Genesys: Shadow of the Beanstalk

Description

In the Future, the World has Changed. People have not…

In the not so-distant future, humanity has spread out across the solar system, unlocked the frontiers of cyberspace, and created millions of intelligent androids in its own image. At the heart of this progress stands a ladder leading to the riches of the starsthe massive space elevator called the Beanstalk. And at its base sprawls the biggest, meanest, and most exciting city on Earth: New Angeles. Using the Genesys Roleplaying System, this sourcebook allows you to explore this vital, thrilling, and dangerous world. Take on the role of cops, con artists, roughnecks, and escaped androids trapped between greedy corporations, corrupt officials, and vicious street gangs. Outwit your foes, uncover their conspiracies, flee their retribution, and maybe youll survive. Who knows? Maybe youll even get rich

This supplement for the Genesys roleplaying game includes:

• A detailed guideto New Angeles, the grandest city in the worlds.
• Character creation optionsfor playing archetypes like Cyborgs, Clones, Bioroids, Loonies, and G-Mods, and careers like the Runner, Ristie, and Investigator.
• New weapons, gear, vehicles, cybernetics, genetic modifications, and other itemsessential for adventuring in the dangerous streets of New Angeles and in the cold blackness of space.
• Expanded rulesfor making runs on the Network; uncovering secrets, stealing money, and aiding your allies as a runner, or hunting intruders and destroying their systems as a sysop.
• A host of dangerous adversaries and powerful allies.Win a gunfight with prisec mercenaries, evade a yakuza assassin, outsmart a megacorp exec, and confront famous individuals like Caprice Nisei, Thomas Haas, and Rachel Beckmann!