Has anyone had the idea to create a character that is not chromed? I have been considering the creation of a character archetype that has no cyberwear and have wondered if anyone else has come up with any such thoughts. Perhaps substituting the cyberwear element of one or more of the playbooks with equipment or additional skill(s)/abilities?
Yes, I know that might seem peculiar for a cyberpunk type game, but, I have a character in one of my games we are considering porting over to The Sprawl and that character has no cyberwear for reasons of their own.
Thoughts?
We discussed something like this a while back, and I think consensus was that it should be fine, as long as you insist that the character is owned or hunted for some other reason.
Because that’s half the point of cyberware in the game – not just to give the character some advantage, but to give the GM some hooks to entangle the character in the story.
I like the idea a lot. I always like creating campaigns that serve as the players being almost forced into getting cyberware. It’s a lot easier with The Sprawl and PBTA games because it’s about the fiction more than anything else.
Well as with any PBtA game the players should be making the fiction right, so if they want to be fresh and new and unchromed. Maybe the interesting thing about them is that they’re apart from the system and at odds with it. I wouldn’t force them to take on some negative tags – I’d just incorporate that into the story when they’re interacting with everybody. They want to be different so treat them as such. Things like “forcing”, I find, don’t work well with the fiction.
Should be as interesting as having negative that brings fiction into the game at the onset of each 1st session.
That’s just my thoughts, though.
I think I have figured out some ways to try and compensate for the lack of chrome. The game I had in mind to port over is/was a mashup between cyberpunk and World of Darkness. However, based upon some postings here, there is something called Necropolis in the works, and that may be exactly what I am looking for. So, I am waiting to see or hear more about that particular setting before I reinvent the wheel on my own.