Basic Moves

Act under pressure (COOL)

When you race against the clock, act while in danger or act to avoid danger, roll Cool.
10+: you do it, no problem
7-9: you stumble, hesitate, or flinch: the GM will offer you a worse outcome, hard bargain, or ugly choice

Assess (EDGE)

When you closely study a person, place or situation, or when you quickly size up an opponent or a charged situation, roll Edge.
10+: gain 3 hold
7-9: gain 1 hold
In the ensuing action, you may spend 1 hold at any time to ask the GM a question from the list below if your examination could have revealed the answer. The GM may ask you questions to clarify your intent. Take +1 forward when acting on the answers.

  • What potential complication do I need to be wary of?
  • What do I notice despite an effort to conceal it?
  • How is ______ vulnerable to me?
  • How can I avoid trouble or hide here?
  • What is my best way in/way out/way past?
  • Where can I gain the most advantage?
  • Who or what is my biggest threat in this situation?
  • Who or what is in control here?

Biotic god (SYNTH)

Requires a biotic amplifier or other means of tapping into the user's latent biotic capabilities. When you're using biotics in a high-pressure situation, or against unwilling or heavy targets, describe what you are trying to do and roll Synth.
10+: You think things and they happen.
7-9: You accomplish your goal, but at a cost. Choose 2:

  • you overexert your nervous system. Take 1 harm, do not reduce it by your armor level, and roll the harm move as normal.
  • someone important gets caught in the area of effect and takes harm
  • something important gets caught in the area of effect and breaks
  • the effect ends sooner than intended
  • you trip a mass effect sensor, attracting unwanted attention. The GM advances an appropriate Clock.

6-: The biotic effect misfires or fizzles. The GM will make a move.

Fast talk (STYLE)

When you try to convince someone to do what you want with promises, lies or bluster, roll Style.
10+: NPCs do what you want. PCs choose whether to do it or not. If they do, they mark experience. If they don’t, they must act under pressure to go against your stated wishes.
7-9: NPCs do it, but someone will find out: the GM will advance the appropriate Countdown Clock. For PCs choose one:

  • If they do what you want, they mark experience
  • If they don’t do it, they must act under pressure to go against your stated wishes

Then it's up to them.

Hit the street (STYLE)

When you go to a Contact for help, roll Style.
7+: You get what you want.
10+: You get a little something extra (choose either [intel] or [gear]).
7-9: choose 2 from the list below:

  • Your request is going to cost you extra
  • Your request is going to take some time to put together
  • Your request is going to attract unwanted attention, complications or consequences
  • Your contact needs you to help them out with something. If you turn them down take -1 ongoing to this move till you make it right

Mix it up (MEAT)

When you use violence against an armed force to seize control of an objective, state that objective and roll Meat.
7+: you achieve your objective
7-9: choose 2:

  • you make too much noise. Advance the relevant Mission Clock
  • you take harm as established by the fiction
  • an ally takes harm as established by the fiction
  • something of value breaks

Play hardball (EDGE)

When you get in someone’s face threatening violence and you intend to carry through, roll Edge.
10+: NPCs do what you want. PCs choose: do what you want, or suffer the established consequences
7–9: For NPCs, the GM chooses 1:

  • they attempt to remove you as a threat, but not before suffering the established consequences
  • they do it, but they want payback. Add them as a Threat
  • they do it, but tell someone all about it. Advance the appropriate Mission Clock

PCs choose: do what you want, or suffer the established consequences. They gain +1 forward to act against you.

Research (MIND)

When you investigate a person, place, object, or service using a library, dossier or database (or combination of them), ask a question from the list below and roll Mind.
10+: take [intel]; the GM will answer your question & answer a follow-up question from this list as well:

  • Where would I find ______?
  • How secure is ______?
  • Who or what is related to ______?
  • Who owned or employed ______?
  • Who or what is ______most valuable to?
  • What is the relationship between ______ and ______?

7-9: take [intel]; the GM will answer your question
6-: the GM will answer your question and make a move

Help or interfere (LINKS)

When you help or hinder another character, roll Links with them.
7+: On a hit they take +1 or -2 forward, your choice
7-9: you are implicated in the results of the other character’s move and may expose yourself to danger, retribution, or cost

Declare a contact

When you need to call in a favor from a new contact, name and describe the Contact, then say why the Contact owes you a favor or why you owe them a favor. The GM will ask you some questions about the Contact and your relationship. Add the Contact to your list. You can only declare a contact once per mission, although certain Playbook Moves may allow you to gain more contacts in similar ways.

Produce equipment ([GEAR])

When you produce the equipment you need at the right time, describe how and why your professionalism and forethought told you to bring this equipment on the mission and spend [gear]. You must spend [gear] to produce equipment.

Reveal knowledge ([INTEL])

When you reveal your knowledge of the opposition’s preparations, dispositions or environment, describe how you discovered that information and spend [intel]. You must spend [intel] to reveal knowledge. Take +1 forward to exploit the opportunity offered by that information.

Go under the knife (CRED)

When you have new cyberware installed by a street doctor, roll Cred spent (max +2).
10+: the operation was a complete success
7-9: the cyberware doesn’t work as well as advertised,
choose one: +unreliable, +substandard, +hardware decay,
+damaging
.
6-: there have been… complications
When you have new cyberware installed in accordance with a corporate contract, ignore all of that bad stuff. You’re +owned. Your cyberware works exactly the way they intend it.

Harm

When you suffer harm (even 0-harm or s-harm) lower the harm suffered by the level of your armor (if any), fill in a number of segments on your Harm Clock equal to the remaining harm, and roll harm suffered.
10+: choose 1:

  • you’re out of action: unconscious, trapped, incoherent or panicked
  • take the full harm of the attack, before it was reduced by armor; if you already took the full harm of the attack, take +1-harm
  • lose the use of a piece of cyberware until you can get it repaired
  • lose a body part (arm, leg, eye)

7-9: the GM will choose 1:

  • you lose your footing
  • you lose your grip on whatever you’re holding
  • you lose track of someone or something you’re attending to
  • someone gets the drop on you

Apply first aid (COOL)

When you treat someone’s wounds using appropriate medical equipment, roll Cool.
10+: if their Harm Clock is at 2100 or less, reduce their harm by two segments. If their Harm Clock is at more than 2100, reduce their harm by one segment
7-9: reduce their harm by one segment. If their Harm Clock is still at more than 2100, they take -1 ongoing until they receive proper medical attention

Acquire agricultural property (MEAT)

When you hit 0000 on your Harm Clock, roll Meat.
10+: you survive until the medics arrive
7-9: you survive at a cost. Pick one: owned, substandard treatment (-1 to a stat), cyberware damage (give one piece of cyberware a negative tag)
6-: you bleed out on the street

Get the job (EDGE)

When you negotiate the terms of a job, roll Edge.
10+: choose 3 from the list below
7-9: choose 1 from the list below

  • the employer provides useful information ([intel])
  • the employer provides useful assets ([gear])
  • the job pays well
  • the meeting doesn’t attract attention
  • the employer is identifiable

Getting paid (LEGWORK)

When you go to a meet to get paid by your employer, roll and add the number of unfilled segments on the Legwork Clock.
10+: choose 3 from the list below
7-9: choose 1 from the list below

  • It’s not a set-up or an ambush
  • You are paid in full
  • The employer is identifiable
  • The meeting doesn’t attract the attention of outside parties
  • You learned something from the mission; everyone marks experience
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