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Tabletop Shout Out: Cities Without Number, Wake The F**k Up Samurai · Sessions Canceled

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  Everybody the GM fried their cranial implant and is now
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  sitting comas host on the couch. It's going to have to get
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  removed and they're going to be out of Commission for a little
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  while. Couple of missions probably.
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  So sessions cancelled. Yeah, he's like drooling into
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  the sofa. Are we going to do something
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  about him or? Nah, you just kind of wait it
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  out. Not much you can do.
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  He's going to have to get a new one though.
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  Also we might need a new sofa, it's getting a little stanky
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  over. There.
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  Yeah, look how dude half his face is sagging.
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  What are we do? The Ripper duck will fix it.
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  It's fine. I fucking I'm not paying for it.
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  I didn't say I was paying for it, I just said he fixed it.
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  Fair enough. All right, it's finally time to
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  hit the third, the third of the four without number games.
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  Now 4. There was 3 recently Ashes
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  without number just released, so now we're at 4.
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  I don't know if he's going to stop at 4, but I also don't know
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  what the next game would be because we got sci-fi fantasy,
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  cyberpunk and post apocalypse. So kind of hit the main ones.
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  What other? Maybe that will cure my ADHD.
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  I could maybe see that, I guess I feel like I don't know.
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  I don't know, yeah. Would he?
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  I don't know if he could expand out a whole Mecca game just
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  based on like there's Mecca rules and stars, obviously, but
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  can he whole game that shit? I don't know.
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  I think so maybe because you can go into like control schemes and
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  then like user interfaces, operating systems, hard points,
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  combat drones. I feel like it would it would
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  need to have like Gundam Wing vibes.
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  I don't think you're looking at the right.
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  Creator for anime vibes. But here's the thing, Gundam
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  Wing is like the least anime of the Gundams.
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  I feel it's very like it's just. I feel like if Kevin Crawford
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  were to do a MEC game you'd be looking much more battle tech,
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  you know what I'm saying? Like the the grounded real robot
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  type shit. I don't know Starz has such a
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  like. Hold on that.
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  That is battle tech, right? I'm not.
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  Yeah, yeah, battle tech is real robot like it's.
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  We get the top robot. Vibes, yeah, we get like chicken
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  walkers from. I don't think it would be that.
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  I think it might be something closer to Armored Core because
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  it's not dirt farmer. Like it's not so grounded that
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  like fantasy, you're a dirt farmer.
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  You know what I mean? Like.
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  That's true. I could see armoured core Which?
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  Even that I'm in, I mean. Yeah, I don't think it'd,
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  because I still think it'd be a little toned down.
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  I don't know. I just feel like tonally he's
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  pulling from older school than that, you know?
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  Potentially. No, I don't know.
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  I don't know if it's going to happen.
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  Like I said, we just got ashes, so who knows what his next
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  project is, but I'm sure it'll be something.
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  But today we speak of Cities without Number, which is the the
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  cyberpunk cousin to the other games.
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  So Stars is our sci-fi game, Worlds is our fantasy game,
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  Cities is our cyberpunk game. And I think cyberpunk might be
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  the best like genre for the style of game that he does.
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  Which I know might seem a little weird because OSR is obviously
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  based on old school DND and so a lot of people think of it as
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  fantasy. But I think the way that Kevin
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  Crawford designs these games, it just the cyberpunk slips on
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  there real easy. You know, just, it just fits the
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  sandbox vibe, the gear, the I feel like it just fits so
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  easily. There's also already a lot of
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  cyberpunk stuff in Stars as like optional side rules type
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  content. True, that's kind of why I feel
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  like Stars is the best iteration of it.
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  I just like I feel like there aren't enough sandbox style
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  sci-fi games. Most of them are try to try to
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  create some sort of older yeah, but nothing contemporary.
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  Yeah. No, not, not.
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  Well, yeah, nothing contemporary that I can think of.
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  It's like if you're thinking about, you know, there's wrath
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  and glory, which is Warhammer, but that's that's always going
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  to have an overarching meta plot, right?
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  It can't not. And all the other Warhammer ones
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  like Dark Heresy and and. Well, you have like, you have
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  Star Finder, but obviously that comes from Pathfinder.
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  You have the Star Wars games, but like, you know.
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  Star Wars even then, right? Like if you're if you're doing
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  the Empire as the era that you're in, that's going to have
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  to involve some meta plot. Yeah, I know.
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  That's what I'm saying. Yeah, maybe Star Trek.
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  I think the Star Trek game you could have just dicking around
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  in the Federation maybe? Either way, I still feel like I
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  don't know cities without number.
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  I feel like was such an easy natural decision to make that it
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  arguably fits the best. I don't know, maybe not.
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  I haven't read ashes, although I mean I've read bits and pieces
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  of ashes when it was in beta. So like maybe that'll maybe that
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  one will hit harder. I don't know, hard to say, hard
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  to say. So cities without number?
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  Actually before we do that, you're all going to take your
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  corpo fuck Corpo sanctioned medication that is hitting the
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  subscribe button Cures all ailments including cancer.
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  And any rumours you heard about you getting bone cancer from it?
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  Speculation. Flander.
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  Clearly speculation. Yes, for legal reasons.
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  These are both jokes. Cities with that number, what's
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  the deal? If you have not heard the our
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  episodes on the other without numbers games, you're gonna
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  probably be a little confused 'cause we're very much not gonna
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  talk about the base core systems of this game because they are
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  the same as they were in Stars and worlds.
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  So if you'd like to know broadly about the base, like the core
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  functionality of the game, yeah, go listen to the Stars episode
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  episodes. Just do them.
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  So we're going to skip over that shit and I'm going to reference
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  those other games quite a bit. So if you're a little confused,
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  that might be why. So like I said, Cities is our
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  Cyberpunk Shuare. As with before, the design style
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  is basically the same. It is a sandbox game with the
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  same core mechanics as the other without numbers games with a big
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  emphasis on quality GM tools and advice on how to run a sandbox
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  game well, slash properly, however you want to phrase it.
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  How to run a good sandbox game. I don't know if we've, I don't
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  even know if we've had this conversation period, Isaiah.
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  But where do you fall on the paradigm of like fan of
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  cyberpunk? I really.
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  Like that, deep in that like, yeah.
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  No, I mean, I'd say I'm pretty deep.
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  Like, you know, I, I grew up on Ghosts in the Shell.
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  I don't think you can get much more cyberpunk than that.
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  It's a thing where I I, I like cyberpunk in intense bursts.
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  Yeah, but yeah, I don't think he can hold the candle to me just
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  being a general sci-fi fan. Yeah, yeah.
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  I don't know. Do I like cyberpunk more than
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  broad sci-fi? That's a tough one.
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  I'd have to really. I think I like sci-fi with a lot
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  of cyberpunk themes smooshed in there.
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  You know, I, I think I like it when it leans a little more
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  cyberpunky. I'm like, yeah, I would say like
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  I'm a decently big fan. I'm not, I'm not like absorbing
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  everything cyberpunk, but like I have read Neuromancer and I have
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  read Snow Crash, which are two of like the formative books of
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  cyberpunk as a genre. I mean Neuromancer being the
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  inventor of the genre and Snow Crash being one of the first
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  high quality satires of the genre that did that thing where
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  it was such good satire it actually was a better example of
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  the genre than the original genre.
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  Yeah. I mean, I think I'm about.
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  I like the one. Punch Man effect, Yeah.
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  You know, I grew up on, like I said, Ghost in the Shell
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  standalone complex and and quite the fan of the cyberpunk, you
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  know, series. Yeah, I mean, is Cyberpunk the
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  the what's he? Oh God.
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  Yeah, but what's the yes, Cyberpunk, the Mike's Pond Smith
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  IP. I'm like loosely interested in,
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  you know, like I watched edge runners.
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  I know about the game. I've read Cyberpunk read a
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  little bit, but I'm not like deep in the sauce.
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  I haven't played 2033 or 20 or not 20.
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  That's Metro. What's the no no, the older one,
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  the one way before the the first incarnation he did.
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  Oh God, what was it called? Oh, I don't know.
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  Was it was the first one just called cyberpunk the.
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  First one was just called. Cyberpunk, the year was 2020.
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  That's what it was. Cyberpunk 2020, yeah.
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  Anyway, I haven't played that game, although I've heard a lot
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  of people say that game doesn't age particularly well.
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  So, you know, which doesn't shock me, a lot of older
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  tabletop games don't age very well.
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  Hey, watch it. You know the the the second
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  edition purists really do be getting loud in the comments.
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  Not ours particularly, but any other part with it They.
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  Get loud at a lot of people, but I still I don't know yeah, I
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  don't I don't feel like older editions age well for a lot of
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  games anyway. Yeah, OK, so I was just curious
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  where we were both at, like this cyber public thing, you know?
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  I mean, I haven't watched Ghost and I'm trying to think what
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  I've done. I would have watched like
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  cyberpunk anime. Why?
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  I think once you finish, so now that you know what Samurai
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  shampoo, I think that should be the next thing you watch, a
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  standalone complex. That is such a jump.
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  Also, listen, I maybe didn't like Samurai Shampoo as much as
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  everyone was hoping so. I mean, I don't know, I think
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  you probably liked it as much as I did, which is to say it's very
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  good. But it does suffer from being
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  episodic and the ending is kind of quick.
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  Yeah, I have some complicated feelings about Samurai Shampoo.
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  But the opening like 5 episodes are just absolute peak cinema.
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  The beginning is strong for sure.
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  I stand by Jean. Jean is my boy.
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  My opinion did not change by the end of the show.
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  Gene is cooler than Moogan. I'm sorry, I don't make the
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  rules. Well, so you know what's funny?
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  I was thinking about this in the car today.
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  Gene is a Gene is a fascinating case study of he beats Karia in
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  a fair one-on-one fight. Like he cheats to do it, but he
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  does beat him in a fight. Yeah, but the only one Gene
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  can't beat is Moogan because he just can't figure out Champloo
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  as a fighting style. He just, it just doesn't compute
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  in his head. So it really does do this really
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  fun thing where it's all about the match up.
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  Yeah, yeah. Anyway, I don't want to get too
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  much down this rabbit hole. I mean, we can talk about Ghost
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  in the Shell because it is like quintessential cyberpunk and I
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  think. Ghost in the Shell is OG
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  definitely, Especially when you're talking about Japan
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  influences of cyberpunk. Definitely.
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  Ghost in the Shell is pretty quintessential, Although I think
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  actually now that I'm hold on Neuromancer.
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  Look, when did that first come out?
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  God, I think the fucking 60s. Yeah.
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  No, not that they're making ATV show of Neuromancer.
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  It's news to me that I just discovered right now 84.
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  OK, so actually, yeah, 84. So is standalone complex old?
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  Is ghost to the shell older? No 89.
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  Oh, OK. Close.
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  You can. Honestly, given what I know
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  about Neuromancer, you can literally see a Neuromancer in
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  it. Yeah.
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  I mean, yeah. But like, this is the like
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  second edition, right? This is second generation
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  sci-fi, you could argue. So it's one of those things
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  where it's like all the sci-fi that came out directly after
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  doing you're like, wait the fuck?
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  Yeah, yeah, well Neuromancer was originally called a just a
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  sci-fi book to like the concept of fucking cyberpunk didn't mean
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  exist really. All.
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  Right, anyway, we're getting distracted.
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  So what the what's the the game itself?
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  All right, so as with the other Without number games, this game
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  starts with character creation. So we're going to start with
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  character creation. It is 90% the same character
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  creation that is in Stars and Worlds, with two notable
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  distinctions. The first notable distinction is
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  every, every starting character, every PC starts with contacts.
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  And contacts are, you know, they're they're friends, they're
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  buddies, they're people you have a contact with in some capacity.
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  You describe them, you give them a name, you give them a sentence
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  about what you do and then a sentence or two about how you
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  met them. And basically the idea is you
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  can call on a contact if you need help with something.
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  And that character creation you can either have, I think it's 22
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  acquaintances or 1 friend. Basically, acquaintances will
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  help you out but not go out of their way, whereas a friend will
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  go a little bit more out of their way, but they're still not
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  gonna like, you know, take a bullet for you necessarily.
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  No rider die start unfortunately.
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  Yeah, no rider does. It also specifically says
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  they'll take on it says friends will do significant favors and
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  take up substantial personal risk, but expect to be treated
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  as actual friends. So from a narrative standpoint,
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  you can't just treat them like, you know, summoned minions or
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  some shit. The other big character creation
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  change, and this is the really important one, is edges.
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  So because of the because Cyberpunk doesn't operate on the
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  concept of classes so much and more operates on the idea of
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  archetypes, Cities without number took this game is
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  actually classless. The other two without number
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  games were like sort of classless in a way.
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  This one is legitimately classless.
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  Yes, I did think that was very interesting that they didn't.
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  They just went whole hog, making it a completely classic system.
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  We're kind of talking about that though, right?
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  We were like, I, you know, will it get to a point where he just
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  abandons the idea of class altogether?
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  And no, I mean, I already knew he did that.
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  I knew he did it in this game so.
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  I did not. I was.
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  I remember I brought it up. I just I.
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  I thought, I'm pretty sure I told you.
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  I mean, honestly, man, my brain's fried.
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  So you may have I may, I might just remembering something.
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  The point is, yes, it's completely classless.
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  So instead you get edges. I don't like the name edges
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  really that much, but whatever, just I don't know.
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  So basically an edge. You can kind of think of it like
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  a folk eye, but they're a little more powerful than folk eyes and
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  they will fill out your character more than a focus will
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  generally. So for example, one of the edges
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  you can take is hacker, and that's the one that you're going
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  to take if you want to be the group hacker most of the time.
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  There's also one you can take killing blow, which is basically
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  you're the street samurai who's really good at murdering or hard
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  to kill if you want to be the opposite if you want to be
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  difficult to murder. But yeah, so you you take an
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  edge, you get a total of three. You pick 2 edges at character
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  creation and then you will get a third one at level 5, I think it
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  was, yeah, level 5. Also, if you rolled like crap on
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  your stats, you can take the underdog rule where you get so
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  of all of your attributes. After you roll your attributes,
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  if they total up to a negative, you get a bonus edge.
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  I did like this a lot. There is a slight cost you get
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  this bonus edge, but you cannot improve your attributes at
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  character creation. Or, sorry, you can't spend
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  points to improve your attributes at character
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  creation, no. Sorry, I don't wait.
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  I don't think you can do it at all.
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  You can't do it at all. That's what it was, yeah.
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  You cannot improve your attributes during character
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  advancements. If you get this bonus edge, you
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  can still improve them via things like Cyberwear or Folk
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  Eye, but you can't spend skill points when you level up on
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  them. That's what it was.
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  So, you know, there's a little, a little give and take on that.
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  Those are your big two differences for character
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  creation. Those are the main things.
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  Like I said, the rest of it, you have your backgrounds and your
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  foci and your gear and your skills and your attributes.
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  That's all the the same shebang. It does briefly mention some
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  skills or, or some foci could give you like vehicles or gear
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  and it gives you a a budget to operate in if you take one of
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  those focus. But other than that, yeah,
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  you're operating at the same, you have attack bonuses and
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  you're saving throws and all that.
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  Yita, yatta, Hoo, ha, so on and so forth.
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  And then of course also, you know, starting gear kits or you
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  can buy gear, oh, and so forth. Does all specifically call out
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  languages, which I think did. No, stars didn't call out
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  languages, but worlds did, so did.
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  Yeah. Then we get to the overall
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  system. So there's not a lot of changes
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  to the core system with cities, but there are a couple of
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  important changes on combat specifically.
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  So this core system is still broadly, you know, in role 2D6
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  you add an attribute plus a skill against ADC.
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  You have your saving throws, you have to roll over your saving
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  throw score. So if your physical saving throw
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  is 14, you have to beat a 14. You have the game still uses
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  scene time, scene timing, and round timing around just
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  generally 6 seconds. All that stuff is basically the
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  same. This game does add in mission
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  time, which is basically the dungeon timing system from
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  worlds just turned into the mission time, but it's
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  mechanically basically the same thing but the combat.
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  We do have some extra sauce and it literally the book has a
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  little pop out paragraph for this that specifically says for
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  stars without number and Worlds without number it says the
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  combat rules you will be familiar with.
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  There are a couple major differences to keep in mind and
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  it outlines them for you. So first one, characters will
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  have both a melee AC and a ranged AC score for your gear.
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  So you may have gear that is harder for you to get shot at,
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  but easier for you to get stabbed while wearing.
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  This is cool because a big element of cyberpunk, just as a
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  genre broadly, is fleshing out the idea of gear builds, right?
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  Like cyberpunk is a lot about what kind of sick gear you have
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  and what kind of like knowledge and shit you have.
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  So by having the split ACS, you can basically further specialize
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  your build where you're like, I'm going to be a character who
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  uses long range weapons only I'm going to take bonuses to that.
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  I'm going to make sure I have armor that is specifically
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  better against guns than swords. So I'm going to be so awesome if
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  I have a rifle in my hands and distance.
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  As soon as someone gets in my face, I am so and that's very on
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  theme. Yeah, and I, I, I mean,
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  personally, I like this a lot because it adds, I think a
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  really nice sweet spot for realism that's not infuriating.
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  So that can be an issue from time to time.
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  It adds a little bit of customization, but it's not too
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  out of hand because it is absolutely the kind of thing
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  that could get out of hand. Yeah, the next important one,
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  and this one's a big deal. So I mentioned with Stars and
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  Worlds Without Number that you know, level 1 characters are
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  decently squishy, but you can't, you will level up to the point
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  where you're, you're a pretty thick lad.
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  Eventually, you know, the wizard or the psychic are still
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  decently squishy, but the other, you know, the warrior, the
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  expert guys, you'll, you'll get decently resilient.
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  This is a cyberpunk game though, which means lethality is quite a
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  bit higher, but it also means there's ways to mitigate the
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  lethality so armor has hit points or damage soak on it.
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  So you know if your armor has 5HP or whatever it soaks 5
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  damage for you during during a fight.
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  Now this depletes during the fight.
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  So if you get hit for five and your or let's say you get hit
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  for eight damage and your armor has five soak or your your gear
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  has five armor is how I should phrase it.
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  Your 5 armor is lost. The remaining three damage goes
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  over to your character. The five armor points are lost
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  for the fight. They replenish once the fight is
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  over. And the idea is that this is
• 24:24
  representing your luck holding out like your your, your luck of
• 24:29
  your gear not breaking on you. Basically, because a lot of oh,
• 24:34
  PCs are referred to as operators in this game.
• 24:38
  A lot of how operators are justified as being better than
• 24:43
  normal people in this game is they're just just a little bit
• 24:46
  luckier than normal people. They just have a little bit more
• 24:49
  on their side. You know, the bullet that should
• 24:52
  have killed him grazes him. The stab that should have gone
• 24:55
  into their kidneys just kind of, you know, gets around the edge
• 24:59
  of their stomach. Their armor holds out when it
• 25:01
  maybe should have. That's kind of how operators are
• 25:03
  justified as being better than regular people in this game
• 25:06
  because ultimately, operators are just normal people in this
• 25:09
  game. Like you might have cyberwear
• 25:13
  and shit, but everyone can have cyberwear.
• 25:15
  So it's not like AD and D or a World Without number situation
• 25:18
  where you're sort of like magically better.
• 25:21
  It's like you're a little luckier.
• 25:23
  You just, you just that tinge more a tinge luckier.
• 25:26
  And. Just like you built.
• 25:28
  Yeah, you're also you're also just slightly more skilled like.
• 25:32
  Just a little bit. I think you really have to sum
• 25:34
  it up with the zimple. I'm just built different.
• 25:36
  Yeah, you built, you built, you built different the operators.
• 25:39
  Are built different, I am just alternatively better.
• 25:42
  And then thirdly, there's an added mechanic which is the
• 25:49
  trauma target value. So when you're attacked, when
• 25:54
  you're hit with an attack, you roll a trauma die.
• 25:59
  If the trauma die of the weapon or the attack of whatever kind
• 26:05
  beats your trauma target, it is a traumatic hit.
• 26:10
  You then take multiplicative damage, so for example.
• 26:16
  I think I caught that. Yeah, so if your trauma value is
• 26:22
  6, which is the D6 is the default, and then you can modify
• 26:25
  it with armor or cyberwear or foci or what, you know, there's
• 26:29
  lots of ways to arm to modify your trauma target.
• 26:32
  If someone has a rifle and they shoot you, the trauma die on the
• 26:36
  rifle is AD 8. If they roll an 8, the damage
• 26:40
  from the rifle which is 1 D 10 + 2 is multiplied by three.
• 26:45
  So it's kind of like exploding dice.
• 26:49
  No, it's not exploding dice because it multiplies the final
• 26:52
  amount. Right.
• 26:53
  But it's a similar thing where if you Max out it, it, it's kind
• 26:58
  of, I don't know how else to put it's it's, it's meaner than
• 27:02
  explosive dice. It it is, but it's the same idea
• 27:04
  where you hit a certain number. Now there's an extra function.
• 27:08
  Yes, now extra shit rolls up and now you might say like, OK, how
• 27:16
  Like OK, the damage is 3 timed is is that a lot of damage?
• 27:22
  You're dead. No, you're done.
• 27:26
  It's it's narratively just saying you just got domed like.
• 27:29
  Yeah, like so at level 1, your normal hit die if you don't have
• 27:34
  the hard to kill edge is AD 6. So AD 6 plus your con modifier
• 27:40
  is your starting HP. So you have 7 HP.
• 27:47
  If someone rolls trauma, trauma, a traumatic hit with a rifle,
• 27:52
  you're just done. You're down, you are cooked.
• 27:54
  You're not instantly dead. You are.
• 27:56
  You're downed. You do.
• 27:57
  You can still revive, like someone can still pick you up,
• 28:00
  but you're downed. So.
• 28:03
  And then even at higher levels, at level 10 your hit dice are
• 28:10
  10D6. So let's say you roll really
• 28:13
  well and you have 60 HP, 30HP from a a normal rifle.
• 28:20
  Mind you, completely unmodified standard rifle could do 30
• 28:25
  damage. So half your HP at Max level
• 28:29
  from a normal ass gun. Actually, it would be more than
• 28:34
  actually be more than that, because it'd be it'd be AD 10 +
• 28:39
  2. So you'd be looking at what,
• 28:42
  2030630236? Yeah, potentially 36 damage.
• 28:48
  So yeah, traumatic hits are bad. Now here's the thing though, and
• 28:57
  this is again, this is to enforce the cyberpunk nature of
• 29:03
  like, nobody is a superhuman, right?
• 29:05
  Shit can go really bad really quickly.
• 29:10
  But this also applies to the enemies.
• 29:13
  So you as a player, if you roll over your trauma die, can just
• 29:18
  Dome a really dangerous NPC in a single shot if you get lucky.
• 29:23
  So it does go both in both directions.
• 29:28
  And there are ways to also modify your trauma damage too.
• 29:35
  Like there are like cyberwear and shit that can modify that.
• 29:37
  So you know, it can be the lethality is high on both ends
• 29:43
  of the spectrum or both sides of the field I should say.
• 29:47
  Yeah, you hit hard. The last you get hit really
• 29:49
  hard. Yeah, the last big combat change
• 29:53
  is this game has permanent injuries.
• 29:57
  So if a target who has taken a traumatic hit during the fight
• 30:02
  reaches 0HP, you roll for a traumatic injury.
• 30:07
  Not just to be clear, not if the traumatic hit downs you, if
• 30:12
  you've taken a traumatic hit at all.
• 30:16
  So even if you get a traumatic hit but the the enemy rolled
• 30:20
  really bad on the dice, like maybe they rolled A1 on their
• 30:23
  die, so the traumatic hit is only like 3 or 4 damage.
• 30:28
  You didn't take a lot of damage. But if you go down, that
• 30:31
  traumatic hit turns into a permanent injury.
• 30:35
  And getting traumatic hit can have lasting consequences,
• 30:38
  right? And I, I was a little unclear
• 30:40
  about that. So like for example if you roll
• 30:43
  the traumatic injury right leg ruined, you can crawl at best
• 30:46
  when stabilized. Yeah.
• 30:49
  It doesn't say how to like some of these say how you fix it,
• 30:51
  right? Brain damage.
• 30:52
  You're in a coma until you get underwear.
• 30:58
  Any limb? Cyberware.
• 31:00
  Cyberware. Oh yeah, there.
• 31:01
  Sorry. I how did I miss that?
• 31:03
  It's right below the fucking table.
• 31:06
  I don't know, but yes. So you can take lasting
• 31:08
  injuries, but because it's a cyberpunk game, you can replace
• 31:11
  it with basic cyberware. You can also just get like basic
• 31:16
  prosthetic cyberware. It doesn't have to necessarily
• 31:18
  be like fancy roboleg. It could just be prosthetic leg,
• 31:23
  you know? Yes.
• 31:24
  It will still reduce your system strain though.
• 31:27
  It will take up system strength yes and it and it does you know
• 31:31
  you do have to pay for it and all that other shit.
• 31:33
  So like basically getting shot in the leg is a bad time, but
• 31:40
  you're not like it's not like AD and D situation or well, D&D is
• 31:45
  maybe not the best, the best example, but it's not like a
• 31:48
  fantasy game situation where, oh, I lost my arm and there's
• 31:51
  not a reliable way to get it back.
• 31:53
  This is cyberpunk. You have a very reliable way to
• 31:56
  get it back, but there is consequence.
• 32:01
  So again, going back to that idea of operators are just a
• 32:06
  little bit more lucky, just that tad little bit more skilled than
• 32:09
  everyone else. You know, you're going through
• 32:14
  the fight, you take everyone down, you take a traumatic hit.
• 32:16
  Oh fuck. But you make it through the
• 32:17
  fight. All right, Well, I have a
• 32:18
  cybernetic leg. I'm back again, You know, so it
• 32:22
  it it's brutal, but it has that push and pull.
• 32:26
  Like yes, it can be bad, but you can also mitigate the bad.
• 32:30
  There's always the there's a back and forth that you can do
• 32:33
  that you can access pretty reliably.
• 32:37
  Obviously, you know, eventually you will just like, have too
• 32:42
  much shit, but by that point you're all cybered up and fucked
• 32:47
  up and your character's probably not long for the world anyway.
• 32:51
  There is a small chance you instantly die from a major
• 32:55
  injury. If you roll, it's AD 12.
• 32:57
  If you roll A1, you do instantly die.
• 33:01
  Yeah, which I think what what percentage is that?
• 33:08
  12 you're looking at because. It AD 20 would be 5%.
• 33:15
  Seven point, either 7.5 or 7.25 that sounds.
• 33:26
  Right. Because if you have a 30, so if
• 33:30
  it if it's AD three, you'd have a 30% chance D6 you've got a.
• 33:34
  15-D12. 15 point 3.78% chance and you half that again to AD
• 33:44
  12, so 7.5. 88. Percent, 8% we're.
• 33:48
  Close 8 percent, 8.3 repeating percent what you're looking at.
• 33:57
  So yeah, so there is an 8% chance, but keep in mind that's
• 34:01
  an 8% chance after you've taken a traumatic hit and you've gone
• 34:06
  down, right. So you have to take the
• 34:07
  traumatic hit, which is already ran, you know, a chance not
• 34:12
  guaranteed. Then you have to go down after
• 34:15
  taking the traumatic hit. Then you roll on the major
• 34:17
  injury and potentially instant die.
• 34:19
  So it's not likely to happen, but it can happen.
• 34:24
  And then once you once you're out of the fight, that traumatic
• 34:29
  hit, you know, the traumatic hit thing resets.
• 34:31
  It doesn't carry from fight to fight.
• 34:35
  All this is a saying. The point I'm making at the game
• 34:38
  is like mean but fair in its meanness for the most part.
• 34:46
  It's a bit like Kane in that way, where there is like a yeah,
• 34:50
  it goes back to the the perceived difficulty versus
• 34:52
  practical difficulty. Like you can get mulched in this
• 34:55
  game, but there are enough safety Nets for you to not do
• 34:59
  that immediately. Yes, and this is also not even
• 35:02
  accounting for, again, edges and foci and gear and other
• 35:06
  cyberwear. And you know, there's all sorts
• 35:08
  of ways to modify a lot of these numbers.
• 35:10
  Also, if you have a cybernetic arm and you roll a major injury
• 35:15
  and it hits your arm, well, it was already a cybernetic arm
• 35:18
  anyway. You could just repair it.
• 35:19
  Right. So there's that element to it
• 35:22
  too. So there's lots of different
• 35:23
  elements going on here. In terms of other, like all the
• 35:29
  rest of the combat stuff is everything you've come to
• 35:32
  expect. You have your combat actions,
• 35:34
  you have main action on turn, instant action, that's all the
• 35:36
  same shock damage, initiative, covering and and positioning and
• 35:42
  modifiers and all that. Like dual wielding, rules,
• 35:46
  execution attacks. All that shit's still there.
• 35:52
  Nothing to say. We've already talked it to death
• 35:53
  from the other games. Healing also, same deal, all
• 35:58
  works the same. You do still have system strain
• 36:01
  in this game. System strain is mostly going to
• 36:04
  come from cybernetics and like poisons or drugs.
• 36:08
  That's the main way you're going to get system strain because
• 36:10
  obviously you don't have psychic characters healing you usually.
• 36:13
  Although you can implement psychic characters into this
• 36:15
  game because all of the without number of games can be cross
• 36:20
  played with each other and healing is roughly the same pace
• 36:28
  as it is in world. Yeah, then.
• 36:36
  So then we roll over to vehicle combat.
• 36:40
  So vehicles obviously pretty important component to the
• 36:48
  cyberpunk genre and I lost my spot.
• 36:58
  The vehicle rules are in Stars and they are similar, but
• 37:04
  there's just a couple of like little things I want to mention
• 37:06
  here and there. Vehicles do not differ very much
• 37:10
  from standard ground combat. You know, you roll initiative,
• 37:16
  everyone takes their action. The driver has to take an action
• 37:19
  to keep the car under control. Vehicles have AC, vehicles have
• 37:24
  armor. Vehicles can also take traumatic
• 37:27
  hits. So just like you can get domed
• 37:31
  and explode, the vehicle can also get domed and explode.
• 37:38
  But otherwise it's like it's all the same vibe vibe.
• 37:41
  It's assumed in terms of movement that if you're in a
• 37:44
  vehicle and your opponent's in a vehicle, you're basically
• 37:46
  keeping pace with each other. If you have 4 passengers sitting
• 37:50
  in the vehicle, everyone can take their action to lean out
• 37:53
  the window and shoot or do whatever.
• 37:55
  Although there's some penalties and shit involved.
• 37:57
  You know, all the usual stuff. It's there's nothing too fancy
• 38:01
  with vehicles, but that's good. That is how I would want it
• 38:04
  because I'm not trying to like, I don't want a whole fucking
• 38:07
  subsystem to drive the getaway car, you know?
• 38:10
  Yeah, I mean it it I, I like it more in no, so that I like it
• 38:15
  more. I expect it to be more
• 38:16
  complicated in something like Stars where your ship has to
• 38:19
  have multiple facets to it, right, Like you have the guns
• 38:22
  and the radar. Well.
• 38:22
  We're talking about spaceships, yeah.
• 38:24
  Yeah, yeah, when, when it comes to.
• 38:25
  Cars, this we're talking about cars or like a tank or like a
• 38:29
  VTOL and shit right? Like.
• 38:31
  That being said to be quite as crazy, Hellscapes had something
• 38:34
  like that because the other weapons had the attack ports and
• 38:36
  stuff and it is fun and maybe if you had like a tank or something
• 38:40
  I could see that. But yeah.
• 38:41
  I mean, you can still do a lot of that because of the open, the
• 38:44
  general like open endedness of how the game works.
• 38:47
  You know, you could still whip up something like that pretty
• 38:50
  easily because you know, you got to remember too, A big element
• 38:54
  of the without number games is that they are real easily open
• 38:59
  to adjustment. You know it's not it's not too
• 39:06
  deeply. You don't need a fucking, I
• 39:09
  don't know, calculus degree or whatever to like adjust the game
• 39:13
  right? So where was it?
• 39:20
  Oh. Once a vehicle is destroyed,
• 39:23
  however, there is a chance that all of the damage from the
• 39:27
  vehicle getting destroyed can roll over to you.
• 39:30
  So being in a vehicle when it gets destroyed is real bad.
• 39:34
  I do think that's pretty funny. It's like, I do I really have to
• 39:38
  roll for car accident? My RPG game says yes.
• 39:40
  Yes you do in this game. You do so if you take damage or
• 39:45
  the V Sorry if the vehicle's destroyed occupants take damage
• 39:50
  as if they were hit by whatever took out the vehicle with a luck
• 39:53
  save for half damage. So if a rocket launcher inflicts
• 39:57
  18 points of damage on a car and blew it to pieces, the
• 39:59
  passengers would also take 18 points of damage with a luck
• 40:03
  save to half it. So being in a vehicle when it
• 40:07
  gets blown up, not great also. If the vehicle was moving at the
• 40:13
  time it was destroyed or goes out of control, the the
• 40:16
  passengers can also take crash damage.
• 40:20
  Each carrot passenger rolls both a physical save and a luck save.
• 40:25
  If they make both, you're good, you're clean, you're out, you're
• 40:28
  safe. If you fail one, they take half
• 40:32
  their maximum HP in damage, which may leave them mortally
• 40:35
  wounded. Which is to say, mortally
• 40:37
  wounded is down, you're at 0HP. If they fail both they're
• 40:41
  mortally wounded and will suffer a major injury if they live.
• 40:46
  So crashing. If you if you survive, you're
• 40:49
  still getting good. So crashing also really bad.
• 40:55
  So potentially if you're moving at high speed and you get rocket
• 40:59
  launcher, the vehicle explodes. You have to make a Lux save to
• 41:02
  see how much damage from the rocket, rocket launcher hits
• 41:05
  you. Then you have to make another
• 41:07
  Lux save and a physical save to see if you take another stack of
• 41:11
  damage that is half your back's HP, or to see if you're
• 41:16
  basically OK from the crash or it gets even worse.
• 41:21
  So being in a destroyed moving vehicle is a bad time the game.
• 41:30
  So like I said, vehicles can also take traumatic hits.
• 41:32
  But it does say vehicles are immune to traumatic hits from
• 41:36
  any weapons that do not specifically note as being able
• 41:40
  to inflict them. In some cases the GM may, in
• 41:44
  some cases even that the GM, oh, even that may not be sufficient.
• 41:50
  AGM is within their rights to decide that an ordinary anti
• 41:54
  material rifle isn't going to be shooting out the engine block of
• 41:57
  a battle tank. So there is some GM adjudication
• 42:01
  on whether or not you can actually traumatically hit the
• 42:03
  vehicle. If you do traumatically hit the
• 42:08
  vehicle, it works the same As for a person.
• 42:14
  But as we established, if there's a person in the vehicle
• 42:17
  and you traumatically hit the vehicle, the rocket launcher
• 42:19
  that dealt 18 damage would then deal.
• 42:24
  What the Hell's 18 * 3? 18 * 3. 54 damage.
• 42:29
  Yeah. So, you know, even worse, you
• 42:40
  can also do a little maneuvering and like ramming actions and
• 42:44
  shit. Basically as part of your main
• 42:47
  action that you use to control the vehicle, you can try to ram
• 42:50
  a vehicle or out maneuver another vehicle.
• 42:54
  You know, you just you make a, a drive check, basically Dr.
• 42:58
  Dexterity or drive exert. If you hit a if you hit a target
• 43:08
  or hit a person, sorry, you deal the vehicle's Max HP in damage
• 43:15
  to the person. So the the vehicle has 30 HP you
• 43:18
  just deal 30 flat with a trauma die of AD 12, which is quite
• 43:23
  high cause most people their average their trauma die starts
• 43:26
  at their trauma target starts at 6 for three times damage.
• 43:31
  So you know, could be 30 damage or 90.
• 43:35
  Bro, hitting somebody with 90 damage, yeah that's magical.
• 43:40
  That'd be rude. So yeah, ramming in to shoot
• 43:43
  with a vehicle is dangerous. Reliable way to deal with high
• 43:46
  level enemies. Could be, yeah.
• 43:50
  The ramming vehicle also takes damage as if the target, as if
• 43:53
  the target vehicle rammed it in turn, so that's also worth
• 43:58
  pointing out yeah. Then it mentions briefly chases
• 44:05
  and pursuits. So not a whole lot to say with
• 44:10
  chases. But if you are on foot or you're
• 44:14
  in a vehicle, basically you will just make opposed checks with a
• 44:18
  bunch of there's two modifiers for vehicle chase and foot
• 44:21
  chase. You'll make opposed checks with
• 44:24
  those. You know both of those modifiers
• 44:27
  or both of those tables giving you a bunch of modifiers to look
• 44:29
  at. If you succeed, you catch them.
• 44:34
  If you fail, they don't. You know, it's pretty it's
• 44:36
  pretty quick. The game is not assuming you're
• 44:38
  going to be, particularly doesn't assume you're going to
• 44:41
  be super doing super long extended chase scenes.
• 44:46
  One thing that I will say is kind of funny, it specifically
• 44:51
  says hybrid chase if a group is on.
• 44:54
  If a group on foot is chasing a vehicle, they automatically fail
• 44:57
  unless the vehicle is forced into like tight confines or
• 45:00
  obstacles. If a group in vehicles is
• 45:02
  chasing a group on foot, they just automatically catch them
• 45:05
  unless they have some way to get away from the vehicle, like
• 45:08
  going into a building or alleyways or sewers or whatever.
• 45:11
  So you can't outrun the car, you need to outsmart the car.
• 45:17
  I actually appreciate this. This is this is one of those
• 45:19
  things again, when D&D is like, I have a horse, can I catch him?
• 45:23
  And then you're like, wow, what's the horse's movement
• 45:25
  speed? And you're like, it's 19.
• 45:27
  It's like, well, technically if he does his full action today,
• 45:31
  OK. Yeah, that whole kit and
• 45:35
  caboodle, yeah. Also like you have to take into
• 45:38
  account horse action economy as we as we had to learn with Sam.
• 45:42
  Horse action economy. Yep, Yep, yes we do.
• 45:49
  Shit, what was I gonna say? Oh, the oh.
• 45:54
  The only other thing to keep in mind with vehicle chases is that
• 45:56
  the vehicle's speed stat adds to the check that you're making.
• 46:03
  So like the faster vehicle is more likely to beat out the
• 46:06
  slower one because you add the speed check as a bums.
• 46:15
  Then we get into gear, lifestyle and services.
• 46:20
  There's like nothing to super add other than there's just
• 46:27
  basically there's, there's, there's just a lot like under
• 46:33
  the gears lifestyle and services and all that shit.
• 46:36
  There's just a lot of stuff because you know, Cyberpunk
• 46:41
  games. So you're dealing with lots of
• 46:42
  little pieces of gear, lots of different, you know, there's big
• 46:49
  tables of lifestyles per month, which will affect your system
• 46:53
  strain. Basically, if you live poorly,
• 46:55
  you have less system strain. If you live well, you have more
• 46:57
  system strain. There's wages for if you're
• 47:00
  trying to hire somebody or if you're the GM and trying to
• 47:03
  figure out what to pay what a person could pay the PCs
• 47:06
  reasonably or whatever. You know, there's fucking
• 47:10
  goggles and climbing kits and backpacks and fucking radio
• 47:15
  thingies and smart smartphone shit.
• 47:17
  Yeah, a lot of gear and shit. Because Cyberpunk game.
• 47:22
  This was my favorite part of the game.
• 47:23
  You. Don't have much to say on.
• 47:25
  It but I liked reading through all the different gear.
• 47:27
  Oh yeah, there's a ton of gear if you're a person who likes
• 47:30
  gear. Oh buddy, we got you covered in
• 47:32
  this game. I did skip over this.
• 47:38
  I'm skipping again. I'm skipping over stuff because
• 47:40
  we've already talked about with the other two games.
• 47:42
  Character advancement works the same, except you acquire edges
• 47:46
  as you level up. That's like literally the only
• 47:48
  difference I'm pretty sure if there is any other difference I
• 47:51
  missed it but I don't think there is.
• 47:54
  You can still craft and modify gear.
• 47:56
  It works the same as stars and worlds.
• 47:58
  Basically you have a certain amount of mods and gear that you
• 48:02
  can reasonably maintain. You know it takes you X amount
• 48:06
  of time to build the various mods.
• 48:08
  You have to have fix one or fix 2 to install the mods.
• 48:13
  All that same shit it all nothing to add.
• 48:16
  It all works the same, but it is still there, in case you were
• 48:19
  worried about it. Obviously armor and weapons is a
• 48:26
  thing, but there's so much I don't want, I'm not gonna.
• 48:32
  There's so much. The one thing I will note that's
• 48:37
  the worth pay worth mentioning with the armor.
• 48:42
  Well, actually, I guess I guess so like we mentioned, armor has
• 48:46
  ranged in melee AC armor has a damage soak value.
• 48:51
  It has encumbrance, which is the same.
• 48:53
  It has a trauma target modifier. So like a heavily armored suit
• 48:58
  gives you +3 to your trauma target.
• 49:01
  And then it also has a thing that says subtle or not, which
• 49:04
  is basically how obvious is this piece of gear you're wearing.
• 49:08
  So if you're walking into a nightclub wearing obviously
• 49:12
  armor, you know, people might be like hey bud, what what you
• 49:15
  doing there? There's also some armor
• 49:19
  accessories like riot shield, enforcement plates, joint
• 49:23
  replacement, couple of extra things and then an obsolete tech
• 49:29
  modifier which I thought was funny.
• 49:31
  It makes the gear cheaper but also worse.
• 49:34
  Yes, yeah, you get something like that with the the
• 49:36
  cyberware, you can get the second hand stuff.
• 49:38
  Yeah, and then second hand shit weapons.
• 49:43
  There's plenty of weapons, lots of weapons.
• 49:50
  Nothing to add. There's a lot of weapons, yeah.
• 49:52
  Lots of guns and shit, lots of things to do with the weapons.
• 49:57
  Unfortunately, we've sort of gabbed about how sick the, the
• 50:02
  way that the weapons are described again, how similar it
• 50:05
  is to like Fantasy Flight. You know, they they're very
• 50:07
  evocative and I give you just enough information to do the fun
• 50:10
  stuff that you want to do, but not so overly detailed that they
• 50:14
  bog things down all of like Shadowrun.
• 50:18
  And if you want to hear us talk a little more about the weapons
• 50:21
  Stars Without Number, we talked about them a whole bunch because
• 50:23
  Stars Without Number also has a Dick load of weapons.
• 50:28
  You can also add mods to your weapons and your armor.
• 50:37
  I what is there to say? You can add mods like I've
• 50:41
  talked about before. One thing that I do want to
• 50:47
  point out, actually, I think I put this in the Cyberpunk
• 50:50
  section, but if you look at the so the tables in this game,
• 50:55
  something he did that's really an excellent edition if the the
• 51:02
  thing in the table has like a special effect.
• 51:04
  So under like armor mods for example, it has the name all the
• 51:08
  way to the left all the way to the right of the table.
• 51:11
  It gives you a brief description of what the mod does within the
• 51:16
  table, like a one sentence description.
• 51:19
  And then if you decide that you want that, you can go and read
• 51:22
  the specifics of it below. For example, absorption pads,
• 51:27
  which requires fixed skill 2 to install cost 2000 bucks does not
• 51:32
  require any special tech. Special tech is like the ancient
• 51:35
  tech stuff in stars. It's like a, it's special, you
• 51:39
  know, special crafting components you need to have on,
• 51:42
  you need to have a certain amount to make some of the
• 51:44
  better modifications. And it says the armor gains plus
• 51:49
  5HP of soak per fight. You know, oh cool, I want the
• 51:53
  plus 5HP. And then you're like, is there
• 51:55
  any other specifics I need to know?
• 51:57
  You can Scroll down and check what it says for the absorption
• 52:01
  pads. It just says kinetic padding is
• 52:03
  added to the armor, granting it five more hit points of damage.
• 52:06
  So per fight. That one's obviously easy.
• 52:08
  Some of them are a little longer than others.
• 52:11
  If you make it customized a specific user gains plus one to
• 52:15
  range and melee AC. This is for armor.
• 52:18
  If you go to a weapon mods auto targeting adds a + 1 bonus to
• 52:22
  hit with the weapon. Extended bag double s your
• 52:27
  weapon mag size. Heavy subot allows traumatic
• 52:29
  hits on drones and vehicles. Turns into an anti vehicle
• 52:34
  weapon. There's these little everything
• 52:37
  has these little short descriptors on the right of the
• 52:40
  table, which is really helpful, especially when we get to
• 52:44
  cyberwear because Oh my God, there's a lot of cyberwear.
• 52:48
  There's a lot of cyberwear. There's a lot.
• 52:51
  It's really as a preview. You have body cyberwear, head
• 52:55
  cyberwear, skin cyberwear, limb cyberwear, sensory cyberwear,
• 52:57
  medical cyberwear, nerve cyberwear and and mods for your
• 53:00
  cyberwear and cyberdex and you're yeah.
• 53:03
  And that's not even talking about your deck and all the
• 53:05
  like, crazy shit you can do with that.
• 53:08
  Yeah. So that little extra descriptor
• 53:12
  on the right, super helpful. Oh, and if I didn't say weapons
• 53:17
  work the same, the only thing that's added is weapons have a
• 53:20
  trauma die now, which we already talked about so well, a trauma
• 53:24
  die and a trauma rating. But yeah, other than that, do
• 53:29
  the same. Let's see, one actually one
• 53:35
  second then pharmaceuticals and St. drugs.
• 53:43
  It's a cyberpunk game, so naturally we got drugs.
• 53:48
  There's a plethora of drugs that basically are act as one time
• 53:54
  consumables which give you various buffs but often also
• 53:58
  come with a downside to them. Some of the drugs require you to
• 54:04
  know you have to have a certain amount of knowledge to
• 54:06
  administer them, so you need to have a skill at a certain rank.
• 54:09
  So if it says heal one, that means your heal skill has to be
• 54:13
  rank one to even administer the drug.
• 54:19
  To give you an idea of like what kind of shit they do.
• 54:21
  The descriptions for the drugs are really fun.
• 54:25
  So bone. Shaker yeah I was gonna say my
• 54:27
  favorite 1 is probably Control delete.
• 54:31
  I don't think I looked at that one.
• 54:34
  Bone Shaker. A filthy mix of jailbroken Korp,
• 54:37
  industrial chems and amphetamine scrapings, Bone Shaker is a
• 54:41
  popular combat drug and most amongst most impoverished or
• 54:44
  savage St. gangs. On application, the subject is
• 54:46
  filled with Blind Aggression, gaining a + 2 morale bonus and a
• 54:49
  + 2 bonus to hit rolls, damage, and shock.
• 54:52
  The recklessness induced by Bone Shaker leaves them wide open,
• 54:55
  however, and all attacks against them add a + 2 to any trauma die
• 54:59
  rolls. Bone Shaker lasts for one scene
• 55:02
  and adds 2 system strain at the end of it.
• 55:04
  So effectively if you take it, you get a + 2 bonus to hit, a +
• 55:07
  2 bonus to damage, and you do more shock damage.
• 55:11
  Shock damage is the automatic damage you do if you if you're
• 55:16
  attacking a basically a lesser armored opponent, but it means
• 55:20
  you are more likely to get hit with a traumatic hit, so
• 55:23
  obviously little risky. What does control delete do?
• 55:27
  A chemical that temporarily destroys a person's ability to
• 55:30
  form long term memories. Oh, Control Delete must be
• 55:33
  ingested in food or drink. Toxin filtering Cyber can fend
• 55:37
  it off, but it otherwise grants no saving throws.
• 55:39
  Once affected, the target will continue to act normally, but
• 55:42
  anything that happens to them between them between then and
• 55:44
  their next sleep or unconsciousness will be
• 55:47
  completely forgotten by the time they awaken.
• 55:50
  Yeah. You just you just no think no
• 55:53
  good. Yeah, you just, it's literally
• 55:54
  orb of confusion. It's it, Yeah, I like, so I
• 55:57
  really like the pharmaceutical because it's not just like
• 55:59
  combat stems, it's it's poisons. Yes, it is combat Sims and
• 56:04
  poisons it. Yeah, it covers both.
• 56:08
  I would have liked a few more of them, but there's enough that
• 56:11
  you can build out your own I think from this list pretty
• 56:13
  easily. I I was telling Josh before with
• 56:17
  each of the without number games, I've been like, oh, this
• 56:20
  is the character I want to play. I think for the two that I had
• 56:23
  in mind for cities was either like a a, you know, the the
• 56:28
  typical nightclub bartender who just poisons people, or the
• 56:33
  Johnny Silverhand, you know, guitar slangin Pistolero fan and
• 56:39
  guitar. Slangin.
• 56:40
  Dick Slangin. Yeah, sounded like Keanu Reeves.
• 56:45
  Yeah. Oh, and it and just for contact
• 56:49
  case anyone's curious like could he make that in this game?
• 56:52
  Well, one of the edges you can take is Voice of the People.
• 56:55
  You're a. Rocker, graffiti artist, poet,
• 56:57
  demagogue, or other rabble rouser with considerable
• 56:59
  reputation. You gain both levels of the Pop
• 57:02
  Idol focus and an additional friend contact related to your
• 57:05
  art and you go, OK, cool. What does the Pop Idol Focus do?
• 57:08
  Again, just in case you're curious, let me see if I can
• 57:11
  find it real quick. I can.
• 57:12
  You can. Mobilize mobs of your fans
• 57:14
  against people, Yeah. You gain performance as a bonus
• 57:18
  skill once per game week. With an hour or so of messaging,
• 57:21
  you can mobilize about 100 of your fans to perform some act of
• 57:23
  your choice, provided it's no more than mildly criminal or
• 57:26
  slightly dangerous. Flash mobs, getaway drivers,
• 57:28
  scout reports, tailing people, or instant parties might all
• 57:31
  qualify. Your fans don't have any special
• 57:33
  skills, but they'll do anything ordinary workers or civilians
• 57:35
  could do. If you mobilize them for
• 57:38
  donations or merch purchases, you get 1000 per character
• 57:41
  level, doubled at fifth level, and quadrupled at 10th level.
• 57:44
  You can't mobilize them to buy to buy your content more than
• 57:48
  once per month. At level 2, you can mobilize up
• 57:53
  to 100 fans per character level, which at level 10 would mean
• 57:57
  10,000 people. A lot.
• 58:01
  The wait, Did I do my math right there?
• 58:03
  Hold on. Wait.
• 58:04
  Yeah. 100 * 10, right? Yeah.
• 58:05
  Yeah, wait, 1000 people. Sorry, 1000 people. 1000 people.
• 58:09
  Jesus Christ I'm stupid. Though major mobs are likely to
• 58:13
  draw law enforcement, you've cultivated fan leaders who can
• 58:17
  pass along your wished wishes, deniably concealing your
• 58:20
  involvement. Your donation and merch earning
• 58:22
  amounts double your Charisma modifier increases by plus one
• 58:25
  to a maximum +2. So.
• 58:28
  Yeah. So if you take the edge, if you
• 58:32
  take that rabble rouser or the what, what was it?
• 58:35
  The voice of the people edge, you gain both levels of that
• 58:39
  focus right from the jump. So yes, they're rocker guys.
• 58:45
  Definitely on the table after pharmaceuticals.
• 58:54
  We have cyberwear. Oh, get your bippy ready.
• 58:58
  Yes, Sir. So first it talks about getting
• 59:08
  cyberwear installed and like broadly where you're going to
• 59:12
  find it. So to get it installed, you have
• 59:18
  to have a cyber, a cyber dock or a Ripper dock if you want to
• 59:21
  phrase it that way. I don't think they can say
• 59:24
  Ripper dock. I think that one's trademarked,
• 59:26
  but you know, essentially the the the cyber dock will make a
• 59:33
  check against a table. The table basically will dictate
• 59:36
  the time, the cost, and the DC with potential modifiers being
• 59:42
  added or subtracted depending on the situation.
• 59:45
  For example, if the Cyber Dock has a sterile medical operating
• 59:50
  room, they get a + 1 to their role.
• 59:53
  If they don't have an operating rule they get a -1.
• 59:58
  The cyberware is dictated. So it it goes how much system
• 1:00:02
  strain is the cyberware adding to to your body?
• 1:00:07
  Then it'll tell you based on that how much it costs, how long
• 1:00:10
  it'll take for you to recover, and the difficulty of the role.
• 1:00:14
  So if the system strain it's adding is .1 to .5, it'll cost
• 1:00:17
  500 bucks, take you one day to recover, and it's difficulty 8
• 1:00:21
  so not too bad. If the cyber doc fails the check
• 1:00:30
  by more than two points, the surgery fails, your system
• 1:00:33
  strain is is maxed out, you're reduced, and you're reduced to
• 1:00:37
  one hit point. You survive, but sorry, the
• 1:00:41
  cyber survives and you survive. But the cyber now counts as used
• 1:00:46
  for future implant purposes because you can't install used
• 1:00:50
  cyberwear. So if he fails by two or more,
• 1:00:55
  he fucked up. If he fails by one or two point,
• 1:00:58
  sorry. If he fails by more than two
• 1:01:00
  points, he fucked up. If he fails by one or two
• 1:01:02
  points, the surgery is successful but you suffer a
• 1:01:05
  random implant complication. The glitch isn't obvious until
• 1:01:11
  after the surgery is done. If you want to try again, you
• 1:01:14
  have to have the cyberwear removed and then re implanted so
• 1:01:17
  you can try again. But you know.
• 1:01:20
  Takes a little mean. Yeah.
• 1:01:23
  That being said, you could also roll a.
• 1:01:27
  You could roll a complication that doesn't matter, True.
• 1:01:31
  Yeah, there's the the one where it's like it just is kind of
• 1:01:34
  finicky narratively speaking. Yeah.
• 1:01:37
  Or it could be the one that it's insufficient.
• 1:01:40
  The where incurs an additional .5 system strain cost.
• 1:01:43
  If you're not really cyber it up, you might not care that much
• 1:01:46
  about that and you're like, that's fine.
• 1:01:47
  It still works. You know, if you succeed, the
• 1:01:52
  cyberwear is is implanted successfully.
• 1:01:55
  Whether successful or not, the subject needs a certain amount
• 1:01:57
  of time of recovery before they can return, can return to the
• 1:02:00
  action basically, yeah, you have, you have a, you had
• 1:02:07
  surgery done, you have recovery time.
• 1:02:14
  If you want to get the cyberwear removed, it's another simple
• 1:02:18
  check. So removing cyberwear can't
• 1:02:20
  fail. You can always remove it.
• 1:02:23
  The only thing that the check is to determine if if the cyberware
• 1:02:29
  is removed and is totally functional or the cyber doc
• 1:02:34
  fucked it up and so it's the cyberware gets beat up.
• 1:02:37
  Essentially it gets it gets fucked up in the removal
• 1:02:40
  process. Yeah, that's it.
• 1:02:49
  You can also remove cyberwear from dead bodies.
• 1:02:52
  Yes, so I wanted to bring this up.
• 1:02:54
  You can, but you only have it really.
• 1:02:57
  You have an hour after the person dies to do it
• 1:03:01
  effectively, and then you've got up to 24 hours to do it, risking
• 1:03:05
  it for a biscuit. And then after that the
• 1:03:06
  cyberwear is ruined, presumably because of that totally shot.
• 1:03:11
  There are probably teams of people, their whole job is just
• 1:03:15
  to like, scout out for gunfights, run onto the scene,
• 1:03:19
  yank the cyber, and then just leave.
• 1:03:22
  Yeah. I want that to be like, if
• 1:03:25
  you're playing a game, that's what I want to play it with.
• 1:03:28
  Like a a fucking cyber collector like that just sounds so much
• 1:03:30
  fun. Scoop shit up.
• 1:03:33
  Yeah. If the cyberdock fails to remove
• 1:03:38
  it successfully, it's now counted as second hand
• 1:03:41
  cyberwear, which we'll get to in a second.
• 1:03:45
  Then you have cyberware maintenance.
• 1:03:50
  Basically, however much your cyberware costs, you have to you
• 1:03:53
  have to spend 5% of the cyberware's cost every month.
• 1:03:59
  If you don't spend that every month, you will start to add
• 1:04:03
  complications to the cyberware. That's it.
• 1:04:07
  If you really, really ignore it, very extended lack of
• 1:04:14
  maintenance can provoke chronic illness or death.
• 1:04:16
  Some ultra high end bespoke wear may absolutely require timely
• 1:04:19
  maintenance. Blah blah blah.
• 1:04:20
  That's that's mostly flavor. Basically, if you really ignore
• 1:04:25
  it, it can be very unpleasant. Yeah.
• 1:04:32
  And then in terms of pay, pay your maintenance.
• 1:04:39
  Otherwise your shit breaks. Yeah, you're they literally say
• 1:04:43
  if you want those cyber legs kicking, you better pay your
• 1:04:46
  maintenance fees. Yeah.
• 1:04:50
  Then we have concealing the cyberwear or like how
• 1:04:56
  concealable your cyberwear is. So basically there's 3 levels.
• 1:05:03
  You have medical grade cyberwear which is concealed from surface
• 1:05:07
  level inspection and you can't see it without some kind of
• 1:05:12
  scanner or medical examination. So you know under skin like
• 1:05:18
  dermal implant type type shit. Then there's touch rated cyber,
• 1:05:22
  which is stuff that is not obvious when you look at the
• 1:05:26
  person, but if you touch the limb or the skin or whatever,
• 1:05:29
  you can feel it. So if somebody had like arm
• 1:05:32
  blades, I'm pretty sure arm blades are touch.
• 1:05:36
  You can't see by looking at their arm.
• 1:05:38
  But if you feel their forearm, you can feel the like plate of
• 1:05:40
  metal that opens up or whatever. And then there's sight rated
• 1:05:45
  cyberwear, which is like a fully mechanical arm.
• 1:05:48
  Obviously that's a mechanical arm.
• 1:05:53
  And then it does actually also mention cyber that produces
• 1:05:56
  obvious bodily changes is obvious while being used.
• 1:06:00
  So a body blades implant implant might be hidden under most
• 1:06:04
  circumstances, but slicing open some corpo VPVIP with it is
• 1:06:09
  going to make it very obvious very quickly.
• 1:06:12
  Which you know, makes sense. You can't see your body blades
• 1:06:14
  until you bust them out. I so I'm assuming you also
• 1:06:18
  visualize them as the mantis blades from Cyberpunk, right?
• 1:06:21
  I did, yes. Yeah, I also visualize them as.
• 1:06:27
  Is it? Is it Atom Smasher who just has
• 1:06:30
  like the straight flat blade maybe?
• 1:06:34
  Saw him what? Am I thinking of I have an image
• 1:06:37
  in my head of somebody with like an arm blade, but it's it's it
• 1:06:40
  just pops out straight and that there's no tip on it.
• 1:06:43
  The tip is like flat looks like a big like butcher knife or.
• 1:06:47
  Something it might be, yeah, I think Smasher has that.
• 1:06:50
  I don't know. Yeah, something like that.
• 1:06:53
  But yes, I did definitely picture the it's the mantis
• 1:06:58
  blades for sure. A part of me also thought of
• 1:07:00
  what the what? What's his nuts?
• 1:07:02
  What's that fucking dork's name in Baki?
• 1:07:04
  His body's covered in blades. One of the death row villages.
• 1:07:08
  The One Voice by Ichigo. Yeah, the one by Voice by Johnny
• 1:07:11
  Abash. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:07:12
  Yes, yes. No, it's not.
• 1:07:14
  Dorian. It's not Dorian.
• 1:07:17
  It's Oh no are also start with a.
• 1:07:20
  Doyle. Is it Doyle?
• 1:07:22
  I think it's Doyle. Yeah.
• 1:07:23
  Hold on, hold on. Hold on.
• 1:07:25
  Doyle Baki. Yes, Yeah, it's Hector Doyle.
• 1:07:29
  It's Hector Doyle. Yeah.
• 1:07:33
  Yeah, that loser. I his weird redemption arc and
• 1:07:39
  then his unredemption arc. Yeah, the character who survived
• 1:07:46
  the electric chair for literally no reason, just cause.
• 1:07:49
  Yeah, just because he could. He's just built different.
• 1:07:51
  Yeah, he just. Yeah, that's that's just the
• 1:07:55
  excuse for everyone in Baki. How do they do anything?
• 1:07:57
  I don't know. They're just built different.
• 1:07:59
  Well, yeah, I guess fucking Dorian's like, Oh yeah, he's, he
• 1:08:01
  was hanged for like 10 minutes or something.
• 1:08:04
  And he's like, yeah, I just flexed my neck and stopped my
• 1:08:08
  neck from breaking. Yeah, no biggie.
• 1:08:13
  Fucking Baki, dude. Fucking Baki's so fucking
• 1:08:16
  stupid. I can't.
• 1:08:21
  But it's not the right kind of. That's really my thing with
• 1:08:23
  Baki. It's not the right kind of
• 1:08:24
  stupid because like, Ken Ganache is stupid too, but Ken Ganache
• 1:08:28
  is hype as fuck. It really is.
• 1:08:30
  You know what's funny? This is, this is a tangent to
• 1:08:31
  our tangent. Gennaro was like, is there a
• 1:08:34
  single episode where you guys can just stay on topic?
• 1:08:38
  Sorry I fucked up. Anyway, the answer is no.
• 1:08:41
  We try. It doesn't work.
• 1:08:44
  Yeah, no, cannot, won't, not, won't stop.
• 1:08:48
  Well, you're we're both exhausted today and you're
• 1:08:51
  getting us that low energy mode and we still tangent.
• 1:08:55
  Why would I? Why would I want to stay on
• 1:08:56
  topic? You know, I agree.
• 1:08:58
  I think the tangents are half the fun, frankly.
• 1:09:02
  You don't want to hear a little bit about our Baki takes my deep
• 1:09:09
  hatred of Baki. My deep love to bother Josh
• 1:09:12
  about Baki. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:09:16
  Anyway, All right, now I got to find where I was in my notes
• 1:09:22
  hold. On my bad.
• 1:09:25
  Yeah, OK, You can attempt to. What the fuck you?
• 1:09:30
  What did I write here? You can attempt to reasonable
• 1:09:32
  the cyber what reinstall I think was supposed to be with the word
• 1:09:38
  there was I think. I think so.
• 1:09:45
  Yeah, but also I where did I even?
• 1:09:52
  Oh, OK, right. So if you have an implant
• 1:09:54
  complication, you can try to reinstall the original cyberwear
• 1:10:00
  to like dodge the implant, but it's costly and time consuming.
• 1:10:06
  Basically you have to pay for it again and you get a cumulative
• 1:10:11
  -1 penalty every time you keep trying.
• 1:10:15
  So like, you know, if you keep, if you keep trying to reinstall
• 1:10:22
  it over and over again, the minus, the penalty's going to
• 1:10:24
  get so bad that it's just like now you just got to live with it
• 1:10:27
  now, chief. Yeah, I just, Can you imagine
• 1:10:29
  you're trying to get like a sand Devastan installed and you keep
• 1:10:33
  waking up from the the anaesthesia and the docs like
• 1:10:38
  yeah man, sorry I didn't take again.
• 1:10:39
  You're like, Oh my God, no, yeah.
• 1:10:42
  It's like, dude, if you have anywhere in the season, your
• 1:10:43
  sister are going to die. You're like.
• 1:10:45
  I don't care, but yeah. Yeah, he's going out again and
• 1:10:50
  he's gone. There he goes.
• 1:10:53
  And then lastly in this little in the in the section where it,
• 1:10:59
  this technically isn't even the full cyberware section.
• 1:11:01
  This is like all the stuff you need to know before you look at
• 1:11:03
  the cyberware. Lastly, you have skill plugs.
• 1:11:11
  These are basically like a special kind of implant that
• 1:11:13
  lets you have points in skills that you otherwise wouldn't
• 1:11:16
  have. So like, oh, I don't have the
• 1:11:19
  heal scale, the heal skill, but I'm going to install a skill
• 1:11:23
  plug that gives me the heal skill plus, you know, plus one
• 1:11:26
  to my heal skill. You have to have a skill plug
• 1:11:33
  Jack, which is obviously its own type of cyberwear.
• 1:11:37
  And then you purchase the plugs themselves.
• 1:11:39
  Level 0 and level 1 plugs are reasonably affordable.
• 1:11:43
  Level 2 plugs are costly as fuck.
• 1:11:47
  Level 3 plugs are like nigh unobtainable unless you're an
• 1:11:51
  atom smasher type character who's like the biggest badass
• 1:11:54
  around with a lot of connections.
• 1:12:00
  And for for context, a level 0 mental skill or a conventional
• 1:12:04
  language mastery would cost you 1000.
• 1:12:07
  Level 1 is 10,000, level 2 is 5000.
• 1:12:12
  So they get expensive. And then if it's a physical
• 1:12:15
  based skill plug. So like if you wanted to
• 1:12:17
  increase your punch skill, take the mental cost and times it by
• 1:12:21
  two. So you can get skill plugs to
• 1:12:25
  cover your inadequacies, but they are not cheap.
• 1:12:31
  The other thing is that each each skill plug you install
• 1:12:39
  increases your your critical failure threshold by one for the
• 1:12:44
  skill that you are rolling with. So like if you have a skill plug
• 1:12:49
  for heel and then you roll your heel skill, your critical
• 1:12:52
  failure threshold would be two and one instead of just A1
• 1:12:58
  because it's not actually your skill that you're using.
• 1:13:02
  So the idea is that you could potentially fuck up harder
• 1:13:04
  because you did not take the time to actually practice the
• 1:13:06
  skill yourself. Oh see, I missed that too.
• 1:13:09
  That's interesting. Kind of like that.
• 1:13:11
  Yeah, whenever. Yeah.
• 1:13:13
  So with an excellent substitute. Well, an excellent substitute
• 1:13:16
  for years of practice. Skill plugs have their flaws.
• 1:13:19
  The programmatic expertise embedded of them, some some
• 1:13:23
  embedded in them, sometimes conflicts with the user's
• 1:13:27
  natural instincts or an already extant muscle memory.
• 1:13:30
  Whenever the user rolls a natural 2 on a skill plug
• 1:13:33
  augmented skill check or a natural one on an augmented
• 1:13:36
  attack roll, the checker roll is an automatic failure with null
• 1:13:40
  re roll, which no re rollability can save.
• 1:13:43
  The skill plug Jack itself then locks up uselessly for the
• 1:13:47
  scene, so you fail and you lose access to it.
• 1:13:51
  Well, it is possible to implant multiple plug jacks and using
• 1:13:55
  and use multiple skill plugs at once.
• 1:13:57
  The increase neural crosstalk invariably increases the chance
• 1:14:01
  of severe error. Each additional skill plug run
• 1:14:04
  after the first increases the automatical failure roll range
• 1:14:08
  by one point, so you can't go too crazy with him.
• 1:14:15
  I mean, you can, but there's a downside.
• 1:14:17
  Like everything in Cyberpunk, there's going to be a downside
• 1:14:19
  to your, you know, whatever weird thing you're doing.
• 1:14:21
  Non zero chance, freeze up and then get domed.
• 1:14:25
  Yeah, side note, I think that pair this paragraph is actually
• 1:14:31
  a really good example to point out what Isaiah was talking.
• 1:14:36
  I was always talking about where he's like, these books are kind
• 1:14:39
  of hard to read because there's a lot of fluff stuff around the
• 1:14:42
  mechanics, right? This paragraph I just read well.
• 1:14:47
  An excellent substitute for years of practice.
• 1:14:49
  Skill plugs have their flaws. The program, the programmatic
• 1:14:52
  expertise embedded in them, sometimes conflicts with the
• 1:14:55
  user's natural instincts are already extant.
• 1:14:57
  Muscle memory. None of that is needed.
• 1:15:00
  That's all fluff. Yeah.
• 1:15:02
  Like there's no rules in that statement.
• 1:15:03
  Then it says whenever the user rolls a natural 2 on a skill
• 1:15:07
  plug, augmented skill check, or a one on an attack roll, the
• 1:15:11
  checker rolls an automatic failure, which no re roll can
• 1:15:14
  save, no re rollability can save.
• 1:15:16
  So like the first half of that paragraph has no mechanics and
• 1:15:18
  the second-half of the paragraph is the mechanics.
• 1:15:20
  So here's something that they do in this book that I like, but
• 1:15:23
  they don't do it enough for it to be satisfying is there's a
• 1:15:26
  couple sections I don't 100% remember where, but they will
• 1:15:29
  either embolden or italicize the rules bit of the rules and I
• 1:15:35
  wish they. Usually for proper.
• 1:15:37
  Usually for proper noun type shit.
• 1:15:39
  Like for the part where it says skill plug wires, that's like
• 1:15:42
  italicized and bolded. Yeah, perfect here for
• 1:15:44
  secondhand cyber. It gives you all of this fluff,
• 1:15:47
  and then in italics it says APC can find one feasible candidate
• 1:15:50
  after a week scouting on the scene.
• 1:15:52
  Cool. Yeah, yes, sometimes it does it,
• 1:15:57
  but not all the time. I need it to be all the time.
• 1:16:01
  I know you do. So now we get on to the
• 1:16:06
  cyberwear systems, which is like how they actually function.
• 1:16:13
  So it starts being like, all right, where the fuck do you buy
• 1:16:16
  this shit? Basically PC operators, which
• 1:16:21
  are, you know, your characters operators are generally going to
• 1:16:25
  buy your cyberwear from some sort of back alley shop
• 1:16:27
  situation and secondhand a lot until you get, you know, cooler.
• 1:16:34
  I, I did make a note of this. This Kevin Crawford is a man who
• 1:16:40
  really loves his vocab because he'd be teaching me words I've
• 1:16:44
  never heard of. Did you know what a demimonde is
• 1:16:48
  or a demimonde? No, what the fuck that word
• 1:16:52
  meant? Yeah, so I had to look that one
• 1:16:54
  up. A a demimonde.
• 1:16:57
  For those curious, it's spelled DEMIMONDE in 19th century
• 1:17:04
  France, the class of women considered considered to be of
• 1:17:08
  doubtful morality and social standing.
• 1:17:11
  Did he really hit me with the year old English for the whores?
• 1:17:14
  Yes, yes, he's because, he says St. denizens, operators and
• 1:17:20
  other demimonde get their Chrome implanted in seedy back alley
• 1:17:24
  chop shops, dirty living rooms and gang run clinics.
• 1:17:27
  That's a little wild. I ain't even gonna lie.
• 1:17:30
  Yes, he. Busted out.
• 1:17:32
  He busted out the ye old fridge for the horse.
• 1:17:37
  I thought that was really I was like, yo bro, you got to relax.
• 1:17:43
  That's like cost her longer and you're like.
• 1:17:45
  Yes. The fuck is a Custer mugger?
• 1:17:47
  Yeah, yeah. So basically it's just
• 1:17:52
  describing the types of scenarios that you, your PCs,
• 1:17:54
  can reasonably expect to be acquiring Shit.
• 1:17:58
  So how do you actually get your second hand cyberware right?
• 1:18:02
  So in search of cheap Chrome, APC can find one feasible
• 1:18:06
  candidate after a week of scouting the streets then lost
• 1:18:17
  track. Hold on.
• 1:18:19
  Then you make a roll on a complication table to determine
• 1:18:23
  the built in issue with the cyberwear itself.
• 1:18:26
  An implant complication. So basically you're getting it
• 1:18:28
  second hand. So it's fucked up somehow if you
• 1:18:31
  have a contact who can help you. So like if your contact is, you
• 1:18:37
  know, I don't know, a cyber doc, maybe you can re roll the
• 1:18:42
  complication and then choose which one you want.
• 1:18:47
  If the operator really doesn't want the wear at that point,
• 1:18:50
  they have to go back on the hunt.
• 1:18:53
  The time required double s which eat with each successive
• 1:18:57
  attempt. But second hand cyberwear is
• 1:19:03
  half the price of new cyberwear. This discount does not apply to
• 1:19:09
  maintenance though. Do keep that in mind.
• 1:19:13
  But it's at yeah. So it's at half price.
• 1:19:14
  Basically. You can go around looking for
• 1:19:15
  half price shit, but it's going to come with a built in
• 1:19:18
  complication, which at, you know, level one or two or
• 1:19:23
  whatever is a, you know, a reasonable bargain because the
• 1:19:27
  cheapest cyberwear is like $10,000.
• 1:19:32
  So you know, did you notice there was also the?
• 1:19:37
  Did you see the full body? Conversion.
• 1:19:39
  I did, yeah. That's $6 million, yes.
• 1:19:43
  Yes, the full board conversion, yeah.
• 1:19:46
  I I didn't read what it did though.
• 1:19:49
  I you were here, you went OK, so actually here.
• 1:19:53
  OK, yeah. So after explains how to get
• 1:19:56
  secondhand cyberwear, then we get into the tables of the
• 1:20:00
  cyberwear itself. And as I put my notes, bold, all
• 1:20:04
  capitals, so many tables of stuff.
• 1:20:10
  As Isaiah noted, there's body, head, skim, limb, century,
• 1:20:13
  medical and nerve cyberwear. So there's a lot.
• 1:20:17
  The full body conversion. Let's let's read the full body
• 1:20:19
  conversion. It's kind of long, but it's
• 1:20:21
  funny. The user's brain and central
• 1:20:25
  nervous system are transplanted into cutting edge into a cutting
• 1:20:30
  edge synthetic shell at a cost and difficulty as it is as if
• 1:20:35
  this cyber took 4 system system strength, which is a lot because
• 1:20:42
  the table for the does the table even go up to 4 for the
• 1:20:46
  installations? It says 3.1 or more.
• 1:20:50
  So yeah. Once converted, the subject has
• 1:20:57
  an effective constitution of 20 for system strain purpose, but
• 1:21:02
  cannot be healed by conventional first aid or medical drugs,
• 1:21:06
  requiring 10 minutes of repair work with a tool kit to repair
• 1:21:09
  any amount of damage and $250 worth of parts for each hit
• 1:21:13
  point to be restored. A full conversion Borg no longer
• 1:21:18
  requires food, water, air, or sleep, but each day without the
• 1:21:22
  ladder adds one system strain due to the mental stress.
• 1:21:25
  So you don't need to sleep, but your mind will snap if you don't
• 1:21:28
  sleep eventually. Yeah.
• 1:21:31
  The conversion requires 12 hours of maintenance every two weeks,
• 1:21:35
  and missing it will result in the user's death in 2D6 days
• 1:21:39
  unless the omitted maintenance is performed.
• 1:21:42
  Current full body conversion tech is unstable after 1D four
• 1:21:46
  years. The subject has a cumulative 5%
• 1:21:49
  chance of death each year. Borgs do not take major injuries
• 1:21:54
  and gain a + 6 bonus to their trauma target that stacks with
• 1:21:57
  existing bonuses. Yeah.
• 1:22:03
  So like ultimately, maybe not even really that worth it, but
• 1:22:09
  it's cool. Yeah, that seems like a, you
• 1:22:11
  know, this is a suicide mission. Might as well.
• 1:22:15
  Yeah, well, I, I, I think this also exists more for the GM to
• 1:22:18
  stick it on an MPC than anything else.
• 1:22:21
  Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, here's the thing.
• 1:22:23
  You're literally that's, that's, you know, I would say more than
• 1:22:25
  Atom Smasher. That's the Major Kusanagi.
• 1:22:29
  Yeah, that too. It's kind of, yeah.
• 1:22:33
  As I did mention before with the weapons, all of the cyberware
• 1:22:36
  has the effect of it on the right, on the far right side of
• 1:22:41
  the table in a brief little short description.
• 1:22:45
  So for example, if you get dermal armor, it says adds plus
• 1:22:51
  one to the user's trauma target. If you get emergency
• 1:22:54
  stabilization factor, it automatically, it says
• 1:22:57
  automatically stabilize, hold out cavity to encumbrance of a
• 1:23:03
  hidden body space. So you get these brief little
• 1:23:05
  descriptors and then you Scroll down and read more closely.
• 1:23:09
  Couple other fun ones. There's a dead man circuit which
• 1:23:11
  just like fries any data that's in your brain when you go down.
• 1:23:17
  The Banshee module which lets you mimic voices and stun
• 1:23:20
  enemies. You get a Canary the.
• 1:23:23
  Titan Yeah, the Titan gun system which lets you mount a heavy
• 1:23:27
  weapon to your body 'cause these are all these are all bodies
• 1:23:30
  everywhere. I just like the name Titan gun.
• 1:23:37
  Oh, here you go. This is another reason usable
• 1:23:39
  only by a full body conversion Cyborg or subjects with a
• 1:23:43
  strength score of 18. This amount allows the
• 1:23:46
  installation of a man portable heavy weapon such on those such
• 1:23:49
  as those on page 57. The user counts as a stable
• 1:23:53
  firing rest, and the weapon has two integral magazines of ammo,
• 1:23:58
  though it can be loaded by hand as well.
• 1:24:00
  The specific weapon mounted can be swapped during maintenance.
• 1:24:04
  That so that's really funny. I know this.
• 1:24:07
  Probably this is more likely the reference to Atom Smasher having
• 1:24:09
  the mini gun on his shoulder. On his shoulder.
• 1:24:11
  Yeah but the thing that it reminds me more of is at the end
• 1:24:15
  or halfway through season 1 of Ghosts in the Shell.
• 1:24:19
  The Major gets her ass beat by one of the the the Appleseed
• 1:24:23
  looking Max with the forearms and she just steals Saito's anti
• 1:24:28
  material rifle and one arms it at point blank at the fucking
• 1:24:31
  mech just over and over again till she mag dumps it.
• 1:24:35
  And the dude on the inside's like screaming for help because
• 1:24:39
  like the bullets aren't get actually getting through to him
• 1:24:41
  because of the armor but the concussive damage he keeps
• 1:24:44
  taking is like killing him. Good time.
• 1:24:51
  Yes, I'm going to say it's probably not so much a reference
• 1:24:54
  to that one, but it could also be flavoured that way.
• 1:24:57
  Oh, look, I mean, like I said, it's almost certainly the Adam's
• 1:24:59
  Fasher thing. It just in my head, I just
• 1:25:01
  imagine, you know, the major one arming a Barrett 50 caliber
• 1:25:05
  point blank. Just like Roberta.
• 1:25:08
  Just like Roberta. Yeah, under head cyberwear.
• 1:25:14
  One that I really like is the I mod that turns your eyeballs
• 1:25:18
  into a flash. A round launcher.
• 1:25:24
  A holdout weapon designed for surprise short range attacks.
• 1:25:27
  The this eye has been loaded with small explosive flichettes.
• 1:25:31
  It has the stats of a light pistol in a range of 10 meters
• 1:25:34
  and requires a main action to reload its single round
• 1:25:36
  magazine. If used against a target in
• 1:25:40
  melee range who does not suspect it exists.
• 1:25:42
  Its existence a normal hit. A normal hit roll is made on a
• 1:25:46
  miss. It does full normal damage
• 1:25:48
  anyway. On a hit, the damage doubled so.
• 1:25:53
  Do you know what a you should? Grab some what?
• 1:25:54
  A Yeah, just grab some surprise, motherfucker.
• 1:25:58
  Surprise razor blades on the face.
• 1:26:02
  For Skin Armor, Skin Cyberwear, we have Dermal Armor 1-2 and
• 1:26:05
  three obviously Poseidon implants to breathe underwater.
• 1:26:10
  Skyborne shielding, which I think is like a set of implants
• 1:26:16
  and skin treatments meant for those who spend extended periods
• 1:26:19
  and vacuums. Oh, it's for breathing.
• 1:26:20
  Yeah, nice shark skin electrodes which give you shocky hands.
• 1:26:29
  The let's see what other Obviously we have our limb
• 1:26:35
  cyberwear, body blade, cyber limbs, metal hands, limb gun,
• 1:26:40
  muscle fiber replacement, shock fist, you know the classics.
• 1:26:45
  And then you have sensory cyberwear, ear modifiers, eye
• 1:26:49
  modifiers, fucking gun link, head communicator.
• 1:26:55
  There's also a Medusa mod under the head ones that let you have
• 1:26:58
  literally like tensile Medusa hairs, medical cyberwear, which
• 1:27:03
  is basically just to replace. It's like prosthetics.
• 1:27:07
  They're not like, they're not like weaponized everywhere.
• 1:27:10
  Nerve, cyberware, enhanced augments, coordination reflexes,
• 1:27:14
  reaction booster, skill plug Jack, zombie wires.
• 1:27:19
  Zombie wires is a fun one. Basically your body, you, you go
• 1:27:22
  down and then your cyberware takes your brain over like a
• 1:27:26
  zombie and just keeps doing whatever action you told it to
• 1:27:28
  do. I thought that was pretty fun.
• 1:27:35
  And then of course, you can modify your cyberware, such as
• 1:27:39
  adding a monoblade to your weapon or a quick, quick
• 1:27:42
  detachable system, or make it firewalled so it's harder to
• 1:27:47
  hack the cyberware because that is the thing you can do in this
• 1:27:49
  game. You can hack someone's cyberware
• 1:27:51
  on their body, which is like, you know, fucking rude it.
• 1:27:57
  Is one of my favorite thing. So like that is something I do
• 1:28:00
  like doing. Even though I don't usually play
• 1:28:01
  the deckers or the net runners, I do love hacking someone's
• 1:28:03
  cyberware. There's the just commit an alive
• 1:28:06
  hack in 2077 and that was really funny and like really gruesome
• 1:28:11
  as you can hear the person be like, no, no, no.
• 1:28:14
  The gun slowly goes up. You're like, I feel a little bad
• 1:28:17
  about this. Yeah.
• 1:28:21
  And then after all the cyberwear stuff, the book briefly
• 1:28:24
  mentioned cyber decks and modifying your cyber decks.
• 1:28:28
  I'm going to skip over this because let's talk about cyber
• 1:28:30
  decks in a bit. But you can modify your cyber
• 1:28:33
  deck. That's the main thing.
• 1:28:35
  You can you can over clock it and fucking add to the memory
• 1:28:39
  and make a make a better case chassis for it and all that
• 1:28:42
  Yibidi yabahoo. And then the you know, obviously
• 1:28:45
  this is also where you would buy the the decks themselves.
• 1:28:49
  Then you have drones. Drones are like drones to me are
• 1:28:55
  one of the other main key elements to cyber to like
• 1:28:59
  cyberpunk as a genre. I don't know about you.
• 1:29:00
  I feel like drones are really important.
• 1:29:03
  I, you know, I that's not where my brain goes.
• 1:29:04
  Usually it is like a facet of it, but it's not something that
• 1:29:07
  like particularly I'm like, ah, yes, drones.
• 1:29:09
  I don't know, I always think about the drones.
• 1:29:11
  I don't really know why but the drones feel rather key to me.
• 1:29:18
  They work pretty much the same as stars without number.
• 1:29:21
  Drones do have a trauma target though, so you can like you can
• 1:29:25
  Dome the drone basically to control like you know, there's
• 1:29:32
  they there, there's drone stats, they have AC, trauma target, HP,
• 1:29:37
  fittings, movement, hard points. Basically fittings and hard
• 1:29:41
  points are how many like weapons or or extra doodads you could
• 1:29:45
  stick on them. When you control your drone, you
• 1:29:49
  use your skills, bonuses, and action, and you use the same
• 1:29:54
  skill Bonus is an action economy you do for your character to
• 1:29:57
  pilot the drone, plus any bonuses you might get from
• 1:30:01
  things like mods and fittings on the drone.
• 1:30:04
  So for example, if you want your drone to make an attack roll,
• 1:30:08
  you roll with your to hit bonus plus your program or drive
• 1:30:12
  skill, plus your int or decks and make the attack roll just as
• 1:30:15
  you would if you were shooting a gun.
• 1:30:18
  If a drone is destroyed, if a drone hits 0 HP, that's it, it's
• 1:30:23
  destroyed. Repairing a drone, you need a
• 1:30:25
  tool kit and a fixed 0 skill, and it costs 25% of the drones
• 1:30:29
  total cost. Boom bang boom.
• 1:30:34
  There's not a ton to say about obviously, I'm making it sound
• 1:30:37
  like drones are really boring. There is a lot of really cool
• 1:30:39
  mods you can add on them. I'm not going to go through all
• 1:30:42
  the mods, but there is a ton of drone fittings and guns and shit
• 1:30:45
  you can add to your drone. So you can absolutely play the
• 1:30:48
  cyber, the Shadowrun Rigger character and then it gives you
• 1:30:55
  a couple of like common drone actions that you can do.
• 1:30:59
  But basically you can basically if you're controlling a drone,
• 1:31:02
  you're going to use the drone the same as you would if your
• 1:31:05
  character was using a gun. Like the drone is your gun is
• 1:31:08
  the idea. It's just.
• 1:31:09
  A. Omnidirectional, Yes,
• 1:31:13
  omnidirectional gun. And then there's the vehicles
• 1:31:17
  page we already talked about like using a vehicle after the
• 1:31:21
  drones as the actual vehicles page.
• 1:31:25
  Nothing to add here. They follow the same structure
• 1:31:27
  as they do in stars without number with again, with the
• 1:31:30
  exception of the added trauma target number.
• 1:31:33
  And then there are some sample vehicle, like sample NPC
• 1:31:37
  vehicles in here that you can use as the GM basically.
• 1:31:44
  But yeah, vehicles, they have the statute expect speed, armor,
• 1:31:48
  trauma, ACHP, crew power, mass, size, hard points.
• 1:31:55
  Crew is like how many can they hold?
• 1:31:57
  Power is what power do they have to power like extra fittings.
• 1:32:01
  Mass is how big are the fittings you can put on there, Size is
• 1:32:04
  the size of the vehicle itself. And then hard points is how many
• 1:32:06
  spots can you stick guns on this thing.
• 1:32:11
  There are also a list of vehicle fittings and vehicle bods and so
• 1:32:16
  on and so forth. Like everything else in the
• 1:32:18
  game, you can stick all sorts of fun doodads on it.
• 1:32:21
  Are you sensing a theme here? There's a lot of doodads.
• 1:32:26
  A lot. A lot of doodads.
• 1:32:28
  Like a whole. Lot of doodads that's that's
• 1:32:30
  without numbers game then we get to the Creme de la Creme, the
• 1:32:35
  thing that everybody always wants to know when they pick up
• 1:32:38
  any game that is Cyberpunk in any way how does the.
• 1:32:42
  Hacking work. I actually I've been kind of
• 1:32:45
  quiet this episode. I actually unironically love the
• 1:32:48
  way the hacking works in this game.
• 1:32:50
  It is best way I can describe it elegant.
• 1:32:55
  It's pretty good is what I will say.
• 1:33:00
  Like I, I won't say it's simple, but it is elegant.
• 1:33:04
  If there was a way to do it. And I really, we've talked about
• 1:33:08
  this before, hacking or any sort of subsystem in a game this
• 1:33:12
  complex easily just turns into you're just playing a different
• 1:33:16
  game now. Yes, I think this game does
• 1:33:19
  mostly avoid that problem. Yes, that's what I was just
• 1:33:21
  about to say. It somehow manages to avoid it
• 1:33:23
  for the most part and it's because of how effective and I
• 1:33:29
  mean I guess I will say simple because the the hacking is
• 1:33:31
  relatively speaking is simple yet quite evocative it.
• 1:33:34
  Pretty much follows the same flow.
• 1:33:37
  It follows basically the same flow as the main combat
• 1:33:40
  mechanics of the game. Because, you know, ultimately
• 1:33:42
  hacking does in cyberhunk games end up being a form of combat.
• 1:33:49
  So, and like I said, I would say it is, it's like 8090% of the
• 1:33:57
  way there for me. There's still little elements of
• 1:34:01
  it that feel a little confusing in a way that I'm like, maybe
• 1:34:04
  they don't need to, but I also don't necessarily.
• 1:34:08
  This is the problem. This is my problem.
• 1:34:09
  Anytime I find hacking in a game right I look at it and I go.
• 1:34:14
  This feels a little more complicated than it needs to be,
• 1:34:16
  but I also don't have a better idea.
• 1:34:20
  Right. Right.
• 1:34:21
  Like, I don't, I don't, I don't know exactly what I would do to
• 1:34:25
  make it better, but it's not, it's, it's still feels just a
• 1:34:29
  little shy, like something's just slightly off, but I can't
• 1:34:33
  quite put my finger on. Well, I think it it just sort of
• 1:34:36
  runs into the issue that even this as good as it is, it's
• 1:34:41
  really difficult to hit that. It's very difficult.
• 1:34:45
  That feel that you get watching something like you were watching
• 1:34:48
  Lucy or Kiwi and edge runners that like you can do anything if
• 1:34:53
  you're if you hack a good enough, if you can crack the
• 1:34:55
  mainframe, cool enough. You can do a lot in this game
• 1:34:58
  though. You can do a lot.
• 1:34:59
  No, no, that's that's what I'm saying.
• 1:35:00
  Like that's why I agree with you where it hits the like 80% mark
• 1:35:03
  because what you can do is quite extensive, but I don't think
• 1:35:06
  there's going to be any way other than like a weave magical
• 1:35:10
  bullshit button to get the exact vibe you're looking for.
• 1:35:14
  Yeah, I don't know. I I feel like I don't know
• 1:35:17
  somebody smarter than me I think could figure it out, but.
• 1:35:20
  I think a lot of people tried. I don't.
• 1:35:21
  I don't think they can figure. Out a lot of people have tried
• 1:35:23
  that's true. So what, what, what's the vibe?
• 1:35:27
  Because this is important, right?
• 1:35:28
  What's the vibe of the hacking in this game?
• 1:35:30
  Because every cyberpunk game, I feel like handles the vibe a
• 1:35:34
  little differently. So this game is, goes for your
• 1:35:36
  pretty standard 80s style cyberpunk where basically
• 1:35:45
  everything is, is hardwired and there is no World Wide Web,
• 1:35:50
  right? So you, it's not a, it's not
• 1:35:53
  like shadow run where you have the net, the shadow net or
• 1:35:56
  whatever the fuck it's called that runs across like the whole
• 1:35:58
  city or the whole world or, or big chunks of the world where
• 1:36:01
  I'm forgetting my, my Shadowrun ruler a little bit at this
• 1:36:04
  point. Characters use a crown or a
• 1:36:12
  cranial Jack to Jack into virtual reality via a little
• 1:36:16
  wire. The look of virtual reality
• 1:36:18
  takes on whatever vibe the user wants.
• 1:36:22
  So if you have a guy who's really into like samurai movies
• 1:36:26
  or whatever, his entire virtual space is going to look like
• 1:36:29
  Japanese temples and you know, Buddhist monks and samurai and
• 1:36:33
  all that shit because everything is to everything is kind of
• 1:36:39
  assumed to be hard wired or you have to physically be near it or
• 1:36:44
  relatively close or whatever. Cyberpunk Red actually does this
• 1:36:49
  too. Slightly different but similar
• 1:36:51
  idea. This means that things like data
• 1:36:54
  chips where you have to physically take the take the,
• 1:36:57
  the zip drive based, you know, and move the zip drive
• 1:37:00
  physically from one area to another.
• 1:37:04
  Data chips, security systems that are connected to nothing
• 1:37:08
  except the building that they're in.
• 1:37:10
  And like anonymous wire transfers of money are all on
• 1:37:13
  the table because the idea is that the data is being moved
• 1:37:17
  physically with like a hard drive or a zip drive or
• 1:37:19
  something like that. Money transfers can be anonymous
• 1:37:23
  because there's no World Wide Web for them to go through, or
• 1:37:26
  they can be largely anonymous depending on how you do it.
• 1:37:31
  And if you get into the security system of a building, you might
• 1:37:35
  not get into the entire building.
• 1:37:37
  The security system might only be hard wired to that floor.
• 1:37:42
  So it's all that it's very, it's that very tactile style of
• 1:37:46
  there's no Wi-Fi. In fact, the book even calls out
• 1:37:50
  that like Wi-Fi thermometers would never don't exist because
• 1:37:53
  they're a massive security risk or Wi-Fi thermostats.
• 1:37:58
  I meant to say, so the games like the, the thermostat is not
• 1:38:05
  wireless in the corpo building because then the hacker could
• 1:38:08
  shut down the entire building. So nobody would ever install
• 1:38:11
  that because they would be executed.
• 1:38:17
  This also means that because everything is this sort of
• 1:38:20
  enclosed bubble type of security and and and wiring and
• 1:38:25
  everything, the hacker character cannot be the guy in the chair
• 1:38:31
  where they jump on the net from miles away and just wirely start
• 1:38:35
  busting into buildings or shit. The hacker character has to
• 1:38:38
  physically be in the mission. You can't.
• 1:38:43
  You can't do that thing where you're like super far away and
• 1:38:46
  never put yourself in danger. You have to get in there and get
• 1:38:49
  your hands dirty. It even specifically says that
• 1:38:53
  hacker operators are generally in much better physical shape
• 1:38:57
  than like corpo hackers because they have to physically fight at
• 1:39:02
  locations and shit and get their hands dirty.
• 1:39:04
  I love the yes I'm a nerd but I also have a six pack.
• 1:39:07
  Yes, I'm fucking jacked. They well, it's like Lucy and
• 1:39:14
  Cyberpunk could fight really well too, right?
• 1:39:16
  Like, yeah, true. I literally did the guy in the
• 1:39:21
  chair thing the little bit of time that I played cyber
• 1:39:25
  Shadowrun because my character was a technomancer, which means
• 1:39:29
  that you interface with the the the shadow net thingy with your
• 1:39:33
  brain. You don't actually have a cyber
• 1:39:35
  deck. You're like a data mage.
• 1:39:37
  It's fucking sick. That is an interesting idea on
• 1:39:39
  how you would get that to work in like an elegant way.
• 1:39:42
  Like how to be the guy in the chair and have it not feel
• 1:39:44
  boring? Like I'm sure.
• 1:39:45
  Shadowrun does it, but I don't. Is it effective?
• 1:39:49
  I don't know. No, because your character just
• 1:39:53
  gets insulated from any and all. Danger is basically what
• 1:39:55
  happens. Yeah.
• 1:39:58
  And you couldn't. You can't do the like they're
• 1:40:00
  tracking my location every two minutes or else you just kind of
• 1:40:03
  seem like a shitty hacker. Yep, Yep.
• 1:40:08
  So what? So that's kind of the the
• 1:40:12
  general tone. So no, what it was cyberspace,
• 1:40:17
  like how do nodes work? What is the access and stuff.
• 1:40:20
  So the typography basically virtual, like I said, virtual
• 1:40:24
  spaces take on the idiom chosen by the network's owner.
• 1:40:27
  So if you have, if you go into a building and the owner of the
• 1:40:31
  network is really into D&D, he might design the visuals of his
• 1:40:34
  company network to be Wizards and warriors running around
• 1:40:38
  fighting Dragons and shit. The actual space quote UN quote
• 1:40:44
  the space that is the network operates via nodes and nodes are
• 1:40:50
  physical objects or groups of objects that exist in the real
• 1:40:54
  world and then mirror in the node.
• 1:40:56
  Nodes are then linked by connections.
• 1:40:59
  So for example a camera has a connection to a main security
• 1:41:03
  terminal. So like the camera would be the
• 1:41:06
  node, and then the connection line would be How you get from
• 1:41:10
  the camera to the security terminal would be jumping
• 1:41:13
  through that, jumping from one node to the other node.
• 1:41:17
  And then people in cyberspace move around via avatars, which
• 1:41:21
  of course means your avatar can look like whatever you want.
• 1:41:23
  Which of course means you're going to meet a lot of
• 1:41:25
  anthropomorphic dog and cat people in cyberspace, I'm sure.
• 1:41:29
  Look IT furries, man, They do be a thing, yeah.
• 1:41:33
  IT furries. This game does not do the thing
• 1:41:36
  where cyberspace is faster than meat space, which I'm kind of
• 1:41:41
  happy about because that's always a pain in the ass to
• 1:41:43
  track. What like you know the the the
• 1:41:47
  hacker gets to do things for like 2 hours and then actually
• 1:41:49
  no time has shifted? Yeah, so like for example, in I
• 1:41:53
  think in Cyberpunk Red, you can do three cyber actions during
• 1:41:57
  the time of one physical meat action.
• 1:42:01
  Meat action. I think they literally called a
• 1:42:03
  meat action I'm. Sure they do.
• 1:42:06
  So in cities without number, cyberspace actions are not
• 1:42:10
  faster than physical actions. So the hacker character has to
• 1:42:13
  choose to split their actions between physical and cyber.
• 1:42:18
  So you can't do some hacking and then shoot somebody.
• 1:42:22
  You got to pick one or the other for your turn.
• 1:42:25
  Which again, I'm kind of OK with because the tracking the faster
• 1:42:32
  element is almost always a pain in the ass in terms of actually
• 1:42:38
  connecting to a network or to cyberspace.
• 1:42:42
  There are some, the game says, like there are some virtual
• 1:42:45
  locations that you can get to anywhere in the city that are
• 1:42:48
  like public hangout spaces, but they don't hold any relevant
• 1:42:52
  data. Obviously to get to the good
• 1:42:54
  stuff, you need to physically connect to a device.
• 1:42:58
  So if you're trying to get to the data storage of a building,
• 1:43:01
  you have to physically go to the building and connect to a node
• 1:43:05
  and move to find the data storage.
• 1:43:08
  You can wirelessly connect to things.
• 1:43:13
  If you are within 30 meters of a device and you have line of
• 1:43:16
  sight, you can try to like hack into a thing from 30 meters
• 1:43:21
  away. So for example you can move up
• 1:43:23
  on like the security camera, move within 30 feet of it and
• 1:43:27
  then hack into it. You're at a -. 2 for all your
• 1:43:29
  actions because wireless is not as reliable and you cannot go to
• 1:43:34
  other connected nodes if you attach wirelessly.
• 1:43:41
  Also, you are always aware of your physical surroundings while
• 1:43:44
  you're jacked in, so you're not like you're not like, you know,
• 1:43:48
  a comatose idiot while you're jacked into something.
• 1:43:53
  You did allow for that kind of narrative though, with the one
• 1:43:56
  of the the combat stems it's called.
• 1:43:59
  Yes. Oh God, what the hell is it
• 1:44:03
  called? The very end of the list window.
• 1:44:10
  There we go. That that's the one where you
• 1:44:13
  just zone out completely. Yeah, it makes you look a super
• 1:44:15
  good hacker, but like, you know, you, you're conked.
• 1:44:18
  Yeah, pretty much. Then we have access so your your
• 1:44:29
  access score is like. I was a little confused how this
• 1:44:34
  what this was at first. Access is basically like an ammo
• 1:44:37
  counter in a way. It's like how many actions you
• 1:44:43
  can pull off before you're sort of out of ammo, quote UN quote.
• 1:44:47
  That's basically what Access is. And the narrative, the like,
• 1:44:52
  fictional description is that if you're in a network for too
• 1:44:58
  long, no matter how good you are, eventually the network's
• 1:45:01
  just going to come down on you and kick you out no matter what.
• 1:45:06
  Then we get to programs, and programs are really the main
• 1:45:10
  meat and potatoes to hacking this game.
• 1:45:14
  You can basically think of programs like the hacker's spell
• 1:45:17
  list. Like a wizard has their spells,
• 1:45:19
  the hacker has their programs. The way it works is programs
• 1:45:25
  have two versions. They have verbs and subjects.
• 1:45:30
  You combine a verb with a subject to design your program
• 1:45:35
  and what it will target. So for example if you take the
• 1:45:39
  verb glitch and add the subject drone, that will allow you to
• 1:45:44
  run the glitch program on a drone to shut down the drone for
• 1:45:49
  a period of time. Once you have your program
• 1:45:53
  figured out, you make an in program check against the
• 1:45:56
  security DC of the network. That's basically your spell
• 1:46:00
  check to see if it succeeds or not.
• 1:46:04
  So I'm, I'm underselling it a little bit, but basically the
• 1:46:11
  idea is you mix and match these verb subject things, combine
• 1:46:15
  them together to be like, all right, bypass door glitch drone,
• 1:46:21
  you know, fucking analyze avatar, blind avatar, decrypt,
• 1:46:28
  decrypt data file. Like you smack the 2 words
• 1:46:31
  together to get your your your program action.
• 1:46:35
  That's kind of why I love it though, right?
• 1:46:36
  Because again, it's, it's simple, but it's really
• 1:46:39
  evocative. It lets you do almost exactly
• 1:46:43
  what you want to do at any given time.
• 1:46:45
  Yes, there are some limitations. So like the game will tell you
• 1:46:51
  what kind of targets you can hit.
• 1:46:53
  So like append for example, the verb append can only target data
• 1:46:58
  type targets. So you can't append door because
• 1:47:03
  a door is a device not data. And also like most of them are
• 1:47:11
  logical. So you can activate a device or
• 1:47:14
  you can activate cyber, but you can't activate data, right?
• 1:47:19
  Which is fairly logical. So most of them will make sense.
• 1:47:23
  Like OK, append is for data. Yeah what the fuck would a
• 1:47:26
  append door doesn't mean anything anyway, so I'm not
• 1:47:29
  going to try that anyway. But there are technically
• 1:47:31
  restrictions. I love the idea.
• 1:47:33
  So if you think about append, right, to append is to add
• 1:47:36
  something on. So I.
• 1:47:38
  Had a door, a bend door and a door just pops up.
• 1:47:41
  You're just breaking reality. I have appended you just do
• 1:47:45
  that. No son just goes out.
• 1:47:54
  Then there's a there's a brief page on like hacking mechanics
• 1:47:57
  which is basically 2 pages that summarize the main things you do
• 1:48:02
  while you are in cyberspace, which is a very good reference
• 1:48:06
  sheet. I'm glad they added it because
• 1:48:08
  I'm sure people are going to use it a lot.
• 1:48:13
  In terms of the programs themselves, you can only run
• 1:48:19
  programs while you are in cyberspace with the exception of
• 1:48:25
  cyber drone and transmission programs, which is to basically
• 1:48:31
  say you can hack a drone, you can hack somebody's cyberware
• 1:48:35
  and you can transmit data. Well, not in cyberspace.
• 1:48:39
  So again, very logical. Which ones you can and can't do
• 1:48:42
  outside of cyberspace? It would be really goofy if you
• 1:48:45
  had to be in cyberspace space to send an e-mail.
• 1:48:48
  To transfer data. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:48:49
  Yeah, yeah. I need to send an e-mail.
• 1:48:51
  Guys, hold on. I gotta check in.
• 1:48:52
  Yeah, just are we gonna just like your Decker is just
• 1:48:56
  unconscious on the floor. It's like apparently he's filing
• 1:48:59
  his he's. Filing, yeah.
• 1:49:05
  Then all the programs, like I said, have an access cost.
• 1:49:09
  Actually, I misspoke a little bit before I said access is like
• 1:49:13
  ammo. It's more like effort.
• 1:49:15
  Do you remember how effort worked for psychics in Stars
• 1:49:20
  Without Number, where you commit effort for a certain period of
• 1:49:23
  time? That's kind of how access works
• 1:49:25
  because you commit a point of access and then for some of the
• 1:49:34
  programs that point of access you've committed is permanent
• 1:49:38
  and for some of them it goes away as soon as you stop running
• 1:49:41
  that program. So it's, it's basically like the
• 1:49:45
  effort mechanic. When you run a program, you have
• 1:49:49
  to do a skill check against the security whatever, whatever the
• 1:49:56
  security DC is, which will vary depending on the network that
• 1:49:59
  you're hacking into. If something is, you know, a
• 1:50:03
  super, if it's Renroku headquarters, it's going to be a
• 1:50:06
  little harder to hack into. Skill check will be a little
• 1:50:10
  higher. Skill DC will be a little
• 1:50:11
  higher. I should say, if you fail,
• 1:50:15
  you've wasted the action and the access point.
• 1:50:17
  You know your your spell fails. Programs will always take up one
• 1:50:27
  point of CPU, which is what the access thing is while they're
• 1:50:31
  running. And like I said, sometimes it'll
• 1:50:32
  turn off. A hacker can write up their So
• 1:50:40
  when you acquire programs, you can buy them.
• 1:50:44
  Basically, you're buying, you know, a, a data protocol
• 1:50:48
  essentially, or like a, a data chip with information on it.
• 1:50:54
  You can buy them, but they can be a little expensive if you
• 1:50:57
  don't want to buy them. A hacker with skill, I think you
• 1:51:02
  have to have skill zero in. No, you have to let's see, you
• 1:51:08
  have to have program one to make your own programs.
• 1:51:20
  Program one skill to make your own programs and you can
• 1:51:24
  maintain a certain number of programs that you have created
• 1:51:28
  on your own based on your program skill level and and
• 1:51:34
  there is a the hacker edge will also give you extra programs you
• 1:51:37
  can make yourself similar to basically programs when you make
• 1:51:41
  them. It's similar to when an engineer
• 1:51:43
  mods things you have to maintain.
• 1:51:46
  You can only maintain so many same idea you can and this I
• 1:51:52
  liked a lot. You can also specialize your
• 1:51:55
  programs to specific targets. So the example it gives is like
• 1:52:02
  a specialized subject is more focus.
• 1:52:04
  So instead of saying the cyber subject it might say nerve
• 1:52:09
  cyber, cyber subject. And then if you target
• 1:52:12
  somebody's nerve based cyberware with that program, you get a +
• 1:52:16
  1. And then there's unique subjects
• 1:52:20
  that you can do. So instead of being nerve cyber
• 1:52:23
  subject, it might be enhanced reflexes one subject.
• 1:52:27
  Or instead of flying drone target, it might be the Zhao Wen
• 1:52:31
  Phoenix subject. So you're getting even more
• 1:52:34
  specific and that you can add a + 2 to.
• 1:52:36
  So basically if you go in and get some extra deets, extra like
• 1:52:42
  dirt on your mission, you can make specialized programs for
• 1:52:46
  that specific mission, which I think is especially cool because
• 1:52:50
  then it rewards you for, you know, scouting the area out.
• 1:52:55
  Yeah, I mean, I, I, I love any system that gives you rewards
• 1:52:59
  for thinking ahead, right? Like I now don't get me wrong, I
• 1:53:03
  really like this. So, you know, and this is kind
• 1:53:06
  of related the like Blades in the Dark flashback system where
• 1:53:09
  it's like, we don't have to do that work because we let you do
• 1:53:11
  it in the middle. But I do really appreciate when
• 1:53:16
  it's like, yeah, like Lancer does this right when you go.
• 1:53:18
  Mechanical rewards for doing the work.
• 1:53:20
  Yeah, yeah. Well, so that's that's one of
• 1:53:22
  the best parts about Lancers. What do they call them?
• 1:53:26
  Not resources. The reserves is you go, oh, you
• 1:53:30
  know, our next mission we're going to be going through a
• 1:53:34
  corpo building to steal our MEX back.
• 1:53:35
  OK, you'll go. OK, cool.
• 1:53:37
  I'm going to go buy a couple of reserves that are that will help
• 1:53:39
  me for hacking. Now you're thinking ahead and
• 1:53:42
  now that will directly help you. Or if you're like, well, we used
• 1:53:45
  a bunch of ammo in the last fight.
• 1:53:46
  I'm going to get extra ammo, more core bonus, stuff like
• 1:53:48
  that. Right, right.
• 1:53:51
  Always a fan. Yeah, go for some good planning.
• 1:53:54
  This is literally me. I'm this character.
• 1:53:56
  I'm the you know what? We're going into a dungeon.
• 1:53:58
  I'm just going to start bringing bombs.
• 1:54:02
  I mean, yes, but I think the other thing that's important too
• 1:54:05
  about a mechanic like that is not only is it it like it's
• 1:54:09
  rewarding you for planning ahead, but it's also giving you
• 1:54:12
  concrete. Like the game itself is giving
• 1:54:16
  players concrete benefits and reasons to do it.
• 1:54:18
  As opposed to like D&D, where if the players go out of their way
• 1:54:22
  and make a bunch of plans ahead of time, you as the GM have to
• 1:54:25
  kind of figure out how that's gonna help them, right?
• 1:54:28
  Like there's not always an obvious mechanical benefit.
• 1:54:33
  Whereas in this scenario, it's like, OK, we know that the guy
• 1:54:36
  flying the drone, the defense drones, is using Zhao Wen
• 1:54:39
  Phoenix drone. So if you can make a couple of
• 1:54:42
  programs for those drones, that'll help a lot.
• 1:54:44
  You know what I mean? Obviously you can't, you can't
• 1:54:52
  specialize verbs, you can't specialize verb programs because
• 1:54:57
  it's an action, right? So you can't specialize in
• 1:55:00
  action any further really. Then it gives you the list of
• 1:55:07
  cyberspace actions. So just like when you're
• 1:55:10
  fighting in combat where you have a couple of specific
• 1:55:12
  actions, you have cyberspace actions alert the network, Jack
• 1:55:16
  in, Jack out, move nodes, crash, shut down.
• 1:55:21
  Which is basically the admin just shuts everything down, copy
• 1:55:25
  file, delete file, issue command, run a program,
• 1:55:28
  terminate a program. They all basically do what they
• 1:55:31
  sound like. They either cost you a main
• 1:55:33
  action or a move action. They work just like using
• 1:55:38
  actions in combat. Again, similar to the vehicles
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  and the drones, this game does not use any weird special
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  functionality for what you're doing when you're hacking.
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  You are still at the end of the day operating within the core
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  turn based combat system. It's all flowing back into that
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  main system. There is also a full page to
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  give you an example of hacking of how it actually works, in
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  case you're confused. I I didn't even bother reading
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  the example because I once I would got through the hacking
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  section, I was like, Oh yeah, OK, I get this you.
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  Know, no, it's not I mean it's it's I don't have much to add
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  because I I'm you know, but no, yeah, it's again, it's
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  evocative. It doesn't necessarily need the
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  big, you know, page long expiration.
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  If you're thinking about it actively, you're going to go,
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  oh, and I could do it like this. Oh, but then if they do this,
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  oh, I can counter with this. It just it flows.
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  You're good. Read it if you need it, but I
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  don't think you will. I think most people will find.
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  Then now you might say, all right, well, so I'm doing this
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  hacking thing and I get if I'm going up against the network, I
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  might need to, you know, open doors, delete files and stuff
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  like that. What's gonna what's gonna resist
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  me as the hacker? That's where you have demons and
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  watchdogs. Demons are just automated
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  programs in a network. They what do they I think they
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  call them in Shadowrun. They're called ice, right?
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  Or in. No, so in Cyberpunk they're
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  still. They're also called demons.
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  In Cyberpunk they're called demons.
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  I think they're called ICE in Shadowrun, I'm pretty sure.
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  No, Ice is also is. That's also a cyberpunk name.
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  Ice and black ice are right. ICE.
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  Yeah. Counter intrusion,
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  countermeasure. ICE are major constructs
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  designed to detain and possibly kill deckers.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  OK, I'm not crazy. In Shadowrun, they're called
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  ICE. Yeah, in Cyberpunk they're also
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  called ICE. It stands for Intrusive
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  Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics.
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  I just said you said Shadowrun, not cyberpunk.
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  I know but I'm saying they're also never mind.
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  But is wait, there's a distinction between demons and
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  ice in cyberpunk? Yes, Yeah.
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  So a demon is a. Well, no, no, it's a demons are
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  arguably subsections of ice. You get like black ice is where
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  usually you get demons. The difference being is that
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  like a a demon is not just a a computer virus.
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  It's sort of like a sentient AI computer virus, or not sentient,
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  but it's like an aggressive AI that's trying to, well, you.
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  Can't use. You can't use demon in Shadowrun
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  to refer to hacking things because they're actual physical
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  demons in Shadowrun, so that would get confusing.
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  Anyway. So demons are basically they're,
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  yeah, they're automated programs that go into the network.
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  They can take on whatever form. You got different types of
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  demons, Tripwire, Mastiff, Siren, Catafract, Ogre, Headman,
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  Headsman, Hydra, and Nemesis. Basically they run down a list
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  of command lines in a specific order and they are limited on
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  how many program lines they can run.
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  The game describes it as like they're just not smart enough to
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  keep running program after program.
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  They have an HP pool and a skill bonus like any other NPC that
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  you might fight does once you hit them.
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  The main like attack program is stun avatar.
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  Once you stun avatar a demon, you frag them.
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  Once they're fragged, they're gone.
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  They'll regenerate in like an hour.
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  It's pretty straightforward the the player runs into them, the
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  demon executes whatever command lines they have.
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  So for example. It gives you a list of common
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  demon programming. So if the player runs into a
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  bouncer type demon or a or a a demon that's programmed to act
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  as a bouncer I should say it says run the stun avatar against
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  any intruders until they have been knocked unconscious or
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  offline. Perform the alert network action
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  when intruder has been repelled if it isn't already alerted.
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  That's it. You just follow and then it
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  gives you common command lines. So it's like run Terminate
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  program against XY or Z, run, paralyze Avatar against this,
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  run lock barrier, run, whatever, whatever.
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  They're like, they're really automated NPCS.
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  I, I mean, I think it's worth bringing up like the different
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  classifications of Demon because I think they're really fun.
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  You have bouncer, patroller and Gatekeeper, Shield Bearer,
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  Repairman, trapper and execution.
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  Yeah, those are like the types of programming that they have.
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  That's not the demon itself. That's the type of programming
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  the demon can have. Cause the demon itself are the
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  tripwire, the mast of the siren and so on and so forth.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. But either way, yeah, basically
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  as AGM, it's really easy. You just go, what kind of demon
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  is it? It's this one.
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  OK, He does this real simple. And then you have watchdogs,
• 2:01:21
  which are just counter hackers. They're just NPC hackers.
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  They follow the exact same rules in cyberspace as the PC do does,
• 2:01:29
  with the obvious exception that the security of the network is
• 2:01:34
  on their team, right? So if you're hacking into the
• 2:01:37
  enemy building and then you run into a watchdog, obviously the
• 2:01:42
  barriers are going to let the watchdog through and not let you
• 2:01:45
  through. I could see.
• 2:01:48
  A really fun subsection of play for this game where you play as
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  like a hacker squad like everyone hacks.
• 2:01:59
  That could be a really fun like sort of mini campaign.
• 2:02:05
  And then lastly in the hacking stuff is network servers and
• 2:02:11
  architecture. So like, how do you as the GM
• 2:02:13
  actually set this up? It's pretty easy, actually, a
• 2:02:17
  lot easier than some other games.
• 2:02:20
  You have a basic sketch of the area, right?
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  So like a floor plan, like all right, they're in this company
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  building. And then you circle any devices
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  that could, any devices that could be hacked slash any
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  devices that act as a node. So, you know, cameras,
• 2:02:39
  mechanical doors, like, I don't know, fucking shield wall or
• 2:02:44
  something. Anything that you think could
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  reasonably be a node. Once you determine the nodes,
• 2:02:50
  you pick what type of server this building is running or this
• 2:02:55
  floor is running potentially if there's multiple servers in the
• 2:02:58
  building. So like if it's a beta server,
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  it can have 15 node nodes Max and two barriers Max and then
• 2:03:09
  three demons Max. Once you've determined, OK, I
• 2:03:18
  know what kind of server it is the server has for in terms of
• 2:03:24
  programs that the server could potentially run, it's pretty
• 2:03:27
  much unlimited. Once you've chosen the server,
• 2:03:33
  you draw the connections between the nodes and make sure that the
• 2:03:36
  count you know how many you have based on the nodes is good.
• 2:03:42
  You go cool, draw connections between them, then you place and
• 2:03:48
  determine your barriers, your demons, and your data files
• 2:03:52
  again based on how many the server could potentially have.
• 2:03:57
  And then you set ADC like a general DC for the security
• 2:04:02
  based on, you know, how difficult you think this
• 2:04:05
  particular network should be. Just because you set ADC doesn't
• 2:04:10
  mean it can't adjust from node to node either.
• 2:04:13
  So like set an appropriate base security difficulty for the
• 2:04:17
  network using the table on page 94.
• 2:04:20
  Individual networks or nodes might vary from their from this
• 2:04:25
  based on their importance or the skill of their maintainers.
• 2:04:28
  So like, you know, the node, the, the, the server for the
• 2:04:35
  first floor is like DC-8 or whatever, but the server for the
• 2:04:39
  next floor down in the basement is like DC-10 because that's
• 2:04:42
  where they keep the more important data.
• 2:04:45
  So it's not like, it's not like 1 building has to have the same
• 2:04:48
  DC all the way through or whatever.
• 2:04:51
  And that's it, that, that's hacking.
• 2:04:54
  You know, I, I, I summarize certain, I summarize some stuff,
• 2:04:58
  like once you read what all the different programs and stuff do
• 2:05:00
  that'll take you some time or whatever, but like, yeah, that's
• 2:05:03
  hacking. Like it's not, it's, it's, it's
• 2:05:06
  a meaty chunk of the book. Like, relative to the other
• 2:05:08
  mechanics in the game, it is a a reasonably meaty chunk, but it's
• 2:05:14
  not deeply esoteric or weirdly confusing.
• 2:05:18
  It's pretty. It's pretty intuitive, elegant.
• 2:05:25
  And yeah. And reading through it
• 2:05:31
  definitely made me want to play a, a hacker in this game.
• 2:05:34
  So if I if I read your hacking rules and I'm like, yes, I would
• 2:05:38
  like to use that, you're doing good.
• 2:05:40
  True. And that's where we're going to
• 2:05:47
  stop for today. We will get to the GM half of
• 2:05:52
  things next week because there are actually a decent amount of
• 2:06:00
  notable changes on the GM side of things.
• 2:06:05
  Little different tact that he took with this game, which I
• 2:06:07
  kind of understand because the sandbox of a cyberpunk game is
• 2:06:12
  the city as opposed to like a world map or a space sector.
• 2:06:16
  So you, you know, you come at it a little bit differently.
• 2:06:19
  Honestly, you know, I hadn't actually thought about that and
• 2:06:21
  I, I hadn't looked at the GM section because I assumed it
• 2:06:23
  would have been essentially the same.
• 2:06:24
  But I I will actually do that now.
• 2:06:27
  I would say, I mean a lot of it's, you know, the there's a
• 2:06:30
  lot of advice and stuff and like how to make NPCS and stuff
• 2:06:34
  that's all in a similar realm, but there are elements that are
• 2:06:37
  different, like how to handle NPCS is a little bit different.
• 2:06:43
  Missions. It gives you a whole how to
• 2:06:44
  build missions because obviously missions are the core that, you
• 2:06:47
  know, the core structure of cyberpunk genre as opposed to
• 2:06:55
  just like an adventure or just like a, a planet for you to land
• 2:06:59
  on. You may also notice no faction
• 2:07:04
  turn. I did not notice that, but now
• 2:07:07
  that she mentioned it, yeah. A faction turn.
• 2:07:10
  So we'll get to that. Also Cities without number.
• 2:07:17
  I think I know the answer, but I mean, like you.
• 2:07:20
  You would play this, Yeah. Oh, absolutely, yeah, I can't.
• 2:07:24
  I couldn't tell you if I'd rather do this first or
• 2:07:27
  Cyberpunk Red, but this is definitely the fact that I don't
• 2:07:31
  know which one I'd want to play first.
• 2:07:33
  It tells you something. True, yeah, I'm probably would
• 2:07:39
  lean towards cities without number, but that's also kind of
• 2:07:41
  because I'm like more familiar with it too, right?
• 2:07:47
  Yeah Anyway, yeah. To taz been us tis tis have been
• 2:07:55
  us. Something something.
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• 2:08:06
  I'm not your mom. Yeah, sorry for the low energy
• 2:08:09
  this week y'all. Like I said, we are particularly
• 2:08:11
  fucking exhausted. I don't feel like I was that low
• 2:08:13
  energy. I was low energy.
• 2:08:15
  I'm tired of shit. Yeah, well, my throat is still
• 2:08:20
  tired, so that tells me I wasn't, I couldn't have been
• 2:08:22
  that low energy. No, I mean like usually we're
• 2:08:24
  like laughing like idiots and tangenting every 10 minutes.
• 2:08:26
  We were actually, you know, I think that's really this topic
• 2:08:29
  that I think. That's, I mean we tangented
• 2:08:31
  quite a bit. Not that bad, not not in
• 2:08:34
  comparison to the fucking Kane episode.
• 2:08:36
  We were all over the place on that.
• 2:08:37
  Well, that was there may have been another reason for that.
• 2:08:40
  Fair look, I think, I think when we are when we are low energy,
• 2:08:44
  we're very on topic. I think is the the take away I
• 2:08:50
  guess. It's not a bad thing, sure.
• 2:08:58
  I have no fall. I have no fall.
• 2:09:06
  Eat your vegetables I. Don't want to?