Spec Tweaks: Personalized Evolution
In Dimm City RPG, survival isn’t just about skill—it’s about adaptation. Specialty Tweaks, or Spec Tweaks, are defining powers that sharpen your edge, shaped by training, instinct, and the grafted mods that make each specialty different.
Some tweaks are earned through grit and scars, others burned into muscle memory, coded into wetware, or whispered into you by forces no one can name. No two operatives mod themselves the same way—your tweaks are yours alone, and in Dimm City, they might be the only thing that keeps you breathing.
Dual-class specialists must choose which side of themselves to lean into: each dream, they pick a Tweak from one of their specialties (never both), though they can swap which side they favor from job to job. Generalists, though versatile, never tap into Spec Tweaks at all—raw adaptability comes at the cost of these razor-edged evolutions.
Spec Tweaks aren’t meant to be an exhaustive list of powers locked behind pages of rules—they’re an invitation. Dimm City’s operatives twist, break, and rebuild themselves in ways too varied for any book to capture, and the same goes for your table. Dream Masters should feel free to craft their own simple, punchy tweaks that fit a character’s style or history without breaking the game. The best tweaks grow from fiction, not spreadsheets.
To keep the game fast and dangerous, Tweaks should stay sharp but not overwhelming—one clear edge, one way the character hits harder, survives longer, or bends the odds. If it feels cool, flavorful, and doesn’t overshadow everyone else at the table, you’re doing it right.
We’re not loading this book with big lists of pre-written Tweaks; that would only narrow the wild, creative space they’re meant to occupy. Instead, we’ll be releasing official, canon Spec Tweaks on dimm.city and across our social channels as the world expands. Treat those examples as sparks, not limits—your table’s imagination will always outrun anything we publish.
In Dimm City RPG, evolution is personal. Write the tweak that tells your operative’s story, then watch what it pushes them to become.
Augmerc Spec Tweak: Hard Reset
Your implants and/or personal grit help you override your body’s limits. When you would be knocked unconscious or killed, you can choose to stay on your feet using this tweak. At the start of each round you remain at 0 HP, ROLL A DIE!—on an 11 or higher, you continue on, ignoring pain and damage.
Once you fail this roll, you collapse until healed. Hard Reset can only be triggered once per Dream.
If you take a hit while already at 0 HP, ROLL A DIE! If your result is equal to or less than the damage dealt, you’re dead on your feet. (Example: if you’re struck for 2 HP while at death’s door, you die on a roll of 1 or 2.) Surviving this roll might still leave you scarred or carrying a permanent injury (DM’s call).