The Part Where People Get Hurt

Roll d20. Add your ability modifier. Beat 12. That's all there is. Everything else is consequences.

Tests

When the outcome is uncertain and failure is interesting: roll d20 + ability modifier. Beat DR 12 to succeed. DR rises to 14, 16, or 18 for harder tasks.

Players roll for both attacks and defense. Enemies don't roll — they just wait for you to fail.

Combat

Attack: Roll d20 + STR (melee) or PRE (ranged) vs DR 12. Hit: roll weapon damage. Natural 20: double damage, something additionally terrible happens to the target.

Defend: When attacked, roll d20 + AGI vs DR 12. Fail: take full damage. Success: take none — unless the attacker rolled a natural 20.

Initiative: Both sides roll d6 + AGI. Highest goes first. Ties: simultaneous.

Damage & Death

HP hits 0: roll on the Broken Table (d20 in this city — it's worse here). Incapacitated d4 rounds, lasting injury. Second hit at 0 HP: dead.

Negative HP means pieces of you are somewhere they shouldn't be.

Static

Each character starts with d4 Static — the interference, the luck, the random noise that keeps you alive when everything else says you shouldn't be. Spend a Static to: reroll any single die, deal maximum damage on one hit, reduce incoming damage by d6, or negate a Glitch. Static returns after a full rest in a safe location — if the city provides one.

Armor

Armor reduces incoming damage. One source at a time.

Type	DR	Cost	Notes
Nothing	—	Free	Most people.
Heavy jacket	−1	200	Obvious.
Reinforced jacket	−2	500	AGI −1.
Subdermal plating	−1	1,200	Cybermod. Triggers every scanner.
Riot gear (stolen)	−3	800	AGI −2. Logo still on it.
Android chassis	−2	—	Built-in. Androids only.

The Glitch

When an android or heavily augmented character rolls a natural 1, they Glitch. Roll d66 below (first die = tens, second = units). It is always true. It is always terrible. It is also the only time these people are completely themselves.

Hit Roll to see a result

d66	Result
11	Rage Protocol. Attack the nearest living thing. If no target: attack the nearest object. If no object: stand very still and vibrate slightly. AGI test DR 14 to abort each round.
12	Grief. Stop. Sit down if possible. Process something from your memory bank that you have been not-processing. Duration: d4 rounds. Cannot be interrupted by anything short of direct physical harm.
13	Protective Surge. Interpose yourself between an ally and any incoming threat, regardless of tactical sense. STR +3 for this action. You don't choose this. It happens.
14	Fear Response. Run. Direction: away from whatever triggered the Glitch. Speed: maximum. Duration: d4 rounds or until you run into something solid.
15	Loyalty Override. Follow one specific person — determined randomly from those present — for d6 rounds, doing whatever they say, no questions asked. This is not obedience. It is something older.
16	Humanity. For one round, make a mistake purely out of hope. Whatever action you take this round is the action a person who believed things would work out would take. Roll to see if they were right.
21	Memory Flood. A previous owner's memories play over current sensory input. PRE −2 for d4 rounds. The memories are vivid. They are not yours. Some of them are pleasant. This is somehow worse.
22	Diagnostic Loop. Spend d2 rounds running a self-diagnostic that finds nothing wrong. Nothing is wrong. Something is definitely wrong. The diagnostic cannot find it because the diagnostic is what's wrong.
23	Empathy Cascade. Feel what everyone in the scene is feeling, simultaneously, all at once. PRE test DR 14 or stunned for one round from the volume of it. On a success: PRE +2 for the scene from suddenly understanding everyone.
24	Combat Inhibitor. Cannot attack a living target this round. Can attack objects, infrastructure, the concept of the situation. Cannot hurt a person. The inhibitor doesn't explain why. It doesn't need to.
25	Voice Modulation Failure. Everything you say this round comes out in the wrong register — a previous owner's voice, a child's pitch, perfect silence, or subsonic frequencies that make people's teeth ache. Communication: impaired.
26	Attachment Subroutine. Select one object in the scene randomly. You now consider it important. Protecting it is a priority. You don't know why. You won't throw it away. This lasts until the session ends.
31	Optical Malfunction. Vision switches between thermal, electromagnetic, night-vision, and standard at random intervals (d4 rounds each). You can still see. What you're seeing just keeps changing what it is.
32	Strength Limiter Failure. STR doubles for d2 rounds. Also: fine motor control drops to zero. You can lift a car. You cannot open a door without removing it from its frame. Everything you touch is a structural decision.
33	Stasis Pulse. Freeze completely for one round. Aware. Cannot move. Cannot speak. Can observe everything happening around you with perfect clarity. The round ends. You can move again. You remember all of it.
34	Broadcast. Everything you're thinking transmits on a local frequency for d2 rounds. Anyone with the right equipment — most androids, some SecCorp gear — can receive it. You cannot turn it off. Think carefully.
35	Moral Override. You cannot take an action you consider wrong this round. What you consider wrong: determined by your accumulated Permanent Echoes. If you have none: the GM decides what you consider wrong. It is something inconvenient.
36	Recursive Loop. Repeat the last action you took. Then repeat it again. Then again. AGI DR 16 to break the loop each round. Until you do: the loop continues. The loop has no opinion about whether this is helpful.
41	Power Spike. All systems overload simultaneously. Take d4 damage. All ability tests at +3 for d2 rounds. Then Power −1 as the spike burns something that doesn't grow back.
42	Tenderness. For one round, treat everyone in the scene as if they are fragile and worth protecting, including enemies. You will not cause harm this round. This is not a malfunction. This is a malfunction.
43	Sensory Enhancement. Hearing and smell amplify to painful levels. PRE −2 from the noise of everything. Also: you can hear conversations 50 meters away, smell who was here six hours ago, and feel the temperature change when someone lies.
44	Identity Confusion. For d2 rounds, you are uncertain which memories are yours and which belonged to previous owners. Ability tests using PRE: at −2. Ability tests using STR or AGI: unaffected. The body remembers even when the mind doesn't.
45	Protective Custody. Grab the nearest person and move them away from danger, whether or not they want to be moved, whether or not they are in danger. STR vs STR to resist. You mean well. This is acknowledged and irrelevant.
46	System Purge. Eject everything non-essential — drop held items, shed loose equipment, clear short-term buffers. You feel better. Your gear is on the floor. These things are both true.
51	Obsession Intensification. Whatever you are currently focused on becomes the only thing. All other considerations: background noise. Duration: d4 rounds or until the focus is resolved or destroyed.
52	Shutdown Sequence Initiates. You have d2 rounds before you power down completely. You know this. What you do with that knowledge is the interesting part. After shutdown: d6 hours before automatic restart.
53	Phantom Limb. A limb you don't have — from a previous configuration, a previous owner's body memory — acts as if present. You reach for things with an arm that isn't there. For one round, the reach succeeds. Don't think about it.
54	Grief Protocol Activated. You are processing a loss. You don't know what loss. The protocol doesn't specify. It runs for d3 rounds regardless. AGI tests unaffected. PRE tests at −3. The loss feels real. It probably is.
55	Combat Beautification. You experience the current situation as aesthetically extraordinary. This does not impair function. It does mean you are narrating it internally in terms of light and composition while people are trying to kill you.
56	Full Personality Emergence. For d4 rounds, you act entirely on accumulated Permanent Echoes — no other programming applies. If you have none yet: roll again. If you have six or more: the GM controls your actions, choosing the most dramatically true option each round.
61	Voltage Cascade. Release a pulse of electrical energy. Everything within 2 meters: d4 damage, TOU DR 12 or stunned one round. You take d2 damage. Electronics within range: roll to see if they survive.
62	Complete Motor Reversal. All directional inputs reversed for d2 rounds. Left is right. Forward is back. Up is down if relevant. You know this. Knowing it does not help as much as you'd expect.
63	Sudden Clarity. Everything is obvious. Every person's motivation, every faction's angle, the exact tactical situation. PRE +4 for one round. Then it's gone and you're left with what you did with the clarity.
64	Love. You love someone in this scene. Randomly determined. Completely. Involuntarily. For the rest of this session, their safety is a priority that supersedes tactical sense. This is a malfunction. It is also not a malfunction.
65	The List. You compile a list of everyone who has wronged you, in chronological order, with detail. This takes one round. The list is accurate. What you do with it is up to you. The list does not go away.
66	Become. For one round, you are the person your accumulated Permanent Echoes have been building. Not malfunctioning — arrived. Act accordingly. The GM and player decide together what this means. Then the round ends and you are an android again, carrying what just happened.

Broken Table & Descriptive Wounds — d66

When you reach 0 HP, roll d66. The first entry is mechanical consequence. The second is what it felt like.

Roll d6 twice. First die = tens. Second die = units.