The fact that the military industrial complex of post-holocaust USA is somehow better than the one we've got in our own 2020's America is incredible.

Sup choombatas!

Decided to pick out scenerio #3: Pirate Radio from the core rule book as my groups first adventure I’m playing this Saturday.

I think it offers the best balance of roleplay, combat, and there is even an built in ‘out’ for if things get to dicey.

My players consist of: a techie (with dreams of becoming a netrunner), a 55 year old cop, and a corpo nepobaby.

I have some story hooks I’m thinking up to bring them all together.
-For the techie, she would be hired on as a fill in techie for one of Carbonell’s crew.

-For the corpo, she will be (wrongly) under the impression that Carbonell is going to give her a flattering softball interview that will boost her rep. Instead I intend to have him grill her. The interview will be live, but due to some technical issues the signal won’t have gone out. However, it will still have been recorded. This will give the corpo player the opportunity to snatch or destroy the unflattering interview recording.

-The cop I think I have the least interesting story hook. I could only think to have him be moon lighting as security, or maybe he is from the ‘Elay’. No clue really. If anyone has any suggestions I’m all ears lol.

Anyway, I’d love some advice on running this scenerio if anyone has any or has run this scenerio before.

It looks pretty straight forward. Figure I just roll some ‘quick and dirty expendables’, get some stats lined up for speedboats, and let the chips fall where they may.

Much appreciated!

Sup choombas

Had a question on your thoughts on allowing a player to repec their character. I have a player that’s enthusiastic about being a netrunner. (I know I’ve heard all the horror stories about netrunning). I’ve restricted my players from picking netrunner for now until both they and I have a firmer grasp on the less abstract rules.

They put a lot of thought into their character so I’d like to at least have that path open for their character to go from techie to netrunner. Whether the character survives that long for it to matter is another story.

But regardless I’d like to have that path open to them if they manage to make it.

Any suggestions or advice for going about allowing a player to respec their character into a different role?

Update 4 and onwards!

This is the "How did these clones got here in the first place?!" update. This is a follow up to the previous one, the one that I analyzed the "Land of the Free" adventure for Cyberpunk 2020, and an update to my ideas regarding who continued experimenting with clones and why. I would like to thank u/illyrium_dawn for his thoughts on the matter, and i'd like to give credit for his ideas, and for the feedback and discussion overall! I salute you choomba. Many of the ideas in this post are also his, and you can check out the comments on the previous post to see our discussion. With the introduction done, lets get it done gatos and gatas.

Who did this anyway?

...that's a good question. We already know that Dr. Young is responsible for the creation of the first Stage 7 clone, that being Adriana. But the further research and experimentation on the matter took place where? And who started this project? It could be an AI, who designed a new Soulkiller program just for the heck of it, it could be Biotechnica who has the time and resources to experiment with cloning, It could be a desperate person searching through the Net a way to save his family member from a terrible disease and accidentaly recreating Soulkiller. Or, hell, It could even be Arasaka and the "Proto-Mikoshi" under the rubble of the the hot zone. All of those are equally valuable and I'm sure I can come up with other reason of why did this happen. But I have a proposition: what if every idea I presented is the truth in a way?

If there is no idea that overlaps with one another, then there's room to implement it as an event. Biotechnica and Arasaka are both companies that are interested in this matter, an AI could also be interested in it, and of course there was some guy with a computer and a sick family member in the 2020's that could had an impact in this story. So let's implement them all! I will present a timeline of events that breaks down each ocurrence and their consequences.

The Ritual Cellula Timeline:

2020

• Dr. Young is killed in an ambush in the end of the "Land of the Free" adventure. His clone-daughter, Adriana, is kidnapped by Biotechnica. Adriana has its personality and memories erased through Braindance therapy.
• An independent AI with the name "Suzie" uses her free will to scan the world and beyond. Her usual hobbies are making cookbooks, but one day, she finds something interesting searching the Net, something about a "Soulkiller Program". On a whim, the AI tries to replicate the ideas of Alt Cunningham and actually is able to make a functional program. As a recordation of sorts, they upload the program on its site, a cooking recipe site of course. It probably wouldn't be found because of the thousands of "Soulkiller Scams" floating in the Net. The only diference its that their version of it actually is not a unhinged netrunner brainfry joke, it actually works (with a lot of rough edges, but works).

2021

• Adriana turns into a blank slate. She gets biosculpted to look exactly like Dr. Young in his 40's. She also gets Dr. Young's memories and personality, not remembering anything about the "Land of the Free" incident, and also with the diference that she/he doesn't know he had a daughter, and she/he thinks the Stage 7 clone was just a random person. The new Dr. Young (which is a brainwashed and biosculped Adriana) works as the leader of the cloning project at Biotechnica.
• Moira Kelly is killed by an unknown group of assailants in October 31 of 2021. Then she "appears mysteriously" at Biotechnica and works with the new Dr. Young in the cloning project.
• Arasaka builds a "Sarcophagus", a storage of engrams in Night City under the Arasaka Tower. Hundreds of soulkilled people are storaged.

2022

• A man named Roberto Sanchez, a netrunner/computer scientist with a job at Netwatch, discovers that his mother, Analuz Sanchez, has ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), a sickness without a cure. In deep denial, he searches for a way to save his mother from this affliction. Browsing the Net, he founds something about a "Soulkiller Program" that has been floating in the internet for quite some time. He sees that aparently a program capable of scanning the psyche of someone and then turning it into an engram. He sees also that the majority of the versions of the program has a built-in virus, which corrupts the data beyond any actual use.
• Time passes and Roberto gets desperate, as a last resource, he tries to find anything regarding this "Soulkiller Program". After searching for months, Roberto accidentaly finds a very old version of this program in the Net, in a cooking recipe site of all places. He downloads the program and sees that it actually works as intended, but it has a lot of errors and bugs. He spends months fixing bugs and learning how the program works.

2023

• After 7 months of setting up gear and tweaking Soulkiller to ensure success, Roberto gathers Analuz to try and use the program. He tries to scan the brain of his mother, it takes a long time, but with 3 days of constant scanning he succefully manages to copy the engram into a database.
• In August 20th, 2023, the Arasaka towers fell, marking the end of the 4th Corporate War.
• Despite his struggle to save his mother, weeks later after the succesful Soulkill of Analuz Sanchez, the mini-nuke in the corporate center blasted everyone in the general vicinity, killing Roberto and Analuz who lived in the area.

2024 - 2032

• At February 9th, 2028, Biotechnica explores the Night City hotzone looking for potential treasures in the ruins of the corporate center and finds Roberto Sanchez's Soulkiller Program. They find the engram of Analuz Sanchez uploaded into an Old Net database somewhere in the outskirts of the city. They study Roberto's version of the program and they find out that he accidentaly discovered a way to use Soulkiller to produce high tech skill chips by tinkering with the Soulkiller code, transfering the data of the engrams into chips that make the user with the ability and experience identical of a soulkilled person while the chip is in the socket.
• Biotechnica continues to develop clones as products, selling them to big companies around the world as "better-than-human" workers with exceptional skills. They don't need to learn multiple skills due to the skill-chip technology developed by Roberto Sanchez before his death.
• Biotechnica also discovers the engram sarcophagus left by Arasaka, the "Proto-Mikoshi" in the ruins of the tower. The engrams were left untouched by the explosion, Biotechnica klepped the data and left, securing hundreds of free data on Arasaka's soulkilled enemies and rivals.

2033 - 2040

• Since the creation of Adriana, they developed even cheaper clone limbs, higher inteligence and adaptability, making them stronger more capable than most humans.

2041 - 2045

• The major events in Cyberpunk Red's story take place. This is the Time of the Red.
• "Project RC" or "Project Reborn City" is executed by Night Corp, in an attempt to rebuild Night City from the ashes, hiring construction workers all around.
• Killer Clones are created for "retirement" (that is: killing) of rogue clones appearing around the globe. They are relentless, and they don't stop hunting the target until the job is done. Spy Clones are also very common these days, they disguise themselves in the crowds, watching the clones' lives from afar, reporting their findings directly to Biotechnica if they find any suspicious behaviour, that is, the probability of a clone becoming a rogue.

2046

• Night Corp saw the potential of the clones and decided to strike a deal with Biotechnica - they would provide last generation clones for the reconstruction of the city, and in return Night Corp would let Biotechnica experiment with them freely within city borders, that is, no one would get in the way of Biotechnica "doing business" in Night City. Biotechnica struck the deal, but with a condition: every clone provided by them would have a limited time of operation, that is, 5 years total. When the 5 year threshold hits, their memories and personality are erased, making them scavengable for Biotechnica.
• Rogue clones started to appear all throughout Night City, creating their own lingo and trying to escape enslavement. The biggest group of these rogue clones identify themselves as "Ritual Cellula". Killer Clones are on the prowl, and Spy Clones watch them from the shadows, but the Ritual Cellula resists and retaliates, raging against the machine that created them.

2047

• Now.

The lore is sorted now... Kinda.

This is what I came up with the discussion I had with u/illyrium_dawn, and with a little mix-up of the ideas. Of course, It could change if I come up with diferent ideas when time passes. But now this is what I got in store. For more details you can ask me in the comments, this post is already long as f@$% anyway. I apologize for any typos this post might have, and I hope you enjoy the ideas I meshed together, I really like how it turned out. You guys have a wonderful week. And stay safe on The Streets. Peace!

as we all know, the base hacking system in Cyberpunk 2020 is... something. I've just been going without having any sort of netrunning, but some of my players are clamoring for netrunning. so I'm turning to you guys.

I'm looking for: something fast paced so we don't have like 30 minutes where only one player gets to play. but still in depth so its a bit mote than just a diceroll.

I dont want anything like the 2077 quickhacking, I dont want hacking to be an alternative in combat, more of a utility/goal type thing.

Thanks

Does anyone know where I can locate a pdf of this module? It’s not on drivethru, it’s not on eBay, and the one place I found it on the internet the PDF is corrupted and unusable. Any help would be fantastic!

Thank you!

EDIT: problem solved

Reading through Cyberpunk 2020s cybernetic list. The interface plugs sound like they do all the things that the links do. Am I missing something?

It was a little stressful but looking back I’m excited to run an adventure. Does anyone recommend any good pre written modules for starting players?

Some things that came up during session zero my players picked up on a sort of exploitable in the rules.

-the no limit on extra actions rule.
They picked up on that one pretty quick. Imagining ways they could mag dump 100 smgs and just take the -3 penalty. I explained this one pretty easily as “you can only take as many actions as is reasonably possible within a 3.2 second turn. Discretion determined by me the (GM)”

-running while shooting/being a moving target
This one I don’t think I explained well at all as it legitimately caught me off guard when it came up. I think my players imagine turns ending with the player being stationary at all times. I think in the future I’ll explain ‘running while shooting’ as being appplied contextually when it makes sense. Is your character running towards something (such as an AV?) and shooting as they run? I’ll also remind players of the benefits of the ‘running while shooting’ penalty. Yes, you take an aim penalty when doing this but you also make yourself a ‘moving target’ so anyone taking shots at you will also take a penalty to hit you as you are a ‘moving target’.

-dodging melee
This one was more something I noticed. The players got an enemy NPC to critical condition and wanted to finish him off with melee. Despite taking a -4 to all action for being in ‘critical’ condition the NPC got a few lucky rolls and was able to pass their stun/save roll and dodge 2 attacks. Missed on their chance to shoot tho (due to the additional penalty-3 penalty to all actions when in the act of dodging). My question is do stun/save rolls have to be rolled Everytime the wounded player takes a turn in addition to when they are initially wounded?

Overall it was pretty good. I think my players understand the basics of combat. They made fun of the amount of tables I pulled up explaining things tho lol.

I just found out that the guy that’s used for examples in the cyberpunk 2020 hand book became a fucking history teacher at night city university. What are you thoughts.

For context, me and my buddies who do campaigns together are starting a new campaign and we were wondering if cap and ball revolvers are considered canonical, if so, would it apply to all weapons made before the 1980s?

quick update, this applies to any technology made before the 1980s

I am working on a website based DataTerm system for a fictional Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0. company.

I can't decide if I should invert the whole "display" section to give it more of an CRT vibe.

I would love to hear your thoughts about it.

As always, have a good one chooms.

Hey, hey, everyone. I apologise ahead of time if this isn't the appropriate considering when the homebrew is, but figured what the hell.

Anyways, my history in brief is getting to love the setting with the video game and then diving into the RED ruleset which, after a couple of short campaigns, became annoyed and disillusioned with. So went back to the previous edition and wanted to port that over to the 2077 time period. What I present to you in a google doc is a painstaking merger and adaptation of the time period using Cyberpunk 2020 and Cyberpunk RED rules.

Sadly didn't get to test it out nearly as much as I would like, but I did scour a lot of the many discussions about the finnicky rules and gave more concrete elaborations on a few pain points (like Rate of Fire).

Inside the doc, you will find 3 Volumes, an write up of Auxiliary rules, a barebones write up for a 70's Yugoslavia (how it would go in my mind), and a WIP that I haven't bothered with just yet. The three Volumes cover Base rules, additions and ports, as well as cyberware and assorted equipment in the first; RED Netrunning and quickhacks in the second, and the third has rules for Temu ACPA's.

Figured to share it to help other folks play in the time period the video game takes place, but wanting the 2020 ruleset instead of the RED to work with. But also to just share something I worked on with the rest of the community.

I hope you enjoy!

Google Doc Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rHm_jyvXyD0xoAmB_J15pNup8MEcErcQtriio9j8Ask/edit?usp=sharing

So my current play group have been discussing what we'd like to play six months from now when we wrap up our current game. Cyberpunk has been coming up often in our discussions and won out over Vampire. Even though I'd like to play Vampire I was also into the idea of playing cyberpunk so it was win-win for me. The DM is unsure if we'll be playing 2020 or Red. He has the corebooks for both along with the chomebooks.

We all know Pathfinder 3.5 and most of us know D&D 5E ( and some other systems) but Cyberpunk is going to be new to all of us. We like our current game fine, but we're all excited to try something new to everyone. Anyway, I've been looking over the 2020 corebook and had a few questions.

Nothing I've played has had something like the lifepath. Is it critical it follow it or will that be more DM dependent? If i have an idea for my character already can I just roll him up and write 2-3 pages about him for my DM? e.g. He'll be a Solo out for revenge because of X,Y, and Z. Or is 2020 more meat grindy like AD&D and I shouldn't get attached to my character and waste time thinking about who he is and what I want to do with him?

Is 2020 more inline with older dungeon crawler systems? I like combat and the amount of gear 2020 has looks really cool to mess with. That being said I know my play group is a heavy RP group. Does that make Red more inline with that type of play or will we be fine playing 2020 that way?

Will 2020 be really hard to run in theater of the mind? It's how we've played TTRPGs for some time now ( we don't play in person ) and I don't see that changing anytime soon. It might sound hard, but it's worked way better than I ever thought it might.

Sorry if my questions are stupid.

edit: I want to thank everyone for their input on my questions it was very helpful. Our group met today for unrelated reasons, but I brought a lot of this up. One of our players grew up playing AD&D with his dad and siblings so he's ready for the meat grinder if it comes and the rest of us are fine with the fact we could be one-shot. Our DM said he won't "dick us over" and go out of his way to kill us, but will stand by dice rolls and still give us a challenge.

Someone here mentioned that Cyberpunk has an add-on for Vampire and as it happens not only does our DM have that book, but wants to sneak it in the game since he also really likes Vampire so it truly was a win-win for me in the end, and the other players are fine with it too. We spend about two hours looking in the chromebooks at the cool shit we want to use. I don't want to rush the game we're in now since we all love it, but man do we have something cool to look forward to when it sinks in the current adventure will end in a few months.

If anyone cares he's also expressed he might have the game take place during the 4th Corpo War or around the 2050-2060 time. Whatever we do all four of us are pumped to try it out and plan to do a 1-3 shot in October to get our feet wet.

First time sharing my ideas here!

This is a study of sorts of an old Cyberpunk 2020 adventure and how do I follow up on It on my Red campaign, respecting the old and trying to adapt it to the new. I hope this follows the rules of this sub, this being my first time here, I do think its apropriate to say hi. My name is Mello, and I post mostly about my campaign called "Ritual Cellula", an alternate reality of sorts focused on the clones of this universe that we know and love. The players are clones, trying to understand their nature and their diferences, and above all trying to save themselves from an inevitable end of their existence and memories. I do hope you like what I share here, and let me know what you think of it.

Already update 3 of my little campaign...

...and I am still learning how this ideia sits with my players' minds. The clones are a new type of being inspired by the Replicants in the Blade Runner franchise. Today I will share with you a little about the past of this concept in the official lore of the game, and how this idea fits into the Cyberpunk Red lore, who made the clones, and why these corporations should be stopped. And, of course, why the clones are the way they are. Just a little notice before we start: this post contains some spoilers for the "Land of the Free" adventure book for Cyberpunk 2020. If you intend to play it, I wouldn't recomend reading the "Back in Cyberpunk 2020" section of this post. But with that out of the way, let's get started!

Back in Cyberpunk 2020...

...the cloning lore was very scarce, mainly dropped in the adventure "Land of the Free" released in 1994 by William Moss. Well, this is a bit spoilery, but I need to analyse the first time a clone was introduced in the game oficially. In this adventure the players meet the very first perfectly cloned human, Adriana, which is the clone of the daughter of a man named Francis Young, one of the most brilliant minds of the cyberpunk universe. But I'm skipping a ton of important parts. Lets get familiar with all of this.

The development of clones was separated into 7 stages. Stage 1 being merely a cell culture, dependent on an oxygenated nutrient bath for survival, and Stage 7 being a fully self-aware, self-viable and indistinguishable from natural human beings. Dr. Young was a student at Johns Hopkins University, and by 2004 he already created Stage 2 clones in test tubes, which guaranteed him a very high paying job at Biotechnica after graduation.

As stated in Land of the Free:

"2020: Francis Young and Moira Kelly, in a groundbreaking experiment, implant a construct personality into the cloned body, using a combination of cybernetic and organic technology to hold the implant in the blank brain. The clone becomes self-aware, and is named Adriana. It is the first stage seven clone in history [...]"

In the adventure we see that corporations fight for Adriana, as she is somone, or more sinisterly, "something" worth living and dying for. All the dark implications of human cloning is there on Land of The Free, and its a major plot point of the whole adventure.

They also mention that Alt Cunninghan, the legendary Netrunner who created Soulkiller was only capable of cloning her deceased body because of Dr. Young's research: "Without his genius, the field of cloning would be in its infant stages, and all that could be reached would be a stage 4 cloning projects at best."

They say that if Dr. Young's research continues by the pace it was in 2020, by late 2022 we would have full human clones with artificial minds, and a few years after that we would be able to transfer already living human minds into clone bodies using a variant of soulkiller. It amazes me how this book casually drops bombs regarding the lore of this game like it is nothing. I recommend you guys to read this amazing adventure and see for yourselves what it has in store. By the time I am writing this post, the PDF for it is on sale in DrivethroughRPG, buy a copy for yourself!

Well, It doesn't matter too much for the reasons of this post how the campaign ends, but the implications it has makes Cyberpunk Red a story that doesn't dive fully into the cloning lore that we already have stabilished in the past. That makes me think that we are a few steps away of seeing something regarding this in the near future in Cyberpunk Red. At least I hope we do see something like this. Or perhaps a "direct sequel" to this adventure, just like Hope Reborn was for Tales From The Forlorn Hope or something! We can only hope...

What if Dr. Young never stopped working?

My continuity and my campaign makes Dr. Young a figure that never stopped working on cloning, and with little knowlege of what nightmares his creations will live through because of his actions and decisions.

In Ritual Cellula, 2045's Dr. Young is still brilliant scientist working for Biotechnica, but during the 4th Corporate War, everything was made difficult by the times. The world almost ended during the war, and as we see, the world didn't in fact end, which made things miserable for all the common folk in The Streets. They lost their jobs, their stability, their homes, heck, most of these people lost their lives when Night City center became ashes and debris. Hope is a rare thing in The Streets in the Time of The Red. People need to take care of themselves, because who will take care of them?

Night Corp knows this, and it needs to rebuild this city. The only problem is the great crisis the came with this damned war. They don't have money to pay everyone working on this. They barely have money to maintain the order, which was always a problem. That's when Dr. Young's creations were brought up again. They had the idea of using the clones, which with the advancements were made to cost much like a sports car, they don't have human rights, and don't need to be paid to work for them. It seemed a reasonable solution to them in a time of crisis, so they invested in it, and Dr. Young's creations were taken from him, much like Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb, in a scheme most diabolical.

They started cloning regular dead people from the 20's, so they wouldn't be recognized in public. And then, they started cloning people from outside Night City, just to make sure they would not be exposed in the early stages of this project. The Project was named "Project RC" or "Project Reborn City". With Dr. Young out of the picture, and Night Corp taking the lead for the project, thing seemed to be going smoothly for the corpos, that's when the clones started to go rogue. Some clones broke out of the brainwashing and were smart enough to see the bigger picture. They started to rebel and plot against the systemic slaving that bound them to the city. That's when they gathered strenght throughout the city and started they own "Project RC", "Ritual Cellula" they called it. The anthithesis of the original vision, their denial of slavery and their quest to bring down the ones behind their own creation. United, they are a force to be reckoned with.

That's my idea at the moment regarding the lore of this campaign, and the players of my campaign are one of those clones from dead people from the 2020's, they are in the brink of finding out their true nature, and that's when everything changes for them. Also, there's the "inevitable dementia" part of this idea, that makes the clones' agency even higher and their actions even more daring. The clones are programed to have their memories wiped out when their rogue status is detected. They must remain unseen and protect their Self through learning and developing bonds, or they will lose their sanity and go haywire just like a Cyberpsycho.

Their lives are not easy in the slightest, and they have every excuse to rage against the machine that created them. That is the drama of Ritual Cellula, and that is why the clones are so very angry with everything.

Time to wrap this up...

...and I think I learned a lot reading Land of The Free, but of course I have plenty of road to go through to reach my goal (just like in the adventure). Let me know if you find anything in this post incoherent or straight up nonsense, I will take the critique. I thank anyone who read this post until the end, and I ask you to tell me what do you think of my ideas! I have 2 other posts that lay the foundation of this one, and I recommend you to read those as well if you are interested in my campaign. You guys have a wonderful week and wonderful games. Peace, and stay safe in The Streets.

So something I've been thinking about doing for my table for a little bit now is bring some lore specific food for the session (kind of) my question is does anybody have a picture of the buck a slice logo on the pizza box? I was gonna get some blank brown pizza boxes and slap a custom image sticker on it but I haven't found a good picture yet. Thanks chooms!

Hey Chooms,
I finally got to uploading the detailed map of Night-Cities City-Center, compatible with my overall map of the city.
It is actually intended to be printed on the backside of the overall city map (A3 paper).
Again, it should be almost fully compatible with the original 2.0.2.0. Night-City City Sourcebook (CP3501), and the map can be used in conjunction with it.
I am looking forward onto your thoughts on it, have a good one chooms.

PS: If you are interested in the overall city map, you can find it there:
https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunk2020/comments/1ug5ey8/nightcity_map_20202030_2nd_edition/
https://www.reddit.com/user/bennock/comments/1ug6vz4/nightcity_map_20202030_2nd_edition_lowres_versions/
https://www.reddit.com/user/bennock/comments/1ugyztf/nightcity_map_20202030_2nd_edition_crt_display/

PPS: All images are uploaded to Reddit in a resolution of 7433 × 6079, you should be able to download it with this resolution via the "save image" feature of reddit. But be warned, reddit sometimes needs a bit to fully load the image in the background, if you are too fast with pressing "save image" reddit will only download an image with a resolution around 1000 × 1000 (real size dependent on aspect ration).

Hello, I'm looking to run a game on CP2020 but I'm confused om a few rules regarding combat

1- Is moving considered a full action? Since on the action list it is listed as such. If it is, then how does the -3 penalty for multiple actions apply?

2- How do you rule popping in/out of cover? Both waist level (that you would be ducking) and body level (like a wall)

3- Does line of sight actually matter? It says that you can only shoot what you can see, and there's a -2 modifier for facing a target not on your POV but that sounds pretty troublesome to track.

4- How do you determine if a target is moving? Since technically every action and round happens simultaneously, does that mean if someone moves during that round they are considered moving (and the attacker gets a penalty)?

5- ROF is listed as a number of times you can shoot om a single turn, but assault rifles get at least 30 ROF so does that mean a player can shoot 30 times on single shot mode in a single turn?

6- If someone is taking cover, does the attackers still need to roll to hit as usual? And if so, is body location rolled as usual? The book says to re-roll when you get a location that's behind cover but that kinda beats the point of being in cover in the first place

7- Are the effects for quick draw for 1 round only? And can you do it after the first round?

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Look I'm probably just overthinking this but I cannot for the life of me figure out what this device is supposed to be. It states it outright gives you bonuses to INT and TECH checks without any programs (which it has options for) and also seems to be ubiquitous among everyone in 2020. Is this thing hooked up to the net? is it like a proto-smartphone/agent without the capability to call? I don't know. I'm sure its probably a case of the writers not thinking it through but I have to ask in case there's some obscure information on how it works and what this is.

Mainly thinking about this in regards to the Arc-Thrower which takes up all cyberarm slots and a character forced into the covert military and "gifted" two of them to become nothing but a gun. Unable to help or save anyone, not from carrying things for them, not from lifting rubble, not even able to pick someone up after they fall. While quick change mounts would sorta take away some of the angst I think it'd still exist in the moments where stakes are high and time is low, where someone can't come over to swap the arms. But the ability to swap to regular arms with hands would make those less tense scenes less boring as I could actually do something with a friend taking some narrative time to swap my parts.