Augmetics

Install, tune, and repair cyberware and neural interfaces.

Augmetics is the specialist trade where flesh meets chrome. It covers seating a cyber-limb so the nerve-lace actually fires, calibrating a neural interface so the user does not seize when they jack in, suppressing the immune storm of implant rejection, and the delicate, dangerous work of cutting a locked or sabotaged augment out of a living body. Where Medicine treats the meat and Mechanics fits the hardware, Augmetics is the seam between them -- the only skill that makes a graft feel like a hand instead of a tool bolted to a stump. Back-alley chop-docs and corporate augmetic surgeons run the same checks; only the DC of the chrome they are asked to seat differs. Rejection is the constant enemy: the body remembers it was whole.

Rules Reference

Field	Value
Armor Check Penalty	false
Key Ability	INT
Trained Only	true
Untrained Use	Swap pre-tuned plug-in modules at DC 15 only; harder work auto-fails for 1d6 damage and 1 rejection point.
Key Ability	INT

Notes

Special: Failure by 5+ on install/extraction deals 1d6 damage and +1 rejection point. Requires surgery kit or augmetic bench, else +5 to all DCs.

Special: A failed install or extraction by 5 or more inflicts 1d6 damage and adds 1 rejection point to the patient. Augmetics requires a surgery kit or augmetic bench; without one, all DCs rise by 5. The Surgeon feat grants +2 to rejection-suppression and extraction checks.

Untrained: An untrained character can swap a pre-tuned, plug-and-play module (a marked cartridge augment) at DC 15, and nothing harder. Any attempt to install, tune, or extract real chrome untrained automatically fails and inflicts 1d6 damage and 1 rejection point on the patient. This is how people die on chop-shop tables.

Descriptors

dc: 12

Field	Value
dc	12
task	Calibrate a standard cyber-limb or sense

dc: 18

Field	Value
dc	18
task	Field-install a plug-in prosthetic

dc: 20

Field	Value
dc	20
task	Tune a neural interface to a new user

dc: 22

Field	Value
dc	22
task	Suppress implant rejection or chrome-shock

dc: 25

Field	Value
dc	25
task	Extract a locked or booby-trapped augment

dc: 30

Field	Value
dc	30
task	Build a bespoke implant from parts

Synergy

bonus: 2

Field	Value
bonus	2
from	Medicine
threshold	5

bonus: 2

Field	Value
bonus	2
from	Mechanics
threshold	5

Synergies

bonus: 2

Field	Value
bonus	2
ranks	5
skill	Medicine

bonus: 2

Field	Value
bonus	2
ranks	5
skill	Mechanics

bonus: +2 to suppress rejection and to extraction checks

Field	Value
bonus	+2 to suppress rejection and to extraction checks
feat	Surgeon

Uses

application: Calibrate a standard cyber-limb or sense

Field	Value
application	Calibrate a standard cyber-limb or sense
dc	12
failure	Lag or phantom feedback; -1 to checks using it until re-tuned.
success	Augment runs clean; full function.

application: Field-install a plug-in prosthetic

Field	Value
application	Field-install a plug-in prosthetic
dc	18
failure	Poor seat; augment at half function until a clean re-install.
success	Prosthetic seated and live in 1d4 x 10 minutes.

application: Tune a neural interface to a new user

Field	Value
application	Tune a neural interface to a new user
dc	20
failure	Mismatch; user takes 1d4 damage and is dazed on first jack-in.
success	Interface bonds; no jack-shock on use.

application: Suppress implant rejection or chrome-shock

Field	Value
application	Suppress implant rejection or chrome-shock
dc	22
failure	Rejection accelerates; patient gains 1 rejection point.
success	Rejection halted; patient stabilises.

application: Extract a locked or booby-trapped augment

Field	Value
application	Extract a locked or booby-trapped augment
dc	25
failure	Trap or lock triggers; 2d6 damage to host, augment ruined.
success	Augment removed intact; host unharmed.

application: Build a bespoke implant from parts

Field	Value
application	Build a bespoke implant from parts
dc	30
failure	1d4+1 days and the parts wasted; build is non-functional.
success	Custom augment built to spec; counts as a quality piece.