Background

The background of a character is a fundamental part of the identity and nature of characters in Crypsis. However, backgrounds are not to be thought of as classes, rather they act as guidelines, or defining characteristics, which inform interactions between characters and the world, and guide player decision on roleplay and future development of their characters.

There are no strict restrictions on the backgrounds: if a character can justify a professional or personal background to the GM within the wider rules of the game, their decision is justified with the approval of the GM.

Professional Backgrounds

  • Fixers - deal makers, smugglers, organizers and information brokers: Hook people up with gear, jobs, friends and trouble.
  • Hackers - cyberspace experts, netrunners, system operators, data wizards: Glide through computer networks, breaching into systems, stealing, accessing and analyzing data.
  • Investigators - detectives, infiltrators, undercover operatives: Search the streets finding whatever needs finding, gathering evidence and tracking individuals.
  • Agents - corporate coordinators, managers, lawyers, synthesists: Facilitate corporate interests, experts at resource management, deal negotiation and corporate law.
  • Cleaners - hired assassins, bodyguards, killers: Use bleeding edge technology and augmentations to commit violence.
  • Techies - technology experts, technicians, engineers: Masters of mechanical and/or electronic gear: building it, fixing it, breaking it.
  • Medics - paramedics, ripperdocs, physicians and surgeons: Keep people alive, by any means necessary.
  • Pilots - drivers, drone operators, tactical support: Interface directly with cars, drones and tactical HUDs to provide logistic or military support, expert vehicle operators.
  • Influencers - musicians, bloggers, celebrities, thought leaders: Change the world, one mind at the time.
  • Media - reporters, journalists, social engineers: Gather evidence to expose the guilty or manage public opinion to a certain desirable end.
  • Enforcers - soldiers, mercenaries, bouncers, bounty hunters, street vigilantes, cops: The muscle: plan and execute missions, enforce the will of the highest bidder.

Personal Backgrounds

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