I am presently writing up stats for my WBCP Bestiary, but I'm having trouble thinking of entries. Here's what I have so far. Most of them are statted out to some degree.
Black Hounds- Genetically modified dogs (or other animals) used as security
Choppers- Murderous thieves who use specialized tools to rip implants out of people to sell on the black market.
Consumer- Average citizens
CorpSec Guard- Privately trained security forces loyal to a particular corp.
Cyber-Ninja- Heavily modified and conditioned deniable assets used as assassins and bodyguards. Most are in danger of becoming cyber-zombies.
Cyber-Zombie- Someone with Stage III Cyber-Psychosis. In other words, heavily-cybered berserkers.
Drone, Buzzer- Helicopter-style drones
Drone, Spider - crawling drones.
Ganger- Low HD muscle
Ganger Chief- High HD muscle
Ganger Lieutenant- Medium HD muscle
PrivaCop- Cannon fodder.
Thoughts? Suggestions? I feel like it's a bit sparse, but at the same time there aren't a lot of "monsters" in the cyberpunk world. (Well, there are, but they're monsters of a human sort.) I expect that the bestiary in the Shadowrun-esque material I plan to throw out next will be a bit more beefy.
I plan to publish the stat blocks in the next couple of days, along with any other entries I come up with or that are suggested to me.
Solo- Elite operatives, specially trained.
You're absolutely right - in a base CP, non-Shadowrun game, there isn't too much to cover. I suppose you could include more natural animals - wolves, lions, tigers, bears, etc. Military types, in addition to cops and CorpSec - soldiers, mercenaries, and so on. NPC hackers and other classed opponents. Corporate experts - doctors, scientists and so on for extraction missions.
ReplyDeleteI'd look at a system that lets you tweak the stock adversaries with cyberwear - adding the old asterisk notation to the HD for extra XP?
Poppers - swarms of mobile robots equivalent to self-guided, self-activated hand grenades, used for "clean-up".
ReplyDeleteYardbirds - quasi-lobotomised penal soldiers implanted with behaviour-modifier chips and used primarily for overseas military operations.
SRMs - dog and cat-sized rogue Von Neumann machines which aggressively scavenge raw components, including cybernetic implants, in order to construct more SRMs.
Skin-jobs - cutting-edge prototype human-imitating androids, the degree of uncanny valley effect varies.
Prossies - down-and-out war vets fixed up from horrible injuries with mismatched, low-grade prosthetics; usually desperate for cash.
Reese- Splendid idea regarding the old "asterisk" system.
ReplyDeleteAnon- Consider quite a few of those snagged!
Cybernetically-enhanced animals, think cyber-guard dogs and the like. Maybe stronger military versions (cyber-tigers?).
ReplyDeleteAll kinds of chimera-like genetically-engineered creatures. Maybe human hybrids, centaurs and the like.
If your universe has a human presence in space, genetically-engineered people adapted to 0G. Think people with four arms and no legs, for example.
The French comics series _Carmen Mc Callum_ and _Travis_ are full of ideas; not sure if they have been translated to other languages.
Very cool, Arnaud. I'll definitely be using some of these ideas.
DeleteI actually hadn't thought about space. I'm trying to keep it setting-less the way older D&D tended to be. I'll still throw some space-related stuff into the mix and people can use or ignore at will.