PRESTIGE OPTIONS

PLAYING A CYBORG

Cyborgs are a variation of the human species that are extra compatible with cyberware and suffer less from installing large amounts of cyberware.

PERKS

Cyborgs start the game with 100 XP to spend on general perks.

SPECIES POWERS

• For rules purposes, cyborgs count as humans.
• Cyborgs start the game with a cyberware arm or leg (your choice). You must provide the prop for the cyberware. The item card for the cyberware of your chosen type will be randomly determined and given to you. This item cannot be looted from you, but can be replaced with another cyberware item. If that new item is removed via a procedure (see chapter 10) your old cyberware can be re-installed with a difficulty 5 procedure no matter what that original cyberware difficulty is.
• When calculating limit loss from installed cyberware, a cyborg counts as if they had 50 less total points of drain (chapter 10).

LIMIT RECOVERY

Cyborg characters can recover limit flags by resting. The default rest time for humans is 5 minutes, but can be altered by perks.

COSTUMING REQUIREMENTS

Cyborgs must have a prop for their chosen cybernetic limb.

PLAYING A MOOK

When selecting this prestige option, you are accepting that you will be playing a different kind of game from most standard characters. This prestige option allows you to create a template of a kind of character, not a specific individual. You will be playing a group of characters, one at a time, to fill the world with people, who don't necessarily stand out as a hero or a villain themselves, but an organization or group of people that will gain a reputation based on the actions of its members as a whole. You will be very similar to NPC's, without working for plot, and get into a lot of adventures as an almost nameless character.
This character requires caps to stay alive. You have to purchase Respawn Tokens to keep yourself going. This prestige option is designed with the idea in mind that you will charge for your service if you go into combat with other people, or that you will do other jobs for money to keep yourself in stock of Respawn tokens.

PERKS

Mooks start the game with 200 XP to spend on general perks. Mooks cannot choose distinctions to gain bonus XP at character creation.

SPECIES POWERS

• For rules purposes, mooks count as humans.
• Mooks have a carry capacity of 5.
  • Mooks do not count any melee or ranged weapons in their carry capacity.
  • Mooks cannot use bag items.
  • Mooks can only carry a maximum of 5 thrown weapons.
• Mooks have an XP cap for perks of 1000, instead of the usual 2000. This limit can never be increased.
• Every event, you start with one Respawn Token.
• You can purchase Respawn Tokens at ops. These are purchased with caps, and cost 10 caps per 200XP you have spent on your character.
• When someone loots you, you do not have to give up any caps, ammunition, explosives or keys to storage containers that you own.
• When you take a reach the end of your dying count, you must burn one respawn token to leave game, gather up your maximum number of health flags and limit flags, and thrown weapons, from the ground and travel to an area that is not visible by any players that you are not allied and on friendly terms with, and re-enter the game. After any encounter in which you burned a respawn token, leave game by calling "MOOK OUT OF GAME" and give the respawn token that you burned to the enemy character who you feel caused your defeat, then return to where you were when you left game and come back into game. This token can be turned into ops in exchange for a reward of xp and caps. If you do not have a respawn token to burn, you suffer permanent character death and will need to create a new character.
• If you are down to your last respawn token, you may choose to come back into game at game ops instead of the nearby area (after giving out the Respawn token while you are out of game).
• Any time you are defeated with a legendary item in your inventory, you must give it to the next person you give a respawn token.

LIMIT RECOVERY

Mook characters can recover limit flags by resting. The default rest time for a mook is 5 minutes, but can be altered by perks.

COSTUMING REQUIREMENTS

No special costuming requirements.

PLAYING A MUTOID

Mutoid are a special type of species that is represented by a puppet, and the player portraying the character acts as the puppet, while their physical body is treated as not part of the game itself.

PERKS

Mutoids start the game with 100 XP to spend on perks. Mutoids can purchase General perks and mutant species perks.

SPECIES POWERS

You will need to pick one of two body types (floater, or crawler) when you create your mutoid character. The body type you select will change your statistics forever, and dictate how you operate your mutoid puppet.
The following rules apply to all mutoid regardless of body type:

• While playing as a mutoid, you will operate a mutoid puppet instead of acting as the character you are playing.
• Mutoids do not have limbs, and cannot have any limbs disabled. When a mutoid receives an injury that affects a limb, a different injury needs to be determined.
• Mutoids can NEVER make melee attacks. Your mutoid prop is never to be used as a melee weapon.
• Mutoids can NEVER use ranged weapon props, but can use mutant perks that require throwing an ability packet.
• Mutoids cannot install limb cyberware.
• Mutoids cannot wear armor.
• Mutoid characters start with a radiation buffer of 1. Each level of their radiation buffer prevents you from suffering from radiation poison. You do not start reducing your max health due to radiation poisoning until the number of radiation bracelets you are wearing exceeds this buffer. This buffer can increase with selection of special perks, items and chems.
• You can carry a number of ability packets equal to your radiation buffer level.
• Mutoids have 3 extra ability packets that can be recovered at the end of any encounter they are used in. Mutoids may throw ability packets at any time and call “HARM”. Mutoids can use any mutant perk that requires a melee attack with these packets.

• Your carrying capacity is 10.
• Your Max Health is increased by 1.

• Your carrying capacity is 2.
• You are immune to grab.

LIMIT RECOVERY

• Mutoid characters can recover limit flags by resting. The default rest time for a mutoid is 5 minutes, but can be altered by perks.
• When resting, mutoid characters may remove an equipped radiation bracelet and put it in their out of game bag to recover all of their limit flags after a single rest.

COSTUMING REQUIREMENTS

• Mutoids must look like small fleshy mutated creatures. This can be taken in many directions like a floating brain, or a crawling bug. Use your imagination when creating a mutoid, and always remember rule number 1.
• You must wear a [[blue]] headband to signify that YOU are out of game, and that your prop is the actual character. This headband must be provided by you.
• Mutoid props must be attached to a 6 foot handle that you use to operate the prop. When moving, you need to have both hands on your control handle.
• No matter what body type choice you make, your mutoid must at least take up the majority of a two foot sphere. You can exceed this limit, but you must attempt to create a mutoid that fills as much of this space as possible.
• Mutoids can integrate puppetry parts (moving mouths, limbs etc), but are not required to do so.
• Mutoids must be constructed to avoid sharp hard points, hard edges or exposed metal.
• Your mutoid will be struck in combat and must be strong enough to resist boffer weapons. Your opponents will be required to strike as lightly as possible but accidents can occur and your mutoid needs to be able to take an accidental trampling, bump or fall.

• Crawler mutoids must be held downwards, like a hockey stick.
• These mutoids must always maintain contact or near contact (no more than about 6 inches) with the ground.

• Hover mutoids must be held upwards, like a flag (this can be angled, but above an angle that is parallel to the ground). Be careful not to hold it too closely to your head for safety purposes.

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PLAYING A PERFECT MUTANT

Perfect mutants are humans with special mutation powers. Not quite a mutant, and not fully human, perfect mutants will have some limitations to the mutations.

PERKS

Perfect Mutants start the game with 100 XP to spend on general perks.

SPECIES POWERS

• Perfect Mutants start with an allotment of 300 XP to spend on mutant species perks (see Chapter 5). This XP doesn’t count against your XP cap. You can not spend more than this amount on Mutant Perks, and this does not allow you to purchase mutations after character creation.  These perks do NOT count towards your tag scores.
• Perfect Mutant characters start with 0 ability props. Any mutant perks they select that increase their radiation buffer, instead increase the number of ability props they have. At the end of the encounter, they can recover all of their ability packets they can find from the nearby area. If they are unable to locate any ability packets, they will need to rest to recover those ability packets.

LIMIT RECOVERY

• Perfect mutant characters can recover limit flags by resting. The default rest time for a perfect mutant is 10 minutes, but can be altered by perks.
• When a perfect mutant becomes fresh from resting, they can recover any missing ability packets from game ops.

COSTUMING REQUIREMENTS

No special costuming requirements.

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PLAYING A RAD-TITAN

The rad-titan species as a whole is naturally very physically strong and are at home on the front lines in combat. The majority of rad-titans reside in places that most other species consider to be completely uninhabitable, limiting their contact with other societies, thus most rad-titans think and act very differently than other wastelanders, and this can cause them a lot of issues. You will need to prepare yourself to play very differently with this character due to rad-titan species rules that are very different from most species. While many non-player characters will treat you with the respect that any wastelander is capable of earning, some will treat you with suspicion and others with outright fear. Some wastelanders might rely on rad-titans as protectors or enforcers but distrust their volatile nature. Rad-Titans naturally form hierarchies based on strength, but loyalty is fierce once earned. As a player of this species, you are not required to act in this way, as there are exceptions to every society, but other members of your species you might encounter will most often act in these ways.
Rad-titans do not feel pain in the same way that humans do. Pain is really just tactile feedback to them, as opposed to an emergency warning system for their bodies. This can lead to them fighting beyond their limits.

PERKS

Rad-Titans start the game with 100 XP to spend on general perks.

SPECIES POWERS

• Rad-Titans start with 3 health flags. Rad-Titans have a [[health cap]] of 10 instead of the normal 5.
• Rad-Titans have +1 Strength, and +1 Endurance.
• Rad-Titans characters do not have limit flags. Instead, a rad-titan character uses their health flags in place of limit flags. Any time they would pull, burn or lose a limit flag, they instead pull, burn or lose a health flag.
• Rad titans count as fresh if they have all of their health flags equipped, and spent when they are wounded.
• Perks, abilities and items that restore limit flags have no effect on rad-titan characters. Perks, abilities and items that grant the ability to equip extra limit flags grant health flags instead.
• Rad-Titans are Immune to radiation and anytime they are given a radiation bracelet, they are immediately hit with regen. Any radiation bracelets you receive are immediately stored in your out-of-game bag and returned to game ops.
• When a rad-titan loses their last health flag, they are not downed, and may continue to act. While they have no health flags equipped they are wounded. If they take any damage when they have no health flags equipped, they immediately become dying, skipping over becoming downed. If they lose dying (being hit with revive as an example) they become downed as normal.
• As a rad-titan, your instincts push you toward confrontation. You are not mindlessly violent, but your biology and culture treat dominance, intimidation, and physicality as natural first responses. When playing a rad-titan, you must adhere to the following guidelines to the best of your ability:
  • You lose yourself in battle. When you take damage during an encounter, or one of your party members is downed during an encounter, you must continue making aggressive actions (attacks, abilities that cause damage, etc) towards anyone you consider an enemy until the end of the encounter and may not retreat from the battle for the remainder of the encounter or until you become wounded. If your enemy flees, you do not need to pursue them. If you are unable to harm any enemy in the encounter, you do not need to continue your aggression.
  • You cannot back down from a direct challenge. If another character physically threatens you (steps into your personal space, draws a weapon on you, or insults your strength), you must respond with intimidation or aggression. This can include roaring, posturing, or issuing a challenge, but does not require immediately attacking.
  • You must escalate before de-escalating. If a conflict arises (an argument, a theft, a territorial dispute, etc.), your first reaction must be aggressive (yelling, cracking your knuckles, slamming your fist on a table). After this display, you can choose to negotiate or walk away—but only after establishing dominance.
  • You cannot ignore physical insults. If someone hits you (even with no damage), you must retaliate in kind unless you are restrained or outnumbered. If the attack comes from a trusted ally it is up to you how you respond.
  • You are loyal. If you are a member of a party, your party leader can order you to stand down and this will allow you to stop any aggression you are required to perform in the guidelines above.
• Rad-Titans can benefit from 2 food buffs at a time.

LIMIT RECOVERY

• Rad-Titan characters can recover health flags by resting. The default rest time for a rad-titan is 20 minutes, but can be altered by perks.
• Rad-Titan characters can recover health flags by fighting. At the end of an encounter in which the rad-titan [[drops]] an opponent, they may immediately regen.

COSTUMING REQUIREMENTS

Rad-titans must wear some sort of set horns prop on their head. These horns can be of any design other than antlers. Rad-titans must wear some sort of protruding lower fangs or teeth. These can be as large or small as you want, but must be visible when your mouth is closed.

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PLAYING A ROADKILL

Roadkill have the worst of both fates when it comes to reactions from denizens of the wastes. Being part of the stray, and being part of the turned. Many strays shy away from roadkill and hesitate to allow them into the pack, and humans are always wary of those afflicted with the virus. While they have a very wide variety of powers available to them, their stray mutations and the changes inflicted on them by the virus leave them unable to use most weapons effectively.

PERKS

Roadkill start the game with 100 XP to spend on perks. Roadkill can purchase general perks, stray perks and unturned perks.

SPECIES POWERS

• Any stray costuming (see below) that you are wearing counts as armor for armor coverage until it qualifies as wearing light armor. You may choose to count as unarmored while benefiting from this ability.
• Whenever a roadkill is recruited to a party or chosen as a drone partner, the party leader or drone needs to pull a limit flag or the roadkill cannot be recruited to the party or chosen as a partner. The roadkill must inform the party leader of this using the Out of Game Hand Sign.
• Unless a roadkill is attacking with unarmed props, all focus and reload counts are increased by 5.
• Roadkill characters begin the game with the ability to equip two extra maximum limit flags. Roadkill characters have a limit flag cap of 10, as opposed to the normal 5.
• Roadkill characters do not have health flags. Instead, a roadkill character uses their limit flags in place of health flags. Any time they would pull or lose a health flag, they instead pull or lose a limit flag.
• Roadkill characters with radiation poisoning lower their max limit, instead of max health.
• Perks, abilities and items that restore health flags have no effect on roadkill characters. Perks, abilities and items that increase max health increase max limit instead.
• When a roadkill loses their last limit flag, they are downed. When a roadkill pulls their last limit flag, they are wounded.
• Roadkill characters must carry an unarmed combat prop at all times. While using an unarmed prop, you may make a count of “BITE(3)(Att, Vol)” and when complete, make a melee attack and call “BITE”. You can use this ability even if all of your arms are disabled and may make the attack as if your arm was not disabled for the single bite attack.
• You can cannibalize fallen enemies to recover your strength. To cannibalize someone, you must be within arms reach of a dying organic character. You can then make a count of “FEAST(3)(Int, Res, Vol)” and if you finish the count before the creature finishes its dying count, you may immediately rally. This ability can only be used once on each organic character per encounter.
• When you are wounded, if anyone within 5 ft of you is downed, you must move to within arms reach of that character and attempt to make a “FEAST(3)(Int, Res, Vol)” count. If you finish, you must immediately call “BITE HARM” on the downed character and if that call was a killing blow, you may [[immediately rally]]. If you are forced out of 5 ft from the character that was downed, you must continue to attempt to complete the feast count as long as the character is downed, or until you are no longer wounded.

• All roadkill characters will carry a Turned monster card.
• When you near the end of your dying count, you should ready your unarmed prop. Do not use any of your normal weapons or shields when you turn.
• As soon as you finish your dying count, make a “TURNING (10)(Res)” count and once you reach the end of the count, you get up and will begin attacking everything near you. 
• You have 2 health; this is the amount of lethal hits you can take before starting a dying count.
• You must attempt to use your bite attack on the closest character to you. Once that character is downed, you will continue to use your bite attack on that character until they begin a dying count, and then you will use your cannibalize ability. If you finish your feast count, instead of gaining a limit flag, your health is returned to full, and you continue attempting to find and bite new characters.
• Your character does not remember what happens as a turned character unless you have an ability that allows you to do so.
• When you turn, you are no longer a member of any party, and if you had a drone partner, you are no longer a partner. Once you finish your dying count, you are defeated.

LIMIT RECOVERY

Roadkill characters can recover limit flags by resting. The default rest time for roadkills is 5 minutes, but can be altered by perks.

COSTUMING REQUIREMENTS

Roadkill must follow the rules for both stray and unturned costuming. No matter what your animalistic features are, your unturned markings must show. You can also integrate rotting and zombie like features into an animalistic mask or facial covering, to fulfill your unturned requirements.

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PLAYING A TECH-MUTANT

Tech-mutants have a large amount of options available to them. You will need to carefully balance your abilities, and read your perk choices thoroughly, as some of them will have no effects on your character and might even be poor choices.

PERKS

Tech-mutants start the game with 100 XP to spend on perks. Tech-mutants can purchase general perks, mutant perks, and android perks.

SPECIES POWERS

• Tech-mutants count as both robotic and organic. If an ability affects only robotic or only organic species, it affects a tech-mutant.

• Tech-mutants start with the ability to equip a total of 2 health flags, but may also equip durability flags as long as the total number of health flags and durability flags doesn’t exceed their max health.

• When a tech-mutant suffers an injury, they may choose to suffer a malfunction instead. These malfunctions and injuries progress as normal, and if you get a malfunction or injury that shares a type with an injury or malfunction that you already have, you gain the greater version of the card you already possessed, or in the case of major injuries or malfunctions, suffer the fate of the first card.

• After resting, a tech-mutant can turn in any radiation bracelets that they are wearing to game ops in exchange for ability packet props (detailed below). You can carry a number of ability packets equal to your radiation buffer level.

• Tech-mutants start with a radiation buffer of 0. Each level of their radiation buffer prevents them from suffering from radiation poisoning. You do not start reducing your max health due to radiation poisoning until the number of radiation bracelets you are wearing exceeds this buffer. This buffer can increase with certain perks, items and chems.

LIMIT RECOVERY

• Tech-mutant characters can recover limit flags by resting. The default rest time for tech-mutants is 10 minutes, but can be altered by perks.

• When fresh, a tech-mutant can rest to recover an ability packet.

• When resting, a tech-mutant may remove an equipped radiation bracelet and put it in their out-of-game bag to recover all of their limit flags after a single rest.

COSTUMING REQUIREMENTS

Tech-Mutant characters must have at least 3 visible techno-integrations visible in their costuming. These techno-integrations can be covered up by additional costuming like hoods, cloaks and robes etc. but if that costuming is removed, the techno-integrations must be visible.

Techno-integration costuming elements should be a significant piece (or pieces) of costuming. The following guidelines should be used to create your costuming elements for your tech-mutant characters. Please keep in mind that the focus on these costuming elements should be theater and show, and not trying to figure out the way in which you can get away with the least amount of costuming. However, do not constrain your creativity due to these guidelines, if you have ideas for costuming, feel free to check in with staff before the game (and before spending any money or effort on the costuming) to see if it is an acceptable techno-integration. Below is a list of pre-approved techno-integrations for character costuming.

• A wig or helmet with wires in the place of hair.

• Arms or legs covered with non-standard armor that resembles something like what you would see on a giant robot.

• Masks that have facial features created out of scrap parts like computer fans, exhaust grates, and the like.

• Additional limbs that look like someone's junk-drawer spat out an arm.