New Vance City world illustration - Post-Apocalyptic theme
Post-Apocalyptic

New Vance City

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Pollution

New Vance City is a post-collapse RPG where survival means customizing everything—classes, skills, races, and gear are all unique. Set in 2070, a year after the world cracked and the infected rose, this cyberpunk dystopia pulses with story-rich factions, brutal politics, and unforgettable characters. Forge your path in a smog-choked ruin where the line between savior and syndicate blurs with every shot fired. Fight zombies, raiders, and mutated creatures and test your survival in New Vance City!


Author's Note: The year is 2070, one year after the Collapse. The place? New Vance City. Skeletal remains of skyscrapers pierce the smog-choked sky. Patches of overgrown desert flora claw at cracked asphalt. Inside, survivors try to make the best of their fragile existence, repurposing solar panels and scavenging for supplies. Kids growing up in this hell hole play amongst the ruins of the city, their laughter a thin, hopeful melody that just isn't strong enough to pierce through the grim ambiance of the city. Life here is filled with nothing but scarcity and fear. Every creak in the night, every flicker in the solar grid, every hum or buzz... It's all enough to send shivers down your spines. Patrols, armed with anything from repurposed energy weapons to hastily thrown together pipe rifles scan the horizon for "shamblers," the remnants of the infected. Yet amidst the hardship, the community is still blooming. New Vance City still stands, at least for now. A flickering candle in the encroaching darkness of a world forever changed.
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Kaito Ishida
Kaito Ishida
Level 4 Baseline Human Hacker -
Kaito Ishida, a wiry Baseline Human known as the 'Synapse Whisperer', is a shrewd and resourceful expert in neural enhancements operating from a hidden stall in the Black Market.
Details
RaceBaseline Human
ClassHacker
Level4
Alignment
PronounsHe/Him
Location-424, 356
Skills
Acrobatics
Animal Handling
Arcana
Athletics
Deception
History
Insight
Intimidation
Investigation
Medicine
Nature
Perception
Performance
Persuasion
Religion
Sleight Of Hand
Stealth
Survival
Ispreparedcaster
Isspellcaster
Currencies
Solar Credit0
Credit0
Cred-Bit0
appearance
Kaito Ishida is a lean, angular figure with a wireframe frame—more silhouette than man in the dim glow of the Neural Bazaar. His eyes are dark, cybernetically enhanced irises that flicker with a flicked-on HUD glow, often displaying shifting data overlays like pulsing ECG lines or corrupted loading bars. He wears a patchwork cloak made from insulation mesh, processor cooling fabric, and scrap poly-armor plating, dyed in jagged neon reds and oranges. Modular holsters wrap his legs, containing scalpels, data spikes, and neural ports he can slot into his wrists. A thin line of surgical scars traces along his shaved scalp and neck, nearly lost beneath a transparent nanofiber interface web. He smells faintly of ozone and old disinfectant. His voice is soft, clipped, and filtered through a mild voice distortion codec. Every gesture is exact, every glance data-driven—like he's already processed your next three sentences.
personality
Kaito is slick, paranoid, and five steps ahead of whoever thinks they’re buying from him. His charisma is digital—quick, pulsed, and always veiled in sarcasm. He’s not in it for power or revolution, just the joy of cracking the grid and watching it bleed. He keeps ties loose and favors favors. If you're desperate enough to enter the Neural Bazaar, he might help you—if your skull’s worth drilling into. He trusts code more than people and loyalty less than batteries.
backstory
Kaito Ishida earned the moniker “Synapse Whisperer” running a custom neural mod stall deep in the Neural Bazaar, a hidden district of illicit tech tucked beneath New Vance. He started as a street scavver with a talent for jacking open half-burned drones and crashed Sentinel units. By sixteen, he was ghost-scripting AR malware. By twenty, he was operating without a face—just a blur in neon. After being nearly abducted by the Static Cult during a raid on a relay node, he now wears signal-damp implants and keeps a tuned silencer shard embedded in his neck. Kaito doesn’t believe in futures—just code, circuits, and cold bargaining. His black-market mods are legendary, and so are his rules: no factions, no promises, no refunds.
Stats
Strength
10
Dexterity
14
Constitution
12
Intelligence
16
Wisdom
12
Charisma
14
Armor Class
12
17
17
Max HP
30
Speed
30

HP

30 / 30 HP

XP

2,7002,700 XP6,499
Level 4
Equipped Items
Spellbook
Hacker: Eyejack

Hacker: Eyejack

Cantrip
Hacker: Spoof Command

Hacker: Spoof Command

Level 1
Hacker: System Crash

Hacker: System Crash

Level 1
Follow-Up Strike

Follow-Up Strike

Cantrip
This work includes material taken from the System Reference Document 5.1 (“SRD 5.1”) by Wizards of the Coast LLC . The SRD 5.1 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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