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Claws 15/25/40/55 points The character has claws. Normally, all hands and feet are modified. For 15 points, the claws do an extra +2 damage on any punch or kick (including martial arts attacks), and on any attack made with a "Generic" Striker (see below). For 25 points, you have sharp claws. These convert a kick or punch's crushing damage to cutting damage. For 40 points, the claws are talons six to 12 inches long, and do both thrust/impaling and swing/cutting damage. For 55 points, the claws are long talons, and do both thrust+2/impaling and swing+2/cutting damage. "Generic" Strikers 5 points If a limb or other body part can strike an aimed blow (rolling vs. DX) but can neither manipulate nor be used for walking (e.g., horns or a smashing tail), it is a Striker. Unmodified Strikers do thrust/crushing damage, in close combat only. Increasing Damage: To increase the damage done by a Striker, the Claws advantage (above) may be added. Note that this advantage only has to be purchased once - no matter how many limbs or Strikers it modifies! Horns Variable Horns are bought as "Generic" Strikers (see above). Cost can vary widely, depending on reach and damage. Horns with a reach of at least 1 hex can be used to parry blows at half DX. Two examples: Butting horns: Blunt, heavy horns used for thrust/crushing attacks. Often used during charges. Reach C. 5 points. Long tusks: Found only on human-sized or larger races, these are large, pointed horns that can do a thrust/impaling attack or swing/cutting attack. Reach <strong>1.</strong> 50 points. Spear 30 points This is a long, sharp horn or stinger that can only be used to attack into a front hex (e.g., a rhinoceros horn, designed to be used in charges). Damage is thrust+1 impaling. Reach <strong>1.</strong> Spines 5/15 points These are sharp spines located on strategic parts of the body, like those of a porcupine or an echidna. Spines are defensive weaponry, designed to discourage attackers. Spines cannot be used actively, but there is a DX-4 chance (DX-2 if attacked from the rear) of hitting any given foe on each turn of close combat. Foes who attempt to grapple a being with spines are hit automatically; foes who attempt a slam are hit for maximum damage automatically! Note that the Venom advantage (p. 71) can be used with spines. Short spines: One or two inches long. Do ld- 2 impaling damage. Reach C. 5 points. Long spines: One or two feet long. Do 1d impaling damage. Reach C. 15 points. Teeth 0/5/10 points Teeth do damage as described on p. B140. Normally, they are good in close combat only. Blunt teeth: Like those of most herbivores. Do crushing damage only. Figure damage using the table on p. B140, but halve actual ST. 0 points. Sharp teeth: Like those of most carnivores. Do cutting damage based on ST, as per p. B140. 5 points. Fangs: Like those of the sabertooth tiger. Do impaling damage based on ST, as per p. B140.10 points. Subsonic Hearing 0/5 points You can hear very low frequency sounds (under 40 Hz). You can hear the rumble of distant storms, vibrations from incipient earthquakes and the approach of stampeding herd beasts, armored vehicles or dragons. This gives a +1 to Tracking skill rolls. As a creature's sole form of hearing, this is worth no points. As an adjunct to normal hearing, it is worth 5 points. Subsonic Speech 0/20 points This advantage can only be taken as a racial advantage. The race can converse using extremely low-frequency sounds. This advantage is essentially just a combination of the Secret Communication and Subsonic Hearing advantages. It is slightly cheaper because subsonic speech is very slow (halfspeed), and even if the frequency is increased into the normal range, subsonic speakers are at -2 when using Fast-Talk and other skills where versatile speaking is important. However, subsonic speech does carry a long way (twice as far). There is no cost if Subsonic Speech is the race's only form of communication. Super Climbing 3 points/level Each level of Super Climbing adds 1 to a character's Move when climbing. This can be combined with the Clinging advantage (p. 51). Super Flight 20 points/level Each level of Super Flight doubles your speed when you are flying, just as Super Running increases running speed. See p. B139 for the effects of flight in combat. 67
Super Jump 10 points/level Each level of Super Jump doubles the distance that you can leap. Additionally, if you fall a distance less than or equal to your maximum high jump (p. B88), you take no damage. This can be increased by five yards with a successful Acrobatics roll (p.B131). Your Move during a super jump is your normal ground Move or 20% of your maximum long jump, whichever is greater. Thus, your maximum normal jump can never take more than 5 turns. E.g., if your maximum jump is 100 yards, your Move is 20 in any jump (or your normal ground Move, if that's higher). You can jump at a foe in order to Slam him; figure the Slam at your maximum jump speed! You don't need to make a separate roll to jump accurately. (Note that if you used Bouncing to bounce into someone, you do have to roll.) Super Running 20 points/level Each level of Super Running doubles your Move when you are running in a relatively straight line. Your combat Move and Dodge are unaffected, but anyone targeting you with a missile or thrown weapon will subtract a speed modifier from his skill roll if you are running! Figure turning radius as for Flight (p. B139). In many cases it will be best to stop running for a turn, change directions, and start running again! Example: A character with a Move of 8 buys four levels of Super Running, which costs 80 points. He can now run at 8 x (2 x 2 x 2 x 2) = 128 yards per second (262 mph!). Super Swimming 10 points/level Prerequisite: Amphibious (p. 49) Every level of Super Swimming doubles your swimming speed, just as Super Flight increases your flying speed. Teeth See Strikers, p. 67. Telescopic Vision 0/5/10 points 6 points/level You can "zoom in" with your eyes, allowing you to outperform even the best binoculars. Power is figured as for Microscopic Vision (p. 60). The normal horizon (on flat ground) for a round, Earth-sized planet is three miles. Beyond the horizon, the curvature of the world will block Telescopic Vision. 360-Degree Vision 25 points You have a complete 360-degree field of vision. If you know the Karate skill, you can attack foes behind you at no penalty. Otherwise, treat "off-hand" hexes (typically left) and back hexes as -2 to hit (because of the clumsiness of the attack, not becaus e you can't see the target). Note that every being with bilateral symmetry is assumed to have an "off" side unless the Ambidexterity advantage is bought; however, the GM can rule that certain tentacled or multi-limbed races do not have off-hand hexes. You suffer no penalties when defending against attacks from the side or rear, and opponents gain no bonuses when attacking from behind. Extra eyes are merely a special effect of this advantage - you may possess it and have any number of eyes and the point cost remains the same. Special limitation: Eyestalks. Your expanded field of vision is due to flexible eyestalks. Normally, these cannot be armored and can be targeted by any swung cutting weapon at -6. Damage over HT/3 cripples the eyestalk; on a failed HT roll, the eyestalk is severed! -20%. This limitation can also be applied to racial Peripheral Vision. Transference 40 points Transference is only available to parasitic beings. It allows the character to transfer to a new host body at any time through an exchange of bodily fluids. The victim gets a single HT roll to resist, at +2 if the parasite was merely delivered by a kiss, and -2 or worse if delivered through intimate contact or injection. Failure indicates infection. A character with Transference starts with the ST, DX and HT of his present host, but has his own IQ. If he changes hosts later on, then IQ and mental advantages go with him, but his new physical capabilities are those of the host. Skills are a special case. When he infects a new host, the parasite may choose to forget any of his currently-known skills. The points that this frees up may be used to learn any Physical skills known by the new host. No new Physical skill may be learned at better than (host's level) -!. For example, if the parasite does not know Acrobatics, while the host knew it at DX+3, he can pick up the skill at DX+2 ...if he has enough free points to learn it at that level. Mental skills may not be gained this way. The character has foggy access to his host's memories for the first few hours of the takeover - enough to learn its name and its daily routine, but not enough to learn any skills. After that, he has no access to the host's memories. To remember a specific fact from the host's memories, he rolls vs. IQ, at -1 for every hour since the takeover, and further penalties (GM's discretion) for complex information. Only one attempt is allowed for any one memory! If the host had psionic abilities, the parasite retains the power, but not the skill. However, once in a psionic body, he can learn skills; if the host knew it was a psi, then so will the parasite. These skills, once learned, can be carried into future hosts, but cannot be used unless the host possesses the appropriate power. Transformation Variable You must change from your normal human form to a "super" form before you can use any of your metahuman powers (anything but mundane advantages and skills). This is a special case of the Multiple Forms rule (p. 62). Your mundane form can be built on a maximum of 100 points (or whatever is normal for your campaign). Unlike regular Multiple Forms, however, all the advantages, skills, etc. that you know in your mundane form are available in your transformed state as well. As the game progresses, earned character points can be spent to improve either your mundane form or your metaform. There are four types of Transformation, each with its own point cost. a) You can switch instantly from either form to the other (by saying a magic word, hitting your crutch on the ground, tapping your heels together, etc.). This is a 15-point advantage, useful primarily because it allows a fantastically quick change of identity. If you have the Costume advantage (p. 52), you switch instantly into your costume. b) You can switch instantly from either form to the other, but can only change to metaform a limited number of times per day. This costs a base 15 points for the instant transformation, but you may apply the Limited Use limitation (p. 111) to this point cost. c) The transformation is not instant. Simply apply the Takes Extra Time (p. 112) limitation to the 15-point cost for instant transformation. 68
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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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The Much-Maligned Will: Optional Wi
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The Much-Maligned Will: Optional Wi
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Extra Effort Lifting with High ST T
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Optional Rule: Treating Figured Qua
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Page 20 and 21: NEW ADVANTAGES The following are al
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Page 26 and 27: Favor Variable You saved someone's
Page 28 and 29: A character with the Iron Hand will
Page 30 and 31: Pious 5 points Some people have an
Page 32 and 33: Tenure 5 points This social advanta
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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
Page 44 and 45: failure, you will believe your ance
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
Page 54 and 55: the presence of the odor and for 30
Page 56 and 57: one-handed task (e.g., swinging a s
Page 58 and 59: You must buy the ST to support your
Page 60 and 61: No Vitals 5 points You have no part
Page 62 and 63: Type of Drone Mindless: -10 points.
Page 64 and 65: Passive Defense 25 points/level up
Page 66 and 67: Special limitation: One class of da
Page 70 and 71: d) The transformation is not instan
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Page 79 and 80: The base value of an Evil Twin is m
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Page 87 and 88: MENTAL DISADVANTAGES Mental disadva
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Page 97 and 98: OCCULT AND PARANORMAL DISADVANTAGES
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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
Page 107 and 108: Unhealing -20/-30 points You do not
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Page 111 and 112: LIMITATIONS Limitations reduce the
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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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Time and fatigue requirements: It t
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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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A critical success automatically ba
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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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Name Type Default Page Reference Na
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Name Type Default age Reference Nam
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- K - Kicking maneuver, 170. Knacks
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