Musing and articles from Peter Amthor. Usually of a role playing game influence but I do drift into other directions occasionally. You can also find me on Mastodon at dice.camp/@peteramthor. Comments and constructive criticism welcome. Also this blog is best viewed on a desktop or wide screen tablet.
Sex sells, in the chrome wrapped future of beauty outside and rot inside it sells A LOT. Here is a list of ten shop names that specialize to folks who have the creds to spend on it.
Various adult themed shops.
1 – Slaps or Tickles Kink Emporium
2 – Virtual Pleasure Center
3 – Soft and Chrome
4 – Adult Enhancements llc
5 – Long Distance Relationship Accessories
6 – Dress Up Your Dolly
7 – Adult Video Archive
8 – Discrete Hourly Lodging
9 – Gender Obsessions
10 – Digital Chastity Life
Time for another search of some dead souls pockets in a cyberpunk future. Or maybe you are just searching one who's still alive. But we all know which one is more likely.
Things to find in a street kids pockets.
1 – A one use security signal jammer. Lasts for a D10 x 10 seconds then needs a recharge.
2 – Universal charging ring. Has several different ports so it can be plugged in anywhere.
3 – A D6 of protein sticks held together with a rubber band.
4 – A reusable air hypo and a few CO2 packs to power it.
5 – Graphic intense face mask with built in goggles.
6 – Well worn folding multi-tool.
7 – Water purifier tabs.
8 – Small ‘hand can’ of luminescent spray paint.
9 – Neon 3D printed whistle, very loud when blown.
10 – Pair of fingerless gloves with metal studs along the knuckles.
Automatic candle snuffers. I didn't know these existed until a few years ago. They have been around for quite some time as well. So of course we need some of these with magical effects.
Automatic Candle Snuffers
1 – A sleep spell is cast when the candle is snuffed.
2 – Creates a sphere of silence when it closes that lasts for four hours.
3 – A one use snuffer that activates a fireball spell stored inside when it closes. Of course it destroys itself in the process.
4 – Causes all other flames within twenty feet to extinguish when it closes.
5 – When open and on a candle it slows the burning process and doubles the candles burn time.
6 – When on a burning candle it purifies the air in the room.
7 – When on a burning candle it causes the light to be twice as bright without making it burn faster.
8 – Causes the candle it is on to burn with a wonderful scent that calms anyone in the same room.
9 – When a person lights the candle it is on everyone in the room is suddenly enthralled and will listen to anything they have to say while it burns.
10 – Will cause the candle to emit a toxic gas when it’s burning.
Fashion accessories will never go away, but they will change. What could we see in the cyberpunk future in this area. Well here's a list of ten possibilities.
Jewelry you would see.
1 – Custom made titanium dog tags with glowing letters and numbers.
2 – Bracelets made from gold plated motherboards and copper wiring. Sort of a circuitry filigree.
3 – Earrings that are also micro drives for quick data storage that people won’t notice.
4 – Lockets that only open with the proper person places their thumb on the lid.
5 – Clear tube wearables that glow and have multicolored liquid flowing through them.
6 – Metal rings that are able to expand or shrink slightly to fit different sized fingers.
7 – Pendants and earrings that display holographic corporate logos.
8 – Veils made of microthin webbing that distorts a persons features on security cameras.
9 – Mood Choker, normally a centimeter wide and black but changes color based off the wearers mood.
10 – Lips rings that cast a light into the wearers mouth making it light up when they speak.
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Sometimes what you find on a persons phone can be shocking. Especially in a horror game. Here are ten things that you wouldn't want to find on a cellphone gallery.
Photographs found on a cellphone gallery.
1 – A person tied to a chair that is gagged and blindfolded.
2 – A dead body that has been split down the middle and laid open.
3 – A clawed hand reaching for the camera, the background is all dark and blurry.
4 – The inside of a mini-fridge filled with full blood donation bags.
5 – A body wrapped in rope frozen inside of a chunk of river ice.
6 – Several hooded figures around a table performing animal sacrifices.
7 – An image of the person who is looking at the phone taken from a distance.
8 – A spiked pit trap on what appears to be a nature trail.
9 – A wanted dangerous fugitive holding up their own ‘Wanted’ poster and smiling.
10 – Images from the inside of a church as it is burning.
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Time for another horror gaming entry for Roll a D10. This time it's what you may find when you search a dead body.
What did you find in a dead persons hand?
1 – A religious symbol for a nearby cult.
2 – A long flat head screwdriver covered in blood.
3 – The drivers license of a local police officer.
4 – Small scrap of crumbled paper with three phone numbers on it.
5 – A flashlight with dead batteries.
6 – A key ring with three keys on it.
7 – A leash for a small animal.
8 – A blood stained photograph of a young girl.
9 – Several strands of long hair wrapped around their fingers.
10 – A small crucifix on a silver chain.
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Cyberpunk Random Tables
What else is that sex bot doing?
1 – Deep facial recognition scanning in order to sell that with various companies.
2 – DNA collection through obvious body fluids and through not so obvious skin flake shedding.
3 – Cryptocurrency mining, they owners have them mining away while doing their menial task of providing scripted pleasure.
4 – Recording all visual interactions while collecting as much identifying information as possible. Either to sell to data brokers or for future blackmail.
5 – Planting nanobots. These bots have become the easiest way of planting nanobot onto others.
6 – Harvesting nanobots. They can also harvest nanobots easily and store them away for analysis. Or if it’s bots they planted themselves at a previous encounter to collect whatever data they have.
7 – Subliminal messaging. This is done through various forms of subsonic messaging or video messaging hidden in their eyes.
8 – Body language study. Storing away the data on how a person acts, their mannerisms and quirks. Future clone makers want this info and will pay for it.
9 – Hacking any nearby hardware remotely. Everything is wireless now and while the bots body is busy with the customer their brain is gaining access to your phone, tablets, laptops, whatever you brought with you.
10 – Scanning for weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Knowing how to disable or kill you is something people will pay for. Or maybe even the bots owner may want you finished off in a different way than usual after the bot is done.
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Well what better way to do corporate gossip than a random chart. What kind of things with this Sprawlvember entry bring to the ears of your runners? So let's roll a D10!
Overheard Corporate Gossip
1 – The largest stockholder in the company is actually a rogue AI that is skimming money from various projects and using that to buy shares.
2 – In the restrooms everyone is being monitored. When their waste is flushed it goes through a scanner to check for potential health issues. But instead of warning anyone it just puts them a list for folks that need to be fired before they get sick.
3 – The food that is given out for “morale purposes” is laced with nanotech that alters your neural make up making your more loyal and squashing free thought.
4 – The CEO has been dead for months now. They’re just using a hologram of him on a video feed so the board controls everything. I mean, have you seen him face to face lately?
5 – If we get our profits up and reduce the workforce necessary to deliver they will make the drinks from the lounge Espresso machine free for a week. I’ve fired eight people already!
6 – Anyone caught wearing a suit from Delusions of Grandeur will be fired for dress code violations.
7 – Security is going to start doing complete neuro scans on everyone when they leave to make sure they aren’t trafficking sensitive data out of the offices.
8 – The DNA samples that were taken when we were hired all went to a top secret cloning project. They eventually just want to grow new workers instead of hiring them.
9 – The police have somebody in deep undercover in the offices trying to find proof of our illegal work into fetal development altering prenatal vitamins. You didn’t know we were doing that? Then forget I said anything.
10 – Our contracts have a clause that will cause total forfeiture of shares if we invest any amount in a competitor.
Here's my entry for the tenth day of Sprawlvember. Robotics is the prompt so I came up with ten potential names for robotics companies. Hope you all get a little inspiration or use out of these.
Robotics Companies
1 – Artificial Manpower
2 – Expendable Explorers
3 – Frontline Security Stations
4 – Metal Muscle Solutions
5 – Dependable Assembly Line Services
6 – Automatic Function
7 – Hard Wired Functional Safety Units
8 – World Wide Industrial Robot Providers
9 – Intelligent Kinematic Solutions
10 – Point-to-Point Professionals
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Okay the prompt for the seventh day of Sprawlvember is 'trend'. So let's go with that for a quick roll a D10 list.
Holy shit you’re trending! Now who’s trying to get you to sign a deal?
1 – Super Fizz Extreme Soda. They want you to get sticky!
2 – Soulless Sinima. They make porn movies starring amatuers, mostly runners… and they want you to get sticky as well.
3 – Delusions of Grandeur. Makers of knock off clones of popular clothing lines. They want you to be one of their ad models.
4 – NeonSky Social Media. They want to pay you to be exclusive to their social network.
5 – Clean Inside Enema Kits. Do you want to say you have a preferred enema cleansing kit on multiple network ads? Well if so then they are willing to write you a check.
6 – Barely Beer. They want you to be in their new commercials. But they offer an amount of pay that is only barely there.
7 – Silicone Sirens. The pop sensation female trio wants you to be in a music video.
8 – Scythe Body Spray. Cut through your stank with Scythe, well at least as one of their models.
9 – No Pain Nasal Spray. They want you for a few commercials selling their nasally inserted pain blocking nanobots.
10 – Trenchfoot Combat Boots. They will pay you to wear their boots while doing jobs. To bad they really aren’t that good of a boot.
For this #Sprawlvember entry I'm doing a list of ten interesting things to find on the black market.
Roll A D10: What odd interesting thing you found on the blackmarket.
1 – A set of four functioning cryochambers, running with occupants inside. They appear to be children and the only data is that they are part of Clone Batch 13B.
2 – A case of military grade EMP grenades.
3 – A sealed armored briefcase with the logo of a major corporation on it. It needs a bio-metric scan to open and the datajack has been drilled out.
4 – A D6 of packs of high end medical grade nanobot pain blockers. Each pack contains three injections.
5 – Six pouches of actual real life seeds for vegetable plants. Not the genetically modified types either.
6 – A large amount of surgery level medical equipment, all still sealed in plastic and sterile.
7 – Stacks of last years discontinued Mountain Dew flavor.
8 – A wireless electronic lock hacking device disguised as an older model cellphone.
9 – A techie selling custom made devices for your television that allow you to access nearly any streaming service for free.
10 – Several fulled sealed hazmat suits. Complete with built in Geiger counters, toxin scanners, and biohazard warning systems.
Sometimes you need a serial killer in your games to make things more interesting. Here is are ten different calling cards and hallmarks to add a bit something more gruesome. Remember the creativity of the kill will make their memory last longer.
Roll a D10 - What was the serial killers calling card/hallmark?
1 – A blood stained playing card, all taken from the same deck.
2 – Single photograph of the victim taken secretly just days prior to the murder.
3 – The date of death is carved on the victims forehead, to the bone.
4 – All fingers and toes are removed prior to the victims death.
5 – The blood has been drained from the victims and is poured in a spiral around the body.
6 – An object is inserted through the nasal cavity and then used to liquefy the victims brain.
7 – The victim was dragged behind a vehicle on a gravel road prior to death.
8 – Eyelids and lips were removed from the victims body.
9 – The victims suffered several lacerations all over their body that were then sewn up.
10 – The victim suffered a great many stab wounds, each from a different blade.
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I've decided that what we all really need is a good random number generator for our games. So I've been hard at work for the past couple of months on this and have finally decided to showcase my idea. Now this is the product of hours of work and extensive playtesting with my group (thank you Jason, Larry, Lori, Tuck, Kal and Kelly). Here we go.
Roll a D10 and consult the chart below to generate a random number. This particular one is way useful in any game that needs you to generate a number 1 through 10.
1 - Two
2 - Six
3 - Ten
4 - Eight
5 - One
6 - Five
7 - Three
8 - Nine
9 - Seven
10 - Four
Here's another one I'm working on for generating a number between one and six. You roll a D6 and consult the chart below. Now this one is more simple but I'm still working out a few flaws in the design that keep popping up. So bear with me while I work out the details over the next couple months.
1 -Two
2 - Five
3 - Six
4 - Seven
5 - One
6 - Three
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It's been a while. But here are ten things you could find on a Street Rat once they've been 'incapacitated'.
1 – Soft plastic fold-able container used to hold liquids and a compact siphoning kit used to drain fuel from vehicles.
2 – Old cellphone with a wire attached to a blank white credit card. Programmed to hack into ATM’s.
3 – Vacuum packed packages of kibble stamped with a local food pantry name.
4 – Several different knives of dubious quality with masking tape on the handles.
5 – A zipper pouch filled with various stolen cred sticks and ID’s.
6 – Around 100 identical photocopied pages of an ad for a nearby strip club folded over with a rubber band around them.
7 – A pack of generic condoms. No brand name.
8 – Very old handheld techscanner. Rigged to detect and identify cyberware on nearby targets.
9 – A well used set of lock picks, including the gear to hack electronic locks. All wrapped up in a compact sleeping bag.
10 – Ziploc baggy filled with a variety of different pills.
The big corps are always trying to come up with the next big thing. This is doubled for those making consumable products. So here are ten alcoholic drinks on the market in a cyberpunk future. Just don't ask how safe they are to consume because the FDA was disbanded long ago.
Cyberpunk era alcoholic drinks
1 – Bud Neon. When you twist the top off it lights up in a random neon color.
2 – ClearBeer. Looks like water, hits you like a pilsner.
3 – Squeaker. A cocktail that makes your vocal cords tighten up making your voice high pitched.
4 – Frosty. Makes you exhale clouds of steam like you’re exhaling in a very cold environment.
5 – Clear Chaser. A nano infused drink that quickly (a few minutes) clears alcohol from your system.
6 – Fruity Freak. Each time you take a drink it makes you taste a different fruit flavor.
7 – Phantom Limb. Makes you feel a sensual tingle anywhere you have cyberware implanted.
8 – Extra Time. The alcohol is tailored to be time released after drinking so your buzz lasts longer.
9 – BUZZ. An orange drink that isn’t alcoholic until you hit it with an electrical charge.
10 – Rabid Dogg. A milky white drink that foams up in your mouth.
Sometimes the gunman ends up going to the big rifle range in the sky. So it's up to everyone else to loot his body for goodies. Roll a D10 to see what you find.
Things in a Solo’s pockets.
1 – A pack of imported cigarettes from some country on the other side of the world.
2 – Pair of shooting gloves.
3 – Pocket sized gun cleaning kit.
4 – Premium customer awards card for Johnny Automatics Gun Emporium.
5 – Extra wires for their smartlinked gear in case they need to go hardlined instead of wireless.
6 – Small pen sized laser distance finder.
7 – Palm sized derringer with a very large caliber round. The words “No Surrender” engraved on it.
8 – Caffeine in various forms; chewing gum, pills, gummies, etc.
9 – Hip flask filled with some really cheap, but strong, whiskey.
10 – A wallet with ID saying they are a police officer. Counterfeit of course.
Sometimes you need to shuffle through the pockets of a street media who is... taking an extended rest. Here are ten things that you may find.
Things in a street medias pockets.
1 – A taped up roll of hardline connectors for various camera types.
2 – Pocket radio with earbuds that is tuned into all the police radio channels.
3 – Several different ‘Press’ badges from different major media outlets, all counterfeit.
4 – A pocket first aid kit.
5 – Small armored packet containing fresh data slugs for their camera and other equipment.
6 – Extra power bank charger for their phone.
7 – An emergency switch that uploads all their media to their private cloud storage with one click.
8 – A fold-able face mask with filters and lenses that cover their eyes that seal.
9 – Burner cellphone loaded with emergency numbers.
10 – Back up hand held micro video recorder that looks like an ink pen.
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Some jobs are simple smuggling operation of very specific data. Here are ten special deliveries of the digital style. Can't risk sending these over the net, so it's a meat house special to be delivered via their own footwork.
Things you may be asked to smuggle.
1 – High end educational videos that are for private schools only to underground educator groups.
2 – The actual report on how harmful the latest heavy corporate sponsored sports energy drink really is.
3 – Where the city is actually keeping political prisoners and what they do with the bodies afterwards.
4 – The name and home address of every citizen who turned over evidence to the police.
5 – Control commands for every AI being used by the military.
6 – The chemical compound that is a cure for most types of cancer.
7 – Criminal records of many high ranking politicians before they were either altered or erased.
8 – A list of private brothels and human trafficking locations owned by the city government.
9 – The list of police informants who are living among the human rights groups.
10 – Proof that some of the leading political figures in the city have been replaced by high end clones.
So you found a dead corporate guy. I mean you stumbled across their dead body, you sure didn't make them dead or anything, completely by chance. Right? Right! Well here you can roll a D10 to find out what you find in the assholes pockets.
Things found in a dead corpos' pockets
1 – A flash drive filled with illegal porn (underage, snuff, etc).
2 – Key to an old fashioned safe.
3 – An untraceable cred stick with over 100 grand on it.
4 – A case full of braindance chip of very questionable content.
5 – A financing chip with the details of how to skim charities they oversee for cash.
6 – Pocket holophoto album of their secretaries using the bathroom.
7 – A burner agent filled with sex hook up apps.
8 – An AI assistant with a full interactive hologram.
9 – A list of names, all politicians, each with a reference to a computer file in the corporate system.
10 – Small bottle of pills for enhanced erectile function.
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