Cheat Sheet

The Core RollZine 2 — Core Resolution

Natural 20 is always Tier 3 regardless of modifiers, and grants one additional Main Action after that action resolves. A natural 20 on a Save always succeeds, with no extra action.

DamageZine 1 — Adding Your Level

Printed Talent damage + your Attribute + your Level. A Level 5 operator whose Talent reads 9 + Reflex deals 9 + Reflex + 5.

The Level bonus is what keeps a fight at four to five rounds from Level 1 to Level 10. Gear arrives in jumps; Levels arrive one at a time.

Weapon Tier vs Armor TierZine 2 — Armor

Weapon Tier does not set damage. It sets what you can hurt.

No Effect means no Rūḥ or Énergeia is lost — movement, Suppression and control effects still resolve. Tier 1–2 Armor is worn; Tier 3–4 is a platform. Machines are never below Tier 2.

Signature Weapon Tier rises with you: WT 1 at Levels 1–3, WT 2 at 4–6, WT 3 at 7–9, WT 4 at 10. Adversaries use the same rule.

ConsequencesZine 2 — Injuries and Failures

Vulnerable Zone (half or less): any further damage rolls 1d10, capped at 6.

Critical Zone (a quarter or less): the same 1d10, no cap.

Once per target per round. A Tier 3 Called Shot or reaching 0 rolls uncapped regardless of zone.

Living chart for people. Mech and synth chart for anything on its own frame. Vehicle chart for platforms. Duplicates worsen one step: Kit or First Aid, then Shop or Surgery, then Facility, then permanent.

MachinesZine 1 — Énergeia

Drones, vehicles, mechs and synths carry Énergeia, not Rūḥ. Same zones: half is Vulnerable, a quarter is Critical, zero is Disabled unless the block says Destroyed.

Nothing that restores Rūḥ repairs Énergeia. Repair is Kit (Normal check), Shop (Hard), or Facility.

A piloted platform never gets its own turn — it spends its operator's single Movement, Maneuver and Main Action. EMP ammunition is +1 effective Weapon Tier against machines and cyberware.

Building an EncounterZine 4 — Competitors

Encounter Strength per operator = 4 + (2 × Level). Add one more operator for every 2 Victories the crew averages.

One Operator-tier Competitor of a given Level is worth one player operator of that Level. 8 Chaff = 1. 2 Crew = 1. Specialist and Handler = 2. Apex = 6.

An operation holds one standard fight and something small, or two easy ones. Plan to fight once. Platforms the crew brings add ES: light vehicle +1, armored or aircraft or light mech +2, heavy mech +3.

Edge, Bane and SavesZine 2 — Edge and Bane / Saves

They cancel one for one and never exceed Double.

Save — 2d10 + Attribute, 10 or higher succeeds. No difficulty grades. Save Ends: roll at the end of each affected Turn until it succeeds.

The Scene TrackerZine 2 — Scene Tracker

A Mark means — Time: the response arrives sooner or an opportunity closes. Evidence: they gain footage, identity fragments, signatures, witnesses. Access: a route, door or permission closes.

The Tracker measures the target’s response, not the crew’s progress. A full Tracker changes the conditions, escalates the opposition, or forces a new scene.

Running any operationZine 2 — Methods of Pressure

1. Name the faction and what it runs.
2. Decide what the crew attacks — one ability, not the whole faction.
3. Pick the operation and read its six Player Steps.
4. Set the Scene Tracker size.
5. Write the closing sentence in advance.
6. Stop preparing.

Your TurnZine 2 — Combat Steps 0–6

1. Review — Rūḥ, Recoveries, conditions.
2. Move and position — cover, height, light, exits.
3. Choose a legal target.
4. Resolve — declare, roll, read the Tier.
5. Special systems — firearms, Suppression, drones, vehicles.
6. End the Turn — Saves, conditions, consequences.

Declare before resolution. Triggered defenses, Interrupts and free strikes must be declared when the trigger occurs, before the action fully resolves.

Damage, in orderZine 2 — Damage Sequence

1. Armor and damage-type interaction.
2. Resistance or Weakness.
3. Temporary Rūḥ / Énergeia, then normal durability.
4. Forced movement and collision.
5. Conditions and component effects.
6. Check the Vulnerable and Critical Zones, 0, consequence roll, Dying, Disabled, destroyed.

Range and engagementZine 2 — Range Bands

• Ideal — no modifier.
• Close — no modifier for pistols, SMGs, shotguns.
• Adjacent with a long weapon — Bane unless Compact.
• Beyond Ideal to Maximum — Bane. Beyond Maximum — no attack without a Talent, scope or emplacement.

Ranged attacks at non-adjacent targets take Bane while engaged. Pistols, SMGs and Compact weapons hit the adjacent enemy normally.

Shove, Grab, CollisionZine 2 — Shove / Grab

Grabbed: Movement 0, dragged at half Movement. Escape (Maneuver): Normal save, Easy if larger than the grabber, Hard if smaller.

Collision — 1 damage per 2 metres of unused movement, capped at 5. Both parties take it in a creature collision.

DyingZine 2 — Death and Stabilization

At 0 Rūḥ: Incapacitated and Dying. Stay in initiative, take no actions, make a Normal save at the end of your turn.

• Success marks one Stabilize; failure marks one Death.
• Three Stabilize → stable at 0 Rūḥ. Three Death → dead.
• Damage while Dying marks one Death; a Critical marks two.

RecoveriesZine 2 — Recoveries

Recoveries are per Archetype — 2 + Power for a Brawler or Veinrunner, 1 + Power for everyone else. Catch a Breath (Maneuver, needs a Medical Kit): spend one, regain one third of your maximum Rūḥ. They refresh only at a full rest or operation reset.

Vulnerable Zone at half or less of maximum Rūḥ or Énergeia — attacks gain Edge and further damage rolls a consequence, capped at 6. Critical Zone at a quarter or less — the consequence roll is uncapped.

RaidZine 2 — BLOOD, DATA OR PROFIT

1. Pick the target and what leaving looks like
   Investigation, domain Skill
2. Learn what defends it and how fast help comes
   Investigation, Shadowing, Electronic Surveillance
3. Choose your way in and your way out, and have a second one
   Piloting, Shadowing, Fabrication
4. Get in and take control of the space
   Combat Skills at target Rank
5. Take, break or burn what you came for
   Demolitions, Fabrication, domain Skill
6. Get out before the response lands
   Piloting, Shadowing

Proxy ConflictZine 2 — BLOOD OR PROFIT

1. Pick the two who already dislike each other
   Investigation, Status
2. Work out what would actually set them off
   Investigation, Leverage
3. Make it look like the other side started it
   Spin, Fabrication, Shadowing
4. Feed the fight without being seen to
   Spin, Sell, Contacts
5. Use the gap while they are busy
   domain Skill at target Rank
6. Get clear before either works out who aimed them
   Shadowing, Spin, Leverage

ProtectionZine 2 — DATA, PROFIT OR BLOOD

1. Be clear about what you are protecting and what counts as losing it
   Investigation, Status
2. Work out who wants it and how they would take it
   Investigation, Shadowing, Electronic Surveillance
3. Close the easy ways in
   Fabrication, Cyber Operations, Piloting
4. Put your people where the attempt will happen
   Combat Skills, Shadowing
5. Handle the attempt when it comes
   Combat or domain Skill at target Rank
6. Work out who sent them, and make that public or make it costly
   Investigation, Leverage, Spin

Detection 0–4Zine 2 — Ghosting Detection

When it marks. A failed Ghosting Breach Check always marks one box. Other failures mark only when defenders gain usable evidence, stronger trace, closed access, confirmed intrusion or response capacity. Detection is shared across one coordinated environment.

A mark looks like — identity challenge or verification delay; closed route or revoked credential; false data or redirected traffic; a Sentinel or corporate Ghost team arriving; the Data Tether clearing; physical security approaching the access point.

Disconnecting. 0–1: clean exit normally possible. 2: exit requires breaking trace or accepting persistent evidence.

The AgoraZine 2 — Heist (Data)

A digital reconstruction of ancient Athens where much of the world’s business is done. It has quarters, gates and guards, and they behave like the real thing.

Halved damage is not safety. A crew can still be beaten unconscious, and everything they carried is gone when they wake.

Heist — DataZine 2 — THE AGORA

1. Pick the data you are taking, and why losing it hurts them
   Investigation R1-4; Cyber Operations
2. Find out who holds it, who visits it, and who would notice
   Investigation, Electronic Surveillance, Cyber Operations at target Rank
3. Walk the quarter and watch how it actually behaves
   Shadowing or Electronic Surveillance at target Rank
4. Get your handle, your standing and your way out ready before you start
   Spin, Cyber Operations, Contacts, Fabrication
5. Get past what protects it, then take, copy, alter or corrupt it
   Cyber Operations matching each defense at target Rank
6. Log out clean, and leave the record looking ordinary
   Cyber Operations, Spin, Shadowing

Success The crew takes the data and the owner still believes their records are intact.
Partial The crew takes the data, but a handle, a route or a method is burned and can be traced.
Full Tracker The quarter locks: gates close, standing is stripped, and the crew is put out of the Agora with whatever they were holding.

InfiltrationZine 2 — DATA

1. Decide who you are pretending to be
   Spin, Status, Sell, Leverage
2. Build the proof that backs up the story
   Spin for story; Fabrication for physical credentials; Cyber Operations for records; Status or Contacts for a vouch
3. Walk in the way the staff expect, and act like you have a reason to be there
   Spin or Sell at target Rank
4. Watch how the place actually runs
   Shadowing, Investigation, Electronic Surveillance, Status
5. When someone starts to doubt you, give them an easier answer
   Spin, Sell, Leverage, Status
6. Do what you came for and leave before anyone is certain
   Shadowing plus objective Skill

ExposureZine 2 — DATA

1. Decide what the truth is and who has to believe it
   Investigation, Spin
2. Get proof that survives being denied
   Investigation, Cyber Operations, Electronic Surveillance
3. Find someone who can carry it and be believed
   Contacts, Status, Sell
4. Protect whoever hands it over
   Shadowing, Leverage, Protect
5. Release it where it cannot be quietly pulled
   Spin, Cyber Operations, Contacts
6. Hold the story while they try to kill it
   Spin, Leverage, Status

Data OperationZine 2 — DATA

1. Decide what you need out of the system
   Investigation, Cyber Operations
2. Find the way in that is actually open
   Cyber Operations, Electronic Surveillance, Investigation
3. Get credentials or an unwatched route
   Cyber Operations, Spin, Contacts
4. Go in and stay inside your cover
   Cyber Operations at target Rank
5. Take, copy, alter or plant what you came for
   Cyber Operations plus domain Skill
6. Leave the log looking like nothing happened
   Cyber Operations, Spin

The crew economy loopZine 3 — Core Crew Economy Loop

1. Take an operation.
2. Apply Pressure.
3. Change Influence.
4. Take rewards — Credits, Resources, Claims.
5. Turn rewards into an Asset.
6. The Asset produces income, capability, or a new problem.
7. That problem becomes the next operation.

If a session feels aimless, ask which step the crew is on. It is usually step one, and they need a lead rather than a rule.

Downtime profitZine 3 — Downtime Profit Procedure

1. Resolve once per downtime cycle, or after a major market change.
2. Start with the Asset Income Rating.
3. Subtract one operating cost per unresolved problem — damage, shortage, unpaid labour, hostile attention.
4. Add one bonus per advantage — exclusive contract, controlled route, high Reputation.

Ten minutes at the table. Roll it, note it, get back to the job.

Build timesZine 3 — Build Times

Cyberware KitsZine 3 — Khepri

Four lines: Heracles (load and impact), Thoth (neural), Hermes (myoelectric), Sekhmet (biological).

• Every line begins at Tier 1; tiers taken in order, no skipping.
• Kit points come from levelling — advance a line you hold, or open a new one at Tier 1.
• Points may be spread across lines. At level 1 you hold one Kit, at Tier 1.

Heist — ProfitZine 2 — PHYSICAL WORLD

1. Pick what you are stealing, and why losing it hurts them
   Investigation R1-4; domain Skill
2. Find out who owns it, when it moves, and who guards it
   Investigation, Shadowing, Electronic Surveillance, Cyber Operations at target Rank
3. Go look at the place, and at the people who move through it
   Shadowing or Electronic Surveillance at target Rank
4. Get your cover, tools, transport and way out ready before you start
   Spin, Fabrication, Cyber Operations, Piloting, Contacts
5. Get past what protects it, then take, copy, swap or break it
   Skill matching each defense at target Rank
6. Leave, and make the loss hard to trace back to you
   Piloting, Shadowing, Spin, Leverage

SabotageZine 2 — PROFIT

1. Follow the chain and find what everything else depends on
   Investigation, domain Skill
2. Decide whether you want it slow, wrong, stopped or unpredictable
   Investigation, Fabrication
3. Get access, by hand, by person or by system
   Shadowing, Spin, Cyber Operations
4. Do the damage in a way that looks like something else
   Fabrication, Demolitions, Cyber Operations
5. Make sure it is found the way you want it found
   Spin, Leverage
6. Be somewhere else, provably
   Spin, Shadowing, Contacts

Social PressureZine 2 — PROFIT

1. Decide whose decision you need changed
   Investigation, Status
2. Find out what they actually care about
   Investigation, Shadowing, Contacts
3. Find who they listen to
   Contacts, Status
4. Give them a reason that lets them save face
   Sell, Spin, Leverage
5. Make the new position the easy one
   Sell, Status, Leverage
6. Leave them a way to keep doing it
   Spin, Contacts

Territorial PressureZine 2 — BLOOD OR PROFIT

1. Pick the ground and name who holds it now
   Investigation, Status
2. Find out what their hold actually rests on
   Investigation, Shadowing, Contacts
3. Take one thing they cannot do without
   domain Skill at target Rank
4. Show the neighbourhood that you took it
   Spin, Status, Leverage
5. Hold it when they come back
   Combat Skills, Leverage, Contacts
6. Say plainly what they can no longer do here
   Spin, Investigation