cherry flavoured atrocities
Taser sind old-news in Cyberpunk 2020. Aber jetzt erreichen sie den Massenmarkt. US-Polizisten sind bereits damit ausgerüstet.
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This entry shows a tough army soldier being tasered. He describes the experience at 3:40 of the video:
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Going to a (even legit) demonstration will become a lot of fun as soon as riot police is equipped with tasers…
Author: Hound, taken with permission from: The BlackHammer CyberPunk Project
When a specific electrical current is flowing it, this Combat Suit looks like a flight suit due to it’s composition of a memory ceramic/plastic polymer held together by cotton and kevlar-elastic. (SP 5 EV 0) When the power (supplied through several strip batteries in the lower back region) is turned off, the polymer reverts to its natural solid state (SP 27 EV 1). When the suit is first purchased it has to be “trained” or fitted by wearing the suit and putting your body though any possible movement you can think of. The suit learns your movements and shape and keeps the EV down. This means that if you try an unfitted suit or someone else’s suit you suffer an EV +3 and lose one off your MA. Continue reading “Clothing, Armor and Style for Cyberpunk 2020”
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Author: Andrew James
Use this rule if you want to determine if somebody can smuggle a weapon past a guard. Continue reading “Searching People and Spotting Hidden Weapons”
The german news magazine Der Spiegel reports that the combat robots used by the US Forces in Iraq are also being sold to US Police. The have been aquired by the Massachusetts State Police as well as by forces from Houston, San Francisco and Texas. The bots are not yet armed with machine guns, but with Tasers… outfitted with laser targeting ! They might also be used to communicate with kidnappers. Even if you can’t read german, the post offers some good pics of the bots.
Author: Hound. Used with kind permission.
Krav MagÃ?¡ is not a martial art. Krav MagÃ?¡ is the only style world-wide known as an art of self-defense and not as a Martial art. There’s no tournament competitions, rules or forms (katas or katis in some martial arts).The technique of Krav MagÃ?¡ is based on mind and intellectual force, no matter what the physical strength you have, and had as a goal the transference of weight as explosive force. As physics tells us, strength is equal to mass multiplied by acceleration. The strike brings to the target the striker’s body weight. The strike’s movement works as a spring released: the speed does not have continuous acceleration; it is released at maximum speed. Its like an explosion.
All the Krav Mag�¡ moves were created based on natural body movements and are all very simple, what makes their use easier on danger and surprise situations. The moves are short, and by consequence, fast. There are no rules. The technique was created for real-life situations application. The strikes are intended to body sensible targets, what makes the Krav Maga practitioner and his adversary even, independently from their physical strength, and makes the defense more objective. In short: Krav Mag�¡ is a simple personal defense system, fast and objective, accessible to anyone.
This art is also taught in a few major cities in the United States (Denver, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, and several in the Los Angeles area) as well as Israel, Brazil, Finland, France, Norway, and Sweden. It’s taught as a means of self-defense, as well as a sport. Indeed, it’s particularly well-suited to purposes of self-defense; it’s full of counterattacks and ways to repel and subdue an attacker, including a lot of action to sensitive areas of the body such as the eyes and groin.
Among law enforcement agencies in the United States that use Krav Mag�¡ are the FBI; the US Coast Guard Tactical Unit, Park Service, and Treasury Department; the Texas Department of Public Safety; the State Police Departments of Alabama, Connecticut, Illinois, and Pennsylvania; the Beverly Hills Police Department; and many others. Thus this is a good martial art for PCs and NPCs alike who are members of those outfits.
IP Cost x3
Strike +2 (with staff, knife, and rifles used as staves)
Punch +3 (most often to vitals)
Kick +1 (a few good kicks)
Escape +4 (advanced training is mostly in getting out of trouble)
Block +3 (same)
Grapple +2 (to achieve the next maneuver)
Choke +3 (a very effective way to subdue an enemy)
Disarm +2
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Be sure to check out www.kravmaga.com for more information
Author: Hound. Used with permission.
Originally I had proposed a sweeping reform of the hand to hand combat system in Cyberpunk 2020, but with the arrival of The Pacific Rim Sourcebook, most of my demands were satisfied.
Instead, I propose several new martial arts to be added to the Martial Arts listing, as well as the removal of several others that were too generalized. I’ve also included a few martial arts that were added to the game previous to Pacific Rim but were not included in that book’s listings (mostly from Listen Up You Primitive Screwheads!).
For descriptions of the Martial Arts listed below, I recommend any good Martial Arts reference book, or the GURPS Martial Arts from Steve Jackson Games, or the Ninjas and Superspies book from Palladium.
Continue reading “New Martial Arts for Cyberpunk 2020”
Compiled and written by Deric “D-ROC” Bernier.
Ok, for all you punks who like a little variety in your ass whippin’ I have compiled the master martial arts list. Using the format in the PACIFIC RIM SOURCEBOOK , this list includes every martial art you could imagine, including some I made up just to add some spice to the mix. The hardest part was setting the difficulty modifier. Originally my system was based on how hard teh style was to learn, and how hard it was to find, but after several comments I have decided to revise this. Now the IP modifier is based strictly on how hard the art is to learn. The difficulty of finding someone to teach the character the art is something that should be roleplayed. If you don’t own a copy of PAC RIM I strongly urge you to go out and buy it right now. It specifies in detail the hand to hand and melee rules for CP 2020. Ok, got your cup in place, let’s go.
Continue reading “Master Martial Arts List for Cyberpunk 2020”
Author: sparky.
The asshole attacked me with a back hand. I swung my right arm and connected with his kidney. He promptly buckled with a scream. That was when I saw his partner with the Assault Rifle. ‘Shit. This is going to be a bad day.’ I thought. As his partner raised the muzzle of the weapon to point it at me I acted. I reached and grabbed the punk I’d just nailed by the back of the shirt and held him in front of me just as his parter opened with a three round burst. The bullets made wet smacks as they pummeled the body in front of me. After the guy fired I pulled out my AMT and blew his fool head off, and left the shield to die in a pool of blood.
Johnny Walker – Militech
Some times you are looking down a barrel with no where to go. So what do you do? You attempt to find cover. And in some close range fire fights the best cover around can be the bodies of living or dead people. I know, it harks back to memories of Arnold riding the escalator up and using a human shield against fully automatic weapons. Pretty cool, a little messy, but pretty cool.
Well, guess what. I was CC’d with a message for Rajeen Nabid and the message had a direct quote for RTG on how this would be done! So here it is a little more fleshed out and taking armor into account. (Which believe it or not, is actually easy.)
Here we go!
SP = Body Type Modifier (BTM)
SDP = 4xBody (i.e. Body of 7 = 28 (7×4=28)
These are estimates from RTG (pretty good ones too). An unarmored shield would have these types of values. And for all intents and purposes this would be treated as cover. Damage that penetrates the SP of the Shield will be passed on to the SDP of the body (4xBODY). So if the person has a high body there is a lot of damage that can be stopped. But, once the Shields SDP are reduced to zero the shield ins no longer effective and you are also wearing a large portion of the shield as there won’t be much left.
Now, “Great!” you’re saying. “Next time I get my self into a fire fight… I’ll just grab the first person I see and use them as cover!” Well, it does work that easily for dead or unconscious shields. But, it’s a different story when that shield is still conscious and alive! If the person you wish to hide behind is not incapacitated you must first make a grapple roll to grab the person. Once you have grappled the person you may hold him in front of you. You must also roll a grapple roll every turn you wish to use him/her so long as they are alive and awake.
Now What do you do if you have armor on the shield. I use the RTG armor Layering rules for the body only! The shield does not count towards armor layering because it is actually treated as cover and not armor! This is what I came up with.Now, the first step is to figure the total SP of the Human Shield. This can be done by using the rules for armor laying (Which can be found on www.cyberpunk2020.de (At least….That’s where I found them on the net)).
The way this works is first find the SP of the armor that the shield is wearing and the SP of the body (BTM). Subtract the lower of the SP from the larger and cross reference the table. Add the number of the bonus to the LARGER of the SPs. Chances are the low SP of a human body is not going to make much of a difference.
| Difference in SPs | Bonus Number |
| 0-4 | 5 |
| 5-8 | 4 |
| 9-14 | 3 |
| 15-20 | 2 |
| 21-26 | 1 |
| 27+ | 0 |
Once you have figured the SP of the Shield you are ready. Let the mayhem begin. Here’s an example to illustrate the point.
John Doe is using a human shield. The BTM of the shield is +2 so the SP of the shield is 2. The shield is wearing a Kevlar T-Shirt (SP-10). Subtract 2 from 10 to get 8. Cross referencing the table we see that he gets a bonus of +4. This number is added to the LARGER of the two SPs to give 14SP. The target must take over 14 points of damage for the SDP of the target to take any damage. Makes for a pretty good shield huh? John Doe is being shot at by Punk Boy. Punk Boy is using a heavy SMG. He fires and hits the Human shield. He rolls for his damage and gets 17 points. The armor of the Shield stops 14 of it the other three go through to the SDP of the shield. The shield has a body of 8 so the shield can take 32 points of damage before being reduced to so much chopped liver. John Doe has a good thing going. Unless Punk Boy pulls out the big guns.
So, as you can see there are a lot of good benefits to having a human shield. Thanks for the idea!
-sparky
Author: Hound
Taken with permission from: The BlackHammer CyberPunk Project
[Karsten’s Note: I used this table for a while, but now I think its not worth the extra effort. It’s slightly more realistic (and the -6 for headshots is still in use), but having to multiply by 1.5x just takes to much time to make a fight fast – and thus fun to play.]
| 3d6 | Location | Damage | To Hit |
| 3-5 | Head | 2x | -6 |
| 6 | Hand | �½x | -6 |
| 7-8 | Arm | �½x | -3 |
| 9 | Shoulder | 1x | -3 |
| 10-11 | Chest | 1x | -1 |
| 12 | Stomach | 1.5x | -3 |
| 13 | Vitals | 1.5x | -6 |
| 14 | Thigh | 1x | -3 |
| 15-16 | Leg | �½x | -4 |
| 17-18 | Foot | �½x | -5 |
These numbers vary from those given in the Fuzion books because I feel the to hit difficulties they gave were not really related to reality, but to game balance. Hands are as easy to hit as arms, even though they are smaller and move around more than the head. Although because of this movement they become easier targets on a random table, they become harder targets to hit specifically. Also the stomach is given a quite hard to-hit number, because it is weaker and easier to damage than the chest, but not because of it’s size and ease to hit. Which of course brings us to…Called Shots. .
The rules for called shots have varied over the years in the Interlock / Fuzion system.
In the hit location table above I have included our “balanced” called shot penalties tied in more with the difficulty of hitting a location than with the locations vulnerability to injury. But there is more to a called shot than just firing blindly at someone’s head. Before any called shot can be made, a COOL roll (DIF:12) must be passed. If failed the character can’t hold his cool long enough to concentrate on an aimed shot, and instead fires blindly. Called shots can be made with any weapon at the listed penalty if the firer only fires one shot in that action. If the firer wishes to utilize a semi-automatic weapon with a higher ROF, each called shot gains an additional -3 penalty. 3 round burst weapons can fire called shots as normal, but they do not receive the +3 to hit for burst fire and only the first shot hits the called location, with the second having a 50% chance of hitting the called location, and the third shot must be rolled as normal. Full autofire cannot benefit from called shots.