Simple Cheap Cyberware system....kinda

[Sravoff]

Ok, So I am combining some cyber punk into my next campiagn.

So I need some simple cyberware. I don't have money to get any books, so I was hoping to balance this bit out.

For 250 experience points, times your current level, plus any fees for a doctor actually surgically implanting the cyber ware, you gain cyber level.

Each cyber level can do one of the following.
-4 points, these points can be divided amoung any number of skills, or bonus to initiative
checks.Example: Ed gets a +2 to jump, and a +1 to hide, and a +1 to initiative checks.
-A feat
-A +1 to any one attribute
-+1 Natural armor
-+2 vs. a single type of save, Fire, electricity, mind affecting, fear...
-+1 DR/-

Any ideas for anything else? Or any problems with this one?

Comments greatly apreciated.
-Sravoff

 

[anton1066]

The modern srd has rules for cybernetics for free. also i would question the balance of your system. it seems that a bonus to an ability score is a little more powerful then 4 skill points.

as always everything i say is just MHO.

 

[Sravoff]

The modern srd has rules for cybernetics for free. also i would question the balance of your system. it seems that a bonus to an ability score is a little more powerful then 4 skill points.

as always everything i say is just MHO.

Thanks.
I had no idea about the srd, I'll check into it.

Yeah, that seems a bit off, per haps 6 to divide?

And how balanced is the DR and natural armor? I wasn't sure how those usually measure up to one another.

Thakns again for the feed back
-Sravoff

 

[Sravoff]

The other idea was....shoudl this result in a LA adjustment eventually? I was thinking once you got four levels of cybernetics, you would get a +1 LA....

Also, you can't gain more than two levels for any one specific piece. You can't raise an atribute more than twice, you can't gain more than 2 DR, or more than 12 skill points to a single skill, (that should prolly acp at 6) Cap initiative at +6 total.

 

[Aus_Snow]

I have a couple of (free) documents on cyberware for d20 I could pass on, if you like. I'd say "go find them!" or (more helpfully) "go find them here!", but I don't know if they're even still out there, let alone where if they are.

That being said, I quite like the treatment given in Cybernet (by Mongoose Publishing), if only because it mirrors rather closely the system used by a certain RPG that went by the same name as the genre itself. It's far from being a perfect book, but for doing cyberpunk, it makes d20 Modern and all its attachments look. . . a bit pale at best.


Anyway, my email's aus_snow at letterboxes dot org. Feel free to grab a copy of some (possibly useful) unpublished docs that way.

hth.

 

[Sravoff]

I have a couple of (free) documents on cyberware for d20 I could pass on, if you like. I'd say "go find them!" or (more helpfully) "go find them here!", but I don't know if they're even still out there, let alone where if they are.

That being said, I quite like the treatment given in Cybernet (by Mongoose Publishing), if only because it mirrors rather closely the system used by a certain RPG that went by the same name as the genre itself. It's far from being a perfect book, but for doing cyberpunk, it makes d20 Modern and all its attachments look. . . a bit pale at best.


Anyway, my email's aus_snow at letterboxes dot org. Feel free to grab a copy of some (possibly useful) unpublished docs that way.

hth.

thanks, I'll email you. I'll look into cybernet, though as I said, I have pretty limited funds.

thanks for the comments.
-Sravoff

 

[Dimrei]

Hmmmwell Its not like my input really matters but here it goes. For your level adjustment Idea four levels of cyber to 1 LA seems to Be strong as anything that puts a race in a more unbalanced in the stats usually causes a +1 LA right there (I think I read that from savage species) so maybe for every two cyber levels give 'em an adjustment (just a suggesttion) And for the +2 saves thing Its a good Idea But I don't think it would apply to Electricity or fire as both of those mess with hardware. Besides that it looks cool

 

[Sravoff]

Hmmmwell Its not like my input really matters but here it goes. For your level adjustment Idea four levels of cyber to 1 LA seems to Be strong as anything that puts a race in a more unbalanced in the stats usually causes a +1 LA right there (I think I read that from savage species) so maybe for every two cyber levels give 'em an adjustment (just a suggesttion) And for the +2 saves thing Its a good Idea But I don't think it would apply to Electricity or fire as both of those mess with hardware. Besides that it looks cool

Perhaps the LA adjustemnt is a little shallow, but the character loses a bit of xp when they gain the cyberware any ways, some where there is middle ground.

The +2 for saves I want to not have any restriction, as a flame retardent something or other could be grafted to the skin, same for electricity. Impractical I know, but it is still a fantssy game.

-Sravoff