Cracking

Key facts

Attribute

logic

Overview

Cracking is the offensive Matrix skill. It gets you into hosts you have no account for, fights other icons in cybercombat, jams and spoofs signals, and takes over devices whose owners are standing right there. It is the decker's whole job and the technomancer's second language. On a run it opens doors, blinds cameras, and turns the building's own security into a temporary asset, all of it happening in the seconds a physical infiltrator needs to move.

How it works

Linked Attribute: Logic Dice Pool: Logic plus Cracking, counting each 5 or 6 as a hit. Thresholds: 1 hit for an open device, 3 for a defended host, 5 when the target is corporate and expecting you. Gear: A cyberdeck is the assumed tool for a decker. Technomancers do the same work through Resonance instead.

Tips and playstyle

Best for: Deckers above all, and technomancers who pair it with Tasking. Character concepts: A console cowboy with a stolen deck, an ex-corporate security analyst who switched sides, a data thief who never leaves the van. Synergies: Electronics builds and maintains the hardware Cracking abuses, and a face keeping guards talking buys the seconds the intrusion needs.

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