Nomad

Adaptions are gifts that the nomad carries with themselves and help define them "being a nomad." Adaptions cannot be chosen and are assigned as the persona increases in experience levels. Nomads get new adaptions at 1st, 4th and 7th levels of EXPS.

Interests are broad abilities that can represent experience that can assist skills and tasks. Nomad interests are intentionally wide ranging and can be very loosely applied to most any nomad task.

At startup the persona gets one interest per 4 points of Awareness, and one additional interest per new experience level.

Skills are specific abilities that assist with more specific task rolls. A skill could represent knowledge, experience or training. The player rolls one skill per interest, and if the person earns another interest they gain another skill.

This ability allows to nomad to read the environment, do a bit of dowsing, and sniff out some water. Each win on the task roll will find enough water for one anthro for one day. The player can keep making task rolls until she fails. If she were to fail on the first task roll, she found no water that day.

Find shelter allows the nomad to either find or build shelter employing nothing other than the biome’s materials. The shelter can protect from the elements, local pests, or toxins. The nomad must win a task roll for every persona that she is sheltering, camping or clothing.

The nomad can produce fire from local materials. Creating fire is more difficult with challenging elements and austere conditions.

The safe campsite ability is an improvement on find shelter. A safe campsite is free from natural disasters and less likely to be approached by hungry flora and fauna.

Craft clothing involves the fabrication of protective clothing from local materials. The clothing could offer warmth, ventilation, or protection from inhospitable environments. Often players wish to have camouflaged clothing. Crafting camouflage doubles the DD of the task roll.

This ability allows the nomad to find sustenance from the local environment. The player must make a task roll for every hungry mouth.

The Nomad can cure an organic poison that comes from the biome. The nomad could cure a poisonous alien bite but not a military neurotoxin. If the poison has an intensity of 12, the DD would be 12.

Nomadic domestication involves the befriending and training of alien flora and fauna. Aliens with language, culture, education, vocations or tool users are not flora or fauna. Domestication is limited to flora and fauna aliens. Domestication does not work during combat or with violently defeated aliens. Domestication does not work with hungry aliens where the nomad is dinner. Robots cannot be domesticated.

Befriending is the first stage of domestication. Befriending indicates an alien that trusts and won’t run from the nomad. The degree of difficulty (DD) for befriending is equal to the alien’s INT.

Taming is the second stage of domestication. The nomad must befriend an alien before being taming. Taming indicates the alien has attained a pet status. The degree of difficulty (DD) for taming is equal to twice the alien’s INT.

Train for tricks is the third stage of domestication. The nomad must tame an alien before teaching tricks. The referee and players assign the DD of the trick. The more valuable the trick, the higher the DD. The player must win a task roll at double the trick’s DD to train the alien. The player must win a task roll to carry out the trick successfully. Failing to carry out a trick should be humorous, not deadly.

The nomad has decided to domesticate a Festinated Wumpus. The Festinated Wumpus has a 4 INT. The Wumpus is a herbivore that the expedition has never hunted or killed. The Wumpus does not use tools and has no language.

To befriend the Wumpus, the nomad must make a 4DD task roll. To tame the Wumpus, the nomad must make an 8DD task roll. Training the Wumpus to retrieve an ammo pack is a 12DD trick. To train the trick is a 24DD task roll. The nomad must win a 12DD task roll every time the Wumpus retrieves an ammo pack.

The nomad can determine a safe passage through seemingly impassable terrain: a mountain range, a toxic area, or a red light district. Safe passage may require multiple task rolls: one roll to get through the city and another to avoid police. The DD for safe passage has a range of 1-12 (1d12). Safe passage cannot avoid plot points or story elements.

Nomads can track anything that they want. Tracking is not limited to flora and fauna. The nomad can track robots and vehicles as well. There are two aspects of tracking, following and finding.

Following is used to keep up with a moving target. Following uses clues and intuition to track an unseen target. The ability can follow an alien in the forest or a taxi in a megalopolis. The nomad follows her target until the target stops moving. If a target is trying to avoid following the target’s Intelligence is added to the DD. A successful following of a target does not guarantee successfully finding a target.

Finding places the nomad face to face with her target. If the target was initially moving, the player must win a task roll for following first. After following an alien for a few hours in the forest, the player must win a finding maneuver to get that photograph. If a target is not moving, the player needs only win a finding maneuver. Finding a deserted warehouse in a city or a persona hiding in the bushes are two examples. If a target is hiding, the player must add the target’s Intelligence to the DD of the finding maneuver. Finding hidden intelligent personas can be very hard indeed.

This ability allows the nomad to determine if she is being tracked. Reverse tracking lets the nomad know that she is being tracked. To determine what is tracking her, the player must win a following and finding task rolls. The nomad will have to follow and find what is tracking her using the