Determine age and ageing effects Choose whether you want to be young or old, and then let them roll 16+2d6 or 16+2d10 to determine starting age. After the stats were determined, let them test against the effects of old age, as in Ocelot's system. Characters have to check for aging effects at years 25, 28, 31, 33, 35, and for every year thereafter, twice for each year over 40. For each test they had to pick a physical stat (REF, MA or BODY - you can add STR if you use that). Then roll a D10, if you roll equal to or lower than that stat, lower it by one point. This will prevent people from creating octagenarians, solely for the points. Determine Life Path Use the lifepath system of your choice. If you use the Modified Lifepath system on this site, you need to change the order of character generation somewhat, rolling for the lifepath either directly after buying the stats or after the whole spending of points, as your stats are taken into account during your lifepath generation. Determine Character Points (CP) Age Points Age Points 16 210 26 283 17 220 27 286 18 230 28 289 19 240 29 292 20 250 30 295 21 256 31 296 22 262 32 297 23 268 33 298 24 274 34 299 25 280 35 300 +1 Point per year over 35 If you use more or less than the standard 9 attributes, increase or decrease the number of points by 16 points per attribute. Spend Character Points You can spend CPs on Attributes, Skills, Equipment, Monthly Income and Contacts. See below for details. Attributes and Skills The cost of attributes raises progressively. Pick a level between 2 and 10 for every attribute. The cost of skills raises progressively. Maximum skill level is 10. Add 1 CP for every (5 - diff. modifier) levels. Level Attribute Skill 1   1 2 4 2 3 6 3 4 8 4 5 12 6 6 16 8 7 20 10 8 27 13 9 34 16 10 41 19 Equipment and Income As in tables III and IV below. You have to pay both for your Equipment and for your Monthly Income. Equipment determines the amount of cyberware and gear that you can buy at the start of the game. Any amount not spent is lost. Monthly Income determines the limits of your lifestyle. Read ‘Your Money or Your Life’ (Peter Christian's article in Interface Vol.1 No.2) in order to determine the form of this income. Check the Lifestyle tables to see how you spend this money. (1K = 1,000 eb) Points Equipment Income 1 - 5 500eb / CP 1K + 100eb / CP 6 - 10 2.5K + 1K / CP above 5 1.5K + 200eb / CP above 5 11 - 15 7.5K + 2.5K / CP above 10 2.5K + 500eb / CP above 10 16 - 20 20K + 5K / CP above 15 5K + 1K / CP above 15 21+ 45K + 10K / CP above 20 10K + 2.5K / CP above 20 Followers First determine the occupation of your contact, then fill him or her out. See table V (adapted from ‘Wildside’ pp.11,12). Round fractions up. Table V CP Capability Specialization Reliability Availability Followers 1 snitch (5) x 0.5 focused x 0.5 unreliable x 0.5 seldom x 1 none 2 incapable (10) x 1 narrow x 1 rather rel. x 1 sometimes x 2 2-4 people 4 capable (15) x 2 general x 2 reliable x 2 depends x 3 5-10 people 8 very capable (20) x 3 broad x 3 very reliable x 3 generally x 4 11-20 people 16 spr. capable (25) x 4 very broad x 4 spr. reliable x 4 always x 5 21-50 people Capability: The contact’s level of competence and talent in his or her occupation (attr. + skill) Specialization: The amount of influence and access of the contact, the breadth of his occupation Reliability: How likely it is that the c ontact is loyal to you, or will cheat or even betray you Availability: The chance that a contact has the time available to help you Followers: The number of people that operate for or with your contact LifeStyle Tables When calculating your income, it's good to know what you will be spending it on... here are the lifestyle tables we use with this system: Housing Combat zone Moderate zone Corp zone Exec zone 400 2-3 room room 800 4-5 room 2-3 room 1500 house 4-5 room 2-3 room 3000 house 4-5 room 3-4 room 6000 house 5-7 room Food 200 Kibble -1 Body 300 Kibble, sometimes prepack 500 Mainly prepack 900 Prepack, sometimes fresh 1500 Fresh Social life 100 Sometimes, quiet, few contacts 200 300 500 1000 All the time, many contacts Costs for corp = x 2, exec = x 5 No social life = -2 Cool Info 100 news service 200 good news service 400 news, seek-and-alert service 800 good seek-and-alert service 1500 completely informed Transport 50 Public transport 100 small car, not much used 150 250 500 Large car, frequent use Bikes = x 1/2, AV's, planes = x 10 Lifestyle (music, clothes, drugs, braindance, ammo, etc.) 100 200 400 800 1500 Costs for corp = x 2, exec = x 5 Other costs (According to the book) Cell phone 100 Phone 30 Cred Chip Acct 20 Health Plan 1000 Trauma Team 500 Cable 40

Some remarks A good ratio for dividing points is: About half the points in stats, half of what is left in skills, and the other 25% for other stuff. This system works well with the advantage/disadvantage system on this site - just multiply each adv/disadv cost by 5 to find out how many CP it costs or gives. You can also use selected GURPS Cyberpunk (dis)advantages easily. The buying of extra ATTR points through plastic surgery during chargen is forbidden under this system, for anti-munchkin reasons.