Re: Fallout. Updated 6/12

Posted by messyart on Jan 02, 2012; 2:09am
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Fallout-Updated-8-4-Rulebook-WIP-download-tp7036435p7142911.html

Radiation;
A build up of radiation can hinder and even cripple characters over time.

To represent this, there are 5 "Levels" of radiation that one can endure.

1. Minor Rad poisoning. (Feel physically weaker, nauseous and achey.)
2. Advanced Rad poisoning. (Sickness, vomitting and hair-loss common.)
3. Critical Rad poisoning. (Skin begins to crack, peel and fall away.)
4. Deadly Rad poisoning. (Constant agony.)
5. Deadly, deadly death. (Without religious ideas, it's difficult to further define "Death".)

In game terms, these levels of radiation will cause the following effects;

1. -1 to Endurance (with all of the penalties to wounds, toughness and armour that includes)
2. -2 to Endurance & -1 to Agility (again, with all penalties included)
3. -3 to Endurance, -2 to Agility & -1 to (non-derivative) Strength
4. -3 to Endurance, -2 to Agility & -2 to (non-derivative) Strength
5. Character dies.


If a player remains within the "Critical Rad poisoning" or "Deadly rad poisoning" brackets for more than 5 games, they will become a Ghoul.
Their SPECIAL stats will be limited upon Ghoulification. Their Strength, Endurance and Agility stats will be dropped to 8 if higher, and may never be taken over this value.
However, they will instantly lose all rad poisoning penalties and never suffer them in future, and will suffer penalties during conversations and speach checks.
They will also gain benefits from the blasts of a Glowing ones rad' blast just as any other Ghoul.

Rad build up will be as follows;
00-10 - Fine
11-20 - Minor
21-30 - Advanced
31-40 - Critical
41-50 - Deadly
51+ - Death.

Rad build up will come from a variety of things.
Radiated foods will add 1 when applied (It's likely, that to represent the minor amount they give in the game, that I will have a dice roll to determine whether enough was consumed. a 6 on a D6, for instance).
Walking through water, irradiated areas, etc.
Encounters with any enemy who uses it aggressively, like Reavers, Centaurs, Golden Geckos, etc.

Items like Rad-Away will reduce the radiation count by a value based on a characters Medicine skill.

So remember, don't let yourself get caught up between a few glowing ones, they could cripple your character without even touching you! 8D