Force - These weapons have no special effect, but usually come with more attacks than the other two types.
Energy - These weapons deal double damage to Armored Armor, but deal no damage to Barriers.
Ion - These weapons deal by-pass Barriers and deal double damage if the target has, or has had, at least 1 BP. They deal no damage to targets with Armored Armor however.

A player character can carry one two-handed weapon and two one-handed weapons on them at any given time. However,the more weapons you carry on you, the fewer extra items you can bring along. Keep this in mind when selecting your loudout for a mission.


For almost every situation, we roll one or more D6 to determine results and outcomes. To see if your character is successful in whatever they're doing, please consult the list below.

Skill Rank / Die-roll Needed

• 1 = 6
• 2 = 5
• 3 = 4
• 4 = 3
• 5 = 2

If your Skill Rank is at 1 you cannot score Criticals, as your 6's are treated as just a regular Success.


In this RP, ther are two type of different defenses. For humans, it is wearable Body Armor, suits and outfits, which offer different levels of protection - but come with different drawbacks. For vehicles, robots, mechs and other such things, there is just plain armor. The two fill similar roles and purposes but function slightly differently. Please read the details below to make sure you understand.

Body Armor:
This is the type of armor that players and enemy characters wear, on their person. It comes in Light, Medium and Heavy variants. To understand what each type does and how it works, please read the details below.

- Light Body Armor has 1 Soak Point, needs a 5 (or better) on a D& to save against damage and doesn't incur any penalties to the wearer.
- Medium Body Armor has 2 Soak Points, needs a 4 (or better) on a D6 to save against damage, but incurs a -1 AP penalty to the wearer.
- Heavy Body ARmor has 3 Soak Points, needs a 3 (or better) on a D6 to save against damage, but incurs a -1 AP and a -1 Attack Die penalty to the wearer.

Soak Points is how much damage the armor can take before it becomes Broken. Broken armor loses 1 die side to save against damage (ergo, Light now needs a 6, Medium 5 and Heavy 4 to save against damage). Armor only loses a Soak Point if it fails to protect the wearer from damage. Even if armor fails to save against damage though, the Soak Point will take the damage instead of the character's Hit Points (HP). After the armor becoems Broken, it does not soak any more damage and the character will start taking HP damage when they fail their saves.

Body Armor is restored to a fixed status after a missionn ends and the character returns home to the Hub.

Armored Armor:
This is the type of armor that things like vehicles, robotos, fortifications and other similar things have - things that're not human. This Armor is given a value, such as [Armor 2] , which means that the target needs to take 2 damage before it actually starts losing HP. And this is for each individual attacker, meaning if you and another character attack the same armored target, you both have to strip away said armor, individually, to deal damage. Unlike Body Armor, armor does not lose points or get weaker after being damaged (unless a weapon or effect specifically mentions that in its description).


Hit Points (HP) is a character or object's "life pool". When it reaches 0, the charcter or object is either Knocked Out, Dead or Destroyed.For player characters, when their HP reaches 0 the first time, they're Knocked Out, which means they collapse where they are, on the spot, and cannot take any further actions or do anything except suffer from excruciating pain. Another player or NPC can move over to a KO'd character and either use an item, or the First Aid skill, to revive a downed character back onto their feet with 1 HP.

If a character who was KO'd goes down to 0 HP again, in the same mission, they're Dead. A Dead character is removed from the active character list and, provided the person playing said character doesn't rage-quit, they'll have to make a new character to replace the deceased one, if they want to keep playing.

Barrier Points (BP) are essentially "shields" or "force fields" that certain characters or objects and emit around or infront of themselves. BP acts as a temporary HP and will take any damage instead of the character or object's HP, until they're all gone. ANytime a character or object that has BP gets their turn, they will regenerate 1 BP if any has been lost. However, if a character or object loses ALL their BP (reduced to 0), then their shields will NOT regenerate until the end of the current combat. Think of it as the Barrier-generating device or implant being overheated or something Thus, for example, if you have 3 BP, enemies will need to deal 3 damage to you before your HP or Body Armor starts taking actual damage. Your Body Armor save does not apply to BP however, and as long as an enemy or hazard successfully hits you, it will shave off BP.


Cover are enviromental objects and fixturs that provide a flat defensive bonus to whoever is currently using it. Cover works by converting any hits against a target in the cover into a miss or block. There are three types of cover, Light, heavy and FUll. Light cover are things like hedges, small fences, a ditch or other low or lesser obstacles that mostly block line of sight or offer very little actual protection. Heavy cover are things like concrete chest-high walls, metal balconies, a stationary vehicle, things that are solid and tough and offer both physical defense and vision denial. Full cover are things like hiding behind the corner-wall of a large building, a pilbox bunker, shooting out of a window in an actual intact structure, things that are large and offers a great deal of defense and obfuscation.

In terms of what they do, it's fairly simple. Light cover converts 1 successful hit into a miss. Heavy converts 2 and Full converts 3. Thus, as an example, if you're hiding in Heavy Cover and an emey shoots you, and they hit you once, then they actually don't hit you at all, as they would need 3 successful hits (Heavy cover eats 2 hits) to chew through your cover.

Critical hits from ranged weapons do however ignore cover completely. Thus, if you were shooting at an enemy in full cover, and you hit twice and crtiically hit once, you would still deal 1 damage. Certain weapon types (especially explosives) can destroy cover, and either lower its rating (downgrade full cover to heavy, heavy to light) or remove it entirely.

Melee weapons and attacks ignore cover, as they require you to be right up in your opponent's grill anyway.


If a charcter has a certain trait, ability or equipment, they may gain one or more 'Dodge tokens'. These tokens act like a form of currency that can be spent, on an enemy turn, to avoid needing to roll dice to save against damage. For example, if you have one Dodge token and an enemy hits you twice, you can spend that token to make it so you only need to roll once to see if you take damage.

There are other tokens in the game that work similarily but have different effects and uses. When they become relevant, their rules and mechanics will be explained.


If a charcter has at least a Skill Rank of 2, they can score a 'critical success' whenever they roll a 6. This can have a variety of effects depending on what the roll was for. When it comes to ranged and melee attacks, a critical success ignores cover (for ranged) and denies the target the chance to use 'Dodge' to avoid damage. If performing an action on something that requires multiple interactions, a crit counts as 2 regular successes. If a character attempts a Guts Action and gets a crit, they succeed and don't have to spend any Action Points on said action.


In this game, everything you do during a combat situation costs Action POints (AP).This is a numeric representation of how much or how many things your character can do within their 'turn' - your post is your character's turn. For example, if you have 3 AP, you can do 3 different 'actions'. But what constitutes an action? Some examples are:

- Shooting or fighting
- Hacking a console, electronic door or other object
- Lockpicking a contaienr or door, stealing an enemy's item or disarming a device/trap
- Moving a set # of feet/meters
- Using a special trait, ability, item or power

Then there are the Skills, the things that actually determine what you need to roll in order to succeed at any given action you do or take. Below is a summary of what each skill does and what it effects, and any special notes about it that you might need to know.

- Shooting: Your skill with any type of firearm or ballistic weapon. The higher it is, the easier you will hit targets with things like guns and the like.
- Fighting: Your prowess in melee combat. Determines how easy of a time you have hitting people in the face with things like clubs, swords, fists and other close-quarter instruments.
- Tech: A combination of things like science, electronics, medicine and the like. Determines how easy it is for you do things like hacking, rewriting robots/turret protocols, using chemistry stations, etc.
- Mech: Your mechanical aptitude, for things like pickpocketing, hot-wiring vehicles, lockpicking conventional locks, repairing hardware compnents, etc.
- Acro: Your ability to perform acrobatics and athletics. To help you do things like safely land when jumping/fall off a great height, leaping onto a moving vehicle, climbing a wall or difficulkt terrtain, etc.
- Action Points: Yes, even Action Points is a skill! Well, sort of. This determiens how many AP you have each turn.
- Hit Points: Yup, HP is a skill too! And HP is the only skill that can go above 5. Dtermines how many times you can get hit, shot or blown up before you go down.
- Guts: This is a special skill which allows you to perform a *Heroic Deed', or 'Guts Action' once per combat. The higher your Guts skill is, the more likely it is to succeed.

And those are the skills. During character creation, you'll be given a set amount of points that you can spend across the different skills. However, you'll not earn more point during the game, and the only way to increase your skills beyond that point is to find and equip gear, use temporary buff items or take certain traits/abilities.

Oh, and where throwing is concerned, like grenades, molotovs or other such things, Shooting is used. If you're throwing something like a MedPak or MedGel to an ally, they use their Fighting roll to see if they catch it, or if they'll need to use an AP on their turn to pick the itme up off the ground because they butter-fingered the catch.


At character creation, you get 5 points to spend on the various traits and abilities on offer. These special abilities offer a range of effects that can help either yourself, others or hinder your enemies. Note though, you'll not gain any more points after character creation, so yhe only way to get more traits or abilities is by finding and equipping special gear or using temporary buff items. Below is a compendium of the available traits and abilities you can select, as well as a brief description of what they do. If you're uncertain what an ability does, or how it works, please ask before selecting it.


More traits and abilities may be added in the RP. Ideas and suggestions ae welcome.


The enemies of this RP come in different categories. Generally speaking, the basic enemies are either Mooks, Grunts or Elites. Anything that doesn't fall into these three categories is considered a "Special" enemy, similar to the player charcters in terms of what they can do and what their stats and equipment look like.

Mooks:
These are just.. Cannonfodder trash. Mooks have 1 AP, 1 HP, they only have 1 attack each, hit on 6's and save against damage on 6's.

Grunts:
Grunts are basic enemies, but far more threatening than mooks. They have 2 AP, 1 HP, they can have 1 or 2 attacks each, hit on 5's and save against damage on 5's.

Elites:
These are the guys you should be a bit more concerned about. Elites have 2 AP, 1 HP and Medium Body Armor, they have 2 attacks each, hit on 4's and save against damage on 4's (even when their body armor is broken).

Anything or anyone who isn't a Mook, Grunt or Elite is a special character, and will have their own individual stats, traits and equipment. They also typically have distinct titles or names that differentiate them from their lessers., so they're not hard to notice or identify


During character creation, you will be asked to select your Master of Fate. Which is to say, who will do your dice rolling. You can select either yourself (Me) or you can choose me (GM) to do it for you. As this is a tabletop RP with dice rolling, if you choose the former, you'll be subject to the Code of Noro and Fair Play.

This means that, should there ever come a time where I, as the GM, feel that your dice rolling is just too, unrealistically and unfairly favorable, you may have this privilege revoked. You're being trusted to play and do adhere to the rules of the game on your own. Abusing that right will, obviously, lead to you losing it - or worse. Please keep this in mind.

If you opt to go for the latter option, then you merely need to state your intended actions in the OOC or via PM, I will roll the dice and let you know the results, so you can make the post and describe what happened in your own words.

Advice:
As a Free Action, you offer an Ally, within line of sight, some advice. This awards that character with a free 'Aim' or 'Dodge' token - your choice - which will last until used. You can only offer advice once per turn. You cannot offer advice to yourself.

Aim:
At the start of your turn, spend 1 AP to gain an 'Aim token'. This token can be spent to re-roll a miss on either a Shooting or Fighting attack. The token is lost if not used in the same turn that 'Aim' was activated.

Charge:
If your character is currently wielding a Melee weapon, and are within 1 AP movement range of an enemy who is either in no, or just LIght Cover, you can perform a charge. Charge let's you move to the desired valid target and perform 1 AP worth of attacks with the equipped melee weapon, all at the cost of 1 AP. You can only charge once per turn. Clarification, you Move to and Attack an enemy for just 1 AP.

Cleave:
If your character is engaged with multiple individual targets, or more than two groups of enemies, in melee at once, you can opt to Cleave for 1 AP, provided you're using a two-handed Fighting weapon. Cleave lets you make as many attacks as you would normally, against all enemies and groups within your melee range, at a -1 to your Fighting skill rolls. So, if you normally have 3 attacks, and you're fighting a group of enemy and two individual targets at once, you would make 3 attacks against each threat.

Counter #:
When attacked, the character can return fire/strike back on the enemy turn, if the attacker misses. The number of misses that can be countered is determined by # in this skill's name. If an you have Counter 3 and enemy misses you twice, you an choose to attack back up to 2 times. Note, you can only perform as many counters as your #. If you spend all counters against one enemy's attacks, you cannot counter any more until you've finished a new turn of your own.

Demolitionist:
Whenever you use an explosive type weapon, you always deal an extra +1 damage on each Blast.

First Aid:
You can spend 1 AP to recover 1 HP on yourself and or an ally, or revive a fallen ally, if you make a successful 'Tech' roll. You can only a single person per turn and you can only heal a person up to half their max HP. So, if a character has 4 HP and has only taken 1 damage, you cannot heal them.

Gladiator:
Whenever you use a Fighting weapon for melee combat, you gain +1 extra attack die.

Gunslinger:
WHenever you use a Shooting weapon for ranged combat, you gain +1 extra attack die.

Guardian:
If your character is adjacent to an ally, you can perform a Free Action to step infront of an enemy attack and take the blow instead, using your own defenses for saving rolls. Note, if the enemy hits dand damages, you're the one who feels the pain. You can only Guardian against a single enemy attack inbetween your own turn.

Impact #:
You deal additional damage equal to the # of this skill. Note that impact damage is applied only if you actually deal damage, meaning that if you for example have Impact 2, and an enemy has Armor 2, you would still need to get 3 attacks through to apply the actual impact damage.

Lethality:
Whenever you score a crit while attacking, the target will suffer double damage if they fail their save. So if you normally do 1 damage, you'd now do 2 instead.

Leadership:
If your character pairs up with at least one other ally, or joins a friendly NPC squad, your character provides their team with a free 'Aim' and 'Dodge' token. These tokens remain until used. Note, only the allies gain these tokens, your own character does not.

Nimble:
At the start of your turn, you gain a free 'Dodge token' which can be spent at will. If the token is not used, it will remain until spent. You can stock 2 tokens from this skill at the same time at most. That is to say, even if you go 3 turns without spending any of them, you won't get any more/new tokens from this skull until you do use one.

Overcharge #:
If your character is using an Energy or Ion weapon, you can spend 1 AP to overcharge it. This will cause the weapon to deal additional damage equal to # of this trait. However, after attacking you must roll a Hazard die and on a result of 1, your own character takes as much damage as one attack from that weapon would now do. So, if you have Overcharge 3 and you roll a 1, you would take 4 damage yourself.

Precision:
When shooting or fighting a group of opponents, you can elect to target and direct your attacks against any special character in that squad. Normally, you will always hit and take down the 'grunts' first, before reaching any special NPCs.

Sharpshooter:
You can target the pilot or driver of a vehicle - so long as the cockpit or driver's seat is facing you or has a line of fire to it - and opt to try and shoot them, at a -2 to your Shooting skill roll.

Steal:
With this trait, you can attempt to steal an item from an enemy in melee range for 1 AP. Success determined by your MEch skill. You can only steal once per turn.

Suppress:
You target an enemy or group of enmies in a location and lay down suppressing fire upon them, for 1 AP. Make your regular Shooting attack rolls. If any enemies remain, they are 'suppressed', causing them to lose 1 AP on their turn and having a -1 to their Shooting skill. If they try to leave the suppression Area of Effect, they must make a successful Acro skill roll, or take as much damage as one of your attacks deal. Suppression lasts until your character's turn comes back around, or all targets in the area are gone. Note, you cannot use Counter or Guardian if you're using suppress.

Vantage:
Whenever your character is on higher elevation than their targets, they gain bonuses. Enemies in Light Cover are treated as being in no cover and Heavy Cover is treated as Light Cover (But Full Cover isn't affected). Enemies who're not in any cover, you gain a +1 to your Shooting roll results against. (So a 3 becomes a 4, etc)