POST-APOCALYPTIC GENRE

By Peter Klevvall

INTRODUCTION
This document is inspired by the four genres presented in the Cypher System Rulebook by Monte
Cook Games and by the absence in that book of the popular post-apocalyptic genre. Presented here
are not just ideas for how the post-apocalyptic world can look like (you probably have good ideas here
yourself), but also some systems and rules to help you get started more quickly. The common theme
is survival, but how that plays out can be very different. Are your players facing a zombie apocalypse
or has the world been left irradiated (or flooded) because of world-spanning nuclear war? These
games will be quite different from each other, but you’ll hopefully find some assistance in building
your particular world in this document regardless of which type of game you make.
What you’ll find here is information on creating and running post-apocalyptic games, tips and
recommendations for player characters, details on allowing mutated, intelligent animals as PCs (and
NPCs for that matter), an alternative way of tracking radiation damage tied to a system of mutations
and defects (i.e. harmful mutations), survival rules, a special section on zombie games, an entire
revised crafting system and more. This is a toolbox that helps you build your world, by providing ideas
and examples.
References to the “CSR” in this document refers to the Cypher System Rulebook, which is required
for use of this product.
This document is intended for GMs, so when I’m addressing you I’m referring to you the GM.

Many thanks to Ryan Chaddock for his insightful input that has improved this product immensely
and to Pierre Savoie for his feedback that has removed numerous spelling and grammatical errors, as
well as corrected a few rules-related errors and inconsistencies.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CREATING A POST-APOCALYPTIC SETTING .............. 3 HIGH TECH EQUIPMENT ....................................... 19

RUNNING A POST-APOCALYPTIC GAME.................. 4 WEAPONS ...............................................................19
POWERED COMBAT SUITS ...........................................20
REGARDING MUTANTS ........................................... 4
MUTATED ANIMALS ............................................. 20
TYPES AND FLAVORS .............................................. 4
RADIATION DAMAGE AND MUTATIONS ............... 23
SUGGESTED ROLES ................................................. 5
MUTATIONS.............................................................24
ROLE DETAILS ............................................................ 5
DEFECTS ..................................................................27
NEW DESCRIPTORS ................................................. 8
SURVIVAL ............................................................. 29
MUTATED ................................................................. 9
HUNTING ................................................................30
PICKY ....................................................................... 9
FORAGING ...............................................................30
SUGGESTED FOCI .................................................... 9 DEHYDRATION, STARVATION AND RECOVERY ..................30
NEW FOCI ............................................................. 10 ZOMBIES .............................................................. 31
COBBLES STUFF TOGETHER ......................................... 10 INFECTION ...............................................................31
OWNS THE ROAD/SKY/WAVES..................................... 11 TARGETED ATTACKS ...................................................32
SCROUNGES ............................................................ 12
WEATHER ............................................................. 32
SUGGESTED CREATURES AND NPCS...................... 12
EQUIPMENT LIST .................................................. 34
NEW CREATURES .................................................. 12
CREATE YOUR OWN MONSTER ..................................... 13
CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS .................................. 13
CRAFTING ............................................................. 14
CRAFTING LEXICON ................................................... 14
HOW TO BUILD ITEMS................................................ 15
JURY-RIGGING .......................................................... 16
GUN CONSTRUCTION AND MODS ................................. 17
VEHICLE CONSTRUCTION AND MODS............................. 18

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 Post-Apocalyptic genre
The post-apocalypse is a harsh world. The
weather can be unpredictable or suffer from an
unforgivingly scorching sun. The people are
egocentric and violent, putting their own
immediate survival at the forefront. The
resources are scarce and equipment prone to
breaking. Civilization has fallen and reverted to a
more primitive variant. There are no country-
spanning governments anymore and sphere of
influence normally only extends to a single
settlement or small group of people.
The actual setting for the post-apocalyptic
genre can vary quite a bit, though they all imply
that some sort of catastrophe has taken place - a
large-scale war, world-spanning epidemics or
even nuclear holocaust. Where do your stories
play out? Perhaps you envision the blistering
desert of the Mad Max movies, in particular
Beyond Thunderdome and Fury Road. Or maybe
you picture a cityscape, a major metropolis
devastated by war and left mostly in ruins, as
Boston is pictured in the Fallout 4 videogame by
Bethesda Softworks. Or the world might be
almost intact, but overrun by flesh- and brain-
eating zombies of the Walking Dead comic and
TV-show, or countless other variants. Or perhaps
pollution has gotten out of hand and global
warming have melted the ice caps, flooding the
Earth as in the 1995 movie Waterworld. Or
perhaps the world has regressed over the
centuries since the Apocalypse and finds itself in
the early steam engine era with mutated animals
armed with muskets as playable characters.
There are many options, but when you hear
“post-apocalypse” you probably already have an
idea about what your world will look like.
CREATING A POST-
APOCALYPTIC SETTING
The first thing to decide is what caused the end
of the world, and how long ago it was, as it has
implications for how the world works now. An
epidemic killing 95% of the population leaves
most, if not all, of the technology intact, but
possibly unpowered. On the other hand, world-
wide nuclear devastation leaves little functioning.
Draw inspiration from your own favorite post-
apocalyptic settings and change what irks you.
Make some general decisions about technology.
What is a normal level of technology and what is
considered high-tech? Is there power available
and if so in what form? Perhaps technology
reverted back to the steam age (or an even
more primitive time) and has been rediscovered
over the past couple of centuries, allowing for
muskets and steam engines to be considered the
pinnacle of technological marvel mixed with
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some pre-apocalypse high-tech gadgets. Perhaps
the apocalypse was only a few years or a couple
of decades ago, leaving functional pre-
apocalypse equipment in the world that clashes
with the primitive equipment now being built by
the survivors. Are there survivors from the world
before and, if so, what do they remember?
An advantage when starting to play in a world
after the apocalypse is the limited range of
knowledge of the world by the player characters,
making it easier to start out as both player and
character knowledge might be rather similar.
Communication systems most likely do not work
(but maybe radio can still be used when power is
available) and transportation is either slow or
restricted by a lack of fuel, limiting what the
characters know from the outset. Start small
with just a few settlements and factions and add
to it when the characters outgrow the region.
Another important thing to decide is if you’re
going to allow supernatural powers, which in this
genre we’ll call mutations. If so, are there limits
to what mutations can do or are they
fundamentally magic in another form? Decide
how common mutations and, thus, mutants are.
Does everyone have one or more mutations or
only a select few individuals? These decisions can
limit the special abilities available to player
characters if you decide to restrict mutations or
ban them entirely. Talk to your players and keep
this in mind when they create their characters.
A point to consider is if mutations are only
positive or if mutants suffer from drawbacks
(such as the harmful and distinctive mutations in
the Numenera or the Strange rulebooks, if you
have access to either of those volumes). If
nothing else, perhaps each mutation gives the
mutant a cosmetic defect, such as scaly or
strangely colored skin, unnaturally large or
bulging eyes, fewer or more fingers or other
appearance changes that marks the character as
a mutant. You can consider what spawned
mutations – radiation, evolution or
bioengineering, for example – but it is probably
not important in the game, at least to start with.
Optional rules for this are included in this
document (the section called RADIATION
DAMAGE AND MUTATIONS) as well as rules for
mutated animals as PCs. In addition, you’ll find
survival, zombie infection rules and more below
– pick, choose, modify or ignore as you see fit
and as suits your vision of the post-apocalyptic
world. The stuff presented here are just options.
Perhaps you want to combine elements in
your game? Brilliant! What are the consequences
of that? Perhaps all mutants suffer from physical
degeneration (such as the weird looks defect,
below), making them look like zombies, and
maybe zombies aren’t completely mindless,
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making them harder to distinguish from
mutants? Or packs of zombies roaming a
devastated world short on resources and help,
making the setting even more dangerous.
RUNNING A POST-
APOCALYPTIC GAME
Keep in mind that post-apocalyptic games are
often grounded in our reality, our Earth, and that
brings with it some expectations on how the
world works, both as a society and with regards
to technology. However, a foreign devastated
world with supernatural elements – perhaps a
Mars of John Carter fame – has a lot more in
common with a fantasy setting and can be
treated as such. Assuming “our Earth” and
reality as basis, start reasonably familiar to let
both players and their characters find their feet
in the world before introducing the really weird
stuff (or don’t introduce it at all), let the world
function as expected at the start. However – are
you allowing mutants and mutant abilities? If
you do, explain to the players at least what their
characters know, such as if everyone is basically
a mutant or there has been rumors of people
with strange powers. How are mutants treated
by the rest of the population or are mutants
dominant?
So what do the characters do? The start of a
post-apocalyptic game can be centered around
day-to-day survival. Find food and water, find or
craft equipment (which in turn can require
finding crafting components) and build a shelter
to call home and perhaps even a vehicle in a
technologically sparse setting. In the long run
this probably gets a bit tiresome for most players
and the game should shift focus to be about
world building or something else that interests
your group. Perhaps the characters want to build
a better future or just hoard power for
themselves. That said, keep reminding both the
players and their characters that nothing is easy
in a post-apocalyptic world and things tend to
take a turn for the worse often enough. Unless
your group desires something else, try to keep
things small and focused. Saving the world
belongs more to science fiction and superheroes
(and the fantasy genre, for that matter) than to
a post-apocalyptic game, where survival is a
central and recurring theme.
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REGARDING MUTANTS
Strange powers and phenomenon have
manifested in the years after the apocalypse,
among humans, animals and plants, giving them
abilities people didn’t use to have, turning them
into mutants. In some places these mutants are
feared, in others revered and in still others they
are just a natural part of life. In certain places
their powers are the reason for keeping them at
the bottom of the social ladder (or outside it
entirely), in others it is these abilities that keeps
them in power and in still others mutants live as
equals (such as it is) with their neighbors. It is
easy to add conflict between mutants and normal
people. Just look to our own world, as well as
fiction (such as the comics and movies about the
X-Men), for inspiration if you need it.
Many mutants are like normal people, living
normal lives and having the same worries as
everyone else, just with an odd ability or two.
Others, however, make their mutations the
centerpiece of their lives. These mutants often
have a wide selection of powers and define their
lives through their mutations.
In game terms any special ability from a
character’s type, flavor, description or focus that
is supernatural to our eyes is a mutation, making
the character a mutant. There are no game rule
differences between normal people and mutants,
but this document includes rules for mutations
that exist on top of the normal system of special
abilities.
TYPES AND FLAVORS
As mentioned above, post-apocalypse games are
usually grounded in our reality. As such, you
might want to prohibit using the Adept Type.
However, you should instead allow the new
Descriptor Mutated for games using the mutation
rules further below. See the section REGARDING
MUTANTS just above for a few more words on
how mutants can be represented in your setting.
Some games, such as a zombie apocalypse
game, might not be suitable for mutants at all.
Just prohibit the use of the Mutated Descriptor in
those cases and consider limiting what special
abilities are available to PCs, as you see fit.
All flavors apart from the Technology flavor
are used in this setting, but the Skills and
Knowledge flavor is modified to additionally
include the following special abilities from the
Technology flavor. This is included in the lists
below, where suitable.
Tier 1
Tech skills (selection of cobbling, crafting,
identifying, jury-rigging, machines,
piloting, repairing, vehicle driving)
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Tinker (training in cobbling applies) The shades have learnt that to survive you
Tier 2 have to be able to avoid notice and you have to
Machine efficiency be able to defend yourself.
The urchins are the kids that live in the
shadows of grown-up society, though they can
be adults as well. They’re great at not being
seen, even when watched, and possess a wide
array of skills.
The warlords challenge the leaders with
force of arms, often ruling through strength of
force and personal combat skills rather than
honeyed words and empty promises.
The workers suffer through life, doing the
SUGGESTED ROLES actual work that nobody else does. It’s a
thankless job, but somebody’s gotta do it and
As noted above, all types and flavors, except the
you are better at it than most.
Technology flavor, are used in this setting. These
are sample roles and their suggested type (and ROLE DETAILS
possible flavor). As noted elsewhere, any special
ability that appears supernatural to us normally The entries below detail the changes to special
makes the character a mutant. abilities available for each of the types listed in
the table above. You can always change or
SUGGESTED ROLES restrict the lists, including the standard ones, if
Role Type and flavor you feel certain special abilities don’t find your
Bodyguard Explorer with Combat flavor game.
Cobbler Explorer with Skills and
Knowledge flavor BODYGUARD
Gladiator Warrior Bodyguards are Explorers with the Combat
Healer Speaker with Skills and Flavor. The following list details which special
Knowledge flavor abilities should be removed from the Explorer’s
Leader Speaker list and which should be added from the Combat
Nomad Explorer Flavor list.
Shade Warrior with Stealth flavor Tier 1
Urchin Explorer with Stealth flavor No changes.
Warlord Speaker with Combat flavor Tier 2
Worker Warrior with Skills and Add from Combat Flavor
Knowledge flavor Bash
Trained without Armor
The bodyguards protect those that are more Remove from Explorer Type
important to the group, whoever that may be. Range Increase
Some work for profit, others for pride or a cause. Wreck
But mostly profit. Tier 3
The cobblers cobble together whatever is at Add from Combat Flavor
hand and build something new or improve on Skill with Defense
something already there. The cobblers can also Successive Attack
fix your shoes while they’re at it. Remove from Explorer Type
The gladiators are trained fighters. Some Run and Fight
are artists performing in arenas, others are Wrest from Chance
simply hired thugs, but all are deadly. Tier 4
The healers tend to your nicks, bruises, your Add from Combat Flavor
broken limbs and that pierced artery. They don’t Daring Escape
fix decapitations, though. Remove from Explorer Type
The leaders like to think that they’re the Read the Signs
pinnacle of society, the glue that keeps groups Tier 5
and settlements together and the order in a Add from Combat Flavor
chaotic land. They are not wrong. Experienced Defender
The nomads roam the countryside, the Hard Target
wasteland and the destroyed urban sprawl. They Remove from Explorer Type
act as scouts, scavengers and guides. Jump Attack

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Take Command GLADIATOR

Tier 6 Use the Warrior type as presented in the CSR.
Add from Combat Flavor
Mastery with Defense HEALER
Remove from Explorer Type Healers are Speakers with the Skills and
Spin Attack Knowledge Flavor. The following list details which
special abilities should be removed from the
COBBLER Speaker’s list and which should be added from
Cobblers are Explorers with the Skills and the Skills and Knowledge (S&K) Flavor list.
Knowledge Flavors. The following list details Tier 1
which special abilities should be removed from Add from S&K Flavor
the Explorer’s list and which should be added Interaction Skills
from the Skills and Knowledge (S&K) Flavor list. Investigative Skills
Tier 1 Knowledge Skills
Add from S&K Flavor Remove from Speaker Type
Tech skills (see TYPES AND FLAVORS Aggression
above) Erase Memories
Tinker (see TYPES AND FLAVORS above) Terrifying Presence
Remove from Explorer Type Tier 2
Fleet of Foot Add from S&K Flavor
Muscles of Iron Extra Skill
Tier 2 Understanding
Add from S&K Flavor Remove from Speaker Type
Machine Efficiency (see TYPES AND Unexpected Betrayal
FLAVORS above) Tier 3
Tool Mastery Add from S&K Flavor
Understanding Flex Skill
Remove from Explorer Type Remove from Speaker Type
Quick Recovery Accelerate
Range Increase Grand Deception
Stand Watch Tier 4
Tier 3 Add from S&K Flavor
Add from S&K Flavor Quick Wits
Improvise Specialization
Remove from Explorer Type Remove from Speaker Type
Ignore the Pain Confounding Banter
Tier 4 Psychosis
Add from S&K Flavor Tier 5
Specialization Add from S&K Flavor
Remove from Explorer Type Multiple Skills
Capable Warrior Read the Signs
Tier 5 Remove from Speaker Type
Add from S&K Flavor Flee
Multiple Skills Foul Aura
Remove from Explorer Type Tier 6
Physically Gifted No changes.
Tier 6
No changes.
LEADER
Use the Speaker type as presented in the CSR.

NOMAD
Nomads functions as Explorers normally do, but
add the special ability Travel skills (as per Skills
and Knowledge Flavor Tier 1) to the Nomad’s
Tier 1, while removing Block from the same Tier.

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SHADE URCHIN
Shades are Warriors with the Stealth Flavor. The Urchins are Explorers with the Stealth Flavor.
following list details which special abilities should The following list details which special abilities
be removed from the Warrior’s list and which should be removed from the Explorer’s list and
should be added from the Stealth Flavor list. which should be added from the Stealth Flavor
Tier 1 list.
Add from Stealth Flavor Tier 1
Fleet of Foot Add from Stealth Flavor
Stealth Skills Legerdemain
Remove from Warrior Type Stealth Skills
Control the Field Remove from Explorer Type
Pierce Muscles of Iron
Tier 2 Practiced in Armor
Add from Stealth Flavor Tier 2
Find an Opening Add from Stealth Flavor
Impersonate Contortionist
Surprise Strike Get Away
Remove from Warrior Type Sense Ambush
Chop Remove from Explorer Type
Mighty Blow Enable Others
Crush Range Increase
Tier 3 Wreck
Add from Stealth Flavor Tier 3
Evanesce Add from Stealth Flavor
From the Shadows Daring Escape
Seize Opportunity Inner Defense
Remove from Warrior Type Remove from Explorer Type
Fury Experienced with Armor
Reaction Stone Breaker
Spray Tier 4
Tier 4 Add from Stealth Flavor
Add from Stealth Flavor Preternatural Senses
Ambusher Tumbling Moves
Debilitating Strike Remove from Explorer Type
Remove from Warrior Type Expert
Minor to Major Tough as Nails
Opening Gambit Tier 5
Tier 5 Add from Stealth Flavor
Add from Stealth Flavor Mask
Assassinate Uncanny Luck
Mask Remove from Explorer Type
Remove from Warrior Type Jump Attack
Arc Spray Take Command
Improved Success Tier 6
Tier 6 Add from Stealth Flavor
Add from Stealth Flavor Spring Away
Exploit Advantage Thief’s Luck
Remove from Warrior Type Remove from Explorer Type
Shooting Gallery Mastery with Armor
Spin Attack Spin Attack

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WARLORD WORKER
Warlords are Speakers with the Combat Flavor. Workers are Warriors with the Skills and
The following list details which special abilities Knowledge Flavor. The following list details which
should be removed from the Speaker’s list and special abilities should be removed from the
which should be added from the Combat Flavor Warrior’s list and which should be added from
list. the Skills and Knowledge (S&K) Flavor list.
Tier 1 Tier 1
Add from Combat Flavor Add from S&K Flavor
Danger Sense Physical Skills
Practiced in Armor Tech Skills
Practiced with Light and Medium Travel Skills
Weapons Remove from the Warrior Type
Remove from Speaker Type Control the Field
Encouragement Overwatch
Spin Identity Quick Draw
Understanding Tier 2
Tier 2 Add from S&K Flavor
Add from Combat Flavor Extra Skill
Pierce Tool Mastery
Thrust Remove from the Warrior Type
Remove from Speaker Type Chop
Babel Crush
Speed Recovery Tier 3
Tier 3 Add from S&K Flavor
Add from Combat Flavor Flex Skill
Practiced with All Weapons Remove from the Warrior Type
Skill with Defense Spray
Successive Attack Tier 4
Remove from Speaker Type Add from S&K Flavor
Blend In Multiple Skills
Mind Reading Specialization
Oratory Remove from the Warrior Type
Tier 4 Opening Gambit
Add from Combat Flavor Snipe
Capable Warrior Tier 5
Spray Add from S&K Flavor
Remove from Speaker Type Multiple Skills
Confounding Banter Remove from the Warrior Type
Suggestion Arc Spray
Tier 5 Tier 6
Add from Combat Flavor No changes.
Experienced Defender
Parry
Remove from Speaker Type
Font of Inspiration
Stimulate
Tier 6
Add from Combat Flavor
Mastery with Armor
Mastery with Defense
Remove from Speaker Type
Inspiring Success
True Senses

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NEW DESCRIPTORS PICKY

Below you’ll find a pair of descriptors that are It’s not really that you’re picky, you have
suitable to post-apocalyptic games. sensitive taste buds and food, in general, just
doesn’t taste all that well. All the good cooks
MUTATED must’ve died in the apocalypse. Fortunately,
your body has adapted.
If you own the Numenera or the Strange core
You gain the following characteristics:
rule books, this descriptor replaces the mutant
Critical: +2 to your Intellect Pool.
descriptor listed on pages 123 and 240,
Choice cuts: Being picky with what you eat
respectively, in the sections on mutations.
and drink has adapted your body to survive on
half the normal rations of food and water each
There are mutants and then there are mutants.
day. Enabler.
You belong to the latter category. You might be
Sensitive taste buds: Your refined taste buds
human or you might be an already mutated
are sensitive and you can easily taste poisoned
animal, but whatever is the cause of mutations
and spoilt food. Lower the difficulty of detecting
in the world has gripped you tighter than normal.
poison by tasting by two steps. Enabler.
You gain the following characteristics:
Initial Link to the Starting Adventure:
Mutated: One or two random mutations.
From the following list of options, choose how
Obviously Mutated: Gain the Weird Looks
you became involved in the first adventure.
defect. If you chose to start with two mutations,
1. You came upon another PC when
instead of just one, you also get a random defect
travelling through the wilderness who was low on
on top of the Weird Looks defect.
food and water. Since you don’t need much, you
See the section RADIATION DAMAGE AND
shared what you had and you’ve stayed together
MUTATIONS for details on mutations, defects and
since.
how to randomly generate them.
2. You achieved some fame in a local
Initial Link to the Starting Adventure:
community after crossing an inhospitable place,
From the following list of options, choose how
such as a scorching desert, that no one had
you became involved in the first adventure.
crossed on foot before. Some, possibly one or
1. You saved another PC by using your
more other PCs, look up to you as a sort of hero
mutation.
and an expert on wilderness survival.
2. The other PCs protected you from a mob
3. You lived on the streets of a small, poor
that was after you because of your mutations
community, living off scraps and stolen morsels.
and defects.
When another PC left the community you tagged
3. You found yourself in a difficult situation
along in their tracks.
together with the other PCs and helped each
4. You serve a gang leader or otherwise
other out. In a harsh world, all help counts.
important person - another PC - as a food tester.
4. One of the other PCs found you near
You still follow that person around.
death from starvation or thirst in the wilderness
and helped you back on your feet.

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Stands Like a Bastion

SUGGESTED FOCI Steals 2
When using mutants and mutations, remember Throws with Deadly Accuracy
that any focus with a supernatural element Wears A Sheen of Ice
makes the character a mutant. If you want a Wields Two Weapons at Once
world that is free from supernatural elements Works Miracles
you will probably want to restrict this list even Works the Back Alleys
more or explain such abilities in other ways. Works the System
Note that some of these foci may be from Would Rather Be Reading
other Cypher system books, such as the
Numenera and the Strange lines. Foci without a
1 Detailed in the Strange corebook
comment are taken from the Cypher system
2 Detailed in the Strange Character Options
rulebook.
3 Detailed in Cypher system Expanded Worlds
4
Adapts to Any Environment 1 Detailed in Numenera character Options 2
Aspires to Be Posthuman 2
5 Detailed in Worlds Numberless and Strange
Awakens Dangerous Psychic Talent 1
Blazes with Radiance
Carries A Quiver NEW FOCI
Collects Bounties 3
Commands Mental Powers COBBLES STUFF TOGETHER
Controls Beasts For games using the crafting rules presented
Crafts Illusions below, replace the Focus Crafts Unique
Crafts Unique Objects Objects from the CSR with this Focus.
Defends the Weak
Doesn’t Do Much In a world scarce with resources and devoid of
Drives Like a Maniac 3 knowledge from before the apocalypse you know
Employs Magnetism how to put two and two together to make five.
Entertains Where others see trash and uselessness, you see
Excels Physically 2 treasures and opportunity. When everyone else
Explores Dark Places seems bent on destruction, you instead create
Fights Dirty things with whatever you have on hand, from
Focuses Mind Over Matter curious healing salves to grenades and hand
Fuses Flesh and Steel guns to actual, functioning vehicles. To your eyes
Hunts Nonhumans there’s no shortage of raw materials in the world
Hunts Outcasts and only your imagination sets limits to what you
Hunts with Great Skill can build.
Infiltrates Connection: Choose one of the following.
Interprets the Law
1. Pick one other PC. The character has an
Leads
Learns Quickly 3 extra item that is level 4 or less and Expensive
Lives in the Wilderness or cheaper that you’ve built for her. (She
Lives on the Road 4 chooses the item.)
Looks for Trouble 2. Pick one other PC. You built an item for
Masters Defense her some time ago, but it broke down
Masters Foot and Fist 5
embarrassingly quickly. You now owe her
Masters Weaponry
Metes Out Justice another item of your choice that is at least
Moves Like a Cat Expensive.
Moves Like the Wind 3. Pick one other PC. He has commissioned
Murders you to create something for him. You’ve already
Needs No Weapons been paid but haven’t yet completed the item.
Negotiates Matters of Life and Death 3 4. Pick one other PC. He has brought you a
Never Says Die
number of materials, but you haven’t paid for
Operates Undercover
Performs Feats of Strength them yet, either in currency or an item.
Regenerates Tissue 1 Additional Equipment: You begin the game
Rides the Lightning with a bag of level 4 tools and two chems.
Slays Monsters
Solves Mysteries

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Minor Effect Suggestion (item building):
Any rolls you make regarding the built item gain
a +1 bonus for twenty-four hours.
Major Effect Suggestion (item building):
Any rolls you make regarding the built item gain
a +2 bonus for twenty-four hours.
Tier 1: Crafter. You are trained in crafting or
cobbling. Enabler.
Chems Master. You can identify and use the
material chems. Enabler.
Tier 2: Master Identifier. Same as CSR ability
on page 116.
Circuits Master. You can identify and use the
material circuits. Enabler.
Tier 3: Tinkerer. Same as CSR ability on page
116.
Quick Work (3+ Intellect points). Same as
CSR ability on page 116.
Tier 4: Experienced Crafter. You are
specialized in either crafting, cobbling or
identifying as long as you are already trained in
that skill. Enabler.
Cyphersmith. Same as CSR ability on page
116.
Tier 5: Innovator. Same as CSR ability on page
116.
Tier 6: Crafting Master. You can build items of
pre-war quality, as long as you have access to
suitable tools and machines in addition to all
required materials.
OWNS THE
ROAD/SKY/WAVES
You have a connection to your vehicle that some
might consider inappropriate, but when you
strap in you feel complete and as one with it.
Every bump in the road, every wave or every
gust of wind feeds your hunger and your
instincts process it all, giving you the edge
against your less skilled opponents.
You are most likely either a flamboyant person,
cocky and self-assured, who dresses to match or
you are the direct opposite, with a quiet
demeanor, lulling others into disregarding you
and then letting your skills speak for themselves.
Connection: Choose one of the following.
1. You were hired by another PC for
transportation to a distant settlement.
2. You accidentally ran into another PC and
got them to a healer. You still feel guilty about it
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– it was your fault – so you still drive the other
PC around.
3. You act as a courier, transporting people
and items on order. You delivered something to
another PC that upset them.
4. You were part of a band of bandits, but
are now on the run from them, looking to make
a better life. You recently ran into the other PCs.
Additional Equipment: Junk skiff, car,
motorcycle or rotoblade as well as repair tools.
Minor Effect Suggestion: You can drive an
additional 15 meters (50 feet) this round.
Major Effect Suggestion: You can take an
immediate extra action related to driving your
vehicle.
Tier 1: Chauffeur. You are trained in all non-
combat tasks related to driving or piloting a
vehicle type of your choice - either ground
vehicles (such as cars, motorcycles and trucks),
air vehicles (such as rotoblades) or any water-
based vehicle (such as a ship or skiff). Enabler.
Keep going. You are trained in repairing your
vehicle type of choice as well as finding fuel in
unlikely places. Enabler.
Tier 2: Road Rage. You are trained in combat
actions with your vehicle type of choice, such as
ramming. Enabler.
Nerves of Steel. Controlling your vehicle in
tense situations requires a cool mind. You are
trained in Intellect defense tasks. Enabler.
Tier 3: Expert Chauffeur. You are specialized
in all non-combat tasks related to driving or
piloting your vehicle type of choice. Enabler.
Tier 4: Keen Instincts. You are one with the
road, the sky or the ways and that makes you
trained in navigation, allowing you to determine
the quickest way on the fly or find shortcuts
easily. You can also use this instinct to more
easily lose pursuit (-1 difficulty). Enabler.
Quick Reflexes. You add 3 points to your
Speed Pool. Enabler.
Tier 5: Road Fury. You are specialized in
combat actions with your vehicle type of choice,
such as ramming. Enabler.
Tier 6: Stunt Driver. When driving or piloting
your vehicle type of choice your Might Edge,
Speed Edge and Intellect Edge increase by 1.
When you make a recovery roll while driving or
piloting the same, you recover 5 additional
points. When you attempt a driving or piloting
task or an extreme stunt the difficulty of the task
is reduced by one step. Enabler.
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Tier 6: Fixer. Trained in jury-rigging. Enabler.

SCROUNGES
You have a knack for finding useful things.
Others might consider them useless junk, but
you know better. Everything has a use and to
the right people everything has a value. Better
safe than sorry, you say, and pick up as much as
you can carry.
You are probably a bit of a hoarder and lugging
your findings around can be a hassle, but you
know that you will eventually have a use for it
all. As far as clothing goes, you most likely dress
in something with lots and lots of pockets, both
on the inside and the outside.
Connection: Choose one of the following.
1. You have a small store, selling spare
parts and other odd items that you scrounge up.
Another PC has come by with an odd request.
2. You helped another PC out, with items or
money, that you haven’t been repaid for yet.
3. You’ve been hired to find rare items for a
collector and have in turn hired one of the other
PCs, possibly for protection.
4. You’ve been hired as a scout by another
PC thanks to your keen eyes.
Additional Equipment: Metal detector
Artifact.
Minor Effect Suggestion: +1 extra
component found when searching.
Major Effect Suggestion: +2 extra
component found when searching.
Tier 1: Sharp Eyes. Trained in perception tasks.
Enabler.
Identifier. Can identify chems and circuits.
Enabler.
Tier 2: Scrounger. Find one additional part
when you find at least one other part. Enabler.
Find Spares. Find 50% more ammunition.
Enabler.
Tier 3: Eagle-eyed. Specialized in perception
tasks. Enabler.
Expert Scrounger. Find one additional chem
when at least one other is found. Stacks with
(Tier 2 ability). Enabler.
Tier 4: Master Scrounger. Find one additional
circuit when you find at least one other. Stacks
with (Tier 2 ability). Enabler.
Walking Laboratory. Find x2 chems. Enabler.
Tier 5: Electrician. Find x2 circuits. Enabler.
Find a Lot of Spares. Find 100% more
ammunition. Enabler.
Give It Another Go (4 Intellect points).
Reuse cyphers only once for each individual
cypher with parts, chems and circuits, 1 of
each/level of cypher. Requires successful
Intellect (jury-rigging) roll against the cypher’s
level. Action.
SUGGESTED CREATURES
AND NPCS
Creatures can be found starting on page 274 in
the CSR and NPCs starting on page 334.
Guard
Crime Boss
Thug (such as a slaver or bandit)
Assassin
Ravage bear
Scrap drone
Zombie
Wardroid
Vat reject
NEW CREATURES
Several of the other creatures and NPCs listed
under the Fantasy and Science Fiction genres in
the CSR are also applicable to this genre, such as
dogs and horses, but perhaps not so much those
from the Superheroes genre.
Below are a few new creatures that can roam a
post-apocalyptic world.
BLUE BOAR (LEVEL 5)
Boars genetically altered to provide more meat
by increasing muscle mass. The Blue Boar
escaped captivity to breed and grow wild. A fully
grown adult weighs between 3-400 kg and are
fiercely territorial.
The genetic manipulation has caused the ends
of their fur to turn pale blue, giving this ferocious
boar its name.
Environment: Forests and grasslands
Health: 20
Damage Inflicted: 5
Armor: 1
Movement: Short, but long when charging if not
already engaged
Modifications: Defends as level 6.

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COIL SNAKE (LEVEL 4) WAR MUTANT (LEVEL 6)

The coil snake, or jump snake as it is often also However mutations came to be these war
called, is a copper-colored snake between 1 and mutants are the result of genetic
2 meters (3 and 6 feet) in length. It features a experimentation, resulting in vaguely human
hood, like our present-day cobras, that they use beings with exceptional muscle mass, usually
during their signature attacks. They coil up and dim wits (but they do have their own minds, they
springs at a target within short distance and uses are not always blindly obedient to their creator
the hood to navigate in the air to follow a target or master) and bloodthirsty minds. They tower
that tries to get away. over normal humans and while many favor
There are two variants of the coil snake, one melee weapons, it is not uncommon seeing them
venomous and one not, but there is no way to carry advanced ranged weaponry either.
distinguish between the two from casual Environment: Any
observation. Health: 20
Environment: Tall grass, forests and deserts Damage Inflicted: 6
Health: 9 Armor: 2
Damage Inflicted: 4 Movement: Short
Movement: Immediate Modifications: Defends as level 7 against
Modifications: Can attack up to short distance Intellect attacks.
by coiling and jumping at the target and
defends as level 5 thanks to its quick reflexes.
The venomous coil snake also inflicts 1 damage CREATE YOUR OWN
per turn, after a successful bite that does at
least 1 point of damage to the target, until the
MONSTER
target succeeds with a Might roll against the Take an ordinary animal, such as a rat, snake,
coil snake’s level. spider or such, make it huge and give it one or
two (random if you like) mutations from the
table below. This table also lists name prefix
RADSCORPION (LEVEL 5) suggestions, so you can easily create a Fire Ant
Gigantic scorpions with hard carapaces, sharp out of a giant ant with the Flamethrower
claws and poisonous tail stingers. They vary in mutation.
color after environment, from sand-colored to Consult the section RADIATION DAMAGE AND
green in grasslands and forest and cave-dwelling MUTATIONS for details on these mutations.
black ones. The radscorpion measures three
meters (9 feet) from head to the end of its MUTATIONS
curled tail and stinger, though there has been 1d20 Mutation Name prefix
rumors of even larger specimens, up to 5 or 6 1-2 Armored skin Scaled
meters (15 or 18 feet) long. 3 Berserk Berserk
Environment: Open spaces, such as plains and 4 Chameleon Invisible
deserts and occasionally in large cave systems 5-8 Claws Cutter
Health: 12 9 Extra arms Mutant
Damage Inflicted: 4 10-13 Fangs Fanged
Armor: 3 14 Fast Lightning
Movement: Short 15-16 Flamethrower Fire
Modifications: Poisonous sting that causes 1 17-18 Force field Sphere
damage per turn until target succeeds with a 19 Regeneration Healing
Might roll against the Radscorpion’s level. 20 Teleportation Jump

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CONVENTIONAL
WEAPONS
If you want to add some diversity, in particular
to guns, consider the following changes. Note
that a lot of post-apocalypse settings are low on
ammunition, which makes automatic fire
something you only use when that last bit of
desperation sets in.
Some special abilities also require weapons
capable of automatic fire, meaning sub-machine
guns and automatic rifles.
A heavy handgun is a medium weapon that is
one step more difficult to use than normal, but
causes 5 points of damage.
A sub-machine gun is a medium weapon that
can be used in three ways.
Single-fire mode: works as a normal
handgun (medium weapon).
Concentrated fire mode: focuses fire on a
single target and inflicts 6 points of
damage, but any armor counts double. It
also uses a lot of bullets.
Spray mode: inflicts 3 points of damage
on up to 3 different targets close to each
other. It also uses a lot of bullets.
A shotgun is a heavy weapon that can be
loaded with two types of ammunition: slugs (a
single, large “bullet”) and buckshot (slugs loaded
with a large number of small pellets that spray
out when fired).
When loaded with slugs, the range of the
weapon is long and it causes 7 damage.
When loaded with buckshot, the range is short,
inflicting 6 points of damage and can hit up to
three targets at immediate distance from one
another. However, when fired at point-blank
range to a target, only one target can be hit.
An automatic rifle is a heavy weapon with
long range (100 meters or 300 feet) that can be
used in three ways.
Single-fire mode: works as a normal
handgun (medium weapon).
Concentrated fire mode: focuses fire on a
single target and inflicts 8 points of
damage, but any armor counts double. It
also uses a lot of bullets.
Spray mode: inflicts 3 points of damage
on up to 3 different targets close to each
other. It also uses a lot of bullets.
In addition, you can add mods to these
weapons. See the GUN CONSTRUCTION AND
MODS section below. While that section deals
primarily with cobbled items (see crafting just
below), some of the mods can be applied to
conventional weapons as well (aiming devices in
particular).
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CRAFTING
This is a re-imagined crafting system, designed
to empower characters and making crafting
simpler and more fun. Forget about realistic
materials and specific crafting skills. These rules
instead use four basic and abstract materials –
junk, parts, circuits and chems – along with two
skills – crafting and cobbling – to create just
about anything. Creating items from junk is
significantly different from building something
with proper items and this uses the new skill
cobbling, as in cobbling stuff together (but you
can make shoes too, of course). Building things
with parts uses the normal, but general, crafting
skill.
You are encouraged to let characters find junk
wherever may be appropriate in the world, and
a few examples are provided below. Parts,
circuits and chems can be found among the
junk.
These rules were made for with a post-
apocalyptic setting in mind, specifically one that
is further removed, as far as technology goes,
from our Earth. It might not, then, be entirely
suitable for a zombie apocalypse game, but you’ll
have to be the judge of that yourself – if you
think it fits, use it.
These rules are intended to supersede the
rules in the CSR on pages 217 to 219, unless
otherwise noted.
CRAFTING LEXICON
There are a few terms in these rules that are
similar to each other. Refer to this lexicon to find
out what’s what.
Chemical, an item complexity that increases
the difficulty of building these items. Items of
this type includes healing salves, ammunition,
Geiger counters (which also requires circuits)
and even personal protection such as bullet-
proof vests.
Chems, an item material that is used in
building items of chemical complexity and is
always listed in italic. Can be found among junk.
Circuits, an item material that is used in
building items of electric and electronic
complexities and is always listed in italic when
referring to the material. Can be found among
junk.
Cobbled, refers to items created from junk
material. See also entry junk.
Complexity, a ladder of increasing difficulty
depending on the sophistication of the item in
question, such as mechanical and electronic.
Used when building and repairing items.
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Electrical, an item complexity that increases
the difficulty of building these items. Ground
vehicles are commonly considered electrical.
Electronics, an item complexity that increases
the difficulty of building these items. Items of
this type includes Geiger counters (which also
requires chems), night vision goggles, laser
weapons and flying-machines called rotoblades.
Item, used broadly in these rules to describe
anything the character can build, from healing
salves and gadgets (such as binoculars) to guns
and vehicles.
Junk, a basic item material used to build items
and is always listed in italic when referring to the
material. Can be used instead of or
interchangeably with parts. Can also refer to
items built with the material junk, as in “junk
car”. See also entry cobbled.
Materials, the collective name for junk, parts,
chems and circuits – the stuff used to build
items.
Mechanical, an item complexity that increases
the difficulty of building these items. Items of
this type includes guns and simple vehicles, like
bicycles.
Parts, a basic item material used to build
items and is always listed in italic when referring
to the material. Can be used instead of or
interchangeably with junk.
HOW TO BUILD ITEMS
The difficulty to craft an item is its level, as
indicated in the equipment list at the end of this
document or as determined by the GM and
modified by the complexity of the item.
Complexity is divided into five groups of
increasing difficulty: simple, mechanical,
electrical, chemical and electronic. Guns are at
least mechanical and vehicles or gadgets
(including cyphers) are usually at least electrical,
but you have final say yourself, of course. Items
that are built from chems or circuits, see below,
are rated as chemical and electronic respectively.
See the following table to determine the extra
difficulty of building these items.
COMPLEXITY TABLE
Complexity Difficulty to build & repair
Simple Item level
Mechanical Item level +1
Electrical Item level +2
Chemical Item level +3
Electronic Item level +4
The above rule is similar to the standard CSR
rule of adding 5 to the difficulty of an
otherworldly item.
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Any building of items involves using parts or
junk (or a bit of both), a bit of time as
determined by the GM (the table on p. 218 in the
CSR works well for this as does the rule about
rushing construction by increasing the difficulty)
and an Intellect roll. There is no limit to what
types of items you can create, only the effective
difficulty and training in use of chems and
circuits.
An item constructed entirely from parts uses
the skill crafting, while one made in part or
whole from junk uses the new skill cobbling.
Some items, however, also require either chems
or circuits or both (see the equipment list for
details). The skill used to create the item
remains the same, but note that using chems
and circuits requires special abilities, as granted
by the focus Cobbles Stuff Togheter. Materials
are always consumed when used to build an
item, successfully built or not.
Not having proper tools (of the same level as
the item being built) counts as an inability and
not having tools at all is a double inability.
Items made from parts become regular items
that function as you would expect. Items made
from junk (called cobbled items or simply junk
items), on the other hand, are somewhat less
reliable, which gives them an Intrusion rating of
1-2 to reflect their more primitive nature.
Example: Runt is making the Geiger
counter from junk and thus needs 9 junk
as well as 4 circuits and 4 chems, since
the Geiger counter is a level 4 item.
HIGHER LEVEL ITEMS
An item counts as an asset if it is of a higher
level than the target level of the task it is being
used for, otherwise it is simply required for the
action at hand. Not having the item in question
can instead increase the difficulty of the task.
Items can be constructed at up to two levels
higher than the standard version with the
corresponding increase in difficulty to the
building roll. For weapons, note that a level
increase does not increase the damage it does,
but does increase the limit on the number of
modifications (“mods”) that can be applied to it.
Example: Runt is reconsidering the Geiger
counter and determines a more advanced
one is needed. Trying to build a level 5
Geiger counter (which is normally level 4)
increases the difficulty roll by one step, as
well as requiring one more chem and one
more circuit. With the additional difficulty
from it being an electronic device, Runt is
now facing a difficulty 9 task.
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MATERIALS REQUIRED
The number of parts required to build items are
listed in the equipment list. Note that to
construct something with junk instead use the 3-
to-1 conversion ratio where 1 part equals 3 junk.
Items requiring chems or circuits require a
number of each of those materials equaling the
item’s level, unless otherwise noted (some items
need additional chems or circuits).
MATERIALS
Four basic materials exist: junk, parts, chems,
and circuits. The first two can be used
interchangeably (3 junk equals 1 part), but the
two last are unique. On the other hand, they are
not always used when building items. Items
requiring either chems or circuits will be listed as
such in the equipment list. Items that do require
either or both each require a number of them
equal to the item’s level. Also, both chems and
circuits require special training to use (see the
Cobbles Stuff Together focus above).
Sample chems includes actual chemicals (in
liquid and solid form), but also tires and other
rubber sources as well as other processed
materials, such as leather.
Sample circuits includes circuit boards and also
smaller components, such as resistors, processor
units and other electronics’ related items, such
as batteries.
The CSR rule that difficulty can be increased to
craft items with substandard materials is not
used with these rules.
FINDING MATERIALS
Junk can be found just about anywhere, so long
as there is debris, possibly along with parts,
chems and circuits. The number of materials that
can be found is always up to the GM, but as a
guideline, each search usually turns up 15-45
junk, depending on the type of location being
searched and how resource-intense it is.
For every 15 junk (minimum of 5), a successful
level 4 Intellect roll (identifying skill) yields 1
part. The difficulty can vary depending on actual
location being searched (for example, one step
lower than normal when searching a well-
preserved car). A minor effect on the identifying
roll yields double the amount parts and a major
effect yields triple the amount, as well as 1 chem
or circuit (GMs choice or random).
Likewise, there’s also a possibility of finding 1
chem or 1 circuit (GMs choice or random) with a
successful level 6 Intellect roll (identifying skill).
Minor and major effects also yield additional
materials, x2 and x3 amounts respectively.
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The character rolls once for parts and once for
chems and circuits for the same set of junk. A
failed roll means that no materials are found of
the type rolled for and either successful roll
means that a certain number of materials of that
type are found. In other words, junk can contain
chems and circuits while no parts are found.
Example: Searching through a ruined
house for useful things, the GM
determines that Runt finds 20 pieces of
junk. Runt, trained in identifying, rolls
once against difficulty 11 and gets a 19 to
find four parts (the success yields 2 from
the number of junk, multiplied by 2 for
the minor effect) and once against
difficulty 17. Runt manages to get a 17
and finds either one chem or one circuit,
because of the number of junk Runt is
going through.
Searching for junk and other materials is
rather time-consuming. As a guideline, the GM
can allow two searches (sets of rolls) each day
for finding parts, chems and circuits.
Another issue entirely is carrying all these
materials around. Chems and circuits are can be
considered small items, but junk and parts are
bulkier – each such material counts as a regular
piece of equipment.
JURY-RIGGING
Jury-rigging is a quick and dirty repair. Fixing
any item like this only takes a single action and
an Intellect roll and doesn’t require parts, junk or
any other materials. On the other hand, it only
lasts one combat or scene. After this the item
can be jury-rigged to last another combat or
scene or properly repaired, and so on. A proper
repair takes much longer and requires parts or
junk (roughly one third of the number needed to
build the item). Remember that if any junk is
used, then the cobbling skill applies.
To perform a jury-rig, make an Intellect roll
where the tech skill Jury-rigging applies, against
the item’s difficulty. A successful roll repairs the
item for one combat or scene, but increases the
Intrusion value by 1. A minor effect makes the
repair last a bit longer, as determined by the GM,
and a major effect makes the repair permanent
(but still with the increased Intrusion value).
Each jury-rig on a particular item raises the
Intrusion value, so an item that’s been jury-
rigged three times has its Intrusion value
increased by 3.
A successful normal repair resets the Intrusion
value to its original value (normally 1, but 1-2
for cobbled items). An Intrusion on repair
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normally breaks the item in question
permanently.
GUN CONSTRUCTION AND
MODS
The standard home-crafted (or cobbled) gun is a
single-shot weapon, regardless if it is a small,
easily concealed gun that we can call a cricket
(light weapon), a normal pistol (medium
weapon) or a rifle (heavy weapon). The difficulty
to build a gun is equal to its level (plus one level
for mechanical complexity) and requires a
number of materials. See the equipment list for
details. Time required is the weapon’s level in
days. If you want a faster-paced game, change
“days” to hours or even minutes, or increase the
difficulty by 1 step for each such change.
These home-made weapons can be improved
with modifications. The number of modifications
a gun can have is equal to its level. Unless
otherwise noted, each modification can only be
applied once to each gun. Modifications are also
made specifically for a type of weapon.
Example: A magazine made for a pistol
can’t be attached to a cricket or rifle,
but can be attached to another pistol, of
higher or lower level.
Removing a modification requires a roll against
the weapon’s level. Successful removal retains
the mod, which can then be re-attached later
with no expenditure of materials to either the
same weapon or another of the same class
(cricket, pistol or rifle), but can’t be repurposed
into materials. Unsuccessful removal destroys
the mod and breaks the weapon. The weapon
can be repaired, or jury-rigged, as normal, but
the mod is gone forever.
The difficulty of building and applying a
modification to a gun is the weapon’s level.
Every modification applied to a weapon increases
the Intrusion value by 1 and junk mods increase
it by 2. Common mishaps with crafted or cobbled
guns is that they fire, but then break and require
repair or jury-rigging (see above). Of course,
they can blow up in your face as well.
Aiming Device (Active)
Counts as an asset to hit up to Long distance,
but cannot be combined with a passive aiming
device.
Requires 1 part or 3 junk to build, as well as 1
circuit.
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Aiming Device (Passive)
Counts as an asset to hit at beyond Long
distance, but cannot be combined with an active
aiming device.
Requires 2 parts or 6 junk to build.
Blade
Enables melee attacks with the weapon in
question (normal damage), but attacks are made
against a level higher than normal.
Requires 2 parts or 6 junk to build.
Extra Barrel
Ammo capacity +1, in one additional barrel.
Extra barrels can be fired simultaneously with a
single attack roll made for all shots. If hit, the
damage is applied for each fired barrel, but
armor also protects individually against each
bullet. There is no limit, apart from the weapon’s
level, to the number of barrels a weapon can
have. Reloading is one action per barrel.
Requires 1 part or 3 junk to build for each
additional barrel.
Large Caliber
+1 damage. Any extra barrels or magazines
already attached can’t be used anymore and
must be replaced. Also, ammunition requires
more materials to build, with each set made
resulting in 5 bullets, rather than the normal 10
(see the equipment list). Ammunition found is
incompatible with this weapon.
Requires 3 parts or 9 junk to build.
Long Barrel
+1 damage, -1 to hit at Immediate distance.
Requires 1 part or 3 junk to build.
Long Stock
Counts as an asset to hit at beyond Long
distance.
Requires 1 part or 3 junk to build.
Magazine
Ammo capacity 8. Each magazine can only feed
only one barrel each. Multiple magazines can be
applied to a gun, either increasing the capacity
for a single barrel (8, 16, 24, etc.) or for multiple
barrels (so that each barrel has a capacity of 8,
for example) or any combination thereof up to
the gun’s level.
Requires 2 parts or 6 junk to build for each
magazine of 8 rounds.
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Rapid Fire Mechanism Nitro

Requires magazine and allows Spray-type
abilities. Can be applied to one or more barrels,
increasing the difficulty by one step with each
barrel of the weapon affected. Adding additional
barrels afterward requires a new roll for this
modification at the new difficulty, as well as
additional expenditure of materials for the
additional barrels.
Requires 3 parts or 9 junk to build for each
barrel affected.
VEHICLE CONSTRUCTION
AND MODS
These rules cover motorcycles, cars, trucks,
sailers (which are single-person sailboats), skiffs,
ships and rotoblades (which are single-person
helicopters of simple construction). All the rules
above for constructing guns and gun mods also
apply to building vehicles and their mods, but
building a new vehicle takes the vehicle’s level in
weeks of just assembly. Again, if it suits your
game, change “weeks” to days or even hours
(and optionally increase the difficulty by one step
for each such change). All mods below can be
applied to both junk and pre-war vehicles.
In the descriptions below, the Required to build
are for motorcycles and sailers. For skiffs, cars
and rotoblades multiply by 3 and for ships and
trucks multiply by 6. Motorcycles and sailers are
normally level 2, cars, skiffs and rotoblades are
level 3 and trucks and ships are level 4.
With regards to fuel all vehicles use chems
equal to their level per 10 km (6 miles) travel. A
fully loaded truck uses its level in chems per 5
km (3 miles) travel. A vehicle can carry up to its
level x 20 chems in tanks, before it needs
refueling. Sailers, on the other hand, do not have
an engine and thus do not need fuel at all.
NOT POSSIBLE FOR ROTOBLADES OR SAILERS
Counts as a double asset on Speed actions with
the vehicle, limited number of uses equal to level
of vehicle (requires chems x 2 to refill).
Requires 2 parts or 6 junk to build, as well as
chems x 2.
Puncture Barbs
NOT POSSIBLE FOR WATER-VEHICLES
Allows an attack against one or more pursuing
enemies that punctures non-solid tires, if
successful, by releasing a large number of
caltrops in the vehicle’s wake. The attack can be
made a number of times equal to the vehicle’s
level before it needs to be resupplied. This attack
can’t be used against rotoblades, but rotoblades
can perform this attack against ground vehicles.
This mod can be added multiple times, to allow
more uses before a resupply is necessary.
Requires 2 parts or 6 junk to build, but must
be restocked after each use with 1 part or 3 junk
and an Intellect roll against the vehicle’s
difficulty -1.
Ramming Gear
ONLY FOR CARS, TRUCKS, SKIFFS AND SHIPS
Counts as an asset when ramming.
Requires 4 parts or 12 junk to build.
Sequencer
Security measure to prevent theft, that requires
a specific combination of switches to be flicked
and buttons pushed (possibly also levers pulled)
to open the fuel line to the engine. Without it,
the vehicle will only run a short distance before
running out of fuel.
Requires 2 parts or 6 junk to build, as well as
circuits.

Fuel Tanks
NOT POSSIBLE FOR SAILERS
The vehicle can carry x2 as much fuel as normal,
but increases fuel consumption by 1.
This mod can be added multiple times, each
time providing another multiple (x3, x4, etc.) of
fuel carried, while increasing fuel consumption by
1 for each fuel tank added.
Requires 3 parts or 9 junk to build.
Side-Carriage
ONLY FOR MOTORCYCLES, SAILERS AND ROTOBLADES
Additional passenger, -1 defense because of
lower maneuverability.
For rotoblades, this represents a slightly larger
cockpit with the two characters sitting either in
line with or next to each other.
Requires 6 parts or 18 junk to build, as well as
chems.

Lean Engine
NOT POSSIBLE FOR TRUCKS OR SAILERS
The vehicle’s fuel consumption is decreased by 1.
Cannot be combined with souped-up engine.
Requires 4 parts or 12 junk to build.

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Solid Tires
ONLY FOR LAND-BASED VEHICLES
Immunity to spikes and such for tires (can’t
suffer puncturing), but decidedly less
comfortable, making it impossible to make a
recovery roll while the vehicle is moving.
Requires chems.
Souped-Up Engine
NOT POSSIBLE FOR SAILERS
Counts as an asset on Speed actions with the
vehicle. The vehicle’s fuel consumption is
increased by 1. Cannot be combined with lean
engine.
This mod can be added twice, giving another
asset on Speed actions, but also even higher
chem use.
Requires 8 parts or 24 junk to build.
Spikes
+2 defense against boarding, +1 attack when
ramming and can be used to puncture an
enemy’s tires.
Requires 4 parts or 12 junk to build.
Thicker Armor
NOT POSSIBLE FOR MOTORCYCLES OR ROTOBLADES
+1 level to defense in this vehicle’s favor and
increases difficulty of Speed actions with the
vehicle by one step for each time thicker armor
has been applied.
This mod can be added twice for double
protection and double increase in difficulty for
Speed actions.
Requires 6 parts or 18 junk to build.
Weapon mount
Adds a mount for a home-crafted weapon to be
mounted on the vehicle. Motorcycles and
rotoblades can mount one weapon each, while
cars and trucks can mount up to their level. The
weapons in question have to be built separately,
according to the rules above.
Each weapon added and manned increases the
fuel consumption of the vehicle by 1 (just adding
a weapon mount and gun doesn’t increase fuel
consumption).
Requires 2 parts or 6 junk to build.
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HIGH TECH EQUIPMENT
While the equipment and guns discussed above
are suitable for being built in a post-apocalyptic
wasteland, it might not cover all your needs.
Before the world died it might’ve gotten more
advanced than ours is now and some of their
items might’ve survived the apocalypse. This
section details some high tech-wizardry in the
form of weapons and armor.
ENERGY PACKS
Most of the items below are powered by energy
packs. Energy packs can be recharged from
nearly any power source, including sunlight,
given the right equipment. In a post-apocalyptic
wasteland, that might be a bit difficult to find,
though.
Energy packs are a standardized piece of
equipment and can be used in laser, maser and
ultrasound weapons as well as power armor. A
power pack lasts at least a whole fight before
they need to be recharged or exchanged.
WEAPONS
LASER WEAPONS
Laser weapons come in all sizes - light, medium
and heavy. Light and medium laser weapons
have short range, while heavy laser weapons
(such as a laser rifle) has long range. What is
unique about laser weapons is that they
penetrate conventional armor easily, in effect
ignoring 1 point of Armor, except for energy-
based ones, like force fields, or armor made of
advanced alloys, such as Powered Combat Suits.
Laser weapons can also be used as cutting
tools, but drain their energy packs rapidly when
used in this way.
Laser weapons uses energy packs to power
them.
MASER WEAPONS
Masers work in a similar way to lasers, but
operating at a different frequency (microwave).
Masers are efficient against organic material, but
less so against inorganic materials. This means
that any armor protects double, but whatever
gets through a target’s armor causes double
damage.
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Example: You fire a medium maser gun
at an armored target. The weapon
inflicts 4 points of damage and the
target’s Armor rating is 1, but counts as
2 against maser weapons. Just 2 points
of damage gets through the armor, but
that damage is doubled, causing 4
damage to the target.
Maser weapons come in the regular light,
medium and heavy variants and use energy
packs as a power source.
ROCKET WEAPONS
These weapons fire miniature, exploding rockets
that cause double normal damage, but against
which armor protects double. See the rules
above for maser weapons for details.
Rocket weapons do not require energy packs,
but uses specialized, rare ammunition.
ULTRASOUND WEAPONS
Exceptionally rare, ultrasound weapons were the
latest technology to be developed before the
apocalypse. And just as well. Ultrasound
weapons are completely silent and invisible,
though this makes them harder to use. The
difficulty for any attack is made at one step
higher than normal.
On the other hand, conventional armor offers
no protection against them – only energy fields
and power armor provide protection (and do so
at their regular ratings).
Ultrasound weapons come in light and medium
variants and are powered by energy packs.
POWERED COMBAT SUITS
The powered combat suit, or commonly called
power armor, are massive frames of strong
metals and durable alloys, powered by a
miniature generator that requires an energy pack
to operate. Power armor has a number of
advantages:
+2 Armor against non-energy weapons
(energy weapons include laser, maser
and ultrasound, everything else counts
as non-energy).
+1 unarmed damage.
Provides an asset on many Might actions
that don’t require much in the way of
control or finesse, such as kicking in a
door or lifting heavy objects.
Halves damage suffered from falling.
Light power armor are level 3 items, medium
power armor is level 4 and heavy power armor is
level 5. They all count as electronic items, as per
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the crafting rules above, and all are considered
to be exorbitantly-priced items.
It is also possible to add modifications to
power armor, if such devices can be found or
manufactured. Mods created with junk are bulky
and susceptible to failure just like any other
cobbled item.
Headlight
A lamp that can be activated to provide light in a
forward-looking cone up to short range.
Requires 1 parts or 3 junk to build, as well as
circuits.
Jump legs
Pneumatic legs that provides two assets on
jumping and leaping tasks.
Requires 2 parts or 6 junk to build, as well as
circuits.
Motion scanner
Provides an asset on detecting movement within
short range, including unseen movement even
behind obstacles. Can be used to negate surprise
attacks that involves movement on part of the
attacker.
Requires 2 parts or 6 junk to build, as well as
circuits.
Night vision
Negates any additional difficulty because of
darkness, up to short range.
Requires 2 parts or 6 junk to build, as well as
circuits x2.
Kinetic fists
Pneumatic fists that cause +3 unarmed damage
instead of +1.
Requires 2 parts or 6 junk to build, as well as
circuits.
Power servos
Increases movement speed to long each round,
without the need for a roll.
Requires 4 parts or 12 junk to build, as well as
circuits.
Targeting display
Overlay that marks and shows predicted
movement of organic and inorganic targets.
Provides an asset on all ranged attack rolls up to
long range.
Requires 2 parts or 6 junk to build, as well as
circuits x2. Requires Motion scanner.
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MUTATED ANIMALS
In an improbable future several species of
animals have mutated, become sentient and now
walk upright, having hands with opposable
thumbs. The result of radiation or genetic
experimentation? Who knows! You, as GM,
possibly knows, but it is less important unless
you want to make a story out of it.
The following list of animals and their
respective traits is meant to function as a
starting point, but when designing the world
picture where the setting is and what animals
likely inhabit it and which have become
intelligent. That said, insects, snakes, birds, very
large animals (such as elephants and giraffes)
and water-breathing ones might not be suitable,
but that is only a suggestion. Consider also if
there are still wild versions of those animals
around or if that entire species has become
intelligent.
Once you’ve decided which animals to allow in
your game, decide what – if anything! –
separates them from each other and from
humans (if present in the setting – perhaps all
humans have perished or the animals have taken
over, as in the various Planet of the Apes
movies). Look at the following examples and
modify as you wish. Note that these bonuses
exist on top of the regular type, descriptor and
focus. To balance things out consider giving
normal (un-mutated) humans a +1 bonus to
each of the three pools and possibly also an
additional special ability from the character’s
type’s first tier. Roll on the tables in the section
RADIATION DAMAGE AND MUTATIONS to
determine which mutations mutants start with. If
you instead prefer to adhere more closely to CSR
rules and replace descriptors with these racial
traits, then they will probably need further work.
For the following animals, when they have an
ability that functions like a mutation, consider
that they have that mutation (even if it is
natural), which means that they can’t get that
mutation again during the game. For the random
mutation and defect each mutated animal gets,
roll on the tables under the section RADIATION
DAMAGE AND MUTATIONS.
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ALLIGATOR OR CROCODILE
+4 Might pool, -2 Speed pool, fangs that
functions like the mutation fangs as well as one
random mutation and one random defect.
BADGER
-1 Speed pool, fangs that function like the
mutation fangs, the special ability jaw lock as
well as one random mutation and one random
defect.
JAW LOCK
After a successful bite attack you can choose to
lock your jaws. This automatically does 2
damage each round, if your initial bite attack
caused damage, and only fully covering,
natural armor protects. Regardless if you cause
damage, the jaw lock can also hamper the
target’s movement and you may make one
melee attack with a light weapon each round
that the jaw lock is used.
BEAR
+4 Might pool, thick fur that counts as natural
Armor 1, claws that function as the mutation
claws as well as one random mutation and one
random defect.
BEAVER
-1 Might pool, -1 Speed pool, front teeth that
function like the mutation fangs, trained in
swimming and building barricades as well as one
random mutation and one random defect.
BISON
+2 Might pool, asset on running tasks, as well as
one random mutation and one random defect.
CHEETAH, JAGUAR OR LEOPARD
+2 Speed pool, asset on sprint tasks, claws and
fangs like the mutations claws and fangs, as
well as one random mutation and one random
defect.
CHIMP
+2 Speed pool, trained in climbing tasks as well
as one random mutation and one random defect.
COYOTE OR LYNX
+2 Speed pool, claws that function as the
mutation claws as well as one random mutation
and one random defect.
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DEER
+2 Speed pool, the ability to perform a head-
butt attack (counts as a medium weapon that
causes 3 damage and can knock an opponent
over instead of causing extra damage on a roll of
17 to 20; if you have the mutation small the
attack causes 2 damage and counts as a light
weapon and if you have the mutation large it
causes 4 damage) as well as one random
mutation and one random defect.
DOG
While there is great diversity among dogs,
assume +2 Speed, great sense of smell that
counts as an asset on smelling tasks (including
tracking by smell) as well as one random
mutation and one random defect as the default
and modify as you wish.
ELK
+1 Might pool, the ability to perform a head-butt
attack (counts as a medium weapon that causes
4 damage and can knock an opponent over
instead of causing extra damage on a roll of 17
to 20; if you have the mutation small the attack
causes 3 damage and counts as a light weapon
and if you have the mutation large it causes 5
damage) as well as one random mutation and
one random defect.
FOX
+2 Speed and Intellect pools as well as one
random mutation and one random defect.
GOAT
Ability to perform a head-butt attack (counts as
a medium weapon that causes 4 damage and
can knock an opponent over instead of causing
extra damage on a roll of 17 to 20; if you have
the mutation small the attack causes 3 damage
and if you have the mutation large it causes 5
damage) as well as one random mutation and
one random defect.
GORILLA
+4 Might pool, thick fur that counts as natural
Armor 1 as well as one random mutation and
one random defect.
HARE
-2 Might pool, +4 Speed pool, trained in jumping
and leaping tasks as well as one random
mutation and one random defect.
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HORSE
+2 Speed pool, asset on running tasks, as well
as one random mutation and one random defect.
LION OR TIGER
+2 Might pool, claws and fangs like the
mutations claws and fangs, as well as one
random mutation and one random defect.
MOOSE
+2 Might pool, the ability to perform a head-butt
attack (counts as a medium weapon that causes
5 damage and can knock an opponent over
instead of causing extra damage on a roll of 17
to 20; if you have the mutation small the attack
causes 4 damage and if you have the mutation
large it causes 6 damage) as well as one
random mutation and one random defect.
RAT
-2 Might pool, +4 Speed pool, great sense of
smell that counts as an asset on smelling tasks
(including tracking by smell) as well as one
random mutation and one random defect.
TURTLE
-4 Speed pool, natural Armor like the mutation
armored skin, trained in swimming, can hold
breath for up to three hours as well as one
random mutation and one random defect.
WILD BOAR
+2 Might pool, ability to perform a head-butt
attack (counts as a medium weapon that causes
4 damage and can knock an opponent over
instead of causing extra damage on a roll of 17
to 20; if you have the mutation small the attack
causes 3 damage and if you have the mutation
large it causes 5 damage) as well as one
random mutation and one random defect.
WOLF
+1 Might and Speed pools, claws and fangs like
the mutations claws and fangs as well as one
random mutation and one random defect.
WOLVERINE
-1 Might pool, claws and fangs like the mutations
claws and fangs as well as one random
mutation and one random defect.
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15-16 Concentration
RADIATION DAMAGE 17-18 Confuse
AND MUTATIONS 19-20
21-22
Control animal
Control plants
Under the normal Cypher System rules, radiation 23 Control sentient being
is just ambient damage and can certainly be 24-25 Control weather
used that way. However, if you’re inclined to 26-27 Empathy
having mutations and possibly intelligent, 28-30 Extra arms
mutated animals in your game, then perhaps you 31-36 Fangs
want radiation to be the cause of this and want 37-40 Fast
to use it in-game. This is what these rules are 41-42 Flamethrower
for. 43-44 Force field
Each character (both PCs and NPCs, if you 45-49 Gills and webbing
want) has a Radiation Damage Chart, with 20 50-51 Illusion
boxes (or just a single box where you count up 52-53 Immunity
to 20, of course). Any radiation damage suffered 54-55 Incineration
by the character, perhaps by going into a 56-57 Invisibility
radioactive zone, is suffered as ambient damage 58-61 Large
as normal, but the same amount is also noted on 62-63 Levitation
the Radiation Damage Chart. Ambient damage is 64-66 Magnetism
healed as normal, but the Radiation Damage 67-68 Metal skeleton
Chart is only reset when it reaches 20 at which 69-70 Night vision
point the character gains one mutation and one 71-72 Photosynthesis
defect (a harmful or negative mutation). If the 73-74 Regeneration
radiation damage taken would put the character 75-76 Retribution
at, for example, 22 radiation damage, then that 77-78 Sensory focus
character still has 2 radiation damage left after 79-80 Shapechange
receiving the mutation and the defect. Roll once 81-84 Small
on each of these two tables, note the mutation 85-88 Sonar
and defect the character gets and then subtract 89-90 Stop
20 from their Radiation Damage Chart. 91-94 Suction cups
Each mutation and defect can only be 95-96 Telekinesis
received once (apart from weird looks) – re-roll 97-98 Telepathy
if you get a result the character already has, 99-00 Teleportation
either as a mutation or naturally in the case of
claws for mutated animal PCs. If a character has DEFECTS
received one instance of every single defect in 1d20 Defect
the game (weird looks can be received multiple 1 All thumbs
times, but once is enough for this purpose), and 2 Backfire
still lives, then that character becomes immune 3 Breakdown
to radiation, like the mutation immunity. 4 Dense
Note that these mutations can be considered 5 Glutton
special abilities like those available from types 6 Hyper-sensitive nervous system
and foci, but they exist outside of that 7 Mental block
framework and do not count to the number of 8 Physical breakdown
abilities available at a certain tier. 9 Physically challenged
Also note that radiation, for these purposes, 10 Poor eyesight
can be replaced with any corrupting or 11 Slow
degenerative force in your setting, as is 12 Telepathic overload
appropriate – corruption, zombie infection, 13 Temporary amnesia
toxicity or whatever you have handy. 14 Temporary regression
15 Vulnerability to heat
MUTATIONS 16 Vulnerability to metals
d100 Mutation 17 Vulnerability to physical damage
1-2 Armored skin 18 Vulnerability to poison
3-4 Berserk 19 Vulnerability to radiation
5-6 Chameleon 20 Weird looks
7-8 Chromatic skin
9-14 Claws

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MUTATIONS
ARMORED SKIN
Your skin is hard and very durable. It counts as
natural Armor 2 and can be combined with
regular armor as normal. Enabler.
BERSERK (2 MIGHT POINTS)
You work yourself up into a frenzy and go
berserk. You deal 2 extra damage with melee or
unarmed attacks, but the difficulty for speed
defense rolls increases by 1. You are unable to
used ranged weapons while going berserk.
Once the combat is over you must rest and use
one recovery roll without regaining any points.
Action.
CHAMELEON (2 INTELLECT POINTS)
You can adapt the color of your skin to the
background and can copy complicated patterns,
but you have to be completely naked for this to
work. Being camouflaged this way counts as a
double asset to hiding, but the bonus is lost as
soon as you move. Action.
This mutation cannot be combined with
photosynthesis. If you already have that
mutation, then re-roll this mutation.
CHROMATIC SKIN
Your skin looks like smooth metal and is highly
reflective. You have Armor 2 against laser
beams, even when wearing clothes and armor,
and rolling for endurance under a scorching sun
is one level easier. On a sunny day, you can also
blind opponents, lowering your Speed defense
rolls against ranged attacks by one level, but
only if you are more or less naked (a loincloth, or
similar, does not impede the use of this ability).
This mutation can’t be combined with the
mutation armored skin and is ineligible for
mutants with fur and should be re-rolled in these
cases. It works great with photosynthesis
though. Enabler.
CLAWS
You have sharp claws growing out from either
your fingertips or knuckles that can be used to
attack and you can attack twice in one round
with them (you cannot parry with the claws).
The claws count as light weapons. Enabler.
CONCENTRATION (2 INTELLECT
POINTS)
By concentrating for one round you can lower
the difficulty of any one action in the following
round by 2 or choose to do 3 extra damage with
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the first melee attack in that round (if it hits,
otherwise the extra damage is lost). Action.
CONFUSE (2 INTELLECT POINTS)
You cause a being you can see within 30 meters
(100 feet) to become confused if you succeed
with an Intellect roll vs. the target’s level. A
successful roll lowers the difficulty for all actions
against the target by 1 until the end of your next
turn, including the actions of your allies against
the same target. Action.
CONTROL ANIMAL (2+ INTELLECT
POINTS)
An animal you can see within 30 meters (100
feet) comes under your control for 2d20
minutes, if you succeed with an Intellect roll
against the animal’s level (the duration can be
increased by one hour for each additional
Intellect point spent). The animal will follow your
mental commands unless it would obviously lead
to harm, such as jumping off a cliff. Humans and
other sentient beings are not affected. Action.
CONTROL PLANTS (2+ INTELLECT
POINTS)
You can control a number of plants (the cost is
per plant) to act within its logical constraints – a
bush can’t pick itself up and move around on its
roots – to, for example, snare an opponent. The
difficulty for the Intellect roll is 3 or, in the case
of an intelligent plant, its level. The control lasts
2d20 minutes for all plants affected at the same
time. Only one instance of this control can be
activated at a time, but as mentioned above
multiple plants can be affected simultaneously.
Action.
CONTROL SENTIENT BEING (5
INTELLECT POINTS)
By succeeding on an Intellect roll against the
sentient target’s level you can control that being
for 5 rounds. For this control to work the target
has to be able to hear and understand you and it
won’t follow a command that will obviously harm
it, such as jumping off a cliff. Plants and non-
sentient animals are unaffected by this power.
Action.
CONTROL WEATHER (4 INTELLECT
POINTS)
This mutation works as the Control Weather
ability on page 36 in the CSR, but with the
limitation that the change in weather is
incremental. Cloudy weather can turn into rain
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and rain into a storm, but a cloud-free, sunny
day can’t immediately turn into a storm.
However, it is possible to use this mutation
several times in a row, once one change has
been fully completed, to change the weather
more. Action.
EMPATHY (1 INTELLECT POINT)
You can sense the feelings of other beings,
sentient or not, to gain an understanding of the
target regards you in a positive or negative way,
but not to which degree they feel that way.
This ability is automatically successful and
requires no roll. Action.
EXTRA ARMS
You have another pair of arms. The exact effect
of this mutation and when it applies should be
discussed between player and GM on a case-by-
case basis, but can for example count as an
asset on grappling and climbing or allow the user
to both grapple and punch a target in the same
round. Enabler.
Note that any armor and clothes you have has
to be modified for you to be able to use it again.
FANGS
You have a pair of large, sharp fangs that you
can use to bite an opponent. The fangs count as
light weapons. This bite can’t be combined with
any other attack in a single round. Enabler.
FAST
You move and react faster than just about
everyone else which counts as an asset for
melee attacks and speed defense rolls. You can
also move a long distance without rolling for
movement or a short distance and still perform a
normal action. The drawback is that precision-
work with your fingers is difficult and the
difficulty for such actions is increased by one.
Enabler.
FLAMETHROWER (2 INTELLECT
POINTS)
Functions as the tier 2 ability hurl flame of the
bears a halo of fire focus, but you don’t need
to have Shroud of Flame active. The flame
originates from your mouth. See page 98 in the
CSR for more details. Action.
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FORCE FIELD (3 INTELLECT POINTS)
Functions as the special ability force field. See
page 58 in the CSR. Action.
GILLS AND WEBBING
You can breathe both air and water and can’t
drown in water (polluted, toxic water may give
you ambient damage, but you can breathe it).
You also have webbing between your fingers and
toes that give you an asset on swimming. Both
the webbing and the gills are easily noticeable
and require mittens and a scarf if you want to
appear as a non-mutant. Enabler.
ILLUSION (2+ INTELLECT POINTS)
With a successful Intellect roll against the
target’s level you can create a believable illusion
(image, sound, smell and animation). The
illusion must look like something your character
knows. While an illusion can look frightening and
give the target doubts or pause, it cannot harm
the target unless it hurts itself trying to get away
from the illusion. The Intellect cost is for each
target you want to affect. Action.
IMMUNITY
Roll on the table below. You are completely
immune to the listed result. Enabler.
Roll Immunity
1-6 Radioactivity
7-11 Poison
12-16 Diseases
17 Radioactivity and poison
18 Radioactivity and diseases
19 Poison and diseases
20 Radioactivity, poison and
diseases
Note that immunity to radioactivity will prevent
any additional mutations from developing, but
does not remove any already gained.
The combination of gills and webbing and
immunity to poison makes it possible to
breathe polluted water (and the same goes for
radioactive water and immunity to
radioactivity).
INCINERATION (4 INTELLECT POINTS)
With a successful Intellect roll against the
target’s level you cause it to spontaneously self-
combust from the inside, causing 6 points of
damage that no armor (not even natural armor)
protects against. The target must be within long
range. Action.
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INVISIBILITY (1+ INTELLECT POINTS)
You and anything you’re wearing or holding that
isn’t attached to or part of the environment
(except for other beings) becomes invisible to
the naked eye for one minute per Intellect point
spent. However, you are not invisible in the IR or
UV spectrum.
The difficulty for staying undetected is 2 levels
lower while invisible, since you can still leave
marks in the environment (such as footprints)
and this mutation has no impact on sounds you
may make (including breathing). Action.
LARGE
You are abnormally large. Increase your height
and weight by 30-50% and your Might pool by 4.
Your Speed pool is reduced by 2, however.
Enabler.
LEVITATION (2+ INTELLECT POINTS)
You can lift from the ground and hover or fly at a
slow pace. There is no limit to how high you can
lift off the ground and the Intellect cost is per
minute of levitation.
To start levitating, roll an Intellect roll against
difficulty 2 if you aren’t carrying or wearing
anything besides normal clothes, difficulty 5 if
you are carrying things up to your normal
carrying capacity and difficulty 8 if carrying up to
double your normal capacity (carrying more than
makes it impossible to levitate). Action.
MAGNETISM (2 INTELLECT POINTS)
You can pull metal objects to you by succeeding
on an Intellect roll where the difficulty is the
item’s weight in kilograms (or half the weight, if
using pounds). Increase the difficulty (how much
is determined by the GM) if it is being resisted
(such as a weapon held in an opponent’s hand or
the object is stuck in the environment). Action.
METAL SKELETON
Your bones have started absorbing metals. You
take 1 less damage from blunt trauma, such as
blunt weapons and falling, and your bones are
practically immune to breaking. Your weight also
increases by 20%. Enabler.
INFRA VISION (1 INTELLECT POINT)
For one hour you can see in the IR spectrum, but
this mutation doesn’t work near strong heat
sources, such as a bonfire, and sudden heat
bursts can temporarily blind you. No roll is
required to activate. Action.
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PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Your body can turn sunlight into energy and
because of this you no longer require food under
“normal” outdoors lighting conditions, though
you still require the regular amount of water.
Enabler.
Mutated animals with fur and other mutants
that already have the mutation chameleon
cannot have this mutation and instead re-roll on
the mutation table.
REGENERATION (1 INTELLECT POINT)
You heal 1 Might or Speed point per round by
using this mutation (no roll). Action.
RETRIBUTION (2+ INTELLECT POINTS)
You activate a mental barrier that deflects and
redirects mental attacks (including the
Incineration mutation) aimed at you back to your
opponent if you succeed with an Intellect roll
against the opponent’s level as difficulty. Non-
lethal actions (such as mind control) are 2 levels
more difficult against you while this mutation is
active.
Activation of this mutation requires no roll (you
only roll once you’re attacked) and lasts for five
minutes for each 2 Intellect points spent and
redirecting an attack costs an additional 2
Intellect points (which can be spent as a
reflexive action). Action.
SENSORY FOCUS (1+ INTELLECT
POINTS)
You focus your senses to a specific point within
30 meters (100 feet) and you can “see” what is
there, even if it is normally obscured. You can,
for example, see behind a wall or into a closed
and locked container. This mutation requires no
roll and the Intellect cost is per round it is kept
active, though if you lose your concentration (by
taking damage, for example) it ends
immediately. Action.
SHAPECHANGE (2+ INTELLECT
POINTS)
When you receive this mutation, pick a wild
(non-sentient) mammal that your character has
seen before. Once this mutation is activated (no
roll required) you can turn into that animal for
one hour for each 2 Intellect points spent. If you
are a sentient, mutated animal you can turn into
a human or any other wild mammal instead.
Your mind remains unchanged, though you
lose your opposable thumbs, the ability to speak
and such. Action.
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SMALL Against a hostile, sentient being the cost is 1

You are shorter and lighter than normal. Reduce Intellect point and requires an Intellect roll
your height and weight by 30-50%, increase against the being’s level. You cannot read the
your Speed pool by 4 and lower your Might pool minds of normal, non-sentient animals. Action.
by 2. Enabler.
TELEPORTATION (6+ INTELLECT
SONAR POINTS)
You have unusually large and sensitive ears that See the special ability called teleportation on
can hear high-frequency sounds. In addition, you page 36 in the CSR. Action.
also have an extra organ in your mouth that
transmits high-frequency sounds that together
with your sensitive ears functions as a living
radar. Using the organ requires no roll, costs no
points and is a reflexive action that allows you to
act in darkness (or when blinded) without
penalty. However, if you are somehow muted
you will be unable to use the organ. Enabler.
DEFECTS
STOP (3 INTELLECT POINTS) Some defects can be activated when you fail to
With a successful Intellect roll against the use a mutation. If you have more than one of
target’s level you prevent that target from these, roll separately for each to see which
approaching within 30 meters (100 feet) of you. defects trigger and which do not. It is therefore
If the target is already within that distance, it quite possible that more than one triggers
cannot approach closer, but isn’t pushed away simultaneously.
either. Likewise, the target isn’t pushed away if
you move closer to it. The target can still use
ALL THUMBS
ranged weapons against you, but not melee
Your hands or paws are not well suited to
weapons even if within striking distance. Action.
gripping things. The difficulty for all actions that
are performed by holding something in your
SUCTION CUPS hands (such as wielding a weapon or grappling
You have suction cups on your hands and feet someone) is one level higher than normal.
that counts as a double asset to climbing and a
single asset if only hands or feet can be used.
BACKFIRE
For example, you don’t get the extra bonus from
Every time you fail to use a mutation there’s a
your feet if you’re wearing clothing like shoes or
risk that this defect is activated. Roll once more
socks. Also, the suction cups provide only half
against the same difficulty as the first, failed,
benefit on porous or uneven surfaces (in other
roll. If this roll is also unsuccessful the mutation
words you have to be able to use both hands and
is activated on yourself instead. Mutations that
feet to get a single asset). No roll is required and
don’t cause damage normally have no effect, but
they cost no Intellect points to use. Enabler.
you can believe your own illusions.

TELEKINESIS (1+ INTELLECT POINT)

BREAKDOWN
You can lift and move items with your mind if
Every time you fail to use a mutation there’s a
you succeed with an Intellect roll against a
risk that this defect is activated. Roll once more
difficulty of the item’s weight in kilograms (or
against the same difficulty as the first, failed,
pounds divided by 2). The item moves at a slow
roll. If this roll is also unsuccessful all your
speed and the cost for this mutation is per round
mutations that aren’t constantly active (such as
it is being kept active. Action.
armored skin) cease to function until a
recovery roll is spent. This recovery roll does not
TELEPATHY (0 OR 1 INTELLECT POINT) provide any normal benefits and must only be
You can read the minds of sentient beings as used to counter this defect.
well as project your own thoughts to anyone you
can see or anyone you can’t see, but know is
DENSE
close, if within 100 meters (300 feet).
Your Intellect pool is permanently lowered by 5
You can read and transmit thoughts to a
when receiving this defect.
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GLUTTON
Your body craves food and water at a much
higher rate than normal. While you are heavier
than normal, you need twice the normal amount
of food and water rations to avoid starvation and
dehydration and you always act last when
determining combat initiative.
HYPER-SENSITIVE NERVOUS SYSTEM
You have a hyper-sensitive nervous system and
are susceptible to suffering a breakdown when
taking damage. Every time you are hurt, roll
1d20. If the roll is equal to or lower than the
total damage suffered from your Might pool you
suffer a breakdown that lasts 5 rounds. During
this breakdown you can’t perform any actions
(even defend yourself), except for using a
recovery roll to prematurely end the breakdown
(during your next turn at the earliest, which
counts as an action).
MENTAL BLOCK
You develop a mental block against… something.
Decide together with the GM what this something
is, such as a certain item, a type of animal or
other creature or a specific fact (though nothing
too common, even if doors would be great fun
for everyone else). You will not acknowledge that
this something exists in any way and vehemently
deny its existence. If it is something that can
hurt you, you won’t feel the pain or your brain
will make up another excuse for what caused it,
though you still take the damage.
PHYSICAL BREAKDOWN
When you’ve lost at least half (rounded down) of
your Might pool there’s a risk you’ll suffer from a
physical breakdown. Make a Might roll against
difficulty 5. If you fail the roll your brain can’t
control your muscles anymore and you become
entirely helpless for 1d20 minutes, collapsing in
a heap where you were. Roll once more every
time you take additional damage to your Might
pool while below half of your maximum,
regardless if you’ve already suffered a
breakdown or not.
PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED
Your Might pool is permanently lowered by 5
when receiving this defect.
POOR EYESIGHT
Your eyes are not as they once were. Ranged
attacks and all rolls involving sight (like
perception) are made against a +1 difficulty.
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SLOW
Your Speed pool is permanently lowered by 5
when receiving this defect.
TELEPATHIC OVERLOAD
Every time you fail to use a mutation there’s a
risk that this defect is activated. Roll once more
against the same difficulty as the first, failed,
roll. If this roll is also unsuccessful you can
suddenly hear the thoughts of everyone in a 10
km radius. Unless you are more or less on your
own in a desert you will be overcome with all the
thoughts filling your head and can do nothing
else but rest for an hour. During this time period
you can defend yourself if attacked, but at a
difficulty 2 levels higher than normal and you
can’t use any recovery rolls.
TEMPORARY AMNESIA
Make an Intellect roll every time you suffer
damage (to any pool) where the difficulty is the
damage taken. If the roll is unsuccessful you
suffer from a temporary amnesia for one hour.
During this time, you won’t recognize your
friends or even remember your own name.
TEMPORARY REGRESSION
Every time you fail to use a mutation there’s a
risk that this defect is activated. Roll once more
against the same difficulty as the first, failed,
roll. If this roll is also unsuccessful your
intelligence is temporarily lowered to that of a
young child. As a result, you get worried easily
and can have problems expressing yourself, for
example.
VULNERABILITY TO HEAT
You suffer double ambient damage from heat,
even if you have the mutation chromatic skin.
VULNERABILITY TO METALS
All rolls you make when you carry or use
anything made partially or entirely of metal are
made with one step higher difficulty.
VULNERABILITY TO PHYSICAL DAMAGE
You suffer double damage from all attacks, but
the extra damage is only imaginary and should
be noted separately. When the real and the
imagined damage empty one of your pools you
act as if you suffer those actual consequences,
but you don’t really move down the damage
track (unless the normal damage would do so)
and you can’t die from the imaginary damage.
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The imaginary damage is healed for free when
you heal the normal damage.
VULNERABILITY TO POISON
You suffer double damage from poisons.
VULNERABILITY TO RADIATION
You take twice as much damage to both ambient
damage and radiation damage when exposed to
radiation, speeding up your development of new
mutations and defects.
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WEIRD LOOKS
You look weird. You might have a nose
resembling a large beak, ghost-like or
translucent skin or big, poison-green eyes. The
GM and player determines the exact
characteristic together.
All rolls for pleasant social interactions are
made against a difficulty two levels higher than
normal.
Note that this defect can be received multiple
times, but each additional weird look only
increases the difficulty by one step more.
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the foraging roll provides one additional survival

SURVIVAL ration and a major effect provides three
A resource-scarce setting wouldn’t be complete additional survival rations, either as water or
without survival rules, such as hunting, foraging, food. Remember that to survive without starving
starvation and dehydration; detailed below. or thirsting a character needs a full ration (which
equals two survival rations) of food and water
HUNTING each day (so four survival rations in total - two
each of food and water). Berries, fruits and
Hunting wild animals provides food according to
vegetables keeps a few days before spoiling,
the table below. Note that a full ration equals
while water keeps more or less indefinitely. The
two survival rations and that the table shows the
difficulty of the Intellect roll depends on the
total number of rations an animal provides, that
environment, as per the table below.
can then be split among several characters.
In contemporary post-apocalypse scenarios,
FORAGING TABLE
such as a zombie game, coming across a
Environment Difficulty
supermarket or similar counts as finding a great
Healthy forest, lake or river 3
number of survival or full rations more or less
Other nature 4
automatically. Such rations will also last longer
Steppe or swamp 5
than raw animal meat (see below).
Caves and tundra 6
Snow or desert 7
HUNTING TABLE Nature-reclaimed city or town 5
Animal Food ration Deserted city or town 6
Small fish 1 survival ration
Large fish 2 survival rations
Squirrel 1 survival ration DEHYDRATION,
Beaver 1 full ration
Pheasant 1½ full rations STARVATION AND
Hare 2 full rations RECOVERY
Fox 2½ full rations
Badger 3 full rations A character can survive (and thrive!) indefinitely
Wolverine 3 full rations on one full ration per day, but any less than that
Wild boar 3½ full rations will result in starvation and dehydration penalties
Lynx 4 full rations at a cumulative rate of -1 to all pools every day
Wolf 4½ full rations when without food or -2 every day if without
Deer 6 full rations water (regardless if the character has access to
Bear 10 full rations food or not). A character on survival rations
Elk or moose 12 full rations doubles these times, so -1 every two days
Note that meat only keeps a day or two without food and -1 every day without water
before it spoils, unless salted and stored in a cool (technically -2 every two days).
place, and some animals just don’t taste very This penalty is to the max value of the pools
good - salted or not. (and if your current value is equal to your max
Normal rules for assisting others apply if pool, then it is lowered as well, otherwise not)
characters do not want to hunt on their own, but and can’t be recovered until the character is no
assist one hunter in the group. longer starving and thirsting. When recovering
(by eating and drinking full rations of food and
water every day), the max values of the pools
FORAGING recover at the same speed as they were lost
(depending on if the loss was due to lack of food
An alternative to hunting for food is to forage or water).
and foraging is also the best method for finding A character moves along the damage track,
drinkable water. The character foraging makes and dies, as normal when pools reach zero.
an Intellect (survival) roll once every hour spent
actively foraging or once every four hours if done A character without food for 4 days will
while travelling. Other characters can forage on suffer a -4 penalty to all pools and a
their own or assist one another as per normal character without water for 4 days will
rules. A successful roll provides one survival suffer a -8 penalty to all pools.
ration of food (berries, vegetables or fruits) and However, on survival rations for food, a
one survival ration of drinkable water (or two character will only suffer a -2 penalty
survival rations of food and no water or vice after 4 days.
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ZOMBIES
Slow and tough to kill and will turn you into one
of them if they scratch you. Everyone’s (okay,
maybe not everyone’s) favorite post-apocalyptic
bad guy, the zombie, is the center of one
particular kind of post-apocalyptic game. In
these games, the world – terrain, buildings and
even the weather – is normally unaffected, only
the inhabitants are changed.
But what if your zombies aren’t slow, but fast
and easier to kill? Or they don’t turn you just by
scratching your skin? You can tweak zombies a
lot and surprise your characters (and players!)
along the way. Perhaps “zombie” is one thing
where the players start out, but in the next town
over, or the next State or country the players
pass through, it means something else. The
players will have to change and adapt, find new
ways of surviving.
Is there an end-game that doesn’t involve
everyone in the group turning into a zombie or
otherwise dying? You might not want to make
the game into a years-long campaign, but one
with a clearly defined beginning and end.
Perhaps the players are trapped on a zombie-
infested island and must escape, or they need to
escape to an island which the zombies can’t
reach. In that case, why does water stop them –
is it like acid to them? That has implications for
how the players deal with them during the game
as well. Zombies can be simple, a splatter fest,
but the game can be tuned a lot too to make it
more diverse.
INFECTION
There are different ways to handle a zombie
infection (one is given on page 333 in the CSR).
Perhaps as soon as they draw blood from you,
you turn into a zombie after a few rounds (or
have the player make a Might roll against either
the zombie’s level or the damage dealt). That’s
really harsh, but certainly adds bite to the game,
forcing the characters to always be super-careful
and prepared.
Here’s an idea for something a little less
harsh. If you’re killed, then you turn into a
zombie. Wouldn’t be much of a zombie-game if
this didn’t happen, so it’s a no-brainer. For minor
injuries allow zombification. This prolongs the
turning into a zombie allowing for somewhat
longer play, while still affecting the character. If
all body parts (on the chart below) are
zombified, without killing you, then you still turn
into a zombie. The first thing we need is the hit
chart.
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ZOMBIE MELEE HIT CHART
Roll Body part hit
1-3 Head
4-6 Right arm
7-9 Left arm
10-14 Torso
15-17 Right leg
18-20 Left leg
If the body part hit receives equal or more
damage than a third of your full Might pool
(rounded down) in a single attack, then that
body part becomes zombified. You can even
make a note of this number for easy reference.
Call it your zombification threshold.
If your full Might pool is 16 then the
threshold referred to here would be 5 (16
divided by 3 is 5,3 which is rounded
down to 5). If you take 5 or more
damage in a single attack, then you roll
on the hit chart and that body part
becomes zombified.
Zombified legs increases the difficulty of
Speed actions that involve your legs (such as
running away from zombies) by one for each leg
affected, but reduces the difficulty for Might-
based actions (such as kicking open a door) by
one for each leg affected.
A zombified arm makes it more difficult to
perform precision actions with that arm
(including unarmed attacks as well as attacks
with both melee and ranged weapons). The
difficulty for these actions is increased by 1 for
one-armed actions and 2 for two-armed actions
if both your arms are zombified. On the other
hand, melee damage is increased by 1 or 2 in
the same way.
If your torso is zombified, it becomes more
resistant to damage, counting as natural Armor
1, while preventing normal recovery rolls to be
used (see the COMPLETELY OPTIONAL
ZOMBIFICATION RECOVERY RULE, below).
A zombified head increases the difficulty of all
Intellect rolls you initiate by 1 (such as
performing a mental attack), while lowering your
difficulty to withstand Intellect-based attacks
aimed at you. You’ll also begin to look hideous
and others might mistake you for an actual
zombie. This happens for all body parts, but it is
most notable with the head
In all this, don’t forget that zombies attacking
in groups of five to seven can make a single
attack roll as a level 5 creature, inflicting 5
points of damage (page 333 in the CSR).
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COMPLETELY OPTIONAL And finally, hitting the head with a targeted

ZOMBIFICATION RECOVERY RULE attack kills the zombie outright, regardless how
To make the game last longer still, or just be much (or little) damage you deal and regardless
slightly easier on the characters, let their bodies if you roll an odd or even number on the attack
fight the zombie infection by allowing them to roll.
heal zombification. Let the player expend a
recovery roll to remove zombification on one
body part, while not gaining any other benefits
from the recovery roll.
This works best if you think your group will be
in combat with and get hurt by zombies quite
frequently. Perhaps the characters find a serum
that gives them this ability?

TARGETED ATTACKS
Everyone knows the best way to kill a zombie is
with a shot or blow to the head. While you can
allow this on a minor or major effect (or perhaps
a minor effect simply maims the zombie, such as
shooting off an arm or a leg), it might be a good
idea to also allow targeted attacks for better
zombie management by the characters, in
particular if you plan on using a large number of
them.
Inspired by the targeting system of vehicular
combat (page 215 in the CSR, rather than the
optional rule of trading damage for effect on
page 224), allow targeting various body parts,
with various effects if hit.

TARGETED ATTACK DIFFICULTY

Difficulty Body part
+1 Torso
+3 Arms and legs
+5 Head

A successful targeted attack always produces a

special result, while also causing damage to the
zombie’s general health which may eventually
kill it.
A targeted attack aimed at the arms maims the
arm hit, modifying the zombie’s ability to attack
one step in the player character’s favor (a level 3
zombie that’s lost both its arms attack as level 1,
as it tries to bite you, arms flailing uselessly at
its sides or just plain missing).
Hitting the legs similarly maims the leg hit,
reducing the zombie’s movement by half for one
leg maimed (it still crawls towards you) and by
three quarters if both legs are maimed (it crawls
a bit slower, using only its arms to pull itself
forward). Whether one or two legs are maimed,
it’s also easier to hit the zombie, by one step in
the character’s favor.
Hitting the torso with a targeted attack knocks
the zombie down and it must spend one full
round getting back up again (they’re not agile!).

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must make the most of it while it’s there, saving

WEATHER up until the next flood.
One fun aspect of most post-apocalypse game HEAT
settings is you have carte blanche to do Scorching heat can be a real problem, especially
whatever you want with the weather – just for those wearing armor. Spending time under a
blame the weather on the apocalypse. Scorching scorching sun without shade gives 1 ambient
sun followed by ice storms just a day or two damage per hour (2 if you don’t have access to
later? Sure thing! any water) and any armor worn (thus excluding
Weather can be just about whatever you want, natural armor) adds its armor rating to the
such as: damage taken (the heavier the armor the more
Acid rain damage you take).
Dust storms
LIGHTNING STRIKES
Extreme cold
Extreme thunderstorms bring with it massive
Hail and ice storms
amounts of lightning strikes, which puts anyone
Radioactive rain
outside a shelter in risk. Consider giving being
Thunderstorms
hit by lightning at least electrocution-level of
Tornados
damage, if not even more (perhaps up to the
Torrential rains
double amount).
Scorching heat
Refer to the Damage from hazards table on RADIOACTIVE RAIN
page 201 in the CSR for typical damages where Radioactive rain gives increased radiation
appropriate and see below for additional notes damage, but probably not every round.
and thoughts (all damages mentioned are Depending on how intense the rain is, it might
ambient damage). give an extra point of damage every 10 to 30
minutes.
ACID RAIN If the rain glows, the foolhardy can collect it in
Being out in an acid rain counts as being
a glass bottle and have a makeshift lamp that
subjected to an acid splash (on the Hazard
can’t be turned off.
damage table) every round and can also damage
clothing and equipment. WIND
While strong winds themselves probably aren’t
DUST
harmful to characters, it will throw a lot of debris
While not normally harmful itself, dust will get
around (or produce massive waves) that will
into everything during storms and obscures
definitely be a threat to both characters and
vision effectively, raising the difficulty of
equipment, counting as Crush, Huge crush or
perception-based rolls by two. Really severe
Collision on the Hazard damage table if you’re
storms can cause 1 point of ambient damage per
unlucky to get hit.
round, unless protective clothing is worn
(particularly over the face and eyes).
EXTREME COLD AND HAIL
Like a typical scorching sun, consider flash-
freezing the world over the course of a single
day or night. Frost covers all buildings,
equipment with moving parts freeze up and the
ground can become super slippery, raising the
difficulty of movement by 1 or 2 levels, while
being out without suitable clothing can give Cold
damage.
Apart from any cold damage, severe hail can
give an additional 1 point of damage per round if
you’re caught out in it.
FLOODING
Perhaps due to excessive rains or strong,
recurring and possibly erratic tides, the world
floods now and again. Is the water toxic or
radioactive? How is the landscape affected by the
flooding and how do people and creatures move
about during the flood? Perhaps the flood is all
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EQUIPMENT LIST
Item Level Construction (parts) Repair (parts) Cost Comment
Ammunition, handgun as per weapon 1, chems - Expensive 10 bullets

Backpack 2 1 1 Moderately priced

Big metal axe 6 9 3 Very expensive Heavy weapon

Big stone club 3 2 1 Inexpensive Heavy weapon (Intrusion 1-2)

Binoculars 3 2 1 Expensive

Cobbled “cricket” pistol 3 3 1 Moderately priced Light weapon (Intrusion 1-2)

Cobbled pistol 4 4 2 Expensive Medium weapon (Intrusion 1-2)

Cobbled rifle 5 5 3 Very expensive Heavy weapon (Intrusion 1-2)

Geiger counter 4 3, chems & circuits 1, chems & circuits Very expensive

Grenade 4 3, chems - Very expensive

Healing salve 4 1, chems - Expensive

Heavy junk armor 4 12 4 Very expensive Heavy armor (Intrusion 1-2)

Junk car 3 45, chems x 2 15, chems x 2 Expensive Ground vehicle (Intrusion 1-2)

Junk motorcycle 2 15, chems x 2 5, chems x 2 Expensive Ground vehicle (Intrusion 1-2)

Junk rotoblade 3 60, chems & circuits 20, chems & circuits Exorbitant Flying vehicle (Intrusion 1-2)

Junk sailer 2 90 30 Expensive Water sailing vehicle (Intrusion 1-2)

Junk ship 4 150, circuits 50, circuits Very expensive Water motor vehicle (Intrusion 1-2)

Junk skiff 3 60, circuits 20, circuits Expensive Water motor vehicle (Intrusion 1-2)

Junk truck 4 120, chems x 2 40, chems x 2 Very expensive Ground vehicle (Intrusion 1-2)

Lantern 3 2, chems 1, chems Expensive

Laser pistol, small * 4 6 circuits x2 2, circuits x2 Exorbitant Light weapon

Laser pistol, normal * 5 9, circuits x2 3, circuits x2 Exorbitant Medium weapon

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Item Level Construction (parts) Repair (parts) Cost Comment

Laser rifle * 6 12, circuits x2 4, circuits x2 Exorbitant Heavy weapon

Leather jacket 3 6, chems 2, chems Expensive Light armor

Light junk armor 2 6 2 Moderately priced Light armor (Intrusion 1-2)

Maser pistol, small * 4 6 circuits x2 2, circuits x2 Exorbitant Light weapon

Maser pistol, normal * 5 9, circuits x2 3, circuits x2 Exorbitant Medium weapon

Maser rifle * 6 12, circuits x2 4, circuits x2 Exorbitant Heavy weapon

Medium junk armor 3 9 3 Expensive Medium armor (Intrusion 1-2)

Metal blade 4 6 2 Expensive Medium weapon

Metal shiv 2 3 1 Moderately priced Light weapon

Motion sensor 4 3, circuits 1, circuits Very expensive

Night-vision goggles 4 3, circuits 1, circuits Very expensive

Poison 4 1, chems - Expensive

Pre-apocalypse bullet-proof vest 4 9, chems 3, chems Very expensive Medium armor

Pre-apocalypse combat suit * 5 15, chems 5, chems Exorbitant Heavy armor

Pre-apocalypse heavy pistol 4 7 2 Very expensive Medium weapon

(single-fire) *
Pre-apocalypse light pistol
(single-fire) *
Pre-apocalypse rifle
(single-fire or automatic) *
Pre-apocalypse SMG (automatic) *
3 5 2 Very expensive Light weapon
5 9 3 Exorbitant Heavy weapon, automatic rifles are
Spray-capable
4 8 3 Very expensive Medium weapon, Spray-capable

Pre-apocalypse air vehicle 6, or 7 500 or 400, both 175 or 150, both Exorbitant Vehicle
(propeller aircraft, helicopter) require circuits x 3 require circuits x 3
and chems x 3 and chems x 3
Pre-apocalypse car * 3 80, chems x 2 25, chems x 2 Exorbitant Vehicle

Pre-apocalypse motorcycle * 2 25, chems x 2 8, chems x 2 Exorbitant Vehicle

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Item Level Construction (parts) Repair (parts) Cost Comment

Pre-apocalypse truck * 4 200, chems x 2 60, chems x 2 Exorbitant Vehicle

Rocket pistol, small * 3 6 circuits x1 2, circuits x1 Very expensive Light weapon

Rocket pistol, normal * 4 9, circuits x1 3, circuits x1 Very expensive Medium weapon

Rocket rifle * 5 12, circuits x1 4, circuits x1 Exorbitant Heavy weapon

Rope, simple 1 1 per meter (3 feet) 1 per 3 meters Inexpensive Intrusion 1-2
(9 feet)
Rope, strong 2 2 per meter (6 feet) 1 per 3 meters Moderately priced
(9 feet)
Sack 1 1 1 Inexpensive

Sharpened stone knife 1 1 1 Inexpensive Light weapon (Intrusion 1-2)

Stone club 2 1 1 Inexpensive Medium weapon (Intrusion 1-2)

Tools (set) any 9 3 Inexpensive to Exorbitant (depending on level)

Torch 1 1, chems - Inexpensive

Ultrasound pistol, small * 5 6 circuits x2 2, circuits x2 Exorbitant Light weapon

Ultrasound pistol, normal * 6 9, circuits x2 3, circuits x2 Exorbitant Medium weapon

Ultrasound rifle * 7 12, circuits x2 4, circuits x2 Exorbitant Heavy weapon

* Pre-apocalypse items can only be constructed and repaired from actual parts, not junk, and requires the special ability Crafting master as well as appropriate
tools and machines.

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