CHROMATIC SHADOWS COMPANION
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Welcome back to the weird haunted Sprawl operator! Prepare to take your occult cyberpunk campaign to the next level! CHROMATIC SHADOWS COMPANION expands upon the original, near-future RPG where classic cyberpunk play meets eldritch horror and high strangeness!
CHROMATIC SHADOWS COMPANION is the sequel volume to CHROMATIC SHADOWS BASIC RULES and an evolved vision of the game. In it you will find 113 pages of new character options, new mechanics, and a deep dive into the darkest secrets of the Occult World!
THE CHROMATIC SHADOWS COMPANION contains:
- New dice mechanics (extended test, partial successes) and variant rules (new skill specialty options, new botching rules).
- Expanded cyberpunk archetypes (Origins, Professions and a new Role: "The Generalist").
- Lifestyle "upkeep" mechanics.
- Ready to-play Neotribal options: Angels, Nils, and Proteans.
- All new "Strange Attractor" background options.
- Massive chapter of vehicle rules. Includes: pursuit, vehicle stunts, vehicle combat, and vehicle upgrades.
- All new drone rules. Customize your robot minions with a wealth of modular options.
- Powerful new weapons, explosives, boosted cyberware, and hard armor.
- Rules for playing on a “battle grid” or VTT with tokens or miniatures.
- Chapter on "Running Missions": negotiation tests, payout charts, "mission phases", heat, and blowback.
- NPC creation rules, and pages of all new, ready-to-use antagonist stat blocks.
- A full chapter of Occult Adversaries: Rampant AI, The Void Cult and Eldritch Horrors; their subtypes and occult powers.
- Deep exploration of the shadowy Factions: The Hand of Moloch, Hegemon Group, Sentinel and The Society of Kether.
- Huge chapter on Occult Assets. Detailed rules for their use and how to design your own. Numerous detailed and ready-to-use Occult Asset examples ready to drop straight into a campaign.
- Much much more!
- Requires CHROMATIC SHADOWS BASIC RULES to use.
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I picked this up over on DriveThruRPG; I note in the description for the vehicle chapter that there are "full vehicle upgrades." However, other than the rules to turn a vehicle into a drone, I couldn't find rules for vehicle upgrades.
Hi Malckuss. I answered this over at DriveThru but I'll follow up here. Vehicle upgrades refer to vehicle armor and handling increase found on page 50. And as you also mentioned, vehicles can be fitted as a drone with a control brick (pg 33) and can likewise take intelligence upgrade. It's not explicitly stated in the rules yet, but a vehicle could easily have hard points appropriate for its size and be outfitted with drone mods like weapons and sensors.
I think that last bit was what I was expecting. It would be nice to trick vehicles out with guns and such. I assume, like drones, hardpoints would be based on the size of the vehicle?
Yes exactly. I'd suggest 4 hard points for motorcycles (medium), 5 hard points for sedans (large), and 6 hard points for SUVs and small trucks (extra large?). That tracks with the existing capacity in place for drones based on size (pg 33). Also, there could be some expense for "installing" custom hard points on a vehicle...I think 500 c. per point is reasonable.
Oh, wow. That's quite comprehensive; thank you! Makes me want to mount a turret and oil drum bombs on a semi-truck.
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