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Cyber-Rejection -10/-25 points Your immune system resists any bionic or cybernetic implant - your body automatically rejects such things as foreign. This includes chip sockets, interface jacks, etc. If you lose any part of your body, it must be replaced with a strap-on prosthesis or a vat-grown clone from your own tissue - otherwise you're out of luck! If implants are relatively uncommon in the campaign (GM's option), this is only a -10 point disadvantage. If the technology is common or necessary to the daily routine, then this is a -25 point disadvantage. Delicate Metabolism -20/-40 points At the -20-point level, this represents a severe, chronic gastrointestinal disorder. Your metabolism is more delicate than that of a normal human - you require a special diet and filtered water. If you consume normal food and drink, it will sustain you, but you must make a HT roll. Failure means loss of 1 HT due to nausea, cramps and illness. Critical failure means loss of 1d HT. The cost of your special diet is twice that of normal food, and may be unavailable in some areas (especially in regions with TLs below 7). The -40-point level is only appropriate for constructs or biological androids. You cannot survive on normal food at all. Special nutrients are only available from your creator, generally at a cost of 100 times the cost of feeding a normal human. For someone else to synthesize it will be a difficult task requiring Biochemistry skill - see Reinventing Invention, p. 125). Most normal foods make you ill as described above. Dependency Variable This disadvantage isn't as unusual as it may first appear. With the GM's permission, characters who suffer from chronic illnesses may take this disadvantage to indicate that they depend upon a drug for survival. You require some special substance to survive. Without it, you weaken and die! The value of a Dependency depends on how common the substance is: Rare (cannot be bought; must be found or made): -30 points. Infrequent (very expensive and hard to find): -20 points. Occasional (expensive, somewhat hard to find): -10 points. Common (available almost anywhere): -5 points. Illegal: adds -5 to any of the above. This value is modified by the frequency with which you must receive the item: Constantly: Five times listed value. You must carry and use the substance at all times - for example, an exotic atmosphere. Lose 1 HT per minute without the substance. Hourly: Four times listed value. Lose 1 HT per ten minutes after missing an hourly dose. Daily: Three times listed value. Lose 1 HT per hour after missing a daily dose. Weekly: Twice listed value. Lose 1 HT per six hours after missing a weekly dose. Monthly: Listed value. Lose 1 HT per day after missing a monthly dose. If lack of the item merely causes you to lose your metahuman powers as soon as you miss a dose, regaining those powers when you get the substance again, cut the value of the disadvantage by half. Special limitation: You age unnaturally as well as losing HT. For each HT point lost, you age two years (even if you are normally Unaging). -10 points. Disembodied Brain See No Physical Body, p. 83. Disturbing Voice -100 points -10 points Your voice is naturally unpleasant, or (for robots and those using speech aids to compensate for the Mute disadvantage) perhaps it just sounds obviously artificial. You may choose any explanation for this (your voice may be raspy, hollow, or high and squeaky, or your speech may simply be monotonous and lack inflection), but in game terms, the effects are the same as the Stuttering disadvantage (p. B29), although you do not necessarily stutter. This disadvantage is the opposite of the Voice advantage - you cannot take both. Extra Sleep -3 points/level You need more sleep than most people: one additional hour per day per level of this disadvantage. Thus, you must go to bed early, or sleep in, for a few hours each day. The GM should remember that these characters have less time each day to work on their projects or to study. A character can take a maximum of four levels of Extra Sleep. Note: This disadvantage should be used only if the advanced rules for sleep and sleeplessness (pp. CII173-174) are being used. Free Sick -10 points This disadvantage is only available in campaigns where inertialess drives are used as a common means of travel. You are miserable under "free" (inertialess) conditions. This disadvantage is handled identically to Space Sickness (p. 84), substituting "inertialess" for "weightless". G-Intolerance -10/-20 points This disadvantage means that a character (or race!) can function well under a narrower range of gravities than a normal human being. Normal human G-tolerance is measured in increments of 0.2 G. For an increment of 0.1 G, pay -10 points. For an increment of 0.05 G, pay -20 points. Hunchback -10 points This spinal deformity is not crippling, but it is restrictive. The hunchback cannot hide his deformity, and will usually be noticeable in a crowd; he is also likely to be considered physically unappealing. A person with this disadvantage must pay double (10 points) for Attractive appearance (and that means a remarkably pleasant face and manner), and cannot take better 81
than that (in fact, he is more likely to be Unattractive). As well, his physical attributes cannot be better than ST 15, DX 14, or HT 16, reflecting the problems of a slightly deformed physique. His height should be reduced by 6" if rolled randomly. He can wear normal clothing or armor, but it will fit badly; to look well-dressed, specially-made garb is a necessity. Superstitious NPCs will react to a hunchback at -1, as the affliction is often regarded as sinister. However, a hunchback acting as an entertainer - especially telling jokes, juggling, etc. - gets a +2 reaction from most audiences (a mixture of sympathy and comic effect). Increased Life Support -10 points/level See p. 102. Like Dependency (p. 81), this disadvantage may be used to represent the special requirements of those with cer tain chronic illnesses. Under these conditions, it may be taken by normal humans with the GM's permission. Insomniac -10 or -15 points You go through periods where falling asleep is very difficult. Each night during an insomnia episode, the character must make a Will roll. If he succeeds, he falls asleep easily, and this episode is over. If he misses the roll, he loses two hours of sleep that night, and the episode will continue another night. On a critical failure, the victim gets no sleep that night. Once an episode ends, the GM secretly rolls 3d to determine how many days until the start of the next episode (at the -15 point level, he rolls 2d-l). However, whenever the insomniac suffers prolonged stress, the GM can require a Will roll; a failure means an episode starts immediately. ("Ever since we entered the Dark Lord's realm, Galgar has been having trouble sleeping.") Killjoy This is treated as a mental disadvantage; see p. 9<strong>1.</strong> Klutz -15 points -5/-15 points This is a silly disadvantage . . . maybe. Some GMs may wish to limit it to "silly" campaigns. Still, we all know people who are like this. This disadvantage has two levels. A regular Klutz (-5 points) must make a DX roll to get through the day without doing a pratfall, dropping books or knocking over shelves filled with fragile items. Regular klutziness is rarely life-threatening, but is very inconvenient, and often expensive. The GM should be creative in inventing minor torments. Klutzes should especially avoid laboratories, explosives, china shops, etc. At the -15-point level, the character is a Total Klutz. Besides the daily DX roll to avoid minor hazards, a failure on any DX or DX-based skill roll is automatically a critical failure. Total Klutzes usually have very high auto insurance rates . . . A character with either level of this disadvantage may not have a DX above 13. Light Sleeper -5 points You do not tend to sleep as soundly, or as easily, as normal people do. When you are sleeping in an uncomfortable place, or if there is more then the slightest noise, a Will roll is required in order to fall asleep. If the roll is failed, another attempt can be made after an hour of trying to fall asleep. Light sleepers usually wake up if there is activity going on around them. The GM should require a Will roll, minus any Alertness, in order for the light sleeper to continue sleeping when people are moving around them. In some cases this can actually be to the character's advantage, but usually he will be waking up each time an inconsiderate companion changes the watch, or comes home from a night on the town. Light sleepers will often suffer temporary penalties due to the quality of their sleep. Migraine -5 to -20 points You are plagued by severe headaches that hamper your life. They can happen as often as once a day, and while they last your abilities are reduced and you are not a fun person to be with. A bad case is a serious condition; it can be truly crippling. Once a day, roll against the Migraine's frequency of appear - ance number (see below). If you roll below the number, your character suffers a migraine attack. DX and IQ are reduced by 1d; Will rolls to resist Bad Temper, Berserk and similar disadvantages are reduced by the same amount - someone in pain is more likely to lose his cool. After the onset of the headache, the GM rolls against the character's HT: if the roll is made by 3 or more, the attack lasts 2d minutes; a roll made by less than three results on the headache lasting one hour. On a failed HT roll, the migraine lasts an hour; at the end of the hour a new roll is made as above. On a critical failure, the headache lasts ld+2 hours! Cost of the disadvantage is based on the Migraine's frequency of appearance: Infrequent: The Migraine appears on a roll of 6 or less. -5 points. Common: The Migraine appears on a roll of 8 or less. -10 points. Frequent: The Migraine appears on a roll of 11 or less. -15 points. Constant: The Migraine appears on a roll of 13 or less. -20 points. Missing Digit -2/-5 points You are missing a finger or thumb. The loss of a finger decreases DX in that hand (only) by 1 point; the loss of a thumb decreases DX by 5 points. Motion Sickness -10 points You are miserable whenever you are in a moving vehicle, be it an automobile, train, airplane, balloon, ship or spacecraft. You may never learn any Vehicle skills. A character with Motion Sickness must roll vs. HT as soon as he is aboard a moving vehicle. He vomits on a failure and is incapacitated for the rest of the journey; all die rolls are at -5. On a successful roll, he is merely miserably queasy and suffers a -2 penalty to DX and IQ. On long journeys, the roll must be made once per day. Night Blindness -10 points You are unable to see well in the dark, and you are at a disadvantage in a fight in dim lighting. Double all combat penalties for poor lighting (to a maximum of -10, minimum penalty -3). If you also possess Acute Vision, it is only effective in daylight. You may not possess Night Vision or Dark Vision. No Depth Perception -10 points You lack effective binocular vision and cannot visually judge distances - perhaps because you have only a single, cyclopean eye, or perhaps just because you suffer from an exotic vision disorder. This is the same as the One Eye disadvantage (p. B29), but without the reaction penalty. 82
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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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Fine-Tune Once you have taken exist
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NEW ADVANTAGES The following are al
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This advantage is useful to shamans
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Frequency of Assistance Frequency r
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Favor Variable You saved someone's
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A character with the Iron Hand will
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Pious 5 points Some people have an
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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
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Page 52 and 53: Body of Stone 8 points/level Your b
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Page 60 and 61: No Vitals 5 points You have no part
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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Page 119 and 120: USING SKILLS Two sets of skills nor
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Lifting (Physical/Hard) No default
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Modifiers: All Vision modifiers app
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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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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 age Reference Nam
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