Erik System Crash System

Alright tg, this is a starting point, but I'm all about KISS in my crunch (KISS means Keep It Simple Stupid). For the Server Crash Fluff, follow the link.

Character Creation

Stats for the 'human' limit go from 1-10. You get 100 Points to distribute your stats, powers, and skills.

Interface - The ability to competently interact with the environment and other intelligences.

Power - offensive ability.

Capacity - size, determines how much data you can drag along and how large you are, might severely impact "movement", i.e. when you are a hulking block of tools or just the bare bone ware.

Data scanning - The ability to assess code and the environment.

Integration - the opposite of one's humanity; the closer you are to pure code, the more integrated you are. Take care! Become too integrated and you become nothing BUT code, a special kind of PC death.

Average NPC user

This is an example user that gets by harvesting data from inside the web-fort, having a family of little users, and is mostly average in terms of everything else. This is a 'starting point', just to have an idea of what normal is.

Job-bob, Data Farmer

Total Points: 40

Interface (FACE): 3

Power (POW): 3

Capacity (CAP): 3

Data Scanning (DS):3

Integration (INT):3

Corruption Capacity (CC): - 12

Skills

Search Bar (Local, /tg/ Fort) = 5

Program Goods .exe = 5

Resolution of Actions

Subtract your relevant skills vs. opponent's relevant skills or static challenges, minimum of 1. Roll that many d10 to see how affective you are. You could also directly roll against an opponent's stats or with your own stats, though this is rarer. For example, Hacker Bob is rolling his Power vs. a static challenge -- he's trying to crack open a passworded link that's blocking the party's path. The static challenge is 6 (it's a tough wall) but Hacker Bob's Power is a 9. He rolls 3d10 (9-6=3) to see is he can get through.

1-5: Critical Miss

6-10: Failure

11-20: Success

21-30: Improved Success

31-40: Major Success

41-50: Major Success + Resource

Resource Points

Everyone has 0 resources when starting, you can earn more by getting over 40 on a check or by taking PERMANENT Humanity damage. These represent a kind of willpower that your humanity can use, possibly even a meatspace physicality that no one in the WebForts can really track down.

Things you can use resource points for by any class:

• Use a skill you are too damaged to access.
• Heal 1 damage from any stat but Integration.
• Start accessing a new skill tree.
• Advance an old skill tree.

Bonus resources you win can only be won by doing something meaningful in game to progress thru any current story arcs. This is up to a GM to decide whether your action does so.

Design note - This makes players DO stuff and keeps people from IRL lurking in their games. Also, it builds momentum as you get enough resources to pull off major class skills during a session at the climax.

Damage and the Corruption Stat

Cybers, viruses and Olds primarily damage you by driving up your Corruption level. The more Corrupted your data becomes, the harder it is to function, and after a certain point you can't function at all! Your growing inability to function is reflected by a universal generic modifier to all dice you roll -- 10% of your total Corruption, rounded down. Once your Corruption exceeds your maximum threshold [(Integration)+(Capacity)x(Level)x2], you can take no more actions until you are healed. If you exceed three times this limit, you have become too corrupted to repair and have a copy activated... if you are lucky enough to be able to afford one.

In order to heal a corrupted ally, a character makes a Reconstruction roll vs. a static challenge equal to half of the total Corruption of said ally. On a success, the Corruption is reset to 0. On a failure, half of the total Corruption is added again.

How Damage is Dealt

Success - Normal Damage

Improved Success - Double Damage

Major Success - Quadruple Damage

Your average attack from a weapon deals 1d10 corruption damage.

Time

All actions in combat are measure in milliseconds. For example, Hacker Joe uses pingblade.exe, a basic attack, which takes 2 ms to use. If you have a Cracker using powerful code to burn up swarm of weak virii, it could take 10 ms but deal massive damage to an area. Different non-combat actions will take a different number of rounds. Rounds themselves equal 10 ms.

Rounds are called milliseconds because they take a millisecond of time, a standard in computer science.

Combat

In combat, you can use any of your .exe files to attack the opponent's code core. Each combat round takes 10 ms of time to complete, and your varying weapons can take a certain amount of ms to use. The attack goes off immediately, but then you have to wait the amount of ms given before taking another turn. Along the same lines, certain abilities can make you wait longer. When a round ends, varying effects happen (glitch damage, poison, regeneration).

There are three things you can do to defend yourself against an attacker that's specifically attacking you.

1. Use a Firewall.

• Firewalls add a static defense against an opponent, and the most basic defense of users. If you decide to use a Firewall, you add the opponent's attack ms to the time you wait before you act.

• Example: Starting the fight, Joe the Script Kiddie uses dezerteagle.exe against a Virii Bot. Joe has a POWer of 4, and the Virii Bot uses Firewall 1. The difference is 3, and would roll 3d10 to see his success against the Bot. After damage, if the Bot is still alive, add +5 ms (time cost of the action) before they get to act again.

2. Dodge the Attack

• Use your InterFACE versus your opponent's POWer. This takes 10 ms.

3. Take the Hit

• Your opponent just hits you. You lose no time, but your opponent rolls an unmodified POWer to see how successful he is since you're standing there doing something else or preparing your counter attack.

Classes

Virus Rider

No human understands how a virus works more than the virus rider. They've taken programming and reprogramming virii and Cybers into an art form, and exhibit their art with bravado. By riding the virii they have coded or tamed, they are able to increase the potency of their pet's abilities. There are, generally speaking, two Virus Rider schools of thought: overtake your opponents with swarms of virii or use virus riding to pump up the power of a single beastly pet. Very few have the experience and knowledge necessary to do both. Main stat is Interface.

Powers

1. Control Virus
2. Multiply Virus
3. Amplify Virus
4. Resist Corruption

Hacker

Wizard type who uses hacks and other .exe files to buff himself and his allies, debuff his opponents through glitches and exploit files, and use hacks to provide a host of utilities and information gathering. When a powerful hacker's about, no data is private! Main stat is Interface.

Powers

1. Modify Value - (Integration cannot be modified.)
2. Open System
3. Exploit: .exe ranged
4. All .exe allowed, except Cracker and Lurker
5. End Process

Cracker

Wizard type who uses cracks, hacks and other .exe files to take the offensive against Cybers. Fear the Cracker who has backups of his persona! Some .exe files are powerful enough to even take out the user in the blast! Main stat is Power.

Powers

1. Allow Cracker .exe
2. Exploit: .exe ranged
3. Brute Force

Script Kiddie

Warrior type who creates nothing but is a master at wielding programs. A Script Kiddie's best friend is a Coder who can use the things they have programmed to their full advantage. Master of knowing how and when to use a lot of files. Main stat is Power.

Powers

1. Amplify .exe (effectiveness x 1.5+(5% level))
2. Direct Denial (of Service)
3. Batch Files
4. Make It Work! - From level four onwards, you may reroll any 1 die in your dice pool. You must take the result. You can reroll an additional die at level 8, another at level 12, and so on.

Lurker

The Lurker is one part internet ranger and one part security-subverting net-rogue. If you need to traverse tough terrain, bypass a Cyber's firewalls for a critical hit, or get where the Internet doesn't want you to be, a Lurker is essential to have around. Main stat is Data Scanning.

Powers

1. Search Bar Mastery - You can use any search bar skill as if you were trained in it.
2. Firewall Avoidance
3. Allow Lurker .exe

Skills

Coding

Programming: Virus

Investing into this tree allows more powerful virii to be created.

Program Cyber

This path requires a level perquisite.

Program Trojan

This path requires a level perquisite and a certain amount of ranks in the Programming: Virus tree.

Programming: .exe

Investing into this tree allows more powerful .exes to be created.

Program Weapon .exe

Cost - 10 points x total Weapon .exe level.

Check - InterFACE + Weapon .exe

This lets you create temporary 'weapons' for you or your friends to use. These can be a specific or as generic as you want. The weapons listed are all personal range. There will be some basic weapons below.

Minor Success - Creates a weapon that deals 1d10 corruption.

Success - Creates a weapon that deals 2d10 corruption.

Improved Success - Creates a weapon that deals the user's (POW)d10 in corruption. This is the standard weapon damage.

Major Success - Creates a weapon that deals the user's (POW)d10 and (INT)d10 in corruption.

Modifiers: Adding range adds +5 to difficulty for each step of range, to a max of "long". Adding a glitch modifies each die by -1.

Reconstruction

Investing into this path increases the chance of successful Reconstruction.

Probing

Link Sense

Successful Link Sense checks will yield information about a link's destination. Higher successes will reveal harder to find information.

Manipulation

Modify Non-Manipulation Skill Value

Investing into this skill path will allow greater increases for longer periods of time.

Conventional Skills

Modify Transparency

Investing into this path allows one to become progressively more difficult to spot.

Suppress Audio

Investing into this path allows one to become progressively more difficult to hear.

Search Bar: Local

Cost Per Level - 5

Stats to Roll - None

You must have a seperate Search Bar: Local for each area. If you hit 40+ and want the resource, the question asked must get you to the next part of the arc. Also, you can only get 1 resource per game with this skill.

By making a successful check, you can use your knowledge and experience of the area to locate goods and services, find people, and know the 'customs' that a certain webfort implements.

Minor Success - Know where the center of activity is, famous landmarks.

Success - Able to point out specific services, relaxation centers, data trade centers and other helpful tidbits.

Improved Success - Can find 'celebrities' and other well-known people and where they hang out, as well as activities that the admins shouldn't know about. (You know Leetz has a n00d pix trade in his basement? I know someone who deals with him all the time.)

Major Success - Should be able to answer roughly any ONE question. When using this, if you hit this success, you have to hit it for each 'specific' question of the area.

Modifications: The size of the area will give each dice roll an modifier based on the size. An average webfort gives no rolls. A tiny outpost gives you +2 to each die. A massive uncorrupt area like rpg.net would give someone a -2.

Firewall Mastery

Crackers and Hackers will experience -3 per die per rank above 3. Virus Riders and Lurkers will experience -3 per die per rank above 5. Script Kiddies will experience -2 per die at rank 10.

LOL RANDOM

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Admin: Usually an older generation, the Admin is the protector of the webforts. Where programmers create new data, lurkers find data, Admin's protect the pix and data from those who want it. After all, the acculumation of all that info caused the Internet to become aware, so by keeping data secret and safe are they able to generate their own power. This user saves pix and exes, and their 'system' contained millions of terabytes of old info. Of course, KNOWING how they've organized it, how to save it, and how to retrieve it takes up lots of mental work and only the best can save new data generated these days. However, even with a temporary knowledge, they can recall old versions of avatars and exes that 'worked better' whether from damage or what not. Of course, to bring someone back fully requires them to integrate more. Main stat is System. THIS SHOULD NOT BE A PC CLASS, AND ADMINS ARE COMPLETE USELESS OUTSIDE OF THEIR SERVERS/WEBFORTS.

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Feel free to design skills, more classes, and mod these. Do use a tiered system where skills and stats lead into COOLER skills and stats. Kind of like the 'tree' system Diablo and WoD uses.