Cyberware and bioware implants are available in five distinct grades: standard, alphaware, betaware, deltaware, and used.
The prices for cyberware and bioware presented in item descriptions are for standard ’wares. When purchasing implants of other grades, apply the Essence cost, cost, and Availability adjustments as noted on the Implant Grades table. All accessories and add-ons must be of the same grade as the implant to which they are added.
Used/omega-grade implants are not necessarily prior implanted; this grade also refers to brand new cyberware that is cheaply or shoddily manufactured. Omega grade still has the same x1.1 Essence cost, x 0.5 nuyen cost, and the –1 Availability modification as Used cyberware.
Additionally, it also imposes the Bad Luck quality (p. 75, SR6) on the user for any test that involves use of this augmentation, meaning both 1s and 2s count toward glitches on tests where the augmentation adds to a dice pool.
The long-term effects of cut-rate omega-grade bioware are said to include cell mutation and metastasizing tumors spreading through the body. Some runners, though, wonder if the ’ware will allow them to survive long enough to worry about long-term effects
Getting cyberware and bioware requires surgery and therefore damage. When you have an augmentation implanted, your Physical and Stun Condition Monitors each take a number of boxes of damage equal to the item’s Essence Cost x 3 (minimum 1 box, but never into Overflow).
Most cyberclinics and body shops offer recovery rooms for patients to rest and heal up after cybersurgery, but beware the sterility and cleanliness of the less-reputable chop shops. The price of these services is not included with the cyberware and should be added on if the runner wishes to use them.
Bioware is all organic material - it’s just better than the organic material you currently have. Its organic nature lessens the Essence cost, but the time it takes to grow increases its cost.
This enhanced gland is implanted in the lower abdomen, connected to both supradrenal glands. When dormant, the pump is merely a reservoir for adrenaline. When activated, a small muscular sac contracts, sending a surge of concentrated adrenaline into the blood stream.
Essence:
Rating x 0.75
Availability:
5 (Illegal)
Cost:
Rating x ¥55,000
Notes: You may trigger the use of your Adrenaline Pump with a Minor Action. Physical and emotional stress can force your pump to activate if you fail a Composure test.
While the pump is active, you ignore injury modifiers, don’t fall unconscious even if your Stun Condition Monitor is filled, you can’t rest, and the adrenaline pump’s rating is added to your Strength, Agility, Reaction, and Willpower attributes.
The pump works for (rating x 1D6) combat rounds, and it can’t be switched off early. When time’s up, you crash and take Stun damage equal to one half, rounded up, of the number of combat rounds the pump was active (use unaugmented Body to resist the damage).
After the effect’s end, your attribute values return to normal and you stop ignoring injury modifiers or unconsciousness from Stun damage. After use, the pump requires one hour to regenerate its supply. During that time, it cannot be activated.
A series of treatments designed to enhance the body’s resistance to a wide array of pathogens, the amplified immune system is at once both simple in what it does (battle disease) and frighteninglycomplex (the tools it uses in this battle). The sys tem includes a period of inoculation against several common diseases to ensure that the system is adapted to them, as well as a strengthening of the lymph nodes, spleen, and tonsils to produce higher-than-normal levels of T-cells and antibodies, as well as other, more esoteric, combative methods. The result is a body vastly more resistant to modern diseases.
Essence:
Rating x 0.1
Availability:
Rating x 3
Cost:
Rating x ¥4,000
Notes: An amplified immune system adds its Rating to a user’s Body when making a Disease Resistance test.
This bioware is incompatible with other augmentations, drugs, or qualities that improve or suppress the immune system.
The process provides enhancements to various internal organs that regulate an individual’s balance, augmenting them to a more refined and reactive state.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥2,000
Notes: This gives the individual a dice reroll on all balance tests, including falling and landing safely.
Cannot be combined with anything else that provides a die reroll to the Athletics skill.
The BCC is a small amount of specialized brain tissue added to the corpus callosum, which balances dexterity between the left and right portions of the body.
Essence:
0.2
Availability:
3
Cost:
¥4,500
Notes: This augmentation negates 2 points of penalties for using weapons in one's off-hand.
The molecular structure of your bones is altered to increase density and tensile strength. Ligaments are strengthened, and the greater bone density increases your weight by fifteen percent.
Essence:
Rating x 0.3
Availability:
4 (Legal)
Cost:
Rating x ¥5,000
Notes: Gain a Dice Pool Bonus equal to the Bone Density Augmentation on all Damage Resistance tests.
Your unarmed combat damage becomes Physical and your Damage Value increases per the bioware's rating.
Rating 1: Unarmed Damage of (STR/2) Physical
Rating 2: Unarmed Damage of (STR/2 + 1) Physical
Rating 3: Unarmed Damage of (STR/2 + 2) Physical
Rating 4: Unarmed Damage of (STR/2 + 3) Physical
Bone density augmentation is incompatible with other augmentations to bones, including bone lacing cyberware.
These transgenic vat-grown implants are very literally cats’ eyes with a modified DNA profile and occipital connecting structures. The structure of cat’s eyes amplifies light and enhances night vision, providing low-light vision. Cat’s eyes are slit and reflective, just like, well, a cat’s.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
3
Cost:
¥4,000
Notes: Provides Low-Light Vision.
This bioware is not compatible with cyberware eye replacements, but individual vision enhancements can be purchased.
This simple replacement of the more fragile natural material of the metahuman joint with synthetic materials that have a higher level of damage resistance and lower levels of neuro-connection allows joints to be deformed without pain and easily restored to their usual location afterward. The overall effect is to increase the body’s flexibility, allowing for excessive contortions.
Essence:
0.2
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥8,000
Notes: Elastic Joints grants the user a +1 Dice Pool Bonus on Athletics (Escaping) tests.
In addition, the user can fit through openings no smaller than their head and can remain in cramped conditions longer without significant effect.
This modification is incompatible with other joint augmentations.
A number of procedures like joint-surface coating, re-lubrication, and tendon and ligament augmentation lead to more fluid muscle and joint action.
Essence:
0.2
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥30,000
Notes: Enhanced articulation provides you with a +1 Agility and a bonus Edge when trying to move through cramped or confining spaces.
The amount of air exchanged in each breath a metahuman takes is about half a liter; this is known as the tidal volume. By expanding the tidal volume of each breath, the lungs, which hold five times that much air, become more efficient in oxygen/carbon dioxide exchange and improve the user’s overall endurance.
Essence:
Rating x 0.1
Availability:
Rating x 2
Cost:
Rating x ¥2,000
Notes: The user may subtract this augmentation’s rating from any level of the Fatigued status.
It cannot be used on Fatigued status caused by drugs.
These are typically set into the sides of the user’s neck in the upper pectoral region, or beneath the arms (upper arms, in the case of a nartaki). The user no longer has to worry about drowning, but they also do not draw air quite as efficiently due to the gill openings along the windpipe.
Essence:
0.2
Availability:
3
Cost:
¥8,000
Notes: Those users who wish to enjoy a fully amphibious life usually invest in Expanded Volume (1 - 4).
A user with gills can breathe water (either fresh or salt, chosen when first installed) and can free-dive to a depth equal to (Body x 20) meters.
Individuals with air-breathing gills who otherwise would breathe water use these. They need dense air, so they always suffer a Fatigued I status when breathing air and Fatigued II status at higher elevations and thinner air (GM decision as to where the divide is).
A simple implantation, added in pairs, adds webbing between the user’s toes or fingers, which are expanded by simple muscle contraction and withdrawn the same way, allowing the user improved speed while swimming
Essence:
0.05
Availability:
3
Cost:
¥1,000
Notes: Expanding or contracting the webbed digits is a Minor Action.
When deployed, webbed digits provide a +1 Dice Pool Modifier to all Swimming tests for each set installed but inflicts a –1 Dice Pool Penalty to any fine manipulations using the webbed digits.
A simple surgery where connective tissues and bone are regrown and strengthened. Each replacement focuses on a single joint structure, such as a knee, a shoulder, or a wrist, and includes minor work with bone and ligament strengthening at the junctures. The finished, all-organic joint is returned to prime strength and is expected to last as long or longer than the original.
Essence:
-
Availability:
1
Cost:
¥1,000
Notes: If a character has sustained an injury to their legs that created a permanent or long-lasting Hobbled status, this procedure can remove the hobbled status.
Similar to the Suprathyroid Gland, the metabolic arrester is a regulating gland grown on top of the thyroid gland. Under conditions where the body seems to be suffering from massive trauma, as measured by a severe drop in blood pressure and the presence of high levels of endorphins, the metabolic arrester supersedes the thyroid’s metabolic functions, drastically decreasing the body’s metabolic rate. As the heart and breathing rates slow to minimal levels and the body’s temperature drops, the character takes on a death-like pallor. The lowered body functions help stave off the effects of trauma and reduce bleeding.
Use of this requires caution—if your teammates don’t know you have this augmentation, you could be left for dead at the scene when all you’re doing is resting and trying to recuperate.
Essence:
0.3
Availability:
3
Cost:
¥10,000
Notes: When a character suffers more Physical damage than they have boxes in their Physical damage condition monitor, the Metabolic Arrester kicks in and places the body in near-metabolic stasis. The body’s metabolic processes are slowed by a factor of five.
A character with this bioware can take two extra boxes of Overflow damage before they are considered dead. The Metabolic Arrester is not compatible with the Suprathyroid Gland or Adrenaline Pump.
This biological weaving treatment enhances existing muscle tissue, rather than replacing it with vat-grown muscles. Specially grown muscle cables are woven into existing muscle fibers, enhancing muscle mass and brute strength while providing a bulkier look.
Essence:
Rating x 0.2
Availability:
4 (Legal)
Cost:
Rating x ¥31,000
Notes: Muscle augmentation adds its rating to your Strength attribute.
This bioware is incompatible with augmentations that increase Strength, including the muscle replacement cyberware.
This treatment increases muscle-fiber elasticity in existing muscle tension, resulting in increased muscle tension and flexibility while providing a smooth and ropy physique.
Essence:
Rating x 0.2
Availability:
4 (Legal)
Cost:
Rating x ¥32,000
Notes: Muscle toner adds its rating to your Agility attribute.
This bioware is incompatible with augmentations that increase Agility, including the muscle replacement cyberware and enhanced articulation bioware.
Essentially an up-gunned kidney, the nephritic screen improves both blood filtration, removing harmful toxins from the bloodstream, and blood screening, keeping more-useful materials in while removing the less-useful. The overall effect is a general increase in the user’s health and wellbeing, while also making the user far less likely to become drunk or enjoy recreational pharmacology. Depending on one’s point of view, that can be a drawback or an additional bonus.
Essence:
0.15
Availability:
2
Cost:
¥8,000
Notes: The nephritic screen has multiple effects.
It reduces crash duration by half and automatically reduces any Poisoned # status by 1 each round after suffering its damage.
The user also gains Tolerance (All Drugs) 1 (p. 110, Body Shop).
A simple transparent extra eyelid that keeps the eye moist and protects it from damage by assorted irritants, the nictitating membrane is similar to that possessed by several animals, most notably reptiles and sharks. Unlike normal eyelids, the nictitating membrane slides horizontally and is somewhat unsettling to see, as most mammals, including metahumans, don’t possess such a feature. It’s useful in diving, to keep floating detritus from damaging the eye itself, but also on land for brushing away smoke or grit. A tinted version is available to act as a defense against a bright light, but this version cannot be seen through clearly, resulting in an either-or proposition that few use.
Essence:
0.05
Availability:
2
Cost:
¥1,000
Notes: Note that Nictitating Membranes are fully compatible with cybereyes of Standard grade or better. A specially adapted membrane protects the eyes and allows them to function with normal vision while underwater.
Also, the player gains 1 die reroll to resist eye irritants, such as gas or ordinary smoke.
A web of biofibers in the skin provides the equivalent of personal armor while being virtually indistinguishable from natural skin.
Essence:
Rating x 0.25
Availability:
4 (Legal)
Cost:
Rating x ¥6,000
Notes: Orthoskin provides a bonus equal to its rating to your Defense Rating.
Orthoskin cannot be combined with skin augmentations, including dermal plating.
This enhanced spleen can produce more effective and aggressive white blood cells for combating pathogens.
Essence:
Rating x 0.1
Availability:
Rating
Cost:
Rating x ¥4,500
Notes: Pathogenic Defense adds its Rating to all Disease Resistance Tests.
Platelet factories increase your body’s ability to handle Physical damage by accelerating the production of platelets and their concentration in the blood, which helps stop bleeding faster.
Essence:
0.2
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥17,000
Notes: Any time you would take 2 or more boxes of damage to your Physical Condition Monitor, reduce the damage by 1 box.
This simple procedure strengthens the quadriceps, hamstrings, glutes, and calves. Hence the name quad meaning “four,” not “quadriceps.” The heads of marketing must have been out of the office that week. The research was originally for running, but it turns out that we use the same muscle to jump as we do to run. Upon that discovery, it became a popular modification for athletes and parkour influencers.
Essence:
Rating x 0.1
Availability:
4
Cost:
Rating x ¥7,500
Notes: This bioware requires a Minor Action to activate the muscle. When attempting a Jumping test (Athletics + Strength), a metahuman can make a running jump of 2 meters per hit, a standing horizontal jump of 1 meter per hit, and a standing vertical jump of 0.5 meters per hit. They also get a +1 Dice Pool Modifier on the Jumping test per level.
When attempting a Sprint test and investing a Minor Action to engage the bioware, they add +1 meter to their sprint movement for every rank.
This bioware cannot be combined with Hydraulic Jacks or any other cyberware or bioware that affects jumping or sprinting.
This skin flap can be located anywhere on your body. A nerveless sheath of flesh concealed by the flap is perfect for hiding a small object - it’s a bioware version of a smuggling compartment.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥12,000
Notes: The skin pocket has a Concealability threshold of 10. It takes a Major Action to add or remove an item from a skin pocket.
Spidersilk is renowned for its strength concerning its weight, so engineers have long looked for ways to harness its abilities. By implanting glands that shoot a reasonable facsimile of spidersilk from the human body, people get the opportunity to trip up opponents, or even rappel down a building. Don’t try swinging from it, though - this is not a comic book.
Essence:
0.3
Availability:
6
Cost:
¥35,000
Notes: Glands are often implanted in people’s wrists; those hold two charges, with each charge providing about 20 meters of spidersilk. Glands implanted in the abdomen or lower back can hold 5 charges. When the silk shoots out, the user can choose to keep it stuck to the gland, or they can snip it off. Aiming spidersilk at a target requires an Exotic (Spidersilk) Ranged Weapon attack.
A successful hit applies the Immobilized status. Breaking free requires a Major Action. Roll a Strength + Body (3) test to escape. If they fail, the Immobilized status remains until the next time they can attempt an escape. Someone else can assist them with a teamwork test. Additionally, someone beside the Immobilized metahuman can use a Major Action to cut them out.
When used in rappelling or climbing situations, the player gets 1 additional hit on any Athletics (Climbing) test where the silk rope is used.
Used to combat chronic back pain, spinal injuries, slipped discs, and so forth, there are several approaches to spinal realignment that all result in the same general result: the eradication of the painful condition and a strengthening of the bones that compose the spine itself, preventing further natural wear and tear for a decade.
What started as a treatment for older individuals has increased in popularity with those returning to earth after an extended stay in space.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥4,000
Notes: The user also gets a +1 Dice Pool Modifier to all Lift/Carry, Athletics, and Sprinting tests.
It removes the Fatigued status for anyone who returns to earth after living in orbit or a moon base for an extended period.
Placed on top of your existing thyroid gland, the suprathyroid gland supersedes the metabolic functions of your thyroid. The enhanced metabolism produces more energy, supercharging you. In order to fuel your optimized metabolism, you’ll need to eat twice as much as normal.
Essence:
0.7
Availability:
5 (Legal)
Cost:
¥140,000
Notes: You get a +1 to your Agility, Body, Reaction, and Strength, along with a 25 percent boost in Lifestyle costs.
Tailored micro-organisms in your bloodstream greatly enhance your healing.
Essence:
Rating x 0.2
Availability:
4
Cost:
Rating x ¥3,500
Notes: Add the rating of the symbiotes as a dice pool modifier on healing tests (Physical and Stun).
However, the symbiotes have unusual dietary requirements that must be met to keep them alive. You need to pay (Rating x 200) nuyen per month for special symbiote food, although if you have a High Lifestyle or better, it’s covered. If they are not fed, they die in a month.
Artificially enhanced myocardium allows cardiovascular functions to be performed more efficiently, enabling the heart to keep the blood better oxygenated.
Essence:
Rating x 0.1
Availability:
3
Cost:
Rating x ¥30,000
Notes: The synthacardium adds its rating as a dice pool bonus to your Athletics skill tests for running, swimming, and climbing.
Animals, many of which have far stronger scent-based communication than metahumans, are often vastly more vulnerable to pheromone influence. When this bioware is installed, the user must select what species the pheromones are meant to interact with, and it will continue to create pheromones for that species from that point on.
Essence:
Rating x 0.1
Availability:
Rating x 2
Cost:
Rating x ¥2,000
Notes: Changing the targeted species is a simple enough procedure that costs half as much as the full installation, replacing the first species with the new one.
It should be noted that critter pheromones have a limited effect on related species (for instance, dog pheromones have some influence on other canines), but these results can be negative. For example, a user who produces cat pheromones may find themselves angrily approached by dogs.
Note that only one pheromone producer can be active in an individual at any time.
Tailored critter pheromones add their rating to the dice pool of the user’s Influence and Con tests when dealing with an animal from their selected species. At the GM’s discretion, they may also inflict a negative modifier to the user’s animal handling pool if an antagonistic or predator-prey relationship exists between the user’s critter pheromones and a critter they are attempting to control.
These pheromones are specially tailored to subtly influence others and can be released at will.
Essence:
Rating x 0.2
Availability:
4 (Legal)
Cost:
Rating x ¥31,000
Notes: Tailored pheromones increase your Charisma attribute by their Rating for Con and Influence tests, but only when the person you’re using them on is within a comfortable conversation range - if they can’t smell you, the pheromones don’t work.
Tailored pheromones have no effect on magical abilities and tests.
A specially cultivated cluster of cells in your liver improves its filtering capabilities.
Essence:
Rating x 0.2
Availability:
4
Cost:
Rating x ¥4,800
Notes: The toxin extractor subtracts its rating from the threshold of Toxin Resistance tests.
Implanted at the top of your trachea, this organ can absorb airborne impurities and keep them from reaching your lungs.
Essence:
Rating x 0.1
Availability:
4
Cost:
Rating x ¥4,500
Notes: The filter adds its rating as a dice pool bonus to Toxin Resistance tests versus Inhalation-vector toxins.
The debate continues to rage across the music world about vocal range enhancement. Some insist that natural voices sound better and that those who are truly gifted should be celebrated. Others insist that there’s no discernible difference in expanded ranges and natural voices, unlike the distorted sound of cybernetic vocal enhancement, and that snobbery is the only reason for pushback. Those looking to make it in music have started altering these modifications, and the shadows have found other uses for them.
A character can only take one form of vocal modification.
The most invasive vocal modification was first introduced by Aztechnology but couldn’t find a market. That was until a low-profile rocker out of Ohio known as Bobby V got this modification and showcased it with his band the Banshees. Aztechnology saw the opportunity and threw money at the band. Other scream metal bands quickly followed. An untrained person can only make noises akin to an Aztec death whistle, but with a little practice, it allows a person to let out a scream that stops their fans dead on their feet.
Essence:
0.5
Availability:
6
Cost:
¥20,000
Notes: This biomodification causes targets to slow or stiffen up. It affects everyone who hears it within a radius of (Body x 5) meters around the user. The player makes a Con (Performance) + Body vs. Intuition + Willpower Opposed test. The rating of any area-effect sound-dampening devices, personal sound-dampening devices (such as cyberware, or earbuds with sound dampening), or hits scored by Hush or Silence spells, is added to the target’s Opposed test, with only the highest single modifier applying.
If the target wins, they suffer no ill effects.
If the attacker wins, the target gains Immobilized status. If the augmented individual gets 4 or more net hits, the target gains the Stilled status.
A cheaper version of Vocal Range Extender, it doesn’t provide the benefits of the Vocal Range Enhancer or the Vocal Range Extender. Instead, it causes the character to add a very low and primitive tone to their voice. The sound resonates with something in our amygdala that helps trigger a fear response (similar to what horror trids use to frighten audiences).
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
6
Cost:
¥5,000
Notes: Individuals with this quality radiate the ultimate unnerving or even predatory vibe. This sensation is often described as discomforting, menacing, or even oppressive. Grants a +1 Dice Reroll on all Intimidation tests.
The character has access to a full eight octaves for singing.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
6
Cost:
¥10,000
Notes: The Range Enhancer provides 1 dice reroll for performance tests.
A more expansive version of the range enhancer. While the base enhancement gives the user access to a full eight octaves for singing, the vocal range expander pushes the boundaries even further, allowing the user’s voice to reach into the infrasonic and ultrasonic, ranging from 20 Hz to 200 kHz, producing sounds beyond the standard metahuman hearing range. Combined with a similar hearing enhancement, users can speak with one another at a frequency others can’t hear, an obvious advantage.
Essence:
0.2
Availability:
6 (Legal)
Cost:
¥30,000
Notes: The Range Extender grants a +1 Dice Reroll, it also allows for attempts to fool voice recognition systems or to imitate animal or artificial noises. Use an Opposed Con (Impersonation) + Charisma test against the biometric system’s rating for the former, or against an NPC’s Perception + Intuition for the latter.
The standard bioware tail is grafted directly to the user’s lower spinal column, allowing for natural-feeling use. It can take any appearance the patient likes. Natural tails tend to react to subconscious thoughts, giving away the user’s emotional state, otherwise idly swaying a bit when the individual is not paying attention. Ordinary tails are available in lengths up to one meter, with textured fur or scales being common. The character’s clothing must accommodate the tail to gain any of the above effects. Sitting in certain positions for long periods will be uncomfortable and cause a –1 Dice Pool Modifier to all actions while the character is sitting.
Currently, tails come in five forms; the user must select one when this bioware is installed.
Usually between 1 and 2 meters long, a balance tail is not under the character’s conscious control. It functions instinctively by twitching, swaying, and wrapping around things at random to improve the character’s balance.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
6
Cost:
¥2,500
Notes: Characters with a balance tail receive a +1 Dice Reroll for all Athletics tests related to balance, climbing, gymnastics, or jumping.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
6
Cost:
¥2,500
Notes: This broad, scaly, beaver-like tail can be used to steer and paddle when swimming, granting a +1 Dice Reroll for all Athletics (Swimming) tests.
This functions like the balance tail, except the character can control it as if it were an extra limb. The tail can pick up items, though it lacks digits and has difficulty with fine manipulation.
Essence:
0.25
Availability:
6
Cost:
¥5,000
Notes: Basic tasks that normally do not require tests, such as pressing a button or pulling a trigger, need a Body + Agility (3) test for the character to successfully pull off. The tail has an effective Strength equal to half the character’s Strength (round down), but it can hold the character’s entire body weight if they choose to hang from it. Prehensile tails do not provide an extra attack.
This powerfully muscled prehensile tail ends in an array of dermal spikes and can be used for a melee attack.
Essence:
0.2
Availability:
6
Cost:
¥7,000
Notes: The Thagomizer uses the Exotic Weapon (Thagomizer) skill, and does (STR/2 + 3) Physical damage.
A tail of this nature is usually three meters long and fully prehensile.
Essence:
0.5
Availability:
6
Cost:
¥9,000
Notes: The whip tail stands out for its ability to be used as a Bullwhip. It can perform motor skills in the way a prehensile tail can.
False front is probably one of the most radical bioaugmentations available and also one of the most illegal. It allows the character to profoundly change their appearance within minutes. Artificial muscle groups are implanted in the various parts of the body that the recipient wants to alter.
The more areas that are altered, the higher the rating of this bioware.
The standard version of the false front does not grant the user much control over the final appearance, and the look of the false front will alter visibly with each use, according to slight variations in the signal drug’s composition, its reception by the implanted muscle groups, and the user’s metabolism. The intent is to simply present a new look each time rather than mimic a specific appearance.
Essence:
Rating x 0.2
Availability:
Rating x 2 (Illegal)
Cost:
Rating x ¥12,000
Notes: Upon injection of a signal drug, the muscle groups contract, radically changing the shape of the face or body.
Add the false front’s rating as a dice pool modifier to any Con (Disguise) tests to hide the user’s original appearance. Apparent body mass cannot be changed by more than 20%.
The appearance change occurs within one minute and lasts for thirty minutes per dose of the signal drug injected. The drug can be synthesized and injected by a Chemical Gland if desired.
False front works well with Chameleon Skin, where the signal drug can be used to trigger a specific change in skin hue, adding a +1 Dice Reroll for any disguise test.
A false front augmentation with the mimic option is designed not just to disguise the character’s original appearance, but to attempt to copy a specific someone’s appearance.
For the Mimic Option, the signal drug is more complex, offering finer control over specific muscle groups, so the look can be more specifically tailored.
Essence:
Rating x 2
Availability:
Rating x 2 (Illegal)
Cost:
+¥10,000
Notes: False Front with the mimic option adds its rating to all Con (Impersonate or Disguise) tests for impersonating a specific target.
Essence:
-
Availability:
4 (Illegal)
Cost:
¥50
Essence:
-
Availability:
5 (Illegal)
Cost:
¥500
Notes: The Mimic Signal Drug’s exact composition must be programmed to disguise, using a medkit to do so.
Programming the signal drug is a Biotech (Biotechnology) + Logic (6, 1 hour) test.
The dermal alterations process started with orthoskin. That augmentation proved there was a market for those wishing to have such advantages, and the true dermal alteration market was born. Depending on the modification, patients will go through a series of injections, microdermabrasion, laser therapy, and chemical peels or chemical baths.
The following modifications can be added to anyone, but typically a metahuman can only have one. Due to the strengthening process the epidermal layer undergoes for orthoskin, a character’s orthoskin can add modifications equal to their orthoskin rating, but may never take the same type of dermal alteration more than once.
This process involves harnessing the Epidermodysplasia verruciformis (EV) disease, commonly called the “tree-man disease.” This process is one of the less traumatic dermal alteration processes. The character’s skin takes on the appearance of rough tree bark.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥1,500
Notes: This quality provides a +2 Defense Rating bonus, cumulative with armor, but increases the cost of all armor and clothing by 10%
Cannot be taken with Rhino.
Thick layers of insulating fat and vascularized tissues are inserted or grown, and they act as thermal insulation.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
5
Cost:
¥1,500
Notes: Grants a +1 Dice Reroll when resisting any cold-based attacks or damage.
Negates the Chilled status from all non-magical causes.
Excessive hair is grown over the whole body except for the face, hands, and feet.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥1,500
Notes: Covered by dark or patterned fur, the character receives a +1 Dice Pool Modifier for Sneaking tests in any condition with decreased light levels and in environments appropriate to the pattern (stripes in tall grass, spots in a forest or jungle, etc.).
Camouflage is incompatible with other natural or artificial hair or skin modifications. To gain the bonus, at least 40% of the individual’s body must be exposed (i.e., not covered with clothing).
While largely on the way out as digital skin changing takes center stage, you can still find people who invested in classic chameleon skin modification.
Basic camouflage is more slow-acting and thermal-based rather than truly color-oriented (just like a real chameleon) or activated by an emotional response.
Essence:
0.2
Availability:
6
Cost:
¥2,000
Notes: After 5 minutes of exposure to a background with sharp contrasts and diverse color patterns, the character’s skin can take 1 minute to adjust to match this pattern. It can retain this coloration for up to 4 hours. When they move (more than 1 meter per turn), they revert to their normal skin pigmentation for as long as they are in motion. While in effect, the camouflage provides a +1 Dice Pool Modifier for all Stealth tests if more than forty percent of their body is exposed. At 80% exposure or greater, the bonus is +2.
While largely on the way out as digital skin changing takes center stage, you can still find people who invested in classic chameleon skin modification.
Like Basic Camouflage, Dynamic Camouflage alters the skin tone and color according to the background environment and continues to do so as the individual moves.
Essence:
0.3
Availability:
7
Cost:
¥4,000
Notes: The character receives the same Stealth bonuses as basic camouflage, and they keep it as long as the individual is not moving faster than one-half their walking rate, rounded down.
By sealing the skin tightly, the user trades natural cooling via sweating for a sealed system, allowing them to resist chemical attacks more easily, including complete immunity to DMSO. Not recommended for athletes or others who regularly indulge in endurance-based activities, as the lack of a cooling system other than panting is quite dangerous for metahumans. Drink fluid often!
Essence:
0.25
Availability:
8 (Legal)
Cost:
¥20,000
Notes: In addition to immunity to any DMSO-carried substance, the user gains a +1 Dice Reroll resisting any contact-vector toxin. The user also can never use Edge for any Athletics test.
The individual’s epidermis and follicular development have adapted to include chloroplast organelles that supplement the energy needs of the individual through photosynthesis.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥2,500
Notes: This gives the character a –1 LP modifier toward their Necessities costs (p. 179, Sixth World Companion).
The character also receives +1 Dice Reroll to all Con and Influence tests when in partial or full daylight.
They suffer a –2 Dice Pool Penalty to those same tests when in deep shadow or darkness.
The individual is adapted to better survive in extreme climates.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
3
Cost:
¥6,000
Notes: Choose between Hot or Cold Climate Adaptation upon installation.
This quality grants a +1 Dice Reroll to all Outdoor (Survival) tests and reduces Fatigue due to exposure by one level when in the selected climate.
An advantage in one climate is a disadvantage in the other, raising Edge costs (for example, using Edge to reroll a dice pool would cost 2 Edge) and increasing Fatigue status by the same level.
These adaptations are not compatible with implanted dermal plating or skin modifications.
The character’s skin exudes a defensive liquid when they are agitated or endangered, like the defensive secretions of frogs. These secretions are acidic, causing a burning sensation or other adverse skin reactions upon touch.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
5
Cost:
¥5,000
Notes: If someone with unprotected skin touches the bare skin of the agitated character under the right conditions, that person suffers a –1 Dice Pool Modifier for all tests made within the next twenty-four hours or until treated with a medkit with a successful Biotech (Medicine) (2) test. This quality does not work against spirits. Multiple touches raise the dice pool modifier, but only to a maximum of –4.
While many expect this mod to involve scales, that would be a simple cosmetic modification unconnected to the actual upgrade. Dragon hide weaves flame-retardant materials into the skin, which distributes thermal impact, prevents blistering, and reduces overall burning as energy dissipates across the larger surface.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥2,000
Notes: Grants a +1 Dice Reroll when resisting any fire-based attacks.
Negates the Burning status from all non-magical sources.
Extensive calcite and keratin formations make the individual’s skin appear greyish and hard as stone.
Essence:
0.25
Availability:
6 (Legal)
Cost:
¥50,000
Notes: It grants +6 Defense Rating (not cumulative with other worn armors).
Incurs a –1 Dice Pool Penalty to fine manipulation of small items, such as a trigger.
The user gains one bonus hit when resisting an attack that does 6 or more modified damage.
The character’s skin contains sweat glands that produce a greasy lubricant in stressful or fatiguing situations, covering the body with an oily film that gives it a moist sheen.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
5
Cost:
¥2,000
Notes: While not impairing the character’s normal actions, the lubricant makes the character harder to grapple, increasing their Defense pool by 4 against grapple attacks if more than half the character’s body is exposed.
Greasy skin is incompatible with extensive body hair or skin modifications or qualities, except Defensive Secretion.
This is a thick insulating pelt of fur covering the entire body. The coat insulates the character from cold and immersion in water.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
5
Cost:
¥8,000
Notes: The coat insulates the character from cold and immersion in water, providing a +1 Dice Reroll on Survival tests in frigid environments (such as the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions) and a +4 Dice Pool Modifier on Soak tests vs. Cold-based attacks.
Characters must spend 1 extra point of Edge on Survival tests when in extreme heat environments. Clothing and armor can be worn normally over this hair.
Insulating Coat is incompatible with other natural or artificial hair or skin modifications
This is derived from a mutated version of the Epidermodysplasia verruciformis (EV) disease, or bark treatment. It is thicker and more durable than the bark dermal alteration.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥3,000
Notes: The character’s leather-like skin grants a +3 Dice Pool Modifier on Defense tests.
Cannot be taken with Bark.
Though they appear as thorns, the growths are a bioengineered version of cutaneous horns. The individual’s skin is covered in sharp protrusions about a centimeter long, resembling extremely hardened plant thorns like those of roses, citrus trees, and bougainvillea. The thorns emerge from a subdermal layer and regrow in a few days when cracked or broken.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥2,500
Notes: In Close Combat, they add a +1 Dice Pool Modifier and allow attacks to do Physical damage instead of Stun. The downside of these keratinous growths is they place the individual in a state of constant discomfort, which inflicts a –1 Dice Pool Penalty to all other physical activities.
All clothing worn by the individual must be custom-made, with a cost increase of 20%.
While chemical glands were originally intended to produce insulin for diabetics, megacorporations soon learned that there was a market for any number of unusual natural pharmaceuticals and organs that could produce them. The streets quickly followed suit.
The chemical gland is a small organic sac that produces a single substance. Often implanted in place of the appendix, the chemical gland can also be located in many other spots inside the body, such as the roof of the mouth so it can be used with fangs, or perhaps near an internal weapon system to provide a coating of venom. Even more unusual placements have been dreamed up. Each gland can only produce a single compound (chosen when purchased), and the selection cannot be changed. These compounds must be non-magical.
The gland produces a single dose every twenty-four hours and can hold as many as four doses at once. An expanded reservoir is, of course, available. Note that the implantation of a chemical gland in no way provides immunity, or even improved resistance, from the substance for the user. The gland’s protective sac keeps the compound from leaking into the body naturally, but if introduced in another way (such as biting one’s self with fangs), the user can be exposed to it.
The chemical gland’s cost is the base price of the gland plus an amount equal to the cost of one hundred doses of the chemical compound it produces. The Availability of the chemical gland is 5(L), or equal to the compound created, whichever is higher, and it is licensed or illegal if the chemical carries such a flag.
A user may have several chemical glands.
The chemical gland may be connected to a cybernetic reservoir.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
5 (Legal) OR Chemical Availability. Whichever is higher.
Cost:
¥20,000 + (Chemical x 100)
Notes: The gland produces a single dose every 24 hours and can hold as many as 4 doses at once.
The most common method is a simple internal release, triggered by mental command not terribly different from flexing a muscle. In this way, it serves as a sort of biological auto-injector. This is the default method of release and is included in the cost of the gland.
Essence:
-
Availability:
-
Cost:
¥
Implanted in the neck and sealed off via a sphincter, the exhalation spray is triggered by an actively learned reflex, where the user first takes a deep breath, then hand pressure against the throat opens the inner sphincter, which disperses into a strong exhalation, expelling the chemical in an aerosol spray. Only contact or inhalation-vectored chemicals are of much use in this method, and the user must be careful not to inhale until the dose is fully discharged. Alternately, the user can manually activate the sphincter and inhale a dose themselves, which is a popular approach for many asthmatics.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
8 (Legal)
Cost:
¥6,000
Notes: When exhaled, the dose expands into a cone two meters long and two meters wide at its widest point, which may catch multiple targets if they’re placed closely enough.
The Exotic Ranged Weapon (Sprayer) skill is used for any attacks with this augmentation.
A user may only have one exhalation sprayer.
An unusual choice, as it always exposes the user to the chemical, spitting involves a sphincter added to the mouth that can be opened by contraction of facial muscles or continuous tongue placement, unlocking a single dose of the substance for use.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
8 (Legal)
Cost:
¥6,000
Notes: Metahuman spit with a concentrated chemical core can be launched up to five meters. A user may only have one implant, and they use the Exotic Ranged Weapon (Spitter) skill to employ it.
By connecting the chemical gland directly to the root system of a weapon augmentation, the weapon can be coated with a single dose each time it’s extended. Alternately, the reservoir can be connected to fangs or a stinger, allowing for injection only upon penetration.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
7 (Illegal)
Cost:
¥4,000
Notes: If the system is used as an injector, a natural weapon attack must deal at least one box of damage after the Damage Resistance test. If not, the toxin is not deployed.
A chemical gland may have up to four additional reservoirs attached to it, each holding up to four more doses of the chemical in question. While a character may have multiple chemical glands, those chemicals may not share reservoirs.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
6
Cost:
¥2,000 + (Chemical x 4)
For those who lose a finger, a foot, or an arm, modern bio-technology can allow for the growth and natural replacement of the limb without the deep dehumanizing cost that comes from a cybernetic arm. Type-O replacement is the norm, but a more expensive and less disruptive cultured version is available for those willing and able to pay the price.
Essence:
0.01
Availability:
1
Cost:
¥1,000
Essence:
0.05
Availability:
2
Cost:
¥10,000
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
3
Cost:
¥20,000
Essence:
0.15
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥40,000
Essence:
-
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥1,500
Essence:
-
Availability:
5
Cost:
¥15,000
Essence:
-
Availability:
5
Cost:
¥30,000
Essence:
-
Availability:
5
Cost:
¥60,000
The most basic form of bioware, biosculpting comes in shapes, sizes, and desires that are too numerous to possibly count. In the wake of the Year of the Comet (2061), exotic Modification - AKA "CosMods" - were more common than today, and the brief insectoid fad has, thankfully, come and gone. The modern modder is looking for a more traditional look, one that’s tall, toned, and flawless, a more perfect version of themselves or at the least, who they always wanted to be. That doesn't mean that those getting full-body fur or non-metahuman features has waned entirely, it just means they're now pushed to the edges of modern society - a modern alt-culture.
For the typical metahuman, most biosculpting is gender affirming (you don't need to be transgender for that one, just ask every wageslave getting his hairline filled in) or generally a "trivial" affair when it comes to Essence cost and the world at large. After all, biosculpting is about customization, personalization, and making you feel you.
Universal Omnitech brought us the revolutionary Zimmerman Method of biosculpting and has expanded its techniques so it covers both ethnicity modification and gender affirmation. While previous approaches in this particular field were based on speedy rebuilds, adding bio-material while stripping away the unnecessary, the Zimmerman Method is a slower, more holistic method that’s garnered rave reviews and is now the method used worldwide.
The entire process takes a week of vat-time and remains expensive, but demand has been high enough that the core process is now available in most body clinics. It should be noted that the patient’s genetic structure remains unchanged, and modern law requires the person’s biometrics to be linked to their SIN both before and after the procedure for comparison, so this isn’t a good way to lose pursuit unless you plan on burning that SIN afterward.
Essence:
0
Availability:
5
Cost:
¥20,000
These cosmetic changes typically involve a mere injection, removal of fat layers, or similar light procedures. Fuller lips, nose jobs, hair transplants, ear tucks, liposuction, decorative scarification, fingerprint removal, and smaller or larger breasts are all considered minor modifications, requiring only light cosmetic surgery.
Essence:
0
Availability:
2
Cost:
¥100 - ¥2,000
Moderate biosculpts require more extensive changes and surgery. This can include extensive face or head reshaping (i.e., making your face look like someone’s who roughly has the same head shape), the breaking and resetting of bones, and/or minor cosmetic biotech implants. Typical moderate modifications would include altering apparent ethnicity, giving a face an anime idol appearance, replacing hair with feathers, or adding animal or unusual-looking ears.
Essence:
0
Availability:
3
Cost:
¥1,000 - ¥5,000
Cosmetic surgery and biosculpting on this scale completely changes the appearance of the recipient. With this procedure, anybody can be made to look like anybody else, including altering the height of the person by adding or removing leg or upper body length.
Essence:
0.25
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥10,000
This procedure modifies the body, allowing for one metatype to pass for another as long as the metatypes are similar. This allows an ork to pass for a human or a human to pass for an elf. Because of the unusual nature of some of the variations, metavariants are unable to take advantage of this surgery. Similarly, trolls and dwarfs are unable to use this adaptation.
Any basic elf, human, or ork (not metavariants) can have their body sculpted to resemble an elf, human, or ork (not metavariants), thus resulting in a metatype poser. Only the looks of the character change; genetically, their original metatype will still be readily identifiable. The changes are purely cosmetic; no metatype bonuses or penalties are obtained with this treatment.
Essence:
0.25
Availability:
5
Cost:
¥25,000
Troll or ork (not metavariants) reduction involves a multi-stage process of dermal-plate removal, tusk reduction, hair remov al, symmetrical re-balancing, and a host of other little tweaks to try and make a troll more accepted within mainstream society. Because of the unusual nature of some of the variations, metavariants are unable to take advantage of this surgery. The process is more expensive but less invasive and pretty much turns a troll or ork into a big human.
Essence:
0.25
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥15,000
Notes: The patient using troll/ork reduction finds they generally appear human at first glance and gain +2 Dice Pool Modifier on Con (Disguise) tests to hide their metatype and appear more human. Trolls also lose the Dermal Deposits racial quality.
Cosmetic Bioware is a little less intense than Biosculpting, but still Bioware nonetheless and it ranges from skin-altering pigmentations, dietware, bio-tattoos and more. It is as normalized and ubiquitous in the Sixth World as pierced ears.
Bio-luminescent tattoos aren’t quite as keen as LED tattoos, but they are effectively harmless to one’s general holistic system no matter how large they get. Of course, they can only handle the primary colors and can’t be changed, but that’s the price one pays to be trendy! Also, you never need a glowstick at a dance party. That’s worth something, right?
Essence:
Small: -
Medium: 0.01
Large: 0.02
Availability:
Small: 1
Medium: 2
Large: 3
Cost:
Small: ¥500
Medium: ¥1,000
Large: ¥1,500
Notes: Users suffer a -1 Dice Pool Penalty on Stealth (Sneaking) tests for each exposed Bio-Tattoo.
If the Bio-Tattoos is truly outrageous, the GM may assign the player the Distinctive Style quality.
This piece of bioware improves the exocrine system, especially the pancreas. The clean metabolism bioware also includes an intestinal bacterial infusion that only fails to be a true symbiont implantation due to the permanent adjustment the body makes to the bacteria. The result is a digestive system that’s both more efficient and well-mannered, eradicating the majority of body odors, belches, or gas-passing oopsies. It’s a common enough modification that “her family has so much money that her sweat doesn’t stink” is a well-known expression. This item is quite rare outside of the upper crust and incompatible with other digestive modifications, which means this modification makes it easier to spot a corp kid.
Essence:
0.05
Availability:
3
Cost:
¥1,000
Notes: A player with clean metabolism is more difficult to track via scent.
Anyone attempting to use scent based tests against the player cannot use Edge.
Clean metabolism is not compatible with tailored pheromones
This somewhat dangerous procedure has largely been replaced by symbionts. Dietware consists of one of several modifications to the stomach or digestive tract that inhibits the digestion and absorption of food, especially carbohydrates and fats. This keeps the user slender against all but the most gluttonous of appetites.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
3
Cost:
¥1,000
The cost of a single treatment is for an area roughly the size of the human head. This is important, as the procedure was designed for battling baldness, then became a new way to try new looks, then was modified by the underground community into a more furry-friendly process that fully embraces the expansion of coverage. The color, length (up to one meter), and texture are chosen before the procedure is begun, allowing the user full modularity in the final product from a pink mohawk to soft white fur to blue dreadlocks. More exotic hair will, of course, cost more.
Essence:
-
Availability:
2
Cost:
¥500
The Hair Growth procedure was originally designed for battling baldness, then became a new way to try new looks, then was modified by the underground community into a more furry-friendly process that fully embraces expansion of coverage. It really didn't take long for those with exotic body modifications to demand a full-body variant.
Essence:
-
Availability:
3
Cost:
¥1,500
A favorite of Nashville starlets and Horizon execs, silky skin is a simple two-stage process that can be completed in a long afternoon and is included in many spa-day packages. This is a very expensive process that takes place in two steps. The first part is the removal of old dermal layers and scars via “soft” laser treatment or, in Renraku facilities, a small cadre of human scrubbers. The patient is then immersed in a tank where the body receives a wide range of minor modifications affecting their muscle, tendons, joints, and vocal cords. The effect is a metahuman who moves with unearthly grace. Their countenance always seems radiant, and their voice has a natural quality that also grabs the attention of those around them. Those they speak to feel moved and inspired.
Essence:
0.25
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥15,000
Notes: Metahuman Glamor is reflected with a bonus of a Dice Reroll for all social actions taken that are not aggressive.
Those with this quality are particularly memorable, equating to an additional Dice Reroll for anyone attempting to make a Memory test to recall the individual or the actions they’ve taken.
Laser eye surgery to remove vision problems shy of actual blindness has been perfected over many decades, being quick, painless, and safe, but the interesting properties and abilities of cybernetic eye replacement have made the process somewhat gauche in this day and age. With the recent fear from the “nanopocalypse” and stories of “dangerous technomancers” switching hapless citizens’ eyes off at will, virtually every body sculpting clinic in the world has brought back this procedure and has been rewarded with fistfuls of nuyen. The process only takes a few minutes, and after a week of wearing protective lenses and using eyedrops to ensure that there’s no damage to vulnerable tissue, the patient can enjoy perfect 20/20 vision that comes with a ten-year assurance. Many clinics include a Sparkle!, which is a package where they also recolor the patient’s eyes, leading to a long path of future CosMods.
Essence:
-
Availability:
3
Cost:
¥500
A surprisingly tricky procedure where a patient has the number of nerve endings in a location increased. While rarely dangerous, this increase allows for any tactile sensations there to be made stronger than before. Primarily found in hedonists, there are some masochists who find joy in leather instead of silk and satin. Each treatment covers an area roughly the size of a human hand.
Essence:
-
Availability:
2
Cost:
¥500
Skin pigmentation treatment can be used to paint the higher levels of the patient’s skin, giving a color scheme that doesn’t sweat away, instead remaining in place for roughly a week until it fades from standard abrasion (though it can be removed quicker with a skin solvent). Some choose to paint up their favorite sports team’s colors or logos, others dress up for clubbing, while still others simply follow artistic paths.
Essence:
-
Availability:
2
Cost:
¥100
Skin pigmentation treatment can be used to paint the higher levels of the patient’s skin, giving a color scheme that doesn’t sweat away!Some choose to paint up their favorite sports team’s colors or logos, others dress up for clubbing, while still others simply follow artistic paths. A permanent treatment is also available, drawing on genetic sub-components to change the body’s natural skin color, ensuring that the selected pattern will be repeated from then onward. A second treatment can be undertaken to correct the first.
Essence:
-
Availability:
3
Cost:
¥1,000
Cultured bioware is not just regular bioware - it’s bioware specifically made for you, to match your body and genetic profile. Yeah, it’ll cost you.
The biolink is best described as a wireless datajack. A small cluster of tissue is grown across a section of the midbrain. This tissue acts in a fashion similar to the part of the brain in technomancers that allows them to connect to wireless devices without the use of a datajack. It’s what some call the first step in understanding and recreating the technomancer phenomenon, but anyone in the shadows with half a conscience knows this all came at the cost of hundreds if not thousands of technomancers. Getting this implant is paying back into the pockets of a mega that has hunted and killed more innocent technomancers than GOD.
Essence:
0.5
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥5,000
Notes: This bioware doesn’t open the subject to the Resonance and doesn’t offer a Matrix persona, but it does allow a direct feed of Matrix data to the brain and the potential to use other Matrix-accessing devices like commlinks and cyberdecks via DNI, but without any wires. Biolink allows a character to activate a trode and access AR without a device.
Amplification of the spinal cord and a general expansion of the nervous system result in a body that’s more responsive to external stimuli and has superior autonomous reactions. This can be problematic, as those whose responses naturally gravitate toward violence can lash out at perceived threats where none truly existed, causing friction with loved ones and awkwardness in social situations. It should be noted that, due to the nature of the modification, boosted reflexes may not be removed once installed, and they are incompatible with any other Initiative-modifying augmentation.
Essence:
1.0
Availability:
4 (Legal)
Cost:
¥10,000
Notes: A user with Boosted Reflexes gains an additional +1D6 Initiative Dice.
This one’s sort of a Holy Grail for neuro-amplification. While the cerebral booster’s been established for thirty years, increasing the user’s instinctive nature has eluded researchers. It was a breakthrough in Aztechnology’s research that finally found the key; rather than a focus on the hindbrain, the right target was in the cerebellum. With careful amplification of the lateral cerebellum, the inception of movement and absorption of sensory data can be sped up, resulting in a more intuitive response to external stimuli and an improved joining of thought to action in an expressive sense. That is to say, it makes the user more instinctive and able to respond to stimuli without those pesky higher functions needing to be involved.
Essence:
Rating x 0.2
Availability:
Rating x 3
Cost:
Rating x ¥50,000
Notes: The cerebellum booster increases the user’s Intuition attribute by its Rating.
The convolutions and gyri of your cerebrum are augmented and amplified with additional nervous tissue, improving overall brain function.
Essence:
Rating x 0.2
Availability:
5
Cost:
Rating x ¥31,500
Notes: Your cerebral booster increases your Logic attribute by its Rating.
Damage compensators are essentially cut-offs stored in the nervous pathways that report pain from the body back to your brain.
Essence:
Rating x 0.1
Availability:
5 (Legal)
Cost:
Rating x ¥2,000
Notes: You ignore a number of damage boxes (your choice of Physical, Stun, or a combination of the two) equal to the compensator’s rating before determining your injury modifiers.
A spool of muscles is placed under the tongue, not unlike a frog’s tongue, only more dangerous. With a range of only one meter, the frog tongue is a melee weapon but is covered by the Exotic Weapon Skill rather than Unarmed Combat. Frog tongues are often connected to chemical reserves but not always.
The individual gains a long, adhesive tongue that extends in a spring-loaded fashion, shooting outward to strike at a target and then retract.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
3
Cost:
¥2,000
Notes: Not prehensile enough to use anything as a tool, the tongue is strong enough to snatch an object, provided the weight is less than a quarter kilogram.
Because of the tongue’s sticky secretions, the object will stick to the tongue until manually removed (Body + Strength [2]). If the character also possesses the Natural Venom quality (p. 119, Sixth World Companion) the tongue can be used to apply the substance per those rules with an Exotic Weapon (Tongue) + Agility attack which can only be used in close combat.
In time, information that is temporarily filed in the hippocampus transitions to the neocortex section of the brain. It is at this point that it becomes scientifically recognized as general knowledge. With this augmentation, the sulci and gyri of the neocortex are amplified and stimulated while RNA transference of a knowledge infusion strand takes place. The core concept is easier to illustrate than detail. It can implant basic knowledge right into your brain! Go in, get a shot, and suddenly you can perform close-up magic!
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
3
Cost:
¥2,000
Notes: A knowledge infusion gives characters a single knowledge skill they did not possess or a level in a language skill (chosen when the infusion is purchased).
This highly concentrated growth of grey matter gets attached to the brain’s memory centers, improving both short- and long-term memory.
Essence:
Rating x 0.1
Availability:
5
Cost:
Rating x ¥9,000
Notes: Add the enhancer’s rating as a dice pool bonus to your Knowledge, Language, and memory-related tests.
A fancy way of saying muscle memory. This is similar to a reflex recorder. Where the reflex recorder focuses on the addition of extra nervous tissue, myonuclear permanence creates a mechanism that creates muscle fiber that is more efficient in performing a trained task.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥12,000
Notes: When installed, one of the following Minor Actions must be selected: avoid incoming, block, dodge, drop object, drop prone, hit the dirt, intercept, quick draw, stand up, take cover. When performing that Minor Action for the first time in a combat round, the myonuclear permanence provides the player with a free Minor Action.
Myonuclear permanence may be taken for multiple different Minor Actions.
A fancy phrasing that essentially means superior short-term memory. It’s a stripped-down version of the mnemonic enhancer with a fancy title, truth be told. Less effective, but handy.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
3
Cost:
¥10,000
Notes: Gain the Photographic Memory Positive Quality.
Evo surprised everyone when they recently brought this product to market. Other corps were quick to start rumors that this product came about due to extensive testing of captives from the gnome and fomorian communities. Evo was quick to point out the similarities between its product and magical resistance creators.
The very small gland is implanted on the side of the heart just outside the pulmonary artery. As the heart pumps, the gland releases a small amount of a magically active chemical. It flows throughout the body creating what some call a very imperfect personal ward. Whatever it does, it affects magic cast on the metahuman.
Essence:
0.25
Availability:
6
Cost:
¥12,500
Notes: You gain a +1 Dice Reroll for use on any Magic Resistance test.. When a Health spell is cast on you, treat your Essence as if it were 2 points lower than it is. This number can never be lower than zero.
This cluster of specialized nervous tissue is designed to filter sensory stimuli.
Essence:
0.3
Availability:
5 (Illegal)
Cost:
¥48,000
Notes: If the pain editor is active, this allows you to ignore all injury modifiers, and you even stay conscious when your Stun Condition Monitor is completely full.
You feel no pain - you’re blissfully, dangerously, recklessly unaware of the extent of damage you’ve taken without either performing a self-examination (Observe in Detail action) or being informed by a biomonitor.
While active, the pain editor increases your Willpower by 1 and decreases your Intuition by 1; additionally, all tactile Perception tests you make have their threshold increased by 1.
Metahuman brains are only capable of handling a limited amount of sensory data at any given time (particularly in an age of AR information bombardment). The reception enhancer modifies the parts of the brain that pick up and process sensory information by growing specialized neural tissue and reinforcing neuron connections to those parts of the brain. This augmentation enables the user to glean as much as possible from incoming sensory data.
Essence:
Rating x 0.2
Availability:
Rating x 2
Cost:
Rating x ¥10,000
Notes: The reception enhancer provides a bonus equal to its rating on all Perception tests.
This bonus is cumulative with those from sensors.
This system uses extra nervous tissue linked to specific areas of the body to improve muscle memory.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
5
Cost:
¥14,000
Notes: The reflex recorder adds 1 to the rating of a skill linked to a Physical attribute.
Multiple recorders may be taken for multiple skills, but you can’t implant two reflex recorders for the same skill.
While exo-wombs have been the primary form of clone production for decades now, they were predated by primitive endo-womb tech by half a century. Development along those lines stopped around 2050 as the process was effectively perfected, and it continues to be offered today. While it remains an option for males, the longer life of the male reproductive system means that most men who undertake the procedure are simply replacing parts damaged in accidents. The far more invasive female reproduction replacement is used more often for those suffering disease or for those who wish to have the childbearing options. Culturing the replacements from the donor’s DNA is vital to ensure that progeny carries the genetic structure of the parent.
Essence:
-
Availability:
3
Cost:
¥15,000
The sleep regulator is a modification to the hypothalamus, allowing for longer periods of wakefulness, an incredibly useful advantage for anyone with any profession, not just shadowrunners. You need less sleep per day, and the sleep you get is deep and restful (and harder to wake you up from).
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
5
Cost:
¥12,000
Notes: The sleep regulator lets you get by with three hours of sleep each night, and you can stay awake for twice as long as normal without acquiring the Fatigued status.
Resting hours for healing purposes are not affected.
The nerve cells making up the spinal cord are both broadened and replicated with this bioware, allowing for more neural bandwidth. The result is a much faster reaction time.
Essence:
Rating x 0.5
Availability:
5 (Legal)
Cost:
Rating x ¥95,000
Notes: The booster confers a bonus of +1 Reaction (with accompanying bonus to your Initiative Score) and 1 additional Initiative Die (with accompanying Minor Action).
The synaptic booster cannot be combined with any other form of Reaction or Initiative enhancement. Unlike other enhancements, this cannot be turned off, leaving the user in a perpetual state of being surrounded by slow motion.
The tough gut bioware enables the individual to process a variety of substances that are considered non-standard. The variety of substances that can be processed must be organic matter.
Essence:
0.15
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥10,000
Notes: Those with it have a –1 LP modifier applied to their Necessities costs (p. 179, Sixth World Companion).
Furthermore, they are more resistant to ingested poisons and toxins, gaining +1 Dice Reroll on Toxin Resistance tests.
Somewhat misnamed as it doesn’t actually reduce physical damage so much as make the user blissfully resistant to pain, the trauma damper is a series of pain receptors added to the base of the thalamus with one job: crank out endorphins in response to negative stimuli, such as pain or fatigue. In effect, the user experiences a “runner’s high” that counteracts some of the pain while leaving the mind somewhat foggy. There’s a small bio-hack that can keep the user in a constant low level of pain, forcing the body to keep producing endorphins 24/7. Not recommended, but ’dorphs can be found in many communities.
Essence:
Rating x 0.1
Availability:
4 (Legal)
Cost:
Rating x ¥4,000
Notes: The Trauma Damper reduces the user's Injury Modifier by up to it's Rating, but when doing so it reduces the user's Reaction by a matching amount.
The tremor reducer, also known as the sniper’s best friend, uses a simple neurological buffer to handle the small tremors that the body naturally produces when trying to be still. Small “sparks” are sent to extremities to ensure that they don’t go numb, while general body shakes are nullified.
Essence:
0.15
Availability:
4
Cost:
Rating x ¥10,000
Notes: In addition to allowing a character to remain still for eight hours per point of rating, the tremor reducer increases the maximum dice pool bonus for Take Aim by its rating.
This process is technically a combination of bioware and transgenic. The process starts with a more aggressive version of skeletal pneumaticity therapy. This augmentation causes the formation of hollow bones that are nearly as strong yet much lighter than the normal metahuman skeleton. In the later stages, the wings are grafted onto the back. The final phase is the addition of special air and gland sacs under the lungs. Once the procedure is completed, the character doesn’t gain true flight but something similar to hang gliding.
Essence:
0.15
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥100,000
Notes: The user weighs 20% less.
In addition, when the wings are in use, the user has a glide ratio of 3:1. For example, if the user launches from a 10-meter-high rooftop, they can land up to 30 meters away. If the user spends a Minor Action, they can direct their glide for up to 50 meters of horizontal movement. If they spend a Major Action, they can move in the same way but also extend the distance of their total glide by +3 meters per hit on an Athletics (Flight) + Strength test. Although the hollow bones are reinforced, the user still loses 1 die for any Damage Resistance tests.
A user with wings cannot also have bone lacing cyberware or bone density bioware.
The wings bioware is incompatible with skeletal pneumaticity therapy.
The user’s neural network is augmented by implanted, engineered nerve clusters. A cognitive shield uses these clusters in aggregate to compartmentalize the nervous system and evaluate whether impulses are natural voluntary or involuntary muscle contractions, or whether they are anomalous with no explainable origin and to be rejected. Not only does this implant cure many kinds of dyskinesias, it has the added benefit of offering the user some protection against being puppeteered by hackers or magical forces.
Essence:
Rating x 0.15
Availability:
6
Cost:
Rating x ¥25,000
Notes: The player may add a +1 Dice Pool Modifier per level of cognitive shield to any defense test against external control of your body.
The player cannot choose when to use it, and once used, it takes 24 hours for the chemical to replenish within the gland.
Additionally, cognitive shield adds to the resistance test for ripjacks.
The metahuman body has a natural ability to analyze sound waves reflected from nearby objects to build a composite “image” of their surroundings in a way similar to how a bat works, if significantly weaker. In most people, this ability is underdeveloped because they rely primarily on their eyes. This bioware enhances the nerve strands required for echolocation; recipients typically train to use their advanced senses in a 2-week-long speed-learning course.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
6
Cost:
Rating x ¥15,000
Notes: The echolocation augmentation provides the user with a simple form of acoustic sensing that, contingent on the volume of the noise the character uses for detection and background noise volume, allows the character to make out general shapes, sizes, and distances to objects - building a “low-resolution” image of his surroundings.
Echolocation can pick up things otherwise invisible to the naked eye, such as glass walls or opponents cloaked with Invisibility spells.
Ultrasound is not necessary for the use of this implant - simple clicking noises with the tongue or the sound of hard heels on the floor is sufficient.
If combined with the Vocal Range Enhancer and Hearing Enhancement bioware (or their cyberware equivalents), with a little training this augmentation functions like a bat or dolphin.
With a Minor Action, the character can perceive up to 50 meters in the air, 200 meters in freshwater, and 300 meters in saltwater.
If the action is sustained, they can track a variety of activities in their presence with the use of a Minor Action each combat round.
When in use, the power negates the Blindness status at all levels concerning navigation and combat. At the GM’s discretion, if the area is crowded or creating excessive noise, they cannot use Edge. Additionally, the individual may be Deafened when exposed to high-frequency sounds, and they cannot use Edge to resist any effects of those sounds.
This is a basic enhancement of the metahuman ear’s accuracy, sharpening hearing that has lost some fidelity due to damage and possibly restoring it to better than it was before.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
2
Cost:
¥4,000
Notes: The user receives a +1 Dice Reroll for aural Perception + Intuition tests.
This modification is often paired with the biosculpture moderate modification to give the recipient animal-looking, functional ears.
A more unusual advancement expands the sound spectrum that normal humans can detect, allowing them to hear both infrasonic sound and ultrasonic within a band ranging from 5 Hz to 50 kHz. The primary advantage of this is hearing ultrasonic devices. This quality also results in minor visible changes to the size and structure of the outer ear. Like hearing enhancement, this modification is often paired with the biosculpture moderate modification to give the patient animal-looking, functional ears.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥4,000
Notes: This enables the character to hear into the ultrasonic or infrasonic ranges. This does not give the ability to choose or control any part of the frequency spectrum in question. As this kind of hearing is always active, noises inaudible to others may sometimes distract or deafen the character.
This bioware is incompatible with any implanted cyberears or hearing augmentations except the hearing dampener as a standalone implant.
For this procedure, magnetite (a highly magnetic mineral commonly found in birds) is injected into the bridge of the nose and then wired into the hippocampus portion of the brain. The individual is then able to sense changes in nearby magnetic fields.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥5,000
Notes: These individuals can feel magnetic fields, allowing them to detect their presence, direction, and intensity.
Finding them requires a Perception + Intuition (3) test, with a range equal to Body + Intuition in meters.
Individuals with this quality also have a strong ability to navigate, giving them a +1 Dice Reroll on all Outdoors (Navigation) tests.
Manasense Some no-name company in the CAS was attempting to create a synthesized version of Psyche. They weren’t successful, but when they were testing the product, they discovered the participants could feel magic. Spinrad Global immediately came in and bought the company. They packaged the drug in something similar to a chemical gland, creating manasense.
Essence:
0.15
Availability:
6
Cost:
¥5,000
Notes: The user possesses the ability to sense any type of active or passive magic energy, including spell usage, in their vicinity.
The individual uses an Astral + Intuition test, using the Detection Spells Results Table (p. 134, SR6).
The range of this sense is (Magic + Intuition) meters, and it can be increased with a simple Willpower test, adding one meter for every hit.
For this modification, millions of tiny hairs are implanted into the recipient’s palms. These hairs allow the character to adhere to any surface they touch. The individual bond between hair and surface is insignificant, so the character can remove his hand from whatever he is touching by peeling it off the surface.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
5
Cost:
¥12,000
Notes: The hairs allow the character to attach firmly to anything: glass, plastic, concrete, steel, walls, ceilings, and weapons. Liquid covering the surface does not reduce the interaction strength; the character can climb a wet glass wall as easily as a dry one. Loose debris on the surface or thick, slippery coatings, like sand or grease, nullify the effect of the setae.
The user gains a +2 Dice Pool Modifier to all climbing tests; if both hands and feet have setae and are bare, they gain a +4 Dice Pool Modifier.
Individuals can hang onto a surface, vertical or even inverted entirely, if they have at least two sets of setae in use.
Each treatment covers an area roughly the size of a human hand. Rather than the hedonistic increase in volume that cosmetic modification brings, tactile sensitivity instead focuses on detail, allowing a slower, more detailed “reading” of tactile information. Fully four times as many nerve endings are present, with the gain somewhat turned down to prevent overwhelming sensation, allowing for a more precise location of stimulation. This makes it simple to detect otherwise undetectable markings on virtually any surface. With practice, a user can read the keys on a keyboard or number pad inabsolute darkness due to the indentations on each key, or they can feel when tumblers fall into place in a combination lock. These ancient technologies are rarely needed in today’s world, but it’s nice to know that the option’s there if you need it.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥2,500
Notes: Characters with tactile sensitivity gain a +1 Dice Reroll for lock picking or any touchbased Perception tests.
Derived from the heat-sensing organs found in pit vipers, the bioengineered thermosense organs are implanted onto the sides of the head or neck. A cluster of specialized nervous tissue is also added to the sensory cortex, allowing the recipient to interpret the organ’s sensory input.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
6
Cost:
¥5,000
Notes: Individuals with this sensory adaptation can perceive infrared radiation (heat).
The range of this sense is (Intuition) meters and is non-visual in nature. Environmental factors can influence this sense, as can barriers or other obstacles.
Hits on a Perception + Intuition (2) test reveal information on distance, movement, heat output, and location of infrared rays. It is not fooled by mana-based illusion spells.
This quality also reduces the Blinded status by 1.
Rumors continue to suggest that actual trolls are the source of this upgrade, and that urban legend simply won’t die no matter how often it is debunked. In reality, the metahuman eye is entirely reconstructed for this process, changing the visible spectrum that it operates on and allowing for a true thermal vision far more natural than what can be accomplished with technological aids.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥4,000
Notes: The user gains thermographic vision.
No other eye modification is compatible with troll eyes, due to the massive work that goes into the process.
This augmentation combines a boost to the neural pathways between the nose and brain, and the implementation of additional olfactory organelles that augment their sense of smell to levels that rival a bloodhound.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥4,000
Notes: The recipient can learn to identify individual people and animals by smell and can detect basic emotional states.
This gives the individual a +1 Dice Reroll when making smell-based Perception tests and Social tests when they can smell their target.
Strong odors and intense background odors incur the Nauseated status if the individual fails a Body + Willpower (2) test.
There are two versions of this modification. They both can be taken by one person; the difference is in the type and locations of the modifications.
The flesh around the skull is implanted with a variety of new receptors and a modification to the cerebellum. This doesn’t give the metahuman the ability to see 360 degrees, but they are able to feel slight changes in the environment - air currents, temperature, even some electromagnetic fields - then predict movement and potential dangers.
You have a sixth sense of danger, instinctively knowing when it’s nearby and preparing for it.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥12,000
Notes: Gain a +1 Dice Reroll when making a Surprise Test.
This bioware gives you the ability to predict and avoid harm.
Essence:
Rating x 0.2
Availability:
6
Cost:
Rating x ¥15,000
Notes: Gain a +1 Dice Pool Modifier per rating on any defensive tests. This bonus also applies to any Surprise Tests.
This piece of bioware is based on the platypus. It consists of three implants of distinct receptor cells on the front and sides of the skull. This cannot be used with a cyberskull or the awareness bioware. This augmentation replicates the ability critters have to sense electrical fields, such as when they are near certain electronic devices, engines, or security systems.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
5
Cost:
¥5,000
Notes: This organ sense functions at a distance equal to (Body + Intuition) in meters. A Major Action is required to use electrosense; roll Perception + Intuition and check the hits against the Electrosense Table. This is a passive sense, with no broadcasting noise originating from the individual.
Essence:
0.2
Availability:
6
Cost:
¥11,000
Notes: This organ sense functions at a distance equal to (Body + Intuition) in meters. A Major Action is required to use electrosense; roll Perception + Intuition and check the hits against the Electrosense Table. This is a passive sense, with no broadcasting noise originating from the individual.
In addition to having access to the electrosense column in the chart below, the character also gains the information presented under the technosense information column.
Unless otherwise noted, attacks with bioweaponry use the Unarmed Combat skill with a Natural Weapons specialization.
A gland much like one of the spitting cobra varieties is grown and implanted in the roof of the mouth. A person causes the venom to shoot out by forcefully pressing their tongue to the roof of their mouth.
Essence:
Rating x 0.1
Availability:
5
Cost:
Rating x ¥5,000
Notes: A gland much like one of the spitting cobra varieties is grown and implanted in the roof of the mouth. A person causes the venom to shoot out by forcefully pressing their tongue to the roof of their mouth.
Like the Corrosive Spit ability of critters, this ability allows an individual can make a ranged combat attack with Exotic Weapon (Spitter) and has a Damage Value of 4P.
The damage is Chemical, and any damage also inflicts the Corrosive status with a value equal to the rating of the bioware.
Similar to the operations of the electric eel, an electrical discharge weapon is a non-lethal, taser-like shocking organ with a release point usually on the user’s palm. The user can control the strength of the discharge, allowing for smaller jolts that can be used as pranks or to jump off small electrical devices, up to voltage high enough to approach lethality. Rumor suggests that there are stronger discharging bioweapons in development, but the user is no more resistant to the discharges than anyone else, and a lethal accidental discharge would very much be a problem. While a wild misuse of the term, it’s easiest to measure the electrical discharge’s capability in volts - in this case? 24.
Essence:
0.3
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥10,000
Notes: An Electrical Discharger holds up to 24 volts, recharging 1 every fifteen minutes, and it can push out as many as 8 volts per contact.
While the electrical discharge normally requires touching the release point to the target, when in water the shock can be projected up to 2 meters away.
Bioweaponry Stats:
Type: Unarmed (Natural Weapon)
Damage Value: 8 Stun (Electric)
A cosmetic upgrade that technically has combat options, horns are so difficult to use that no community requires their registration. Horns are available in a staggering variety of forms, including bull horns, ram horns, asymmetrical troll horns, and single, rhino-like additions, all of which are functionally identical.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
3
Cost:
¥500
Notes: Horns do (STR/2 + 3) Physical damage. If the character's Strength is 6 or greater, they do (STR/2 + 5) Physical damage.
Trolls can use their natural horns as weapons, with a +2 Dice Pool Modifier, using the Close Combat (Natural Weapon) skill.
A set of venom glands requires a way to deliver the venom. Therefore, this must be combined with biospikes, fangs, frog tongue, quills, stingers, or thorns.
Essence:
0.2
Availability:
5
Cost:
¥15,000
Notes: If used as an injector, the attack must score two net hits in order to inject the venom.
Natural Venom:
Vector: Injection
Speed: 1 Combat Round
Power: 3
Effect: Stun, Dazed, Poisoned
Added to a user’s hands or feet, these are simply thick, hardy patches of callused skin, altered to be almost as sturdy as troll dermal deposits, allowing the user to strike dangerous blows with what are at first glance ordinary hands and feet. A relatively new development, they are, as yet, unrestricted weapons.
Essence:
0.05
Availability:
2
Cost:
¥500
Notes: This provides a +1 Dice Reroll for Unarmed Combat attacks.
A quick transplant procedure and a hormonal, retroviral cocktail are all that is needed to replace select hair follicles with tough, needle-like spines similar to a hedgehog’s. Each transplant procedure covers the surface area of a limb (i.e., an arm, a leg, or the torso).
Essence:
0.25
Availability:
6
Cost:
¥2,500
Notes: The quills are generally shorter than 30 centimeters. They increase the individual’s Defense Rating by +2 in any form of Close Combat.
Additionally, when grappling or subduing someone with quills, the attacker must resist DV 2P.
They can also be used offensively with the Exotic Weapon (Quills) skill and do (STR/2 + 3) Physical damage.
The user’s arms, legs, or back must be exposed to gain these benefits.
Quills are incompatible with other natural or artificial hair or skin modifications.
Not a weapon in and of itself, but an upgrade designed especially for those who intend to use their fangs for biting, the muzzle improves the accuracy of fangs.
Essence:
0.3
Availability:
4 (Legal)
Cost:
¥2,000
Notes: A muzzle grants a +2 Dice Pool Bonus on all attacks made with Fangs.
This augmentation was developed after a rare genetic pattern was identified following a standard bone lacing procedure. This process grows dense bone spikes in the subject, with attached musculature to extrude or retract the bone. The process includes a procedure to create a channel within the body and an aperture in the skin that prevents damage to the subject when the bone is extended.
There are two versions, both retractable.
Blades are placed in the forearms or shins.
Essence:
0.15
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥7,500
Notes: If a character has the bone density augmentation or bone lacing, they can use the DV of that augmentation instead of the biospike DV.
Unless modified by bone density augmentation or bone lacing, biospikes have a concealability modifier of +10.
Bioweaponry Stats:
Type: Unarmed (Natural Weapon)
Damage Value: (STR/2 + 2) Physical
Claws are placed in the hand or feet under the nails.
Essence:
0.10
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥5,000
Notes: If a character has the bone density augmentation or bone lacing, they can use the DV of that augmentation instead of the biospike DV.
Unless modified by bone density augmentation or bone lacing, biospikes have a concealability modifier of +10.
Bioweaponry Stats:
Type: Unarmed (Natural Weapon)
Damage Value: (STR/2 + 1) Physical
Accompanied by its own self-filling chemical gland, the sprayer is a tubular sphincter lined with powerful muscles, allowing the user to spray a tight jet of liquid. This results in a weapon delivery system not unlike a skunk, though the chemical used can generate quite a range of results.
A single dose can hit a target up to 1 meter away. With a stronger muscle contraction, the jet can strike as far as 3 meters, but this expends two doses of the chemical.
The sprayer uses the Exotic Ranged Weapons (Biosprayer) skill.
The biosprayer uses Spray Attack rules.
The gland holds 2 doses and takes 12 hours to refill a single dose.
A successful attack with the biosprayer does not cause damage. Instead, the net hits convey a status effect up to the biosprayer’s rating or the number of net hits, whichever s greater.
The four types of biosprayers are Blind, Confused, Dazed, and Nauseated.
Essence:
Rating x 0.35
Availability:
6
Cost:
Rating x ¥25,000
Notes: Maximum Range of 10 Meters.
Essence:
Rating x 0.35
Availability:
6
Cost:
Rating x ¥25,000
Notes: Maximum Range of 10 Meters.
Essence:
0.35
Availability:
6
Cost:
¥25,000
Notes: Maximum Range of 10 Meters.
Essence:
0.35
Availability:
6
Cost:
¥25,000
Notes: Maximum Range of 10 Meters.
More fashionable than functional, fangs are usually purchased for purely cosmetic purposes, as the metahuman face is poorly designed for biting. When they strike, however, jaw muscles inflict far more damage than hand muscles.
Fangs also come in a retractable version. They are frequently attached to chemical glands, allowing for venomous bites or, for the vampire-poser culture, the injection of euphoric chemicals
Essence:
0.05
Availability:
3
Cost:
¥1,000
Notes: Uses the Close Combat (Unarmed) skill and does (STR/2 + 2) Physical.
Essence:
0.15
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥1,500
Notes: Uses the Close Combat (Unarmed) skill and does (STR/2 + 2) Physical.
The stinger is a simple spike with a hollow tube that allows the use of a chemical gland to inject a target. Stingers are, in essence, non-retractable hand blades and spurs.
Tiny Stingers are barely able to pierce the skin.
Essence:
0.05
Availability:
3
Cost:
¥500
Notes: Stingers can use the Close Combat (Unarmed) skill. They do (STR/2 + 1) Physical damage.
Medium Stingers are akin to a knife blade.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥2,500
Notes: Stingers can use the Close Combat (Unarmed) skill. They do (STR/2 + 2) Physical damage.
Large Stingers are roughly the size of a forearm and highly illegal.
Essence:
0.15
Availability:
5
Cost:
¥8,000
Notes: Stingers can use the Close Combat (Unarmed) skill. They do (STR/2 + 3) Physical damage.
All the rage during the big Orksploitation craze, tusks continue to be sought by ork posers worldwide and, quietly, are purchased by orks who have lost their tusks due to mistreatment or combat.
Available in small, medium, and large sizes, tusks are not as difficult to use in a fight as fangs, but most aren’t as dangerous.
Costs are listed for single tusks, but having a pair grants a +2 Dice Pool Modifier.
Small tusks are no more useful than a standard metahuman bite, but they have become stylish. Tusks of medium size or smaller need no registration.
Essence:
Small
Availability:
2
Cost:
¥100
Notes: Small tusks use the Close Combat (Unarmed) skill. They have a Damage Value of (STR/2) Physical.
Note that replacing a broken tusk with a medium or small bioweapon tusk costs an ork no Essence.
Costs are listed for single tusks, but having a pair grants a +2 Dice Pool Modifier.
Medium sized tusks are the size that most orks have. Tusks of medium size or smaller need no registration.
Essence:
0.1
Availability:
4
Cost:
¥500
Notes: Medium tusks use the Close Combat (Unarmed) skill. They have a Damage Value of (STR/2 + 1) Physical.
Note that replacing a broken tusk with a medium or small bioweapon tusk costs an ork no Essence.
Orks may use their natural tusks as weapons with these stats, with an added +2 Dice Pool Modifier.
Costs are listed for single tusks, but having a pair grants a +2 Dice Pool Modifier.
Larger tusk implants - which quickly became a thing for urban ork gangs - necessitated the passing of legislation in the UCAS, CAS, and several other nations to restrict their sale to SIN-bearing customers only.
Essence:
0.15
Availability:
8 (Legal)
Cost:
¥1,000
Notes: Large tusks use the Close Combat (Unarmed) skill. They have a Damage Value of (STR/2 + 2) Physical.
Note that replacing a broken tusk with a medium or small bioweapon tusk costs an ork no Essence.
Costs are listed for single tusks, but having a pair grants a +2 Dice Pool Modifier.
