Alpha Dawn - Star Frontiersman

FINDING DIRECTIONS
Success Rate:
50% + skill level
An environmental specialist can try to find directions
in a wilderness without a compass or other aid. If
the specialist makes a map or marks a trail (by
cutting notches in trees or lining up rocks), his
chance to find a direction on that path is increased
30%.
SURVIVAL
Success Rate:
40% + skill level
This subskill gives a specialist a chance to do several
things related to survival: find food or water (if any
is available in the area), find or improvise shelter,
and set or avoid traps. If a trap is set in a built-up
area (city, farm community, etc.), there is a 50%
chance it will be noticed. This subskill also lets the
environmental specialist make a special Intuition
check to predict natural disasters.
MAKING TOOLS/WEAPONS
Success Rate:
100% if materials are available
An environmental specialist can make tools and
weapons out of stones, sticks, cords, and other
natural materials. Only bows, axes, clubs, knives
and spears can be made. Only the spear can be
balanced well enough to use as a thrown weapon.
The referee may allow an environmentalist to
improvise tools and weapons from wreckage and
scrap parts.
TRACKING
Success Rate:
30% + skill level
An environmental specialist has a chance to follow a
creature, person or machine by watching for its trail.
This skill works only in the wilderness, not in settled
areas. The specialist also can use this subskill to
cover his own tracks.
STEALTH
Success Rate:
20% + skill level
Stealth is the ability to move without being seen or
heard. This ability is useful for stalking animals, but
also can be used to sneak up on guards of follow
suspects.
CONCEALMENT
Success Rate:
10% + skill level
Concealment is the art of hiding in natural cover.
Once concealed there is an 80% chance the
specialist will not be seen as long as he does not
move or make noise.
NAMING
Success Rate:
100%
One of the benefits of being an environmental
specialist is that when he discovers a new plant,
animal, mountain range, sea, etc., he is allowed to
name the new discovery.
Medical Skill
A character that has Medical skill is called a medic.
Medics need a medkit to use their skill. Medics
diagnose ailments, heal wounds, control infections,
neutralize poisons, cure diseases, wake up
unconscious individuals and prevent tissue
deterioration.
There are nine Medical subskills: Administer Drugs,
Diagnosis, First Aid, Minor Surgery, Major Surgery,
Control Infection, Cure Disease, Neutralize Toxins
and Activate Freeze Field.
If a patient is treated in a hospital or sick bay all
Success Rates are increased 20%. If the patient is
an animal or an unfamiliar alien, all Success Rates
are reduced 20%. These two modifiers are
cumulative, so the chance to perform major surgery
on an unfamiliar alien at a hospital is normal.
ADMINISTERING DRUGS
Success Rate:
100%
Three drugs are covered under this subskill:
stimdose, staydose and telol.
A medic can use one dose of stimdose to wake up
an unconscious or stunned character, or to restore
10 Stamina points to a character that was poisoned
or contracted a disease or infection. Stimdose can
only be given by a medic. If more than one dose is
given in a 20-hour period, the second dose has no
effect.
A medic can use one dose of staydose to place an
individual in a state of arrested animation. A
character whose Stamina has been reduced to 0,
but not below -30, will be brought back to life by the
drug if it is injected within one minute (10 turns)
after death. The staydose slows down the
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