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Cyberpunk Paying Jobs Tall Tales and Wild Crazy Rumours
Cyberpunk Paying Jobs Tall Tales and Wild Crazy Rumours
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The only way to survive and flourish in this dark and dangerous future is to keep your eyes and ears
open so you never miss a good opportunity to turn a profit or hook up with a new ally. But for GMs it
can be exhausting coming up with such street level chatter on the spot, which is where FRANKENSTEIN
BEE’s CYBERPUNK PAYING JOBS, TALL TALES & WILD, CRAZY RUMOURS can help. This random
generator features three tables of features to add depth and detail to your cyberpunk setting. By rolling a
few dice you can determine a set of story hooks to spin off into a new adventure, figure out the details
of paying contracts that might be of interest to your crew, or jump into the rumour mill and pick up some
juicy gossip that could lead to some exciting outcomes.
It’s designed to be used with any RPG in a cyberpunk setting (Cyberpunk Red, Cyberpunk 2020, Shadowrun,
Altered Carbon, etc.) and is intended to help GMs access their own imaginative processes with the
minimum of effort. Thanks for taking a chance on it and check out DRIVETHRURPG.COM for other GM
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Roll D100 and read along or roll a number of times to mix it up.
WHO? WHAT? TO?
1 An ageing fashion designer … wants to assassinate … a rival’s pedigree pug.
2 A barber … wants to find … a missing friend.
3 A doctor … wants to deliver … a vaccine.
4 An honest politician … wants to punish … a corrupt mayor.
5 A former cop … wants to recover … a hidden stash.
6 An AI … wants to kidnap … a computer programmer.
7 A gangster … wants to reward … a good citizen.
8 The manager of a bodega … wants to protect … a business.
9 A cabal of bankers … wants to investigate … a rival corp.
10 A terminally ill hacker … wants to hijack … a cargo ship.
11 A PC’s relative … wants to reconcile with … a lost love.
12 A cab driver … wants to bury … a cursed item.
13 A performance artist … wants to get rid of … an annoying fan.
14 A failing musician … wants to store … a rare piece of memorabilia.
15 A published poet … wants to relocate … an old mentor who’s in trouble.
16 A janitor … wants to teach a lesson to … a disrespectful resident.
17 A mid-level exec … wants to dig up dirt on … a direct superior.
18 The PA to a powerful tycoon … wants to blow the whistle on … their employer.
19 An army major … wants to go into hiding from … a corporate assassin.
20 The spouse of a prominent exec … wants to escape from … their spouse.
21 A washed-up actor … wants to break a contract with … a movie-loving mobster.
22 A librarian … wants to give a parcel to … a missing friend.
23 An illegal bookie … wants to deliver an encrypted data chip to … a gambling addict.
24 A master sword-maker … wants to get materials from … a fortified lock-up.
25 An anonymous client … wants to send a message to ... a politician.
26 A corpo archivist … needs to deliver a gift to … a missing scientist.
27 A concerned mother … wants to rescue a child from … a ruthless cult leader.
28 A religious leader … wants to rough up … a blackmailer.
29 A shady businessman … needs to find … a former business partner.
30 A talented student … has an important discovery to share with … an imprisoned professor.
31 A gun runner … wants to steal a shipment from … a huge container ship.
32 A reformed criminal … needs to break into … a high tech prison.
33 A VR programmer … needs to test … a virtual reality combat trainer.
34 A robot refurbisher … needs to recapture … a malfunctioning recon bot.
35 A synthetic human AI … wants transporting … to a remote island.
36 A construction corp exec … wants gangs clearing from … a wrecked housing block.
37 A collector of retro computers … wants to plant incriminating data … on a police detective..
38 A police detective … wants an off the books investigation into … a colleague.
39 A troubled street gang member … wants protection from … a gang they once joined.
40 A bioengineering corp … wants to protect … valuable GM crops.
41 A news reporter … needs protection on … an undercover job.
42 A commune … wants help getting rid of … a protection racket.
43 A sacked exec … wants help clearing their name to … a disappointed CEO.
44 A grandfather … wants to extract their grandchild who is … a drug addict.
45 A private detective … needs help investigating … a corporate conspiracy.
46 An alternative art collective … needs protection for … a controversial exhibition.
47 A business leader … puts out a bounty on … a fugitive corpo saboteur.
48 An underground anarchist group … wants a parcel delivering to … a compound in the badlands.
49 A fashionable rocker … wants to transport … an expensive rare guitar.
50 Beleaguered residents … need to teach a lesson to … a slum landlord.
51 A security exec … wants secret recon on … a private research facility.
52 A low level mobster … wants to steal a supercar for … a secret client.
53 APEX, a shadowy cabal … want to deliver a data chip to … an isolated billionaire.
54 A consortium of businesspeople … want to retrieve the dead body of … an adventurous explorer.
55 A scientific research team … need support reaching … a remote research outpost.
Roll D100
Fixer Copper Spykes has fallen in love with Lairy Nox, but he doesn’t realise she’s actually working for his
1-2
nemesis Fat Ricky who is gradually siphoning off his clients.
3-4 A neo-Nazi street gang is being funded by a secretly fascist exec at a military tech corporation.
There’s a new breed of GM rat on the street that has been released by animal rights campaigners who raided
5-6
a bioengineering corporation. The problem is, they have thumbs. Imagine that: rats … with thumbs!
The husband of a high-up member of the Russian mafia is cheating on the mobster with a hack actor from a
7-8
daytime soap opera. Apparently the mobster likes to watch.
There’s a secret gang of police who are acting as a hit mob, targeting mobsters and high level gang members
9-10
for murder. The mayor knows, but is turning a blind eye.
Recently deceased smuggler Happy Ranks has left a truck containing several hundred million’s worth of boosted
11-12
weapons somewhere on the city streets. Several crews are actively searching for it.
There’s a bunker underneath city hall which, as well as being equipped for survival, contains a massive reserve
13-14
of gold. It’s claimed there’s a secret entrance somewhere in a nearby subway station.
A cult is operating in the city and several human sacrifices have been found in basements and other isolated
15-16 spots, said to be pressure points that can cause tectonic shifts. They’re trying to bring about the earthquake that
will drop the city into the sea.
A brand of popular lollipop has been tampered with in order to get its consumer hooked on synthetic
17-18
hallucinogenics.
A legendary rocker who died in a gangfight is not really dead. They’re living in secret in a luxury penthouse
19-20
overlooking the bay and will soon announce a massive comeback concert.
The government is using robot street cleaners and other AI tools to spy on people because they’re going to
21-22
suspend the constitution and institute the New World Order.
Prominent actors, politicians, musicians and execs are members of a vampire cult that kidnaps people off the
23-24
street and drinks their blood.
25-26 An exec at a petrochem firm is offering rewards for information about environmental protestors.
A prominent film-maker is looking for guides into the city’s underworld as part of their research for a gangster
27-28
movie.
The child of one of the city’s most powerful businessmen has been on a massive bender and is believed to be
29-30
frequenting the dive bars near to the city’s no-go zones, hanging out with a bunch of fashionable minor criminals.
Someone has been stencilling flying pink ducks around the city. There’s a rumour that the ducks are marking
31-32 people and businesses for some reason – theories include connections to the mob, sex deviancy, hacking targets,
involvement in a conspiracy of some manner, etc.
Reclusive business leader Den Daggy Boats, who has allegedly not left their penthouse in the last twenty years,
33-34
has been on the streets disguised as a homeless person, giving out small fortunes to those who do good deeds.
35-36 Moxon Gore, a TV newsman, has been targeted for a hit by all four of his ex-spouses.
A gang of black-eyed children is picking off lone drunks and drug addicts on the street. The only clue on each
37-38
of the scenes of abduction is the same brand of Evil Eye cigarettes found on or near to the bodies.
It’s said that Jackie ‘Caligula’ Rockstep, who runs a mercenary bar near to the docks, got his nickname because
39-40
he has an unusual attitude towards horses.
41-42 The private eye Mitchum Gart has dirt on somebody big, but he won’t let on who it is.
43-44 Wholesome family entertainer Mildred Hi-Tower has been paying hush money to an unknown blackmailer.
A priceless stone tablet, engraved with two horned rattlesnakes from the Native American Mississippian culture,
45-46 is being moved from the museum to the university for research purposes. A venture capitalist who collects such
things would pay handsomely if it got ‘lost’ on the way.
Cats have been going missing. They’re fitted with bugs and when they return, one of a number of named
47-48 corporations which differs depending on the teller uses them to spy on their owners. None of the rumour mongers
can quite decide why.
49-50 Pornographer, businessman and rap artist Itchy Dexxx is planning to run for city mayor next election.
Somewhere in the city there is a red room which is used to film murders that are then broadcast to sick
51-52
individuals who revel in cruelty.
In the culverts and sewers under the city, there’s a growing band of the poor and disaffected that are planning
53-54
to overrun society and take revenge on the rich.
Execs at Bathory Kumel, a bioengineering and medical corp that are developing anti-aging treatments, bathe in
55-56
the blood of kidnapped children at secret soirees in the exclusive restaurant Mircalla.
57-58 Crime lord Ignus Tythe of the Lost Hearts syndicate is planning to murder his brother, Hash.
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