Alpha Dawn - Star Frontiersman

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Variable Power Settings Laser pistols, laser rifles and heavy lasers can be adjusted to fire shots that cause from 1 to 200 points of damage. Players can change the setting at the beginning of every turn. More information on variable power settings is included in the descriptions of laser weapons in the Equipment section. Burns Acids, fire and extreme heat cause burns, which are very painful. If a character suffers damage from burns that is more than half his Stamina score, the character is completely incapacitated and unable to do anything until treated at a hospital. Wounds caused by lasers are not burns. Avoidance Rolls Characters can avoid or reduce the effects of some weapons by leaping or twisting away from the attack, or by resisting its effects. When a character is attacked with one of the weapons listed below he gets to make an avoidance roll on d100. If the result is equal to 0; less than the indicated ability score, the character has avoided or resisted the attack. AVOIDANCE ROLL TABLE Avoidance Weapon Roll Result Electrostunner current STA no effect Sonic stunner current STA no effect Stunstick current STA no effect Anesthetic needles current STA no effect Doze grenade current STA no effect Tangler grenade RS no effect Fragmentation grenade RS ½ damage Incendiary grenade RS ½ damage A character who passes an avoidance check against a fragmentation, incendiary or tangier grenade must move 3 meters to get out of the blast area. If the character has nowhere to move to, he can not try to avoid the blast. A character can try to avoid only one grenade per turn. Defenses Two types of defensive armor are available in STAR FRONTIERS games: suits and power screens. Only one suit and one screen can be worn at the same time. Each suit or screen protects the wearer from one type of weapon. The effects of these suits and screens are summarized below. (They are described in more detail in the Equipment section.) Albedo Suit. An albedo suit can absorb up to 100 points of laser damage. When it is hit by a laser, the damage is subtracted from the suit's total of 100 points. The suit is destroyed and does not protect 20 the wearer after it has absorbed 100 points of damage. Albedo Screen. Like an albedo suit, the screen absorbs laser beams. Absorbing a laser beam uses a number of SEU equal to 1/5 the number of damage points caused by the beam, rounded up. For example, absorbing a beam that caused 11 damage points would use 3 SEU. Skeinsuit. Skeinsuits absorb one-half of the damage caused by projectile and gyrojet weapons, fragmentation grenades; explosives and melee weapons. The suit is destroyed when it has absorbed 50 points of damage. Inertia Screen. Inertia screens do the same thing skein-suits do. The screen uses 2 SEU every time it is hit. Gauss Screen. A gauss screen absorbs all the damage caused by electrostunners, shock gloves, stunsticks and other electrical attacks. It uses 2 SEU every time it is hit. Sonic Screen. Sonic screens act as sound barriers, absorbing all sound that hits the screen. They absorb all damage from sonic stunners and disruptors. Absorbing a hit uses 2 SEU, and the screen itself uses 1 SEU every minute it is on. Healing Natural. Wounds heal naturally at a rate of 1 point for every 20 hours the wounded character spends resting. Resting means doing nothing more strenuous than taking short walks. A hospital can heal up to 20 Stamina points per day, at a cost of 1 Credit per Stamina point healed, plus 50 Cr per day. Biocort. Biocortizone is a healing drug. An injection of biocort heals 10 points of damage immediately, when it is given by a medic. (Biocort has no effect if given by a non-medic.) Only one dose of biocort can be given in a 20-hour period; additional doses have no effect unless given during surgery. Field Surgery. A medic can perform minor or major surgery on a wounded character to heal more than 10 points of damage. Surgery is described in detail under SKILLS: Medical. Stimdose. Stimdose is a stimulant. If given by a medic to an unconscious character, the character will wake up immediately. A stimdose will restore 10 Stamina points if the points were lost to poison, disease or infection. These 10 points are restored even if the character is unconscious. If the character's Stamina has been reduced to -10 or less, however, the stimdose will not save him,
ecause only one dose can be given effectively in a, 20-hour period. The stimdose will not restore Stamina points unless the poison, disease or infection has been neutralized or cured with the proper drug, or has worn off. Life-Saving Drugs and Equipment A character whose Stamina has been reduced to 0 or less is dead, but he can be revived if his Stamina has not gone below -30. The body can be preserved with drugs or a freeze field, and revived at a hospital. Staydose. An injection of staydose will bring a deed character back to life, but will slowdown the body's functions so it can survive with fewer Stamina points. Staydose must be given within one minute (10 turns) of death or it will not work. A staydose injection will keep a character alive for 20 hours. After 20 hours, the body can not be revived and further injections will have no effect. Only a medic can administer staydose effectively. Freeze Field. A freeze field is a device that places a body in stasis, a sort of suspended animation. The device is fastened directly to the body. Only medics are trained to activate freeze fields correctly. A freeze field must be activated within two minutes of death, or the body can not be revived. Activating the field takes five turns. Each freeze field device contains enough power to operate for 200 hours. If the power runs out, the body can not be revived. Freeze fields can be removed safely only at hospitals. A hospital charges 200 Credits to remove the field. The character then must pay normal costs to be healed. Biocort. Biocort can be used to bring a character's Stamina score back above O if his score was not reduced below -9. Field Surgery. Field surgery can save a character whose Stamina was not reduced below -30 if a staydose was used to preserve the character; surgery will not help a dead character. Vehicles In the equipment area of the Characters section, there are statistics for several classifications of vehicle (air, ground, hover, etc.) When operating these vehicles, certain rules apply. 21
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Page 10 and 11: Example: Yinang, an assassin charac
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Page 30 and 31: Example: BliCluet the Dralasite is
Page 32 and 33: 28 Human Brick House STR/STA 75/65
Page 34 and 35: Character Generation Your character
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Page 38 and 39: Physical Structure Dralasites are s
Page 40 and 41: Physical Structure Typical adult Hu
Page 42 and 43: Physical Structure Vrusk look like
Page 44 and 45: Physical Structure Yazirians are ta
Page 46 and 47: Skills There are 13 different skill
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Page 50 and 51: chance for success is lower, it req
Page 52 and 53: REMOVING SECURITY LOCKS Success Rat
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Page 58 and 59: EMPATHY Success rate: 10% + skill l
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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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actions. You may decide ahead of ti
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work week is five days of work with
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small, medium, large and giant. •
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Sample Creatures What follows are t
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DESCRIPTION: Cybodragons are huge l
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96 Mordax Type Small Omnivore Numbe
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98 Slither Type Giant Carnivore Num
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100 Yernoids Type Medium Omnivore N
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STR/ DEX/ INT/ PER/ STA RS LOG LDR
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104 Human Soldier STR/STA 50/50 DEX
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Physical Structure Sathar are long,
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How to Referee Adventures Adventure
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4 NPCs and Creatures After you have
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114 Remember the effects of gravity
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2 Cave Raith 3 1 Type Medium Herbiv
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118 Human Hacker STR/STA 45/45 DEX/
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ALPHA SECTION: INTRODUCTION Welcome
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on the map your characters will not
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area from which they can clearly se
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Pirate G (RW 30, M 30, PS 3, IM 3,
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DELTA SECTION: DESERT CRASH The cha
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Reaction Speed check. If the check
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(MV FAST; IM 5; RS 41; STA 300; ATT
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EPSILON 3.2: RANDOM ENCOUNTER DESCR
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You have reached another large unde
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percentile dice. On a roll of 10% o
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persuade him to leave the island; i
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ZETA SUBSECTION 2: PLAYERS' DESCRIP
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Each flitter has a 50% chance of ca
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146 Quickdeath Type Large Carnivore
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148 PLAYER CHARACTER BACKGROUND REP
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150 ALIEN CULTURE BACKGROUND REPORT
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Prioritizing Variable Skill Levels
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Yazirian, or a tall, thin Human. Th
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8 Cinematic Martial Arts In a Front
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Cinematic Maneuvers • Blind fight
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9 Mentalist PSA Mentalist Many form
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LEVITATION Success Rate: 50% + skil
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10 Starting Gear All the players ar
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14 170 Skill Level Damage Bonus Lev
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Beam Weapons The entry-level Beam W
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damage. These are divided evenly am
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Security Skeinsuit Whereas the mili
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Tactical Vest Sometimes it’s not
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Sentry Helm Bodyguards can’t alwa
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Jumpboots These appear to be a norm
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feature alone makes this device val
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156 A growing online community devo
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