Augmentations

Augmentations are technological enhancements that grant a character superior abilities beyond their natural limits.

During Session Zero, groups are encouraged to discuss the choice of story and setting to determine if and which types of augmentations are appropriate before proceeding with character creation.

Augmentation Types

The following is a list of common types of augmentations.

NEURAL ENHANCERS: These augmentations improve a character's mental capacity, reaction speed, or cognitive abilities. They may allow for faster learning, improved memory, or enhanced perception of their surroundings.

CYBERNETIC LIMBS: Mechanical arms or legs that grant increased strength, agility, or endurance. These augmentations may also contain built-in tools, weapons, or special features, like the ability to climb walls or withstand extreme conditions.

SENSORY IMPLANTS: Augmentations that enhance or extend the character’s natural senses, such as improved vision (night vision, thermal imaging), hearing, or even granting new senses like echolocation or radar-like awareness.

EXOSKELETONS: Powered frames or internal augmentations that amplify physical abilities, allowing characters to carry more weight, run faster, or endure heavy impacts.

BIO-ENGINEERING: Genetically engineered augmentations that enhance a character's natural biology, such as improved regeneration, heightened immune response, or enhanced reflexes.

COMBAT ENHANCEMENTS: These are specialized augmentations designed for battle, such as built-in weaponry (blades, energy weapons), armor plating, or combat reflex enhancers that make a character faster and more effective in combat situations.

INTERFACE MODULES: Augmentations that allow direct control or communication with technology, such as connecting to vehicles, drones, or computer systems via neural interfaces or data jacks.

Defining Augmentations

A character's augmentations are expressed through assets and features.

ASSETS: Use assets to add an augmentation if the augmentation can be directly leveraged to increase the chance of success when performing specific actions. For example, using a cybernetic arm for lifting or pushing a heavy item, or attacking someone benefits from the augmentation.

FEATURES: Use features to define augmentations that boost a character's abilities. Features can be used to impose specific conditions, provide passive abilities, or break the rules for a standard turn. A sensory implant that provides night vision or thermal imaging is a good candidate for a passive ability provided by a feature.

The following are some examples of augmentations that could be added as assets. Use tags to identify the kinds of conditions the asset can be used for.

Cybernetic Arm (#lifting #pushing #punching #crushing)

Computer Systems Interface (*net, *wireless, *satlink, *encryption)

Echo Location (*perception)

The following are examples of augmentations that could be expressed as features.

BRUTAL FORCE - Your cybernetic limb really packs a wallop. When you make an unarmed strike with a cybernetic limb you can a) knockback the opponent 10 feet, or b) knock the opponent prone.

VISUAL ENHANCEMENT - You have a sensory implant that provides visual enhancements. When in dim light or darkness you can enable up to 3 special vision modes: a) night vision, b) thermal imaging, c) ultraviolet vision. You can also enhance your vision by changing the zoom level by up to two range rings (far objects appear medium, medium objects appear near, etc.).

HEAVY LIFTER - You have a reinforced exoskeleton that give you increased durability, strength and carry capacity. You can lift and carry twice the normal weight of a normal character. By adding a point of fatigue to your performance conditions, you can push yourself to lift or move up to 3 times the normal weight.