I was irritated that I had to wait a week to get paid to buy The Sprawl, and then became delighted like a little…
I was irritated that I had to wait a week to get paid to buy The Sprawl, and then became delighted like a little school boy when I went to buy it and found that I already had. Doh!
I have very little experience with Apocalypse, but am looking forward to the read.
Is there anything I should know before diving in to better help me?
Here some custom sheets we did for our cyber squad.
Here some custom sheets we did for our cyber squad.
Respectively:
Jaguar – Driver
Il Danese (the Dane) – Fixer
Three of Spades – Soldier
We are playing around 2080, in Nueva El Dorado,
in Argentina.
Our corporations are:
Wakanda: producer of Blue Stream , a synth fuel made out of fungi and molds which are covering the plains of Africa, and from plancton/algae harvested in the Atlantic. Both Jaguar and Three of Spades are ex wakanda corporatives, hunted down by them.
Verve : represents cybernetics excellence, research early nanotechnologies, and has developed a mind backup prototype, availabe just for the ultrarich.
Eagles Security: heavily armored privatized police that enforces order around the world biggest cities. Only people covered by their insurance policies benefit from their protection, leaving crime to thrive on the poor.
Buena Vista: one of the information megacorps, direct evolution from Disney acquiring major tv broadcasts around the globe.
An underground movement, called Humanos Ante Todo (HAT) [humans before everything] , organizes public, and sometime illegal, protests against corps, defending the purity of flesh untainted by cyberwear.
More about the protagonists:
Jaguar is a cyber pilot, with neural link to its two drones, a recon light one and a medium armed one, and owner of a VTOL stolen from Wakanda Corp. Has sworn vengeance toward Wakanda and he’s on the hide, while trying to do the most damage(and earnings) as possible.
The Dane is a fixer, trying to bring the best and brightest future to his little niece, trying to keep her out of the harshness of the sprawl. He owns a small activity in the slums, with prostitutes and a little gang for debt reclaiming. He is driven by monetary gains just to protect his little niece.
Three of Spades is an ex Syndicate of Wakanda Corp. Her ex whole syndicate squad, with code names tied to the number of Spades cards, was betrayed by Wakanda and left to die during an operation. Jack of Spades, the captain of the squad, amazingly drove the squad to safety while bringing retaliation to a Wakanda facility. She’s gone underground, mantaining contacts with her ex squad while working now as an independent merc.
One consistent piece of feedback from my players from 2 sessions is that Hacking takes too long.
One consistent piece of feedback from my players from 2 sessions is that Hacking takes too long. I tend to agree with this, especially when the hacking is done during the legwork phase. How do handle situations where the Hacker wants to break into a corporate system to retrieve confidential information? It’s not Research, since there is clear opposition and the information is not readily available. (Or is it?)
I’ve been running the full “MCing the Matrix” experience for each mini-run, and it takes no more than 10 to 15 minutes each. But yet, because it only involves the Hacker, it feels it takes up a large portion of the table time. Moreover, there are a lot of rolls and holds from this once ICE gets involved. I think in our last session, around half the rolls were our Hacker doing Matrix stuff during Legwork.
Is this how it usually goes at other tables? This is my first time running the Hacker and Matrix “as written”. Are there suggestions for simplifying the “legwork runs” that don’t reduce the impact of Hacker moves?
Advancement question: When you add a move from another playbook, can you select a playbooks “base” moves?
Advancement question: When you add a move from another playbook, can you select a playbooks “base” moves? Like picking up Hustling as a non-Fixer, for example. Or for that matter, can you pick base options that you did not select? For example, can an Infiltrator (or a non-Infiltrator) end up with both Cat Burglar and Face?
Just started MCing a new game for some friends… Decided to make some basic corp logos using L33T paint skillz. Just wanted to share. Thanks and this game is awesome =D
One of my players brought up something strange after the game last night.
One of my players brought up something strange after the game last night. Is there a reason why there is no way to purchase Intel and Gear directly with Cred (without “fishing” for an appropriate 10+ roll)?
I’ve been hacking the playbooks a bit to customize them for my Living Sprawl game.
I’ve been hacking the playbooks a bit to customize them for my Living Sprawl game. I decided to replace the playbook pictures with corporate logos set against an appropriate part of the city we’ll be playing in. I thought these were amusing enough to share.