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1. Character Creation

1.1 Attributes

Characters have four attributes:

Strength Strike, push, carry, lift, drag
Dexterity Dodge, climb, balance, throw, shoot
Intelligence Understand, decipher, calculate, remember
Presence Convince, Intimidate, Resist Fear, Inspire

For each attribute roll a D4-1. After rolling you may swap two of the scores.

1.2 Hit points and Luck

Characters start with 9 + D6 hit points and D4 Luck.

1.3 Appearance and Background

Roll or pick from the tables.

1.4 Credits and the Net

All characters start with an implanted data link called a remote communication device (RCD). RCDs provides biometric identification, stores credit information and provides a data connection to the net. A cyberdeck is required to interface with the deep net.

Roll D10 x 100 for starting credits.

At any point your character may go into negative credits by taking on debt. Negative credit balances double whenever you take downtime. High levels of debt may lead to random purchase refusal or debt collection visits.

1.5 Class and Starting Equipment

1.6 Cyberware

Roll for a random piece of cyberware

2. Inventory

2.1 Inventory Slots

Characters have the following slots:

• Main hand (1 slot).
• Off hand (1 slot, a 2 slot item may be held in both hands).
• Body (2 slots).
• Backpack (6 slots).

Items on your body may be freely swapped to and from hand slots before you take an action in combat.

Most items take 1 slot, however some larger items may take 2.

While a character is carrying more equipment than they have inventory slots strength and dexterity saves will be hard and all attacks they make are impaired.

2.2 Usage

Consumable items, and those subject to wear and tear have 3 usage points. Each time one of these items is used it loses a usage point. Once all usage points have been used the item is used up, or damaged too much to use.

• Consumables: Food/drugs/medicine etc. Lose a usage point whenever used.
• Ammo: After combat if a weapon that requires ammunition was used, lose a usage point.
• Other Items: At the GM’s discretion.

2.3 Weapons

When rolling damage with a ranged weapon add your dexterity. When rolling damage with a melee weapon add your strength.

Unarmed D4 damage.
Light D6 damage (Main/off hand). If two light weapons are used roll both dice and keep the best result.
Medium D6/D8 damage (Main/off hand). D8 damage when used in both hands.
Heavy D10 damage (Both hands).

Certain weapons may have additional effects:

• Armor piercing weapons: Damage is not reduced by armor.
• Automatic weapons: May be used to make an impaired attack against all visible enemies instead of a regular attack. Immediately deduct a usage point from ammo.
• Blast weapons: May hit multiple targets, distribute the rolled damage between affected targets.
• Stun weapons: Any character taking damage must make a hard strength save or miss their next action. Stun weapons never deal more than 3 damage to a single target.

2.5 Armor

Armor reduces damage taken by the number of points the armor provides. A character may wear one type of armor at a time and armor uses body slots while worn.

3. Playing the Game

3.1 Saves

To make a save roll a D20 and add the relevant attribute (strength, dexterity, intelligence, or presence) to equal or beat the save difficulty:

• Standard: 12
• Hard: 16

A roll of 20 is a critical success.

A score equal or above the difficulty is a success.

A score below the difficulty is a success with a consequence, e.g. it takes longer, you hurt yourself doing it, equipment is damaged or resources used up.

A roll of a 1 is a critical fail.

Expend a point of luck before making a save to gain +4 to your roll.

3.2 Combat

Combat takes place in rounds, with each round representing roughly 10 seconds. In each round each character may make one action:

• Attack.
• Move.
• Use an item or cyberware.
• Retrieve an item from their backpack.
• Something else.

If one side surprises the other then they act first, otherwise player characters make a dexterity save to act before non player characters. Order is preserved between rounds.

Attacks always hit, roll damage for the weapon being used, adding strength for melee attacks or dexterity for ranged weapons. Characters that take damage lose hit points equal to the damage taken, with armor reducing damage.

Attacks may be impaired or enhanced, e.g. a ranged attack against a target in cover would be impaired.

Impaired attacks always roll D4 for damage.
Enhanced attacks always roll D12 for damage.

At 0HP a character is incapacitated and may take no action until they receive emergency medical treatment. An incapacitated character will die after 60 minutes if not treated.

If a character drops below 0HP they are dead.

Expend a point of luck before making an attack to gain +4 to your roll.

Expend a point of luck after taking damage to reduce damage taken by 4.

3.3 Recovery and Downtime

Rest Get some sleep - restores all luck.
Downtime Lie low for a week - restores all HP and luck.

When you take downtime their is a chance that your luck may change based on where you’re staying. Role the dice size for the chosen accommodation, on a 1 your max luck decreases by 1 (min 0), on a 6+ your max luck increases by 1.

3.3 Netrunning

The surface net that most people interact with is a locked down set of walled gardens. It’s only by using a cyberdeck that net runners can access the troves of data and private networks of the deep net.

A netrun requires a cyberdeck and D3 hours. Depending on the level of the dive a save may also be required. The deeper the dive and the more well defended the target, the bigger the risk to the net runner.

Cyberdecks can also be used to prepare malware and viruses in advance for rapid deployment. These programs must be saved to a data cassette and are deployed via a cyberdeck to a nearby system. Once used the program must be rewritten as it’s signature will have been saved into an ICE database and a counter measure developed.

Preparing a program takes 1 hour and an intelligence save. A military grade variant can be produced by passing a hard save.

4. Equipment

4.1 Weaponry

4.2 Armor

4.3 Equipment

4.4 Recreational Drugs

4.5 Ranged Weapon Upgrades

5. Data

5.1 Cost of Living Dying

5.2 I search the body