Each location in the Net should have a particular individuallity, and this lists help with it a lot. The differences in how you envision the Grid will very heavily condition how the Hacker players will play their characters in the game, and is therefore a core question for every cyberpunk game.Īs the Grid is a recreation subject to near-to-no rules, the chapter about Common and Unique Grid Locations and Hazards are very useful to avoid making every hacking look similar. From the 'everything's the NET - WiFi is in the air'cities, where Aug/Virt Reality merges with the meat world, to old-school (or post-Black Out/Time of the Red/Datapocalypse) local Nets that need to be jacked-in. It doesn't limit itself to presenting rules for hacking corpoNets, it offers an overview of what kind of Grid you want your game-universe to have. Create any kind of cyberpunk character you want and throw them into the action within minutes. With a focus on story and action, character creation is fast and the rules are intuitive. NEON CITY OVERDRIVE is a fast-playing RPG of cyberpunk action. Use the information as presented, or use the advice provided to adjust the setting details to fit your own vision of how cyberpunks interface with the virtual world.

The Grid continues to expand the world of NEON CITY OVERDRIVE with new character options, enemies and story hooks. Trademarks and gear: Twenty-five new trademarks, advice on playing an artificial intelligence and examples to help you represent grid technology and programs as special gear. Playing the grid: Advice on using the grid in your games, new grid-specific conditions and traumas, and further guidance on the process of piggy-backing grid observers. Watch out for data storms and oubliettes, defy grid cops and gate guardians and avoid the dreaded black ICE. New hazards and threats: Dangerous locations, enemies and programs are presented to threaten codeslingers and spice up grid runs. Run the digital streets, hang out in Underwire, marvel at the mysterious Beam or ride the information super-highway that is the ribbon. Jacking in: How the grid is used, including descriptions of the key infrastructure and technologies such as the holographic overlay, data hubs, private networks and interface gear.Įxploring the grid: Getting around the grid, descriptions of key locations and dozens of story hooks. In this supplement for NEON CITY OVERDRIVE the grid is explored and explained, providing you the tools to take your games off the street and into the digitized wonderland of the sprawling data network. It has invaded every part of modern life and made itself an unavoidable spectre that watches, listens and controls the lives of the careless and unwary.

The grid - the endless runway of neon-lit data that hackers, codeslingers and A.I.s call home.

Neon drive grid