Atomic Highway The Homebrewer's Guide.pdf

Atomic HigHwAy

T he h omebrewer ’ s G uide

Creating your own material for a game is one of the

great joys of rpgs, so here are some useful guidelines

for anyone who wants to create new Rearings, Pursuits,

Mutations/Flaws, Vehicles, Beasts and Mutant Horrors,

Humanoid Animals, and Psychic Powers

Armor: Only provide this if it really its the concept;

most Rearings do not possess armor, and what armor

there is tends to be light and incidental, to protect as

much from accident.

Weapons: Most Pursuits should provide 1-2 weapons,

typically choices of one ranged and/or one melee

depending on whether the Pursuit concept is likely to

really see much conlict. Heavy Weapons should not

be part of a Pursuit’s starting weaponry.

Clothing: Basic garments should be listed as

appropriate.

Gear: This should provide the Pursuit with the

basic tools and materials necessary to perform the

concept’s basic functions, and no more. Don’t overdo

it or be too generous. If a Pursuit is likely to have

multiple items of a single type, have the number be

rolled on a die.

Transport: No more than a single means of transport

should be offered, but a choice can be provided.

Be careful that you don’t give more vehicle points

to your new Pursuit than the existing vehicle-based

Pursuits (Airman, Hauler, Outrider, Raider, Road

Warrior) already possess, as you run the very real

risk of making your new Pursuit more attractive than

the others then. In each case, the basic vehicle type

the Rearing commonly used was taken as a base

cost, then enough points were added to make some

thematically-appropriate modiications.

Pets: If a Pursuit possesses a pet, it should be limited

to a single one.

Rearings

Skills: Each Pursuit has 6 skill points, with no

individual skill having a rating higher than 1 except

Lore, Notice, Tech, and Stealth, any of which can be

rated up to 2. You can provide choices using the “ or ”

designation.

Weapons/Gear : In most cases 1-2 basic weapons

can be assigned, the knife being the most common for

its all-round utility. Gear-wise, most provide a single

roll on any one of the Scavenging tables (pages 54-60)

except Military, if appropriate, and possible 1-2 knick-

knacks or minor items appropriate to the Rearing

concept.

Pursuits

Skills: Pursuits provide 10 skill points. Because of

Natural Skills and the skill levels provided by Rearings,

placing more than 1-2 points in any single skill in a

new Pursuit only results in wasted skill points.

Because of this, no more than 1 point can be placed

in a Pursuit for Notice or Stealth, but up to 2 points

can be placed in any of the others. As before you can

provide choices including offering a small selection of

skills from which to make limited picks.

HomeBrewer’s Guide

Mutations/Flaws

All of the Mutations presented in Atomic Highway are

based squarely on natural abilities found in various

mammalian species. This is important, in part, to

keep the overall feel of the game more grounded than

in many post-apocalyptic roleplaying games, and give

things a slightly evolutionary bent. If a new Mutation

profoundly beneits a skill, it should instead provide

that skill at 6. If it only provides a small but signiicant

enhancement to a skill it should provide a bonus die

for the appropriate Attribute/Skill rolls. Try to keep

new Mutations and Flaws short and simple, and try

to avoid producing anything that renders an existing

Mutation or Flaw redundant.

lippers, hooves, and most ungulates, have Crude

Hands. Most Humanoid Animals are Color-Blind. Many

have Selective Diet in some form or another. Only

assign Swift if the animal is known to routinely exceed

40mph. Assign Fragile to any animals with hollow

bones or an average natural weight of under 15lbs.

Assign Enduring to any animal with an average weight

of 400lbs. or higher.

3) Calculate the cost. Count the number of Mutations/

Abilities and Flaws the new entry has and compare

them.

4) Balance the costs:

4a) If the animal has more Mutations/Abilities than

Flaws, irstly reduce the number of Attribute Points

available by 1 down to 17; this negates one of the

excess Mutations/Abilities. If a balance has not been

reached, then reduce the number of customization

Skill points to 2; this negates another excess Mutation/

Ability. If the numbers are still not balanced, reduce

the customization Skill points to 0, negating a third

excess Mutation/Ability. If the two are still not

balanced, reduce the number of Attribute points

again on a one-for-one basis.

4b) If the animal has more Flaws than Mutations/

Abilities, increase the number of Attribute Points

available by 1 up to 19; this negates one of the excess

Flaws. If a balance has not been reached, then do the

same again, increasing the Attribute Points available

to 20, negating another excess Flaw. If there are still

excess Flaws, increase the number of customization

Skill points by 2 for each excess Flaw left.

Vehicles

Use the table on page 43 as guidance in assigning

a new vehicle it Attributes. Vehicles beyond those

boundaries of size, power, and speed are subjects

for later expansion. Any appropriate Customiza-

tions and Flaws should be assigned as suits the basic

vehicle. The total cost of the vehicle is the cost of its

Attributes, Customizations, and Flaws, plus an extra

cost based on its numbers of possible passengers

(beyond its operator):

0-1 passenger: 0 vehicle points.

2-3 passengers: 1 vehicle point

4-7 passengers: 2 vehicle points.

8-11 passengers: 3 vehicle points.

12-30 passengers: 4 vehicle points.

31-60 passengers: 5 vehicle points.

Psychic Powers

The optional psychic powers in Atomic Highway are

pretty low-key and while useful are not anything like

as powerful as you might ind in say, a comic book.

If you create new psychic powers, keep them also

relatively low-powered. Use the existing powers as

guidelines.

Beasts and Mutant Horrors

Nearly every animal has Understanding 0, Appeal 0,

and Senses 2 (modiied for appropriate Mutations/

Abilities). Senses values are listed in the order they

appear in the Mutations/Abilities/Flaws so a creature

with Enhanced Sense (Smell), Dull Sense (Hearing),

would have Senses 2/6/1 (its general Senses, its Smell,

its Hearing). Other Attributes as well as Skills should

be assigned to it the concept, using the existing

entries as guidelines. Mutations/Abilities/Flaws are

also assigned as is appropriate.

Humanoid Animals

Creating these is an involved step-by-step process:

1) Do your research. Heavily research the animal, its

natural abilities and weaknesses (especially senses),

and its diet.

2) Assign all appropriate Mutations and Flaws. All

Humanoid Animals have the Mutie Flaw. Those with

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