Mutant & Machinegun v3 (Draft)

8/10/2019 Mutant & Machinegun v3 (Draft)

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What is Mutants AND

Machine-guns version 3 draft)?

Think of Thundarr the Barbarian, Gamma World, Mutant Future,

Mad Max, Fallout and post-apocalypse movies and stories.

All you need to play

This rulebook, friends, paper, pencil, a few six-sided dice and

imagination.

Dice Notation

See table below for more detail

Dice Abbrev. Roll and Result

1d2 Roll 1 die (1 to 3 =1; 4 to 6 = 2)

1d3 Roll 1 die (1 to 2 = 1; 3 to 4 = 2; 5 to 6 = 3)

xd6 Roll x number of dice.

d66 Roll 2d6, lowest number becomes tens digitwhile highest number becomes one digit

(i.e. you roll a 4,2; the result is 24)

CREATing YOUR CHARACTER

Your character is represented by these four Abilities, they are:

Physical: To do with physical challenges, stealth, speed, driving

and resisting (radiation, poison, etc.).

Mental:To do with problem solving, logic, perception, science

and psionic.

Combat: To do with combat.

Social:To do with negotiation, interaction, and bargain.


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To create a character, pick a race and distribute 8 points

between the abilities. The minimum points you can put in the

abilities is 1 and the maximum is 3 for a beginning hero

RACE

Android:Roll 1d6+10 HP and roll for 2 human/animal

mutations. Android cannot heal during rest, it needs to be

repaired. During rest pick difficulty and make a Mental roll (TN 7

heal 1d3 HP; TN 9 heal 1d6 HP; TN 11 heal 1d6+2 HP). Android

does not need food when prompted.

Evolved Animal: Roll 1d6+8 HP and roll for 2 human/animal

mutations. Evolved Animal also received the Natural Weapon

mutation.

MutantHuman:Roll 1d6+10 HP and roll for 2 human/animal

mutations.

Mutated Plant: Roll 1d6 + 8 HP. Mutated Plant gets 2 plant

mutations. Mutated Plant is capable of walking and talking

similar to human or animal. It can be a humanoid in appearance

but does not have to be.

PureHuman: Roll 1d6+12 HP. A Pure Human also gets a +1 to

either Social or Mental ability. Pure Human is immune tomutation, so any roll involving mutation is ignore.

Defence

Defence is a Target Number when dealing with attack. To

calculate your defence, add 7 to your Physical ability. Defence

may only be upgraded by using armour or other means.


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Experience XP) and advancement

You get 1 to 3 XP at the end of a scenario/quest, on an average

everyone should get 2 XP at the end of a scenario or quest. You

then may spend:

1.1 XP to gain 1 HP

2.5 XP to add 1 to an ability of your choice

Doing stuffs

When in doubt, roll 2d6 roll plus appropriate ability trying to get

the Target Number (TN) or moreto succeed. Refer to difficultytable below:

Difficulty TN

Routine 5

Easy 7

Normal 9Hard 11

Super Hard 13

CRITICAL SUCCESS and FUMBLE

You get a FUMBLEon a natural roll of 2 and a CRITICAL SUCCESS

on a natural roll of 12. A fumble is bad and a critical success is

good. In combat you automatically miss on a fumble and

automatically hit on a critical dealing a double damage.


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Action points

Action points provide characters with the means to affect game

play in significant ways. A character always starts with 3 Action

Points (AP) and he always replenishes them at the beginning of

every adventure. A character can spend 1 AP to do one of these

things:

Allow a character to get extra action.

Grant an extra die to a roll. Roll extra die and pick the best

two. This cannot be used for damage roll.

Turn a failure into a success.

Turn a success into a critical success.

Stop a character from dying. If a hit kills your character, he

is not dead but unconscious with 1 HP left.


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Human/animal Mutation

Make a d66 roll and refer to the human/animal mutation below.

During your adventure you may caught with the hazard of

radiation and may get extra mutation. If so, roll d66 and refer to

mutation below.

d66Mutation Effect

11 Acid Spit (R, M) Produce acid every 3 turns during

combat. Roll attack as normal, on a hit it

deals 1d6+1 damage

12 Adrenaline Jolt Boost your Physical for 1d3 rounds. +2bonus on Physical roll

13 Chameleon Skin You skin changes colour. +4 when hiding.

14 Dark vision You can see in total darkness.

15 Detonating Pods

(R,M)

You grow 1d3 pods per day. Pods deal

1d6+2 damage.

16 Dual Headed You grow another head next to the firstone. Make a second roll whenever you

use senses (looking, listening, traps)

choose the best one.

22 Elasticity You can bend and twist your body in

unnatural ways and squeeze through

very tight spaces.23 Enhanced

Healing

Spend as other action to concentrate

and heal 1d6 HP

24 Extra Arms You can wield an extra weapon and an

extra shield or a second 2-handed

weapon. You attack twice per combat

round. If you gain Quickness mutationyou only attack twice.

25 Gigantism +2 damage to any melee attack, you


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cannot use armour.

26 Gills You have gills. You can breathe under

water. You also get +2 bonus to any roll

while under water.

33 Spiky Growth You grow spikes on your body. Roll 1d6.1-2 small spikes: 1d6 damage; 2-3

medium spikes: 1d6+1; 5-6: large spikes:

1d6+2. You may remove and throw your

spikes and make a range attack. Mutants

with medium and large spikes cannot

wear armour.34 Natural Armour Thick fur, scales, a shell, rubbery skin.

Roll 1d6, 1-2 +1 defence, 3-4 +2 defence,

5-6 +3 defence.

35 Natural Weapon

(M)

Claw, bite, horns or other natural melee

attack. Roll 1d6, 1-2: 1d6 damage, 3-4:

1d6+1 damage, 5-6: 1d6+2 damage.36 Pheromone You release pheromones. You get +2

bonus when doing Social roll.

44 Quickness You get +2 bonus to any Physical roll

involving speed and agility. You also

attack twice per combat round. If you

gain Extra Arms mutation you onlyattack twice.

45 Radiation

Resistance

You resist a bit of radiation. +4 to

radiation roll when prompted.

46 Shocker (R,M) Every 3 turns, you may emit a blast of

energy from your hands or other body

parts. Roll Attack as normal, if hit it deals1d6+3 damage.

55 Psionic Talent Make a d66 roll on psionic table.


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56 Venomous bite

(M)

Your natural bite attack injects poison. If

successful it will deal 1d6 damage, the

target then must make a Physical roll

against TN 7 or he will suffer another

1d6 damage. You cannot take thismutation if you have acid spit mutation.

66 Wings You have bird or bat like wings and are

able to fly in a short distance. You also

gain a Swoop Attack. When you do this,

the target must make Physical roll

against your Physical ability + 7. On afail, target get 1d6 damage.

R means Range where you only use the mutation in ranged

M means Melee where you only use the mutation in melee

Psionic

Make a d66 roll and refer to the psionic table below. You mustexpend 1 HP to use psionic power and you must make a Mental

roll against Psionic TN.

d66Psionic TN Effect

11 Control Machine 9 You control 1 machine for 1d3

turn

12 Mental Blast 9 Target not able to move for 1d3

turn but may still make psionic

attack

13 Detect Psionic 7 You detect psionic activity

present.

14 Detect Machine 7 You detect machine nearby.

15 Empathy 7 You can read target emotion and

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16 Charm Person 7 Force target to obey your will

22 Telekinesis 9 Move object from a far.

23 Daze 7 Target loses next action.

24 Brain Lock 9 Target cannot move and cannot

make psionic for 1d3 turn.25 Combat

Precognition

7 You gain +1 defence for the

whole combat.

26 Combat Prescience 9 You gain +2 to attack for the

whole combat.

33 Levitate 7 Target levitates for 1d3 turn.

34 Fire Bolt 7 Deals 1d6+1 fire damage to atarget.

35 Lightning Strike 11 Deals 3d6 lightning damage to

1d3 target.

36 Dark vision 7 You see in total darkness for 1d3

turn.

44 Natural Armour 9 You gain +1d3 defence for 1d3turn.

45 Fire Storm 13 Deals 5d6H4 fire damage to 1d6

target.

46 Create Bioweapon - A bio melee weapon of some

kind. It can be a sword, hammer,

etc. Pick a TN for damages. TN 7:1d6; TN 9: 1d6+1; TN 11: 1d6+2.

55 Psycho booster 9 You either boost Physical, Social

or Combat by 1d3 for 1d3 turn.

56 Negate Psionic 9 Cancel psionic effect.

66 Finger Fire 5 Deals 1d3 fire damage to a target


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Plant mutations

Make a d66 roll and refer to the plant mutations below.

d66 Plant Mutation Effect

11-12 Animate Seeds Plant may plant a seed. The seed willgrow up to have the same mutation

as the mutated plant.

13-14 Carnivore (M) Plant has mouths that are capable of

inflicting 1d6 damage with a bite. Roll

1d6 to determine how many mouths

are on the plant. Each mouth isconsidered as 1 attack.

15-16 Dermal Acid Sap

(M)

Plant sap is acidic. It inflict 2d6 HP

damage every round to creature that

come in contact with it.

22-23 Electrical Charge

(M,R)

Plant is capable to store electrical

charge from food consume. Plant mayuse this weapon after 3 rounds as it is

fully recharge. It inflicts 3d6 HP

damage. Once use up plant must wait

another 3 round to use it.

24-34 Human/Animal

Mutation

Make a d66 roll in the human/animal

mutation above.

35-36 Radioactive

Emissions (M)

Plant may emit radiation. Anyone

within melee range will effected with

the radiation. Roll 1d6 to determine

radiation level. Refer to radiation

table for damage.

44-45 Shriek (M,R) Whenever plant is hurt, it will shriek

which capable of damaging everyone.

The shriek causes 2d6 damage


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(everyone may make a Physical roll

TN 7 to half the damage).

46-55 Tendrils (M) Plant grows tendril. Tendrils can do

1d6+2 melee damage to a target.

56-66 Thorns (R) Plant can throw thorns! Plant mayspend an action to throw 1d6 thorns.

Each thorn inflicts 1d3 damage to a

target.


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COMBAT

Initiative is the order of who acts when in combat. To

determined initiative, each combatant rolls 1d6 adding their

Physical ability. The highest goes first. Any ties will act

simultaneously.

When you turn arrive, pick one of the options below:

1.Attack:Attack a target with a weapon. Roll 2d6 and add

Combat ability trying to get an equal or higher number than

the target's defence.2.Use Psionic:To use psionic. Make a Mental roll against

psionic TN.

3.Move:A character may move into melee range and engage

a target, disengaged from a target, or move into cover.

4.Other Action:This is for actions surrounding picking locks,

reloading a gun, opening a window, using an item, etc.

5.Flee:To flee, combatant needs to make the Physical roll

against opponent with the highest defence in combat.

Combat continues until one side is defeated.

Movement in combatMovement is abstract for fast combat although combatants are

not staticthey keep on moving. To simulate movement,

everyone starts in free position. From there, you may either

move into melee range and engage a target or disengage from a

target or move into cover. When you engaged to a target youmay only use melee attack. To disengage a target you must

make a Physical roll against TN of 9, if successful you move into


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free position. You may use range attack to attack a free

positioned target only. You may fire an engaged target at a -4

penalty.

HEALING

Resting a full evening recovers full HP. Resting for a few minutes

recovers 1d6 HP.

Falling

Whenever you fall in Mutants & Machine-guns, roll 3d6 for

damage. You may roll for Physical ability against TN (usually 9)set by GM to halves the damage. On a critical success you are

not damaged at all.

RADIATION

Radiation is determined according to their level. When radiation

hits, you need to make a Physical roll against radiation levelsTN. If you fail, roll 1d6: if the result is 3 to 6 you receive

radiation damage equal to the radiation levelsdamage, apply

this to your HP; if you roll a 1 or 2 you received the radiation

damage as well as gaining a mutation (roll for a random

human/animal mutation if you are a non-plant based race andplant mutation for plant based race).

Radiation Level TN Damage

1 5 1d3

2 7 1d6

3 9 1d6+1

4 11 1d6+2

5 13 1d6+3


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Poison

Similar to radiation, poison is also determined according to their

level. Characters must make a Physical roll against poison levels

TN. On a fail, character received damage equal to poison levels

damage.

Poison Level TN Damage

1 5 1d3

2 7 1d6

3 9 1d6+1

4 11 1d6+25 13 1d6+3


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Wasteland ECONOMY

In the wasteland people barter their goods. Goods are

measured with Trade Unit (TU).

EQUIPMENT TABLE

You may spend 10+2d6 TU on equipment for a start. Feel free to

donate unused TU to another player.

Melee Weapon Damage TU

Unarmed 1d2 0

Knife, Dagger (throwable in range) 1d3 2Hand Axe, Club, Light Hammer, Mace,

Short Sword1d6 3

Spear (throwable in range) 1d6 4

Battle Axe, Military Pick, Broad Sword 1d6+1 6

Great Sword, Maul, Pole arm, Great Axe 1d6+2 9

Gun Fire Type Damage TUCross Bow* S 1d6 5

Pistol S 1d6 8

SMG S, B, A 1d6 9

Shotgun B, A 2d6 10

Light Machine-gun B, A 2d6H+1** 15

Rifle S, B, A 1d6+2 14Pulse Rifle S, B, A 2d6H+2** 20

Heavy Machinegun B, A 2d6H+2** 18

Armour Defence TU

Light Armour (leather jacket, etc) +1 5

Medium Armour (Kevlar, etc) +2 15

Heavy Armour (plate, etc) +3 20


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Smeans Single shot. Bmeans Burst shot and A means Full Auto.

* Must reload on the next turn.

** Roll 2d6 and pick 1 of the highest and add either 1 or 2

Item

Effect

TU

Stimpack

Heals 1d6 HP. It only works on Pure

Human, Mutant Human and Cyborg.

3

Frag grenadeIts a grenade. When launch it will deal

2d6+4 damage5

Thief ToolUse for pick locking and other thief like

stuff. Provide a +2 bonus when prompted.8

ammo

In Mutants & Machine-guns, ammunition is abstract. Whenever

you roll a fumble when you are shooting, roll 1d6, on a 1 you

are out of ammo. You may spend a combat round to reload, if

you have that type of ammo for the gun. If you dont, then youmay not use the gun anymore until you find that type of ammo.

On a 2 to 6 your gun is jammed instead, you may spend a

combat round to fix your gun. Ammo is scarce in the Wasteland

chances are to find some is almost zero.


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Single, BURST and full auto shot

Some guns can go for burst mode which means when you attack a

target and if it hits any leftover damage may go to the next free

unengaged target. It is hard to attack when in burst mode but it will

deliver a heavy damage to target. You get a -1 penalty to attack roll but

if it hits +2 bonus to damage roll.

This is the same with full auto accept a full auto give a -2 penalty to

attack roll but gives a +4 bonus to damage roll.

Shot Mode Attack roll Damage Bonus

Burst -1 penalty to attack roll +2 damageFull Auto -2 penalty to attack roll +4 damage


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Ancient artefacts

Ancient artefacts are things from the ancient past. The ancients

use it to do their chore or other needs such as stunning their

poultry or shooting bad guys. They are usually found in ancient

city or vault. When characters find artefact, the artefacts may or

may not be working. Each artefact has condition rate from 0-5.

Each rating has a probability of working. Roll the table below to

determine if it works or not.

Roll 1d6 Condition Rate Working on 1d6

6 5 2-6

5 4 3-6

4 3 4-6

3 2 5-6

2 1 6

1 0 Not working

Random artefacts

If GM have not or do not want to set a specific artefact, roll the

table below. Mundane Item and Ammo are at GM discretion.

Roll 1d6 Random Artefacts

1-2

Mundane Item. GM pick a random

household item i.e. hair brush, a canned

food,etc.

3 Ammo. GM pick random ammo.

4 Medicine. Roll on Medicine table.

5 Melee Weapon. Roll on Melee Weapon.6 Gun. Roll on Gun table.


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MELEE WEAPON

1d6 Weapon Damage Note

1-2 Vibro Blade 1d6+2Blade with vibration

mechanism

3-4 Energy Mace 1d6+3 Mace with crackling energy ontop

5 Stun Whip 1d6+4

Target must make Physical roll

TN 7 to prevent 1d3 round

stunt, when stunt target

cannot move or do action

6 Laser Sword 2d6 No Jedi here

GUN

2d6 Weapon Fire Type Damage

2 Plasma Rifle S, B, A 1d6+5

3 Laser Rifle S, B, A 2d6H+3

4 Flamethrower S1d6, hit 1d3

unengaged targets

5 Stun Pistol S1d6+2, stun target for

1d3 rounds

6 Blaster Rifle S, B, A 2d6H+2

7 Laser Pistol S 1d6+2

8 Gauss Auto Rifle S, B, A 2d6H+4

9 Sonic Rifle S, B, A

2d6, capable of

shrieking attack (refer

to shriek mutation)

10Gauss Machine

PistolS 2d6

11 Minigun B 2d6+3

12 Tesla Rifle S, B, A 3d6


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ARMOUR

1d6 Weapon Defence Note

1 Combat Shield - Absorb 1 point of damage

2 Flex Armour - Absorb 2 points of damage

3 Sheath Armour +3 Modern day riot gear

4 Ceramic Armour +4 Resist fire and cold

5 Shell Armour +4 Grant +4 to radiation roll

6 Power Armour +4 +1 Physical, +1 Combat

MEDICINE

1d6 Medicine Effect

1 Stimpack Cures 1d6 HP

2 Rad-Purge PillEat it after being hit by radiation. It

will prevent 1d6 radiation damage.

3 Mentat Give a +1 to either Social or Mentalability (roll randomly or GM pick)

4 Guffout

Gve a +1 to either Combat or

Physical ability (roll randomly or GM

pick)

5 AntitoxDrink it after being hit by poison. It

will prevent 1d6 poison damage.6 Super Stimpack Cures 3d6 HP


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Vehicle

To simply everything, every vehicle has these statsdrive,

speed, hull, defence and capacity. All you need to do is pick 1

vehicle, add modification and a name. Remember the more

things that you put in a vehicle the expensive it is.

Vehicle Drive Speed Hull Defence Capacity TU

Bike 2 3 1 4 2 30

Dune Buggy 2 3 2 4 3 35

Car 2 2 3 5 4 70

Van 1 1 4 5 5 80Truck 1 1 5 6 6 90

18

Wheeler0 1 6 6 8 120

Tank 0 1 7 7 8 200

Super

Heavy Tank 0 1 8 7 9 250

Drive: determine how good the vehicle is in combat and

manoeuvring.

Speed: determine how fast the vehicle is.

Hull: Basically HP for vehicle although it is handle differently.Defence: Target number for attacking. To calculate defence add

drivers Physical ability with the vehicle defence score.

Capacity: determine how many (mod) modifications you can

install on the vehicle.

Modifications

Here are list of modifications for your vehicle. TU = Trade Unit

Mod = Modification


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Armour plating(TU 5)(Mod 1)

+1 to defence (max. of 13)

Increased Drive/Speed/Hull(TU 5)(Mod 0)

Add 1 to vehicle stats of your choice.

GIGA system(TU 8)(Mod 1)

You may fire 2 weapons at the same time targeting 1 vehicle.

For every additional GIGA you may fire 1 additional weapon.

Targeting system(TU 5)(Mod 1)

Add 1 to your to hit roll using vehicle weapon.

Turret(TU 5)(Mod 1)

One of your vehicle weapon move 360 degree.

Ram plating(TU 8)(Mod 1)

When damage by ramming, half the damage received.

Vehicle Weapon Damage Range Mod TU

Machine gun 1d6+1 Short 1 10

Beam Blaster 1d6+2 Short 1 15

Vulcan 2d6 Short 1 30

Howitzer 2d6 Long 2 30

Gatling Gun 2d6+1 Short 2 35Flame Thrower* 2d6+2 Close 2 40

Spark 2d6+2 Short 2 45

Cannon 3d6 Long 3 100

Thunder Cannon 4d6 Long 3 150

* Attack 1d3 targets. Must make separate roll for each target.


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Vehicle combat

At the beginning of vehicle combat GM will determine who is

chasing who. The chaser is call predator and the one being

chased is call prey. Unless stated all vehicle start at long range.

Ranges are: TouchCloseShortLongFar

The ranges will determine what kind of weapon or action you

can use to destroy your opponent.

Vehicle combat is determined by these phases.

1.Initiative

2.Movement

3.Action

4.End turn

Initiative. Each round, ever vehicle must make an initiative rollwhich are 1d6 + speed of the car. The highest won an initiative

and determine the course of the chase.

Chase. Participant with initiative pick difficulty on the difficulty

table. All vehicles then make a chase roll which is 2d6 + speed

against the TN picked just now, this will determine your skill todrive the vehicle outdoing your predator or trying to get a good

position to attack. If all vehicles succeed or failed nothing

happen as everyone manages to outdo each other. But, if one of

you succeed and the other failed, you may move your vehicle

closer to your target or move further away.

Examples: Metal Maxscar is in close range with Jagged

Mutant. Both makes chase rolls with the outcome of Max


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succeed and Jagged Mutant failed. Max then move his vehicle

nearer to Jagged Mutant from long to short range, close enough

to fire his cannon.

Action. Here are lists of action which can be done during vehiclecombat.

1.Attack. If your vehicles weapon is in rangedwith your

target, roll 2d6 + drive. If the result is equal or more than

target vehiclesdefence, you succeed. Roll for weapon

damage.If attacking critters, apply the damage directly to their HP. If

attacking another vehicle, roll for damage and consult the

damage table below:

Damage roll Damage to Hull

15 0 damage611 1 damage

1217 2 damages

18+ 3 damages

2.Escape. Must be in Far rangeonly. No other vehicle can be

nearer to your vehicle. Roll 2d6 + speed. If the result equal

to or more than opponent with the highest speed +7, you

manage to escape from the battle.

3.Ramming. Must be in Touch rangeonly. Roll 2d6 + drive. If

the result is equal to or higher than target defence, you

succeed. Roll 2d6 + hull for damage.


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Critters

There are a lot of strange critters lurking in the wasteland. Here

are some examples:

Dead Dog WalkingCombat 2 Ability 0 Defence 7 HP 12 Damage 1d6+1 (Bite)

A dog corpse which is alive. You literally see flesh, bones, a few

maggots and blood gushing out of the critters

Fungoid

Combat 1 Ability 1 Defence 7 HP 8 Damage 1d6+2 (Punch)A tall mushroom like creature with human like limb.

Giant Scorpion

Combat 3 Ability 0 Defence 25 Damage 2d6 (Pincer)

A giant version of the basic scorpion. Once in 3 round, it may

attack using its tail. If hit, it will inflict level 3 poison to a target.

Poisonous Spike Mushroom

Combat 1 Ability 2 Defence 5 Damage 1d6 (Spike)

Cousin of Spike Mushroom. It is capable of releasing level 2

poison attack to a target.

Porker

Combat 3 Ability 1 Defence 9 HP 10 Damage (weapon used)

A warlike military mutant pig.

Spike Mushroom

Combat 1 Ability 0 Defence 5 HP 5 Damage 1d6 (Spike)

This spiky fungus usually spotted in group of 2 to 4.


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Advice to Game Master

This is a basic game with a lot of things to fill in. GM is free to

create or remove rules, monster, skills, spell, etc. Make it

personal. The number one rules for any RPG is to have fun!

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