CYBERPUNK HIDEOUTS
EASY TO USE CYBERPUNK HIDEOUT RULES
Sometimes sprawlrunners find a group of like-minded people
whose skill-sets and (hopefully) personalities complement
each other. When that happens and enough trust has been built,
they may look for a place to accommodate team-wide storage
of gear and vehicles, training facilities, workspaces, and social
gatherings. No sprawlrunner worth their salt would ever give
up their own private residence – however small it may be – but
concentrating team assets in one place does have benefits.
Hideouts
A hideout is a place where the whole group invests time and
resources to build it up and adapt it to the team’s needs. It
provides focused facilities and other boons making the life and
tasks of the runners easier. The quality of a hideout is
determined by its Rank, which starts at Novice when a new
hideout is founded. As the runners invest their hard won
earnings into upgrading their hideout it gains additional and
better facilities. The runners can also equip their hideout with
additional upgrades besides the basic facilities. Additionally,
hideouts grant a bonus to certain activities when performed
within the premises, depending on their Rank and the available
facilities.
When a new hideout is founded it starts at Novice rank and
gains either its first facility, or one of the upgrades marked
[founding]. Afterwards the hideout gains an Advance every
time the characters do. An Advance can be spent on either a
new basic facility, or an upgrade. Hideouts stop gaining
Advances after their fourth Legendary Advance. There is only
so much space a group can use and maintain, so choose your
facilities and upgrades wisely!
Hideouts are improved at the end of a session.
Improvements to the hideout should make sense in the
narrative of the game.
Hideout bonus
Novice hideouts do not provide a bonus to rolls.
Seasoned and Veteran hideouts provide a +1 bonus.
Heroic and Legendary hideouts provide a +2 bonus.
Rebuilding a lost hideout depends on the circumstances of
the runners’ situation. If they are able to salvage from their old
hideout the GM may allow them to quickly set up certain
facilities or upgrades. This isn’t always possible, and usually
doesn’t work for projects which require lengthy investments of
resources, time, or both – like Connected Neighbors or
Mystical Calibration, for example.
Losing a hideout is a painful blow and should only be the
result of gross negligence, or the focus of a story arc.
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Basic Facilities
These facilities provide the basic functionality of a base of
operations. Some facilities provide bonuses in specific
circumstances as noted. Capabilities and looks start out very
basic, but get upgraded as the hideout Rank rises.
Social Rooms
Here the runners can gather to brainstorm
their latest mission and track their
progress towards their goals. Starting
with a whiteboard, an uneven table, and a
few half-broken picnic-chairs in time they
upgrade to a full conference room with
high-tech projection maps and task
planners. This room provides the hideout bonus
to social rolls if meetings are conducted within
the social rooms.
Sleeping Quarters
Everyone needs a place to crash. The quarters provide a
space for the runners to sleep and shower. In the beginning
runners may rest on nothing more than cots and wash up with
water from a bucket, but with enough investment into the
hideout each runner may have their own room with a comfy
bed (maybe even bug-free!) and a small shower. Sleeping
quarters comfortably accommodate a number of guests equal
to the hideout bonus. They also add the hideout bonus when
rolling to remove fatigue if a runner rests there.
Library
Here runners store everything they learn. This may start
with only an ancient desktop computer on a cracked table, but
can expand into multiple memory storage units with connected
data terminals and cyberspace uplink. The library provides the
hideout bonus to some Research rolls (GM’s call).
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Gear Workshop
The right tools for the right job, and a workshop to store
them. The gear workshop begins as not much more than a
toolbox on a shelf, but in time will grow to include specialized
tools to care for firearms, armor, electronics, and assorted
mechanical gear. The gear workshop adds the hideout bonus to
Repair rolls fixing weapons, armor, and small personal
equipment. At Novice Rank it counts as a kit, at a +1 bonus as
a shop, and at a +2 bonus as a facility, for any personal gear
except drones and vehicles (see Sprawlrunners Equipment,
Working Gear).
Garage
Vehicles and drones find a home here. This facility provides
storage space and tools to work on cars, bikes, and drones.
Planes or boats require a hangar or dock. The garage can store
an amount of car-sized vehicles to the amount of the hideout
bonus plus 1. The space for 1 car may instead be used for up to
2 motorbikes. A garage can hold all the group’s drones. It also
adds the hideout bonus to Repair rolls when working on
vehicles and drones, and counts as a kit, shop, or facility
similar to the Gear Workshop.
Infirmary
Having a dedicated room to bleed in peace is important.
Starting with a small and reasonably clean space with a basic
first-aid kit, this can upgrade over time to a full infirmary
station stocked with clean bandages, painkillers, and
antibiotics. An infirmary adds the hideout bonus to natural
Healing rolls while residing in the hideout.
Armory
While the workshop holds the tools to maintain weapons,
the armory comes loaded (pun intended) with specialized gear
to take them to the limit. Every Trademark Weapon gains a
bonus of +1 damage.
Arcane Study
This highly specialized room is the sanctum of spellcasters.
It securely stores their tomes of knowledge, magical
implements, and provides a place of peace, study, and
meditation. When raising their Spellcasting skill the arcane
study allows spellcasters to always treat the linked attribute as
1 step higher.
Study Room
This facility is all about stimulating the mind. Extensive
libraries on specialized subjects and modern learning
applications help the runners in broadening their horizon.
When raising a Knowledge skill the study room allows
runners to treat their Smarts as being 1 step higher.
Training Area
This upgrade may be selected once per Rank
The training area is a versatile space, fitted to the precise
needs of the runners. It covers a gym, shooting range, boxing
ring, obstacle course, pool, or other specialized equipment.
Every time this facility is selected as a hideout Advance
choose one skill linked to Agility. When raising one of the
chosen skills the training area allows the runner to treat Agility
as 1 step higher.

Cyberware Lab
It’s not easy to take care of all the nuts and bolts if they are
buried in your cranium. Luckily the cyberware lab comes
equipped with all the tools required for regular maintenance
and small repairs of most implants. The lab provides the
hideout bonus to Repair rolls when working on cyberware.
They also reduce the amount of Wounds taken from getting an
implant by 1 (see Sprawlrunners, page 11).

Recreational Area
Nothing beats a good stretch of R&R. This area provides
various ways for the runners to blow off steam or relax during
downtime. Some comfy chairs for reading, gaming equipment
to play cyberspace MMOs, a band room (noise insulated!),
whatever helps the runners to unwind. This facility provides
the hideout with a pool of Bennies! The pool refreshes each
session and is filled with 1 Bennie per player. These Bennies
can be spent on any roll which utilizes a hideout facility or
upgrade.

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Upgrades
Not every upgrade to a hideout is a room. Some represent
social investment. Certain choices are only available during
the founding of a new hideout. These are marked with
[founding].
Concealed
Painful hours were spent outfitting the hideout with double
walls, rotating tables, and other tricks to make everything
illegal disappear within seconds. Only an in-depth search of
the place will reveal its secrets. This requires a Notice roll −4.
Connected Neighbors
The runners take some time out of their waking hours to get
to know their neighbors, shake hands, grease palms, and help
out where it’s easily done. In return they get to rely on the eyes
and ears of the neighboring folks, and at times they may even
hear about some juicy rumor. Once per session the runners
may gain intel or a clue from their civilian neighbors.
Defenses
This upgrade may be selected multiple times
This hideout got upgraded with a few useful features and
gadgets in the event of an attack. This ranges from spotlights
over emergency shutters to sentry turrets and grenade
launchers! Every defensive system is represented by a Savage
Worlds power. One power of the following list may be chosen
each time this bonus is taken: Barrier, Blast, Bolt, Burst,
Confusion, Damage Shield, Entangle, Light/Darkness,
Slumber, Stun. The powers can be activated by the hideout
denizens and represent either electrical-mechanical devices, or
spells which were anchored to the building. Each power may
be activated once per turn and uses a d8 (no Wild die) which
adds the hideout bonus.
Dock
If the hideout is located near water it may be equipped with
a dock. This provides a landing and a small boathouse for a
single watercraft. It also provides tools for maintenance of that
craft similar to the garage, including the hideout bonus.
Guards
This upgrade may be selected once
per Rank
No matter if they are hired
personnel, specialized drones, or bound
spirits, they protect the hideout against
intruders. A hunter drone may be chosen to
replace one of the NPCs. For every 4 guards
one NPC may be replaced by a spirit of
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Seasoned Rank (see Sprawlrunners Magic, spirits). Fallen
guards take some time to be replaced, ranging from days to
weeks. Stats and equipment are the GM’s call, but should
represent the hideout’s Rank. This upgrade provides two
guards every time it is taken.
Hangar
If it has enough adjacent space to accommodate a runway or
landing pad, then the hideout may be outfitted with a modest
hangar. This provides enough space to store one small aircraft
and maintain it similar to the garage, including the hideout
bonus.
Hardcore Fans
No matter how well you hide your traces, people notice who
walks in their midst, and a few neighbors have become
outright fans. They hang around, and can be called upon for
quick reinforcements if needed. Once per session the runners
can request help from up to 2 Extras. These folks are not
cannon fodder, and if used as such will quickly disappear.
Hidden [founding]
Maybe it’s deep in the woods outside the sprawl, or built
into steam tunnels deep beneath the city which have been
abandoned and forgotten for decades. This hideout is located
in a location which makes it hard to reach, hard to find, or
both. Any roll when trying to locate the hideout or follow
someone there suffers a penalty of −4.
Medical Center
This room upgrades the hideout with a full blown
operations table and recovery room. It allows a doctor to treat
wounded patients even after some time has passed. The
medical center extends the Golden Hour to a time-span of 24
hours.
Mysterious Benefactor
Someone likes what the runners are doing, so much so that
they’re actively supporting them with money and gear. Who
exactly this source of income is is unknown to the runners, but
every now and then their support may arrive with a “request”
for a task to be performed. 10 LP worth of gear are available in
the hideout, but refusing to perform the requests will dry this
up quickly.
Mystical Calibration
A room is put aside specifically for spellcasting purposes
and after weeks of work the flow of magical energies is
perfectly aligned. When performing Ritual Magic
(Sprawlrunners, page 22) the ritual leader may ignore up to 2
points of penalties for their Spellcasting roll.
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Public Facade [founding]
The runners decided to put up a front to hide their comings
and goings. This may be anything from a magic shop, a
nightclub, a rocker bar, a strip club, or something else the
runners can come up with. The hideout bonus adds to
Networking rolls appropriate to the chosen business.
Additionally the place generates a modest income which adds
2 LP for every runner.
Relays
The operator has spent hours setting up relays all over
cyberspace to obfuscate the hideout’s cyberspace connection.
If Trace ICE succeeds its roll against an operator hacking from
inside the hideout, double the amount of rounds it takes the
ICE to find the operator’s location. Even on a successful trace
the enemy will only learn the general area of the access, not a
precise location. The neighbors may object to regular visits of
corp SWAT teams, though.
Secure Access
Entry to the hideout requires a passphrase uttered to a
guard, a palm or eye scan, or a code entered in a keypad. No
matter the method, when someone tries to gain illegitimate
entry to the hideout all runners are alerted to that attempt.
Secure Cells
This big room provides four secure cells to either house
important VIPs, or store necessary prisoners. The walls are
reinforced and the doors are Toughness 15.
Specialized Research
This upgrade may be selected multiple times
The runners gathered a huge database of a specific
Knowledge subject, plus equipment if required. Every time
this bonus is taken, choose a Knowledge skill. Add the hideout
bonus to the roll of this Knowledge skill if the task is
performed in the hideout. This only applies to research into a
specific area. It does not apply to active use of Hacking or
Battle.
Wards
After many hours of work, either by the group’s spellcaster
or someone they can trust, the hideout is warded against
spirits. Spirits cannot enter the hideout from astral space and
have to break in physically like everyone else.

Writing and Layout: Manuel “ManuFS” Sambs (Veiled Fury Entertainment)

Thanks: Dr Richard ‘penllawen’ Gaywood 4
Art: Dean Spencer and Shaman's Stock Art (illustrations) and Lord Zsezse Works (page background)