be A SUPPLEMENT FOR <“UAeeeoeykK”Pal Weer! Oey taiay EEN) ot te” ee ae Cea Uy Cen eon Oct) eC fetenan Neon meer a eT sy are CO a eCard MATTHEW ANACLETO, TAU Nerer Un ee Re mer Co ee CYBERPUNK® 15 R. TALSORIAN'S Ones na Cate eas TURE GAME OF THE DARK FUTURE TOTO Pcs aa eae re eae emery ENR earner a De hee at sae aU iNest na ee eran PoM reagent nate twisting frantically to avoid the searching fingors of th spotlight. Inthe African countryside an artillery barrage rumbles inthe background as groups of tanks and APCs roll across the savanna. On the armored flanks of the approaching ‘column flash not the colors of a local dictator but a familiar commercial logo... With a deafening crash, the board meeting of a minor corporation is interrupted 4s huge humanoid forms push through the rubble that was an outside wall, All sit in shocked silence as the table is shattered by the single chop of a single plastee! gauntlet. As a visored head swivels, impersonally scanning the room, a metallic voice delivers a message, “Gentlomen, these proceedings are over. Awe Pursues a lone motorcyclist through the rain dark stroets ofthe city; the This supplement is the capstone of several developmental lines in the Cyberpunk 2020 wold and system. Inside yo'l tnd anew vehicle combat and maneuver system that is a revision and an extention ofthe rginal in Solo of Fortune. Along with tis an organized vehicle creation sys tem, sothatal future vehicles willhave proportional stats. And because you cat have combat Vehicles without battlfield-size guns to putin them, we've introduced a whole new level of heavy weapons, al the way up toatilry cannon and aircraft bombs! This combination of wehi- cle and weapons rule create a power level previously untouched in a Cyberpunk game And that doesn't even touch the subject of Powered Armor. Ist the biggest personal armor possible? Or the smallest vehicle capable of carrying heavy weapons? What about the cybernetics aspects? PAs in rather unique limbo unexplored by any ther weapons sytem. You can smash through a building wall lift a ruck over your head, and outwrestl a ul borg but someone fires an ant-vehicle weapon at you, you're at risk. And if they fire an anti-tank device at you—you'e in rouble How should Powered Armar be depioyed/used? The “two-legged IFV" schoo! says right out there with the tanks, mixing it up, depending on ther size and manewvorabilty to avoid the heavy guns, while shrugging off small arms fre from “soft infantry. The “pinnacle of body armor/inear frame tech” schoo! puts them n the streets where tanks cant go; doing the strength/irepower jobs combat borgs do, but better, relying on their superior protection to handle the close-range punishment that would pulverize anyone else, No matter how you use it Powered Armor has the potential ta mess you up And not just your characters, but your game as wel. This is @ device tat is as fast and agile as ahuman, 35 times as tong, wit ple the protection I's also carrying, by isl, 2s many heavy quns as 10 “normal” people, Ths wll unbalance an unprepared campaign instantly, 0 mucho, that sometimes ts better to relegate PA to its own campaign or series of adventures ‘What it boils down tis this supplement is ike ll the other fancy software, super cybertech, mindbending drugs, and deadly weapons we've intraduced over the life ofthis game system: it's there tobe used ifyou want t. For those who complain that, "X has taken ver my Game!” can only say, "Youhave contol Dont moan tous; you didi to yourselves Now you know. aad el feria Derek Quintanar