16 thoughts on “Are there any additional Playbooks around?”

  4. It was in this group, can’t remember the name. I suggest you simply swap a starting cyber upgrade for a basic move to play an uncybered character. I think these moves should cost +owned or +hunted just like cyberware does.

  5. You will honestly need to search through the history of the group..they are scattered about the various threads. But yeah their are probabaly 1/2 a dozen or so.

  6. I’d like to see a playbook for a corporate insider with moves they can use to use Corp resources (could be a set of new Fixer moves), a playbook for a cop with thematic Authority (like in Cyberpunk 2020) moves (or new Hunter moves that double down on that), and a playbook that comes with a neighborhood or slum like AW’s Hardholder (could be a new Fixer or Pusher or even Soldier move set).

  9. I’m looking to replace the reporter. They don’t make much sense to me as Runners. But the Gather Evidence move is the only ‘punk move on the game that lets you actually have a shot at tearing the shit down and changing the world for the better.

    I’d considered the corp insider, but not the cop! It’s a good call. I’ll give it a crack myself I guess.

  10. Reporters make perfect sense as runners.

    First of all, the only enemy that can topple a megacorp is not the press.

    It’s another megacorp. Reporters know that (they know that even now, in 2018). They need to be on the inside, and running for Johnsons gets you on the inside.

    Second, the reporter is a noir archetype. But the reporter in The Sprawl is too goody two shoes for me. Their moves are all about uncovering truth or making people tell you the truth. That’s not very true to noir, if you ask me, and especially not dystopian tech noir. Gather Evidence can be used as disinformation as well as a true story, too. I think page 104-105 should be clearer about that. It should be rephrased, “When you gather ‘evidence’ that can plausibly support the narrative you want to promote, roll Mind.”

    Alternately, keep Gather Evidence as is for uncovering the truth, but create a Disinformation move that’s much easier, and force the Reporter to choose between them. Maybe Disinformation always starts at 2100, because lies are easier than truth.

    Reporters are deniable disinformation. Omni would hire a team with a Reporter to go expose NeoTek’s black site where they’re using orphan children to test new neural interface cyberware.

    Information warfare is literally happening right now. Google “Cozy Bear” if you aren’t paying attention to current events.

    The most fun way to make your party’s Reporter pull out their hair is to have Johnsons send them on missions that give them the false impression that their target is up to naughty things, when in fact their target is actually trying to do something useful for society. Only after the story breaks do they realize…

  11. Jon Lemich It never occurred to me that the reporter might be a lying SOB. I couldn’t understand why a reporter wanting to expose the truth would work for the corps or why they would hire him.

    Now it makes sense. I think of it had a different name it would help, like culture-jammers or hacks or something.

    You have just saved me a job!

  12. Jon Lemich re taking down a corp. My plan was to emphasise that the Story the reporter gathers isn’t something to publicly expose a corp, it’s something another corp can use against them. A chink in their armour that can be given to the rival corp to disrupt them.

    I still want another way, open to all PCs, for them to get a shot at making a difference. A long shot but a shot none the less. Otherwise there isn’t enough ‘punk, it’s too bleak

  13. Even if they’re a justice-minded crusader, they still want to work for corporations, to get on the inside. If they can throw fuel on the fire of a corporate war that brings down their target, or help one corporation expose another corporation’s illegal or unethical practices, they’re doing good.

    I have a player who submitted an anti-corporate revolutionary PC, and I assume he’s going to keep his activism secret when he goes to work for the enemy, then use that access to learn their weaknesses and pit them against each other.

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