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Behind the Blackwall — GM material. Spoilers and prep. Crew of Kill Fee, jack out now.

SET decided · SOURCE verified in the campaign summary · YOURS GM invention · OPEN undecided · NOTE caution

SET Each player picks one of three. The first option is the primary fit.

NOTE These menus stay here until the Daggerheart Remap is done; then they become the character creation options on the table pages. Process: players pitch a concept, the GM matches it to the closest class and subclass, renames most abilities, and hand-builds only the one or two pieces that need it.

Lunar Netrunner (the space player)

  • Wizard, School of War: an offensive hacker who fries people. Codex becomes a program library, spells become quickhacks, and Splendor becomes nanite repair or system restores.
  • Warlock: the patron is the Voodoo Boys. SET The Hope & Fear Warlock, not the Void playtest version.
  • Druid: Beastform as digital shapeshifting: crawler forms to slip ICE, hunter-killer forms to fight other netrunners. (Suggest Warden of the Elements if the fixer also picks Druid.)

Hook: possible past connection to Orbital Air or one of its orbital facilities.

Ex-Trauma Team (the heavy hitter)

"Can patch you up, but more likely to put you down."

  • Seraph, Divine Wielder: combat medic with a big gun. Prayer Dice become a stim or med-kit pool.
  • Guardian, Stalwart: the bodyguard who soaks hits for the client.
  • Guardian, Vengeance: punishes anyone who hurts the team.

No-Chrome Fixer (the body that rejects cyberware)

Their abilities come from connections, chems, and willpower, never implants, so they feel distinct rather than lesser.

  • Bard, Troubadour: silver-tongued fixer. Rally die is them calling in a favor mid-scene. Codex becomes contacts and favors owed.
  • Rogue, Syndicate: a contact in every district. The network is their augmentation.
  • Druid, Warden of Renewal: biohacker. Beastform becomes chemically altered states (fast, monstrous, numb to pain), with a comedown cost.

Condition: OPEN the nature of their cyberware rejection is TBD — a known medical issue, or rarer and more personal?

BD Gunslinger (braindances, chrome, guns)

The braindance connoisseur, but not the one who made the recording.

  • Rogue, Nightwalker: stylish gunfighter. Shadow abilities become optical camo and reflex boosters.
  • Ranger, Wayfinder: braindance detective or bounty hunter.
  • Warrior, Call of the Slayer: heavily chromed solo who relives their best fights on BD.

Hooks:

  • First to spot the splice (Session 1 spotlight).
  • May recognize the editor's signature style.
  • May have introduced the traitor to braindances, lending them a rig and teaching them the scene. The gut-punch: realizing whose eyes the frame BD was seen through.

The Traitor

The dead former crew member. Secretly paid to record the job, then killed after handing it over. Possible motives: debt, a sick family member, a ripperdoc bill, or a ticket off-world.

OPEN Created by the players in Session 0, or a GM-introduced NPC?

The fifth player

OPEN Concept unknown.

Source · Kill Fee campaign summary, 2026-10-02