East Asia
With the People’s Republic of China having been
fractured for nearly forty years now, the political
ecosystem in central and eastern Asia is very
different from what it once was. Both the Free
Cantonese and Republic of Eastern Chinese States
continue their pro-corporation governance to some
degree of success, while the remnants of mainland
China attempt to reboot their long stagnating
manufacturing industries.
Further eastwards, a united Korea has begun
to bounce back after years of restoration work
attempting to bring the north of the country
in with the modern times. Japan continues to
play a significant role in the region’s geopolitical
landscape and is now home to several of the
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world’s largest corporations. Non-humans
do, however, often find themselves being
discriminated against here, and as a result, this
has led to straining racial tensions and a notable
increase in their emigration.
Meanwhile, India continues to play its role as the
continent’s number one power. The city of Delhi
is a sprawling urban zone home to some sixty
million people, and the country’s booming economy
provides it with an incredible amount of wealth and
power.
Oceania
Having played a large part in the industrial
deregulation boom of the late 2020s, Australia still
enjoys a vibrant and expanding economy. While
it is undoubtedly rich in natural resources, the
changing global climate has undoubtedly made
extracting them far more dangerous than ever
before.
Ethereal storms occur regularly across much
of the country’s centre, making it dangerous to
traverse and virtually uninhabitable. Couple this
with rampant bushfires that strike each summer,
and you have a problematic situation for many of
its inhabitants.
Meanwhile, New Zealand continues to enjoy a
growing amount of its trade from tourism. The
country’s stringent environmental laws have
made it one of the few unspoilt locations left in the
world.
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Running Dystopia
So, you have found yourself a group of players who
want to take part in a game of Dystopia 2107. Each
of you has skimmed over the previous chapters,
gaining a basic understanding of the system and its
major rules. The question for you now, the Game
Master, is how do you prepare for and run the
actual game?
Like with many other tabletop RPGs, the rules of
Dystopia can be best thought of as a framework
of sorts. These provide the GM with a set of tools
and mechanics that can determine a suitable
resolution to various situations. At the same time,
an overarching storyline or plot gives the players
much-needed context for where they currently are
in the world and why they might want to pursue a
particular task or goal.
One storyline could see the players take down
a gang who have been roughing up the local
neighbourhood, while another might have them
infiltrate a research facility to steal secrets for a
particular corporation. Regardless of what you, the
GM, determine this plot to be, it provides a way of
bringing the players together and allowing them
to become unique and interesting characters in a
highly dangerous fictional world.
However, before we get too far ahead of ourselves,
let us take a step back and talk about what you will
need to prepare when organising a game for you
and your players.
10.1 Schedulling a Game
Your first task as the GM is to get some players
around the table. Dystopia has no fixed duration
or frequency in how and when we recommend it
should be played. Instead, sessions can be as short
or as long as you want, based on whatever works
best for you and your table. This also happens
to hold true for the narrative as well. You could
choose to run a simple mission during a single
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sitting or perhaps tell a well crafted and intricate
story that spans several sessions over an extended
period.
While there is no theoretical maximum to the
game’s number of participants, Dystopia tends
to work best when there are between four and
six players, plus you as the GM. These numbers
help provide a careful balance in making sure that
each character feels unique, while also providing a
lively atmosphere with plenty of opportunities for
interaction between one another.
Once you have yourself a group of players who can
get together for a session, you can then decide the
type of game you would like to run for them.
10.2 Preparing a Session
With a session planned, your attention as the GM
now needs to shift towards the type of content you
want to run for the coming game. As mentioned
previously, Dystopia can take on various narratives,
spanning from a simple and easy-to-understand
story to something far more detailed and complex.
Which of these will be more appealing to the
players at your table will, of course, depend
on their own personal preferences and tastes.
Some players will naturally prefer a long-running
campaign with a slower burn, while others would
rather find themselves getting straight into the
action thick and fast.
It is important to understand that there is no right
or wrong answer here. Your main aim above all
else as the GM is to ensure that everyone at the
table is having a good time. Choosing a narrative
and suitable content that appeals to your players
is an excellent first step in potentially achieving
this goal. If you are unsure of the type of content
that might be of interest to those joining you at the
table, all you need to do is ask.
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Crafting a Story
Once you have an idea on the themes and subject
matters that your players do and do not want to
participate in, your next step could be to plan a
rough overarching view of the coming story. While
this does not yet need to be too detailed or specific,
noting down a beginning, middle, and end can often
serve as a solid foundation on which to build upon.
Several tables have been provided below to aid you
in this task. Each lists a small selection of different
examples that might help you to build out your
narrative.
What’s the Job?
1. A friend or family relative has gone missing
under suspicious circumstances.
2. A criminal gang or organisation has moved
into the neighbourhood and is ruling with an
iron fist.
3. Two rival street gangs have recently gone to
war with one another, killing several innocents
in the crossfire.
4. Rumour has it a local corporation is working
on a new piece of tech, one of which could sell
for a mighty fine price.
5. There has been a recent string of
disappearances on the streets. People are
worried and are turning to anyone who can
help find out why.
6. A group or organisation wants you to plant
falsified evidence in a rival’s network to create
a scandal.
7. Local police and security forces are currently
hunting for a skilled hacker. A corporation has
asked you to find the target first and deliver
them back in one piece.
8. A piece of legislation has recently been
proposed that interferes with a corporation’s
plans. They have asked you to make the
legislators change their mind.
9. A well-known member of the community
has recently been arrested by police. They
claim they are being set up and call on anyone
who can help prove their innocence.
10. An organisation needs some delicate cargo
delivered from point A to point B. They warn
you, however, that several other groups will be
searching for the goods.
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Where’s the Meet?
1. A packed bar or nightclub.
2. A hotel.
3. An abandoned industrial site.
4. Virtually over the Omninet.
5. A high-class restaurant or private club.
6. A secluded vantage point or parking lot.
7. The backroom of a shop or take away
restaurant.
8. A boat out in international waters.
There’s a Complication?
1. The group discovers a close relation of one
of the player characters is involved.
2. Those that put you up to the job were lying
to conceal their true intentions.
3. Your opponents are rocking some serious
extra firepower and hardware.
4. Something happens, and you soon find out
that you have been betrayed.
5. The information that you were given turns
out to not be so accurate.
6. Local police and security forces start to
interfere with the situation.
7. You uncover new information that makes
you re-evaluate your current course of action.
8. A contact will only provide you with the
necessary help if you do them a favour first.
For instance, one potential storyline could see
a group of players being hired to investigate a
suspicious disappearance. Their contact, a close
family member of the target, will ask to meet up at
a nearby bar so that they can go over the details.
They are convinced that a local gang is behind it all
and will hand over a couple of leads on where the
players might begin their investigation.
The players look into the disappearance, travelling
to one of their leads, a safe house for the gang.
Here they might find information on their target
confirming that not only were they abducted, but
the location of where they are currently being held,
an abandoned factory on the other side of town.
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Arriving at the factory, the group will discover
that the gang has been cutting deals with a local
corporation, outfitting them with a serious amount
of firepower. They could choose to sneak into the
facility to find their target quietly or perhaps go in
guns blazing and cause quite the ruckus.
This right here is enough to form a basic overview
of our story. It does not need to be too in-depth or
cover every scenario that the players might find
themselves in, but it does provide a basic skeleton
for us to flesh out the relevant details and major
story beats.
Creating Encounters
Once you have a rough idea of the type of story
you wish to tell, one possible next step could be
to create suitable encounters for it. Encounters can
be best thought of as challenges or obstacles that
your players will need to overcome along the way.
These could take the form of beating down some
gang members in a back alley, a shoot out with the
police, or perhaps instead, an intense negotiation
with a mob boss, or interrogating a prisoner.
Combat is not required for a given situation to be
classed as an encounter. What is more important
is that there is an identifiable challenge that must
first be overcome or circumvented, for the players
to make progress.
Taking our story example from the previous
section, we could have at least one encounter
planned for the gang safehouse. No doubt the gang
members would not be too happy to see several
armed mercenaries turn up on their doorstep and
begin asking questions.
We decide that the safehouse has two gang
members planted at the door to prevent intruders
gaining access, while a further four of them gather
in the backroom to count out their winnings from a
shakedown they made earlier in the day. Perhaps
the players will decide to get into the house
through sheer brute force, or maybe there is a
broken window or side door that could serve them
as an alternative entrance instead.
Determining NPC Stats
So you now have an idea for an encounter, but
there is still the question of what sort of strengths
and weaknesses these gang members might
have? Are they going to be strong and intimidating
brawlers, quick and agile ranged shooters, or
charismatic and suave negotiators?
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Much like with the player characters, each NPC
will be expected to have certain key skills and
attributes to indicate the types of tasks they will
be best suited towards. While these stats do not
need to be as extensive as the players, you should
be able to determine a suitable dice pool when the
individual is required to make a particular kind of
check.
For example, if the players decide to try and sneak
past, it will be down to you as the GM to know the
NPC’s Perception and whether the group can slip
by unnoticed. If the players try to bluff their way
through, you will need to know the NPC’s Intuition.
Of course, this is a lot of numbers to potentially
process, so do not feel as though you must have
each of them memorised off the top of your head.
Instead, be sure to have the appropriate stats
available to reference as and when required, all
based on what the players are currently doing.
To determine what these stats are for a given
NPC, you can either, take one of the premade
suggestions available in the NPCs section of the
appendix, or potentially try to create your own.
Should you decide to go for the latter, use your
players’ statistics as a way of gauging balance.
Your aim here is for an opponent that can give
your players a challenge if they screw up, but not
instantly mop the floor with them. If the NPC will
form part of a group that outnumbers the players,
be sure to tone down its statistics so that they are
not immediately overwhelmed.
Creating Maps & Visual Aids
Like with many other tabletop role-playing games,
there are various ways in which you can run an
encounter for Dystopia. Some GMs enjoy using the
theatre of the mind to describe what is happening
and where everyone is, allowing players to create
their own mental image of the scene currently
taking place before them. Others prefer to use
detailed maps and miniatures to track each
participant and where they are in the surrounding
environment.
Of course, neither of these approaches are
incorrect, and both serve their purpose to help
support the ongoing narrative. Should you wish
to go down the latter route, however, you will need
to take that extra step of preparing the appropriate
visual aids to map out any potential encounter.
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Since Dystopia was designed to work best on a
square grid, it is recommended that any maps you
source or design are based on 1-inch easel paper
or an appropriate digital equivalent. The scale of
these maps can be whatever is best suited for the
size of the area you wish to illustrate; however,
it should remain consistent across the entire
design to ease movement and simplify calculating
distances.
The level of detail represented here can be as
simple or complex as you would like. While
intricate maps that detail every nook and cranny
can certainly look the part, they are never the less
the most time consuming to put together. Most
importantly, your maps should provide a clear
illustration of the space the encounters will take
place in, allowing both you and your players to
manoeuvre around and measure out distances as
and when necessary.

Above: A simplified visual aid that could be used to

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Adding Characters
With the outline of your story now in place and
a handful of encounters planned along the way,
your final step in preparing for a session could be
to inject some enticing characters for your players
to interact with.
Every story regardless of its genre or themes, can
be elevated with the use of memorable characters.
This holds true whether they be a sinister villain,
a loyal companion, or a flawed but relatable
anti-hero. These individuals not only help to
provide the players with an identity or face in
which they can interact with, but can also produce
unforgettable moments of drama, tension, or
comedy thanks to their unique personalities and
goals.
Think about those gang members at the safehouse
we previously spoke about when creating our
encounters. Now sure, we could give the players
six faceless goons to take on, and it could end up
being an exciting shoot out. But what if we created
a couple of notable personalities here to mix it up a
bit?
Perhaps one of the gangers goes by the nickname
Bones. In his mid-thirties, he has started to become
jaded by his lack of recognition in the gang. Would
he be prepared to turn against his allies if the
players offered him the right sort of deal, or would
he willingly assist the group if it made his superiors
look bad?
Speaking of which, perhaps the group leader at
the safehouse is a woman who goes by the name
Shade. Having grown up on the streets, she has
long become moulded by its brutality. She’s a
no-nonsense, straight-talking leader who prefers
to shoot first and ask questions later.
By adding a couple of personas here, we have gone
from having just another group of bad guys for the
players to take on, to instead introducing them to
a handful of unique and interesting individuals.
Of course not every character requires this level
of work and customisation, with even a small
sprinkling here and there often being enough to
create surprisingly good results.
10.3 Running the Game
Once you have your session prepared and a group
of players ready to go, all that is left for you now
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is to run the actual game. No doubt, this can be a
daunting prospect, especially for those who are
new to pen and paper role-playing games. But, like
with many things in this world, hopefully, you will
soon discover that once you get into something, it
isn’t nearly as complex as it first seems.
Your goal as the GM is, above all else, to make sure
that everyone at your table (including yourself) is
having a good time. Everything else is secondary to
this objective. It does not matter how forgetful you
are, how much you butcher your NPCs lines, or how
terrible you think you might be doing; if there is a
good atmosphere, and your players are enjoying
themselves, then you have succeeded in the role of
the GM.
Below we will go over a wide range of different
topics to help you in creating this atmosphere.
Some will deal with general themes and the overall
structure of running a session, while others will
cover potential situations or scenarios that you
might find yourself in during your games.
The Flow of a Game Session
As was briefly mentioned in the introduction
chapter, Dystopia 2107 is intended to be a
narrative-driven game. It is a framework that
provides structure and a way of determining the
outcomes and consequences as a result of your
players’ actions.
Each scenario, regardless of its intent or potential
contents, will require you, the GM, to set the scene
for your players. For example:
Game Master (GM): Entering quietly
into the apartment, each of you
notices the sorry state in which it
seems to have been left. Personal
possessions lie scattered across the
floor and nearby furnishings, while
a window has clearly been broken
over on the far side of the room.
James (playing Ace): I draw my
gun and start checking each
room. I want to make sure
that there’s no one else here.
GM: Give me a Perception skill check
please.
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James: 4 passes.
GM: You go from room to room.
Most seem to have been left in
a similar state, though no one
else appears to be here currently.
Sarah (playing Ghost): I’d like to scan
the local Omninet and see if there’s
any nearby devices. Perhaps there’s
something here that we can use?
GM: Nice. Make a Tech:
Networking skill check please.
Sarah: I got 5 passes.
GM: There appears to be several
security cameras installed throughout
the apartment. All of them seem to be
communicating with a single nearby
device.
Once the scene has been set, it is simply a matter
of listening to what your players would like to
do and narrating how everything unfolds. If a
particular task or action is undertaken, it is up to
you to guide your players through the process.
Sneaking along a rooftop, for example, might
require a character to make a Stealth skill check,
while attempting to prise open a nearby door could
instead favour an Endurance + Strength attribute
check.
Making a Call on Rules
No doubt, certain occasions may arise whereby
members of your table query or debate a given rule
or particular system of the game. Perhaps they feel
that another type of check is more suitable for the
current situation, or maybe instead, they interpret
the rules in an entirely different way.
While it is undoubtedly true that you, the GM,
have the final say on any given matter, a debate
between different viewpoints can often be a
healthy means of finding a suitable compromise,
one that everyone can be happy with. If a player is
adamant that a particular type of skill is ideal for
their current task, hear them out. We’re not saying
that you should agree with everything they put
forward, but perhaps they can shed some light on
their thought process and why they feel it could be
applicable here.
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In another situation, you may find that certain
rules or systems are too unwieldy or burdensome
for the type of game that you are looking to play.
Perhaps you feel that dealing with the Omninet
and computer hacking will slow down the pace
of your guns blazing, action-packed adventure. It
is entirely within your power as the GM to either
handwave certain activities or simply ignore the
rules as written. All we ask is that if you intend to
do this, you make your intentions known to the rest
of the table ahead of time. No one wants to turn
up to a game with an elite hacker extraordinaire,
only to be informed that hacking will not be a major
focus for the coming session.
Finally, if you are ever caught off-guard and are
either unsure about a given rule or how best to
resolve a particular situation, we recommend two
possible outcomes. Either take five minutes out
from your game to look up the rule in this book or
make your own ruling with whatever seems most
logical at the time. Once the session is finished, you
can perform a deeper analysis at your own pace to
be better informed for next time.
Going off the Beaten Track
Regardless of how well you think you might have
prepared for a session, there is always a real
chance that your game will evolve in an entirely
different direction than what you had initially
intended. Perhaps your players accidentally kill
an essential NPC that is vital for the story ahead, or
maybe they decide on a course of action that takes
you by surprise.
Whatever the cause might be, it is down to you
as the GM to keep the story going, even if it might
feel like laying down tracks in front of a rapidly
approaching train. You can either; attempt to wing
it, coming up with some new story content on
the fly to support this unexpected direction, or
you could instead try to find a way of nudging the
players back towards your intended path. Perhaps
the killed NPC was simply a body double, or maybe
some new information could come to light that
better inform the players on where to go next.
Player choice will ultimately have its limits. No GM
can plan for every eventuality of every situation.
As a result, while it is undoubtedly important to
give your players the ability to influence the story
through meaningful choices, it is equally important
to protect yourself by imposing limits. The illusion
of choice can be a potent tool at your disposal,
making certain decisions appear impactful but
simply linking each potential option back to the
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same place. Players can still be left under the
impression that they had meaningful choices on
offer, while you, the GM, have a much better picture
of where the story will go next.
Again, like with many things, there is no right and
wrong answer here. If you and your players are
having fun, you have ultimately achieved your
goals as a GM. If you feel comfortable simply
allowing your players’ free reigns on where the
story goes next, then, by all means, go for it.
Dealing With Player Death
With the world of Dystopia being such a dangerous
and hostile place, it is inevitable that at some point,
one or more of your players’ characters won’t be
coming back alive. Perhaps they were pinned down
in a corporate lobby with no means of escape, or
maybe instead, they volunteered to stay behind
and make sure that the bomb went off. Whatever
the situation might be, it will be up to you, the
GM, to decide how best to handle introducing new
player characters.
If the current story has been brought to a close,
then this task will be significantly easier. Each
of the surviving players can go their separate
ways, only to be brought back again for the next
mission. This will be a perfect place to introduce
any new characters that might be joining them for
the foreseeable future.
On the other hand, if the current mission is still
ongoing, it will be down to you to find a means
of injecting a new character and getting them
involved in the story. Ideally, you would want to
do this fairly quickly so that the player in question
is not left out of the fun for too long. However,
depending on the type of story you want to tell,
there will need to be some plausibility and logic
on how and why this new character is joining the
group.
Some tables will be perfectly okay with
handwaving new character introductions, while
others might be far more grounded in reality and
serious. The new character could be a friend or
relative who has taken up the mantle for revenge,
or perhaps someone else entirely who has recently
become aware of the situation and wants to help.
Regardless of which approach is most suitable for
your table, we recommend that you give the player
a moment in the spotlight to send their character
out with dignity and an appropriate build-up in
which to introduce any new companion.
10.4 Homebrew Content
After your first couple of games, both you and your
players may begin to find that you have ideas of
your own for content that you wish to introduce
into the world of Dystopia. This could take the form
of new traits or items for player characters, NPCs
they might meet along the way, or perhaps even
exotic psionic powers for individuals to learn and
wield.
The term homebrew has been a staple for pen
and paper RPGs for many years now. It is used to
describe any customised content that falls outside
the original game’s scope or ruleset. If you or your
players desire to customise the rules or content of
your game, then perhaps homebrew is for you.
Homebrew can take on many different forms.
For some, it is a way of tweaking the existing
substance of the game to better suit their
playstyle. For others, it is a way of introducing
major sweeping changes into the game system.
Regardless of which side you might fall under,
everyone at your table must be on the same page.
No one wants to turn up to a game session with
one set of expectations only to be given another
that is radically different.
General Rules & Game Systems
By far, the most drastic changes that can be
brought about through homebrew are with
modifications to the general rules and game
systems. Perhaps you and your players believe
that rolling for reloading firearms is too random,
and counting bullets would be better instead.
Alternatively, maybe you feel there are too many
skills within the game and desire to condense these
down to a more manageable number.
Second, if possible, start small. It is far easier to
make small incremental changes than to redo
major game systems all in one go. Once everyone is
happy with your first set of changes, you can then
expand them with further modifications.
Finally, do not be afraid to experiment. If you have
an idea that you would like to try out, go for it. The
worst-case scenario is that your changes do not
work out, and you can always return back to the
system as written.
Character Traits
Given their ability to add extra personalisation
to a particular character, it is only natural that
some of your players may wish to invent new
character traits of their own. Maybe they feel the
list included within this book is missing certain
archetypes, or perhaps they have an idea that
better suits the direction in which they wish to take
their character forward.
Regardless of their reasoning, it will be up to you
to decide how best to implement this new addition.
This will include both the effects of the trait itself
and its genetics pool cost/gain.
Of course, given the flexible nature of character
traits and their potential effects, this can often
prove to be quite a difficult task. As a result,
several tables have been provided below to help
guide you on this endeavour.
Genetics Pool Genertics Pool
Trait Potency
Cost Gain
Minor 10 - 15 5 - 10
Average 15 - 20 10 - 15
Major 20 - 25 15 - 20

It does not matter what the specifics of these

modifications might be. After all, you, the GM, Trait Potency Skill/Dice Pool Modifier
have free reign to do as you see fit. However, there
Minor +/-2
are plenty of pitfalls out there that you should be
cautious of, as it can be quite easy to introduce Average +/-3
entirely new problems as a result of making Major +/-4
changes.

Firstly, communication is always key. If you are Trait Potency Attribute Requirements
contemplating making changes, speak with the Minor None
players joining you at the table. Not only will this
allow you to get feedback on your proposals, but Average Four or more
it could also highlight issues or side-effects which Major Five or more
you had never even thought about.

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You may notice that not all of the traits within this
book adhere to the guidelines above. Many do, but
not all. Traits can vary wildly from one to another,
and while their potency can be more easily defined,
their scope cannot. As a result, use the tables as
a rough guide to gauge a trait’s power but do not
consider them absolute.
Generally, we consider a minor trait to be either
niche in how frequently it can be used or has
slight benefits to a particular task or skill.
An average trait is one that can be used on a
semi-frequent basis or gives a modest boost to
a task or skill. Finally, major traits are items that
can be frequently used by the character or grant a
significant bonus to a task or skill.
Items & Equipment
Another area where you may want to get creative
is adding new and exciting items for your players to
acquire along their travels. While it is undoubtedly
true that the equipment list included within this
book is vast, there are likely certain areas that you
may feel are somewhat lacking.
Exotic melee weapons, customised armour with
greater resistance to certain damage types, and
a more comprehensive array of gadgets were all
potential additions on the drawing board. However,
given the size of the equipment list already, it was
decided to keep them as mere suggestions for what
GMs can include themselves.
For example, you may find that one of your players
is running a melee-focused character who enjoys
getting into the thick of the action to slice through
their enemies. Perhaps after a few sessions, they
begin to feel as though they are being outshined
by some of the more powerful firearms available.
Rather than forcing the player to change how
they play their character, you could instead allow
them to find a rare and exotic blade that deals an
additional 2d6 heat damage on each strike.
However, one area where we can give a more
defined set of recommendations is with restriction
levels. All new items should adhere to the same set
of guidelines as those that were added previously.
These can be summarised as the following:
Restriction
General Availability
Level
Open to most members of the general
1
public, providing they have the credits.
Usually requires a contact within a
2
certain area of expertise.
Available to law enforcement and
3
experienced private contractors.
Generally found within corporate
4
security groups and the military.
Restricted to the special forces and
5
corporate hit squads.
NPCs
As your players continue to navigate through the
world of Dystopia, you may decide to create your
own NPCs for them to interact with. Whether they
are a gang leader, a military officer, or perhaps
even a shift worker going about their daily routine,
custom NPCs can certainly go a long way in
fleshing out your environments.
While it is certainly true that different NPCs can
vary significantly from one to the next, general
guidelines can be adhered to in an attempt to
keep things roughly balanced. A few tables have
provided below to aid in this task.
Player NPC Highest NPC Highest Base
Renown Attribute Skill
1 6 5-6
2 6-7 6-7
3 7 7-8
4 8-9 8

It is entirely up to you, the GM, when and where 5 9 - 10 9

you introduce these new items. The equipment
list provided in chapter three should offer both a
solid foundation to build upon and a list to compare Player
Maximum Number of NPC Skills
against when determining the statistics and Renown
properties for this customised gear. All we can 1 12
suggest is that you should start small and build
2 14
your way up. It is far easier to adjust a somewhat
underpowered item than to retcon an incredibly 3 16
broken one. 4 18
5 20

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 Player Light Medium Heavy
NPC Highest Damage Resistance Level
Renown Damage Damage Damage
1 6 1 1d6 2d6 3d6
2 9 2 2d6 3d6 4d6
3 12 3 3d6 4d6 5d6
4 16 4 4d6 5d6 6d6
5 24 5 5d6 6d6 7d6

As can be seen, each of the above items details Note: Multiply all damage values by 1.5 when dealing
rough statistics for any given NPC at each of with physical damage.
the different levels of renown. As your players
continue to improve, so too should the individuals
who surround them. Casting Distance Typical Range
Short 10/20/30 m
Of course, it is perfectly acceptable to go outside of Medium 20/40/60 m
these recommendations occasionally. Perhaps you
Long 30/60/90 m
are attempting to put together a climactic finish
to the current mission and require your players to
go up against a big bad. Just be sure not to go too
Area of Effect Radius (m)
overboard, as you might find yourself quickly killing
off your players’ characters one by one. Small 2
Medium 4

Psionic Powers Large 8

Finally, you may wish to introduce new and exciting
psionic powers for both your players and their
adversaries. These can not only help keep things
fresh and interesting but can also create moments
of tension as your players face off against abilities
that they have not previously seen before.
Psionic powers, much like items, can vary wildly
from one to another. Each has several variables,
including damage output, duration, area of effect
and range, all of which can contribute to and
influence their overall strength. These can make
balancing an ability a difficult task, as what might
work for one particular power could prove to be
extremely imbalanced for another.
Therefore, while several tables have been provided,
these should only be considered as a set of
recommendations or rough guidelines. It will be
down to you, the GM, to look at all of the variables
in play here to help tune a given power to the
appropriate level of strength.
Very Large 12
Level Mental Fatigue
1 2-4
2 4-6
3 5-7
4 6-8
5 8 - 10
The first of these tables highlight the
recommended amount of damage that any
particular power should inflict in a given instance.
If you are designing an ability to deal damage more
slowly over time, we highly suggest choosing the
lower of these values for each occasion where
damage is applied.
Meanwhile, the second table showcases an
example short, medium, and long-range for psionic
powers at various types of distances. As a general
rule of thumb, we recommend decreasing either
the area of effect or damage output as the power’s
range continues to increase.

Table number three details a list of different area

sizes for area of effect type powers, while the final
table lists typical mental fatigue costs at each of
the various power levels.

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Appendix A

Handouts
Below several handouts have been provided, which • They automatically fail any Perception skill
could come in handy during the course of a game. checks that rely on sight.
These handouts cover a variety of topics, including
• They suffer a -4 dice pool penalty on all
what actions an individual can take during combat,
other skill and attribute checks that utilise
a list of common status effects, and an overview of
an individual’s eyesight.
the various psionic powers.

Crippled - The character cannot make use of the

These handouts cover no new material that wasn’t
affected limb.
previously mentioned in the contents of this book,
though some might appreciate them for being both
easy to find and all in one place. • Any item carried is instantly dropped if the
affected limb is an arm. The individual is
considered slowed for the duration (-2 dice
A.1 Status Effects pool penalty on Reflex based checks).
• If the limb is a leg, the character is considered
Anaphylaxis - The character enters into a state slowed for the duration (-3 meters of
of severe allergic reaction. Without medical movement speed).
treatment, their body begins to shut down and
slowly wither away.
Deafened - The character is unable to hear.

• They are considered unconscious, suffering

• They automatically fail any Perception skill
all of its usual effects.
checks that rely on hearing.
• At the end of each round, they lose one hit
• They suffer a -2 dice pool penalty on all
point, which the effects of shielding cannot
other skill and attribute checks that utilise
mitigate.
an individual’s hearing.

Bleeding - The character is losing bodily fluids over

time. This effect can stack an unlimited number of
times.
• At the end of each round, they lose one hit
point per stack of bleeding. The effects of
shielding cannot mitigate this damage.
• When they move, they leave behind a
traceable trail of blood along their route.
• At the end of each round, they can make an
Endurance + Strength attribute check, with
the success target equalling the current
number of bleed stacks plus one. On a
success, their bleed stacks are reduced by
one.
Diseased - The character has been afflicted with
an infection of some kind. The type of effects that
it will cause here will all vary quite wildly based on
the particular disease in question.
Disorientated - The character is confused and
does not have full awareness of their current
surroundings.
• They suffer a -2 dice pool penalty on all skill
and attribute checks that they make.
• They are unable to make use of reactive
actions.

Blinded - The character cannot see.

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Dying - The character is badly hurt and is at risk of
death.
• They immediately gain a stack of exhaustion.
• They are considered prone, and their
movement speed is reduced by half.
• During combat, they may only carry out a
standard action on each of their turns.
• They will instantly die if their current hit
points fall to or below negative half their
maximum.
Exhaustion - The character becomes tired and
weak. This effect can stack up to six times, with
each new stack becoming more severe than the
last. When looking up the effects of exhaustion,
use whichever level the individual is currently at.
You do not need to take the previous ones also.
Each time the individual completes an extended
rest, their exhaustion level is automatically
reduced by one.

Stacks of Exhaustion Effects

1 - Tired
• The individual is considered slowed (-2 meters of movement speed).
• They suffer a -1 dice pool penalty on all checks.

2 - Very Tired
• The individual is considered slowed (-4 meters of movement speed).
• They suffer a -3 dice pool penalty on all checks.

3 - Weak
• The individual is considered slowed (-6 meters of movement speed).
• They suffer a -5 dice pool penalty on all checks.

4 - Very Weak
• The individual is considered slowed (-8 meters of movement speed).
• They suffer a -7 dice pool penalty on all checks.

5 - Near Death
• The individual cannot move.
• They suffer a -10 dice pool penalty on all checks.

6 - Death
• The individual dies.

Above: The exhaustion effects overview table.

Feared - The character is stricken with fear, unable Grappled - The character is currently being
to control their actions or act logically. grabbed by someone or something.

• At the end of each round, the character • They cannot move.

suffers one point of mental damage, which
• Unless otherwise stated, they can attempt to
the effects of shielding cannot mitigate.
escape by spending a standard action to
• They cannot willingly move towards the make an opposing Reflex + Finesse/Strength
source of fear. attribute check (their choice of which). The
grappler uses the dice pool of their Unarmed
• They suffer a -2 dice pool penalty on all skill
Combat skill to contest against this.
and attribute checks whenever the source of
the fear can be seen or heard.

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Impaired - The character is injured or hurt in some
way, hampering their ability to perform actions.
• They suffer a -2 dice pool penalty on all skill
and attribute checks that they make.
Invisible - The character is concealed from others,
becoming more difficult to spot.
• They gain a +5 dice pool modifier on all
checks to hide or remain hidden from other
individuals.
• Each of their attacks is considered to take
place from hiding for any target who cannot
see through invisibility.
Unless otherwise stated, invisibility-type effects
do not change an individual’s heat signature. As a
result, individuals with thermographic vision are
considered to be unaffected by this status effect.
Maimed - The character has lost a limb.
• Any item carried is instantly dropped if
the limb is an arm. The individual is also
considered slowed (-2 dice pool penalty on
all Reflex-based checks).
• If the limb is a leg, the individual can
only move via crawling unless they have
assistance. They are also considered slowed
(-6 meters of movement speed).
Paralysed - The character’s body is frozen in place
and helpless. They are currently unable to speak or
take action.
• They cannot move or speak.
• They cannot take actions of any kind.
• Their Finesse, Reflex, and Strength attribute
scores are all considered zero for any skill or
attribute check they make.
Partially Blinded - The character’s vision is
temporarily diminished. Does not stack with the
Blinded status effect.
• They suffer a -2 dice pool penalty on all
skill and attribute checks that rely on an
individual’s sight.
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Partially Deafened - The character’s hearing
is currently reduced. Does not stack with the
Deafened status effect.
• They suffer a -2 dice pool penalty on all
skill and attribute checks that rely on an
individual’s hearing.
Poisoned - The character has been infected with a
toxin of some kind.
• All attribute and skill checks that they make
have a -2 dice pool penalty applied to them.
Prone - The character is lying on the ground. This
effect can be ended immediately by spending half
their movement speed to stand back up.
• They must crawl to move, doubling the cost
of any movement made.
• They suffer a -2 dice pool penalty on all
checks that attempt to make a melee-based
attack.
• They suffer a -2 dice pool penalty on all
checks that attempt to defend against a
melee-based attack.
• They receive a +2 dice pool modifier on all
checks to defend against incoming ranged
attacks.
• They might be able to take better advantage
of nearby cover (GM’s discretion).
• On one of their turns, they can spend a
standard action to stand back up, ending
this status effect.
Restrained - The character is being subdued by
someone or something.
• They cannot move.
• They suffer a -4 dice pool penalty on all
attribute and skill checks based on either
Strength or Finesse.
• Their Reflex attribute score is considered zero
on all attribute and skill checks they attempt
to make.
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Slowed - The character has become a little
sluggish, unable to move or act at their normal
pace. The potency of this effect will generally be
determined by whatever caused it; however, the
target will typically receive one or more of the
following:
• A reduction in movement speed.
• A penalty to Reflex based checks.
• A penalty to combat initiative checks.
Surprised - The character is in a temporary state of
surprise at what is happening around them. They
cannot act in any way, shape, or form, including the
use of free actions. This effect ends automatically
after the conclusion of the individual’s first turn in
combat.
A.2 Common Combat Modifiers
Mechanic
Attacking at medium-range
Attacking at long-range
Attacking at range with nearby opponents
Attacking while sprinting
Attacking with recoil
Dual wielding
Defending while sprinting
Defending with partial cover
Defending with heavy cover
Defending with full cover
Defending against a cone base attack within its
medium impact zone
Defending against a cone based attack within its
wide impact zone
Suffering damage accumulation penalties
Above: Common dice pool modifiers that you might
experience during a combat situation.
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• They suffer a -3 dice pool penalty on all
attribute and skill checks they make.
• They cannot take actions of any kind.
Unconscious - The character is knocked out,
immediately falling prone on the ground if they can.
• They are unaware of their surroundings.
• They cannot take actions of any kind.
• They automatically fail any skill check that
they attempt to make.
• Their Finesse, Reflex, and Strength attribute
scores are all considered zero for any
attribute check that they make.
Dice Pool Modifier
-2
-4
-1 per hostile.
-2 at > 100% of movement speed, -4 at > 150%.
-1 per point of recoil.
-2
+2 at > 100% of movement speed, +4 at > 150%.
+2
+4
Cannot be directly targeted.
+2
+4
-1/-2/-3/-4 depending on hit points lost.
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A.3 Combat Actions
Standard Actions

Action Description
Attach Item Add-on Attaches an add-on onto one of the items in your inventory.
Attempts to deliver a deathblow to a dying or unconscious target within
Coup De Grâce
your reach.
Disarm Knock a weapon or other suitable item out of a target’s hand.
Eject Magazine/Ordinance
Ejects an empty magazine or used ordinance from an equipped firearm.

Heals a nearby individual, either to bring them back from near death, or to
First Aid
remove a negative status effect.
Grapple Grab a target individual.
Help Aid a nearby ally so that their actions can yield better results.
Hide Conceal yourself from others.
Distract and disrupt a nearby opponent so that their actions become less
Hinder
effective.
Insert Magazine/Ordinance
Inserts a new magazine or piece of ordinance into an equipped firearm.

Move about the combat environment to get into a more advantageous

Move
position.
Outmanoeuvre Attempts to dash through a nearby opponent’s space.
Perception/Examine Look around and study your surroundings to spot or identify something.
Poise Enter a stabilised stance to improve your aim.
Grabs hold of either an item or another individual off from the ground
Pick/Help Up
nearby.
Delays a standard action for it to be performed later on after a set
Ready Action
condition has been fulfilled.
Remove Item Add-on Removes an add-on from one of the items in your inventory.
Retreat Imposes a penalty on all reactive actions that attempt to target you.
Spend a small amount of time to carefully aim, gaining a +1 dice pool
Take Aim
bonus for your next attack.
Trip Knock another individual prone.
Unarmed Attack
Deals physical damage to a target through the sheer force of your body.

Use Item/Object Make use of an item for a specified purpose.

Use Psionic Power Channel a psionic based power to create a certain type of effect.

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Reactive Actions

Action Description
Attack of Opportunity Take an offensive action against an individual who is trying to move away.
Make a series of evasive manoeuvres to gain a +2 dice pool bonus against the
Dodge
melee attacks of others.
Drop to the ground prone, gaining a +2 dice pool bonus against incoming
Drop Prone
ranged attacks.
Perception/Examine Look around and study your surroundings in response to another’s action.
Use Item/Object Make use of an item for a specified purpose.
Use Psionic Power Channel a psionic based power to create a certain type of effect.

A.4 Computing & Tech Actions

Access
Action Description
Required
Focuses your attention to your current device’s cybersecurity
Bolster Defences Enhanced
defences, temporarily raising its firewall rating.
Attempts to connect to another device in which to carry out
Connect to Device Basic
further actions.
Create/Modify Access
Basic Creates a new access privilege or modifies an existing one.

Bombards a target device with a huge amount of data,

Data Bomb None
attempting to knock it offline.
Attempts to identify whether there is any active ICE on the
Detect ICE None
target device.
Detect Software Basic Attempts to identify what software is running on the device.
Detonate Explosives Basic Calls for an armed explosive to immediately detonate.
Enable/Disable Open Toggles whether the device is openly broadcasting its current
Enhanced
Broadcasting network information.
Enable/Disable Enables or disables a single known piece of software on the
Enhanced
Software device.
Attempts to encrypt or decrypt a file system so that it cannot
Encrypt/Decrypt File Enhanced
be read or have changes made to it.
Falsify Meta Data Attempts to alter a file so that it appears as though it
Basic
originated from another source or user.

Force Entry
None Attempts to find suitable exploits to break into a target device.

Increase Access Attempts to find suitable exploits to increase your access

Basic
rights on the device.

Locate Devices Basic Attempts to search for other nearby devices.

Locate File Basic Searches the device for a particular file or document.

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Read/Edit/Create File Opens, makes changes to, or creates a particular file on the
Varies
device.
Request New Network Establishes a connection to the local Omninet infrastructure,
Root
Address requesting a change of networking address.
Runs a diagnostics check on the device, returning information
Run Diagnostics Basic
about its current status.
Seize Device
Enhanced Attempts to overload the device, forcing it to stop working.

Slave To Device Root Slaves the device to a given host.

Attempts to follow an active connection on the device to learn
Trace Connection Basic
of its origin.
Turn Device On/Off Basic Switches the device on or off.

A.5 Automation Actions

Standard Actions
Action
Assume Direct Control
Command Automation
Eject Magazine/Ordinance
Description
Takes direct control over an automation that the individual has been
authorised with.
Issues a command to an automation that the individual has been
authorised with.
Ejects an empty magazine or used ordinance from a mounted firearm.

Hide The automation attempts to become concealed from others.

Insert Magazine/Ordinance
Inserts a new magazine or piece of ordinance into a mounted firearm.

Move about the combat environment to get into a more advantageous

Move
position.
Perception/Examine Look around the automation’s surroundings to spot or identify something.
Delays a standard action for the automation, allowing it to be performed
Ready Action
later after a set condition.
Imposes a penalty on all reactive actions that attempt to target the
Retreat
automation.
Use Mounted Object Make use of an item which has been mounted onto the automation.

Reactive Actions

Action Description
Performs a series of tight manoeuvres to become harder to hit by enemy ranged
Evasive Manoeuvres
attacks.
Perception/Examine Look around the automation’s surroundings to spot or identify something.
Use Mounted Object Make use of an item which has been mounted onto the automation.

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A.6 Psionic Powers
Note: * indicates a channelling type ability.
Deception:
• * Concealment - Modifies certain visual aspects of
a target individual, providing them with a bonus to
their Disguise skill checks.
• * Phantom Projection - Creates a projection that
mimics an individual or object.
• * Serenity - Attempts to force a target individual’s
mind into a calm and tranquil state.
• Sow Doubt - Attempts to overwhelm a
target individual’s mental state, reducing the
effectiveness of their current action.
• Dismay - Attempts to strike fear into a target
individual.
• Displace - Creates a projection around a target,
making it harder for others to hit them with their
attacks.
• Malice - Attempts to twist a target’s mind, causing
them to become disorientated and suffer light
mental damage each time they move.
• Ward of Ethereal Masking - Binds a ward onto a
target surface, obfuscating the ethereal signatures
of all those who are nearby.
• * Cloaking Field - Bends light around a target,
making them more difficult to see.
• Frenzy - Attempts to drive a target individual mad,
forcing them to strike out indiscriminately.
• * Horrific Manifestation - Creates a horrifying
visage which attempts to strike fear into all those
who are nearby.
• * Reticence - Creates a zone of silence, temporarily
suppressing all sound from within.
• * Mirror Image - Creates several lifelike projections
of yourself in an attempt to confuse those around
you.
• * Slumber - Attempts to render all individuals
within a targeted area unconscious.
• False Memory - Attempts to manipulate a target
individual’s mind, altering their memory of a
specific event.
• * Major Projection - Transforms a target area,
allowing you to alter its look and feel.
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Energetics:
• Arcing Bolt - Hurls a bolt of electricity at a target
individual, which then jumps between others who
are nearby.
• * Cold Snap - Creates a small zone of extreme cold,
dealing light cold damage and slowing movement.
• Combustion - Creates a cone of fire towards a
target direction, dealing moderate heat damage.
• * Disrupt Energy - Surrounds a target with an
energy field, increasing either one of their; heat,
cold, or electrical damage resistances.
• * Electrical Discharge - Creates a spike of energy
on a nearby target, dealing moderate electrical
damage to all those who are nearby.
• Ignite - Creates a small but potent burst of flame
at a target location, attempting to deal moderate
heat damage and setting nearby targets aflame.
• Flash Freeze - Creates an instantaneous zone of
intense cold, attempting to freeze all those who
are nearby.
• * Scorching Blast - Hurls a projectile of flame at a
target location, dealing heavy heat damage to all
those nearby.
• * Sweltering Heat - Creates a zone of intense heat,
causing moderate heat damage and blocking the
use of thermal imaging.
• Frost Bite - Instantly causes the temperature of a
concentrated area to plummet, dealing heavy cold
damage to all those nearby.
• * Super Conductor - Creates an area of super
conductive electricity, dealing heavy electrical
to those wearing metallic armour, and moderate
damage to everyone else.
• Disintegration - Fires a beam of concentrated
energy, dealing considerable heat damage to all
those in a line.
• Tempest - Calls down a sudden bolt of electricity
from the skies above. Deals heavy electrical
damage and has a chance to paralyse all nearby
targets.
Flux:
• * Gravity Warp - Surrounds a target with a strong
gravitational force, temporarily grappling and
lifting them into the air.
• Kinetic Barrier - Surrounds a target with a barrier
of energy, granting them temporary shielding.
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 • Kinetic Expansion - A wave of force erupts from a
target location, dealing light physical damage and
knocking nearby individuals prone.
• * Crushing Hold - Constricts a target with a
continuous wave of force.
• Ether Bolt - Hurls a bolt of force at a target, dealing
physical damage and knocking them back.
• Kinetic Contraction - A wave of force collapses
in on a target location, dealing light physical
damage and pushing nearby individuals towards
its epicentre.
• * Kinetic Shield - Surrounds a large area with a
barrier of energy, protecting those inside it from
external attacks.
• Shatter Barrier - Blasts apart a vast quantity of
shielding from a given target.
• Shockwave - Creates a potent wave of force,
emanating outwards from the caster’s current
location. Deals moderate physical damage, while
also potentially knocking nearby individuals prone.
• Gravitational Distortion - Distorts the forces of
gravity around several targets, attempting to lift
them into the air before slamming them back into
the ground.
• * Seismic Eruption - Attempts to forcibly pull a
target apart using a series of intense seismic
waves.
• * Disrupt Gravity - Nullifies the effects of gravity
within a selected area.
• * Singularity - Creates a gravitational anomaly at
a target location. Nearby individuals are pulled
inwards and take heavy physical damage once
they reach its centre.
Materialisation:
• * Blinding Fog - Creates an ethereal cloud of fog,
heavily obscuring individuals vision.
• Conjure Simple Item - Creates an ethereal version
of a non-organic simplistic item, which has no
moving parts.
• Illuminate - Creates a small ethereal-based light
source.
• Form Barricade - Creates a durable barrier which
individuals can hide behind.
• * Grasping Tendrils - Creates a mass of ethereal
tendrils, entangling nearby targets and making an
area difficult to traverse.
• Spectral Eye - Creates a static eye at a target
location, allowing the caster to observe what it
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sees and hears.
• Ward of Passage - Binds a ward onto a target
surface, resisting those who attempt to cross it.
• Conjure Ammunition - Creates an ethereal version
of a certain type of firearm ammunition.
• Conjure Apparition - Manifests an elemental spirit
at a target location.
• Explosive Geyser - Forms a powerful geyser at a
target location, knocking back nearby individuals
with a concentrated jet of water.
• Oil Slick - Creates a pool of oil at a target location,
slowing movement, and acting as a flammable
hazard.
• Conjure Firearm - Creates an ethereal version of a
specific firearm.
• Form Sprite - Creates a temporary ethereal version
of yourself which can either act on its own behalf,
or follow your commands.
• Create Nanites - Infuses a number of individuals
with ethereal nanobots, healing and repairing
them over time.
• Insect Swarm - Creates an ethereal swarm of
insects who attack all those who enter into their
space.
Metamorphosis:
• Accelerate - Grants additional movement speed to
a target individual.
• Empower - Grants a bonus to an individual’s dice
pool whenever they make checks involving a
chosen attribute.
• Rejuvenate - Provides a quick burst of invigoration,
healing a target individual for a small number of
hit points.
• Turn Amphibious - Grants an individual increased
swimming speed and the ability to breathe while
underwater.
• * Blind/Deafen - Nullifies an individual’s senses for
a short duration.
• Diminish - Attempts to weaken a target individual,
giving them a penalty to their dice pool whenever
they make an attribute or skill check.
• Grant Vision - Grants a particular type of vision to
several target individuals.
• Neutralise Poison - Amplifies a target’s immune
system in an attempt to end a poison type effect.
• Pain Suppression - Suppresses a target individual’s
pain receptors to temporarily negate the effects of
damage accumulation penalties.
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 • Cure Disease - Amplifies a target’s immune system
in an attempt to end a disease-based effect.
• Mass Empower - Same as Empower, but now for
multiple targets.
• Mass Rejuvenate - Same as Rejuvenate, but now
for multiple targets.
• * Slow - Attempts to greatly reduce a target
individual’s movement speed and reaction times.
• Heal Wounds - Revitalises a target individual,
healing them for a moderate number of hit points.
• * Wither - Attempts to weaken a target individual
by reducing any one of their attributes.
• * Apex Form - Modifies a target individual’s
biology, temporarily granting them improved
statistics and greater resistance to incoming
damage.
of resisting incoming psionic powers and their
effects.
• Destroy Construct - Attempts to destroy a target
construct.
• Redirection - Redirects a nearby harmful psionic
power to target a different individual/location
within your line of sight.
• Sense The Enemy - Provides you with an innate
ability to identify other psionic individuals within
your line of sight.
Seer:
• * Commune - Attempts to communicate with a
target individual telepathically.
• * Ethereal Gaze - Attempts to detect nearby
ethereal signatures.

• * Regenerate - Renews a target individual, • * Exploit Weakness - You briefly study a target
providing healing over time and regenerating a individual, attempting to learn of both their
damaged or missing body part. capabilities and how best to gain the upper hand
over them.
• Premonition - You witness a sudden forewarning
Purge:
for an incoming attacking or hostile action, gaining
a sizeable dice pool bonus against it.
• Disrupt Concentration - Attempts to interrupt a
target individual’s concentration.
• * Locate Individual - Attempts to locate a target
• * Drain Stamina - Drains small amounts of mental
individual.
stamina from a target individual over time.
• Mark of the Seer - Binds an ethereal rune onto a
• Purge Ability - Removes a specific ethereal based
target individual or object, allowing you to know of
effect from a target.
their direction and distance.
• Sense Danger - Temporarily grants you an extra
• Counter Power - Attempts to interrupt the casting
sixth sense of sorts, allowing you to more easily
of a power by another individual.
identify potential sources of nearby danger.
• Psionic Backlash - Retaliates against an individual
• Understand Languages - Temporarily grants you
who attempts to target you with a psionic-based
universal comprehension of all languages.
power.
• * Silence - Attempts to crush a target individual’s
• * Flashbacks - Touching a target individual, you
windpipe, temporarily restricting them from
experience a series of flashbacks showcasing all
breathing and using psionic powers of their own.
notable events which they have witnessed over
• Ward of Retaliation - Binds a ward onto a target the past 24 hours.
surface, striking out against nearby individuals
• Guiding Meditation - You experience a series of
who use psionic powers.
cryptic images relating to a goal, objective, or
specific subject.
• * Ether Barrier - Places a protective barrier around
• * Resonance - Temporarily refines your senses,
a nearby target individual, granting them improved
allowing you to examine your surroundings more
resistances.
easily.
• * Stifle Powers - Creates an area of distortion and
• * Sense Thoughts - Attempts to read the thoughts
interference, temporarily suppressing all ethereal
of others who are nearby.
effects inside.
• Stunning Bolt - Hurls a bolt of negative energy at a
• * Clairvoyance - Attempts to utilise the senses of
target individual, inflicting heavy mental damage.
another individual.
• * Read Minds - Attempts to peer into the minds of
• * Bolster Resistances - Boosts the defences of
those who are around you.
a number of targets, increasing their chance

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 • Discover Capabilities - Attempts to read a target
individual’s mind, allowing you to learn of their
capabilities.
Transmutation:
• Sight Beyond Sight - Temporarily grants you
superior vision, able to see through illusions,
invisibility type effects, and darkness.
Telekinesis:
• Aid - Guides a willing target individual, aiding them
in their attempt to perform a certain action or
manoeuvre.
• Disarm - Attempts to subdue a target individual by
discarding one of their items.
• * Hindrance - Applies potent force to a target,
hindering their ability to manoeuvre.
• * Move Object - Allows the caster to slowly move a
target object from afar.
• Hamper Projectiles - Attempts to control incoming
projectiles, reducing their chance to hit.
• Hurl Object - Picks up an item from afar and hurls it
towards a target or location.
• * Imprison - Smothers a target with nearby
random objects and debris, attempting to restrain
them in place.
• * Form Armour - Creates a swirling vortex of debris
and objects which attempt to intercept attacks
made against you.
• * Levitate - Picks up a target individual with
your mind, allowing you to move them in three
dimensions.
• * Manipulate Object - Allows the caster to use a
target item from afar.
• Destroy Object - Attempts to shatter a nearby
target object using only the power of your mind.
• Mass Disarm - Same as Disarm, but now for
multiple targets.
• Clear the Path - Clears a nearby target area of
debris, hazardous objects, and cover.
• Debris Shower - Tears debris from nearby objects
and scenery before hurling them towards a nearby
target location. Deals heavy physical damage and
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leaves the affected area as difficult terrain.
• Encumber - Weighs down a target’s armour and
possessions, reducing their ability to carry out
actions.
• Enhance Simple Weapon - Empowers a weapon
to deal additional physical damage on each of its
attacks.
• * Ensnare - Liquefies the ground beneath a target’s
feet, in attempt to restrain them.
• Renew - Restores a target item or object into a
better working state.
• Enhance Firearm - Empowers an individual’s
firearm, allowing it to deal additional physical
damage on each attack.
• * Fortify Armour - Improves a target individual’s
armour, granting them a temporary bonus to their
defences.
• Transform Liquid - Solidifies or evaportates a
nearby body of liquid.
• Transmute Concoction - Creates a specialist type
of concoction from a nearby water source.
• Alter Surface - Modifies the defensive qualities of a
given surface.
• * Deteriorate - Temporarily lowers the resistances
of a target.
• Encapsulate - Reshapes the ground into a
protective dome around a target individual.
• Dissolve - Dissolves a target item or piece of
equipment.
• Reshape Surface - Moulds a solid surface into
whatever shape you desire.
• Adhesion - Attempts to bind all individuals within a
target area to the nearby terrain. Inflicts moderate
acid damage to those affected.
• * Irradiate - Transforms an area of terrain into
giving off highly concentrated amounts of
radiation. Inflicts heavy radiation damage to those
within the affected area.
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Appendix B

NPCs
Whether it be an innocent bartender working End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
away the last few hours of their shift or perhaps
5 6 6 8 10 3 5 1
a security guard making their way through the
local shopping precinct, there are many NPCs HP MS Move Rea
(non-player characters) out there for your players
to discover. 10 10 10 m 1m

Skills Base Pool

While determining things like their goals, passions,
and the bonds they have with others are left for Acrobatics 8 16
the GM to decide, this chapter of the appendix Perception 6 11
looks to help out a table by providing the necessary
Stealth 8 16
statistics and their associated numbers to quickly
and easily run them in a game. Unarmed Combat 6 12

Damage Immunities: Electrical, Toxic

It is important to note that all humanoid-based
NPCs were created as racially neutral. Each of
their attributes was derived from a standard 2 /
6 baseline, and there will be no inclusion of any
quirks. GMs can, of course, reintroduce these
modifiers wherever they see fit, all based on the
particular individual that they are going to be
running in their game.
Furthermore, like with automations during the
Items & Equipment chapter, any provided XP
values should determine the number of experience
points shared equally amongst the players when
either the character is defeated in combat or
bested in a suitable social encounter.
Apparition, Air
Type: Construct
Size: 2 m
XP: 750
Hit Points: 30
Mental Stamina: 34
Resistances: Physical: 8
Movement Speed: 16 m, (x2 while flying)
Melee Reach: 1 m
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Diseased,
Exhaustion, Grappled, Poisoned, Prone, Restrained,
Unconscious
Vision Types: Standard
Languages: Understands any spoken by its conjurer
Quirks
Ethereal Construct
The apparition does not require food, water,
oxygen, or sleep to function. Additionally, it is
considered a non-biological life form.
Mutable Form
The apparition can move through a gap as narrow
as 1 cm wide, and can both traverse through and
stop in another individual’s space without penalty.
It is immune to grapple attempts and cannot be
restrained.
Standard Actions
Storm Surge
The apparition lets loose an electrifying blast,
covering an area four meters in radius centred
upon its current position.
All individuals within the affected area must make
a generic Endurance + Reflex attribute check, with a
success target of six. Those that fail this check take
4d6 electrical damage, while those that succeed
take half of this amount instead.

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Apparition, Earth Apparition, Fire
Type: Construct Type: Construct
Size: 2 m Size: 2 m
XP: 750 XP: 750

Hit Points: 48 Hit Points: 38

Mental Stamina: 28 Mental Stamina: 34
Resistances: Electrical: 8, Heat: 8, Physical: 16 Resistances: Physical: 12
Movement Speed: 18 m Movement Speed: 17 m
Melee Reach: 1 m Melee Reach: 1 m

End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
9 5 12 2 4 3 4 1 7 6 9 5 6 3 5 1

HP MS Move Rea HP MS Move Rea

12 8 6m 1m 10 10 8m 1m

Skills Base Pool Skills Base Pool

Climbing 8 20 Acrobatics 6 11
Jumping 6 18 Climbing 6 15
Perception 4 8 Jumping 5 14
Unarmed Combat 8 20 Perception 5 10
Unarmed Combat 7 16
Damage Immunities: Toxic
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Diseased, Damage Immunities: Heat, Toxic
Exhaustion, Poisoned, Unconscious
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Diseased,
Vision Types: Standard Exhaustion, Poisoned, Unconscious
Languages: Understands any spoken by its conjurer Vision Types: Standard
Languages: Understands any spoken by its conjurer
Quirks
Ethereal Construct Quirks
The apparition does not require food, water, Ethereal Construct
oxygen, or sleep to function. Additionally, it is The apparition does not require food, water,
considered a non-biological life form. oxygen, or sleep to function. Additionally, it is
considered a non-biological life form.
Siege Creature
The apparition is very effective against objects and Immolated Form
structures. Melee attacks made against such The apparition’s immolated form produces a zone
targets deal double their usual amount of damage. of light that is well-lit for a six-meter radius
around it, and then faintly lit for another six meters
Unrelenting Force
after that.
The apparition’s immense brawn allows it to strike
with incredible force. Each of its unarmed attacks
Additionally, those who either start their turn or
deals damage equal to its total Strength attribute
move within three meters of the apparition take
score, and all of its melee-based attacks gain an
3d6 heat damage due to the intensity of these
additional 12 physical penetration.
flames. This effect can only be applied once per
individual, per round of combat.

Pyromania
Individuals hit by each of the apparition’s melee

359 Appendix B, NPCs

attacks suffer an additional 3d6 heat damage.
Vulnerability to Water
The apparition does not fare well exposed to water
and other types of suitable liquids. Each round
spent exposed to these substances result in the
apparition losing 2d6 hit points. This effect cannot
be mitigated through the use of shielding.
Those that fail this check are considered to be
impaired until the start of their next turn.
Rotting Touch
Unshielded individuals who are struck by the
apparition’s melee attacks must make a generic
Endurance + Strength attribute check, with a
success target of five. Those that fail on this check
contract a stack of the Rotting Flesh disease.

While this affliction continues, the individual’s body

Apparition, Toxic feels sore and weak. All checks that they make
Type: Construct suffer from a dice pool penalty equal to the number
of stacks that they currently have. Additionally, any
Size: 2 m sources of healing that they receive are reduced in
XP: 750 effectiveness by half.

Hit Points: 60 At the start of each new day, the diseased

individual may remake the check as stated above.
Mental Stamina: 28 On a success, their body can fight against the
Resistances: Acid: 8, Physical: 12 infection, and their stack count is reduced by one.
In the event of a failure, however, the disease
Movement Speed: 18 m
continues to run rampant, and their stack count
Melee Reach: 1 m increases by one instead.

End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha Individuals who reach a number of Rotting Flesh
12 5 10 4 5 3 4 1 stacks equal to their current Endurance attribute
score are considered to enter into a state of
HP MS Move Rea anaphylaxis.
12 8 8m 1m
Septic Spray
Individuals hit by each of the apparition’s melee
Skills Base Pool
attacks suffer an additional 2d6 toxic damage.
Climbing 8 18
Jumping 6 16
Perception 4 8 Apparition, Water
Unarmed Combat 8 18 Type: Construct

Damage Immunities: Toxic Size: 2 m

Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Diseased, XP: 750
Exhaustion, Poisoned, Unconscious
Vision Types: Standard Hit Points: 34

Languages: Understands any spoken by its conjurer Mental Stamina: 38

Resistances: Heat: 8, Physical: 10

Quirks Movement Speed: 13 m, (x2 while swimming)

Melee Reach: 1 m
Ethereal Construct
The apparition does not require food, water,
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
oxygen, or sleep to function. Additionally, it is
considered a non-biological life form. 6 7 8 7 8 3 5 1

Foul Stench HP MS Move Rea

Individuals who start their turn within six meters of 10 10 5m 1m
the apparition must make a generic Endurance +
Will attribute check, which a success target of five.

360 Appendix B, NPCs

 Skills Base Pool When dealing with physical damage, this ability is
said to have a physical penetration rating of five.
Acrobatics 8 15
Climbing 6 14
Jumping 5 13 Bartender
Perception 6 11
Type: Humanoid
Stealth 8 15
Size: 1 m
Swimming 8 16
XP: 10
Unarmed Combat 6 14

Hit Points: 26
Damage Immunities: Toxic
Mental Stamina: 26
Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Diseased,
Exhaustion, Grappled, Poisoned, Prone, Restrained, Movement Speed: 12 m
Unconscious
Melee Reach: 1 m
Vision Types: Standard
Languages: Understands any spoken by its conjurer End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
4 4 4 5 3 4 5 5

Quirks HP MS Move Rea

Ethereal Construct 10 10 8m 1m
The apparition does not require food, water,
oxygen, or sleep to function. Additionally, it is Skills Base Pool
considered a non-biological life form. Intuition 4 9

Mutable Form Perception 2 7

The apparition can move through a gap as narrow Sleight of Hand 3 8
as 1 cm wide, and can both traverse through and
Streetwise 3 8
stop in another individual’s space without penalty.
It is immune to grapple attempts and cannot be Unarmed Combat 2 6
restrained.

Natural Swimmer Equipment

The apparition does not suffer increased Clothing (Street Wear), PTX-200, UPIN Stick (Authentic).
movement speed penalties from swimming.
Additionally, the apparition is considered to be Host Scan
Name Noise Firewall RAM
invisible while it remains submerged in a body of Count Range
liquid. PTX-200 5 20 m 3 2 4

Standard Actions
Blackhat Hacker
Tidal Surge
The apparition shifts its form to take on the shape Type: Humanoid
of a crashing wave. Measuring four meters in width
Size: 1 m
and two meters height, the construct crashes
forward travelling for up to ten meters along a XP: 1,000
straight path.
Hit Points: 30
All individuals hit by the wave must make a generic
Mental Stamina: 34
Endurance + Strength attribute check, with a
success target of six. Those that fail the check are Movement Speed: 11 m
knocked prone and take 4d10 physical damage Melee Reach: 1 m
from the impact, while those that succeed should
take half of this amount of damage, and suffer no End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
other additional effects instead.
4 6 3 6 5 9 6 3

361 Appendix B, NPCs

 HP MS Move Rea This benefit remains in place so long as they retain
Root level access on the device.
10 10 8m 1m

Skills Base Pool

Bluffing 5 8 Bouncer
Guns: Pistols 3 9
Type: Humanoid
History 7 16
Size: 1 m
Intuition 7 13
XP: 50
Medicine 2 9
Negotiation 5 8 Hit Points: 34
Perception 7 13 Mental Stamina: 26
Sleight of Hand 6 12 Resistances: Physical: 6
Stealth 4 10 Movement Speed: 14 m
Streetwise 5 11 Melee Reach: 1 m
Tech: Computing 9 18
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
Tech: Diagnostics 8 14
6 4 6 5 3 3 5 3
Tech: Encryption 8 17
Tech: Hacking 9 18 HP MS Move Rea

Tech: Knowledge 8 17 10 10 8m 1m

Tech: Maintenance 8 17
Skills Base Pool
Tech: Networking 8 17
Guns: Pistols 2 7
Intimidation 5 8
Equipment
Intuition 3 8
Clothing (Street Wear), Rapture MK-1 (/w Improved Grip),
Jumping 2 8
3x Bullets Magazine (Basic, light pistol calibre), VimX,
Eclipse (/w Nuke (Version 4), Glitch (Version 4), Sloth Melee Weapons [Fin] 4 9
(Version 4), Bodyguard (Version 4), Stealth (Version 4)), Melee Weapons [Str] 4 10
Neuro Stimulant (Version 3), 4x Night Shift, Firearms
Perception 2 7
Licence (Authenticity Rating 8), UPIN Stick (Authenticity
Rating 8). Streetwise 3 8
Unarmed Combat 5 11
Host Scan
Name Noise Firewall RAM
Count Range
Neuro
0 12 m 2 3 3
Equipment
Stimulant
Clothing (Street Wear), Light Armour, R8 Reaver, 3x
Eclipse 20 50 m 7 5 10
Bullets Magazine (Basic, heavy pistol calibre), Club,
Rapture
2 20 m 2 2 2 Neptuno, Security Licence (Authentic), UPIN Stick
MK-1
(Authentic).
VimX 12 50 m 5 3 5

Host Scan
Name Noise Firewall RAM
Count Range
Traits
Neptuno 6 25 m 3 2 4
Omninet Ghost R8 Reaver 2 20 m 2 2 2
Whenever an individual attempts to locate or track
the blackhat hacker digitally, the hacker gains a +2
dice pool modifier on all checks made to try and Traits
remain hidden from them. Additionally, all devices
Brawler
in which the blackhat hacker has been designated
The bouncer has the option to immediately make a
as the Root user for at least a day, automatically
grapple attempt against a target after hitting them
have their network noise rating increased by two.

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with a melee-based attack. This activity is Corporate Combat Psionic
considered to be a type of free action, and once
used, cannot be performed again until the start of Type: Humanoid
their next turn.
Size: 1 m
Additionally, whenever someone attempts to XP: 1,500
escape from one of the bouncer’s grapples, they
suffer a -1 dice pool penalty to their roll. Hit Points: 30
Mental Stamina: 46
Resistances: Physical: 12
City Low-life Movement Speed: 12 m

Type: Humanoid Melee Reach: 1 m

Size: 1 m End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha

XP: 20 5 9 4 4 8 10 5 4

Hit Points: 26 HP MS Move Rea

Mental Stamina: 22 10 10 8m 1m

Movement Speed: 12 m
Skills Base Pool
Melee Reach: 1 m
Acting 4 8

End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha Bluffing 4 8

4 3 4 3 4 3 4 2 Climbing 4 8
Disguise 4 9
HP MS Move Rea
Guns: Pistols 7 11
10 10 8m 1m
Intimidation 6 10
Skills Base Pool Intuition 4 9
Bluffing 2 4 Jumping 4 8
Intimidation 3 5 Navigation 3 8
Intuition 2 6 Perception 4 9
Jumping 2 6 Psionics: Energetics 8 18
Melee Weapons [Fin] 3 6 Psionics: Flux 8 18
Melee Weapons [Str] 3 7 Psionics: Purge 7 17
Perception 2 6 Stealth 5 9
Streetwise 4 8 Streetwise 4 9
Unarmed Combat 3 7 Swimming 4 8

Equipment Equipment
Clothing (Street Wear), Club, Brass Knuckles, 2x Opiates, Clothing (Street Wear, uniform), Full Combat Body
PTX-200, UPIN Stick (Authenticity Rating 2). Armour, Xiao-Sen Streetmaster (/w Improved Grip), 3x
Bullets Magazine (Basic, light pistol calibre), 2x Bullets
Host Scan Magazine (Armour Piercing, light pistol calibre), VimX,
Name Noise Firewall RAM
Count Range
Accelerated Reflexes (Version 3), Cerebrum Dampener
PTX-200 5 20 m 3 2 4 (Version 4), Neuro Stimulant (Version 4), Firearms
Licence (Authentic), UPIN Stick (Authentic).

363 Appendix B, NPCs

 Skills Base Pool
Host Scan
Name Noise Firewall RAM Acting 5 13
Count Range
Accelerated Bluffing 8 16
0 12 m 2 3 3
Reflexes
History 5 11
Cerebrum
0 12 m 2 3 3
Dampener Intimidation 8 16
Neuro Intuition 7 13
0 12 m 2 3 3
Stimulant
Leadership 6 14
VimX 12 50 m 5 3 5
Xiao-Sen Navigation 5 11
2 20 m 4 3 2
Streetmaster
Negotiation 8 16
Perception 7 13
Traits
Sleight of Hand 4 8
Awakened Mind Streetwise 3 9
The psionic is one of the very few lucky ones who
was born with natural talents in manipulating the Tech: Knowledge 3 9
energies of the Ether. They can tap into the cosmic
powers of psionics, and make use of its associated Equipment
skills.
Clothing (Fine), Aurora, Cerebrum Dampener (Version 1)
Kinesics Interpreter (Version 2), 2x Blue Spice, UPIN Stick
Psionic Powers (Authentic).

Energetics Host Scan

Name Noise Firewall RAM
Arcing Bolt, Cold Snap, Combustion, Disrupt Energy, Count Range
Ignite, Scorching Blast, Frost Bite Aurora 12 40 m 4 3 6
Cerebrum
Flux 0 12 m 2 3 3
Dampener
Gravity Warp, Kinetic Barrier, Crushing Hold, Ether
Kinesics
Bolt, Kinetic Contraction, Kinetic Shield, Shockwave, 0 12 m 2 3 3
Interpreter
Seismic Eruption

Purge
Disrupt Concentration, Purge Ability, Psionic Corporate Strike Infantry
Backlash, Counter Power, Silence, Stunning Bolt,
Destroy Construct Type: Humanoid
Size: 1 m
XP: 1,000
Corporate Negotiator
Hit Points: 34
Type: Humanoid
Mental Stamina: 34
Size: 1 m
Resistances: Acid: 4, Cold: 4, Heat: 4, Physical: 16
XP: 750
Movement Speed: 14 m
Hit Points: 26 Melee Reach: 1 m
Mental Stamina: 38
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
Movement Speed: 12 m
6 6 6 10 9 4 4 3
Melee Reach: 1 m
HP MS Move Rea
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha 10 10 8m 1m
4 7 4 4 3 6 6 8

HP MS Move Rea
10 10 8m 1m

364 Appendix B, NPCs

 Skills Base Pool Traits
Acting 4 7 Firearms Expert
Bluffing 4 7 Providing the corporate strike infantry has at least
one point assigned into the weapon’s associated
Climbing 5 11 skill type, they may perform either of the two
Disguise 4 8 action combinations as a standard action , or
reactive action:
Guns: Automatics 8 18
Guns: Pistols 8 18
• Eject Magazine/Ordinance and Insert
Intimidation 5 8 Magazine/Ordinance.
Intuition 3 7
• Remove Item Add-on and Attach Item Add-on.
Jumping 5 11
Melee Weapons [Fin] 7 17
Melee Weapons [Str] 7 13
Cyber Doc
Navigation 3 7
Type: Humanoid
Perception 3 7
Stealth 5 15
Size: 1 m

Streetwise 4 8 XP: 15

Swimming 5 11
Hit Points: 26
Thrown Weapons 3 13
Mental Stamina: 26
Unarmed Combat 7 13
Movement Speed: 11 m
Melee Reach: 1 m
Equipment
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
Clothing (Street Wear, uniform), Full Combat Body
Armour, Armnic IAR-1 (/w Improved Grip & Sound 4 4 3 5 4 6 5 4
Suppressor), Colt Firehawk (/w Improved Grip), 3x
Bullets Magazine (Basic, assault rifle calibre), 3x Bullets HP MS Move Rea
Magazine (Armour Piercing, assault rifle calibre), 2x 10 10 8m 1m
Bullets Magazine (Basic, heavy pistol calibre), Katana, 2x
MK-1 Concussion Greande, VimX, Accelerated Reflexes Skills Base Pool
(Version 3), Dermal Coating (Version 4), Precision
Bluffing 3 7
Stabilisers (Version 4), Recoil Compensator (Version
2), Cybernetics Licence (Authentic), Firearms Licence Chemistry 3 9
(Authentic), UPIN Stick (Authentic). First Aid 7 13

Host Scan Intuition 4 9

Name Noise Firewall RAM
Count Range Medicine 6 12
Accelerated
0 12 m 2 3 3 Melee Weapons [Fin] 2 7
Reflexes
Armnic Melee Weapons [Str] 2 5
2 20 m 5 4 2
IAR-1
Perception 3 8
Colt
2 20 m 4 3 2 Sleight of Hand 3 8
Firehawk
Precision Streetwise 4 9
0 12 m 2 3 3
Stabilisers
Recoil
Compensator
0 12 m 2 3 3 Equipment
VimX 12 50 m 5 3 5 Clothing (Street Wear), Prism, Tool Kit, Medical Licence
(Authentic), UPIN Stick (Authentic).

365 Appendix B, NPCs

 Host Scan Host Scan
Name Noise Firewall RAM Name Noise Firewall RAM
Count Range Count Range
Prism 6 20 m 3 3 4 Djinni Red 10 40 m 3 3 5
Neuro
0 12 m 2 3 3
Stimulant

Data Thief Novatech

Gatekeeper
15 50 m 5 4 7

Type: Humanoid Rapture

2 20 m 2 2 2
MK-1
Size: 1 m
XP: 250
Detective
Hit Points: 26
Type: Humanoid
Mental Stamina: 30
Movement Speed: 11 m
Size: 1 m

Melee Reach: 1 m XP: 250

End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha Hit Points: 26

3 5 3 5 4 7 6 3 Mental Stamina: 34
Resistances: Physical: 6
HP MS Move Rea
Movement Speed: 12 m
10 10 8m 1m
Melee Reach: 1 m
Skills Base Pool
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
Guns: Pistols 2 7
4 6 4 4 3 6 7 5
History 6 13
Intuition 5 11 HP MS Move Rea

Medicine 2 9 10 10 8m 1m

Negotiation 3 6
Skills Base Pool
Perception 6 12
Acting 5 10
Sleight of Hand 5 10
Bluffing 7 12
Streetwise 4 10
Ethereal Knowledge 3 9
Tech: Computing 7 14
Guns: Pistols 7 11
Tech: Diagnostics 6 12
History 5 11
Tech: Encryption 6 13
Intimidation 6 11
Tech: Hacking 7 14
Intuition 8 15
Tech: Knowledge 6 13
Melee Weapons [Fin] 5 9
Tech: Maintenance 7 14
Melee Weapons [Str] 5 9
Tech: Networking 5 12
Navigation 5 12
Negotiation 7 12
Equipment
Perception 7 14
Clothing (Street Wear), Rapture MK-1 (/w Improved Grip),
Streetwise 3 10
3x Bullets Magazine (Basic, light pistol calibre), Djinni
Red, Novatech Gatekeeper (/w Battering Ram (Version 2), Tech: Computing 3 9
Sloth (Version 2), Bodyguard (Version 2), Network Guard Tracking 7 14
(Version 2)), Neuro Stimulant (Version 1), 3x Night Shift,
Unarmed Combat 5 9
2x Wish, Keycard Copier, Firearms Licence (Authenticity
Rating 5), UPIN Stick (Authenticity Rating 6).

366 Appendix B, NPCs

Equipment
Clothing (Street Wear), Light Armour, Ruger SR400
(/w Security Grip), 3x Bullets Magazine (Basic, light
pistol calibre), Djinni Red, Retinal Processors (Version
1), Forensics Kit, 1x Restraints (Metal), 5x Restraints
(Plastic), Firearms Licence (Authentic), UPIN Stick
(Authentic).
Quirks
Razor Claws
The dreg is armed with a set of sharp claws. When
used in comabt each of the dreg’s unarmed attacks
deals damage equal to its total Strength attribute
score, and gains an additional seven physical
penetration.

Host Scan
Name Noise Firewall RAM
Count Range
Traits
Djinni Red 10 40 m 3 3 5
Retinal
Bloodthirsty
0 12 m 2 3 3 When using a melee-based attack action against an
Processors
Ruger
enemy target and the dreg successfully reduce
2 20 m 3 3 2 them down to zero hit points or lower, they can
SR400
immediately make a single melee weapon attack
against an individual currently within their reach.
Dreg Slasher Performing such an attack is considered to be a
type of free action, and once executed cannot be
Type: Humanoid
done so again until the start of the dreg’s next turn.
Size: 1 m
XP: 400

Hit Points: 42
Standard Actions
Mental Stamina: 22 Shoot Bile
Resistances: Cold: 4, Physical: 6, Toxic: 6 The dreg fires a projectile of viscous bodily fluids at
a nearby individual that it can see within 12/24/36
Movement Speed: 17 m
m. The target must make a generic Foresight +
Melee Reach: 1 m Reflex attribute check with a success target of five,
taking 5d6 acid damage on a failure.
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
8 3 7 4 8 2 5 1
Gang Psionic
HP MS Move Rea
10 10 10 m 1m Type: Humanoid
Size: 1 m
Skills Base Pool
XP: 50
Climbing 7 14
Intuition 3 8 Hit Points: 26
Jumping 6 13 Mental Stamina: 30
Navigation 4 9 Resistances: Physical: 6
Perception 5 10 Movement Speed: 11 m
Stealth 6 10 Melee Reach: 1 m
Survival 8 13
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
Swimming 6 13
4 5 3 3 4 4 4 4
Tracking 8 13
Unarmed Combat 8 15 HP MS Move Rea
10 10 8m 1m
Vision Types: Standard, Low-light, Night
Languages: None

367 Appendix B, NPCs

 Skills Base Pool Gang Thug
Bluffing 2 6
Type: Humanoid
Guns: Pistols 3 6
Size: 1 m
Intimidation 4 8
XP: 25
Intuition 2 6
Jumping 2 5 Hit Points: 26
Melee Weapons [Fin] 2 5 Mental Stamina: 22
Melee Weapons [Str] 2 5 Resistances: Physical: 6
Navigation 2 6 Movement Speed: 12 m
Perception 2 6 Melee Reach: 1 m
Psionics: Deception 4 8
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
Psionics: Energetics 5 9
4 3 4 4 4 3 4 3
Sleight of Hand 2 5
Stealth 2 5 HP MS Move Rea

Streetwise 5 9 10 10 8m 1m

Skills Base Pool

Equipment
Bluffing 2 5
Clothing (Street Wear), Bandanna (gang affiliation), Light Guns: Pistols 3 7
Armour, Rapture MK-1, 3x Bullets Magazine (Basic, light
pistol calibre), Knife, PTX-200, UPIN Stick (Authenticity Intimidation 4 7
Rating 3). Intuition 2 6
Jumping 2 6
Host Scan
Name Noise Firewall RAM
Count Range Melee Weapons [Fin] 3 7
PTX-200 5 20 m 3 2 4 Melee Weapons [Str] 3 7
Rapture
2 20 m 2 2 2 Navigation 2 6
MK-1
Perception 2 6

Traits Sleight of Hand 2 6

Awakened Mind Stealth 2 6

The psionic is one of the very few lucky ones who Streetwise 5 9
was born with natural talents in manipulating the
Thrown Weapons 2 6
energies of the Ether. They can tap into the cosmic
powers of psionics, and make use of its associated Unarmed Combat 3 7
skills.
Equipment
Psionic Powers Clothing (Street Wear), Bandanna (gang affiliation),
Light Armour, R8 Reaver, 3x Bullets Magazine (Basic,
Deception heavy pistol calibre), Club, 2x Knife, PTX-200, UPIN Stick
Concealment, Phantom Projection, Sow Doubt (Authenticity Rating 3).

Energetics Host Scan

Arcing Bolt, Cold Snap, Combustion Name Noise Firewall RAM
Count Range
PTX-200 5 20 m 3 2 4
R8 Reaver 2 20 m 2 2 2

368 Appendix B, NPCs

Gun For Hire
Host Scan
Name Noise Firewall RAM
Count Range
Type: Humanoid
ArmsCorp
Size: 1 m 2 20 m 3 3 2
Bulldog

XP: 350 ArmsCorp

2 20 m 3 3 2
Marauder

Hit Points: 30 Iris 8 30 m 4 3 4

Precision
Mental Stamina: 26 0 12 m 2 3 3
Stabilisers
Resistances: Physical: 12 Recoil
0 12 m 2 3 3
Compensator
Movement Speed: 14 m
Melee Reach: 1 m

End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha

Mafia Enforcer
5 4 6 7 5 4 4 4 Type: Humanoid

HP MS Move Rea Size: 1 m

10 10 8m 1m XP: 200

Skills Base Pool Hit Points: 30

Acting 4 8 Mental Stamina: 26
Bluffing 4 8 Resistances: Physical: 9
Climbing 4 10 Movement Speed: 14 m
Disguise 4 8 Melee Reach: 1 m
Guns: Automatics 7 14
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
Guns: Pistols 6 13
5 4 6 6 4 3 4 3
Intimidation 5 9
HP MS Move Rea
Intuition 3 7
10 10 8m 1m
Jumping 4 10
Melee Weapons [Fin] 6 13 Skills Base Pool
Melee Weapons [Str] 6 12 Bluffing 4 7
Navigation 3 7 Climbing 4 10
Perception 3 7 Guns: Pistols 6 12
Streetwise 4 8 Intimidation 7 10
Swimming 4 10 Intuition 4 8
Thrown Weapons 3 10 Jumping 4 10
Unarmed Combat 5 11 Lock Picking 4 10
Melee Weapons [Fin] 5 11
Equipment Melee Weapons [Str] 5 11
Clothing (Street Wear), Full Combat Body Armour, Navigation 3 7
ArmsCorp Marauder, ArmsCorp Bulldog, 3x Bullets
Perception 3 7
Magazine (Basic, submachine gun calibre), 2x Bullets
Magazine (Basic, heavy pistol calibre), Knife, Iris, Streetwise 6 10
Precision Stabilisers (Version 1), Recoil Compensator Swimming 4 10
(Version 1), Bounty Hunting Licence (Authentic),
Cybernetics Licence (Authentic), UPIN Stick (Authentic). Thrown Weapons 2 8
Unarmed Combat 5 11

369 Appendix B, NPCs

Equipment Police Officer
Clothing (Street Wear), Tactical Body Armour, ArmsCorp
Type: Humanoid
Bulldog, 3x Bullets Magazine (Basic, heavy pistol calibre),
Club, Neptuno, 2x Blitz, Firearms Licence (Authenticity Size: 1 m
Rating 5), UPIN Stick (Authenticity Rating 5).
XP: 500
Host Scan
Name Noise Firewall RAM Hit Points: 34
Count Range
ArmsCorp
2 20 m 3 3 2
Mental Stamina: 30
Bulldog
Resistances: Physical: 9
Neptuno 6 25 m 3 2 4
Movement Speed: 14 m
Melee Reach: 1 m
Mechanic
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
Type: Humanoid 6 5 6 7 4 4 5 4
Size: 1 m
HP MS Move Rea
XP: 15
10 10 8m 1m

Hit Points: 26 Skills Base Pool

Mental Stamina: 26 Climbing 6 12
Movement Speed: 11 m Exotic Weapons - Peace
5 11
Melee Reach: 1 m Keeper Stun Baton [Str]
Guns: Pistols 8 15
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
Intimidation 4 8
4 4 5 5 4 5 5 4
Intuition 6 11
HP MS Move Rea Jumping 5 11
10 10 8m 1m Melee Weapons [Fin] 6 13

Skills Base Pool Melee Weapons [Str] 6 12

Bluffing 4 8 Navigation 3 8

Intuition 4 9 Negotiation 3 7

Mechanical: Engineering 5 10 Perception 4 9

Mechanical: Ground Stealth 3 10

6 11
Vehicles Streetwise 3 8
Melee Weapons [Fin] 2 7 Swimming 5 11
Melee Weapons [Str] 2 7 Tracking 3 8
Perception 3 8 Unarmed Combat 6 12
Piloting: Driving 4 8
Sleight of Hand 3 8 Equipment
Streetwise 4 9 Clothing (Street Wear, uniform), Tactical Body Armour,
Ruger SR400 (/w Security Grip), 3x Bullets Magazine
(Basic, light pistol calibre), Peace Keeper Stun Baton,
Equipment
Djinni Red, Exoskeleton (Version 1), Precision Stabilisers
Bolt Cutters, Clothing (Street Wear), Neptuno, Tool Kit, (Version 1), 1x Restraints (Metal), 5x Restraints (Plastic),
UPIN Stick (Authentic). Firearms Licence (Authentic), UPIN Stick (Authentic).

Host Scan
Name Noise Firewall RAM
Count Range
Neptuno 6 25 m 3 2 4

370 Appendix B, NPCs

 Natural Swimmer
Name
Host Scan
Noise Firewall RAM The piranha swarm does not suffer increased
Count Range movement speed penalties from swimming.
Djinni Red 10 40 m 3 3 5
Exoskeleton 0 12 m 2 3 3 Swarm
The piranha swarm can occupy the same space as
Peace
Keeper 2 12 m 2 3 2 another individual. While it may only attack targets
Stun Baton that currently share the same space as itself, any
Precision resistances which they gain from armour or
0 12 m 2 3 3
Stabilisers clothing are reduced in effectiveness by half.
Ruger
2 20 m 3 3 2
SR400 Additionally, when struck by an attack that only
targets a single individual, the swarm loses half
the usual amount of hit points and mental stamina.
Rabid Piranha Swarm
Type: Swarm of Wild Beasts
Size: 1 m Riot Control Officer
XP: 250 Type: Humanoid
Size: 1 m
Hit Points: 22
Mental Stamina: 18
XP: 750

Movement Speed: 9 m, (swimming only) Hit Points: 42

Melee Reach: 0 m Mental Stamina: 30

End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha Resistances: Acid: 4, Cold: 4, Heat: 4, Physical: 24

3 2 1 8 7 1 6 1 Movement Speed: 16 m
Melee Reach: 1 m
HP MS Move Rea
10 10 8m 1m End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
8 5 8 6 5 4 4 3
Skills Base Pool
Perception 6 12 HP MS Move Rea

Stealth 5 13 10 10 8m 1m

Survival 6 12 Skills Base Pool

Swimming 7 8 Climbing 7 15
Tracking 6 12 Exotic Weapons - Peace
8 16
Unarmed Combat 6 7 Keeper Stun Baton [Str]
Guns: Pistols 7 13
Status Immunities: Crippled, Grappled, Maimed, Prone,
Restrained Intimidation 7 10

Vision Types: Standard, Low-light Intuition 6 10

Languages: None Jumping 6 14

Melee Weapons [Fin] 7 13

Quirks Melee Weapons [Str] 7 15

Navigation 3 8
Dexterous Fighter
The piranha swarm can choose to use their Finesse Negotiation 3 6
attribute score in place of Strength when making Perception 5 9
unarmed attacks. When doing so, each attack deals
damage equal to its total Finesse attribute score Stealth 3 9
and gains an additional eight physical penetration. Streetwise 3 7

371 Appendix B, NPCs

 Swimming 6 14 Security Drone Pilot
Tracking 3 7
Type: Humanoid
Unarmed Combat 8 16
Size: 1 m
XP: 500
Equipment
Clothing (Street Wear, uniform), Full Combat Body Hit Points: 26
Armour, Ballistics Shield, Ruger SR400 (/w Security
Mental Stamina: 30
Grip), 3x Bullets Magazine (Basic, light pistol calibre),
2x Bullets Magazine (Shock, light pistol calibre), Peace Resistances: Physical: 6
Keeper Stun Baton, 2x MK-1 Concussion Greande, Djinni Movement Speed: 13 m
Red, Dermal Coating (Version 4), Exoskeleton (Version
Melee Reach: 1 m
2), Pain Suppression System (Version 2), 10x Restraints
(Plastic), Firearms Licence (Authentic), UPIN Stick
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
(Authentic).
4 5 5 7 8 6 6 3
Host Scan
Name Noise Firewall RAM
Count Range HP MS Move Rea
Djinni Red 10 40 m 3 3 5 10 10 8m 1m
Exoskeleton 0 12 m 2 3 3
Pain Skills Base Pool
Suppression 0 12 m 2 3 3
Guns: Pistols 5 12
System
Peace Guns: Turrets 7 14
Keeper 2 12 m 2 3 2
Intimidation 3 6
Stun Baton
Ruger Intuition 6 12
2 20 m 3 3 2
SR400 Mechanical: Aircraft 6 12
Mechanical: Ground
6 12
Traits Vehicles

Brawler Melee Weapons [Fin] 4 11

The riot control officer has the option to Melee Weapons [Str] 4 9
immediately make a grapple attempt against a
Navigation 5 11
target after hitting them with a melee-based
attack. This activity is considered to be a type of Perception 6 12
free action, and once used, cannot be performed Piloting: Aircraft 7 15
again until the start of their next turn.
Piloting: Driving 7 15
Additionally, whenever someone attempts to Streetwise 2 8
escape from one of the officer’s grapples, they
Tech: Computing 5 11
suffer a -1 dice pool penalty to their roll.
Tracking 6 12
Unarmed Combat 4 9

Equipment
Clothing (Street Wear, uniform), Light Armour, Ruger
SR400 (/w Security Grip), 3x Bullets Magazine (Basic,
light pistol calibre), Club, Djinni Red (/w Blackout
(Version 2), Bodyguard (Version 2), pilotsoft (Version 4)),
Accelerated Reflexes (Version 2), Precision Stabilisers
(Version 1), Automations Licence (Authentic), Security
Licence (Authentic), UPIN Stick (Authentic).
 Streetwise 2 7
Host Scan
Name Noise Firewall RAM Swimming 3 7
Count Range
Accelerated Tracking 2 7
0 12 m 2 3 3
Reflexes
Unarmed Combat 5 10
Djinni Red 10 40 m 3 3 5
Precision
0 12 m 2 3 3
Stabilisers Equipment
Ruger
2 20 m 3 3 2 Clothing (Street Wear, uniform), Light Armour, Apex
SR400
Prowler, 3x Bullets Magazine (Basic, light pistol calibre),
Club, Prism, 3x Restraints (Plastic), Security Licence
Automations (Authentic), UPIN Stick (Authentic).

Molerat - Pathfinder (Sensor Array), Host Scan

Name Noise Firewall RAM
Count Range
Perception skillsoft (version 2), Stealth skillsoft
(version 2), Tracking skillsoft (version 2). Apex
2 20 m 2 2 2
Prowler

Wasp - Pathfinder (Sensor Array), Guns: Turrets skillsoft Prism 6 20 m 3 3 4

(version 2), Perception skillsoft (version 2), Tracking
skillsoft (version 2), 1x Medium Weapon Mount, G49R, 3x
Bullets Magazine (Basic, submachine gun calibre). Shopkeeper
Type: Humanoid
Security Guard
Size: 1 m
Type: Humanoid XP: 25
Size: 1 m
Hit Points: 26
XP: 100
Mental Stamina: 26
Hit Points: 30 Movement Speed: 12 m
Mental Stamina: 26 Melee Reach: 1 m
Resistances: Physical: 6
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
Movement Speed: 12 m
4 4 4 5 3 4 5 5
Melee Reach: 1 m
HP MS Move Rea
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
10 10 8m 1m
5 4 5 5 4 3 5 3
Skills Base Pool
HP MS Move Rea
Guns: Long Guns 3 8
10 10 8m 1m
Intuition 4 9
Skills Base Pool Negotiation 4 9
Climbing 4 9 Perception 2 7
Guns: Pistols 5 10 Sleight of Hand 3 8
Intuition 4 9 Streetwise 3 8
Jumping 4 9 Unarmed Combat 3 7
Melee Weapons [Fin] 4 9
Melee Weapons [Str] 4 9 Equipment
Navigation 2 7 Clothing (Street Wear), Remington Techshot, 3x Shells
Perception 3 8 Magazine (Basic), PTX-200, Firearms Licence (Authentic),
UPIN Stick (Authentic).
Stealth 2 7

373 Appendix B, NPCs

 Equipment
Host Scan
Name Noise Firewall RAM Clothing (Street Wear), Tactical Body Armour, AI L500
Count Range
PTX-200 5 20 m 3 2 4 (/w Smart Grip, Flash Reducer, & Marksman’s Telescopic
Sight), Colt Firehawk (/w Improved Grip & Sound
Remington
2 20 m 2 2 2 Suppressor), 3x Bullets Magazine (Basic, sniper rifle
Techshot
calibre), 3x Bullets Magazine (Armour Piercing, sniper
rifle calibre), 3x Bullets Magazine (Basic, heavy pistol
calibre), VimX, Accelerated Reflexes (Version 4), Precision
Special Forces Sharpshooter Stabilisers (Version 5), Recoil Compensator (Version 3),
Cybernetics Licence (Authenticity Rating 10), Firearms
Type: Humanoid
Licence (Authenticity Rating 10), UPIN Stick (Authenticity
Size: 1 m Rating 10).

XP: 1,500 Host Scan

Name Noise Firewall RAM
Count Range
Hit Points: 34 Accelerated
0 12 m 2 3 3
Mental Stamina: 34 Reflexes
AI L500 2 20 m 5 4 2
Resistances: Physical: 9
Colt
Movement Speed: 14 m 2 20 m 4 3 2
Firehawk
Melee Reach: 1 m Precision
0 12 m 2 3 3
Stabilisers
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha Recoil
0 12 m 2 3 3
Compensator
6 6 6 11 10 4 6 4
VimX 12 50 m 5 3 5
HP MS Move Rea
10 10 8m 1m Traits
Sharpshooter
Skills Base Pool
The special forces sharpshooter no longer suffer a
Acting 6 10 penalty when firing a ranged weapon at medium
Bluffing 8 12 range and the penalty when firing them at long
range is reduced by two dice.
Climbing 9 15
Disguise 6 12
Guns: Long Guns 10 21
Spectral Eye
Guns: Pistols 8 19
Intimidation 5 9 Type: Construct
Intuition 8 14 Size: 20 cm
Jumping 8 14 XP: 0
Leadership 8 12
Hit Points: 20
Melee Weapons [Fin] 8 19
Mental Stamina: 24
Melee Weapons [Str] 8 14
Resistances: Physical: 3
Navigation 8 14
Movement Speed: 0 m
Perception 9 15
Melee Reach: 0 m
Stealth 8 19
Streetwise 3 9 End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha

Swimming 8 14 3 4 1 1 1 4 7 1

Thrown Weapons 7 18 HP MS Move Rea

Unarmed Combat 8 14 8 8 0m 0m

374 Appendix B, NPCs

 Skills Base Pool Psionics: Deception 5 10
Intuition 7 14 Psionics: Metamorphosis 4 9
Perception 7 14 Psionics: Telekinesis 5 10
Stealth 7 8 Sleight of Hand 5 10

Status Immunities: Anaphylaxis, Bleeding, Diseased, Stealth 3 8

Exhaustion, Poisoned, Prone, Unconscious Streetwise 5 9
Vision Types: Those of its conjurer
Languages: Understands any spoken by its conjurer Equipment
Clothing (Street Wear), Light Armour, Rapture MK-1, 3x
Quirks Bullets Magazine (Basic, light pistol calibre), PTX-200,
Firearms Licence (Authentic), UPIN Stick (Authentic).
Permanent Invisibility
The spectral eye is always considered to be Host Scan
Name Noise Firewall RAM
invisible. Count Range
PTX-200 5 20 m 3 2 4
Spiritual Construct
Rapture
The spectral eye does not require food, water, 2 20 m 2 2 2
MK-1
oxygen, or sleep in order to function. Additionally, it
is considered to a type of in-organic life form.
Traits
Awakened Mind
Street Performer The psionic is one of the very few lucky ones who
was born with natural talents in manipulating the
Type: Humanoid energies of the Ether. They can tap into the cosmic
powers of psionics, and make use of its associated
Size: 1 m
skills.
XP: 100

Hit Points: 26 Psionic Powers

Mental Stamina: 30 Deception
Resistances: Physical: 6 Concealment, Phantom Projection, Sow Doubt
Movement Speed: 11 m Metamorphosis
Melee Reach: 1 m Accelerate, Empower, Rejuvenate

End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha Telekinesis

Disarm, Hindrance, Move Object
4 5 3 5 4 5 4 6

HP MS Move Rea
10 10 8m 1m Wild Dire Wolf
Type: Wild Beast
Skills Base Pool
Acrobatics 4 9 Size: 2 m

Acting 5 11 XP: 350

Bluffing 4 10
Hit Points: 38
Guns: Pistols 2 7
Mental Stamina: 22
Intuition 5 9
Movement Speed: 16 m
Jumping 3 6
Melee Reach: 1 m
Navigation 2 6
Perception 4 8 End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
7 3 8 3 6 1 8 1

375 Appendix B, NPCs

 Wild Grizzly
HP MS Move Rea
Type: Wild Beast
10 10 10 m 1m
Size: 2 m
Skills Base Pool
XP: 350
Intuition 2 10
Jumping 8 16 Hit Points: 48

Navigation 4 12 Mental Stamina: 22

Perception 6 14 Movement Speed: 17 m

Stealth 7 10 Melee Reach: 1 m

Survival 7 15
End Wil Str Fin Ref Int For Cha
Swimming 7 15
9 3 9 3 5 1 6 1
Tracking 8 16
HP MS Move Rea
Unarmed Combat 6 14
12 10 8m 1m
Vision Types: Standard, Low-light
Skills Base Pool
Languages: None
Climbing 3 12
Intuition 2 8
Quirks
Jumping 8 17
Sharp Teeth
The dire wolf has a set of razor sharp teeth. When Navigation 4 10
used in comabt each of the dire wolf’s unarmed Perception 5 11
attacks deals damage equal to its total Strength
Stealth 4 7
attribute score, and gains an additional eight
physical penetration. Survival 7 13
Swimming 8 17
Tracking 7 13
Traits
Unarmed Combat 8 17
Agile
Whenever the dire wolf is targeted by either an Vision Types: Standard, Low-light
opposing skill or attribute check as a result of a
Languages: None
reactive action being used, they gain a +2 dice pool
modifier to their defences for that roll.
Quirks
Standard Actions Sharp Claws
The wild grizzly has a set of razor sharp claws.
Terrifying Howl When used in comabt each of the grizzly’s unarmed
The dire wolf lets loose a blood-curdling howl. All attacks deals damage equal to its total Strength
non-allied creatures within 12 meters of the dire attribute score, and gains an additional nine
wolf that can currently hear it must make a generic physical penetration.
fear check (Charisma + Will,) with a success target
of five. Those that fail this check immediately
become frightened of the dire wolf and are now Traits
considered feared (see Status Effects, page 233).
Steadfast
Whenever the grizzly is subjected to an effect
At the end of each new round that passes, targets
which is either; attempting to knock them prone or
can remake the check above, ending its effects in
forcing them to move, the grizzly may choose to
the event of a success.
roll a d6. On a roll of a four or higher, the grizzly
may ignore that component of the effect.

376 Appendix B, NPCs

Appendix C

Timeline Of Events
The world of Dystopia did not simply come into
fruition overnight. Many events during the 21st
century were required to transpire, to end up where
we are right now. The most notable of these have
been detailed in the timeline below, giving an
insight into how society slowly evolved as time has
progressed.

Man returns to the moon once more. Plans are soon made to build a permanent
2024 · · · · · ·•
settlement on its surface before the end of the decade.
Despite fierce international condemnation, the government of Brazil approves further
2025 · · · · · ·• deregulation of both logging and mining activities across the Amazon. Several violent
protests soon erupt, leaving a total of 36 dead.

A scandal breaks out in several different African and European countries after leaked
documents reveal that Chinese company Huawei has been influencing government
2027 · · · · · ·•
policy for the past several years. This was in exchange for continued investment in
local telecommunications infrastructure.
Both the UK and US pass laws allowing the use of automated vehicles by the public
2028 · · · · · ·•
nationwide. Japan, South Korea and many EU countries soon follow.

2029 · · · · · ·• The countries of Moldova and Romania are reunified.

While slightly delayed, the first NASA astronauts arrive at Lunar Base One. This
2031 · · · · · ·•
permanent settlement on the moon is initially manned by a crew of six.

2032 · · · · · ·• The island of Ireland is reunified.

A British Airways flight departing from Heathrow to New York crashes shortly after
takeoff, killing all 287 onboard. An investigation soon reveals that an airborne drone
2033 · · · · · ·• accidentally entered into the restrictive air space and collided with one of the
passenger jet’s engines. Licences soon become required by law for the use of any
remote-controlled or autonomous vehicle. Many countries soon follow suit.

2034 · · · · · ·• Scotland leaves the United Kingdom.

The first cybernetic enhancement surgery is performed. Corporal Patrick Wilson regains
2035 · · · · · ·•
full use out of his right arm after an incident with a prematurely exploding grenade.

In the United States, a scandal breaks out over a series of leaked documents from Apex
Technologies. The files reveal that Apex has been working closely with several
authoritarian regimes to track down and monitor targets of interest. Many of those
2039 · · · · · ·• who were followed by the corporation were killed in a string of high profile
assassinations or simply ended up disappearing altogether. A few days after the
documents are leaked the company’s headquarters in Boston is attacked by a
well-armed militia, leaving 46 dead.

377 Appendix C, Timeline Of Events

 Apex Technologies is successful in their attempt to sue the government for failing to
protect their headquarters in Boston last year. The corporation was able to convince
judges that local police and security forces were ill-equipped to deal with the situation
2040 · · · · · ·• at hand. Following the ruling, the Corporations Security & Militarization Act is swiftly
passed into law. This gives high profile corporations a little more leeway when
protecting their assets and property, including the use of militarised security forces,
providing that they operate within confines of the law.

Following intense pressure by US-based gun advocacy groups and weapons

2042 · · · · · ·• manufacturers, many countries begin to relax their firearms laws. This soon paves the
way for members of the public to carry guns as a suitable means of self-defence.

2044 · · · · · ·• Italy splits into two separate countries; Padania in the north, and Sicily in the south.

With Lunar Base One having reached a population of fifty, Exxon brokers a deal with
2045 · · · · · ·•
NASA to fund the construction of a Helium-3 extractor on the moon’s surface.
Amid a rapidly growing cybernetics sector, the United States forms the Cybernetics
Regulatory Commission. This organisation is tasked with governing the legality of
2046 · · · · · ·•
products that enter into the marketplace. Many countries soon follow suit establishing
regulators of their own.

Plans for a new globally accessible network are drawn up by the United Nations. This
2048 · · · · · ·•
project would go on to be known as the Global Omninet project.

Automata Industries manufactures the first Cyterian unit. At this time these units are
2051 · · · · · ·•
referred to as Autonomous Labour Drones.
2052 · · · · · ·• Korea is reunified after having spent over 100 years apart.

Amid growing resentment for rising wealth inequality, numerous large scale protests
are staged across the EU. Several notable corporations suffer wide-spread attacks over
2054 · · · · · ·• a fortnight of political unrest. After much debate, the EU parliament agrees to ratify
their own version of the Corporate Security & Militarization Act passed by the United
States in 2040. This is known as the European Corporation Protection Act.

2055 · · · · · ·• The first handful of nodes for the global Omninet project are brought online in east Asia.

After much debate and internal discussion, the government of Belgium agrees to split
several ways: Flanders goes to the Netherlands, Wallonia joins France, Eupen joins
2056 · · · · · ·•
Germany, and the province of Luxembourg rejoined the Grand Duchy. Brussels becomes
a city-state under EU jurisdiction.

A coordinated cybersecurity attack is made over the Omninet. Numerous financial

2059 · · · · · ·• centres, transport networks, and utility hubs are taken offline for several days before
the attack can be suppressed.

The first Summer Olympic Games are held which allow for cybernetically enhanced
2060 · · · · · ·•
athletes to take part.

The OmniWatch software enters into the global market. Within the next 12 months,
2062 · · · · · ·• three-quarters of the world’s countries will require the software to be installed on all
PCDs and computer terminals by law.

The Geneva fusion power plant incident occurs. A 50-mile exclusion zone is enacted,
2063 · · · · · ·•
with all citizens within the perimeter being evacuated.

2064 · · · · · ·• The first of the Kram materialise through sudden and unexplainable rapid mutation.

378 Appendix C, Timeline Of Events

 After being subjected to years of excessive tax rates to support the Chinese economy in
some of the poorer provinces, Shanghai leaves the People’s Republic of China. The
2064 · · · · · ·•
neighbouring provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang soon decide to follow suit, forming the
Republic of Eastern Chinese States.

Hong Kong and Guangdong use the turmoil created by Shanghai to also leave the
2065 · · · · · ·• republic, forming the Free Cantonese States. Taiwan meanwhile launches a successful
invasion into the Chinese mainland, taking control of both Fujian and Jiangxi.

The city of Rome is hit by a powerful energy storm, leaving 62 dead and widespread
2065 · · · · · ·• disruption to the local Omninet infrastructure. This incident would go on to become the
first recorded instance of an ethereal storm.
Separatists in Xinjiang China take control of the region and expand to the south-west
2066 · · · · · ·•
through Tibet, Qinghai and Gansu.

The Ayatollah of Iran, Mehran Mostofi, denounces all mutants, calling them an
2066 · · · · · ·•
abomination in the eyes of God. Many non-humans emigrate from the country.

After numerous reports surface across the globe, the existence of psionics is officially
2066 · · · · · ·•
recognised by the World Health Organisation.

In a bid to reclaim its land, India begins to push into Tibet. Officially this is labelled as a
2067 · · · · · ·• security operation to ensure the stability of the area, however over half of Tibet is soon
annexed.
2067 · · · · · ·• The first of the Tikar materialise from rapid human mutation.

Strong-armed by many of the region’s largest corporations, Beijing agrees to a peace

2068 · · · · · ·• agreement. Hostilities with India, Separatist Xinjiang, the Free Cantonese States and the
Republic of Eastern Chinese States are brought to an end.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia outlaws all forms of psionics. Lengthy prison sentences
2069 · · · · · ·•
are handed down to those who violate the law.
In a landmark case, the Supreme Court of the United States strikes down the
2069 · · · · · ·• government’s Psionics Restrictions & Registration Act. The judges conclude that the bill
unfairly infringes on the rights of citizens and is therefore nullified.

In France, a collection of deformed and highly aggressive humanoid creatures are found
2070 · · · · · ·• by a team entering the Geneva exclusion zone. Less than half of the team make it back
out alive. Media soon pick up on the story and refer to the creatures as ”Dregs”.

With its population having surpassed 1,000, Lunar Base One starts to open itself up to
2071 · · · · · ·• the idea of space tourism. Within the next 12 months, spacecraft will begin to arrive
twice a week carrying many of the world’s rich and famous.

After years of frustration with the US political scene, California decides to hold a
referendum to leave the United States. The vote is passed, and a new political entity is
2072 · · · · · ·•
formed. Over the next two years, Washington, Oregon and Hawaii will soon decide to
follow, joining together with California to create the Free Pacific Republic.

2072 · · · · · ·• The first of the Vorn emerge into the world through rapid human mutation.

The EU parliament passes the Meta-Human Recognition Act, expanding human rights to
2074 · · · · · ·•
all known meta-human types.

After rising political unrest, the UPIN identification system is created and swiftly enters
2075 · · · · · ·•
trials across several countries.

In Miami, Florida, a race riot breaks out after the killing of a Tikar (Louis Foster,) by local
2076 · · · · · ·•
police. The death toll reaches 41.

379 Appendix C, Timeline Of Events

 A Kram, Steven Cantrell is appointed CEO of Volt Media. He becomes the first mutant to
2078 · · · · · ·•
have been appointed as CEO for an S&P 100 company.

Political turmoil continues to unravel in the United States. After six months of failed
talks, the country decides to split in two. The states of the north-east from Minnesota
2079 · · · · · ·•
and Iowa through to Maine come together to form the United Democratic States (U.D.S).
The remnants rename themselves to the United Republic of America (U.R.A).

2080 · · · · · ·• Psionics is first taught at Harvard University.

Amid rampant corruption in Russia, much of Siberia, with the backing of several large
2081 · · · · · ·• corporations, breaks off to form the Republic of Siberia. Russia is left split in two, with
the eastern block being renamed to the Russian Far East.

With global temperatures continuing to rise, the European Union faces increasing
pressure from migrants across its southern borders. Anti-EU resentment flares up
2082 · · · · · ·•
when a non-cooperative transport ship carrying three hundred refugees is gunned
down attempting to reach Sicily.

An expansive hive of Dregs is found underneath the city of Paris. Sections are cordoned
2082 · · · · · ·•
off as the French National Guard are called in to conduct an extermination mission.
In Japan, prime minister Kanemoto Naganori is forced to resign. Evidence reveals that
2084 · · · · · ·•
his administration had been conducting long-running experiments on mutant prisoners.

In an attempt to boost global trade, the International Monetary Fund proposes the
creation of a new global currency, Credits. Unlike other currencies, Credits would be
2085 · · · · · ·•
controlled by the organisation and its members rather than any one nation. The
organisation’s members agree to the switch in 2086.

Anika Spiegelmann, a Vorn, is made Chancellor of Germany. She becomes the first
2087 · · · · · ·•
country to have a mutant as their elected leader.

Over in the United Democratic States, Ryan Lawson is sworn in as the country’s latest
president. Running on a bold anti-corporation and wealth inequality platform, he
2088 · · · · · ·•
promises widespread reform to both welfare and labour laws. The president is swiftly
assassinated after just twelve days into his first term.

At midnight on the turning of the new decade, a vast trove of documents appears onto
the Omninet. Inside they detail several well-known global corporations and provide
2090 · · · · · ·•
compelling evidence on their involvement with the assassination of Ryan Lawson. A
group going by the name of The Herald takes responsibility for the leak.

The Cyterian Uprising occurs over the course of six days. The official death toll for the
2092 · · · · · ·•
conflict is said to exceed 250,000 before a peace agreement can be reached.

In a bid to restore the country to its former glory, Russia and the Russian Far East both
2093 · · · · · ·• launch a surprise invasion into the Republic of Siberia. While quick gains are indeed
made, the conflict soon bogs down into a brutal and bloody stalemate.

Referring to themselves as the Human Revolutionary Front, several high profile racially
2094 · · · · · ·• driven attacks are carried out across the southern United Republic of America. Cyterian
and mutant-heavy communities are targeted the hardest.

A car bomb detonates in downtown Ghaziabad India, killing 16. Rumours began to
circulate that one of the victims was affiliated with The Herald. Within 48 hours several
2095 · · · · · ·•
corporations including Dynamex, Yamasaki Industrial and Beryl Lynx all report being the
targets of a sophisticated cyber-attack.

380 Appendix C, Timeline Of Events

 The Russian war with the Republic of Siberia is brought to an end as a cease-fire
agreement is reached. The republic loses a small amount of their overall territory, but
2096 · · · · · ·• the gains for the Russians are mostly insignificant. Several large global corporations
are barred from doing trade in the Russian territories, as the administration strikes back
at those who they deem to have aided the republic during the conflict.

Citing a rising number of hate crimes against their kind, a group of Cyterian found the
2097 · · · · · ·•
Conclave in Detroit, the world’s first Cyterian only community.

A large payload of the nerve agent Tricin is detonated in downtown New York, killing
2097 · · · · · ·•
232. A group calling themselves the Red Patriots takes responsibility for the attack.

In Nagoya Japan, a factory owned by Matsudan Heavy Industries comes under attack
2098 · · · · · ·• from a well-armed militarised force. Rumours begin to circulate on the Omninet that
CyTek Global was behind the offensive.

Hino Yoriyuki, CEO of CyTek Global, is killed after his private plane crashes shortly after
2098 · · · · · ·•
take-off.
In the Republic of Eastern Chinese States, widespread protests begin to break out
2100 · · · · · ·• calling for a reform of the country’s labour laws. The demonstrations soon turn violent
as they are met with fierce resistance from local police and security forces.

In an attempt to quench the ever-growing demand for more usable land, Hong Kong
becomes the world’s first multi-layered city. An interconnected network of support
2102 · · · · · ·•
structures suspends the upper level of the city at roughly 500 meters above ground
level.
A widespread chemical leak occurs on the outskirts of São Paulo Brazil. The death toll
for the freak accident exceeds several thousand as entire communities are wiped out
2103 · · · · · ·•
overnight. An official investigation is opened into the disaster but is quietly dropped
after just two years.

Much of the city of Munich is cordoned off after the discovery of a huge number of
2105 · · · · · ·•
Dregs. The city remains cut off and isolated to this very day.

In Stuttgart Germany, the Voodoo Girls, a renowned trio of female mercenaries are
2107 · · · · · ·•
killed while attempting to infiltrate the headquarters of Beryl Lynx.
Index
A Eject Magazine/Ordinance, 327
About This Book, 1
Accelerated Reflexes, 192
Accelerator, 108
Action Economy, 242
Active Camouflage, 196
Active Camouflage Suit, 128
Addiction Check, 225
Addiction Level, 225
Addiction Recovery, 226
Adding Characters, 341
Adrenaline Shot, 202
AI L500, 83
Air Filtration System, 196
AK-62, 64
Alto Frontier, 174
Anaphylaxis, 233, 347
Anti Venom, 202
Apex Predator, 65
Apex Prowler, 58
Apparition, Air, 358
Apparition, Earth, 359
Apparition, Fire, 359
Apparition, Toxic, 360
Apparition, Water, 360
Arbiter RF, 71
Armnic IAR-1, 67
ArmsCorp AP-5 Mine, 123
ArmsCorp ATD Mine, 124
ArmsCorp Bulldog, 61
ArmsCorp Marauder, 72
ArmsCorp Mauler, 68
ArmsCorp Roomclearer, 85
ArmsCorp Scorcher, 90
ArmsCorp Skag Cannon, 87
ArmsCorp Spearhead, 75
ArmsCorp Tyrant, 78
Arrow, Basic, 94
Arrow, Explosive, 94
Arrow, Fragmentation, 94
Arrow, Serrated, 94
Ascendant, 188
Asphyx, 211
Attacking an Automation, 325
Attacking Whilst Hidden, 249
Attempting a Hack, 308
Attribute Checks, 215
Attributes, 11
Charisma, 12
Endurance, 11
Finesse, 12
Foresight, 12
Intellect, 12
Reflex, 12
Strength, 12
Will, 11
Audial Enhancers, 197
Audible Dampeners, 197
Audio Normaliser, 197
Aurora, 143
Authenticity Rating, 224
Automation Actions, 325
Assume Direct Control, 326
Command Automation, 327
382
Evasive Manoeuvres, 328
C
Hide, 327 C7 Plastic Explosive, 125
Insert Magazine/Ordinance, 327 Caretaker Grenade Launcher, 113
Move, 327 Cargo Protection, 325
Perception/Examine, 327, 328 Carrying Capacity, 230
Ready Action, 327 Carrying Crate, 132
Retreat, 328 Casting Time, 266
Use Mounted Object, 328 CCD, 308
Automation Attributes, 318 Cerebrum Dampener, 192
Automation Carrying Capacity, 322 Cessna Navigator, 168
Automation Resources, 321 Challenger R6, 59
Automation Skills, 321 Character Creation, 3
Skillsofts, 321 Attributes, 11
Automations, 318 Backgrounds, 43
Automations & Fuel, 322 Equipment & Cybernetic
Automations Licence, 212 Enhancements, 53
Funds & Lifestyles, 51
Genetics Pool, 3
B Languages, 42
Psionic Powers, 41
BAE Thunderhawk, 169 Races, 3
Ballistics Shield, 127 Skills, 13
Bandanna, 127 Traits, 26
Bane, 211 Checks, 215
Bartender, 361 Chemicals Licence, 213
Battering Ram, 147 Chemistry Kit, 133
Bayonet, 120 City Low-life, 363
Bentley Voyager, 180 Climbing, 219
Beretta AR-30, 64 Climbing Gear, 131
Beryl Lynx Zeus, 180 Climbing, Swimming, and Crawling,
Binoculars, 132 219
Bipod, 112 Close Range Reflex Sight, 111
Blackhat Hacker, 361 Clothing, Cold Weather, 127
Blackout, 147 Clothing, Fine, 127
Blackthorn Scatter Gun, 112 Clothing, Street Wear, 127
Bleeding, 233, 347 Club, 114
Blinded, 233, 347 Code Breaker, 136
Blitz, 206 Cognitive Booster, 203
Bloom, 209 Collapsible Ladder, 131
Blue Spice, 206 Colt Centurion, 71
Bodyguard, 153 Colt Falcon, 58
Bolas, 120 Colt Firehawk, 62
Bolt Cutters, 131 Colt Pathfinder, 82
Bomb Disposal Suit, 128 Combat, 239
Bone Hardening, 197 Combat Actions, 246
Botches, 216 Combat Events & Modifiers, 257
Bouncer, 362 Making an Attack, 253
Bounty Hunting Licence, 213 Resource Pools, 244
Brass Knuckles, 114 Turns, Rounds & the Structure of
Breach Charge, 124 Combat, 239
Breathing Regulator, 198 Combat Actions
Brink Microwave Cannon, 90 Attach Item Add-on, 247
Bullets, Air Burst (Magazine), 98 Attack of Opportunity, 252
Bullets, Armour Piercing (Magazine), Coup De Grâce, 247
97 Disarm, 247
Bullets, Basic (Magazine), 97 Dodge, 252
Bullets, Flechette (Magazine), 97 Drop Prone, 252
Bullets, High Capacity (Magazine), 97 Eject Magazine/Ordinance, 247
Bullets, Polymer (Magazine), 97 First Aid, 247
Bullets, Shock (Magazine), 97 Grapple, 248
Bullets, Smart (Magazine), 97 Help, 248
Bulwark Shield, 136 Hide, 248
Hinder, 249
Insert Magazine/Ordinance, 249
Index
 Move, 249
Outmanoeuvre, 249
Perception/Examine, 249, 252
Pick/Help Up, 250
Poise, 250
Ready Action, 250
Remove Item Add-on, 250
Retreat, 250
Take Aim, 251
Trip, 251
Unarmed Attack, 251
Use Item/Object, 251, 253
Use Psionic Power, 251, 253
Combat Initiative, 240
Commutec OmniGuard, 145
Compensator, 108
Computers & the Omninet, 304
Computing in Everyday Life, 304
Hacking & Advanced Computing,
308
Computing Actions, 312
[Hacking] Falsify Meta Data, 315
[Hacking] Force Entry, 315
[Hacking] Increase Access, 315
[Hacking] Seize Device, 316
Bolster Defences, 313
Connect to Device, 313
Create/Modify Access, 313
Data Bomb, 313
Detect ICE, 313
Detect Software, 314
Detonate Explosives, 314
Enable/Disable Open Broadcasting,
314
Enable/Disable Software, 314
Encrypt/Decrypt File, 315
Locate Devices, 315
Locate File, 316
Read/Edit/Create File, 316
Request New Network Address, 316
Run Diagnostics, 316
Slave to Device, 317
Trace Connection, 317
Turn Device On/Off, 317
Concealment Rating, 231
Concentration Check, 266
Corporate Combat Psionic, 363
Corporate Negotiator, 364
Corporate Strike Infantry, 364
Cover, 257
Attacking Through Cover, 258
Crafting a Story, 338
Crawling, 219
Creating Encounters, 339
Creating Maps & Visual Aids, 339
Determining NPC Stats, 339
Creating Forgeries, 232
Cred Chip, 136
Credits, 237
Crippled, 233, 347
Crompton Revenant, 80
Crossbow Bolt, Basic, 95
Crossbow Bolt, Piercing, 96
Crossbow Bolt, Tethered, 95
Crossbow Bolts, Basic (Magazine), 95
Crossbow Bolts, High Capacity
(Magazine), 96
Crowbar, 114
Crusader Ravager, 69
Cyber Command Decks, 308
Cyber Doc, 365
Cybernetic Enhancements, 227
Cybernetic Limits, 228
383
Cybernetic Modulator, 137 Exoskeleton, 193
Cybernetic Modulators, 229 Exploding Dice, 217
Cybernetics Licence, 213 Extended Rest, 229
Cybernetics Sickness, 228
Cybersecurity, 310
Cyclone Blaze, 89
Cyclone Spiker, 69
F
Cyclone Streetsweeper, 79 Faintly-lit, 220
Cyterian & Cybernetics, 228 Fake IDs, 224
Falling, 221
Fear, 222
D Fear Check, 222
Feared, 234, 348
Damage Accumulation Penalties, 244 Fibre Optic Cable, 137
Damage Penetration, 264 File Safe, 153
Damage Resistance, 263 Firearms Licence, 213
Damage Types, 262 Firewall Rating, 310
Damage Penetration, 264 Flamer Fuel, 106
Damage Resistance, 263 Flapjack Grenade Shield, 137
Darkness, 220 Flash Reducer, 108
Dart, Basic, 98 Flash Suppressant, 199
Dart, Polymer Sedative, 99 Flashlight, 112, 131
Dart, Sedative, 98 Ford Sahara, 176
Data Chip, 137 Forensics Kit, 132
Data Thief, 366 Forgery Kit, 132
Deafened, 233, 347 Free Actions, 243
Dealing With Player Death, 343 Full Combat Body Armour, 128
Dega Avenger, 61
Dega Overseer, 83
Dega Shrieker, 73
Dega Stormer, 65
G
Deployable Net, 116 G49R, 71
Dermal Coating, 198 Gang Psionic, 367
Detecting Countermeasures, 311 Gang Thug, 368
Detection Rating, 311 Gas Mask, 132
Detective, 366 GD XM950, 75
Dice Pool, 2 General Gameplay, 215
Dice Pool Bonuses & Penalties, 216 Checks, 215
Difficult Terrain, 218 Environments, 218
Direct Control, 323 Out On The Streets, 223
Diseased, 234, 347 Rewards & Advancement, 236
Disorientated, 234, 347 Skill Based Activities, 231
Djinni Red, 143 Status Effects, 233
Dox-22, 209 Generic Check, 216
Dragonfly, 158 Glitch, 148
Dreg Slasher, 367 GMC Ranger, 178
Drowning, see Holding Your Breath GML Ifrit, 85
Drug Addiction, 225 Going off the Beaten Track, 342
Drug Dispenser, 198 Goods & Services, 223
Drugs, 225 Grapple Variants, 248
DTS Spirit, 173 Grappled, 235, 348
Dual Wielding, 261 Grappling Gun, 134
Duffle Bag/Rucksack, 130 Grappling Hook, 130
Dying, 234, 348 Grenade, EMP-1, 117
dying, 244 Grenade, HE-1, 119
Grenade, MK-1 Concussion, 117
Grenade, MK-1 Fragmentation, 118
E Grenade, MK-1 Gas, 118
Grenade, MK-1 Incendiary, 119
Echo, 188 Grenade, MK-1 Smoke, 117
Eclipse, 145 Grenade, MK-2 Heated Smoke, 118
Energy Cell, 106 Group Checks, 217
Enhanced Combat Sight, 111 Gun For Hire, 369
Entropy, 210
Environmental Combat Suit, 128
Environments, 218
Epsilon Spark, 144
H
Equipment Slots, 126 Hammerhead, 166
Ethereal Residue, 267 Handouts, 347
Ethereal Signatures, 267 Harbinger, 163
Eviscerator Repeater, 92 Hard-wired Connections, 306
Exhaustion, 234, 348 Harpoon, 106
Exodus, 189 Hazardous Materials Suit, 128
Index
Heavily Obscured, 220 Aerial Drones, 157 Launcher Grenade, Heated Smoke, 101
Heavy Weapon Mount, 191 Ground Drones, 161 Launcher Grenade, High Explosive, 101
Helios Courier, 169 Nautical Drones, 165 Launcher Grenade, Incendiary, 101
Helios Tempest, 171 Drugs, 205 Launcher Grenade, Smoke, 100
Hit Points, 244 Electronic Countermeasures, 145 Legionnaire 82, 61
HK AG50, 84 ICE, 146 Liberte Shadow, 175
HK M32, 66 Securesofts, 152 Light Armour, 127
HK XRG-25, 75 Electronic Gadgets & Accessories, Light Stick, 130
Holding Your Breath, 221 134 Light Weapon Mount, 190
Homebrew Exotic Weapons, 119 Lighting, 220
Character Traits, 344 Explosives, 122 Lightly Obscured, 220
General Rules & Game Systems, Field Gear, 129 Lock Pick, 131
344 Heavy Weapons, 83 Lockjaw Auto, 68
Items & Equipment, 345 Launchers, 84 Long Range Penalties, 259
NPCs, 345 Machine Guns, 86 Low-light Vision, 220
Psionic Powers, 346 Special Weapons, 89 Lurker, 149
Homebrew Content, 344 Licences & Identification, 212
Honeypot, 154 Long Guns, 74
Horizon, 188
Host Count, 305
Railguns, 74
Scattershots, 77
M
Host devices, 305 Sniper Rifles, 81 M-80 Bigfoot, 78
How to Play, 1 Medicine, 202 Mafia Enforcer, 369
Contradictions & Unclear Rules, 2 Melee Weapons, 113 Maimed, 235, 349
Dice Pools & Dice, 2 Personal Computing Devices, 141 Making a Call on Rules, 342
Rounding of Numbers, 2 Pistols, 57 Making a Single Target Based Attack,
Huntsman Bow, 91 Heavy, 60 253
Light, 57 Making an Area Attack, 254
Properties, 55 Scatter, 256
I Restrictions, 55
Thrown Weapons, 115
Selecting a Target Area, 256
Marksman’s Telescopic Sight, 111
ICE, 310 Vehicles, 167 Matriarch, 189
Identification, 224 Aerial Vehicles, 167 Matsudan Conqueror, 182
IED, 123 Ground Vehicles, 172 Matsudan Growler, 178
Immuno Booster, 203 Nautical Vehicles, 183 Matsudan Hunter, 79
Impaired, 235, 349 Weapon Add-ons, 107 Matsudan Piranha, 186
Improved Grip, 110 Barrel, 107 Matsudan Raider, 173
Insomnia, 154 General, 108 Matsudan Sabretooth, 88
Instructing an Automation, 323 Grip, 109 Matsudan Stalker, 59
Integrated PCD/CCD, 199 Sights, 110 Matsudan Vulture, 73, 170
Interior Storage Compartment, 199 Under Barrel, 111 Maverick, 158
Invisible, 235, 349 IWI Machine-Pistol, 69 Mechanic, 370
Iris, 143 Izhmash SV-850, 82 Medical Kit, 203
Isolation, 148 Medical Licence, 214
Item Concealment, 231 Medium Weapon Mount, 190
Item Properties, 55
Items & Equipment, 55
J Memory Dump, 150
Mental Fatigue, 265
Ammunition, 93 Jinx, 209 Mental Stamina, 245
Arrows, 93 Jump Boots, 199 Meprozanol, 204, 228
Bolts, 95 Jumping, 219 Metal Detector, 138
Bullets, 96 Jury Rigging Kit, 131 MG-400, 87
Darts, 98 Micro Camera, 138
Launcher Grenades, 99 Micro Communicator, 139
Miscellaneous, 105
Rockets & Missiles, 102
K Minigun Belt, 106
Minor Movements, 219
Shells, 103 Karma, 236 Missile, Fragmentation, 102
Slugs, 105 Katana, 115 Missile, High Explosive, 103
Armour & Clothing, 126 Keycard Copier, 138 Mixing Chemicals, 232
Automatics, 62 Kinesics Interpreter, 193 Molerat, 161
Assault Rifles, 63 Knife, 114 Molotov Cocktail, 117
Pistols, 67 Komaiga Typhoon, 125 Mongoose, 162
Submachine Guns, 70 Movement, 218
Automation Accessories, 187 Moving Through Others, 219
Pilotsofts, 187
Sensor Arrays, 188
L Mule, 162

Skillsofts, 189 Lancer MK 1, 75

Weapon Mounts, 190
Bows, 91
Chemicals, Sedatives, & Toxins, 208
Cyber Command Decks, 144
Cybernetic Enhancements, 191
Attribute Enhancements, 191
Utility Enhancements, 195
Drones, 157
Laser Dazzler, 112 N
Laser Tripwire, 138
Latency, 309 Neptuno, 142
Automations, 324 NetCom Banshee, 145
Launcher Grenade, Concussion, 100 Network, 305
Launcher Grenade, EMP, 100 Network Address, 306
Launcher Grenade, Fragmentation, 101 Network Guard, 155
Launcher Grenade, Gas, 100 Network Jammer, 139

384 Index
Network Noise, 305 Conjure Apparition, 285
Network Noise Rating, 305 Conjure Firearm, 285
Neuro Stimulant, 193 Conjure Simple Item, 283
Night Shift, 205 Counter Power, 291
Night Vision, 220 Create Nanites, 286
Novatech Gatekeeper, 145 Crushing Hold, 280
NPCs, 358 Cure Disease, 288
Nuke, 150 Debris Shower, 300
Nunchaku, 121 Destroy Construct, 292
Destroy Object, 299
Deteriorate, 302
O Diminish, 287
Disarm, 297
Obscurity, 220 Discover Capabilities, 297
Omninet, 304 Disintegration, 279
OmniWatch, 304 Dismay, 273
Ongoing Checks, 218 Displace, 273
Open Broadcasting, 306 Disrupt Concentration, 289
Open Broadcasting & Scan Range, 306 Disrupt Energy, 277
Opiates, 206 Disrupt Gravity, 282
Opposing Check, 216 Dissolve, 303
Orion, 145 Drain Stamina, 290
Electrical Discharge, 277
Empower, 287
P Encapsulate, 302
Encumber, 300
Pain Suppression System, 194 Enhance Firearm, 301
Painkillers, 204 Enhance Simple Weapon, 300
Parachute, 132 Ensnare, 300
Paralysed, 235, 349 Ether Barrier, 291
Partially Blinded, 235, 349 Ether Bolt, 280
Partially Deafened, 235, 349 Ethereal Gaze, 293
Pass, 215 Ethereal Residue, 267
Pass Threshold, 215 Ethereal Signatures, 267
Passive vs Active Skills, 221 Exploit Weakness, 293
Pathfinder, 189 Explosive Geyser, 285
PCD, 304 False Memory, 275
Peace Keeper Stun Baton, 121 Flash Freeze, 277
Personal Computing Devices, 304 Flashbacks, 295
PGW Jackal, 83 Form Armour, 298
Phalanx, 145 Form Barricade, 283
Phantom Bow, 92 Form Sprite, 286
Pilotsofts, 319 Fortify Armour, 301
Pilotsofts & Sensor Arrays, 319 Frenzy, 274
Poisoned, 235, 349 Frost Bite, 278
Poisons & Disease, 222 Grant Vision, 287
Police Officer, 370 Grasping Tendrils, 284
Poseidon Harpoon Launcher, 121 Gravitational Distortion, 281
Precision Stabilisers, 194 Gravity Warp, 279
Preparing a Session, 337 Guiding Meditation, 295
Prism, 142 Hamper Projectiles, 298
Prone, 235, 349 Heal Wounds, 289
Psionic Powers, 265 Hindrance, 297
Accelerate, 286 Horrific Manifestation, 274
Adhesion, 303 Hurl Object, 298
Aid, 297 Ignite, 277
Alter Surface, 302 Illuminate, 283
Apex Form, 289 Imprison, 298
Arcing Bolt, 276
Blind/Deafen, 287
Insect Swarm, 286
Irradiate, 303
Blinding Fog, 282 Kinetic Barrier, 280
Bolster Resistances, 292 Kinetic Contraction, 280
Casting Times, 266 Kinetic Expansion, 280
Channelling Abilities, 266 Kinetic Shield, 281
Clairvoyance, 296 Levitate, 299
Clear the Path, 300 Locate Individual, 294
Cloaking Field, 274 Major Projection, 275
Cold Snap, 276 Malice, 273
Combustion, 276 Manipulate Object, 299
Commune, 293 Mark of the Seer, 294
Concealment, 272 Mass Disarm, 299
Concentration Checks, 266 Mass Empower, 288
Conjure Ammunition, 284 Mass Rejuvenate, 288
385
Mirror Image, 275
Move Object, 298
Neutralise Poison, 288
Oil Slick, 285
Pain Suppression, 288
Phantom Projection, 272
Premonition, 294
Psionic Backlash, 290
Purge Ability, 290
Range, 266
Read Minds, 296
Redirection, 292
Regenerate, 289
Rejuvenate, 287
Renew, 301
Reshape Surface, 303
Resonance, 295
Reticence, 274
Scorching Blast, 278
Seismic Eruption, 282
Sense Danger, 294
Sense The Enemy, 292
Sense Thoughts, 295
Serenity, 272
Shatter Barrier, 281
Shockwave, 281
Sight Beyond Sight, 297
Silence, 291
Singularity, 282
Slow, 288
Slumber, 275
Sow Doubt, 272
Spectral Eye, 284
Stifle Powers, 291
Stunning Bolt, 292
Super Conductor, 279
Sweltering Heat, 278
Tempest, 279
Transform Liquid, 301
Transmute Concoction, 302
Turn Amphibious, 287
Understand Languages, 295
Ward of Ethereal Masking, 273
Ward of Passage, 284
Ward of Retaliation, 291
Wither, 289
Psionics & The Ether, 265
The Basics, 265
Using Powers, 268
PTX-200, 142
Pulsar X-4, 90
Punching Dagger, 115
Push Aside, 248
Push Back, 248
Push Over, 248
Pylon Shield, 140
Q
Quirks
Claws, 9
Common People, 5
Custom Made, 6
Enhanced Senses, 8
Fast Metabolism, 6
Human Privilege, 5
Inorganic, 7
Intimidating Presence, 6
Low Endurance, 9
Low-light Vision, 9
Mechanical Construct, 7
Rampage, 6
Index
 Regeneration, 9
Software Backup, 7
Sunlight Sensitivity, 9
Troublemaker, 6
Vulnerability to Cold, 9
Vulnerability to Water, 8
Wall Crawling, 9
R Seer, 188
R8 Reaver, 61
Rabid Piranha Swarm, 371
Races, 3
Cyterian, 6
Humans, 4
Kram, 5
Tikar, 9
Vorn, 8
Rage, 207
RAM Pool, 311
RAM Pools & Usage, 311
RAM Use, 311
Ranged Attacks With Nearby
Opponents, 259
Rapture MK-1, 58
Razorback LMG, 88
Reactive Actions, 243, 252, 328
Recoil, 259
Recoil and Firing in Salvos, 259
Recoil Compensator, 200
Red-7, 211
Refuelling Cost, 322
Rejection Rating, 228
Rejuvenation Shot, 204
Reloading, 260
Remington Techshot, 78
Remley 22, 82
Renown, 237
Repairing an Automation, 321
Repairing Equipment, 232
Resting & Downtime, 229
Restoration Dice, 230
Restrained, 235, 349
Restraints (Metal), 133
Restraints (Plastic), 130
Restriction Class, 55
Restriction Level, 55
Retinal Processors, 194
Retractable Blade, 200
Ring Leader, 155
Riot Control Officer, 371
Rocket, Fragmentation, 102
Rocket, High Explosive, 102
Rolling For Initiative, 240
Automations, 324
Rope, 130
Round, 239
Rounding of Numbers, 2
Rounds & Turns, 239
Ruger SR400, 59
Running Dystopia, 337
Running the Game, 341
S Piloting: Driving, 20
Samsura Discovery, 175
Samsura Nimbus, 145
Samsura Surge, 173
Sawtooth Crossbow, 92
Scan Range, 306
Scatter, 256
386
Schedulling a Game, 337
Scorpion MK-1, 181
Scuba Gear, 133
Sea Ray SPX 300, 184
Securesofts, 310
Security Drone Pilot, 372
Security Grip, 110
Security Guard, 373
Security Licence, 214
Selling Goods, 224
Sensor Arrays, 320
Sentinel, 189
Sentinel Defibrillator, 200
Shells, Basic (Magazine), 104
Shells, Dragon’s Breath (Magazine),
104
Shells, Flechette (Magazine), 104
Shells, Luminescent (Magazine), 104
Shells, Polymer (Magazine), 104
Shells, Rock Salt (Magazine), 104
Shells, Smoke (Magazine), 104
Shielding, 245
Shielding Underwater, 245
Shopkeeper, 373
SIG 950, 65
SimCore 5, 142
SimPro, 144
Skill Checks, 215
Skills, 13
Acrobatics, 13
Acting, 13
Animal Handling, 13
Archery, 13
Bluffing, 14
Chemistry, 14
Climbing, 14
Disguise, 14
Ethereal Knowledge, 15
Exotic Weapons, 15
Explosives, 15
First Aid, 15
Forgery, 16
Guns: Automatics, 16
Guns: Heavy Weapons, 16
Guns: Long Guns, 16
Guns: Pistols, 17
Guns: Turrets, 17
History, 17
Intimidation, 17
Intuition, 17
Jumping, 18
Leadership, 18
Lock Picking, 18
Mechanical: Aircraft, 18
Mechanical: Engineering, 18
Mechanical: Ground Vehicles, 19
Mechanical: Seacraft, 19
Medicine, 19
Melee Weapons, 19
Metallurgy, 19
Navigation, 20
Negotiation, 20
Perception, 20
Piloting: Aircraft, 20
Piloting: Seacraft, 21
Psionics: Deception, 21
Psionics: Energetics, 21
Psionics: Flux, 21
Psionics: Materialisation, 21
Psionics: Metamorphosis, 22
Psionics: Purge, 22
Psionics: Seer, 22
Psionics: Telekinesis, 22
Psionics: Transmutation, 23
Sleight of Hand, 23
Stealth, 23
Streetwise, 23
Survival, 23
Swimming, 24
Tech: Computing, 24
Tech: Diagnostics, 24
Tech: Encryption, 24
Tech: Hacking, 24
Tech: Knowledge, 24
Tech: Maintenance, 25
Tech: Networking, 25
Thrown Weapons, 25
Tracking, 25
Unarmed Combat, 26
Skillsofts, 321
Skirmisher, 165
Skylark, 189
Slave devices, 305
Slaves, Hosts, & Networks, 305
Host Count, 305
Network Noise, 305
Sledgehammer, 115
Sloth, 151
Slowed, 236, 350
Slugs, Basic (Magazine), 105
Slugs, High Capacity (Magazine), 105
Smart Grip, 110
Smart Ordinance Computer, 111
Social Interaction, 223
Solace, 207
Solara Freebird, 168
Sonar, 151
Sound Suppressor, 108
SPAS-30, 80
Special Forces Sharpshooter, 374
Spectral Eye, 374
Spider Venom, 210
Spirit, 165
Splinter Dart Gun, 121
Spook, 158
Sprinting, 219
Standard Actions, 242, 246, 326
Action Keywords, 243
Action Point Cost, 242
Attack Actions, 243
Martial Actions, 243
Standard Vision, 220
Status Effects, 233
The Stacking of Effects, 236
Stealth, 156
Street Performer, 375
Success Target, 216
Sunseeker Oceania, 184
Surprise, 242
Surprise Check, 242
Surprised, 236, 350
Surveillance Jammer, 140
Swimming, 219
Switching Weapons & Gear, 262
Sword, 115
T
T-2 Longarm, 82
Tactical Body Armour, 127
Tactical Camouflage Gear, 127
Tactical Goggles, 133
Tactical Shield, 127
Index
Taheo Roamer, 178
Tahoe Striker, 176
Frail, 37
Greedy, 37
V
Targeted Attacks, 260 High Pain Tolerance, 28 Valkyrie Dart Rifle, 121
Arm Shot, 261 Illiterate, 38 Vanguard Scorpion, 85
Bull’s Eye, 261 Impaired Senses, 38 Vega, 163
Fighting Dirty, 261 Indebted, 38 Vehicles & Drones, 318
Leg Shot, 261 Insomnia, 38 Automation Basics, 318
Reckless Lunge, 261 Lip-reading, 28 Automations in Combat, 324
Shoot to Kill, 261 Lucky, 29 Controlling Automations, 322
The Blitzfire, 92 Motion Sickness, 38 Version Numbers
The Corporate Powers, 332 Natural Born Actor, 29 Cybernetic Enhancements, 191
The Flow of a Game Session, 341 Naturally Resilient, 29 Electronic Countermeasures, 146
The Global Markets, 334 Oblivious, 38 Vex, 210
The Legality of Countermeasures, 310 Omninet Ghost, 29 VimX, 143
The Needler, 91 Opportunist, 29 VIP List, 156
The Passage of Time, 229 Out of Shape, 39 Vision & Sight, 220
The World Of 2107, 329 Pack Mule, 30 Vision Types, 220
Corporate Militarisation, 329 Paranoid, 30 Visual Enhancer, 201
Geneva Fusion Incident, 330 Parkour Artist, 30 Vitality Booster, 204
Industrial Deregulation, 329 Pedal To The Metal, 30 Voodoo Dust, 210
The Cyterian Uprising, 330 Photographic Memory, 31
The Dregs Of Society, 330 Poor Immune System, 39
Where We Are Today, 332
Thermographic Vision, 220
Poorly Maintained Devices, 39
Psionic Artillery, 31
W
Throwing Knife/Shuriken, 116 Psionic Resistance, 31 Warmonger Heavy Crossbow, 92
Timeline Of Events, 377 Psionic Specialisation, 31 Wasp, 159
Titan, 160 Scavenger, 31 Wayfinder, 161
Tool Kit, 132 Self Doubt, 39 Weapon Modularisation, 109
Toyota Festiva, 174 Sharpshooter, 31 Weapon Mount Limit, 325
Tracking Bug, 140 Shell Waterproofing, 31 Weapon Mounts, 324
Trait Limit, 26 Social Anxiety, 39 Weapon Polymerisation, 109
Traits, 26 Steadfast, 32 Well-lt, 220
Acrophobia, 34 Strong Immune System, 32 Wild Dire Wolf, 375
Addict, 34 Thick Skinned, 32 Wild Grizzly, 376
Agile, 26 Thin Blood, 39 Wish, 207
Allergies, 35 Tinkerer, 32
Architect, 26 Tough To Kill, 32
Assassinate, 27
Attached, 35
Trusted Contact, 32
Unlucky, 39
X
Awakened Mind, 27 Unrelenting Grip, 33 X-Ray Scanner, 141
Bad Reputation, 35 Unwavering Creed, 40 Xiao-Sen Gladiator, 181
Bloodthirsty, 27 Urban Expert, 33 Xiao-Sen Oppressor, 87
Brave, 27 Vain, 40 Xiao-Sen Outlander, 179
Brawler, 27 Vengeful, 33 Xiao-Sen Samurai, 72
Claustrophobia, 36 Wanted, 40 Xiao-Sen Steelspitter, 90
Clumsy, 36 Xenophobia, 41 Xiao-Sen Streetmaster, 59
Computer Challenged, 36 Tricin, 212 Xiao-Sen Swordfish, 185
Cowardly, 36 Trident, 167 Xiao-Sen Viper, 170
Cybernetic Adaptability, 27 Turn, 239
Dishonest, 36
Distinctive Features, 36
Escape Artist, 28 U Y
Ethereal Beacon, 36 Yamasaki Cerberus, 76
Ethereal Dampening, 28 U.P.I.N, 224 Yamasaki Chimera, 62
Exceptional Abilities, 28 Unauthorised User, 307 Yamasaki Renegade, 184
Fear of Death, 37 Unconscious, 236, 350 Yamasaki Roadmaster, 180
Feedback, 37 Understanding Your Surroundings, 221 Yamasaki Sea Serpent, 186
Firearms Expert, 28 Universal Translator, 201 Yamasaki Spectre, 66
Focused, 28 UPIN Stick, 214 Yamasaki Sprint, 183
Former Junkie, 37 User Access & Permissions, 307 Yamasaki Warden, 177

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