Alpha Dawn - Star Frontiersman

These rules are presented to give some additional
options for fleshing out your character or to help
Referees add some variety and change to his
campaign. Use of these optional rules and
guidelines may make your game no longer directly
compatible with some published material.
1 Prioritizing
Ability Scores
Using this option, players may (before rolling any
dice) select any one ability pair and favor that pair.
If he does this, however, he must then slight some
other pair. He can favor as many pairs as desired,
as long as he balances it by slighting another pair.
Some of the other optional rules also take
advantage of favoring and slighting, giving you
more options for personalizing your character.
Favoring an ability pair doesn’t mean you’ll
automatically max out in those scores. Slighting a
pair does not preclude you from being able to roll a
high score. The only purpose is to skew the odds in
the favor of a character concept.
When you roll ability scores, you roll on one of three
columns depending on whether that pair is favored,
slighted, or left up to chance. Use the following
table to determine your ability scores.
Slight Normal Favor Score
01-15 01-10 01-05 30
16-30 11-20 06-10 35
31-50 21-35 11-20 40
51-65 36-55 21-30 45
66-75 56-70 31-45 50
76-85 71-80 45-65 55
86-95 81-90 66-80 60
96-98 91-95 81-90 65
99-00 96-00 91-00 70
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2 Fixed
Ability Total
This is another option, for those players tired of
rolling crappy while the person to their left gets a
hand full of 65’s. This option balances one character
against the others, makes sure no one person gets
so lucky that his abilities cause him to dominate
play.
Simply allot 180 points among all four ability score
pairs. You can still personalize the scores after,
making sure not to shift more than 10 points from
one ability to its matched pair. Remember that no
ability can start higher than 70 before applying
racial adjustments. Referees can change this total
to have more or less heroic player characters,
referring to the following table.
Power Level Points
Realistic 180
Heroic 200
Legendary 250
3 Variable
Skill Levels
Using this option, not all characters will begin play
with the same number of skill levels. Regardless of
the number of skill levels rolled on the following
table, at least one skill must be chosen out of your
character’s Primary Skill Area.
Roll Beginning Skill Levels
01-35 1 Level in any one PSA skill.
36-80 1 Level in any one PSA skill,
1 Level in any other skill in any PSA.
81-95 2 Levels in any one PSA skill,
1 Level in any other skill in any PSA.
96-00 2 Levels in any one PSA skill,
1 Level in any one other PSA skill,
1 Level in any other skill in any PSA.
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