Metroplex: The Edge

• Balls measures a character’s nerve and their willingness to go outside of expected societal bounds
• Cool measures a character’s composure and professionalism; particularly in instances where those things might be compromised or otherwise tested.
• Rep measures a character’s social networking skills and credibility. It isn’t about having a good or bad reputation; but about being a known quantity.
• Sway measures a character’s ability to seduce, manipulate, or otherwise influence others.
• Wits measures a character’s ability think fast and improvise on the fly. It’s a combination of perception, streetwise, and reasoning skills.

• Act Under Pressure: You make this move when you do something while in imminent danger. You are acting despite the risk of known consequences like exposure to harm, detection by enemies, or some other unwanted situation. This move uses the _Cool_ trait.
• Avoid Detection: You make this move when you try to do something without being noticed. You might be tailing a mark, escaping an active search, or picking someone’s pocket. This move uses the _Wits_ trait.
• Consult Contacts: When you need to buy or sell something not readily obtainable, or not otherwise obtainably through legal channels, you make this move to put the word out and find a potential buyer or seller. This move uses the _Rep_ trait.
• Force Compliance: You make this move when you make it clear that someone needs to do what you want or else they’ll suffer harm. This is not a bluff. If they do not comply; you will inflict the specified harm on them. This move uses the _Balls_ trait.
• Help or Hinder: You make this move when you need to take actions to assist someone else, or try to cause someone else to fail at something. This move uses the _Cool_ trait.
• Manipulate Someone: You make this move when you try to convince someone to do what you want; without intending any violent repercussions if they fail to deliver. This includes things like bluffing, planting seeds of doubt, or even outright seduction. This move uses the _Sway_ trait.
• Scan Surroundings: You make this move when you choose to observe your environment looking to better understand it and whatever is currently occurring in it. This may let you get a read on the current social dynamic between the present characters, or provide tactical options that you would not otherwise have been aware of. This move uses the _Wits_ trait.
• Seize Something: You make this move when you resort to violent action to take control of the momentum; when opposition exists that is capable of resisting your attempt. The prize itself might be anything that makes sense in the situation. It could be high ground, an object, or just about anything else. So long as you can obtain it; you can seize it. This move uses the _Balls_ trait.

• The Bloodhound: You find things that go missing or uncover the secrets others would rather remain hidden. You might do it for paying clients, to sell to the highest bidder, or to blackmail the owner. It doesn’t really matter why you do it; you’re good at what you do.
• The Commando: You were trained for war. You know how to use heavy weapons, and how to maneuver in combat. Those skills have been in pretty high demand since everything went to shit. If you managed to survive long enough to get good at those things; you’re probably too fucked up to hold down a job doing much else.
• The Firebrand: You are the charismatic spokesperson of a movement. You recruit others to the cause, force the public to acknowledge your truth, and work to further your movement’s agenda. You might be fighting for change, or you might be fighting the change.
• The Gangster: You are the head of a criminal organization that supplies vice or other less-than-legal resources to the public. You’ve got a crew of thugs at your disposal and multiple streams of revenue. You aren’t the only game in town though. You’ve got competition for your customers and your turf, and of course the law would probably like to see you shut down for good.
• The Hustler: You are a master of the grift. Why work for a living when others are all too eager to hand over what they’ve worked for? Your words are your most powerful weapon and with them you can talk yourself into, or out of, just about any situation imaginable. How you choose to use those words, and who you choose to use them on, is entirely up to you.
• The Smuggler: You get things from one place to another. That may sound like a boring job, but the city is full of “good guys” who would like to stop you and “bad guys” who would like to rob you. Your life is one long high speed chase whether you’re running from the law or hijackers. You, however, are the hottest damn driver in the city and you know exactly how hard you can push your vehicle.
• The Street Samurai: You are a soldier of the streets. You know how to handle yourself fin a fight, but you are also well versed in the technology that surrounds you and the etiquette of the various social classes you have to interact with. If that wasn’t enough; you’re sporting the most advanced human augmentations money can buy. You didn’t get those for free though. You have a wealthy benefactor who keeps you on the cutting edge in return for your absolute loyalty.
• The Thief: You take people’s stuff. Expensive stuff is good, but stuff people think is too well protected to be taken is even better. You live for that rush of getting in, getting out, and getting paid. If it wasn’t so damn dangerous; it wouldn’t be so damn fun.
• The Unborn: You were conceived in a lab and grown in a vat. You were likely an expensive endeavor, and probably made for some specific purpose, but your circumstances have obviously become complicated if you live in this part of town. You likely don’t share your story with many. Some might consider you a freak, while others might see you as a potential payday.
• The Whiz Kid: You have always been fascinated by technology. You’re a skilled hacker, a mechanical engineering genius, and you probably have a firm grasp on five or six other scientific fields as well. You could make serious money if you went legit, but you can make a whole lot more if you’re wiling to be a little flexible with your ethics.

Well, it seems to be your run-of-the-mill cyberpunk setting, but then again, that's what you were going for, right?

Two things, how different are the Hustler and the Smuggler going to be? They both seem to fill the same niche. Not sure how they will differ mechanically, but just something to keep in mind.

And... I really want to play a Street Samurai. I'm a simple man, with simple pleasures, and playing as a cyborg samurai is one of those.

• The Unborn playbook has been renamed The Broken Doll and focuses more on the idea of a clone designed for companionship, display, or other superficial purposes. They have escaped and are considered "damaged goods", so they have been left to fend for themselves.
• I removed the stat "Rep" which I really liked but felt like it had to much overlap with Sway. I replaced it with "Tech" (potentially to be renamed later) which emphasizes a character's comfort level in an environment where everything down to your underwear is electronic in some way.
• I've renamed some basic moves and added a basic move, linked to Tech, for data mining.

• Cybernetic Computer (you get all of these: integrated veil, mic, hud, bio monitor, brain link, induction link)
• Tactical Processor: Roll+Tech instead of +Balls when you use a weapon with the _Smart_ tag with any move that would normally use Balls to operate it.
• Reflex Processor: Treat any weapon as if it had the _Area_ tag. You must act under fire to avoid reflexive violence, if startled, rolling+Tech instead of +Cool.
• Cybernetic Disguise: Roll+Tech instead of +Wits for **Avoid Detection** if changing your weight, voice, hair or eye color would provide sufficient cover.
• Cybernetic Senses (choose three: high/low frequency audio, audio filters, night vision, thermal vision, ultraviolet vision, vision magnification, audiovisual defenses, analytical taste/smell)
• Cybernetic Arms (you get: strength mods. then choose one: integrated weapon, integrated storage, detachable hand drone, concealed, armored)
• Cybernetic Legs (you get: athletics mods. then choose one: integrated storage, concealed, armored)
• Nanite Colony (choose one: fast heal, limited immunity, alter biometrics, lethal blood)
• Gene Mods (you get: defect free. then choose one: increased stamina, increased cognition, increased longevity, increased lung capacity, increased durability)
• Bio Mods (choose one: gills, chemical gland, bio-electric generator, collapsible joints, attraction pheromones, intimidation pheromones, fangs, pigmentation control)
• Prototype Augmentation: Take a move from another playbook, roll+Tech instead of the stat the move indicates when making that move.