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No Vitals 5 points You have no particularly vital organs. The special effects for damage to the "Groin," "Kidneys" and "Vitals" hit locations are ignored and no bonus damage is scored. Insubstantiality 80 points You can become insubstantial; perhaps you phase into a different dimension or actually become a "spirit." You can move at your normal rate, and pass through solid objects as though they weren't there. You are unaffected by gravity, and can move up or down at your normal Move. You cannot pick up normal objects or affect them in any way. The GM may rule that certain substances, energy barriers or magic spells (e.g., a pentagram) impede your progress, however. Physical and energy attacks cannot harm you, but you're still vulnerable to psionic and non-material magical attacks. Physical and energy attacks from an insubstantial individual will only affect insubstantial members of the same race, or creatures under a similar sort of insubstantiality (GM's determination). Your psi and magic skills can affect the physical world, but an insubstantial individual is at -3 on all spell-casting while in this form. Although you can pass through solids, you must still breathe. When moving through a solid object, treat this as if you were swimming underwater for purposes of suffocation. Insubstantial creatures can not materialize inside a solid object. Your appearance is set as a special effect; you may appear transparent, misty or completely normal. You can't be invisible without taking the Invisibility advantage (see below). Note that your "natural" form (physical or insubstantial) is also considered a special effect; this advantage must be taken by any character who can change between a physical and an insubstantial form. Special enhancement: Objects may be carried. They take on the changed form when they are picked up, and regain normal form when put down. This also applies to clothing or armor. Inanimate objects cannot be materialized inside of anything. + 10% for No Encumbrance, +20% for Light, +50% for Medium or +100% for Heavy. Special enhancement: You may turn part of your body substantial while other parts remain insubstantial, or vice versa. Thus, you could reach through a wall and tap someone on the shoulder. +20%, or +100% if you can turn an item you are carrying substantial without dropping it. This requires turning your hand substantial, too. Special enhancement: You have abilities that can affect the substantial world even when you are insubstantial. +100%. Special limitation: You are always insubstantial and cannot become substantial. -50%. There is no penalty for spell-casting if you are always insubstantial. Invisibility 40 points You are invisible. Unlike many advantages, the default condition is that you are permanently invisible. You still make noise, leave footprints and can be smelled, though. By default, anything you carry remains visible (but see below). If you are carrying nothing, you get a +9 to Stealth in any situation where being seen would matter. Invisibility works against only one sort of vision. Types include electromagnetic vision (which includes normal human vision, as well as Infravision, Radar Sense and Spectrum Vision), sonar, magnetic fields, and anything else the GM can invent. You cannot be visually detected by individuals using paranormal means such as magical scrying or ESP, but you can be seen by devices which possess such powers. If you are invisible to electromagnetic vision, you do not cast a shadow and don't show up in mirrors. Special enhancement: You are normally visible, but can become invisible at will. +10%. Special enhancement: Objects may be carried. They become invisible when they are picked up, and regain visibility when put down. This also applies to clothing or armour. +10% for No Encumbrance, +20% for Light, +50% for Medium or +100% for Heavy. Special enhancement: You are also invisible to other types of vision - sonar, magnetic fields, and whatever else the GM comes up with. +20% per added type. Special limitation: You can be seen in mirrors! -10%. Special limitation: You cast a shadow! -10%. Invisibility to Machines 20 points Machines don't see you — you cannot be photographed, and you don't show up on cameras or other detectors. In some parts of the world, you might be mistaken for a vampire! Devices such as pressure plates will still notice you, but you can walk past a robot sentry with impunity. Electronically-targeted weapons don't get bonuses to hit you. This is always on unless you pay an extra 10%. Special enhancement: Objects may be carried. They become invisible to machines when picked up, and regain visibility when put down. +10% for No Encumbrance, or +20% for Light, or +50% for Medium, or +100% for Heavy. Special enhancement: You can become visible to machines at will. +10%. Invulnerability Variable You are completely resistant to damage from some attack form(s). Knockback can still occur, however. The cost varies according to how common the attack form is (see Absorption, p. 49, for examples of attack rarity): Any kinetic damage: 300 points. Common: 150 points. Occasional: 100 points. Rare: 75 points. Very rare: 50 points. Note that this is a powerful advantage and should not be used unless ordinary Damage Resistance truly would not suffice. Also note that this is an expensive advantage and that many attack forms have cheaper specific defenses (e.g., Immunity to Poison vs. poison, Doesn't Breathe vs. gases, etc.). Special enhancement: The attack does not cause knockback. +20%. 59
Lycanthropic Dominance 5 points + 15 points/100 pts. controlled See Dominance, p. 53. Note that this advantage has been altered slightly from its original form in <strong>GURPS</strong> Bestiary. Magnetic Sense 5 points/level You are able to sense magnetic fields around you. The first level of this power gives you a range of 1 hex; each additional level doubles your range. You can determine polarity, strength and field contour. If no magnetic object more powerful than a kitchen magnet is within 1 hex of you, you can automatically determine magnetic north. If at least ten levels of the Microscopic Vision advantage (below) are linked to this advantage (+10% to both advantage costs), you are able to directly read computer disks and other magnetic media, although you must posses a Mental/Hard Language Skill for the particular format you are attempting to read (e.g., Language (DOS floppy), Language (Amiga floppy), etc.). Matter Surfing 30 points This is a special variation of Flight, and follows Flight rules except where specified otherwise. You can create a 1-hex-wide, 2" thick sheet of ice, earth, fire, baby turtles ... or whatever . . . that moves you along. The material is created slightly in front of your feet as you move, and vanishes behind you, leaving no permanent effect unless you buy it as an enhancement. You cannot travel more than five feet above the ground. You will not fall off unless knocked unconscious. The duration of the material left behind is ten turns unless enhanced. You may use Surfboard or Skateboard skill (both P/A) instead of Flight, but you must buy these skills at regular cost, not "hobby skill" cost. Special limitation: The track you leave does not vanish immediately, but can be removed by normal means: ice melts, sand must be swept away, and so on. Fire lasts ten minutes unless smothered (but doesn't ignite other things or cause damage, unless this is bought separately). Usually, this is a nuisance. -10%. Special enhancement: The track you leave does 1 die damage every other turn, until it vanishes or is removed, of a type appropriate to its nature: fire burns, turtles bite, and so on. Won't affect a person unless you slam him and run over him. Never affects you. +40%. Special enhancement: You can fly at any height. +33%. If the "surfboard" will land you automatically from any height if you are unconscious, +50%. Metabolism Control 5 points/level You can control normally involuntary biological functions such as pulse, blood flow, digestion and respiration. This allows you to enter a deathlike trance; a physician unfamiliar with your unusual metabolism must win a Quick Contest of Skills (Physician-2 vs. HT) to realize that you aren't dead. While in this state, you are unaware of your surroundings. You may set a mental "alarm clock" that will awaken you after a certain amount of time has passed. You will automatically awaken if you take any damage. Each level of Metabolism Control reduces by 10% the amount of oxygen you normally need to stay alive, and doubles the amount of time you can safely go without food or water. Special limitation: Hibernation. Hibernation is a form of Metabolism Control. Hibernation sets in automatically when you are exposed to certain environmental conditions (usually great cold or during droughts). Roll vs. Will to avoid falling asleep and hibernating if in a wild setting in such conditions. Hibernation can be induced voluntarily (roll vs. Will-4 every hour to start), but it is difficult to set a definite "wake up" time (set a time, then multiply by 2d+3/10). -50%. Microscopic Vision 4 points/level Your eyes can magnify tiny details that might otherwise only be revealed by a magnifying glass or microscope. Each level doubles your magnification factor. With ten levels of this advantage, you can read an optical disk directly, but you must also know a Hard Language skill for each format you attempt to read (as per Magnetic Sense, above). Example: 4 points = 2x, 8 points = 4x, 24 points = 64x, and so on. Mimicry 15 points You can duplicate any familiar sound. A new sound becomes familiar if you spend five minutes listening to it and make a successful roll versus IQ. This ability can also be used to imitate voices. To memorize someone's voice, you must spend at least one hour listening to that person talk - either live, recorded, or through magical or psionic means - and make a successful roll versus IQ. Mindshare Variable This advantage can only be taken as a racial advantage. Members of a race may each "share" consciousness between several bodies. A personality may be shared by several telepathic bodies who seem like individuals, or each individual may be a central mind-unit controlling many "drones." In an extreme case, a whole species is, mentally, a single individual. Cost for the race's mental characteristics is based on personality. Cost for physical characteristics is based on the cost for an average "drone" - the central body, if any, is disregarded. Several options are available when building a Mindshare race. First, the GM must decide what type of link the race has. Type of Link Hive Mind: 20 points. Racial Memory: 40 points. Global Consciousness: 60 points. A hive mind creature consists of a single central organism that controls the actions of many individual bodies. The central mind is usually large and well-protected; if the brain dies, the drones - and the character - perish with it. The drones (see below) of a hive mind can never be intelligent - by definition all its bodies are controlled by the central brain. PCs or NPCs that are members of a hive cannot always have the full attention of the central mind. Instead, the drone must purchase the hive mind as a Patron - roll each time a significant decision must be made by the drone. A creature with a racial memory has access to the accumulated memories of every individual body. There must be some sort of physical act to transfer memories between bodies - direct contact, a pilgrimage to the character's home, an hour of meditation, or something else non-trivial. Otherwise the link is really a global consciousness (see below). A global consciousness link means that the bodies are sharing knowledge in real-time. Whenever something happens to one of a character's bodies, all other bodies are aware of it. All memories and experiences of one body are available to all. If there is a range factor involved (see below), any intelligent drone must make a Fright Check at +4 any time he moves out of contact range with the rest of his "self." 60
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CHARACTER CREATION COVER BY JEFF KO
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5. SKILLS .........................
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ATTRIBUTE LEVELS AND THEIR MEANINGS
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Page 18 and 19: Fine-Tune Once you have taken exist
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Page 26 and 27: Favor Variable You saved someone's
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Page 30 and 31: Pious 5 points Some people have an
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Page 36 and 37: Clerical Magic Variable In some wor
Page 38 and 39: Familiar Variable Familiars are sma
Page 40 and 41: Karmic Ties Variable Some people ar
Page 42 and 43: Medium 10 points You possess the na
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Page 46 and 47: Snatcher Variable This is the power
Page 48 and 49: Drift: The Jumper does not arrive i
Page 50 and 51: RACIAL AND SUPER ADVANTAGES These a
Page 52 and 53: Body of Stone 8 points/level Your b
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Page 62 and 63: Type of Drone Mindless: -10 points.
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Page 68 and 69: Claws 15/25/40/55 points The charac
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Page 87 and 88: MENTAL DISADVANTAGES Mental disadva
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Page 103 and 104: Lost Speed and DX are regained at a
Page 105 and 106: Reprogrammable Duty -25 points You
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LIMITATIONS Limitations reduce the
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Reduced Range -5% Each time this li
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Mastery High Skill vs. Diversity Ha
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Extraordinary Diligence to Maintain
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USING SKILLS Two sets of skills nor
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Firearms Specialization and Familia
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Firearms Specialization and Familia
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Vehicle Skill Specializations (Cont
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+ 1 to +5 if the item is a variant
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NEW SKILLS The following list inclu
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The composer must have a skill in e
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Lifting (Physical/Hard) No default
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Fire-Siphon (Physical/Average) Defa
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Modifiers: All Vision modifiers app
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Blind Fighting (Mental/Very Hard) N
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Light Walk (Mental/Hard) No default
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Pressure Points (Mental/Hard) Defau
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Darts (Physical/Easy) Defaults to D
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MAGICAL SKILLS Alchemy/TL (Mental/V
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MEDICAL SKILLS Chi Treatment (Menta
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OUTDOOR SKILLS Animal Guise (Mental
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Revolution. It does not automatical
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Planetology can be used in place of
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The GM may give a further +1 bonus
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Note that some maneuvers are listed
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Just Watch This One! Expanding the
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Just Watch This One! (Continued) Te
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Just Watch This One! (Continued) Mu
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The Spin Kick allows a simultaneous
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The Rule of 12 If evolution or the
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Countervailing Attribute Modifiers:
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Player-Created Races Although the c
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PERSONALITY TRAITS Stefan Jones ori
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APPENDIX 2 — ADVANTAGE LISTINGS T
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Name Cost Page Reference Peripheral
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Name Cost Page Reference Hidebound
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- K - Kicking maneuver, 170. Knacks
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