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• Spectacular success: Gives the scientist the knowledge necessary to design a similar device if the proper resources are available. Theories and principles also understood well enough to design devices that utilize said concepts. Devices that cannot be used unskilled may be operated with a Complicated penalty. Example: Father Wagner pays a visit to a physicist he knows, hoping she can shed some light on a strange television-sized device the Storm Knights discovered during an adventure in Los Angeles. The mechanism, a Tharkold synthecycler, is extremely complex and is made up of numerous systems so Becky rates its difficulty at Very Hard (15). Additionally, the item’s Tech axiom is 26 and the physicist’s is only 23 so there is a +5 penalty, increasing the difficulty to 20. The physicist has science(physics) 14. Generating a skill total of 20, she gets a Minimal success. She is able to tell Wagner that the device appears to be a small automated factory of some kind; raw materials are inserted at one end and are converted into a finished product somehow that comes out the other end. Control of the machine appears to involve a cybernetic link of some kind. Because the physicist does not have the appropriate skill (UltraCAD operations), or a neural interface for that matter, she does not know how to operate the device. Streetwise Use: Unskilled use penalized. Normally used as a macro skill. Sample specializations: Specific urban location, street gangs, criminal organizations, survival, black markets Axiom: Social 8 Streetwise is used to get information, goods and/or make contacts in urban areas large enough to support a “shadowy” side of life. It can also be used like the survival skill for finding food, water and shelter in urban areas. Chapter Three: Attributes and Skills When attempting to gain information with the streetwise skill, the difficulty is based on the size of the city the character is in and modified by the legality of the information being sought: STREETWISE CHART Condition Difficulty/modifier Large city 8 Small city 10 Town 12 Small town 13 Very small town 15 Legal information (directions to nearest soup kitchen) -5 Semi-legal (asking how strictly local laws are enforced) -2 Illegal, but generally inoffensive (asking how big of a bribe is appropriate for local law enforcement) +0 Illegal (seeking out a pickpocket) +2 Very illegal (seeking out a safecracker) +4 Highly illegal (seeking an arms smuggler) +7 Strict law enforcement +5 Moderate law enforcement +4 Light law enforcement +2 Little enforcement of the law +0 Corrupt law enforcement -2 To -5 Example: Marco is in Lyon, France trying to locate a black market seller of Cyberpapal laser weapons. Lyon is a large city so the base difficulty is 8. The weapons Marco wants are highly illegal so there is a +7 penalty applied. Additionally, the Church Police keep a close eye on things so there’s another +4 penalty on top of that, bringing the difficulty to a total of 19. Streetwise can also be used to avoid trouble with street gangs, criminal organizations and local law enforcement by providing the character with information on how to behave, common signals to give, things to avoid doing in certain areas and so on. The difficulty for this task is based on the size of the city and can be modified by the gamemaster with the Difficulty Number Scale. If the character instead wishes to deliberately cause trouble with a gang or organization, the streetwise skill can be used in place of the taunt skill when dealing with such groups. Example: Marco, being chased by a squad of Church Police who caught him trying to buy black market merchandise, races around a corner and sees a bunch of tough-looking punks down the street. With the Church Police on his tail, the last thing Marco needs is trouble from them too. If he can beat a difficulty of 8 with his streetwise skill he won’t attract any serious attention from the punks. Halfway down the block though, Marco gets the idea of having the punks distract the Church Police so that he can get away easier. Using streetwise like the taunt skill, Marco is able to yell something to the punks about how a rival gang of this group is coming down the street looking to cause trouble. Marco’s taunt works and as the punks prepare to ambush the “rival gang”, Marco makes his escape. 67
TORG: Revised and Expanded Rulebook Survival Use: Unskilled use penalized. Macro skill. Sample specializations: Specific type of terrain or climate (desert, forest, arctic, mountains, urban, etc.) Survival is the ability to find shelter, procure food, water and other supplies, and avoid natural dangers such as disease, sunstroke, quicksand or other environmental hazards exclusive of creature encounters. Each general type of wilderness environment has a difficulty number listed on the chart below. The first day a character spends in the hostile environment, she makes a survival skill check. If she succeeds, the result points earned indicate the number of days she can remain in the environment before making another such check. Characters who fail a survival check must make another survival check the day after their failure. Failing a survival skill check means the character does not find adequate shelter, food or stumbles into some kind of dangerous situation. This can either be roleplayed, such as finding a way to escape from a patch of quicksand, or the gamemaster can assess an appropriate amount of damage to the character that cannot be healed until a successful survival check is made or the character returns to “civilization”. SURVIVAL CHART Wilderness type Difficulty Easy environment (woods, grasslands) 3 Moderate environment (aquatic, swamps) 5 Moderately difficult (mountains, ghost town) 8 Difficult environment (high mountains) 10 Barren environment (desert) 12 Inhospitable environment (tundra) 13 Hostile environment (arctic) 15 Example: Quin is in a remote area of the Andes, about a week’s hike from the nearest village or town. The first day, he makes a survival skill check against a difficulty number of 10. He gets three result points, so he does not need to make a survival check for three more days. Three days later, Quin fails this second roll. Becky decides that Quin is suffering from exposure to the cold and the thin air and imposes one wound of damage. The next day Quin must make another skill check. He gets another three result points for another three days. This brings his total up to seven days (first three days, one day for the failure, then another three) so he finally reaches a village and no longer needs to use the skill to survive. Test of Wills Sample specializations: None Test of wills, often shortened to just test, is used to unbalance an opponent by pitting their confidence against the tester’s confidence and resolve. A successful test causes the opponent to doubt that his own determination or that his control of a situation is equal to that of the testing character. Two drivers playing a game of “chicken”, for example, are engaged in a test, to see who has less confidence in his driving skills and swerves away from the collision first. In westerns, a gunfight always begins with the two gunslingers staring each other down, trying to take each other’s measure. This is an example of test being used in a combat situation, each gunslinger showing his 68 resolve to see things through and confidence in his own ability to draw and shoot first. Test is not the same as intimidation though sometimes the line between the two is blurry. Intimidation is more often based on an overt physical threat, such as pointing a weapon at someone, or a display of violent emotion. Test is subtler, the character implying or creating an impression of being the one who is calling the shots. Test is the defensive skill used against test, though in some situations the willpower may be used to defend against test. Willpower cannot be used to perform a test though, characters without the test skill must use their Mind attribute. The exact results of a test attempt are determined by using the Interaction Results Table found in Chapter Four. When a character attempts to test someone, the player should specify to the gamemaster the effect she wants it to have on her character’s opponent before rolling the die. This is known as the player’s call and lets the gamemaster better judge the results of the trick. The gamemaster, in relation to circumstance and believability as well as the player’s roleplaying ability, should modify test skill totals. If the character appears calm, cool and unruffled before and during the test attempt, she should get a bonus to her skill total. If the character is nervous, panicky and obviously not in control of a situation then a penalty should be applied. Example: Terrill is having a beer in an Ayslish tavern when an unruly minotaur comes up to his table, looking to cause trouble. Alan tells Becky that Terrill will test the minotaur, with a player’s call of the minotaur backing down, apologizing for disturbing Terrill and then leaving the tavern. He describes Terrill as pausing after taking a drink of his beer, looking up at the minotaur and casually saying “you really don’t want to get on my bad side”, and then making some kind of magical incantation or gesture so the minotaur knows he’s facing a trained magician. Becky decides that since almost everyone in Aysle knows a little magic the minotaur won’t be too impressed by an incantation but the overall description of Terrill’s attempt is worth a +2 bonus. Alan doesn’t roll well enough to get the player’s call so Terrill doesn’t get rid of the minotaur, but he’s been thrown off-balance by Terrill’s behavior and isn’t quite sure what to do next. Weird Science Use: Cannot be used unskilled. Macro skill. Sample specializations: None Reality: Nile Empire, Terra The weird science skill allows characters to design, build and analyze fantastic devices, commonly called “gizmos”, which far exceed the Nile Empire’s Tech axiom. Weird science represents knowledge of an entirely separate set of scientific laws and principles that allow for the construction of devices in the Nile Empire’s Tech 21 environment whose effects can rate as high as Tech 32! Weird science is not as reliable or repeatable a process as normal science and it is not possible to mass-produce gizmos, each one must be individually handcrafted by a weird scientist. Gizmos are assigned a Tech Rating that is used outside the Nile Empire like a Tech axiom rating to determine if the device creates a contradiction. Weird science is discussed further in Chapter Twelve and the full rules for using the skill can be found in the Nile Empire and Terra sourcebooks.
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