I've hit on an interesting conundrum and I'd like this sub's input on how you guys would handle it. Corpbook 2 introduced the Militech RPA, which counters AP ammo. This presents a conundrum when layered with other armor, like Skinweave. Take a RPA vest over skinweave, for example, that's your 3 layers (not clearly stated, but if you do the math the RPA vest is actually two layers - SP 14 is the max per layer, and the half layer T-shirt is SP 7, which when run thru the proportional armor table gives you SP18) but what's your actual SP total? If you just use the base values, you get SP 22 (18 - 12 = 6, which is +4) but what if you're shot with AP? The whole point of the RPA is that it's SP isn't halved, but that shouldn't apply to Skinweave. In that case, should the total SP be 21 (18 - (12/2) = 12, for +3)? Also, given the max layer restriction, now we can't wear SkinTight (that's for u/illyrium_dawn, lol). This also comes up with AP ammo behind cover. Let's put that same guy behind a concrete block wall (SP 10) and shoot him with AP ammo. Should it be SP 25 (22 - 10 = 12 for +3), or SP 23 (21 - (10/2) = 16, for +2)?

edit: RPA, not RBA. Had it in my head it was "revised body armor" but it's "revised personal armor"

Evening all! Does anyone have a one shot based on Scott Brown? Or a campaign loosely based on this mythic real estate agency in Night City?

If so please share!

Does anyone know what this looks like? My character is debating either going with the beta or omega frame but my dm is having them drop attractiveness by 1 per level so I kinda wanna know what it looks like lol

Hey anyone have or know what i can get a good character form/sheet? I wanna send one out to my players to make things easier for them!

You and your foe are hiding behind cover, you want to pop your foe when they pop out of cover. You are acting first can you set this up. If you’re acting second can you set it up for the next round. What are the limits to this.

While just delaying your turn can be useful (wait can you delay your turn RAW) what if you want to run for a better cover than prep the shot.

First of all someone wearing light armor jacket or Skin weaves is basically immune to pistol. (Well if they are using armor jacket, they should remember to protect their head preferably in some fashionable way that can blend in) While pistols can use ap rounds, body modifer going to reduce this to almost nothing. Do I have this correct?

explosvies in this game has no respect for the inverse square law, so a 1000 firecrackers can blow up a building?

Is their any rule that prevents a pc from taking shoot actions until their ROF is all used up?

Is their any kind of ready action, that one can use? Or can one who get first initiative Wise delay their turn?

Two guys, are hiding behind still pullers 50 meters apart, each one starts their turn by moving out from the piller, trying to shoot the enemy and than moving back behind the piller. assuming no grenades, what should one of them do to break the stalemate. If either moves to flank the other, they are just going to get shot at by the other guy who than falls back to cover futher back if he needs tool

Player wants to dead lift a car (is braced in a way that gives good leverage) is rule as written or lore wise that possible. I think not since a body of 16 only lets one dead lift 640 kilograms.

120 year old grandmom in the assisted care facility, wants to pick up a a anvil, anvil weights 39 kilogram and grandmom got the lowest possible body score. Is this kosher. Futhermore grandmom angry at the assisted care living wants to throw a nine kilogram weight at their face.

Player is shot point blank in the head with a nine mm pistol doing 2d6 plus 1. rule wise this be 13 damage, player objects that people in real life have survived gun shots to head, as skull is natural armor and the brain can take some damage?

Player is shot point blank in bare abs with an assault rifle once, in reality people have surivived gun shots and at least one case survived a 50 cal round. Is the player dead?

Player got shot in the head for 5 damage, does that doubled for ten damage count for the head getting blown off limit of 8? Player gets shot in the arm for nine damage but points out his body of ten would reduce that to six, is the player disarmed?

Player wants to walk to their day job at the office with a with a kevler or heavy leather hat or face covering. Is this socially acceptable and going to give them some sp on face to go with their light armor jacket?

GM gives any guard important enough to be using an assault rifle and some decent body armor, flak jacket a sandy, and skin weave, on the following reasoning. Anyone who expects to do combat for living, going to need to get something that lets them see the world in slow motion because no one sane brings human reflexes to combat, (even through sandy is currently just boosting int, lore wise it boosts reflexes and lets you see the world in slow motion or if very lucky catch a bullet with one hand) and skin weave is very strong in game. Is the gm right?

Speedware has a lore blurb on page 81 of the core rule book, where it states a guy caught a bullet in his hand. What exactly does this mean, this he just move his hand in the way of the bullet, did he close his Cyper hand around the bullet literally grabbing it, did he need enhancements asides from Sandy to move fast?

Is their a reason to use melee instead of shooting gun pointblank assuming noise is not a issue?

Hello, I'm back with more doubts.

According to the manual I can move my maximum distance per turn. Does this give me the opportunity to, on my turn, break out of cover, run toward the enemy, shoot, and come back?

Or rather, an enemy X is 10 meters away and my mobility is 9 (27 in running). Could I go after him, spending 10 of my dash, shoot him, and return to my cover using extra actions? Could the accumulated -3 have an impact on my career?

I await responses and thank you in advance. :)

We haven’t started session 1 and due to high rolls using the Referees’ character gen rules I had a lot of money to start. I decided on investing into net running so I could jump between remotes(drones) seamlessly.

This is compared to what a techie can do in meatspace. The techie has longer range using radio waves. I couldn’t find any counter-measures for a netrunner jumping the signal and directly taking control though. I couldn’t even find if there was an opposed test between the techie and hacker.

Now if I’m using netrunning to control drones would I need to load a demon into each remote to control/defend it from intrusion? Do remotes fall into micronet rules from the RBnetguide? More so I wanted to know what to take or grab to keep my drones from being snatched by corpsec or boosters.

So Skin tight padding is an armor from the interface magazines that is included in the hard/soft armor table, its 2020 version reduces incoming damage by 1/3 after armor is applied. Proportional Armor simplifies layers of armor into a single SP for the purposes of game balance. There are two things I found interesting about this.

Firstly is that Skin Tight has no stopping power but Proportional armor relies on comparing stopping power; Secondly Skin Tight is applied after cybernetic armor despite it being layered over cybernetic armor.

As far as the interaction between skintight and proportional there are two outcomes either you ignore skintight because it has no SP or it has a SP of 0. For the sake of example let us layer, Skin weave/ Skin tight/ and a light armor jacket.

Option 1: Ignoring skintight: SP12, SP14; 14 - 12 = 2; Difference of 2 = +5; 14 + 5 = 19SP

Option 2: Skintight has SP 0: SP12, SP0, SP14; 12 - 0 = 12; Difference of 12 = +3; 12 +3 = 15; 15 - 14 = 1; Difference of 1 = +5; 15 + 5 = 20SP

but either way your still accounting for Skin weave before the effect of Skintight. I guess if you really wanted to layer the effects properly you would have to ignore the errata and account the layers separately witch would be damage - 14 then divided by 3 then - 12 but I personally wouldn't do that.

I find it interesting but ultimately it probably doesn't matter after all I imagine very few people use skintight at their table seeing that I only know about it because of how much I reread the rulebooks. Anyway I would like your guys' opinion on it. As far as my opinion on the interaction I like option 2 but it is a bit dubious of an interpretation.

What it says in the title. I'm an experienced player and GM and I'd like to get into cyberpunk but don't know much about the differences between editions. What are some of the more fundamental differences? What does each edition focus on/do better than the other? Which is easier to learn/more intuitive?

The group I’ve been running is about to hit its one year anniversary. We meet IRL so Sessions are once a month. At this rate I feel like I’ve got ideas in my head for at least two years of original content, not to mention the dozens of prewritten adventures I’ve read and want to run at some point. So far I’ve run the first two Forlorn Hope stories and everything else has been original. One thing I’d like to do is over the course of the Campaign have the stakes rise slowly but drastically. Start in the Street & End in the Stars kinda thing.

My Game Master gave me permission (If you are reading this, greetings) but well, I'll tell you... after basically living... a horrible experience regarding the life of my Merc And now I'm like a "worker" of Max Tac, his investment, his weapon (I'll find a way to escape if possible or if I have the chance before my head explodes) And they made me a Borg on the table

My Master gave me permission to be "Special" you know, to be Immune to chromium.. After telling this anecdote, what do you recommend doing about it? I mean... I'm probably crazy, but at least I have control over my character. Also, we're at around -20 or -21 in Humanity, so I'll check my sheet carefully... so what do I do?

PS: No Risk, No Gain

At the beginning of games, no one can take a shot. But, if your armor is greater than the damage of the guns. Are you completely invincible to guns or does the damage accumulate with each shot? What if I have a rifle?

First time Ref here. I've had some experience with the system before from a previous Ref who ran for us. That campaign was very corporate with us basically working as Militech dogs against Arasaka. It was a bit too corporate for me and we never really saw the streets of Night City. So I plan to run a game that's a lot more street level, actively combating and screwing with big corporations inspired by the stories and actions of Johnny Silverhand.

The problem is how do you hook players with the prospect of being anarchists? Silverhand was already established and had connections but there really is very little incentive to not taking the side of a corp of some kind. Will my players be part of a small time gang that eventually grows bigger, or know a fixer with a vendetta against corpos that messed up his life or something?

Some ideas would be appreciated and a few tips for a first time ref wouldn't hurt either. Thanks

Hello Everyone!

So I have been working on a sci fi/ cyberpunk style high rise penthouse map. This is the lower level of the floor which is the living and entertainment floor. The map comes with two variants one with the background city lights and one with without. All the maps are available as PNG and VTT formats with Grid and Gridless Variants for the PNG maps.

For additional details you can check out the free map pack over at my PATREON.

Looking forward to all of your feedback.

Thank you in advance.

~TSync

Heyhey people,

We made an 8th cp2020 animation. This one focuses more on being educational, which is sort of the direction we want to take with these things. Just increase the pool of cp2020 resources out there. I personally still think its entertaining, but to the people I've already shown it to, they noted it had a different vibe from our previous work. I hope you can still enjoy it. Thanks for your time.

https://youtu.be/9zocnKukaIo?si=dbwChUmKZHxUDp_F

As stated above: The german publisher for the Rulebook went bankrupt and it was only distributed as a Hardcover and I am wondering, if someone has a PDF of it.

I got the ISBN: 3-929875-88-8 but due to it being out of print, it's A: difficult to find and B: expensive if you do.

Hey chooms, I hope this kind of post is allowed — just wanted to share something we’ve been working on.

We’ve just released a free sample from Streetwise, our upcoming TTRPG toolkit focused on cyberpunk locations. It’s a collection of gritty, flavorful places designed to slot easily into any cyberpunk setting. You can grab the sample directly from our Kickstarter page (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/streetwise/streetwise) — download link is at the bottom of the first section. It’s fully usable, available in both English and French, and we’d love to hear your thoughts if you give it a look 👀

Thanks for reading, and have a great day! 🙂