These are the guidelines to selecting Edges within the sci-fi horror themes of Paragons.

Banned Edges

The following Edges are prohibited either due to inconsistency with campaign themes or contradiction to setting rules.

• Fantasy Companion: Born in the Saddle, Explorer, Familiar, Favored Enemy, Favored Terrain, Fey Blood, Heirloom, Knight, Mount, Poisoner, Rapid Change, Stonecunning, Sunder.
• Horror Companion: Final Girl/Guy, Veteran of the Dark World.

Revised Cyberware Edges

Biophage

REVISES: Cyborg

REQUIREMENTS: Novice

You’ve undergone full biological integration—a convergence of organic form and adaptive biotech. Your nervous system is threaded with smart-tissue scaffolds, and your body now houses living augmentation arrays that reroute, reinforce, and respond. Whether installed by corporate mandate, battlefield necessity, or outlawed ambition, your body is no longer fully your own—but it is undeniably more.

• Strain Limit and maximum increase by +4.
• Gain $20,000 worth of bioware, wetware, or other biotech at character creation.
• You no longer make natural Healing rolls, though you may still Bleed Out as normal.
• All wounds must be treated with Healing (Surgery).
• You must take one additional non-Cyberware Major Hindrance to reflect the cost of integration.
  • When taken after character creation, roll on the Cyberware Side Effects table instead (reroll Internal Bleeding results).

New Background Edges

Solarpunk Mystic

REQUIREMENTS: Initiate (Novice), Faith d6+, Survival d6+

They walk where the world is broken—through irradiated scrublands, Mnemoscape dead zones, and Void-poisoned sanctums—planting ideas like seeds, waiting for something better to grow.

• Add +1 to Faith or Survival rolls when in the Hollow, Outlands, or Nox territory.

• You may spend a Benny at any time to choose one of the following benefits:

  • Remove one level of Fatigue.
  • Add +2 to your next Spirit-based (including Skills) roll this turn.

  Awakened Solarpunk Mystic

  REQUIREMENTS: Awakened (Seasoned), Solarpunk Mystic

  By the time others notice the light, you've already walked through the dark. The Hollow bends around you. The Void hesitates. The world listens.

  • The bonus to Faith or Survival rolls increases to +2.
  • You may spend a Benny at any time to choose one of the following benefits:
    • (Any of the benefits of Solarpunk Mystic).
    • Grant an ally you can see within 6" +1 to Spirit rolls until the end of the encounter.

New Combat Edges

Bare Protocol

REQUIREMENTS: Initiate (Novice), Agility d6+, Spirit d6+

In a world of kinetic plating and reactive mesh, some people still walk into battle with nothing but skin and instinct. And somehow, they walk out.

• While wearing no armor (excluding shields), gain +1 to Parry and an attacker subtracts 1 from Shooting and Throwing rolls to hit you. This effect does not stack with Dodge or Cover.

We’re using the Unarmored Hero setting rule, but this Edge further encourages the unarmored style.

Bold Exposure

REQUIREMENTS: Exemplar (Veteran), Bare Protocol, Agility d8+, Spirit d8+

There’s no alloy stronger than conviction, no shielding better than instinct. You’ve bled in the open, stared down fire in nothing but your name—and they still missed.

• While wearing no armor (excluding shields), your Parry bonus increases to +2 and attackers subtract 2 from Shooting and Throwing rolls to hit you. This effect does not stack with Dodge or Cover.
• Additionally, your Pace increases by 2 while unarmored.

Skin and Nerve

REQUIREMENTS: Ascended (Legendary), Bold Exposure, Agility d10+, Spirit d10+ You’re not faster—you’re frictionless. Not braver—just harder to kill. You don’t wear armor because you don’t need it. You’ve become something else entirely.

• While wearing no armor (excluding shields), you gain a free Soak roll once per round.
• Even if an area attack doesn’t say it can be evaded, it can, while you are unarmored.

Gun Fu Disciple

REQUIREMENTS: Awakened (Seasoned), Agility d8+, Shooting (Personal Guns or Rifles) d8+

You don’t plant your feet and fire. You move. You flow. The bullets follow.

A fluid, hyper-kinetic gunfighting style that turns every battle into a dance of motion and precision. Gun Fu thrives on movement.

• When using a Personal Gun or Rifle in close combat, you are not considered Unarmed.

• When you move at least 2” on your turn, you ignore up to 2 points of Called Shot, Cover, Range, Scale, or Speed penalties with a Personal Gun or Rifle.

  Gun Fu Expert

  REQUIREMENTS: Exemplar (Veteran), Gun Fu Disciple, Shooting (Personal Guns or Rifles) d10+

  • When using any Personal Gun or Rifle in melee, you ignore the one-handed restriction and are not Vulnerable if firing at a target outside of melee.
  • When you move at least 2” on your turn, you ignore up to 4 points of Called Shot, Cover, Range, Scale, or Speed penalties with a Personal Gun or Rifle.

  Gun Fu Master

  REQUIREMENTS: Transcendent (Heroic), Gun Fu Expert

  • Reloading a magazine in a Personal Gun or Rifle is a free action.
  • When you move at least 2” on your turn, add +d10 damage with Personal Guns and Rifles.

  Gun Fu Legend

  REQUIREMENTS: Ascended (Legendary), Gun Fu Master, Agility d10+, Shooting (Personal guns or Rifles) d12+

  • Ignore all Called Shot and Cover penalties to Shooting attacks, provided your bullets have a reasonable path to the target.
  • When you cause more Wounds than necessary to drop a foe, the excess Wounds may apply to a second target within range. This effect may only occur once per action.

Sword Fu Disciple

REQUIREMENTS: Awakened (Seasoned), Agility d8+, Fighting (Blades) d8+

The blade isn’t a weapon. It’s an extension of the self. If you have to think about the cut, you’re already dead.

Sword Fu is a fluid, hyper-kinetic melee art, where movement and precision become one seamless motion. A true disciple doesn’t block, doesn’t hesitate—they are already where the next strike needs to be.

• Mobility: When you move at least 2” on your turn, add +1 to Fighting rolls and damage with Blades until the start of your next turn.

• Protection: When wielding a Blade, you gain +1 Parry.

  Sword Fu Expert

  REQUIREMENTS: Exemplar (Veteran), Sword Fu Disciple, Agility d10+, Fighting (Blades) d10+

  • Deflection: As long as you are aware of the attack and armed with a Blade, an attacker subtracts 1 from Shooting and Throwing rolls to hit you. This effect does not stack with Dodge or Cover.
  • Precision: When you make a Free Attack with a Blade, add +2 to the Fighting roll and damage.

  Sword Fu Master

  REQUIREMENTS: Transcendent (Heroic), Sword Fu Expert

  • Increase the bonuses to Mobility and Protection by 1.
  • When you move at least 2” on your turn, your Fighting attacks with a Blade cause +d10 damage.

  Sword Fu Legend

  REQUIREMENTS: Ascended (Legendary), Sword Fu Master, Agility d12+, Fighting (Blades) d12+

  • The Wild Die for all Fighting attacks with a Blade increases to a d10.
  • When you drop a foe with a Blade attack, you may move up to your Pace toward another foe. This effect may only occur once per turn.

New Social Edges

Corporate Mask

REQUIREMENTS: Initiate (Novice), Smarts d6+, Persuasion d6+

You’ve learned how to speak like a shareholder even when you’re bleeding out. One smile, one gesture, and the system forgets who you really are.

• Add +2 to Intimidation or Persuasion rolls made to Network with corporate elements.
• Add +2 to Common Knowledge rolls pertaining to corporate activities and persons.

This is the corporate version of Streetwise.

Fractured Aura

REQUIREMENTS: Initiate (Novice), Spirit d6+

There’s something wrong in your eyes—something people can’t place. They keep their distance, even when you smile.

• Add +2 to Taunt rolls.