Augmented Reality City Kit
Overview
Augmented Reality is a table-dense cyberpunk city toolkit intended for live use at the table rather than passive setting reading. Its core premise is that cyberpunk games need fast, flavorful urban detail more than static sourcebook geography.
What It Provides
- Location and neighborhood flavor tables.
- Urban detail prompts and NPC scaffolds.
- Flexible support for improvising any metroplex rather than a single fixed city.
- System-agnostic utility for cyberpunk campaigns.
Major Table Families
- Dice-drop neighborhood generation with building/activity/feature overlays.
- Sense layers: Smells, Sounds, and Sights tables for instant scene texture.
- People generators for civilians, fixers, gang members, corporate actors, and specialists.
- Mr Johnson job generators (people- and object-centered contracts).
- Corporate play tools such as boardroom maneuvers and resource leverage tables.
- Street pressure tools: weather, urban hazards, local complications, and equipment oddities.
Fast Use Workflow (3-5 minutes)
- Roll one neighborhood/activity seed.
- Roll one each on Smells, Sounds, and Sights.
- Generate 2-3 nearby NPCs with one motive each.
- Add one active pressure (gang, corp, police, infrastructure failure, weather).
- Attach one job trigger from the Johnson generators.
This produces a playable city block with tone, actors, and immediate conflict.
Design Value
The book is especially useful for prep-light city play because it turns the urban environment into a generator of tone, complications, and texture. It pairs well with mission generators and rumor tables rather than replacing them.
See Also
- Urban Block Generation and Sensory Layering - Table-facing block procedure distilled from the toolkit
- Infrastructure Economy and Maintenance Failure Loop - Utility disruption and maintenance pressure loop that this toolkit can render at street level
- The Book of Random Tables: Cyberpunk - Smaller random-table companion focused on names, room contents, rumors, and implant side effects
- Running Silent Toolkit - Mission and oracle support for the same cyberpunk play space
- Neuromancer Campaign Inspiration - Core cyberpunk tone and pressure anchor for city play
Sources
- https://p-d-gallagher.itch.io/augmented-reality