Great content, thank you for being one of the few people that are producing breakdowns of the corebook. One question though: when making a new Tech character, does the maker ability being set at 4 as a result of creating the character count as 4 increases in the skill in regards to gaining rank in maker specialties?
Great videos, keep up the good work! I was checking out prices for things to get a picture of how much time it would take to create things. Some things is a bit "time optimistic", like create a pistol in 6 hours. But I guess that would be an ugly "fallout metal scrap looking" -pistol. Or an unreliable and plastic 3D printed one. But then I looked up vehicles and couldnt find any prices, just "Varies depending on model", not even any examples. (or did I just miss them?) And that is very disappointing. Also, Red is very poor on those fun pictures and details that we all loved from CP2020, like pictures on weapons and gear. Or a little "fluff" on the different guns for example. =( A big stain on an otherwise awesome product. I REALLY hope there will come a book with just a lot of weapons, gear and vehicles. That would also give more inspiration and useful info for our Techs to play around with. =)
Thanks so much! I really appreciate that! They have a bunch of vehicles near the vehicle combat section but only 1 per example type. Yes there is a Chrome Black in the works! =)
@@CybernationUncensored Sounds great! I guess its a bit early yet, but do you know when they plan to release the Chrome Black? And as you seem to have some good contacts or "fixers", do you know if there is any adventures coming? It would be great with a module with some "shortgigs" or something like that. Screamsheets are nice and all but having the outlines for an adventure has never been the problem and you still need to do all the work with screemsheets. It would be nice with a couple of short adventures with statblocks for enemies, fluff, information, perhaps some floorplans and things like that. So I as a GM (that runs 2 groups and have a rather busy worksheadule) could just pick up, read thru and have anything they need to run a game. I would have thought there would be at least a couple out already after the release of the jumpstart box but I have not found a single one out there, not even any homebrew or 3rd party. I would happily pay for complete adventures. Dont need to be campaigns, its better with shorter ones. (2-4 session-adventures). So if you could point to the direction to any it would be greatly appreciated. =)
@@TheMerrox not sure of any exact dates, but in the interview with j gray and james hutt, they said it's in the works. Also, I totally agree about the adventure modules.. I'm actually working on some based on my campaigns.
Okay this is probably a shot in the dark, but would anyone here know how to create a Tech at Rank 1, or more specifically, how my Maker abilites/specialties works at this rank? Do they all start at Rank 0 or Rank 1 before I start ranking them up?
quick question, as a tech i can have points in all categories? (invention field of expertise, upgrade and fabrication) or do i have tu "marry" with only 2 of them ? as i read it u can have them distributed as u like within those 4 but want to make sure
@@Kronosxviii1 correct, for some reason I read, a grenade costs: 50eb, lol I was thinking you wanted to buy one to fabricate it or something. I was trying to make sense, thanks for replying I can see what you're saying. I love the demolition skill idea for that.
I do have a question about the Tech's ability to upgrade vehicles. It says that it can "Upgrade a vehicle with an upgrade that only requires a Nomad Role Ability Rank of 1". It also says that the cost of the materials needed for the upgrade is " of the same price category of the item being upgraded". Does this mean that the materials needed to upgrade a Compact Groundcar with Bulletproof Windows cost as much as a Compact Groundcar? Cuz that sounds like a really bad deal :)))
It's possible it's this difficult/expensive so the Nomad can be the specialist here! You can also homebrew a bit and say it's cost of material needed not item being upgraded. It's up to you as GM but be careful you don't make things a bit unbalanced.
Hey Rob, quick question on components/materials. The Tech must purchase materials of a value band. How do you express/track that? "You have x materials of Expensive quality?" Little confused as to the whole materials/components system.
what do you mean value "band"? I think you can creatively come up with ideas as a GM to add to the roleplay etc... maybe it's steel or plastics, an epoxy batch or something they use to create the items.
@@CybernationUncensored by value band I mean cheap, expensive, etc. What i've done is just call the item "components" and given them an eb value, when the player collects enough to be considered moving up a "band" then they have enough to craft
@@williamp7861 oh I understand what you're saying.. you made the materials needed an item to build up to reach the band needed to "fabricate" etc? so you set the price bracket and use that for materials needed? I like that... it gives some story and role play to the invent and fabricate actions =) very good!
I'm a little confused about "Materials" so how do you obtain materials? Is it from dissembling an item of a specific "Cost" or is their a literal item know as "Materials"
No specific materials were named as of yet.. but I expect some more details when Black Chrome comes out! For now, I would obtain them by sourcing materials and making a session out of it or like you said, dissemble something of similar value/category.
hey, just a newbie question about upgrade expertise :) what does "typical" humanity loss mean in the first bullet point? ("lower the humanity loss of non-borgware cyberware by 1d6 if its typical humanity loss would be 2d6 or greater") should I roll 2d6 to every piece of cyberware to see if I can upgrade it this way? for example, if I have a cyberaudio suite with a HL of 7, should I roll with 2d6 between 2 and 7 to be able to upgrade it and lower its HL by 1d6?
it means any non-borgware that has a HL of 2d26 can be reduced by 1d6. humanity loss is what the character loses when installing cyberware. for every 10 points of HL you reduce your EMP stat by 1. I hope I was understanding your question and this was helpful. If not, please let me know and I'll try and help.
@@CybernationUncensored thanks for getting back to me :) so if I get this right, the HL value of a piece of cyberware is given e.g. as "2d6" instead of a simple "7"? I didn't find these stat tables in my Jumpstart Kit, and I don't have the Corebook yet :) that means an upgrade on a cyberaudio suite would reduce its HL from 2d6 to 1d6 (or from 7 to 3)?
@@HunBoTy oh I think that's where your confusion is... you really need to get the core rulebook. Things from the jumpstart kit have changed and expanded tremendously.
@@CybernationUncensored oh I see, thanks for the clarification :) I have already pre-ordered the corebook, it will get published in Hungarian later this year :)
Regarding Fabricate: Is it just me, or does Fabricate seem like a sucker's investment of Maker Points? Anything I can fabricate, I can also invent. It takes the same amount of time either way, the same cost of materials, the same bonuses to the die roll, and thr same DV. Invent is far more flexible though. The only advantage I see is that if I roll badly to Fabricate, I can retain my materials, but maybe they are partially lost if I roll badly to invent.
@@CybernationUncensored technically Invention Expertise doesn't create the final product, just the schematics/design docs for how to make it, still need Fabrication Expertise to bring the final product into existence except if the invention is a new kind of upgrade in which case you need Upgrade Expertise.
@@HenshinFanatic Correct, the details are: Once invented, you (or another Tech who you show the blueprints to) can make your invented item/ upgrade real using Fabrication or Upgrade Expertise! It's worth mentioning that nobody will give your invention a second thought before you have a working prototype. Of course, that's when they'll try to steal it. Don't bother with the courts.
@@CybernationUncensored Pg 355: Techscanner: Scanner diagnoses a wide variety of machinery and electronics, assisting the user in repairs, or other technical work. User adds +2 to their Basic Tech, Cybertech, Land Vehicle Tech, Sea Vehicle Tech, Air Vehicle Tech, Electronics/Security Tech, and Weaponstech Skills. This doesn't stack with itself. I was curious if people thought this did or did not stack for Maker rolls since it does say it adds +2 to the relevant skills which is the basis for Maker rolls.
Loving these daily uploads. Really helping me learn the game.
thanks 100% I appreciate that!
Thanks for the great content, very interesting. And grats for 1k subs!
thanks so much! I appreciate the support and comments and especially the congrats on 1k subs! I'm really excited about that! =)
@@CybernationUncensored You earned it!
Keep making this caliber of quality content and the subs will keep rolling in. You became my favorite Cyberpunk TH-camr in only a few days.
@@dylantaylor603 thanks for saying that!
Great content, thank you for being one of the few people that are producing breakdowns of the corebook. One question though: when making a new Tech character, does the maker ability being set at 4 as a result of creating the character count as 4 increases in the skill in regards to gaining rank in maker specialties?
yes yo are correct, you get 8 points to delegate, in sets of 2 per rank ;) -Thanks for tuning in and commenting, I appreciate that!
Great videos, keep up the good work!
I was checking out prices for things to get a picture of how much time it would take to create things.
Some things is a bit "time optimistic", like create a pistol in 6 hours. But I guess that would be an ugly "fallout metal scrap looking" -pistol. Or an unreliable and plastic 3D printed one.
But then I looked up vehicles and couldnt find any prices, just "Varies depending on model", not even any examples. (or did I just miss them?) And that is very disappointing.
Also, Red is very poor on those fun pictures and details that we all loved from CP2020, like pictures on weapons and gear. Or a little "fluff" on the different guns for example. =( A big stain on an otherwise awesome product. I REALLY hope there will come a book with just a lot of weapons, gear and vehicles. That would also give more inspiration and useful info for our Techs to play around with. =)
Thanks so much! I really appreciate that! They have a bunch of vehicles near the vehicle combat section but only 1 per example type. Yes there is a Chrome Black in the works! =)
@@CybernationUncensored Sounds great! I guess its a bit early yet, but do you know when they plan to release the Chrome Black? And as you seem to have some good contacts or "fixers", do you know if there is any adventures coming? It would be great with a module with some "shortgigs" or something like that. Screamsheets are nice and all but having the outlines for an adventure has never been the problem and you still need to do all the work with screemsheets. It would be nice with a couple of short adventures with statblocks for enemies, fluff, information, perhaps some floorplans and things like that. So I as a GM (that runs 2 groups and have a rather busy worksheadule) could just pick up, read thru and have anything they need to run a game. I would have thought there would be at least a couple out already after the release of the jumpstart box but I have not found a single one out there, not even any homebrew or 3rd party. I would happily pay for complete adventures. Dont need to be campaigns, its better with shorter ones. (2-4 session-adventures). So if you could point to the direction to any it would be greatly appreciated. =)
@@TheMerrox not sure of any exact dates, but in the interview with j gray and james hutt, they said it's in the works. Also, I totally agree about the adventure modules.. I'm actually working on some based on my campaigns.
I'm kinda confused about the maker ability since you're starting with rank 4, do you allocate 4 points or 8?
each time they increase their maker rank, they increase their rank in 2 specialties, so at rank 4 you should allocate 8 points .
Okay this is probably a shot in the dark, but would anyone here know how to create a Tech at Rank 1, or more specifically, how my Maker abilites/specialties works at this rank? Do they all start at Rank 0 or Rank 1 before I start ranking them up?
quick question, as a tech i can have points in all categories? (invention field of expertise, upgrade and fabrication) or do i have tu "marry" with only 2 of them ? as i read it u can have them distributed as u like within those 4 but want to make sure
Yes u can Split it up however u want. No need to marry 2 sektions, but commiting to one or two fields really pays off
you can use the points however you want across any combo!
i made explosive spiderbots that blow off limbs or grab their face like a face hugger and explode. one time use but very effective
So a grenade costs: 50 eb, 1 day, and DV of 17 to pull off and it'd be Tech+Demolition+1d10 or so I'd imagine, to craft it.
Grenades cost $100 standard for frag
@@CybernationUncensored crafting costs in materials goes down a rank and the next rank below premium is 50 eb at 'costly'
@@Kronosxviii1 correct, for some reason I read, a grenade costs: 50eb, lol I was thinking you wanted to buy one to fabricate it or something. I was trying to make sense, thanks for replying I can see what you're saying. I love the demolition skill idea for that.
I do have a question about the Tech's ability to upgrade vehicles. It says that it can "Upgrade a vehicle with an upgrade that only requires a Nomad Role Ability Rank of 1". It also says that the cost of the materials needed for the upgrade is " of the same price category of the item being upgraded". Does this mean that the materials needed to upgrade a Compact Groundcar with Bulletproof Windows cost as much as a Compact Groundcar? Cuz that sounds like a really bad deal :)))
It's possible it's this difficult/expensive so the Nomad can be the specialist here! You can also homebrew a bit and say it's cost of material needed not item being upgraded. It's up to you as GM but be careful you don't make things a bit unbalanced.
Upgrade has "make unconcealable become concealable" as a thing. Do you need invention and balance on top of that?
no, it's it's own thing
Has been a fun role so far
can't wait to get into it fully it will be even more fun!
Hey Rob, quick question on components/materials. The Tech must purchase materials of a value band. How do you express/track that? "You have x materials of Expensive quality?" Little confused as to the whole materials/components system.
what do you mean value "band"? I think you can creatively come up with ideas as a GM to add to the roleplay etc... maybe it's steel or plastics, an epoxy batch or something they use to create the items.
@@CybernationUncensored by value band I mean cheap, expensive, etc.
What i've done is just call the item "components" and given them an eb value, when the player collects enough to be considered moving up a "band" then they have enough to craft
@@williamp7861 oh I understand what you're saying.. you made the materials needed an item to build up to reach the band needed to "fabricate" etc? so you set the price bracket and use that for materials needed? I like that... it gives some story and role play to the invent and fabricate actions =) very good!
I'm a little confused about "Materials" so how do you obtain materials? Is it from dissembling an item of a specific "Cost" or is their a literal item know as "Materials"
No specific materials were named as of yet.. but I expect some more details when Black Chrome comes out! For now, I would obtain them by sourcing materials and making a session out of it or like you said, dissemble something of similar value/category.
Thinking of maybe putting a pin on this for my solo so that he can multiclass into Tech to take on a Tech Ninja sort of role.
I love that idea! did you watch the multiclassing vid?
@@CybernationUncensored I will now!
@@will3710 thanks! I appreciate that! =)
hey, just a newbie question about upgrade expertise :) what does "typical" humanity loss mean in the first bullet point? ("lower the humanity loss of non-borgware cyberware by 1d6 if its typical humanity loss would be 2d6 or greater") should I roll 2d6 to every piece of cyberware to see if I can upgrade it this way? for example, if I have a cyberaudio suite with a HL of 7, should I roll with 2d6 between 2 and 7 to be able to upgrade it and lower its HL by 1d6?
it means any non-borgware that has a HL of 2d26 can be reduced by 1d6. humanity loss is what the character loses when installing cyberware. for every 10 points of HL you reduce your EMP stat by 1.
I hope I was understanding your question and this was helpful. If not, please let me know and I'll try and help.
@@CybernationUncensored thanks for getting back to me :) so if I get this right, the HL value of a piece of cyberware is given e.g. as "2d6" instead of a simple "7"? I didn't find these stat tables in my Jumpstart Kit, and I don't have the Corebook yet :) that means an upgrade on a cyberaudio suite would reduce its HL from 2d6 to 1d6 (or from 7 to 3)?
@@HunBoTy I think they have the average number as initial humanity loss or you can roll the 2d6 instead,
@@HunBoTy oh I think that's where your confusion is... you really need to get the core rulebook. Things from the jumpstart kit have changed and expanded tremendously.
@@CybernationUncensored oh I see, thanks for the clarification :) I have already pre-ordered the corebook, it will get published in Hungarian later this year :)
Can the Tech fabricate Cyberware which the Medtech can install?
yes
Regarding Fabricate: Is it just me, or does Fabricate seem like a sucker's investment of Maker Points? Anything I can fabricate, I can also invent. It takes the same amount of time either way, the same cost of materials, the same bonuses to the die roll, and thr same DV. Invent is far more flexible though. The only advantage I see is that if I roll badly to Fabricate, I can retain my materials, but maybe they are partially lost if I roll badly to invent.
P.S. Thanks to Eric for pointing out that Invent might not preserve the materials! I probably would not have noticed that difference.
Fabricate is to make things that already exist in RED, invent to create something not already in existence.
@@CybernationUncensored technically Invention Expertise doesn't create the final product, just the schematics/design docs for how to make it, still need Fabrication Expertise to bring the final product into existence except if the invention is a new kind of upgrade in which case you need Upgrade Expertise.
@@HenshinFanatic Correct, the details are: Once invented, you (or another Tech who you
show the blueprints to) can make your invented item/
upgrade real using Fabrication or Upgrade Expertise!
It's worth mentioning that nobody will give your invention a second thought before you have a working
prototype. Of course, that's when they'll try to steal it.
Don't bother with the courts.
What's the thoughts on the Techscanner bonus for these rolls?
what do you mean?
@@CybernationUncensored Pg 355: Techscanner: Scanner diagnoses a wide variety of machinery and electronics, assisting the user in repairs, or other technical work. User adds +2 to their Basic Tech, Cybertech, Land Vehicle Tech, Sea Vehicle Tech, Air Vehicle Tech, Electronics/Security Tech, and Weaponstech Skills. This doesn't stack with itself.
I was curious if people thought this did or did not stack for Maker rolls since it does say it adds +2 to the relevant skills which is the basis for Maker rolls.
@@murraytowle2123 ah ok, I know what you mean, and yes, it can stack, as long as it's using a relevant skill associated with the scanner bonus etc.
HAH didn't even know that facebook group even had a youtube chanel.... good job me
thanks for coming over =)