Munchkin Manual Annex #4: Cyberpunk

Written by:

Roger Burton-West (ubte30e@ucl.ac.uk)

Sean Desmond (scd@st-and.ac.uk)

Se/an Keane

Shaun Murrant

With changes written in by uplink (uplink@cwis.unomaha.edu).
And more from Mark....Booth (mbb@ukc.ac.uk)
Spelling corrections by Britt (and I *know* I missed some...)

Favourite character type:
 

Real Men:	play Solos or Nomads
Real Role-players:	play Fixers or Techies
Loonies:	play Rockers play Politicians or Pizza-Delivery Men play Royal family poseur gangers
Munchkins:	play Street Samurai or Psionic Vampires play any character with +10 in special ability -- usually higher.

Favourite weapon:
 

Real Men:	use the Militech Advanced Assault Rifle United Nations Colonial marine corps M42 A2
Real Role-players:	use light SMGs use medium autopistols and light SMGs use Glock 30s or Baretta M20-Fs with gun-cams
Loonies:	use a .22 Gatling use donuts use a buzz hand on a grapple fist as a ranged weapon
Munchkins:	use a Barrett-Arasaka 20mm cannon, modified for fully automatic  fire, with a sawed-off barrel and a cut-down stock to fit under an armoured long coat use the all-new 10mm man-portable railgun or, in a pinch, use an Anti-Matter Rifle have a remote control pad for  a lunar rail gun or two

Favourite armour:
 

Real Men:	wear MetalGear
Real Role-players:	wear a light armour jacket wear Lawtech skintight
Loonies:	wear a t-shirt and ripped jeans wear armored opera cloaks hide in armoured wheelie bins
Munchkins:	get a Dragoon full-body conversion wear ACPA Powered Armor

Favourite cyberware:
 

Real Men:	like reflex boosts and smartgun link (is this a trick question?)
Real Role-players:	like interface plugs like inobvious cyberware
Loonies:	like a forehead-mounted Mr Studd [TM] like the Cyber-Bar in both legs
Munchkins:	get a HumanityRestoraTron [TM] like the Full Body Conversions, preferably the Dragoon model, with full inpatient therapy and   really low Humanity Loss rolls  like Gemini Full body conversions (so they can fit into their ACPA) and get it fitted at the Scandinavian clinics so they get no humanity loss on average.

Favourite vehicle:
 

Real Men:	AV-4 with gatling cannon
Real Role-players:	Bicycle Recumbent motorcycles or classic Harleys
Loonies:	Advertising blimp Pedicabs Cyber-skates
Munchkins:	Punknaught with the works, with extra pepperoni AV-9s with full military loads, or the M-6 Main Battle Tank

When cornered in a firefight:
 

Real Men:	take out the REAL big gun and tell them to back off before  they get hurt
Real Role-players:	switch sides shout "You have the right to remain silent......."
Loonies:	click the heels of their combat boots together and say  "there's no place like home".
Munchkins:	break their Trauma Team card call in a micro-Orbital strike

Favourite method of B&E:
 

Real Men:	kick the door down and  wonder where the other PCs have gone
Real Role-players:	look under doormat for keys use their B&E tools to casually but stealthily gain entrance
Loonies:	ring the doorbell
Munchkins:	use the Militech Plastic Explosive Delivery Service use Militech use detcord

Find employment as:
 

Real Men:	Bodyguard
Real Role-players:	Librarian Fixers, console cowboys
Loonies:	Quality Control personnel for Second Chance Armour Inc. Rodent Control personnel in Night City
Munchkins:	CEO (at age 15) CEOs of three major megacorps by the time they're twenty set up their own corporation, and are rivals to Arasaka and EBM combined within 2 years.