d20 Adamant Entertainment Tactical Implant.pdf

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Malcolm Sheppard

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Gareth-Michael Skarka

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Introduction

Welcome to Tactical Implant: The Deﬁnitive Guide

to Cyberpunk Combat Options . This book contains

a set of options you can use to customize Modern

SRD and Future SRD campaigns. All of these

optional rules are about one thing: Combat!

training to prepare for your speciﬁc

encounters.

Ablative Morale: For a grittier

edge, use ablative morale to

measure how much violence

your character can take before he

psychologically shuts down or ﬂees

-- or until another character talks him back from he

edge of despair. Two new talent trees give Charismatic

and Dedicated heroes an edge under this system. New

feats toughen your characterʼs mind, let him inspire

an entire squad, or even design a meme to inﬂuence

millions.

Protagonists in cyberpunk ﬁction are often experts.

Combat between novices and experienced warriors

tend to be one-sided. Expert hackers arenʼt expected to

pick up a gun and go toe to toe as backup in a general

melee. Instead, professional ﬁghters are supposed to

ensure that hackers, social operators and VIPs never

have to pull the trigger.

Violence is also relatively rare. Even though the

worlds of cyberpunk ﬁction deal with wretched

poverty and ruthless corporate plotters, violence in

actual stories tends to climactic and swift. Trained

cyborgs, genetically altered assassins and corporate

security forces take center stage, skilled enough to

decide a victory in minutes or seconds.

Cyborgs in Combat: Metal and ﬂesh collide in new

rules that discuss how cybernetics inﬂuence grappling,

defense, speed and power. Two new talent trees give

Strong and Fast cyborgs the ability to hit harder

with artiﬁcial hands or evade gunﬁre with enhanced

reﬂexes.

Combat-oriented characters shouldnʼt feel left out

in the quiet times between ﬁreﬁghts, though. Hired

muscle is not only intimidating, but high maintenance.

Like real bodyguards and soldiers, cyberpunk warriors

train for speciﬁc scenarios, running themselves ragged

through simulations and drills. Furthermore, electronic

and physical security often go hand in hand. Like

everything else combat adapts to the information age.

Weapon Mods and Gadgets: New gadgets and after-

market alterations let you customize your weapons and

ammo. Carry nanite payloads, give a blade a fractal

edge -- or make the whole sword out of wickedly

sharp, retractable wire.

Combat Frames: If youʼd rather be stronger without

losing an arm and a leg, use a combat frameʼs

exoskeleton to enhance a single limb, or piece them

together into a suit of powered armor. Improve your

purchase with gadgets like extra armor and defensive

nanotechnology.

Enough about the genre. Hereʼs what you get:

Variant Fighting Classes: Using the examples of the

Soldier and Bodyguard, we demonstrate how to tweak

standard Advanced Classes to serve a cyberpunk-genre

campaign.

Combat Nanotechnology: New, invisible threats

enter the ﬁeld. Use gray goo, tracers and binders to

attack enemies, or employ defensive nanites to keep

these microscopic machines at bay. See how nanites

move and threaten the battle map and how characters

hack nanotech design to create their own nanotech

weapons.

Nonlethal Damage: Standard rules for nonlethal

damage donʼt always match the genreʼs penchant

for martial arts action and noirish knockouts. We

present a simple revamp of the Modern SRD ʼs rules

for nonlethal damage that ﬁnally allows low level,

unskilled combatants a chance to take each other out.

Scenario Training: Train your character the

professionals do: for the mission Use scenario

Variant Fighting Classes

In the dynamic, brutal futures of cyberpunk-genre

games, warriors have evolved to meet the needs

imposed by urban poverty, corporate overlords and

new technologies. Therefore, itʼs time to revisit

Modern SRD and Future SRD character classes and

change them to better ﬁt a cyberpunk future. You can

use the two variants below alongside the standard

classes -- or you can rule that theyʼve superceded the

“old school.” In all cases, any trait that isnʼt mentioned

in the following descriptions stay the same. Use the

model below to customize other classes to the needs of

your campaign.

Bodyguard Variant: Street Bodyguard

This variant of the Bodyguard advanced class protects

criminal middlemen between the corporate world

and the street. These upwardly mobile criminals need

protection from corporate killers and street dealers

eager to take their place. Street Bodyguards guard

these patrons with a combination of muscle, attitude

and hard-hitting technology.

Requirements: Replace Concentrate 6 ranks with

Gather Information 6 ranks. Replace Personal

Firearms Proﬁciency with Urban Tracking.

Class Skills: The Street Bodyguard loses Concentrate

and Disguise and gains Computer Use and Repair.

Bonus Feats: The Street Bodyguard adds Cybertaker

and Urban Tracking to the selection of bonus feats.

A Street Bodyguard does more than protect his or

her boss. The character also threatens the bossʼ more

distant enemies. When the character is actively

searching for someone, the targetʼs Bluff and Disguise

check DCs are all increased by the characterʼs

Intimidate ranks. Furthermore, the

Street Bodyguard gains a bonus to

Gather Information rolls equal to his

or her Reputation score whenever he

or she employs the Urban Tracking

feat. This Street Bodyguard is

frightening enough to make his or

her quarry make crucial mistakes,

and those the character questions are

reluctant to withhold information.

Feared Protection: Replace Harmʼs Way with Feared

Protection.

Once per round, the Street Bodyguard may stand

adjacent to an ally (but not necessarily in the path

of an attack) in a threatening posture. If the Street

Bodyguard succeeds at an Intimidate check against

an attacker, add his or her Reputation and Charisma

bonus to the Defense of the adjacent ally. The attacker

is too frightened by the consequences of attacking to

aim true.

Feared Stalking: Replace Improved Charge with

Feared Stalking.

Soldier Variant: Cybersoldier

Modiﬁed for combat, the Cybersoldierʼs military

training incorporates his or her enhanced capabilities.

The characterʼs modiﬁcations are just another weapon

to use with maximum efﬁciency.

Requirements: Add Cybertaker. The character must

also possess at least one cybernetic attachment.

Tactical Neural Implant: Replace Tactical Aid with

Tactical Neural Implant.

Long term VR training combined with subtle

modiﬁcationʼs to the Cybersoldierʼs brain allow

the character to pump action points as if he or she

has participated in scenario training (see “Scenario

Training,” later on in this book). The Cybersoldier

may increase the die type used to determine action

point beneﬁts by one step (normally from a d6 to a

d8), once during any combat.

Beyond Specs: Replace Improved Reaction with

Beyond Specs.

The Cybersoldier may exploit his or her cybernetic

attachments to do more than the attachment normally

allows. If the Cybersoldier has an artiﬁcial limb, he

or she may spend an action point to increase his or

her Strength by 4 for a number of rounds equal to

his or her Constitution bonus. If the character has

artiﬁcially implanted feats that improve his or her

combat abilities, he or she may spend an action point

to increase his or her Dexterity by 4 for a number of

rounds equal to his or her Constitution bonus. The

character may combine both beneﬁts in the same

round.

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