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[Kadzar]

Oh, but I didn't actually read through the rules before I agreed to it, and they're so early 2000's amateur production.

You sure you wouldn't settle for a character conversion to Atomic Highway? 'Cause otherwise you're going to be fighting nothing but hordes of moxen.

Also, that's dirty doings, leaning on my lawful nature to force me to run something that is clearly an artifact of Chaos most foul. And Atomic Highway is so well-organized and pretty looking. And such a simple conflict-resolution system it has. And dem bookmarks on the PDF.

[Orange Wizard]

Maybe we could start a project "deadEarth Fan Revision" and fix up all the shittiness.

Anyway, character will be up soon. Currently rolling mutations. Apparently I have twelve.

[flabort]

After Kadzar runs the vanilla or someone takes over, we'll do that.

Look! The guy who reviewed and compiled it started already. Check out the revised mutations list; don't actually use it, though, since Kadzar said in the OP not to.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Sadly, looking at my schedule, I'm not sure I have time to make a sheet. I'll see what I can do.

[Orange Wizard]

And your sig is borked, too.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Oh, thanks for the heads up.
Edit: And that's why you don't scrimp on [/url] tags.

[Orange Wizard]

Sheet
Some bits are probably missing.

Name: Ignatius Montgomery
Gender: Male
Moves: 15
Strength: -2
Resilience: 5
Age: 34
Weight: 122 lb.
Height: 61" (5'1)
Carry weight: 25 lb. = 10 (strength) + 15 (backpack)
$tandards: 13

Spoiler: Radiation Mutations (click to show/hide)

Radiation lethargy. Any time you are required to roll on the radiation table, roll a D6. On 1, your body reacts to the radiation by making you tired. Roll resolve against difficult odds to keep from sleeping for D6 hours at the time of rolling. Even if you succeed, you will experience fatigue for D6 days immediately following your roll. Subtract D6 moves and 2D6 from senses during this time. cost: none. range: self. effect: binary.

Indecisive. Reason is now a natural inability. cost: none. range: self. effect: binary.

Demon guide. There is a little guy on your shoulder who is telling you what to do and where to go. The unfortunate part is that he always seems to lead you to misfortune. If something bad is going to happen to someone in your group, the game master will make sure it happens to you first. cost: none. range: self. effect: binary.

Acrophobia. You have a fear of heights. Whenever you are within 5 feet of a drop of 20 feet or greater, beat an average (4D6) resolve roll or be immobilized with fear. Roll once per minute to overcome this fear. cost: none. range: self. effect: binary.

Cloaking. Any visible effects that radiations have had on you no longer have effect. The radiations remain on your list, but their effects on height, weight, or appearance are negated. Any invisible effects, or effects that must be called upon, remain. cost: none. range: self. effect: binary.

Heebiejeebies. Little crecreepy-crawlieske you scream and run away in fear. cost: none. range: self. effect: binary.

Befuddle. Your character has some small psionic ability which allows him/her to project random thoughts of his/her own into the surface thoughts of another. This instantly stuns them by thinking something completely ridiculous. The victim will roll their resolve against yours to fend you off. If they are not successful they lose 2D6 moves. cost: 4 skill points. range: 10 feet. effect: binary.

Fortitude. You have the strength and strength of mind to face all adversity. Add 2D6 to resolve. Add (580) natural armour, (555) natural armour stun, and (499) tough as nails to your list of radiations. You must use your might to defend good, not evil. If you kill or harm an innocent your newfound powers will be revoked and you must add (496) unforgiven to your list of radiations. cost: none. range: self. effect: permanent.

Blood bank. You cannot die from blood loss. Loss of blood does not remove hit points during extended periods of critical damage. cost: none. range: self. effect: binary.

Natural armour. Your skin has a natural ability to resist damage. Apply a natural armour rating of +1 to your character. cost: none. range: self. effect: cumulative.

Natural armour stun. Your skin has a natural ability to resist stun. Apply a natural armour rating of +1 to your character for stun. cost: none. range: self. effect: cumulative.

Tough as nails. Your body seems to absorb damage better than most. Add 1 hit point to each area of your body. cost: none. range: self. effect: cumulative.

Spoiler: Skills (click to show/hide)

Skill Points: 20
Acrobatics 4d6
+ Biology 2d6
- Domestics 2d6
+ Jimmy Lock 2d6
- Reason 5d6
Resolve 5d6
+ Running 5d6
+ WS Handgun 6d6
WS Paired 6d6

Spoiler: Equipment (click to show/hide)

Two .45 semi-auto handgun; damage 3d6, stun 2d6, range 130 ft. moves 3, load 1, capacity 11, reload 3, weight 3, cost 425
Four boxes of 20 .45 cartridges; weight 2, cost 107
Military pack; weight -15, capacity 50 lb., cost 56
White fatigues; weight 6, cost 28
Five rations; weight 1, cost 3
Five pints of water; weight 1, cost 2 (Presumably this is already bottled. I'm done if I need to buy bottles separately.)

Total weight: 15 lb. = 5*1 + 5*1 + 6 + -15 + 4*2 + 2*3

I'm pretty sure that stunning people with Befuddle and then opening up with (potentially) 30d6 damage in one round from dual-wielding handguns should be pretty neat. Here's to hoping I don't run out of ammo.

Note that while that sounds powerful, with -2 strength and pretty much no defences besides running away, this guy is only overpowered when fighting one opponent who has a low Reason skill. If he runs out of bullets or skill points (for Befuddle), he's screwed. Or he's attacked before he can use Befuddle. He's a glass cannon, in other words, who is only useful in very specific situations.

Edit: He's dressed now.
Edit2: Apparently Befuddle relies on Resolve, not Reason, so I'm going to have to reshuffle skill points so I can get some of that.

[flabort]

Sheet
Some bits are probably missing.

Clothes and food?
You'll get heatstroke and then die of hunger.

[Playergamer]

Sheet

Laurie Roach
Gender: Male
Moves: 13
Strength: 1
Resilience: 7
Age: 24
Weight: 146
Height: 73 (6.083)
Carry Weight: 55 LB (30 base + 10 strength + 15 backpack)
$tandards: 2

Spoiler: Radiation Mutations (click to show/hide)

Slow
Radiation Madness
Pervasive mutation
Life tap
Unlucky
Critical failure
Frivolous
Special procedures
Beginner's luck.

Spoiler: Skills (click to show/hide)

Skill Points: 0

Skills:
+ 2D6 Genetic Engineering

30 4D6 Acrobatics

- 30 4D6 Appraise

70 5D6 Brawling

150 6D6 Charisma

30 4D6 Domestics

10 3D6 Drive Automobile

10 3D6 First Aid

30 4D6 Senses

30 4D6 Intuition

- 30 4D6 Running

30 4D6 Trapping/Fishing

70 6D6 Weight Training

70 6D6 WS Blade

70 6D6 WS Handgun

10 3D6 WS Rifle

Spoiler: Equipment (click to show/hide)

Equipment: .22 Revolver (325) 60 .22 Rounds (236) Knife (15) Hard Plastic Vest, Sleeves, Helmet, and Leggings(490) Rubber Boots (19) Military Pack (56) Personal Hygiene Stuff (11) 2 Stimpak (100) 5 Rations (15) Bedroll (75) Tarp (40) Clothing (16)

[Varee]

PTW might make a sheet later

[Kadzar]

See now, if you guys really wanted me to play by the rules, I think I would have to do something about those guns. Since II's .45's are military-level availability, he'd have to have gotten them at a military trade depot and have to get under 50 on a percentile roll to acquire them ( I think probably rolling for each one, so that you can't buy infinite numbers of any item. But if that's the case, would you stop when you come up with a number over the availability, which might skew the roll, or do you roll per request, in which case there's the possibility to get anything if you ask enough times?)


I can't seem to find it again, but there's a blog post on the Penny Arcade site where Gabe/Mike Krahulik is talking about doing a playtest for his Thornwatch game, and how at a certain point you need to be hands off on the play test and just let whoever 's running it be confused and simply take notes on their confusion, rather than coming in and saying "oh, yeah, here's how you do that." I think it's called a blind playtest. The guy who made this game obviously never did that. I'm not even sure if he ever let anyone else try running this game before he published it, because just looking at this game, so many questions come up about things that are simply fundamental, that I'm sure if someone other than JT Smith was running the game, he'd go "oh, yeah, I need to clarify that a bit".

[Orange Wizard]

Sheet
Some bits are probably missing.

Clothes and food?
You'll get heatstroke and then die of hunger.

... crap.

But I can only carry ten pounds. I need that for my guns! And bullets!
I also assumed that we were already wearing some clothes. You know, like in a sensible RPG. I guess I'll have to change that.
And apparently backpacks increase carry weight, so that's something to sink my remaining moneys into.

[flabort]

Because "carry stuff more efficiently" got the last word dropped and is now "carry stuff more".
You have to buy clothes IRL, so THAT bit is more realistic. And they'd be harder to find in a wasteland, since I'm sure sweatshops would be abolished and shopping centers bombed out, so being naked for lack of clothes is not unreasonable.