Alpha Dawn - Star Frontiersman

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You have reached another large underground room. The ceiling here is only 3 meters high. You cannot see the other side of the room. Each character stands a 30% chance of walking directly beneath a dropper. Once a character is attacked, 19 more droppers will arrive in 1d10 turns. SA: Attract 2d10 droppers in 1d10 turns. SD: Immune to projectile weapons, tangier and doze grenades; ranged weapons attack at -10. 5) BURROWER SNAKE LAIR (MV Slow; IM 8; RS 80; STA 15; DM 1d5; SA Poison S5/T10) There is a faint glow near the ceiling of this huge room. The glow appears to be about 250 meters away. Upon closer inspection, the characters will see a deposit of phosphorescent minerals at the base of a 3 meter chimney extending upward farther than the characters can see. This chimney dead-ends in a burrower snake lair about 35 meters up. If any character climbs the chimney, the burrower snakes will attack immediately to protect the 23 eggs in their nest. If the characters do not climb the chimney, nothing will happen. 6) VOLTURNIAN CAVE BEAR (MV Medium; IM 5; RS 45; STA 200; ATT 60; DM 4d10; SA See below) You are entering a large cavern room lit by dim phosphorescent minerals when you see a 7 meter tall creature 60 meters from you. It looks like a hairless, white bear. It has shown no sign of noticing your party. If the characters do not immediately back out of the room, the bear will attack until killed. If they back out of the room and wait for three hours, the bear will-fall asleep. The party can then sneak by without harm. The bear will instantly awaken and pursue the party 1d10 squares down the corridor if anyone passes within 30 meters of it. SA: Hug for 2d10 per turn on roll of 10 or less. 7) SHOVELMOUTH STAMPEDE (MV Medium; IM 3; RS 25; STA 60; ATT 45; DM 1 d10; SA Stampede) 136 The corridor gradually widens into another large room. This room is dimly illuminated by phosphorescent mineral deposits. It is more than half a kilometer long and 250 meters wide. You hear the sound of many running feet, and a number of grunts hisses, and squeals. Twenty shovelmouths are stampeding from encounter area 8 into area 7 A. If the party stays in the room, each character has a 30% chance of being hit by a shovelmouth and falling to the ground. Any character who has fallen will be hit by at least one shovelmouth and has a 50% chance of being hit by two. Every time a character is hit by a shovelmouth, he takes 2d10 damage. If the characters attempt to avoid the stampede, use your discretion to determine if they do so successfully. Players climbing the cavern walls, for example, will be safe from the stampede. 8) EXPLOSIVE GAS FISSURE As you round a bend in the corridor, you hear an explosion and see a sudden burst of light 300 meters ahead. Ten seconds later, another explosion follows. As you watch, several more explosions occur at random intervals. The bursts of light illuminate a circular room 500 meters or more in diameter. As the characters try to cross the room, there is 45% chance some of the explosive gas escaping through the many fissures in the room will ignite near the party. (Roll for each group of characters separately if they split up.)Any character caught in one of these explosions suffers 2d10 damage. If any character strikes a match, fires a laser, or introduces any type of open flame into the room, there is a 90% chance all explosive gas in the room will ignite, causing 10d10 damage to those within the room. (Make Dexterity checks to see if the characters flung themselves to the ground in time to avoid part of the damage. If this check is successful, they take only 1/2 damage.) 9) SALT DEPOSITS The walls and floor are becoming rough and loose as you walk down the corridor. A white, granular substance covers increasing portions of the cavern, until, when you enter a large room, it completely hides the floor and walls. Here, the cavern floor appears only in spots. The white substance is common salt. The bare patches of cavern floor are actually flat rocks that have fallen onto the salt bed from the ceiling. These rocks are large enough for two people to stand
upon, and it is readily apparent that the characters could cross the room by jumping from rock to rock. If the party tries to cross the room, roll percentile dice as each character nears the middle. There is a 25% chance that each rock a character stands upon will sink into the salt bed. If one rock sinks, there is a 15% chance that any adjacent rock also sinks. Players will sink at a rate of 1/2 meter every turn. Players who sink completely before being rescued will suffocate in 20 turns. 10) WATER! You are entering another room in this seemingly endless cavern. The air here is much cooler than other parts of the cavern. There is a spring of fresh water hidden behind a thin wall in this room. If they enter the room quietly, the characters will hear the sound of bubbling water. They can then locate the spring by going to the place where it seems the loudest and digging, blasting, or hacking through the soft wall. They will then find plenty of fresh water for drinking, washing, and restocking canteens. 11) THE LAKE OF FIRE This passage is becoming increasingly hot as you advance. You round a narrow bend and see a large room ahead. A fiery, red glow illuminates this room, and you feel an intense heat coming from it. As you move on, your passage opens onto a narrow ledge overlooking a vast lake of molten rock. Large pillars of crystal rise out of the lake to the height of your ledge, which is nearly 30 meters above the fiery surface. Near the middle of the lake, two or more of these crystals are fused at the top, forming narrow bridges. Many stalactites hang to within 3 meters of the crystal tops. Some of these stalactites are huge and well anchored; others appear thinner and shakily attached. As you watch, one of the thin stalactites falls from the ceiling into the lake below. While you study the scene, you notice that jets of flaming gasses and molten rock stream out of the lake, splashing against the crystal pillars and even the ceiling of the cavern. There doesn't appear to be any safe way across the lake, for your ledge runs only part way around the lake. On the other side, you can see a similar ledge, with a passage leading away from the lake. The distance between the two ledges appears to be about 200 meters. Lay the map of the Lake of Fire on a flat surface where all may see it. Place the characters' counters directly on the map so that you may see the characters' locations as they attempt to cross the Lake of Fire. The characters will probably try to use one or more of the following methods to move from pillar to pillar: 1. Jump from one pillar to the next where the distance is not too great (see map). 2. Rope the stalactites and swing from pillar to pillar. 3. Make bridges out of the trunks of the giant mushrooms growing throughout the caverns. Players who jump must make successful Strength checks (at +25) or fall several inches short of the next pillar. Players who fail these checks should make a Reaction Speed check to see if they grabbed the edge of the pillar as they fell. Any character who fails both of these checks falls into the Lake of Fire and dies instantly. Players attempting to swing from pillar to pillar must make Dexterity checks to see if they land on the pillar safely. Any character who fails the check misses the pillar; the character must hang from the rope until rescued by another character. (If the rope was not long enough to reach the pillar, the character should make a Reaction Speed check to see if he managed to grab the edge of a pillar as he fell. Any character who fails both checks falls into the Lake of Fire.) Players will never have any trouble roping a stalactite, since they can keep trying until they are successful. In addition, at least one stalactite will always be within roping distance. There is a 5% chance, however, that a stalactite may break loose from the ceiling before the character completes the swing. If this occurs, the character should make a Reaction Speed check to see if he had completed enough of the swing to fly through the air to the pillar and grab its edge before falling into the Lake of Fire. Any character failing this check falls into the Lake of Fire. If the characters use the trunks of the giant fungi as bridges to cross the pillars, they should make a Dexterity check to see if they fall off the trunk while crossing it. Any character failing the Dexterity check should make a Reaction Speed check to see if he grabbed the trunk before falling into the Lake of Fire. Any character who fails both checks falls into the Lake of Fire. No matter how the characters cross the Lake of Fire, each character stands a large chance of being hit by a lava splash as it streams out of the lake. As the characters cross each dashed line on the map, roll 137
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STAR FRONTIERS, WIZARDS OF THE COAS
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General Data Name Age Walking m/t R
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The Sathar had learned that they co
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the players cooperate and reach the
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Example: Yinang, an assassin charac
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Highway -- An artificial or natural
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while waiting for a pressure door t
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as fog, rain, blowing dust or heat
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Range If the attacker and his targe
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Ammunition Players must keep track
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Special Actions Besides simply hitt
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Variable Power Settings Laser pisto
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GROUND VEHICLE MOVEMENT Speeds Vehi
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y adding the vehicle's speed in met
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Example: BliCluet the Dralasite is
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28 Human Brick House STR/STA 75/65
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Character Generation Your character
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Sample Character #1 Noah is going t
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Physical Structure Dralasites are s
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Physical Structure Typical adult Hu
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Physical Structure Vrusk look like
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Physical Structure Yazirians are ta
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Skills There are 13 different skill
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however, no matter what the charact
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chance for success is lower, it req
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REMOVING SECURITY LOCKS Success Rat
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DEACTIVATING ALARMS/DEFENSES Succes
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character's heartbeat and breathing
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EMPATHY Success rate: 10% + skill l
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Improving Characters Characters can
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Defense 58 Cost (Cr) Wgt (kg) Energ
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60 Laser Pistol Gyrojet Pistol Soni
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62 Shock Glove Brass Knuckles Vibro
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turns. An individual can resist the
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uses 1 SEU when it hits. Anyone wea
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are available: military and civilia
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telescopic sights, and a character
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A robot can not attack unless it ha
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sidewalks, elevators and escalators
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mining natural resources. The plane
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The Frontier Worlds System/Planet C
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82 Human Gun-Fu Expert STR/STA 45/6
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How to Be a Referee A referee is ma
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Page 110 and 111: Physical Structure Sathar are long,
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Page 124 and 125: ALPHA SECTION: INTRODUCTION Welcome
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Page 160 and 161: Prioritizing Variable Skill Levels
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