Today I'm jumping to Prompt Four (because I can), which is Insurgency. Here's ten resistance groups that can be used in Sprawl Goons: Upgraded or your cyberpunk game of choice.
Urban Resistance Cells
- The Static Choir: Broadcast anti-corp sermons through hijacked frequencies; half are AI loops of dead journalists.
- Chrome Communion: Augmented workers who turned their factory implants into weapons.
- The Neon Union: Former city maintenance crews running guerrilla infrastructure wars.
- Ghost Circuit: Netrunners uploading subversive memetics into public entertainment feeds.
- The Fallow Syndicate: Ex-corporate agronomists sabotaging vertical farms to free food production.
- Streetlight Children: Mutated orphans and cloned kids in the underlevels, armed with slingshots and bioweapons.
- Electric Saints: A cult of hacktivists who see Black ICE as angels of digital judgment.
- The Downtimers: Refuse implants, refuse the net; militant anti-cyberpunk Luddites living on the edge of the Combat Zone.
- The Dripfeed Militia: Media workers gone rogue, manipulating public feeds against the corps.
- Black Rain: Ex-corporate mercs turned eco-terrorists, armed with clouds of drones.
I love this concept.
ReplyDeleteIt is very common for cyberpunk RPGs to be kinda lazy about missions and jobs. PCs are usually getting paid to do something illegal for corporations, fixers and gangs because it's easier for the GM..
It would be interesting to see this concept expanded into an Augmented Realities add-on about how corporations, gangs, environmental issues and other downsides of a cyberpunk setting can affect the PCs directly and indirectly (the place where they live, the people they love, their community and the things they care about) and what they can do about it, some kind of "make it personal" supplement for Sprawl Goons.