Equipment

The economy: Çredits, Skrip, and the TAG

NYTE City runs on two currencies at once. Çredits (Ç) are the digital, tracked currency of the legitimate economy — corporate payroll, licensed vendors, anything that runs through the LINK. Skrip ($) is untraceable physical currency, at rough parity with Çredits, and the preferred medium for anyone conducting business they'd rather not see logged.

Every resident carries a TAG — a Trusted Authentication Gateway, the government-issued digital identity behind the city's Universal Basic Income. It comes with a tradeoff: the city always knows where a TAG is. Going TAGless means privacy, at the cost of the UBI and life entirely inside the skrip economy. There's a third option for anyone with the right contacts: a Black TAG, a false identity that looks legitimate from the outside. The city has systems to catch them. Those systems are imperfect.

What's out there

• Weapons

  • Handguns
  • SMGs
  • Rifles
  • Heavy
  • Melee
  • Martial Arts

  Handguns and SMGs up through Rifles, Heavy Weapons, Melee, and Martial Arts weapons, each with its own feel at the table — plus ammunition types and mods like Silencers, Scopes, and SMART Link targeting for the operators who want to fine-tune their loadout.

• Armor

  • Denim vest to hardened plate

  Armor is a trade-off between what you can afford, what you can carry, and what you expect to be hit with. A denim vest is cheap, easy to conceal, and does what it can; a full suit of hardened plate stops far more, at the cost of subtlety, weight, and price. Every piece wears down under fire and needs upkeep to stay reliable.

• Vehicles

  • Grounders
  • Jumpers

  Vehicles fall into two categories: Grounders (wheeled or hover-based surface transport) and Jumpers (aerial vehicles working the city's vertical traffic grid). Everything from a scavenged Crotchrocket to military-grade hardware most people will never get their hands on.

• Powered Armor & Mech Suits

  • Powered armor
  • Mech suits

  The far end of the spectrum. Powered armor is worn: you still fight with your own training, and the suit makes you faster, stronger, and a lot harder to kill. A mech is piloted, a machine that moves on its own while you direct it from the cockpit. Mechs aren't personal purchases. Seeing one in NYTE City is an event, and piloting one says a lot about who your crew is working for, or what you just did to get it.

• Cybernetics

  • Chips
  • Mods
  • Implants

  Chips, mods, and implants: how a Professional rebuilds their body to keep up with things that were never human. Professionals are the only Archetype that takes chrome, and the book is still working out how it runs, so this is a glimpse, not a catalog.