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Exodus NDS Sourcebook

The Chrome Market

Near-Future Weapons, Cyberware, and Street Tech for Exodus NDS

Near-future and cyberpunk gear for narrative dice games: smart weapons, armour, thirty-eight implants and twelve pieces of bioware that cost Strain Points for good, hacking run as a clock, drones, a watched city with Coverage and Heat, and street prices for all of it.

14 chapters, about 12,600 words, free to read here in full. Written for Exodus NDS; the stat lines also drop into a Genesys RPG game.

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Contents

About This Book Seventeen weapons, eight armours, thirty-eight implants, twelve pieces of bioware, eleven drones, fourteen decks and programs, and thirty-one pieces of street gear, for the years between now and the… 1. Introduction In the last century a gun was a gun. It did not know who was holding it, it did not report where it was, and nobody three streets away could turn it off. 2. Reading an Entry Weapons and armour are printed as they are in the other armories. Cyberware, bioware, programs, and drones are printed in tables. 3. Weapons A bullet in 2070 does what a bullet did in 1970. The damage of every firearm here follows the calibre table in The Modern Armory. 4. Armour and Frames Armour in this period follows the rules of The Armourer: no armour adds more than +3 Resistance, one body armour is worn at a time, and what an armour is good against is Bane Dice. 5. Cyberware: The Rules A character with Willpower 2 has 12 Strain Points. With a Smartlink (1), Cybereyes (1), a Cyberarm (1), and Wired Reflexes (2), that character has 7. 6. Cyberware Thirty-eight implants, by the part of the body they are fitted to. Load is what each costs in Strain Points, for good. 7. Bioware Bioware is grown: muscle, nerve, skin, and organs cultured from the patient's own cells and edited before they are put back. 8. Intrusion A hack is a clock. The hacker works inward one layer at a time while an Alert climbs behind. 9. Drones A drone is a machine that goes where its owner would rather not. 10. Surveillance, Identity, and Countermeasures Every place has a Coverage rating: how closely it is watched by machines. 11. Street Services and Prices The GM may spend 2 Bane from the check to make the item second-hand, and a Calamity to make the seller an informant: the buyer gains 1 Heat. 12. Master Tables Prices are in present-day US dollars, on the scale of The Modern Armory. 12. Licensing Only the Exodus NDS Core Rules are published under the ORC License. Everything else Kaosweaver, Inc. publishes, including this book, is copyright reserved.