Neon Wake

Chrome Reaper

a blur of drawn steel and monowire who opens a fight already winning — first to strike, last to slow down, more chrome than flesh by the time the bodies drop.

• L6 Reaper Loadout — Drawing or stowing a weapon never costs an action. Once per turn, when you hit a creature that has not yet taken a turn this combat, the strike deals an extra 2d6. Usable (proficiency bonus)x per fight, recharging on a short or long rest.
• L10 Overclock Mastery — The first time you Overclock each scene you ignore the overheat check. While overclocked your weapon attacks crit on 19-20 and ignore up to 3 points of a target's worn-armor AC. Overclocking a SECOND time in the same scene pushes past the safe limit: it still works, but when that overclock ends you take 1 level of exhaustion.
• L14 Kill-Switch Reflex — When a creature you can see within 30 feet drops to 0 HP, you may use your reaction to take an immediate extra weapon attack against a different creature within reach or range; on a hit it deals normal damage plus 1d8 per 4 levels you have (rounded down). Usable a number of times equal to half your proficiency bonus (rounded up) per scene, and each use after the first adds +1 Strain.
• L18 Full Conversion — Your body is more chrome than flesh: you gain resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical, non-augmented weapons. Once per long rest as a bonus action you may go Full Burn for 1 minute, suppressing your Strain band penalties, increasing your speed by 15 feet, and granting one extra weapon attack on your Attack action. When Full Burn ends you take 4d10 force damage (no save) and cannot Overclock until you finish a short or long rest.

Unlock gift (L6): Monowire Garrote — A spool of monofilament; once per short rest, reroll one damage die on a melee hit. (+60 Cred)

Iron Ghost

a cold-running phantom who walks the killzone unseen, bending scanners and sightlines, striking from the blind spot and gone before the muzzle flash fades.

• L6 Ghost Step — As a bonus action you reroute your optical signature: until the end of your next turn, or until you attack or take damage, attacks against you have disadvantage, your attacks have advantage, and you may move your speed without provoking opportunity attacks. Usable (proficiency bonus)x per fight, recharging on a short rest.
• L10 Subdermal Veil — When a creature you can see makes an attack roll against you, you may use your reaction to impose disadvantage on it; if it still misses, you may move up to 10 feet without provoking opportunity attacks. Usable a number of times equal to your DEX modifier (minimum 1) per scene, regaining all uses on a short or long rest.
• L14 Null Signal — You do not register on drones, cameras, trackers, or thermal/Grid sensors unless you choose to, and you have advantage on DEX (Stealth) checks. When you are hidden and hit a creature, it must succeed on a DEX save (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your DEX modifier) or be unable to locate you until the end of its next turn. You can suppress your signal this fully only while your Heat clock is at 3 segments or fewer.
• L18 Chrome Shroud — Once per long rest, as a bonus action, you become invisible and Grid-silent for 1 minute; attacking does not break it, but each turn you remain invisible after attacking costs +1 Strain. While shrouded, the first attack each turn against a creature that cannot see you is an automatic critical hit on a hit.

Unlock gift (L6): Cloaked Blade — A ceramic knife that reads cold to scanners; once per short rest, strike from concealment with advantage. (+60 Cred)

Blacksite Operative

a deniable spook who breaches the deep architecture and leaves nothing behind — silent subroutines planted, the trace-back spoofed, ghosting out clean while the system never knew it was touched.

• L6 Deep Packet — When you make an INT check or attack to breach, hack, or disable a system, device, drone, or cyberware, add a d6 Daemon die. On a breach you may plant a hidden subroutine you can trigger (bonus action) within 1 minute to deal 3d6 lightning to one creature slaved to that system (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your INT modifier, half on a CON save). One subroutine at a time; plantable (proficiency bonus)x per long rest.
• L10 Trace Spoof — When you would gain Heat, or when an attack or tracking attempt against you would hit, you may use your reaction to reduce your Heat gain by 1 segment or impose disadvantage on the triggering roll. Usable a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per long rest, and you may redirect 1 segment of your Heat onto a target you have previously breached.
• L14 Black Archive — You learn three exploits (recharge on a long rest), each deployable as an action vs a system or creature on the Grid within 60 feet: Lockout (target restrained until end of its next turn), Feedback (4d8 psychic and stunned until end of its next turn on a failed INT save), or Backdoor (seize one drone/device for 1 minute). DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your INT modifier; a creature can be hit by a given exploit once per scene, and any exploit adds 1 segment to your Heat.
• L18 Zero Footprint — You are immune to detection, tracing, or targeting by automated systems and Grid-based divination unless you act overtly, and your Heat never advances from purely digital actions. Once per long rest, when you breach a system or drop to half HP or fewer, you may go Zero until the end of your next turn: you cannot be targeted by attacks from any networked source, you may jack-jump up to 60 feet to a node you can see, and your next breach automatically succeeds.

Unlock gift (L6): Black ICE Deck — A military-grade cyberdeck; once per long rest, run one extra program in a hack without raising heat. (+70 Cred)

Neural Lancer

a combat jockey who weaponizes the deck mid-firefight, slotting kill-daemons and arcing live current through every chromed body on the wire until their nerves cook.

• L6 Combat Daemon Slot — As a bonus action you deploy a combat daemon until the start of your next turn: Aimbot (crit on 19-20), Ghostwalk (speed doubles, no opportunity attacks), or Firewall (temporary HP equal to 1d8 + your INT modifier). Deployable (proficiency bonus)x per fight, recharging on a short or long rest.
• L10 ICE Shock — When you hit a creature or it fails a save against one of your Grid effects, you may deal an extra 2d8 lightning and reduce its AC by 2 until the end of your next turn. Usable once per turn, a number of times equal to your INT modifier (minimum 1) per scene, and each use above the first adds +1 Strain.
• L14 Bleed-Through — When you deal lightning or psychic damage to a creature with cyberware or a Grid connection, it cannot take reactions until the start of its next turn, and the damage may arc to a second creature within 15 feet for half (DEX save for none, DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your INT modifier). When you crit or drop a creature to 0 with a Grid attack, regain one expended use of Combat Daemon Slot or ICE Shock.
• L18 Grid Reaper — Once per scene as an action, every hostile creature of your choice within 60 feet that has cyberware or a Grid connection takes 8d8 lightning and psychic and is stunned until the end of your next turn (CON save, DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your INT modifier, halves damage and negates the stun). After casting it you gain 2 levels of Strain and cannot Overclock or deploy a combat daemon until you finish a short or long rest.

Unlock gift (L6): Lance Module — A weaponized daemon; once per short rest, your next hack against a foe in combat resolves at advantage. (+70 Cred)

Shadow Broker

a ghost who works the shadows of the sprawl, running dead-drops and burner contacts, trading the right secret at the right moment to make a mark fold or a door swing open.

• L6 Dead Drop Network — You keep anonymous caches across the sprawl. After 10 minutes in a district you have visited before, you may retrieve one stored item worth 50 credits or less, or one piece of mundane local intel. You may have a number of active drops equal to your proficiency bonus; a drawn drop is spent until you reseed it on a long rest.
• L10 Leveraged Intel — As a bonus action, once per scene, reveal a damaging secret about one creature that can hear or read you. It makes a WIS save (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your CHA modifier) or, for 1 minute, you have advantage on CHA checks against it and it has disadvantage on attacks against anyone but you. A creature can be leveraged once per long rest; a called bluff gains you 1 Heat.
• L14 Black Ledger — At the end of each long rest, choose one named contact; once before your next long rest you may call their debt as a reaction to gain a 30-credit consumable delivered in-scene, a +5 to one check in their domain, or a 1-round head start on Heat (it does not advance on your next turn). Calling a debt with a contact you have wronged this session imposes disadvantage and adds +1 Heat.
• L18 The Word Is Law — As an action, once per long rest, up to (your proficiency bonus) creatures within 60 feet that can hear and understand you make a CHA save (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your CHA modifier) or obey one short, non-self-harming command (stand down, drop it, walk away) and be charmed by you for 1 minute, repeating the save at the end of each turn. Each failed target adds +1 Heat.

Unlock gift (L6): Burner Comm — An untraceable handset full of favors; once per long rest, reach a contact who answers one question or opens one door. (+80 Cred)

Street Prince

a corner-king who rules his own blocks — turf in his bones, runners at his call, untouchable on home ground where the whole neighborhood answers to his word.

• L6 Corner Claim — You hold one city block as turf. While on claimed ground you gain +2 AC and +2 to CHA and WIS checks, and ignore the first 5 feet of difficult terrain each move. Claiming a new block takes a short rest and drops the old one. When an enemy ends its turn on your corner, once per fight you may use your reaction to make a weapon attack or shove against it.
• L10 Gang Pull — As a bonus action, (proficiency bonus)x per long rest, a loyal runner (AC 12, HP equal to 5x your proficiency bonus, one attack at +your proficiency bonus for 1d6 + your CHA modifier) arrives within 30 feet — the GM brings them into the fight — and acts on your initiative under your command for 1 minute. Only one runner at a time; a fallen runner cannot return until you finish a long rest.
• L14 Territory War — As a reaction, once per scene, when combat begins on turf you control or an enemy first attacks you there: until the end of your next turn, you and allies within 30 feet gain temporary HP equal to 2x your proficiency bonus and add your CHA modifier (minimum +1) to their first attack or save; enemies treat the area as difficult terrain. Using this adds +2 Heat.
• L18 Crown of the Block — Your Corner Claim now extends to every adjacent block and grants +3 instead of +2. Once per long rest, when you or an ally within 60 feet on your turf drops to 0 HP, you may use your reaction to drop them to half their HP maximum instead; every enemy within 30 feet makes a WIS save (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your CHA modifier) or is frightened of you until the end of its next turn, and your Heat advances by 1.

Unlock gift (L6): Signet of the Block — Everyone on your turf knows this ring; once per long rest, gain advantage on a social check on home ground. (+80 Cred)

Surge Witch

a live wire who drinks the city’s static and dumps it back as raw force, overburning every hex past the safe line and riding the backlash that would cook anyone else.

• L6 Raw Channel — As a bonus action, (proficiency bonus)x per long rest, choose one: your next damaging spell this turn deals an extra 1d8 of its type, or you cast a cantrip you know as part of the same bonus action. Each use takes +1 Strain; if it pushes you to a Strain band threshold (4, 7, or 10) you resolve that band immediately.
• L10 Backlash Rider — As a reaction when you take damage from a creature you can see within 60 feet, it makes a DEX save (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your casting modifier) or takes 1d10 + your casting modifier force damage and has its speed halved until the end of its next turn (half and no slow on a success). Usable (proficiency bonus)x per long rest; each use after the first in a fight costs +1 Strain.
• L14 Overburn Hex — As an action, spend a spell slot of 3rd level or higher to burst a 20-foot radius within 60 feet: each creature makes a CON save (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your casting modifier), taking 6d8 force and stunned until the end of your next turn on a failure, or half and no stun on a success (+1d8 per slot level above 3rd). You immediately take +2 Strain and cannot Overclock again this scene.
• L18 Surge Incarnate — As an action, once per long rest, for 1 minute your spell save DC and spell attacks gain +2, your damaging spells ignore resistance to their type, and once per turn you may cast a spell of 2nd level or lower as part of casting another spell. When it ends you gain +3 Strain and one level of exhaustion, and your Overclock is spent for the scene; if you are already at 10 Strain when it ends, you fall unconscious for 1 minute.

Unlock gift (L6): Surge Capacitor — A coil that drinks the city's static; once per long rest, recast a 1st-level hex without a slot. (+60 Cred)

Null Hexer

a walking dead-zone who eats incoming code and edge, killing spells mid-cast and blanketing the air so no augment, deck, or signal-magic fires inside her silence.

• L6 Wake-Blind — As a reaction when a creature you can see within 60 feet casts a spell, uses signal-magic, or activates an augment, it makes a CHA save (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your casting modifier) or its action fails and is wasted (a slot is still spent) and it cannot cast or use augments until the end of its next turn. Usable (proficiency bonus)x per long rest, only against effects of level no higher than half your proficiency bonus (rounded up).
• L10 Static Field — As an action (concentration, up to 1 minute), raise a 15-foot-radius zone of dead air centered on you that moves with you: enemies inside have disadvantage on CON saves to keep concentration and on spell/augment/drone attacks, and the first time each enters or starts its turn there it takes 1d6 force; allies inside have advantage on saves vs charmed and frightened. Sustainable (proficiency bonus)x per long rest.
• L14 Null Zone — As an action, spend a spell slot of 3rd level or higher (concentration, up to 1 minute) to blanket a 30-foot-radius sphere within 90 feet: inside it spells of 2nd level or lower fail, augments and Overclock cannot activate, and a higher-level spell requires a casting check (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your casting modifier) or the action and slot are lost. You also cannot cast inside it. When it ends you take +2 Strain.
• L18 Dead Signal — As an action, once per long rest, one creature within 60 feet makes a CHA save (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your casting modifier) or is cut off from signal-magic for 1 minute: it cannot cast, use augments, Overclock, or benefit from magical healing, and any concentration it holds ends. It repeats the save at the end of each turn; a pure-signal entity has disadvantage on the saves. When the effect ends you take one level of exhaustion.

Unlock gift (L6): Null Charm — A dead-tech amulet that eats incoming code and edge (+1 AC). (+60 Cred)

Swarm Caller

a hive-mind behind a wrist-rig who buries targets under a living cloud of drones — splitting them, detonating them, collapsing the whole swarm into one lethal stinging fog.

• L6 Expanded Swarm — Starting at 6th level, your soft cap of active drones increases by 1, and your microdrones are nimble enough to share a space with creatures. As a bonus action, you command up to two of your active drones to each make their attack against a target within 30 feet; usable (proficiency bonus) times per fight, recharging on a short or long rest.
• L10 Hive Pulse — At 10th level, as an action you trigger a 15-foot-radius burst of stinging microdrones centered on a point within 30 feet. Each enemy in the burst must succeed on a Dexterity save (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier) or take 3d6 lightning damage and be blinded until the end of your next turn; on a success it takes half damage and is not blinded. Usable (proficiency bonus) times per long rest.
• L14 Swarm Overrun — At 14th level, when a destroyed drone of yours would be removed, you may use your reaction to detonate it in a 10-foot radius before it falls, forcing each creature there to make a Dexterity save (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier) or take 4d6 lightning damage and be knocked prone (half damage, not prone on a success). Each detonation costs you that drone permanently for the scene, and you may do this no more than (proficiency bonus) times per long rest.
• L18 Killcloud — At 18th level, once per scene as an action you collapse every active drone you control into a lethal 20-foot-radius cloud at a point within 60 feet that lasts until the end of your next turn. When the cloud forms and at the start of each of your turns it persists, each enemy inside makes a Dexterity save (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier), taking 6d6 lightning damage and gaining the restrained condition until your next turn on a failure, or half damage on a success. When the cloud ends, roll for each drone that fed it: on a 1 (d6) that drone is destroyed and must be rebuilt on a long rest.

Unlock gift (L6): Hive Controller — A wrist-rig that herds your drones; once per short rest, redeploy a downed drone at half integrity (GM tracks). (+60 Cred)

Iron Shepherd

a rigger bonded to one war-machine he keeps standing past every kill-shot, issuing it commands like a second body, the two of them moving and striking as a single chassis.

• L6 Bonded Unit — Starting at 6th level, you permanently bond one war-machine drone that ignores the active-drone soft cap and shares your initiative; it has AC 16, hit points equal to 4 times your level, and its attacks add your proficiency bonus to hit and 1d10 + your Intelligence modifier on a hit. You can issue it commands as part of your own move, and you may use a bonus action to direct it to take the Attack, Dash, or Disengage action; if it is destroyed you can rebuild it over a long rest.
• L10 Hardened Frame — At 10th level, your bonded unit gains resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from non-augment sources, and its hit point maximum increases by an amount equal to twice your level. As a reaction when your bonded unit drops to 0 hit points, you can keep it standing at 1 hit point instead; usable (proficiency bonus) times per long rest.
• L14 War-Sync — At 14th level, while you are within 60 feet of your bonded unit you each gain a +1 bonus to AC and share advantage on a save whenever either of you has it. As a reaction once per round when an enemy you can see is hit by you or your unit, the other of you makes one weapon attack against that same target; this reaction-attack can be used no more than (proficiency bonus) times per fight, recharging on a short or long rest.
• L18 One Machine — At 18th level, your link is total. Once per scene as a bonus action you overclock the bond for 1 minute: your unit takes an extra action on each of its turns, its weapon damage increases to 2d10 + your Intelligence modifier, and damage dealt to you can instead be redirected to your unit while it stands. When the overclock ends, your unit shuts down inert until the end of your next short or long rest, and you gain 1 level of exhaustion.

Unlock gift (L6): Bond Collar — A slaved control yoke; once per long rest, your bonded unit acts on your initiative for one extra round (GM adjudicates). (+60 Cred)

Wake Blade

a body-mystic whose bonded weapon runs live with Grid current, branding foes with glitch-hexes and blinking the blade across a room, flesh and edge fused into one charged strike.

• L6 Surge Edge — Starting at 6th level, your bonded weapon channels Grid signal; your weapon attacks count as augment damage for overcoming resistances and deal +1d6 lightning damage on a hit. Once per turn when you hit, you can pour in more current to add an extra 1d8 lightning damage; doing so adds +1 Strain, and you cannot use it again until the start of your next turn.
• L10 Hex-Strike — At 10th level, as a bonus action after you hit a creature with your bonded weapon, you brand it with a glitch-hex until the end of your next turn; the next attack roll against that target before the hex ends has advantage and deals an extra 2d6 lightning damage. You can brand a creature this way (proficiency bonus) times per long rest, or spend +1 Strain to brand again once that pool is empty.
• L14 Living Weapon — At 14th level, your bonded weapon cannot be disarmed and returns to your hand instantly if lost; while you hold it you have a swim-and-climb-equal walking speed through the Grid and add your Intelligence modifier (minimum +1) to the lightning damage of your weapon attacks. As a reaction when a creature within 30 feet hits you, you can blink the blade to that attacker and make one weapon attack against it; usable (proficiency bonus) times per fight, recharging on a short or long rest.
• L18 Wake Incarnation — At 18th level, once per scene as a bonus action you fuse with your weapon for 1 minute: your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20, each hit deals an extra 2d8 lightning damage, and you can make one additional weapon attack as a bonus action on each of your turns. While incarnated you have advantage on saves against being blinded, frightened, or stunned. When it ends you gain 2 Strain and cannot use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

Unlock gift (L6): Wake-Etched Sword — A blade that drinks the Wake; once per short rest, a melee hit also strains the target (disadvantage on its next attack). (+60 Cred)

Hollow Fist

a hollow-chassis brawler who burns his own chrome for power — the deeper the pain bites the harder he hits, fists running cold while the strain cooks everything inside.

• L6 Strain Burn — Starting at 6th level, when you hit a creature with an unarmed strike you can burn your chrome for power, immediately taking +1 Strain to add 1d8 force damage to the hit. You can instead spend that +1 Strain to shove the target, knocking it prone or pushing it 10 feet on a failed Strength save (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier); this burn is available only while your Strain is below the band-10 threshold.
• L10 Chrome Hollow — At 10th level, your hollow chassis runs cold; you gain resistance to the next instance of damage you take after you burn Strain on your turn, lasting until the start of your next turn. Additionally, once per short or long rest you may shunt Strain into your frame as a bonus action, reducing your current Strain by an amount equal to your proficiency bonus but gaining 1 level of exhaustion.
• L14 Pain Engine — At 14th level, the more chrome bites, the harder you hit; while your Strain is at or above the band-7 threshold, your unarmed strikes deal an extra 1d10 force damage and you have advantage on Strength checks and saves. As a reaction when you take damage, you can convert that pain to fuel and make one unarmed strike against your attacker if it is within reach; usable (proficiency bonus) times per fight, recharging on a short or long rest.
• L18 Consumed and Reborn — At 18th level, once per scene as a bonus action you push every augment past its limit for 1 minute, taking +3 Strain to gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed, an extra unarmed strike on each turn, and +2d10 force damage on the first hit of each of your turns. If this surge would carry your Strain to or past the band-10 threshold you ignore that band's effects until the surge ends; when it ends you drop to 0 unspent resources of your striking pool and gain 1 level of exhaustion, and you cannot do this again until you finish a long rest.

Unlock gift (L6): Coolant Gauntlets — Vents that bleed off the burn; once per long rest, shed one level of exhaustion early. (+60 Cred)

Road Ghost

a no-plates phantom of the wastes who hits on the move and vanishes — no trail, no name, no Heat — riding the Ghost Road where no drone or sensor can paint him.

• L6 Hit and Burn — When you hit a creature on the first round of combat, or on any round you began by moving at least 20 feet, the attack deals an extra 1d8 and you may move up to 10 feet without provoking opportunity attacks (no action). Usable a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, regaining all uses on a short or long rest.
• L10 Vanishing Act — As a bonus action you break line of sight, becoming heavily obscured to all enemies until the start of your next turn; your first attack before then has advantage, and attacks against you have disadvantage until you attack or stop moving. Once used, you cannot use it again until you finish a short or long rest or reduce a creature to 0 HP.
• L14 No Plates No Name — You have advantage on checks to escape pursuit, shake a tail, or avoid a Heat increase, and when you would gain Heat from your own actions you may use your reaction to ignore it once per scene. In a chase, your ride counts as one size smaller for squeezing through gaps and never takes disadvantage from rough or tight terrain.
• L18 Ghost Road — Once per long rest, as a bonus action, you enter the Ghost Road for 1 minute: you and any vehicle you pilot cannot be tracked, your position is never revealed by drones, sensors, or Heat, and your movement increases by 30 feet. The first time each turn you move at least half your speed before attacking, that attack crits on 19-20. When it ends you gain one level of exhaustion.

Unlock gift (L6): Ghost Plates — Scavenged stealth panels; once per long rest, you and your ride leave no trail for a day. (+50 Cred)

Convoy Boss

a clan wheelman who fights as a rolling fortress of allies and rigs, calling coordinated runs and ramming charges until a whole iron caravan moves on his word.

• L6 Pack Leader — At the start of each combat, choose up to (proficiency bonus) allies or allied vehicles within 60 feet; each gains temporary HP equal to your level. As a bonus action you may order one such ally within 60 feet to move up to its speed or make one weapon attack as a reaction. Usable a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per combat, recharging on a short or long rest.
• L10 Rolling Fortress — While within 30 feet of a vehicle you designated this scene, you and allies riding it gain half cover (or improve cover one step) and add your proficiency bonus to saves vs prone, push, and stun. As a reaction when an ally within 30 feet is hit, you may have a designated vehicle interpose so the attacker rerolls against the vehicle's AC, once per round.
• L14 Convoy Tactics — When you roll initiative, you and each designated ally within 60 feet may act on your initiative count. Once per round, when a designated ally within 60 feet hits a creature, you may use your reaction to grant a second ally within 60 feet an attack against that target dealing +2d6 on a hit. A creature hit by two or more of your convoy in a round has disadvantage on its next attack.
• L18 Iron Caravan — Once per long rest, as an action, each designated ally and vehicle within 120 feet makes one attack or ramming run into a 60-foot line or 30-foot radius you can see; each enemy there makes a DEX save (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your CHA modifier), taking 8d8 and knocked prone on a failure, or half on a success. For 1 minute your designated allies cannot be frightened and add your CHA modifier to attacks. The vehicles need repairs before this can be used again.

Unlock gift (L6): Convoy Hailer — A long-band radio of the clans; once per long rest, call in a clan favor on the open road. (+50 Cred)

Ironwall

the wall the crew hides behind — eating the hits meant for them, planting immovable, swallowing whole blasts so nobody else feels the impact, never going down while a breath is left.

• L6 Meat Shield — When a creature you can see within 5 feet is hit, you may use your reaction to take the hit instead, reducing the damage by your level (minimum 0). Usable a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, regaining all uses on a short or long rest; while you have a use left, allies within 5 feet add your CON modifier to AC against opportunity attacks.
• L10 Stand Your Ground — As a bonus action you plant yourself, becoming Immovable until the start of your next turn or until you move: you cannot be moved against your will, you have resistance to all damage from creatures within 5 feet, and an enemy that starts its turn adjacent makes a STR save (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your CON modifier) or cannot move away from you until the start of its next turn. Once used, recharge on a short or long rest or when reduced below half HP.
• L14 Blast Absorb — You have resistance to fire, thunder, and force. As a reaction when you or an ally within 10 feet is caught in an area effect, you may absorb it: you take the full damage (after resistance), every other creature in the area takes none, and you store half that damage to add to your next melee hit before the end of your next turn. Usable once per short or long rest.
• L18 Unbreakable — While you have at least 1 HP, no single instance of damage that does not exceed your HP maximum can reduce you below 1. Once per long rest, when you would drop to 0 HP, you instead drop to (your CON modifier x your proficiency bonus) HP, gain temporary HP equal to your level, and every enemy within 10 feet makes a STR save (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your CON modifier) or is knocked prone; using this leaves you with one level of exhaustion.

Unlock gift (L6): Riot Slab — A strapped ballistic plate that makes you the wall (+1 AC). (+50 Cred)

Wrecking Crew

a one-man demolition charge who treats cover, walls, and bodies as the same problem, breaching through everything and cratering the ground once he goes full demolition.

• L6 Breach and Clear — Your attacks treat objects, barricades, cover, and structures as having no damage threshold and deal double damage to them. The first time each turn you destroy cover, break through a wall or door, or hit a creature benefiting from cover, that creature (or the nearest within 5 feet of the breach) takes an extra 2d6 from debris. Usable a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per combat, recharging on a short or long rest.
• L10 Structural Damage — When you hit a creature or object in melee, you may deal a Structural hit, reducing its AC by 1 (minimum 10) until the end of your next turn, stacking up to your proficiency bonus on the same target. Once per turn when you hit a creature on unstable ground, a structure, or a vehicle, it makes a STR save (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your STR modifier) or is knocked prone or shoved 10 feet.
• L14 Crater Maker — As an action, deliver a blow to a point within 5 feet, making a 15-foot-radius crater: each creature there makes a DEX save (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your STR modifier), taking 6d10 bludgeoning and prone on a failure, or half on a success; the area becomes difficult terrain, and structures/vehicles/objects there take the full damage automatically. Usable twice, regaining both on a long rest and one on a short rest.
• L18 Demolition Engine — Once per long rest, as an action, go full demolition for 1 minute: your melee attacks deal an extra 2d8, ignore resistance to bludgeoning, and hit every creature and object within 5 feet of the target on a hit. When you drop a creature to 0 or destroy a structure, each other creature within 10 feet makes a DEX save (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your STR modifier) or takes 3d8 and is knocked prone. When it ends you gain one level of exhaustion.

Unlock gift (L6): Demolition Maul — A breaching hammer; once per short rest, reroll one damage die, and it wrecks barriers with ease. (+50 Cred)

Combat Splicer

a battlefield surgeon who keeps the crew breathing mid-firefight, patching wounds on the move, slamming the dropped back onto their feet with a stim, hauling the dead from the brink.

• L6 Hot Patch — As a bonus action, restore 1d8 + your INT modifier HP to a creature within 30 feet; if it is below half its HP maximum, restore 2d8 + your INT modifier instead. You draw from a shared Patch Kit of (5 x your Medtech level) HP that refills on a long rest, and a creature can benefit from Hot Patch only once per turn.
• L10 Stim Override — As a reaction when an ally within 30 feet drops to 0 HP or fails a death save, they snap to 1 HP plus 2d6 temporary HP and may immediately make one weapon attack or Dash. They gain one level of exhaustion when the temporary HP runs out or after 1 minute. Usable a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, regaining all uses on a long rest.
• L14 Field Reconstruction — As an action on a creature within 5 feet that is unconscious, dying, or chrome-traumatized, restore 4d8 + your INT modifier HP and end one of poisoned, stunned, or paralyzed. Once used, recharge on a short or long rest; using it adds +1 Strain to the patient.
• L18 Back from the Brink — Once per scene as an action, a creature within 30 feet that has died within the last minute (or drops to 0 this turn) returns with HP equal to half its maximum and the stunned condition until the end of its next turn. You gain 1 level of exhaustion that no rest removes until you finish a long rest, and a creature can be revived this way only once per long rest.

Unlock gift (L6): Splicer's Field Rig — A field-surgery rig cut down to run on a moving deck; once per long rest, your healing on an ally restores the maximum on one die. (+60 Cred)

Chrome Smith

a cutter who fixes you by reworking the chrome itself — clean installs, flushing the strain out of a body, overclocking a comrade's augments into a surge of speed and edge.

• L6 Clean Install — When you spend at least 1 hour installing or tuning cyberware on a willing creature, make an INT check with your proficiency bonus added: on a 12+ the install takes flawlessly with no Strain, and on a 17+ they also gain 1d6 + your INT modifier temporary HP until their next long rest. Usable a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per long rest; a result below 12 inflicts the augment's normal Strain plus glitched until their next short rest.
• L10 Strain Flush — As an action on a creature within 5 feet (or yourself), remove Strain equal to 1d4 + your INT modifier and end frightened or poisoned if present. The target makes a CON save (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your INT modifier), taking 2d6 necrotic on a failure or half on a success. Usable twice per long rest.
• L14 Augment Overclock — As a bonus action, force one creature within 30 feet into an augment surge for 1 minute: it adds 1d6 to attacks and saves and gains +10 feet speed, but takes 1d6 force at the start of each of its turns as its chrome overheats. The surge ends if it drops to 0 HP. Once used, recharge on a short or long rest; a creature already in Overclock this scene gains +1 Strain if surged again.
• L18 Master Cutter — Whenever you restore HP with a feature, you restore the maximum from one of the dice rolled. Once per long rest as an action you may flush a creature within 5 feet to 0 Strain and grant it resistance to all damage until the end of its next turn; while at 0 Strain from this it ignores the install-glitch risk on its next augment, after which Strain accrues normally.

Unlock gift (L6): Diagnostic Wrench — A cutter's multitool; once per long rest, gain advantage on a check to install, repair, or tune cyberware or gear. (+60 Cred)

Phantom Protocol

a corporate ghost who slips through any door behind a borrowed face — spliced personas, bleed-clean covers, embedded inside the org for weeks before anyone thinks to look.

• L6 Bleed-Clean Cover — When you enter a location or meet a faction under a prepared cover identity, you have advantage for the scene on CHA (Deception) checks to hold that cover and on saves vs being detected; a creature scrutinizing you must beat DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your CHA modifier on a perception or sensor check to pierce it. You may keep a number of prepared covers equal to your proficiency bonus, refreshing the set on a long rest.
• L10 Persona Splice — As an action, splice into a harvested persona for 10 minutes, mimicking a specific person's voice, biometrics, and manner; observers must beat DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your CHA modifier on a perception check to doubt you (disadvantage if you carry their credentials). Making an attack or being scanned by counter-intel gear ends it. Usable twice per long rest.
• L14 Dead Drop Exfil — As a reaction when you would be grappled, hit by an attack, or cornered, you vanish via a pre-staged route up to 60 feet to a space you can see and are invisible until the end of your next turn; this lowers your Heat clock by 1 segment. Usable a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, regaining all uses on a long rest.
• L18 Ghost in the Corp — Once per session you may declare you have been embedded inside one organization for weeks, gaining a working credential, an inside contact, and advantage on social and infiltration checks against that org for the scene. The first time each scene a creature fails to pierce one of your covers, you may read one secret or vulnerability about them as a free action; if your Heat clock is full this cannot be used until you clear a segment.

Unlock gift (L6): Ghost Credentials — Forged corporate ID that passes a glance; once per long rest, talk past one checkpoint or security layer. (+70 Cred)

Blackmail Artist

a spymaster who fights with the right file at the right moment, compiling secrets and leveraging them into fear, turning a mark into an asset or freezing a room with what he knows.

• L6 Leverage File — Spend 10 minutes studying a creature, then make a Wits (tech) or Face (persuade) check vs its passive perception; on a success you compile a file exposing one secret, debt, or fear, and you have advantage on CHA checks to coerce or persuade it. You may hold a number of files equal to your proficiency bonus; spending one openly forces a WIS save (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your CHA modifier) or the target is frightened of you for 1 minute, after which the file is burned.
• L10 Corp Pressure — As an action against a creature within 60 feet you hold leverage over, it makes a WIS save (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your CHA modifier) or is charmed or frightened (your choice) for 1 minute, treating you as an ally it dare not cross, repeating the save at the end of each turn. Usable a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per long rest; a creature that succeeds is immune to your Corp Pressure until your next long rest.
• L14 Hostile Acquisition — Once per scene as an action, an NPC of CR at most your proficiency bonus that can hear you and over whom you hold leverage makes a WIS save (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your CHA modifier) or defects to your side for 1 minute, acting on your behalf. It repeats the save each round; on a success the acquisition collapses, it turns hostile, and your Heat advances 1 segment.
• L18 Own the Board — Once per long rest as a bonus action, every creature you hold a Leverage File on that can perceive you makes a WIS save (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your CHA modifier) or is stunned for 1 round and charmed by you until the end of the scene; those that succeed are frightened until the end of their next turn. Every Leverage File spent this way is permanently burned, win or lose.

Unlock gift (L6): Wired Lens — A covert recorder in a contact lens; once per long rest, capture leverage from a conversation unnoticed. (+70 Cred)