[SG:U] Body Armour (new optional rule)

In Sprawl Goons and the Carbon Edition, armour is abstracted and folded into the Dangerous Action Roll as a bonus. Here, I'd like to present an alternative way to handle PC and NPC personal protection.

BODY ARMOUR RULES OPTION

If a character is wearing body armour, they no longer add a +1 bonus to their combat Action Roll. Instead, if a category of armour is worn on the body location hit by an attack, the Armour Rating is deducted from the damage received by the character.

Example:

Katya Kaiser is running for the cover of a parked R-Cab after taking down a Genexus agent. As she does so, another agent takes aim and fires. She dives, but fails her Action Roll, taking damage from the shot which hits her in the torso for 6 points. Katya is still wearing her spiderweave vest, which is classed as medium armour and reduces the damage by 2. So, Katya slides across the rain-slick asphalt, losing just 4 points of Resilience, rather than 6.

There are now three categories of armour:

• Light (-1 damage)

• Medium (-2 damage)

• Heavy (-3 damage)

[Tanksuits are still classed as vehicles and use the Vehicle Combat rules]

PERSONAL PROTECTION / BODY ARMOUR

Roll 2d6

02. Motorcycle Leathers - Light Armour

03. Arachnoweave Sleeve (figure-hugging second skin) - Light Armour

04. Carbon Fibre Flak Vest - Medium Armour

05. Laser-ablative Fabric (only effective vs lasers) - Heavy Armour vs lasers only

06. Impact Gel Inserts - Medium Armour

07. Ceramic Plate (hard armour shell, in sections) - Heavy Armour

08. Heavy Kevlar Jacket - Heavy Armour

09. Exo-frame (doubles Loadout score until you take it off; +1 Morphology) - Light Armour

10. Coil Suit (light-absorbing, black, myomar body suite; artificial muscle fibres confer +1 to Reaction) 
      - Medium Armour

11. Flame Retardant Sleeve (thin body sleeve; only one round of fire damage applies) - Light Armour

12. Heavy Leather Overcoat - Medium Armour

Armour CANNOT be layered on one location, the minuses do not stack. Layering also reduces character movement at the GM's discretion.

GMs now have the tools to create more armour variation for their characters. The wearing of differing helmets is now also viable.

HELMETS

Examples:

Steel - Medium Armour (-1 Reaction due to weight)

Added Ballistic Visor - Light Armour to protect the face (2-in-6 chance the visor is struck, rather than the helmet proper)

Kevlar - Medium Armour

Motorcycle Helmet - Light Armour

Ceramic - Heavy Armour

Arachnoweave Bandana - Light Armour

ARMOUR DEGRADATION

Armour can still be Slagged, as per the SG:U rules. Whether that rule is in play or not, no armour is beyond destruction. Any armour will degrade by 1 point when hit, if any damage penetrates and gets through to the wearer. When that armour is rated 0, it becomes useless and must be repaired or replaced.

Any thoughts on this are welcome in the comments below.

Omnibus OUT NOW

 

Seven titles in one shiny A5 softcover collection.

Includes - Sprawl Goons: Upgraded - Cyberpunk Roleplaying, the Booster Pack, the Plug-in Pack, Metal Express, The Flow, Nodejacker's Netbook and Solo.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/527690/sprawl-goons-upgraded-cyberpunk-roleplaying-omnibus

Coming Soon…

 Collected print edition, coming soon.

Street Stories So Far

 

 

The Street Stories series is an occasional series of short adventure seeds for your games of Sprawl Goons: Upgraded (or cyberpunk system of your choice). 

While these are not fully fleshed-out adventure modules, in the traditional sense, there is enough detail here to ensure you are table-ready at short notice. Hopefully, the ideas contained within these adventure seeds will lead to many hours of entertaining cyberpunk gaming. 

• 01 - Gland Theft Metro features a dangerous deal for an unusual narcotic, between a Vietnamese syndicate and parties unknown. But who else has the skinny on what's going on?

• 02 - Hot Skull takes your players on a frantic manhunt across The Flow, and serves to introduce them to a number of different factions and locations across the city.

• 03 - Drive Time has the PCs sent on a run to grab an information broker's hard drives, one of which holds a very important key. But who is their mysterious patron? And why must the broker be eliminated?

• 04 - Crosstown Trafficking where the PCs are tasked with locating a missing 'person',  involving bounty hunters, FEMA, Texan insurgents, Korean leisure criminals, algaeculture and the Kanawa-Mendez corporation.

As usual, they're all available from itch, too - https://p-d-gallagher.itch.io

And there's more to come! Stay tuned.

 

SG:U - SOLO

 

OUT NOW - Sprawl Goons: Upgraded - SOLO - simple add-on rules for playing SG:U… solo.

Compatible with both the original edition and the Carbon Edition.

Available on both DTRPG and itch.

SG:U - Kudzu Island

 

Another excellent Sprawl Goons: Upgraded release from the prolific Kai Puetz, aka Gregorius21778, for your cyberpunk gaming pleasure.

On Kudzu Island - this time it's a collection of 36 Sights and Happenings situated on the artificial island favela, just off the coast of the Flow. Entries are numbered, and can be randomised with a d66.

The contents of this atmospheric supplement really flesh out the grungy, anarchic and rebellious nature of the place and the people, enhancing the island's unique ambience in your games of SG:U (system agnostic, so will also work for any cyberpunk RPG). 

Highly recommended. Get yours HERE.

And if you want even more Kudzu info, check out our Q&A about the location on Kai's blog, where I wax lyrical about how I envisage this adventure-rich place.

Nodejacker’s Netbook

 

Out now! The Nodejacker’s Netbook for SG:U is a supplement which revisits the rules for hacking computer systems, building on and improving the one-roll essence of the original/Carbon Edition rules.

Includes

d66 System Responses for when runs go bad

d66 Exploits for when luck is on your side

Revised and improved cyberspace consoles

Improved software and new options

AI classifications 

Anti-AI paradoxware and how to deploy it

Random data finds

New hacker hardware for nodejackers

Available on ITCH and DTRPG