Tech Access Levels

Level 0 – Primitive, 5 point Disad

Level 1 – Common or “Street”, 0 points

Level 2 – GLC Naval Issue, 3 points

Level 3 – Human, 5 points

Level 4 – Engai, 10 points (note, you probably won’t be able to afford these items at character creation)

Equipment Pools

Common equipment is purchased with money; examples are mechanics tools, flashlights, etc. Your combat gear (armor, weapons…) must be covered by your equipment pool. You add up the real cost of all your equipment and divide by 5, that number must be less than or equal to your equipment pool points. If it is greater than this number, you will be returning the equipment to its rightful owner, giving it back to the armory, hunted down, assigned a repo man, etc. You will never be owed equipment; if you spend the points on it, you must either buy it with money (sort of a luck effect: “hey, we just got that in stock.” or acquire it in some other fashion (read role-playing). Your tech access level (above) also serves as a rudimentary contact for equipment acquisition. You may buy your equipment pool up to 50 points at character creation. After that you’ll be exposed to lots of new technology and you’ll be able to buy up your pool to take advantage of that equipment. As far as the cost of the pool, we’ll be using the rules presented in Dark Champions.