Posts tagged Cyberpunk
Under The Hood 3: Fast Tracked Charac...
With the concept of cinematic play and players taking on multiple roles, one thing that came up early on was speed of character generation. We wanted players to be able to jump right into the action. For this reason, generation took a dramatically different path than we expected. When developing the player Network, character concepts are disc [...]
Character Narrative 5: Akiko Hotaru
The alarm on her internal clock went off; a nerve-jangle that only ceased when she opened her eyes and sat up. The retinal display kicked in immediately as her Angel displayed a list of reminders and appointments for the day before politely asking if she wanted media streams based on her sleep-cycle or news. She reached up, her hand moving [...]
Character Narrative 4: Cyril and Dani...
The Senator’s suite was in the penthouse of the Royal Corinthian, deep inside the secure zone of the Manhattan Arcology. Cyril had lost track of how many times he’d been stopped to verify his ID on the way from the landing pad, where he left his aeroframe, to the reinforced wooden door of the suite. Even though he was assigned to Eight’ [...]
Under The Hood 2: The Network
Before we talk about the Player Network lets look at the idea of contacts for a moment.
The idea of trusted allies and contacts is nothing new to role playing or fiction in general. In fiction, contacts don’t sit around just waiting to be called. They have their own lives and stories. These peripheral characters often play much larger [...]
Character Narrative 3: Archemides
It couldn’t feel the nanites gradually transforming the last of the necrotic flesh that composed its host body into functional cybernetics. The original owner of its body, Tijo Velazquez, died weeks ago, leaving Archimedes to struggle with its owner’s busy schedule. Gradually, Archimedes expanded its own programming to cope with the increas [...]
Character Narrative 2: Vinzent Raskop...
His friends called him “The German,” but they were all unimaginative drones anyway. Locked away in the altered version of reality that the corp-controlled government fed them. Vinzent was liberated. Vinzent had long ago seen through the beautiful illusions to the dirty grey reality underneath. The first step was when he dove into an undergrou [...]
Character Narrative 1: Cyril Trinidad
The wind felt wild against his steel skin tonight as Cyril cut through the skies in his scout Dart. With the odd spatial awareness granted to him by the radar unit, he could sense the heavy transport carrying ground assault battleframes miles behind his nearly invisible body. Smiling inside, he nosed over and started checking his assigned g [...]