CHARACTER GOAL: Choose one or create your own: Look Cool as Hell, Meet

Sexy AI, Shoot Bad Guys, Find New Technology, Break Into Cool Places, Prove
Yourself, or Keep Being Awesome (you have nothing to prove).

Players: Create Your Cybernetics

You each get one cool cybernetic implant. Name your implant and say
what it allows you to do (cyber eyes that let you see in the dark, a cyber
arm that makes you strong, etc). Then give your implant one of the
following flaws: buggy, unpredictable, overpowered, power draining (needs to
You are a group of operatives in Neon City. You take shadowy jobs that be recharged frequently), ungrounded, experimental, russian-made (bulky and
the corporations cannot do themselves. Your leader Dar-C has been unflattering), unconcealable, freeware (ad supported).
infected with a strange techno-virus which has shut down his implants
and left him unconscious, leaving you to take the next job by yourselves Rolling the dice
while he recovers at the local vat clinic.
When you do something risky, roll 1d6 to find out how it goes. Roll +1d if you’re
players: create characters prepared and +1d if you’re an expert. (The GM tells you how many dice to roll, based
on your character and the situation.) Roll your dice and compare each die result to
1 Choose a style for your character: Punk, Suit, Chrome, Leather, Denim,
Beautiful, Autonomous thing (Like a vending machine), Artificially your number.
Intelligent (lives in cyberspace) If you’re using Machine (science, reason), you want to roll under your
Choose a role for your character: Street Samurai, Deck Jockey, Driver, number
2 Rockerboy/girl, Drone Pilot, Courier, Corporate Executive, Journalist If you’re using Rock, (rapport, passion) you want to roll over your number.
Choose your number, from 2 to 5. A high number means you’re better at Machine If none of your dice succeed, it goes wrong. The GM says how things get worse
3 (technology; science; cold rationality; calm, precise action). A low number means 0 somehow.
you’re better at Rock (intuition; diplomacy; seduction; wild, passionate action).
1 If one die succeeds, you barely manage it. The GM inflicts a
4 Give your character a cool Cyberpunk Street Name. Like Leo Pulse or
something.
complication, harm, or cost.
2 If two dice succeed, you do it well. Good job!
If three dice succeed, you get a critical success! The
YOU HAVE: a firearm (because everyone in the future is armed), a smartphone, a 3 GM tells you some extra effect you get.
credit chip, and the main tech for your role:

!
If you roll your number exactly, you are
• Street Samurai — Katana
Hardwired. You get a special insight into what’s
• Deck Jockey — Cyberdeck (connects you to cyberspace) going on. Ask the GM a question and they’ll answer
• Driver — Vehicle (ground, air, water, space) you honestly. Some good questions:
What are they really feeling? Who’s behind this? How could
• Rockerboy — Instrument (guitar, keytar, etc)
I get them to __? What should I b e on the lookout for? What’s
• Drone pilot — Drone the best way to __? What’s really going on here?
• Courier — Armored briefcase
You can change your action if you want to, then roll again.
• Corporate Executive — Expense account
HELPING: If you want to help someone else who’s rolling, say
• Journalist — Recording device
how you try to help and make a roll. If you succeed, give them +1d.
PLAYER GOAL: Get your character involved in crazy cyberpunk adventures and
try to make the best of them.
 GM: Run The Game
Present the job to the characters (don’t tell them the twist). Then, play
to find out how they complete the job. The job has some basic parts: Intel,
Planning, The Job, The Twist, and Getting Away.
Don’t let the game bog down into intel and planning. Rather push them
through these phases by asking some of the questions below and giving them
the information quickly:
How do you perform recon on the site? How do you arrange to gain access
GM: create a cyberpunk adventure. Roll or choose on the tables below. into the location? Who does recon on the security? Who gains information on
target/person/object? Keep asking questions and making rolls until they
The Client wants you to… are ready to start The job.
1. Steal/Extract 4. Plant/Place During the The Job they will always have to gain entry, deal with the
2. Sabotage/Ruin 5. Frame/Discredit opposition, and find the object - that’s when you drop the Twist. Atter that,
3. Destroy/Kill 6. Protect/Guard play to see how they finish the job and live another day. Don’t pre-plan
outcomes—let the chips fall where they may. Use failures to push the action
The… forward. The situation always changes after a roll, for good or ill. Ask
1. Prototype Technology Everyone questions and build on the answers. “Have any of you encountered the Chrome
4. Money/Credits
Wants Raptors before? Where? What happened?”
5. A piece of art/ Antique piece of
2. A valuable Scientist/Mega-Star
technology Credits
3. Secret Corporate Data 6. A dangerous cyberspace viral weapon Rockerboys & Vending Machines was designed by Encoded Designs (@encodeddesigns)
At… Based on Lasers & Feelings by John Harper (onesevendesign.com)
1. An AI Controlled Mansion 4. The rain-slick slums of Neon City The textual elements of this game are licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.
2. An Orbital Facility 5. An Arcology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
3. Corporate Offices/R&D facility 6. The Hottest Nightclub In Town
Written by Phil Vecchione (@dnaphil)
Opposed By… Illustrations by Meghan Dornbrock (@meglish)
1. A cybernetic shogun and his private 4. A Criminal Syndicate (Triad, Yakuza, Layout & Logo by John Arcadian (@johnarcadian)
army Mob)
2. Local gang 5. Another set of Operatives Thanks to:
3. A powerful MegaCorp 6. A Rogue AI Senda, Wayne, Stephen, Bob, Chris, John,
Shawn, Tim
Twists (Never share with the players in advance)
1. The item is guarded by some unique 4. The Intel is bad (select a second Check Out
protections (what are they?) location where the object really is
located) encodeddesigns.com
2. It’s a trap to settle an old score 5. Someone else wants the object (select misdirectedmark.com
(find out what the old score is) a second group) gnomestew.com
3. The location is under attack by 6. The object is not there and something sasgeek.com
another force (select another group) else is in its place (pick a second object) comms.visionary.ca