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Adventure Seed #1 – Creating the best Scream Sheets!

Scream sheet created by GMRUNSGAME

When I created this scream sheet to use in one of my games, I tried to make it as flexible as possible. Lets take a look at how it could play out depending on the type of game your running or playing.

Option 1

Save the Exec’s!

A client contacts your group, the article is true choom! The Vorn’s embezzled assets, falsifying records in the process. Your client was the benefactor (a rival corp? a Rockerboy?) and now “The Sheriffs” an elite NCPD group have caught their scent. Get to the Vorn’s, and get them the hell out of Night City!

Option 2

Find the Scum!

Officed R.Mendez is book smart, they have tracked the Vorms to Old Japantown but the Combat Zone’s been to hot since someone calling themselves the Great Bozo united several of the waring clans. Head to Japantown and ask around. The players could face a choice between siding with the NCPD and the news story. Or protecting the Vorn’s after they reveal where the Eddies went.

Option 3 – You’re the Sheriffs!

When the pay is this good, even edgerunners can be the good guys…right? The Sheriffs are both elite and secretive. In truth, the Sheriffs are any half cooked team of edgerunners that strike the balance between getting the job done, and plausible deniability for the NCPD. A necessary evil. Mendez gets in touch via your local fixer, the jobs simple. Dead or Alive recover the Vorn’s. They paid 6th Street with a cut of the money they stole and have spent the last 10 years under their protection, heck now there are rumours they play an active part in the gang. Anyone fancy testing the second amendment?

Option 4

It ain’t always about you choomba…

The article isn’t directed at you and yours choom. Instead the advert is. Maybe a character in your group is linked to Blackwood Technologies. Perhaps they discover their biomonitor is Blackwood tech and capable of improvement but they need to get in touch with the company. Maybe it’s a tracker and bomb and users have been blown up when they are close to Blackwood’s competitors.

The possibilities are extensive. When your creating your scream sheets, don’t just think about the here and now. Give these companies reputations, affiliations, and start to create an impression in your players minds. Think about long term characters and mention them like Mendez here, or interviewed as the players approach a potential encounter to show their motivations and personalities. Later in the campaign, this kind of world building creates great buy in, especially when the Corp is your creation and all the info your players get can be controlled for the end goal.

Until next time chooms, remember to tell your mainline you love them. Night City’s a crazy place…

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Fallout: Asia – Supplement & World Building

By CapriciousNature

Free to public, these are the first few pages of my upcoming supplement to join us on https://www.twitch.com/CyberNationUncensored as we continue our campaign

Fallout Asia – Homebrew Content – Update 5Download

FALLOUT: ASIA

You can catch us Weekly for Fallout Fridays on https://www.twitch.tv/cybernationuncensored
USA: Friday, PDT 4p-7p / EDT 7p-10p
Europe & Asia: Saturday, GMT 12a-3a, CST 7a-10a / AEST 9a-12p
We will be broadcasting WEEKLY, to stream you the Grim-Dark Adventures of Fallout: Asia!

Upcoming additions will include brand new Lore for the Fallout Universe, including inventions, companies & events. Encounters with the folklore of Asia, newly translated by Sophie Yang (楊蕾) for use with this campaign. And of course, new Enemies & Monsters to lead the spooks!

Update #1: Added Equipment
Update #2: Added ARTec Robot Line
Update #3: Added Bunker Dwellers, New Equipment, and Re-Stat on Ammunitition
Update #4: New Origins & Loadouts added, new weapons & rebalanced food system!
Update #5: New Artwork, Additional Factions, New Weapons & rebalanced Rarity!

Stay Tuned Fellow Vault-Dwellers & Choombas!

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Hack this! The Revolution of Repair

Everything can be hacked. Anything electronics and a CPU is a target. This becomes easy if it has WiFi or Network access! Just look at the Tesla car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jo5ZqUz-Yg

Then there is the Hardware Hacker, breaking down the hardware to work out how it’s built and how to repair it.

Looking at websites like, ifixit, which have technical breakdowns on how to repair technology. One control the corporations can have in a dystopian future is the information on how to repair their technology. So you must go back to them to get it fixed.

IFixIt is a quiet revolution, reclaiming the Right to Repair. How this plays out in your game it up to you…

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3D Printed Weapons and other goodies

A few years back in 3d printing circles, there was talk about 3d printed guns. The kind of things that would blow up in your hands, because they were made using materials that couldn’t take the strain. Roll forward a few years, and things have changes a little with this example, a Glock 19 Clone With Clear Frame!

The clear plastic frame is not 3D printed, but created on a CNC machine. It’s a small step to use an injection mold with high density plastics. And a little further to using a robust plastic to create most of the gun shape with some specialist parts (ie barrel, spring, and firing chamber) machined out of metal.

How can you use this technology both in your game and for your tabletop?

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Fun with Hi-Tech Body Armors

Hi-tech body armor is a staple of Sci-fi & Cyberpunk. Goo-based Body Armour may seem like a great idea until the slow knife pushes through, it cops a freezing blast to become brittle, or you get blasted with some chemical that makes it flare like napalm.

So once you’ve read the sales pitch also look at the limitations of the tech to find how to break it. Most have to operate within a limited set of temperatures, but PCs also push themselves (& gear) beyond the limits. So how does it react to stuff?

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Unlocking the Backdoors

The laws Australian changed back in 2018 to allow the government to break the encryption on software (and apps) that use it. In essence, to create a backdoor. Now, Five Eyes nations plus Japan, India call for Big Tech to bake backdoors into everything.

You don’t have to go back too far in history to find the creation of a similar backdoor and the problems it creates. The TSA (aka Transportation Security Administration), according to some sources they would cut off the locks to inspect baggage and had received 3,500 complaints in 2011. So TSA had a special set of locks manufactured with a set of eight master keys that could open them.

However, due to a photo of the keys getting out, people recreated them using 3D printing. By 2016 The last TSA master key has been hacked, but the TSA Doesn’t Care That Its Luggage Locks Have Been Hacked.

This form, of security relies on people not knowing the secret. Basically, the phrase is Security through obscurity. It’s a simple trick to ass these ideas to your game.

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Jimmy responded “Oh Fuck”, as the round cracked the vials

Who needs new Bio plagues, when the old are still around. Hidden in the background of the Covid-19, pandemic, a familiar face pops up, the Bubonic plague. Following a Mongolian outbreak from earlier this year, china’s had to shut down some tourist hotspots. However, there are more waiting in the wings as the Earth heats up.

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Cyber-Avenger save the city in localized cyberwarfare

Ransomware seams to be a constant threat in the modern world, where hackers just encrypt your hard-drive and demand bitcoin or other digital currency for the key to decipher it. For most people unable to pay they lose data on the drive and have to start again. However, for mission critical business operations, like Hospitals.

It has been estimated to have costed the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), £92 million, in restoring data and systems. In the age of cyberpunk, it may well be cheaper to pay the ransom to recover the critical data. Which ever way the chips fall, it seems likely that various parts of the city may fail from data-corrupted infrastructure.

For the locals on the street is can be a mixed bag. On the one side, an attack on the Metro’s ticketing system causes a charge of $0. Although people will have to wait for the trains to come back online. However, having a power surge wipe out 5 city blocks in the height of summer is going to cost lives. As people slowly cook while trapped inside during the heatwave.

It’s in this environment that something like this might happen, The Cyber-Avengers Protecting Hospitals From Ransomware. A new form of vigilante group that helps protect the city. Facing off against cyber-criminals or the fallout from the latest covert corporate exchange.