Odd request

[retrosailor]

Alright some background first, I'm active duty navy and deployed..luckly enough to have internet access due to sat/comms yayness...been playing around with my own setting using largely traveller rules..very in depth. Basically modern day but mix in space opera and ghost in the shell cyborgs and shitz..My issue is that I need actual rules for cyborgs because my house rules are getting flakey..I know of a site that has em' serena dawn but I can't access the friggin site because of navy restrictions..I know they have a pdf of the rules if somebody can grab em' and email them to harperwc@ddg102.navy.mil I'd much appreciate it and as a bonus/bribe if you want I can email ya pictures/video of some of the ship if your interested or just a first edition of my house rules/background/story of my game..I'm pretty desperate here, hell I'v been 40 some days without seeing land and the last port was jebal ali in the middle east..and its going to be the next and last port till after christmas..so heh, if you can help please do, and on a side note if anybody has some cool house rules for cyborgs send em my way or again and now I'm just rambling if anybody has a intrest in working on a system let me know!

 

[Kyron]

sorry, i couldn't find any Cyborg Rules there

 

[CosmicGamer]

Ghost in the Shell-D20.zip? Sent.

Hope you are enjoying your leisure cruise.
I did 108 days out there without hitting port.

 

[Andrew Boulton]

FF&S1 has decent cyberware rules.

 

[fiat_knox]

Mongoose Traveller has rules for augments, but it kind of handwaves the processes of implantation, repair, upgrades, replacement or removal.

As far as Mongoose Traveller is concerned, augments could be electromechanical bionics, cultured bioware replacement organs, genetic modifications and/or nanotechnological miracles. The mechanism is basically the same - you find a shop of the right TL, give the buy your Credits and bingo - you're a borg.

There's no "Humanity Cost" as in the old Cyberpunk rules, nor will you find anything like an Essence cost a la Shadowrun. The only limit, it would seem, is the credits in your character's pocket - and the willingness to put up with cumulative negative DMs to Medic checks as the various implants and augments increasingly screw up the medics' diagnostic tools.

 

[Commander Truestar]

There's no "Humanity Cost" as in the old Cyberpunk rules, nor will you find anything like an Essence cost a la Shadowrun. The only limit, it would seem, is the credits in your character's pocket - and the willingness to put up with cumulative negative DMs to Medic checks as the various implants and augments increasingly screw up the medics' diagnostic tools.

as a GM, I'd add negative DM's for reaction rolls and a possible health degradation due to isolation on an annual(or maybe four year) basis...

It is not just about ability, it is also about quality of life. People who ignore the real effects of stockpiling on augmentations forget that the increasing cyborg is building their augments at the cost of interaction on a social basis.

While it was one of my least fav episodes, a modern Dr. Who episode fixated on a space cruise line owner who was willing to commit muder and devistation on a massive scale to get the money to live out his life where he would not have to hide a cyber-enhanced form that was little more than a human head on a stack of machines on wheels...

Players may only see the benefits until the GM sets enough of a tone to showcase the negatives...


"we don't serve your kind here" is not just fro andriods...

Marc

 

[Magnus von Thornwood]

Maintenance Costs.

Maintenance costs are the cast iron bitch of Cyborgs everywhere, trust me.

As a 21^st Century cyborg, I have found that malfunctions and maintenance costs are the big issues that need to be addressed. And that, weird not quite natural human feel is real. But then I don't have any of those supercool cyborg bits, like enhanced stats and stuff.

 

[BlackBat242]

Welcome, retrosailor... DDG-102, eh? Burke fl IIA. USS Sampson, 4th of the name.

I'm ex-airwing USMC 1981-89... my squadron got attached to CV-61 Ranger 1986-87.

 

[retrosailor]

The ranger?..jebus..Heh, as for the ship its only 2 years old, were doing carrier ops (aka follow and protect the carrier), I'm a spy tech so I deal with the spy-1 D(v) phased array radar..pretty much the most powerful fire control radar in current existance..cool shitz..had fun stating myself out in T20's traveller rules..