BLACK STAG PUBLISHING

System Crash
Inter-Solar Adventure and Intrigue powered by Savage
Worlds
By Mario Cordova
6/6/2011

Welcome to the Year 2178.

It is an age of Technology and Innovation.
An age of Danger and Intrigue.
An age of Opportunity.
The Future is the Here, can you survive it.
Introduction
System Crash is a gritty inter-solar
shirowpunk setting, filled with danger and
intrigue. You are deniable assets, throw-
away agents of mega corporations,
national governments, and private parties;
pitted against their foes and other deniable
assets like yourself on far-flung off-world
colonies. Welcome to the future
. role-playing. Contacts can be called
Shirowpunk
Shirowpunk is a term used to
describe a limited sub-genre of the
cyberpunk genre. It is based on the works
of MASAMUNE SHIROW, a comic book
writer and artist commonly known for his
works Appleseed and Ghost in The Shell.
The Shirowpunk genre is characterized by
its high-octane action and their over the
top gunplay mixed with complex
relationships, and social/political intrigue
with a mixture of post-apocalyptic &
cyberpunk aesthetics as a common
backdrop.
Genre Setting Qualities
 Hardcore: WCs are a step above
the rest of the masses, facing
things that others would normally
run from. WC gain a +1 bonus to
recover from being shaken.
 Social Networking: Another aspect
of Shirowpunk games is the
complex social and political
relationships going on in characters
life. Players are encouraged to give
their characters romantic
relationships it is also encouraged
to have interesting relationships
between players weather romantic
or not.
 Political Machinations: WC tend to
know people who might be able to
help them. Players begin play with 3
contacts and gain new ones thru
on once per game month. Talk with
the GM to help flesh out your
contacts; it is up to the gm what
they can provide at the time
The Basics
Players follow the standard
character generation rules as stated in the
SW: EX with the following exceptions.
New Derived Statistics
Drain: Augmentations take a huge toll on
the human body. This is represented by
Drain; each Nano-Tech implant has a drain
value. Drain is the body’s natural ability to
handle augmentation. A person’s drain is
equal to ½ vigor +1/2 spirit. Drain can be
modified via edges and hindrances.
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Reputation: Reputation affects how NPC’s
react to a character. It starts at a value of
zero and can be modified via edges.

Races
In Shirowpunk games humans tend
to be the top of the evolutionary ladder,
though there may be other humanoid
offshoots such as clones, androids and the
like. Appleseed is a good example of this,
with the created race of clones called
bioroids. System crash uses the term
Bioroid to describe their Bio-Synthetic
Androids.

Humans
As per the SW:EX

Bioroid
A bioroid is a synthetic human, basically, a
highly advanced clone that is engineered
for particular roles, typically designed for
administrative and labor purposes, combat
capable Bioroids have recently been
introduced to the market.

- Engineered for Success: Bioroids

are genetically engineered to be
adept at a certain roles. Select one
attribute they start at a d6 instead
of a d4

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Backgrounds
A Background is what your character did
before they started a life of adventuring,
representing a particular field that they worked
or continue to work in. Backgrounds
determine your starting funds and you may
select 2 associated skills these skills begin at a
d6.
Academic
You have dedicated your life to study or
teaching. You mold minds to absorb the
knowledge you possess. You use your
verbal judo to diffuse situations and to get
people to see your side of things.
Starting Funds: 4000
Skill Bonus choose 2: persuasion,
intimidation, knowledge any, taunt
Acolyte
You are member of one of the many
religious and belief systems of the sol
system. You conduct services in the name
of your beliefs and for other followers here
on the mortal plain. Though your vows
might sometimes feel like a burden you will
give your life to protect the beliefs and your
friends.
Starting Funds: 1000
Skill bonus choose 2: Kn; Religion or
Psychology, healing, persuasion, intimidate,
Notice
Administrative
You work behind the scenes, making sure
everything runs smoothly for everybody
else. But working behind the scenes can be
a cut throat industry whether you work for
the city, a politician, or someone else
entirely you make sure the gears and the
right palms are greased, all the while trying
not to get killed by the wrong people.
Starting Funds: 4000 credits
Skill Bonus choose 2 Investigate, Kn: City
Works, streetwise, persuasion, notice
Agent
You work for either the government or one
of the major corporations. You take on the
problems no one else can and you do it
with style and a gun.
Starting Funds: 5000
Skill Bonus choose 2: Lockpicking. Fighting,
Shooting, Notice, Persuasion, intimidate,
investigate, streetwise
Bounty Hunter
You live for the hunt the rush of stalking
your prey across the urban wilderness and
in the wilds of the wastelands. Whether you
take them in dead or alive it’s up to them.
Starting Funds: 3000
Skills Bonus choose 2: Fighting, shooting,
streetwise, tracking, survival
Blue Collar
You do the jobs that no one else wants and
you do it with pride. You are a cog in the
Arcology machine making sure the city
keeps standing.
Starting Funds: 2000
Skill bonus choose 2: Driving, knowledge:
Trade, piloting, notice,
Box Runner
You are the unsung hero of the city, you
brave the urban wastes to deliver those
precious shaped synthetic protein
constructs to our greasy hungry little
hands. You have shed blood, sweat and
tears on the sky-ways and land routes of
the city, all the while avoiding or fighting off
rival Box Runners or Sprawlers trying to
take your package, your life or both.
Starting Funds: 500
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Skill Bonus choose 2: Driving, Fighting,
Shooting, streetwise, survival, taunt
Colonist
You hail from one of the off-world colonies,
or space stations. Life in the black is hard
but luck and determination make up for a
lot.
Starting Funds: 1000
Skill Bonus choose 2: driving, piloting, kn:
select either a science or trade, guts,
notice,
Criminal
You are bad person, a thug but you know
you’re going to be great. Whether it is on
mean streets or in a board room you carve
out an existence for you and what’s yours,
sometimes violently.
Starting Funds: 500
Skills bonus choose 2: Shooting,
persuasion, intimidation, streetwise, taunt,
notice, stealth
Engineer
Your talents are in high demand,
augments, mechtronics, computers, either
one you can fix it right up or make it if you
got the goods.
Starting Funds: 3000
Skill Bonus choose 2: Knowledge any
technical, repair, notice, investigate.
Fixer
You are the one to make things happen,
you set the deals and get the goods and
get paid well to do it. But just because you
set up the details doesn’t mean you won’t
get your hands dirty though.
Starting Funds: 4000
Skills bonus choose 2: Shooting,
persuasion, intimidation, streetwise, taunt,
investigate, notice.
Hacker
You are a digital cowboy, a cortex ranger.
You ply the cortex and work your kung fu
against the government and the
corporations or you work with them
countering attempts to hack their
networks. The Cortex encompasses the
world, thus so do you. But sometimes real
life has a way of getting in the way
Starting Funds: 1000
Skill Bonus: Knowledge: mechtronics, or
Cortex, lockpicking, decryption, shooting.
Investigate, notice
Health Care
You keep people alive in some shape or
form. Whether you are a corporate
medical affiliate or a down on his luck
street doc you have taken a vow to help the
sick and dying who ever that may be.
Starting Funds: 2000
Skill Bonus choose 2: Healing, notice,
Knowledge any medical science,
Icon
You are a darling of the media, You are
surrounded by adoring fans and get
anything you want but life sometimes feels
a little hollow, so you slum it every once in a
while going down on the mean streets to
get away from the prying eyes of the media
finding what adventure awaits
Starting Funds: 20000
Skill Bonus choose 2: Kn: Stage Craft, Kn:
Perform, notice, Kn: Pop Culture,
Persuasion, Intimidate
Jock
You are a sports phenom, a modern
gladiator, you live for the roar of the crowd.
Whether are a legitimate sports icon or on
one of the many underground gaming
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circuits you get paid well for putting on a
spectacle for the crowd.
Starting Funds: 8000
Skill Bonus choose 2: Boating, Fighting,
driving, climbing, throwing, piloting
Janitor
You work for whoever is paying the most at
the time, the government, the mob it’s
doesn’t matter as long as the credits are
good. You clean up the messes that no
needs to know about and your work can be
very messy.
Starting Funds: 10000
Skill Bonus choose 2: Shooting,Fighting,
Initimidate, Stealth, persuasion, notice
Law Enforcement
You are the law, the thin blue line keeping
chaos at bay. You are both feared, hated,
and respected just depends on who you
are talking to. Whether you are a straight
arrow or just a tad shady it doesn’t matter
as long as the law of the land is kept.
Starting Funds: 2500
Skill Bonus choose 2: Shooting, fighting,
notice, persuasion, intimidation, taunt,
investigation, Driving, piloting
Mechanic
Machines talk to you, always have. They tell
you what ails them and you heal their hurts.
Everyone comes to your shop when their
ride stops working.
Starting Funds: 1000
Skill Bonus choose 2: Knowledge:
Mechtronics, notice, driving, piloting,
Military
You serve on the cities militia or as a merc.
You are an army of one, Or at least that is
what the recruiter kept saying. Military life
has taught you several things when to
shoot and when to keep your head down.
While your buddies died in ops outside the
city you survived by wits and luck.
Starting Funds: 3000
Skill Bonus choose 2: Shooting, fighting,
healing, notice, survival, Driving, piloting
Specialist
You work for the highest bidder,
sometimes its retrieving something or
guarding someone’s body doesn’t matter
the job gets done. There are many names
for what you do, solo, ronin, street warrior,
The only one that matters is what you call
yourself.
Starting Funds: 4000
Skill Bonus choose 2: Shooting, Fighting,
Streetwise, kn: tactics or , healing, survival,
throwing
Vagrant
You fell through the cracks in the system,
whether by choice or by fate. You walk
unseen among the throngs grifting what
cash that can be had, just trying to survive.
Starting Funds: 400
Skill Bonus choose 2: Fighting, notice,
survival, persuasion, stealth, street wise,
taunt
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New Skills
Mechtronics
Understanding the mechanical and
electrical engineering principles that are
used in every day devices. Can be used in
conjunction with repair to construct new
devices or repair them. Also used to
bypass electronic security locks
Computers & A.I.
Used to perform the more advanced
functions of computers. Also used to hack
computers and A.I.s.
Nano-Tech
Used to understand and identify Nano-Tech
Augmentations. If you have this skill, repair
and a functioning Nano-Tech Lab you can
construct or repair Nano-Tech.
Removed Edges
All core Arcane Backgrounds,
champion, Holy/Unholy Warrior,
Gadgeteer, Mr Fix it (Remove weird
Science) Wizard
New Hindrances
Karmic Debt (Major)
Karmas a Bitch and you know her on a first
name basis. You begin play with one less
Benny..
Doppelganger (Minor or Major)
Someone looks a lot like you or you them.
Whenever you enter a new town there is a
10% chance if minor and a 30% chance if
major your double has been there causing
a ruckus. This can cause all sorts of trouble
for the player maybe a day in the slammer,
or it could lead to a lynching. it is up to the
GM.
Sprawl Depression Syndrome (Major)
You have had trouble adjusting to life in the
sprawl and suffer from chronic depression.
You suffer a -2 to all spirit tests.
Infamous (minor or major)
You are known for some heinous or
criminal act whether or not it is true or not.
You start with -1 reputation if minor or -2 if
major.
Decreased Tolerance (Minor/Major)
You body has trouble adapting to Nano-
Tech implants. Your total Tolerance score
is decreased by -1 if minor and -2 if major.
In addition recovery times are doubled.
Nano-Tech Burnout (Major)
You have had a bad psychological reaction
to a previous Nano-Tech implant. You may
choose one free level 1 implant from A-D
categories, but suffer a -2 to charisma due
to psychological trauma associated with he
implant.
New Edges
Arcane Background (Elemental)
Arcane Skill: Focus (Spirit)
Starting Power Points: 10
Starting Powers: 2
The Elemental can manipulate dark energy
granting them limited but powerful
telekinetic abilities. Many falsely believe that
Elementals can read minds and other such
nonsense. Elementals are required to
register by law, though some slip through
the cracks. Elementals are watched by
both law enforcement and government
agencies. As such they live under constant
scrutiny though those that serve in either a
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military or law enforcement tend to have
more freedoms.
Feedback
If you roll a natural one regardless of the
wild die, you suffer 2d6 damage, this
bypasses armor. If you roll a snake eyes
you suffer a -2 to the vigor roll to soak the
damage.
Power List: Armor, Barrier, Blast, Bolt,
Boost/Lower Trait, Burst, Deflect,
Detect/Conceal Arcana, Dispel, Drain,
Entangle, Fly, Heal (self only), Smite, Speed,
Stun, Telekinesis, Teleport,
Power Focus
Requirements: Seasoned, Elemental, Focus
d8
You have trained to manifest your powers
more easily. Select a power when
manifesting this talent you gain a +1 bonus
to your roll. You may take this edge multiple
times each time applies to a new power
Improved Power Focus
Requirements: Heroic, Power Focus, Focus
d12
As with Power focus, but the bonus is now
+2.
Increased Range
Requirements: Seasoned, power focus,
Focus d8
You have learned to enhance your powers
to affect a greater range. Choose a power,
when using that power the range doubles,
if that power has a range of self the range
is equal to your spirit. This edge can be
taken multiple times each additional time
you must select a new power.
Hard Hitting
Requirements: Veteran, Elemental, Focus
d10
You have learned to focus your abilities to
hit with more force. Select an offensive
power; you gain a +2 Ap with that power.
Improved Hard Hitting
Requirements: Heroic, Elemental, Focus
D12
Your powers gain even more penetrating
power. As with Hard Hitting, but the bonus
is now +4 AP.
Armorer (professional)
Requirements: novice, repair d8. Shooting
D6, Fighting d6,
You know the ins and outs of building and
repairing
Armor and Weapons. You gain +2 to
repair and salvage weapons and armor.
Fortunate One (weird)
Requirements: Novice, luck, great luck,
Wild Card
Karma Smiles upon you. You start play with
an additional Benny.
Famous
Requirements: Novice, WC
You are famous for some act weather you
did it or not. You start with a +2 to your
reputation.
Black Widow/ Lady Killer
Requirements: Attractive
You’re bringing Sexy Back. Your
attractiveness is very disarming to the
opposite sex. You gain a +2 to charisma
and +1 to damage vs. the opposite sex.
You can’t have the ugly hindrance.
Child at Heart
Requirements: Novice Spirit d6 Persuasion
d6
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You receive a +2 to social tests dealing
with children
Comprehension
Requirements: Novice, Smarts d8
You deductive reasoning is superb. You
gain a +1 to all common Knowledge rolls
Swift Learner
Requirements: Novice Smarts d8 Spirit D8
Your insight and intelligence grants you
unique
advantages. You may convert two raises
from a
trait test into a Benny. You may not go over
your total Benny count.
Martial Arts
Requirements: Novice, Fighting d6
Your kung fu is strong. You are considered
armed when fighting unarmed.
Iron Fist
Requirements: Seasoned Fighting d8
Martial Arts
Your skills at fighting unarmed formidable.
Your unarmed damage is increased to
strength + d6
Scoundrel
Requirements: Seasoned Spirit d8
Persuasion d10
Your wit is like a well honed blade. When
trying to
increase an npc's attitude towards you
receive a +2 bonus.
Demolition Expert (Professional)
Requirements: Seasoned Knowledge
(explosives) D8 Smarts d8
Your skill with explosives and things that go
boom is the envy of the sprawl. You receive
a +2 to setting explosives and explosive
damage
Gunner (Professional)
Requirements: Seasoned Quick draw
Shooting D10
When using any pistol weapons you receive
a +1 to called shots
Toughness
Requirements: Veteran Vigor d10
You are one tough son of a bitch; you gain a
+2 to soak rolls.
Commando
Requirements: Seasoned Shooting d10
When using a rifle of some kind you gain a
+1 to called shots
Size Matters
Requirements: seasoned, Brawny Shooting
d10, strength d8
You aptitude for the big guns is downright
scary. You Gain a +1 bonus to shooting
when using any weapon classified as a
heavy weapon
Finesse
Requirements: Veteran, Agility d8, shooting
d10 or fighting d10
Your skill in combat is tough to match. If
you hit with a raise you may sacrifice the
bonus damage to gain a +1 to the ap value
of the weapon.
Veteran of the Sprawl (Background)
Requirements: Novice Wild Card
You have survived the sprawl making you
more capable than the average folk. When
you take this edge you immediately start at
Seasoned gaining 5 advancements. You
can only take this at character generation.
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You must pay the xp debt before you can
advance.
Cannibal (Weird and GM's Permission)
Requirements: Veteran
They say that the eating of human flesh is
the key to immortality. You may consume
human flesh to help with your body’s
healing process. You must eat at least a
pound of flesh; you may make a natural
healing roll at the end of the deed with a +2
bonus. This action takes 10 min. Any npc's
who sees this behavior will attack, player
characters who see this behavior must
make a guts check failure means that they
are shaken, on a snake
eyes they must make a spirit test or attack.
*Addiction:
After finishing the deed make a spirit check
with a -4 penalty, if you fail you have
become addicted. You gain the major habit
as a hindrance. In addition you lose
reputation every time you use the cannibal
ability.
Robotics Expert
Requirements: Veteran, Smarts d8+,
Mechtronics D10, Nano-Tech d10
Danger Will Robinson! You gain a +2 to
damage VS robots and cyborgs
Silent Running
Requirements: veteran, agility d8+, Stealth
d10
You may move your full speed when trying
to be stealthy.
Chemist
Requirements: Veteran, Vigor d8+,
Knowledge
(Chemistry) d10
Your use and knowledge of drugs has
allowed you to double the time duration of
ingested or injected drugs.
Light Step
Requirements: Veteran, Smarts d8, Notice
d10, Repair d8, lockpick d8
Tired of setting off enemy traps? You gain
a +2 to notice and disarm traps and +2 to
agility tests to avoid the consequences.
Master Trader (professional)
Requirements: Veteran, Smarts d8,
Persuasion d10 or Intimidate D10
During price negotiations you gain a +2
bonus to social tests. Must maintain a
neutral reputation score.
Better Criticals
Requirements: Heroic, Agility d10, Shooting
d10, fighting d10
When you critical you just hit harder. When
you get a raise on the fighting or shooting
die you roll a d8 instead of a d6 for bonus
damage
Chem Resistance
Requirements: Heroic, Vigor d10,
Knowledge (Chemistry)
You casual use of drugs has made you
some what
resistant to the affects of addiction. You
gain a +2 to vigor rolls to resist addictions.
Hacker (professional)
Requirements: Veteran, Smarts d10,
Knowledge
(Computers)d10
You gain a +2 to computer & A.I.s rolls to
hack a computer in addition you may ignore
the locked out status of a computer when
hacking
Concentrated Fire
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Requirements: Heroic, Agility d10, shooting
d10
When making attacks with a ranged
weapon with a ROF higher than 1, you gain
a +1 to damage with each shot after the
first impact (More than one shot has to hit)
Infiltrator
Requirements: Heroic, Lock-Picking d10
When attempting to pick a physical non
electrical lock you gain a +2 to your roll in
addition you may ignore the -2 penalty
when forcing a lock to open.
Paralyzing Palm
Requirements: Heroic, Fighting d10,
Martial arts, Iron Fist
When fighting unarmed any time you get a
raise you may sacrifice the extra damage
To paralyze them, they must make a vigor
test or be paralyzed for 1d4 rounds
I have my Hate to keep me Warm
Requirements: Veteran, Spirit d8, WC
Must have a negative reputation score.
You are filled with so much hate and bile,
that the
elements have a hard time bothering you.
You gain a bonus equal to your negative
reputation score to resist the effects of
heat, cold, and starvation.
Pale rider
Requirements: Veteran, driving D10, WC,
(Must own your vehicle)
And low death rode upon a pale while
horse. When
seated in your vehicle you gain a +2 to
intimidate rolls.
You’re Breathing my Air boy.
Requirements: Seasoned, Intimidate d8,
WC, *Must maintain a positive or negative
Karma Score.
Weather good or bad you have an air of
menace around you. You gain a bonus to
intimidate rolls equal to your reputation
score.
Paladin, Paladin where do your roam.
Requirements: WC, Veteran, Survival d8
Streetwise d8, Positive reputation.
Your good deeds are not punished. You
gain a +2 bonus to streetwise and survival
rolls to find shelter and food
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Devil's Own
Requirements: WC, Legendary, Vigor d12
Negative reputation
The devil walks beside you in your
adventures. You may add a bonus equal to
your negative reputation score to your
Soak rolls
Iconic
Requirements: WC, Legendary, Spirit d12
Positive reputation Score
God walks beside you in your adventures.
You may add a bonus equal to your positive
reputation score your natural healing rolls
Preacher (Professional)
Requirements: Seasoned, Spirit d8,
Knowledge
(Religion) d10, A positive reputation score
You will bring the message of faith to the
sprawl. You gain a +2 to persuasion and
+2 vs. tests of wills
Increased Tolerance (Background)
R: Novice, vigor or spirit d8
You adapt well to Nano-Tech. You increase
your total tolerance score by +2.
Augmented (Background)
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R: Novice, GM’s permission
You have gone under the knife becoming a
cyborg. You gain 50000$ to spend on
Nano-Tech, your total levels of Nano-Tech
can not equal more than half your total
tolerance score, Any excess funds not
spent are lost.

Augment Freak
R: Veteran, Improved Tolerance, Spirit or
Vigor d10
You revel in your augmented body. You gain
an additional +2 to your tolerance score. In
addition recovery times are halved.

Bleeding Edge (Background)

R: N, Augmented, Connections to either a
Military or corporate/criminal
organization, GM’s Permision
Through your connections you were able to
access the latest in bleeding edge Nano-
Tech. You may purchase level 1 Omega
class Nano-Tech for the cost of a Level 2
Alpha class with the funds from the
Augmented edge. In addition when
contacting your connections you may
request new Omega Class Nano-Tech, note
this does not guarantee that you will get
the implant.

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