SG:U - Street Stories

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

Gland Theft Metro is the first in the series, ten pages detailing  a dangerous deal for an unusual narcotic, between a Vietnamese syndicate and parties unknown. And who else has the skinny on what's going on?

Hot Skull is the second adventure framework, 14 pages taking the players on a frantic manhunt across The Flow, and serves to introduce them to a number of different factions and locations across that city.

Both titles are available on itch and DTRPG now!

More to come!

NPCs 4 U | Characters From The Flow Campaign

Here are the SG:U stats for the PCs from our recent campaign set in the Flow in 2100AD. They are presented here for you to use as either PCs or NPCs in your games of Sprawl Goons: Upgraded. It also gives you an idea of how you can chop and change the backgrounds (and the rules) to create PCs with a lot of flavour.

Benedict Wintergarden, skeezy Fluid Reality Artiste, from the London Arcology.

Travis Tanner, former Transmission Felonies cop, now a PI and hacker.

Caleb Moth, a renegade Killmorph, from the Dornier Orbital.

Emilio Torres, Combat Chauffeur, from East Largo.

Alexander Virek, gene-compromised orbital oligarch, teleoperating a modified cybrid called Chance Ingram.

Let me know in the comments if you use any of these freaks in your games, or if you just want to share one of your own memorable PCs! Happy gaming!

Sprawl Goons: Upgraded - Talking Biocops

Following on from our discussion of Cybrids, Gregorius21778 and I have had another chat about my vision of the Sprawl Goons setting, and this time we talked about the biocops of the Cognition Verification Bureau, whose job it is to hunt and retire the very cybrids we looked at in March.

Here's the LINK

While the inspiration is obviously from the movie Blade Runner (and it's imitators), there are enough little tweaks to make them their own thing in SG:U, where they will be running around The Flow, tracking down all manner of dangerous synthetic and artificial persons brought into the world by transnationals like Clavel Industries.

And you can even play a PC with the Agent background (from page 14):

Cognition Verification Agent

You were a biocop for the Cognition Verification Bureau, hunting down and retiring illegally manufactured and modified rogue cybrids, and other dangerous synthetic intelligence, like the prohibited ATIDs smuggled in from the Zones. You worked in tandem with the cops and Homeland to bring down your prey. You were good, the very best, but you walked away when the deactivations started to feel like murders.

Once again, the interview (link above) consists of 10 questions, each adding detail to the Bureau, and the men and women of that 'thin true line'.

Let me know in the comments if there are any other aspects of the Sprawlverse you'd like to know more about.

Thanks for looking.

Artwork from the Blade Runner 2039 comicbooks.

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SG:U - The Flow Deluxe A3 Map Pack

I've been meaning to get this one released for a while now. Glad to announce it has finally gone live!

So, what do you get for your bityuan?

A set of large A3 300dpi colour map files of the city known as The Flow, the default setting from the SG:U Carbon Edition.

It includes 20 high-res jpeg images, showing 38 street gangs and their zones of influence, the subway network linking to Core Transit, locations of the beleaguered FPD precincts and the reach of the contaminated Containment Zone 9, and combinations thereof.

Also included in the pack is a high-res, print-ready PDF, so you can toggle data on and off, depending on what you need to focus on!

And its stat-free, so will work as a setting for any cyberpunk RPG. Requires the use of The Flow sourcebook, also from Geist Hack Games, but if you are rocking the Carbon Edition, you already have all the data you need to fully make use of the map pack.

And, as is my want, the map pack is available on both itch and drivethru.

LINK TO THE PACK ON ITCH     LINK TO THE PACK ON DTRPG

Thanks for looking!

 

Sprawl Goons:Upgraded - Talking Cybrids

Cybrid geisharoid model from Kanawa-Mendez.

The ever-excellent Sprawl Goons supporter and content creator, Gregorius21778 has posted an interview with my good self on his blog regarding Cybrids, the synthetic humanoids of the "Sprawlverse".

So, what is a Cybrid?

My inspirations were the synthetics of the Alien movies, the replicants of Blade Runner, the michikoids of The Peripheral, the hosts of West World and the androids of Hyperion, amongst others.

From the Sprawl Lexicon on page 3 of Sprawl Goons:Upgraded Carbon Edition:

Cybrid - A bioplastic synthetic, like an android or replicant.

Clavel execs observe the first printing of their latest R&D model.

And you can choose to be a cybrid player character, with the following background from page 10 of the Carbon Edition rulebook:  

Fugitive Cybrid

You’re a cybrid, a bioplastic synthetic, designed and fabricated by the Clavel corporation. You’ve endured the hardships of indentured labour in hazardous assembleries; combed toxic coastlines for reusables; repaired habitats in the cold vacuum of space. There’s an RFID shard implanted deep inside you, and your owners will undoubtedly be looking to recover their investment. What happens if they find you? What are you willing to do to remain free?

But outside of my carbon-fibre skull, that's all we knew. Until now!

In the linked interview, I answer 10 questions that define the technology, the social impact, who makes them and how to identity them (if you know how). Find out more here.

Hopefully, there will be more of these articles outlining the elements of the game-world in the future!

On the streets of the Flow, revolution is coming.