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An Australian statistician and role-player living in Japan, interested in the theory and practice of role-playing…

Category: cyberpunk

  • Cyberpunk House Rules: Armour, and Some Tactics for Breaking it

    The original Cyberpunk rulebook has a simple and nasty system of armour, which is completely broken. In this system your gun does a handful of dice of damage, between 3d6+1 for a good submachine gun to 7d10 for a high quality sniper rifle, and your armour has a stopping power (SP) that ranges from 4…

  • Cyberpunk 9: Sanitarium

    [Faustus’s note: I wasn’t actually present for this session and wrote it up based on other players’ reports; this is why it is late and out of order with session 10. Go to the end for a summary of events] Kill, it’s such a friendly word Seems the only way For reaching out again –…

  • Cyberpunk 10: Attack on Titan (A Solo’s View)

    SECURITY TRANSMISSION, ARASAKA DEBRIEF UNIT 4, NEW HORIZON. CASE 147801C, TITAN TRAIN WRECK: WITNESS STATEMENT. WITNESS “BOB”, RATING: EXPENDABLE. Bob Millet, 3rd Arasaka Free Division. I was demobilized from the Indo Zone and taking the 11:31 AM Titan train from Calcutta, just a routine repatriation train. I was demobbing with my corps buddies Alec and…

  • Vladimir Putin’s Last Voyage 1: Strangers in a Strange Land

    Background for this mini-campaign is set out here. In this first session, our heroes leave the Gyre for the first time in their lives, to head to the arctic. They are given a few basic conditions and information about their mission: They will be accompanied by 8 marines, led by a Captain Azel, to use…

  • Poison Rules for the Cyberpunk System

    One of the PCs in my Flood campaign, Quark, has gained a level (even though they don’t exist in Cyberpunk rules), so he has access to a new set of abilities – the ability to make and deploy poison. He has two types of poison: poison darts and gas canisters, which he can deploy from…

  • Flood Adventure 2: Cleansing the Temple

      Having scouted the immediate vicinity of their landing point, our heroes needed to prepare to storm the ziggurat, which would mean taking on guards in two distant towers, and whatever soldiers were huddled in the main part of the compound. The safest approach appeared to be splitting the party, and this is what they…

  • Flood Adventure 2: Voltaire’s Temple

    The swarm The journey to the swarm was uneventful, though after a day at sea they entered squalls of acidic rain that hurt their eyes and tasted foul. On the second day they reached a point close enough to the swarm to see it and understand its magnitude – it stretched across the whole sea…

  • Flood Adventure 2: The Ocean Whisperer

    This is the second adventure in the Flood series. It is half a year since the near-catastrophe with the old man on the raft community, and our heroes have been split up, working in different parts of the Hulks on security jobs. They were surprised then to receive a text message from Captain Dilver in…

  • Cyberpunk History: Russian Ghosts

    If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance – Inuit proverb Drew stared, blank-eyed, at the doctor. He was watching her intently, probably thinking his expression meant something to her, but to him he was just the same as all the rest. A man, not old enough to be…

  • Cyberpunk 8: I Believe My Kingdom Will Come

    Date: 6th October, 2177 Weather: Rainy Mood: Inconsolable. One day I will be powerful enough to come out from under these shadows, and destroy the people who have made me beg and cower. When that day comes the list of people I have to shoot will be long and detailed, and I am going to…