Physical Mutations

This mutant has a muscular hyperactive stomach that produces excess amounts of acid and digestive enzymes. The mutant can eject spittle of corrosive acids. The mutant’s esophagus, mouth and lips are covered in thick protective skin, and her teeth are small and gnarled. Her thickened upper digestive tract protects the mutant from the corrosive acid, but the rest of her body is vulnerable. Spitting on herself would give the mutant severe acid burns.

In the duress of combat, she can release one spittle every other unit. If the mutant wins an attack roll, her spittle will burn her target. The acid spittle inflicts 2-16 (2d8) HPS of damage plus one hit point per EXPS level. Thus a 3rd level mutant with a 12 PSTR could spit acid 15 hexes and inflict 5 to 19 hit points of corrosive damage.

Damage from this digestive acid attack permanently damages organic tissues, preventing them from spontaneously regenerating. The digestive juices do not affect inorganic materials. A food culture will not grow after being bitten by a creature with this mutation. The mutant will probably have a penchant for more spicy foods. Swallowing acidic compounds will not affect the mutant much. Kissing is out of the question unless her partner also has this mutation.

The immune system of this mutant works on a macroscopic level. Adaptation allows the mutant to develop immunity to any threat from the physical space. Her body can adapt to fire, physical force, poison, radiation, and diseases. Adaptation is automatic, and her body will attempt to transform itself to prevent further damage. If an attack harms the mutant, there is a chance that her body will adapt to the attack.

The mutant’s constitution and intelligence determine if she will adapt to an attack.

If the player wins the roll, the persona will adapt to the threat. A bacterial infection could be pushed out through her skin or redirected to her stomach for digestion. A punch to the face would restructure her skin and muscle to counter the next punch. The mutant’s nervous system would safely ground an electro weapon attack. Her lungs would trap a poisonous gas and excrete it as sweat. However, the mutant’s body may recognize a healing pharma as foreign and reject that as well.

Adaptation does not differentiate a friend from a foe. So even benevolent pharma could be blocked by this super immune system. Adaptation does not have the best memory either. Most adaptations will disappear after the mutant has a restful sleep. There is a small chance that an adaptation will remain permanently.

There is a 1% chance per EXPS Level of the mutant becoming permanently adapting to the threat. So the mutant could become permanently immune to punches, lazer bolts, or healing pharma. The permanent adaptations are particular. The mutant would be immune to damage by punches, but not claws or talons or clubs. The mutant would be immune to a healing pharma pill, but not a healing pharma injection.

The mutant can stay permanently immune to one attack per EXPS Level. A fifth level mutant could have permanent immunity to 5 attack types. If she develops permanent immunity to a 6th adaptation, the mutation will forget the oldest one.

Attraction odour makes this mutant very interesting to a specific type of persona. The mutation uses pheromones, chemotactic agents, tasty aromas, vibrations, and thought patterns. These factors work together to attract less intelligent personas to the mutant. A specific flying insect may surround the mutant. A herd of nomadic fauna may change course to follow her. A lone, hungry alien may attack the mutant because she simultaneously resembles dinner and love.

Attraction odour works best on flora or fauna, but more intelligent personas can succumb as well. The attracted persona will seek out the mutant. When the persona finally finds the mutant, the creature will realize neither food nor a mate is present. If the attracted persona wins a poison roll, she will most likely wander off disappointed. The intensity of the poison is equal to the mutant’s adjusted charisma. It is also possible the attracted persona may find something else to eat at the same time. The attracted persona will hang around until they finally win their poison roll.

Attraction odour should not result in a constant swarm of giant deadly fauna attacking the expedition. The referee should play the mutation as an annoying inconvenience, with occasional episodes of violence. It is also possible that nothing is nearby to be attracted to the mutant. Attracted personas usually show up when they will complicate things the most.

The mutant is now the proud owner of an extra 1-4 randomly moving arms. The bonus arms are free willed and infuriating. They follow their own volition and are not controlled by the mutant. The arms may scratch the persona’s ear, grapple her nose, make an obscene gestures or grab and drop items. Binding down the arms is not work. These defective arms will relentlessly struggle and exhaust the mutant. All mutants with this defect are ambidextrous.

Arms is both an amusing and serious defective mutation. Each extra arm has a penalty of -1 on the mutant’s dexterity attribute. A mutant with two extra arms and a 14 DEX would reduce her DEX to 12. This penalty is the same regardless of the location of the extra arm.

Surgically removing the extra arms does not improve her confused dexterity attribute. The mutation mental control over physical state will allow the mutant to control these autonomous arms.

This mutation is a defect and hampers the persona who possesses it. If the player is rolling up a new persona, the player gets to roll an additional mutation along with this defect. Ideally, a non-defective mutation will accompany each defective mutation. If the player is unlucky, it is possible to have two, or more, defective mutations accompanying the non-defective mutation. Defective mutations can lead to a mutant having an unusual amount of mutations.

If the persona acquires the defective mutation during gameplay, there is no accompanying non-defective mutation. Defective mutations that arise from gameplay represent misadventure. They are often the result of malfunctioning pharma or mutagenic toxins.

If you are looking to generate specific mutation types, jump to Mutation Sub Tables.

This mutant has complete control over her unusually pliable body. The mutation body structure change comes with an additional layer of cosmetic musculature, flexible bones, and controllable connective tissue. The mutant has complete control over the shape and location of her muscles, skin, bones, and internal organs. She can adjust her appearance by altering her nose and changing her hair’s length and colour. She can retract all her arms and limbs, turning into a ball-shaped thing. She can restructure her internal organs to assist a veterinarian in surgery.

The mutant can adjust her hite but cannot alter her wate. She cannot excise flesh through sheer will. She cannot improve her attributes. The mutant cannot compromise any essential anatomical parts. She must retain a mouth to breathe and all those other essential holes.

Regardless of what she is restructuring, the process takes 1-4 minutes. Swapping her arms and legs may take less time than slightly altering her nose. The body structure change is gross to watch and quite noisy. While restructuring, the mutant becomes malleable and vulnerable. Any damage inflicted on the malleable mutant is doubled. An attack that delivers four hit points of damage would inflict eight hit points of damage to the mutant.

When the mutation reaches the end of its duration, the persona rapidly returns to her previous state. There is a 1% chance per hour in the restructured state that the mutant will stay in the new shape. A mutant that changed her hair colour to blue for 5 hours has a 5% chance of being left with blue hair.

The carapace is an unsightly buildup of thick semi-pliable skin. The mutation offers a protective covering that reduces the damage and impairs appearance. A carapace makes the mutant more challenging to hit and damage. The thicker the carapace, the more defence is offered to the mutant.

The armour rating adjustment changes the mutant’s base armour rating. With a partial carapace, the mutant’s base AR would increase by 99.

A partial carapace has an armour rating adjustment of +99. A mutant with a partial carapace would have a base AR of 599. Beyond partial carapace, the mutant cannot wear any other armour.

If an attack roll is successful, the carapace will reduce the damage she takes. The total carapace halves the damage from kinetic attacks. If the mutant is supposed to take 12 HPS from a punch, it would only inflict 6 HPS.

Covering the mutant in a thick protective layer of crusty skin impairs the mutant’s charisma and dexterity. If the mutant has her carapace removed, her dexterity attribute will improve, but not her charisma.

Sometimes players want to grow their carapace, thickening it over time. An easy way to manage this is to have the player record her initial carapace table roll. The player adds +5 to the initial carapace roll for every new experience level. The carapace will get thicker as the carapace table roll increases.

A mutant cannot thin her carapace over time.

The mutant’s skin has photodetector cells and chromocytes. The combination of these two skin cells allows the mutant to blend into the surrounding environment. Chameleon skin is continually attempting to conceal itself by matching the background. This mutant’s skin will even change colour to match the inside of her clothing. Bare skin is constantly changing colour with this mutation.

The mutant must be naked to hide with her chameleon skin completely, The naked and still chameleon mutant can be very difficult to see. The mutant is not invisible, but a persona must be actively searching for her to detect her. When actively searching for a chameleon mutant, a persona must win an awareness roll to see her. The mutant can move and remain hidden. The slower and more tactically she moves, the harder she is to see.

Chameleon cannot hide the mutant from non-visual sensors like radar, sonar, good ears or long noses.

The decoy is a detachable tail-like appendage that can be dropped by the mutant at will. The decoy looks like a lump of succulent flesh attached to the mutant’s hindquarters. The decoy proves most useful when evading pursuit. The mutant can drop the decoy at any time. Dropping the decoy is not painful and does not harm the mutant. If the decoy is already exposed, no time is lost dropping the meat chunk.

The decoy is a succulent treat for any lower intelligence personas chasing the mutant. Any persona with intelligence less than 5 will automatically change course towards the dropped decoy. The decoy does not attract any personas while attached to the mutant. Personas pursuing the mutant with an INT greater than 5 get to make a poison roll to avoid being distracted by the decoy. The intensity of the attraction is equal to the persona’s charisma. Any mutant chasing, or within range of chasing, the mutant must make the poison roll or chase the decoy.

Those that are affected by the aroma will become insatiably hungry and will devour the decoy madly. It is not unknown for flora and fauna to fight each other over the tasty morsel. Whoever gets to eat the decoy is in for a nasty surprise.

The ingested decoy is full of a killing poison. The poison has an intensity level equal to half the mutant’s physical strength. The decoy diners will have to recover from the effects of poison.

The decoy will regenerate after one night’s restful sleep. When attached, the decoy is a part of the mutant’s body. Damage to the decoy damages the mutant as well. For the record, the decoy’s wate is 3% of the mutant’s wate. The wate of a decoy will almost always become an issue at some point during a game.

In social situations of great duress, the mutant’s decoy may spontaneously drop from her body.

The mutant can equilibrate the density of her body to match that of the surfaces she is standing on. Density matching is achieved through bladders that can fill with gas, liquid, or solids. By manipulating these internal bellows, the mutant can alter her density. The mutant may appear slightly larger and puffier, shorter and condensed, but her body shape does not radically change.

Density control lets the mutant match the density of liquids or gases, allowing her to walk on them without breaking the meniscus and sinking. She could also increase her density to that of a solid surface, making her very difficult to displace or damage. Once this equilibrium is reached, the mutant may move about freely upon the surface unless heat, cold or acidic properties can damage her. This would allow the mutant to walk on water, stand on a cloud, or hunker down on a rock. Density control does not allow the mutant to fly by walking on air. There must be some interface between the media for the mutant to alter her density.

Increasing density makes the mutant a bit smaller and stout looking. The denser mutant reduces crushing and penetrating damage by half. There is no protection offered from energy attacks like lazers, fission or fusion. When density has been increased to prevent being moved, the mutant can double her PSTR for that specific attribute challenge. She cannot push back at double her PSTR, but she can stand her ground. Increasing density decreases the mutant’s movement rate by half.

Decreasing density makes the mutant look a bit larger and puffier. The less-dense mutant reduces damage from crushing, falling and concussion attacks. The decrease in density allows the mutant to convert damage into translational motion. In short, she flies away instead of being damaged. Whenever an attack roll is successful on the less dense mutant, the player will roll 1-6 (1d6). The higher the number, the less damage that is inflicted and the further she flies. The mutant reduces damage by 10% and flies one hex per point the 1d6 rolls. If the player rolls a three, the persona’s damage decreases by 30%, and she lands three hexes away. Decreasing density has been used to get a persona across a crevasse.

Diminished senses are serious disabilities that the persona is challenged with. Effective gaming with a diminished sense defect should be rewarded with large amounts of experience points. The defects are difficult to role-play around, and the referee must be constantly aware of them. Cures, or replacement parts for the persona should be one of a priority of one of the referee’s earlier scenarios. This mutation is a defect and does not count as a start up mutation. The player receives another roll on the Physical Mutation Table.

This mutation is a defect and hampers the persona who possesses it. If the player is rolling up a new persona, the player gets to roll an additional mutation along with this defect. Ideally, a non-defective mutation will accompany each defective mutation. If the player is unlucky, it is possible to have two, or more, defective mutations accompanying the non-defective mutation. Defective mutations can lead to a mutant having an unusual amount of mutations.

If the persona acquires the defective mutation during gameplay, there is no accompanying non-defective mutation. Defective mutations that arise from gameplay represent misadventure. They are often the result of malfunctioning pharma or mutagenic toxins.

If you are looking to generate specific mutation types, jump to Mutation Sub Tables.

This mutant automatically has a signing language. She can teach her signing language to one expedition member per month of game time. Sonic attacks will inflict one quarter damage to this mutant. This persona’s awareness score is reduced by 2 point.

A blind mutant will have a limited echolocation ability that allows her to move very slowly and grasp nearby objects. Even with this limited echolocation the mutant is unable to perceive light or any other visual input. How does a player run a visually impaired persona? Only a most experienced player should be given this mutation. Some groups have players with blinded personas face away from the gaming table. The mutant’s awareness score is reduced by 4 points and her dexterity score is reduced by 2 points.

The mutant has no threshold for pain, and her pain receptors are hypersensitive. Any pain based damage is increased by 2-8 (2d8) hit points. Pharmaceuticals that relieve pain last half as long for this mutant. Note that this mutant much resembles a hypochondriac. This mutant heals twice as fast as other personas when recuperating. Most personas heal one hit point each day. This mutant heals two hit points each day.

This mutation is a defect and hampers the persona who possesses it. If the player is rolling up a new persona, the player gets to roll an additional mutation along with this defect. Ideally, a non-defective mutation will accompany each defective mutation. If the player is unlucky, it is possible to have two, or more, defective mutations accompanying the non-defective mutation. Defective mutations can lead to a mutant having an unusual amount of mutations.

If the persona acquires the defective mutation during gameplay, there is no accompanying non-defective mutation. Defective mutations that arise from gameplay represent misadventure. They are often the result of malfunctioning pharma or mutagenic toxins.

If you are looking to generate specific mutation types, jump to Mutation Sub Tables.

On this mutant’s belly is a 4 cm thick buildup of nutritious and tasty regenerating flesh. The flesh is a muscley, slightly denatured, and stocked with all the essential nutrients. To sustain herself, the mutant tears strips of edible tissue off her belly. Each strip is a yummy snack. The edible tissue supplies a day’s food for the mutant. The tissue is inedible to other personas and tastes repulsive.

The edible tissue grows back after a restful night’s sleep. Mutant must keep hydrated (drink water) and expose her edible tissue to light during the daytime. The mutant can still eat and enjoys regular food.

A series of organs found in this mutant’s torso generate and store a powerful electric current. This stored electric charge can be conducted down the mutant’s limbs and delivered to an opponent. The mutant can either touch her target or arc the current through air. Both attacks create bright blue sparks and make a crackling noise.

The touch attack delivers more damage to the target. If her attack roll is successful, the shock touch delivers 7-16 (1d10+6) HPS of damage plus one hit point per EXPS level. Conductive armour gives the mutant an attack roll bonus of +100.

The ranged attack is convenient but delivers less damage to the target. If her attack roll is successful, the shock bolt delivers 3-12 (3d4) hit points of damage plus one hit point per EXPS level. A 4th level mutant with a 10 PSTR could launch a lightning bolt seven hexes and inflict 7 to 16 hit points of damage.

Robots usually take double damage from electrical attacks.

Both the ranged and the touch electric shock are type C attacks. They inflict damage without physical effort by the persona. The current generating organs need time to recharge. An electric shock can attack every other unit.

The current generating organs can also absorb electric shock attacks directed at the mutant. Electricity based attacks inflict half damage on this mutant.

This mutant has brine like blood and an overactive cardiovascular system. Her vascular system forces the briny blood to the surface of her skin, where sweaty evaporation cools it. The mutant has a cold body, and being beside her is like being beside an air conditioner on full blast. The mutant cools anything within a one hex radius. A mutant with enthalpy attack prefers warmer climates, but is not bothered by cold environments.

The mutant can also unleash a blast of freezing cold air. Icicles and hail often accompany this freezing breath attack. If the player makes a successful attack roll, the enthalpy attack inflicts 2 to 16 (2d8) HPS of damage, plus one hit point per Experience Level. The air conditioning is constant, but the breath attack needs one unit of rest.

Fire and heat-based attacks have their damage reduced for this mutant. The mutant’s cold production counters the effect of flame and heat attacks. Cold based attacks inflict normal damage on a mutant with this mutation.

This mutation causes an increase in fat cells' number and size in a specific location on the body (it’s not a malignant tumour). The blob of fat will always be harmless, noticeable, and embarrassing. If surgically removed, it will aggressively grow back in one to four (1-4) days. The growth has a CHA penalty of minus 0 to 3 (d4-1) points, but no other penalties can apply. If the fat cell accumulation is on the mutant’s face, they will not suffer any AWE penalty or attack roll penalty.

This mutation is a defect and hampers the persona who possesses it. If the player is rolling up a new persona, the player gets to roll an additional mutation along with this defect. Ideally, a non-defective mutation will accompany each defective mutation. If the player is unlucky, it is possible to have two, or more, defective mutations accompanying the non-defective mutation. Defective mutations can lead to a mutant having an unusual amount of mutations.

If the persona acquires the defective mutation during gameplay, there is no accompanying non-defective mutation. Defective mutations that arise from gameplay represent misadventure. They are often the result of malfunctioning pharma or mutagenic toxins.

If you are looking to generate specific mutation types, jump to Mutation Sub Tables.

This mutant can release a noxious spume of gas from her mouth or some other orifice. The mutant is impervious to her generated gas type. The poison gas intensity is equal to half the persona’s constitution score, plus one per Level. A 3rd level mutant with a 14 CON would exhale intensity ten poison gas. Under extreme duress conditions, or after consuming certain foods, the mutant may release gas unintentionally.

The descriptions below all suggest the gas is green in colour. The player can choose any noticeable cloud colour they like. This mutation cannot generate invisible or undetectable gas, and where the gas emits from is obvious. If you need a random Colour.

The mutant’s nervous system has highly conductive neurons, both centrally and peripherally. When haste is activated, the mutant’s body with an adrenaline-like super hormone allowing her to operate at double speed. The mutant does everything at double speed during the mutation effect. Maneuvers can be completed in half the time with no penalty on task rolls. The persona doubles her movement rate with no increased risk of crashing. If the weapon is capable of doing so, the mutant can double her attack rolls per unit. Once begun, the mutant cannot stop haste, and all activity will be done in double time, or not at all. The mutant also burns through pharmaceuticals at double speed when haste is activated.

The mutant cannot use haste continuously, or she would die from using up essential nutrients. A bout of haste requires 1 hour of intentional rest or 2 hours of unrestful exertion. Haste does not work if the mutant is over-encumbered.

Heat generation arises from a dangerously overactive metabolism. This mutant amplifies any process that generates heat. Her body captures the excess energy from cellular chemical reactions and turns it into body heat. The mutant is an organic space heater. The mutant keeps anything within a one hex radius toasty warm.

The heat generation is constant. The mutant’s body temperature is much higher than usual. The mutant is not bothered by hot temperatures but prefers to reside in colder climates. The increased heat signature makes the mutant stand out to thermal detectors.

During the heat of battle, this mutant can launch searing blasts of superheated air. Flammable objects will catch fire for cosmetic and descriptive purposes.

Heat attack is a type C attack. A successful attack roll is required to inflict damage. The damage delivered by the heath attack is 3-18 (3d6) hit points of damage, plus one hit point per EXPS Level. The attack requires one unit to recover.

Cold and cold-based attacks have their damage reduced for this mutant. The mutant’s heat production counters the effect of cold attacks. Heat based attacks inflict typical damage on a mutant with heat generation.

Heightened attribute pushes one of the mutant’s physical dimensions into the stratosphere. This mutation transforms the mutant’s body to reflect the heightened attribute.

The player must re-roll her persona’s hit points, using her new CON, or add hit points based on the additional CON. The hit point value cannot decrease when being changed by a heightened constitution.

This mutant is more resilient to poisons as well. If the player wins her poison roll, the toxin does not affect the mutant. Often winning a poison roll will half the damage or reduce the effect of the poison. With the heightened constitution, the mutant will not affect with a poison roll win. The mutant’s Combat Ratio is increased by +8.

Heightened vision adds an exotic vision type to the mutant’s regular optical sensors. The mutant may switch between either vision type as needed.

The metabolism of this mutant operates at a rate three times greater than average. The mutant gives off heat, eats nine meals a day, and is jittery and active. Continually eating food does not make this mutant obese. No matter how much she eats, she appears emaciated. For example, one food culture per day sustains an average medium-sized persona. This mutant needs three food cultures per day just to stay alive.

The mutant has up to a dozen launchable quills hanging from her chest. In the resting position, the quills hide easily under clothing and armour. When activated, the quills elevate into a launching position. Restrictive armour and clothing prevent the launching of the quills.

The mutant will have 2-12 (2d6) quills growing from the center of her torso. The quills clump together and fire as a salvo. There is a small chance that the quills will have poison. The percent chance of having poisonous launchable quills is equal to the mutant’s constitution. A mutant with a 14 CON has a 14% chance of having poisonous quills.

The mutant launches the quills by muscular contraction and compressed gas. Launchable quills are attack type B. The mutant launches all her quills at once, and a successful attack roll inflicts 1-8 (1d8) per quill launched. A mutant that launches six quills would inflict 6d8 damage plus her type B Damage Adjustment. Launchable quills can be a fearsome attack with or without poison. For poisonous quills, the target must win a poison roll or take killing damage. The poison intensity is equal to the mutant’s constitution score.

The mutant can hold back one quill per EXPS Level. A 3rd Level mutant with six quills could launch all six at once, three and then three, etc. There is no difference between the intensity of poison or Type B Damage Adjustment made by different sized salvos.

Launchable quills increase the persona’s combat ratio by +3. If the quills are poisonous, the combat ratio triples.

This mutant is in a symbiotic relationship with subdermal light-emitting organisms. The mutant’s nervous system releases chemicals that excite or depress the colonies of glowing organisms. The mutant controls how she emits the light from her body.

The mutant glows steadily. She can change the colour and brightness for convenience or mood. With regular skin exposure and clothing, she can light up the adjacent hex around her. The mutant can run dark in cases of emergency. The symbiotic relationship between the mutant and organisms requires them to glow for the wellbeing of them both.

The mutant can organize the organisms to locate in a specific part of her body, and she can emit a beam of light from there. The flashlight is often the mutant’s forehead, but sometimes the palm or knee has been used. If desired, the mutant can project a beam emitting from her forehead, extending straight ahead for one hex per point of adjusted PSTR. The mutant can produce the flashlight as needed.

The mutant can excite the glowing organisms to emit a violent blast of blinding light. The bolt shoots from the mutant’s eyes. The flash attack is exhausting for the symbiotes, and the mutant can barely glow until they have recuperated.

The target must win an awareness roll or be temporarily blinded. The intensity of the attack is equal to the mutant’s charisma attribute. Blindness will last 1 to 6 minutes (30 units per minute). If she wins the awareness roll, she will suffer blurry vision for 2-20 (2d10) units. Targets with blurred vision have tearing eyes, light sensitivity, and can barely function. Targets with blurred vision suffer -200 on attack rolls, -200 on AR, +8DD task rolls, half movement, etc.

Sometime, somewhere, somehow, this mutant’s body became integrated with an inorganic device. The device is part of the mutant’s nervous system, immune system and skeleton. The mechanical device gets its energy requirements from the mutant. If the mutant has a built-in VCR she has complete control over it. All the recorder’s features record, rewind, forward, eject, etc., are as easily controlled as any other bodily function.

Typically the mutant has no idea how the insertion became part of her. Was it the work of an insane veterinarian or mechanic? Did she fall on it when she was a child? Did her mother swallow the device during pregnancy?

Mechanical insertion should only include useful functioning devices. Hardware like treasure or random junque is not appropriate. Mechanical insertion should only include devices that fit inside the mutant. Any hardware greater than 10% of the mutant’s wate is not appropriate. The players should balance the randomness of the TOY system and the usefulness of the device. A player persona with a fusion grenade in there head is funny but should not count as a physical mutation.

For experienced players embracing the randomness of TOYS can be a lot of fun. If a persona’s mechanical insertion were a spaceship, a vehicle, a combot or an artillery piece, she would become a vital part of the campaign.

Somewhere along the line, fate led to replacing one or more of the mutant’s limbs with blatantly defective mechanical devices. Scraping metal levers and gears wind into the mutant’s nerves and muscles. A prosthesis is subject to rust, and malfunctions, and breakdowns. Damage to the mechanical prosthesis does not harm the mutant but could lead to its malfunction. The chance of malfunction is determined by Sphincter Dice. The referee may check for malfunction monthly or when the prosthesis takes damage in combat. A prosthesis does not alter the mutant’s WATE or attributes. As much of a noisy hassle, the mechanical prosthesis represents it is better than no limb at all.

This mutation is a defect and hampers the persona who possesses it. If the player is rolling up a new persona, the player gets to roll an additional mutation along with this defect. Ideally, a non-defective mutation will accompany each defective mutation. If the player is unlucky, it is possible to have two, or more, defective mutations accompanying the non-defective mutation. Defective mutations can lead to a mutant having an unusual amount of mutations.

If the persona acquires the defective mutation during gameplay, there is no accompanying non-defective mutation. Defective mutations that arise from gameplay represent misadventure. They are often the result of malfunctioning pharma or mutagenic toxins.

If you are looking to generate specific mutation types, jump to Mutation Sub Tables.

Mitosis allows the mutant to replace damaged or missing tissues and organs. The mutant will rapidly grow back a missing limb, regenerate a stolen liver, and smooth over scars. The mitosis mutation is not a form of reproduction but rapid tissue replication and regeneration. Mitosis will replace any body part provided that the mutant is not dead.

This mutation does not heal hit points for the mutant, but it does arrest ongoing damage. Mitosis counters any protracted damage like ongoing poison effects, acid burning, or radiation roasting. For example, an acid blast that initially inflicts 15 hit points of damage would inflict no further damage.

Mitotic regeneration of organs and limbs starts immediately. Within a few hours, a nub of tissue will appear. After two restful nights of sleep, the mitotic regeneration will be complete. Mitosis will not finish until the mutant completes the second restful sleep.

The mutant does not age beyond her start age. Mitosis does not make her immortal, and if the mutant takes enough damage at once, she will die.

Multiple body parts is a genetic phenomenon that can be helpful or harmful to the mutant. Some of the extra body parts will be entirely under the mutant’s control. Some of the extra body parts are nothing but malformed cosmetic reproductions.

This mutant has a specialized new organ that carries out some peculiar process. The new organ is not essential to the mutant’s life. Unless specified otherwise, the mutations can be used as often as needed.

A target will definitely be aware that the tentacle is attached, and she will make every effort to detach it. A successful PSTR challenge will pull the tube out. The tube can withstand 20% of the mutant’s hit points maximum, before being knocked off the target. If the tube goes to a negative total greater than 20% of the mutant’s hit point maximum the tube has been severed. For instance, if the mutant had 40 hit points, her tube could withstand 8 HPS before being knocked off the target. If it were reduced to -8 HPS in one attack, the tube would be severed. A severed blood tube will grow back in 1 to 6 months. The blood draining tube cannot reach out of the mutant’s hex.

If the mutant has stored her maximum number of cells she can release all the energy at once in an electrical attack. The attack will inflict a 1d8 per experience level of the mutant, and has a range of 1 hex. A fully charge mutant will increase her CR by 1.

The ink can also be violently ejected in a liquid environment as a distracting screen (6 hexes by 9 hexes). The screen will dissipate in 3 to 30 units. The mutant can also spray her ink jet on land as a blinding attack against a single target. The land attack has a range of 6 hexes, and a poison intensity (blinding), equal to half the attacker’s CON. The mutant will always have enough ink to write with, but can only eject it once a day per 4 points of adjusted CON. This mutation increases the mutant’s CR by 2.

There is a 20% chance that the mutant has a light absorbing organ instead. This amazing mutation absorbs ambient light, but has no effect on lazers, and other organized light sources. This creates a blob of darkness around the mutant that grows by one hex per experience level. The amount of darkness can be controlled by the mutant, and gives her a bonus of +15 on sneaky PT rolls in the dark.

There is a 30% chance that this mutant will have glands that produce enzymes capable of destroying any plastic that it eats or licks. It allows the mutant to damage plastic equipment, and eat plastic as a food source.

This mutant does not need to exchange gases to respire. The mutant does not require light, oxygen, or carbon dioxide to carry out her life processes. The mutant only needs food and water to carry out the necessary biochemical reactions. In other respects, the mutant is digestion for nutrients and blood to carry energy around, but not lungs or breathing. Inhaled poisons do not affect the mutant.

This mutant is subject to all diseases. She has the pleasure of starting the campaign with one chronic non-terminal disease. No resistance to disease is not limited to infectious diseases. All manner of illness, both real and imagined, afflict the mutant. Her constitution works normally against poison, damage and injury, but offers no resistance to illness checks. Instead of using her CON attribute to fight disease the mutant uses a random value of 0 to 3 (d4-1).

This mutation is a defect and hampers the persona who possesses it. If the player is rolling up a new persona, the player gets to roll an additional mutation along with this defect. Ideally, a non-defective mutation will accompany each defective mutation. If the player is unlucky, it is possible to have two, or more, defective mutations accompanying the non-defective mutation. Defective mutations can lead to a mutant having an unusual amount of mutations.

If the persona acquires the defective mutation during gameplay, there is no accompanying non-defective mutation. Defective mutations that arise from gameplay represent misadventure. They are often the result of malfunctioning pharma or mutagenic toxins.

If you are looking to generate specific mutation types, jump to Mutation Sub Tables.

This mutant has no effective resistance to poison attack. Poison attacks inflict no additional damage, but are almost certain to effect this mutant. Her constitution works normally against illness, damage and injury, but offers no resistance to poison rolls. Instead of using her CON attribute to fight disease the mutant uses a random value of 0 to 3 (d4-1). Pharmaceuticals that are imbibed have double effect, but the chance of side effects are tripled.

This mutation is a defect and hampers the persona who possesses it. If the player is rolling up a new persona, the player gets to roll an additional mutation along with this defect. Ideally, a non-defective mutation will accompany each defective mutation. If the player is unlucky, it is possible to have two, or more, defective mutations accompanying the non-defective mutation. Defective mutations can lead to a mutant having an unusual amount of mutations.

If the persona acquires the defective mutation during gameplay, there is no accompanying non-defective mutation. Defective mutations that arise from gameplay represent misadventure. They are often the result of malfunctioning pharma or mutagenic toxins.

If you are looking to generate specific mutation types, jump to Mutation Sub Tables.

This mutation involves grossly oversized body part that cannot be hidden. The oversized body part will challenge the mutant with clothing, armour, and social situations. Oversized body part is not a defect. There is an associated benefit to the persona for their oversized body part.

This mutant has light green, hairless, almost translucent skin. The chloroplasts in her skin can act as a supplementary source of energy. This mutant does not need not to eat or breathe, but she must continue to drink water. The mutant must have almost all her skin exposed to use photosynthesis. Photosynthesize does not work in complete darkness. The mutant does not move blood throughout her body. The essential nutrients gently ooze along her internal sap lines.

When getting restful periods of sleep in bright light, the mutant heals five times faster than other personas. If this is an anthro mutation, this mutant bleeds out at half the other anthro mutants' speed. Damage from cold or heat-based attacks adds 1/2 damage if the mutant.

Through the production of light-emitting materials in the skin, this mutant continually glows some unique colour. The player can choose the colour (not black) or generate it at Colour. The light produced is barely enough to read by, but it is enough to be easily seen at night. All but the most extreme efforts to contain the glow fail. The mutant also registers as a radiation anomaly.

This mutation is a defect and hampers the persona who possesses it. If the player is rolling up a new persona, the player gets to roll an additional mutation along with this defect. Ideally, a non-defective mutation will accompany each defective mutation. If the player is unlucky, it is possible to have two, or more, defective mutations accompanying the non-defective mutation. Defective mutations can lead to a mutant having an unusual amount of mutations.

If the persona acquires the defective mutation during gameplay, there is no accompanying non-defective mutation. Defective mutations that arise from gameplay represent misadventure. They are often the result of malfunctioning pharma or mutagenic toxins.

If you are looking to generate specific mutation types, jump to Mutation Sub Tables.

The mutant is capable of creating spontaneous pockets in her flesh. The pocket location and size are determined by the player as needed. She can create a big pocket on her tummy, like a kangaroo’s pouch. She can create a dozen smaller pockets all over her body. The pockets are sealed from the elements and completely waterproof. This mutation does not offer a perfect hiding place for items. The opening of the pocket and storage bulge are visible on the mutant’s body. Pockets can store 5% of the mutant’s body wate. A 100kg mutant can store 5kg of equipment.

Pressurized body combines rapid gas production, inflatable body cavities, and resilient skin to increase her body’s internal pressure. Increasing her body pressure does not harm the mutant. Pressurizing her body protects her from concussive, crushing, and force-based attacks. The mutant can fall 1h per Adjusted PSTR and sustain no falling damage. Falling damage is reduced by half. Type A attacks, explosions, pressure waves, and vehicle crashes all halve the damage inflicted. Pressurized body protects against high-pressure atmospheres and low-pressure atmospheres. This mutation does not protect against anoxia, and the mutant must get oxygen to survive.

In rare instances, the pressurized mutant may burst a pressurized cavity when hit with a penetrating projectile. The referee may check for this once in a while. If the referee rolls 042 on a kilodie, the mutant will explosively decompress one of her many cavities. This inflicts 6-36 (6d6) hit points of damage to the mutant. The cavity will heal like any other wound, and the mutant can continue to use the mutation.

This mutant can launch a visible beam of radiation from her eyes. The beam is her head’s size and usually has a distinct Colour. Radiating eyes deliver a dose of killing radiation with an intensity of 2-12 (2d6) plus one per experience level. The mutant must direct the beam at one target, and it can pass through armour. The player needs to win an attack roll, but the target’s armour rating is only 500 plus DEX bonus. Only armour that protects explicitly against radiation can counter this attack. If the attack roll is successful, the target gets a radiation roll to half the damage. This attack takes a unit to recharge, and the mutant must wait for one unit between attacks.

The radiation beam and the mutant herself show up as radioactive. This mutant’s eyes will glow the same colour as the radiation beam, and the flesh around her eyes is built up and scarred.

Every cell in this mutant’s body is capable of replicating when damaged. Regeneration allows the mutant to restore her hit points when damaged. The mutant’s body is always healing itself. While most personas will have to wait days to recuperate back to their hit points maximum, this mutant repairs herself in minutes. This mutation quickly knits tissues like bone, skin and muscle back together after traumatic damage. Regeneration works well on burnt skin, repairing both acidic and flame damage quickly.

Regeneration restores hit points every unit (2 seconds) whether the mutant is in combat or not. The mutant heals one hit point for every 5 points of adjusted constitution every unit. For example, a 4th level mutant with a 16 CON would heal 4 HPS every unit. She will quickly regenerate to HPS Max, appearing as good as new.

Regeneration does not work if the mutant has less than 0 hit points. So once she is critically unconscious, she can die like any other persona. Regeneration will not grow back missing limbs but will heal the stump beautifully. This mutation does not reverse the effects of time, and the mutant ages like all other personas. Carrying out surgery is much more difficult on this mutant as tissue is healing as the scalpel separates it.

Once per day, the mutant can carry out a massive regeneration. The mutant’s body undergoes a total physiologic reset to regenerate an enormous number of hit points at once. This regeneration rejects any foreign objects hiding in the mutant. For example, her body violently rejects infections, inorganic implants, cybernetics and any pharma. Most mutants with regeneration do not have cybernetic implants for this reason. Massive regeneration can be done voluntarily by the mutant at any time. The body will instinctively carry out massive regeneration if the mutant’s HPS total drops below zero. Ongoing regeneration is subtle, but massive regeneration is disgusting, violent, loud and messy.

Massive regeneration heals two HPS per adjusted CON. A 4th level mutant with a 10 CON could massively regenerate 28 HPS.

A rubbery organic equivalent replaces the mutant’s skin. The player can pick the colour of the mutant’s slippery sheath. Or the player can let the dice decide by jumping to Colour. The mutant can paint her skin with even the most toxic of paints without harming herself. The rubbery skin is impenetrable to infections, parasites, fungi, topical poisons and other little critters. The rubbery skin does not appear naked, and clothing is optional. The mutant only needs protective clothing in the harshest meteorological or industrial conditions.

Physical attacks damage the mutant typically, as do inhaled poisons and radiation. Rubber dissolving aerosols will inflict 3 to 30 HPS of damage to this mutant.

This mutation is complex and can quickly become complicated. What is metallic, and how does her touch affect artifacts? Are alloys metallic only? How are composites affected? In short, some artifacts are obviously metallic, while others are open to discussion. If a fevered discussion brings the players to an impasse, they should consult the Sphincter Dice.

In combat, anything that inflicts damage on the mutant has assumed to contact the rust mutation. So a sword would disintegrate the first time it damages the mutant. Bullets inflict their damage but rust instantly on the mutant. Metal armour would rust away if the mutant were to punch it. This mutation severely damages robots.

If the player wins an attack roll, the robot is subject to the rust mutation. The referee may allow the player to have touch-only attack roll bonuses since the mutant does not need to deliver force to do damage. Robots will take 10-100 (10d10) hit points of damage, plus two rolls on the malfunction table. Rust damage is catastrophic for robots, and most robots will fall back to ranged attacks after the first rust attack.

This mutation causes the mutant’s body to store highly hazardous products of respiration between her cells. There is enough explosive material to cause the mutant to explode fatally. Self destruction kills the mutant and inflicts damage on those within range, not unlike a temperamental grenade. Self destruction is the ultimate defective mutation.

When her stress center’s panic signals overwhelm her body, the mutant may self destruct in glorious technicolour. Example situations where self destruction may occur are ambush, death of a friend, losing at checkers, or throwing stuff at the referee. If the player rolls 042 on a kilodie self destruction kicks in that the mutant immolates in an area of effect attack. The mutant is exploded and killed instantly. The explosion covers everything in the area of effect with mutant shrapnel. Self destruction inflicts 1d20 per experience level of the mutant.

Self destruction is fatal for the mutant and dangerous for the expedition. This mutation is far worse than any other defect. While it is fair and fun for referee personas to explode, player personas exploding is a different story. Player personas with self destruction should have homebrew alterations to the defect. For example, a player persona will only self destruct when they die. Or a player persona would have to roll 042 once per experience level to explode involuntarily.

The mutant can self destruct voluntarily. The self destruction may be a vainglorious effort to save the empire or an explosive end to a fit of pique.

The mutant sets off explosives, bombs, and weapon detectors. Removing the explosive by-product from the mutant’s body will only have a temporary effect. The mutant will return to self-destructive levels after one restful sleep. Surgery may also result in the accidental detonation of this mutation.

This mutation is a defect and hampers the persona who possesses it. If the player is rolling up a new persona, the player gets to roll an additional mutation along with this defect. Ideally, a non-defective mutation will accompany each defective mutation. If the player is unlucky, it is possible to have two, or more, defective mutations accompanying the non-defective mutation. Defective mutations can lead to a mutant having an unusual amount of mutations.

If the persona acquires the defective mutation during gameplay, there is no accompanying non-defective mutation. Defective mutations that arise from gameplay represent misadventure. They are often the result of malfunctioning pharma or mutagenic toxins.

If you are looking to generate specific mutation types, jump to Mutation Sub Tables.

Shape change allows the mutant to rearrange her body. She can change the pigmentation and texture of her skin. She can reorganize her internal organs as she desires. The mutant can shape change into anything, a large box, another persona, a robot, or an alien. She cannot shape change into imaginary objects. She must have seen and observed what she is mimicking.

Shape change is entirely cosmetic. The mutant may now look like a combot, but she is merely flesh and blood that looks like a combot. She may have claws that look razor-sharp, but they will be no stronger than her fists. There are also size limitations to the shape change mutation. The shape change must be within 50% of her hite and wate. If she is shape-changing into a much larger alien, she could create a smaller replica of that alien.

The shape change transformation takes time, and it is messy, noisy and disgusting. Transformation does not harm the mutant, but she breaks her bones, tears her flesh, and takes on an amorphous in-between shape. Clothes and equipment are not an option during the shape change. During this amorphous state, the mutant is helpless, and any damage inflicted is increased by three times.

More complex transformations take longer and make the mutant more vulnerable. Subtle transformations take less time and don’t put the mutant at risk. Whole-body transformations should take minutes to hours, but changing hair colour is achieved in seconds.

Returning to her normal shape is automatic at the end of the mutation’s duration. The mutant returns to standard shape four times faster than the transformation took. Subtle changes will change back instantly, but more complicated changes will return the mutant to that icky amorphous state. For each minute the shape is maintained, there is a 1% chance the mutant will stay in that shape indefinitely. To change back to her base shape, she will have to wait until the mutation recharges.

The mutant can force the molecules of her body to snuggle closer together or drift further apart. Size manipulation allows her to decrease or increase her size. The size change alters her hite, and she keeps her normal proportions. The change is immediate and complete. The mutant’s equipment is unaffected by this transformation resulting in wardrobe malfunctions.

The mutant can decrease her size down to 25% of her normal size. Shrinking does not alter her wate, attributes or skill task. Besides allowing her to fit into tight spaces, the mutant gets an armour rating bonus of +75. Her clothes will drape around her like a tent.

The mutant can increase her size by up to 150% for her normal size. Enlarging does not alter her wate, attributes or skill task. Besides allowing her to reach the top shelf, the mutant gets a damage adjustment bonus of +50% non-powered attacks.

Skin structure change has both a cosmetic and defensive effect on the mutant’s skin. The skin structure change does not alter any attributes or affect her ability to wear armour. The mutant enjoys all the benefits of the armour type and none of the drawbacks. For example, skin structure changes have no restrictiveness or encumbrance penalties. The structurally changed skin is simply the mutant’s skin. The armour rating changes affect the base armour rating of the mutant. So plated skin increases the base armour rating from 500 to 650. The impact is purely on armour rating, and the skin structure change offers not other special abilities. Often mutants with this mutation are averse to wearing armour out of pride or comfort

Smoke screen allows the mutant to create a thick smoke that pours off her back. The mutant can superheat her back, causing a strong-smelling secretion to smoulder fiercely. This mutant’s back can heat up and ignite secretions located on her skin. The combusting material will generate thick vision-obscuring smoke. The mutant can instantly heat her back to generate thick smoke.

The cloud does not inhibit one’s ability to breathe, but it is entirely disorienting and vision blocking. The plume of smoke can have a strong Aroma and distinct Colour. The player can choose the smell and colour if she prefers.

The mutant can create a smoke cloud by standing still. The smoke cloud has a one hex radius per unit of burn. The mutant can create smoke walls by moving and smoking. If the mutant moves, she will create a smoke wall, two hexes high and one hex wide. The wall of smoke will follow as she moves for two units. A 2nd level mutant with a 10 PSTR could create a cloud of 4 hexes in radius. The same mutant can use her move of 3 h/u to create a smoke wall 12 hexes long.

The cloud will last for 1 to 12 minutes before settling or being dissipated. In situations of extreme stress, the mutant may involuntarily deploy her smoke screen.

Sonar attack allows the mutant to create noises so loud they are destructive. The mutant’s neck has obvious bellows that can blast air through specialized vocal cords. Immediately before attacking, the mutant’s bellows billow out to beyond her nose. The scream attack combines high and low-frequency wavelengths that deliver destructive force to the target. The further away the target is, the less damage the sonar attack inflicts. A 2nd level mutant with a 10 PSTR has a radius of effect of 6 hexes.

The sonar energy damages every target in the area of effect. The player makes one roll for all the targets in the area of effect. In addition to damaging the targets, there is a chance of deafening audio sensors. The sonar attack can shut down organic and inorganic sensors. Objects taking the full force of the attack have a percent chance of going deaf. Full force is considered those mutants within the one hex range or less. A percentile roll less than or equal to the damage will deafen the target. Organic systems remain deaf for 1-8 (1d8) hours, but inorganic audio systems must await repair.

The sonar attack damages everything in the area of effect with a sonar blast of force. The mutant’s fellow expedition members are also affected by the sonar attack. The mutant is unaffected by her sonar attack.

The mutant has poison producing glands that can eject poisonous spittle at tremendous distances. The player must win an attack roll on a specific target for the poison to take. If the attack roll is successful, the target still gets a poison roll to deflect the poison effect. These poisons are organic and do not affect inorganic targets like robots.

Quills, spines, thorns and other nasty pointy things cover this mutant’s body. The quills layer is thick and offers an armour rating bonus of +101, but the mutant cannot wear armour. The precluded armour includes vac suits. The quills damage any attacker that punches, bites, or claws the pointy persona. If the attacker wins an attack roll against the mutant, the attacker takes 1-6 (1d6) hit points plus one per experience level. A 5th level mutant with static quills has a base AR of 601 and would passively deliver 6 to 11 HPS of damage when punched. Mutants with high charisma will have organized inviting quills, but a mutant with low charisma will have scraggly off putting quills.

The mutant has a strange new body part. The strange new body part is not a defect. Some of the strange new body parts are only cosmetic. If the player has rolled a purely cosmetic mutation, she should get another roll on the physical mutation table.

Symbiotic attachment allows the mutant to control another persona via a specialized tentacle. The tentacle appears as a long umbilical cord with a spine filled suction cup. The cord is an extension of the mutant’s nervous system. The symbiotic attachment contains all the nerves, neurotransmitters, and hormones necessary to operate another organic nervous system. When the symbiotic attachment connects to another organic persona, that persona becomes an extension of the mutant.

The mutant must win an attack roll, and the target must fail a poison roll before the symbiotic attachment takes control. From that point on, the player is controlling two personas. The target must remain within the one hex range of the symbiotic attachment.

The mutant’s successful attack roll must land on the target’s skin. For example, inflicting damage through powered armour would not count as connecting the symbiotic attachment. This attack roll must be successful even if the target wishes to be symbiotically connected. If the mutant fails on her attack roll, the attachment immediately retracts back to the mutant.

The intensity of the poison attack is equal to the mutant’s adjusted intelligence score. The target can use her constitution or intelligence score when making the poison roll. The poison roll reflects the resistance of the target’s neurologic system resisting the takeover. Unconscious targets get no poison roll to resist symbiotic attachment. If the target wins her poison roll, the attachment immediately retracts back to the mutant.

There is a symbiotic component of this mutation. The mutant feels the pain and emotions of the target. If the target is subject to a mental attack, the mutant must also make a psionic roll. The mutant also feels any physical damage suffered by the symbiote. The mutant takes half of any damage inflicted on her attached symbiote.

If the mutant loses consciousness (not sleeping), the symbiote breaks free. If the target is more intelligent than the mutant, the target gets daily poison rolls to break free. If the target is less intelligent than the mutant, the target gets weekly poison rolls to break free.

The mutant can tear off parts of her body, and they will continue to function as if still attached. The mutant could tear off an arm and have it open a door while she stands to the side. She could leave her eye in a room to spy on the occupants. She could hang an ear to the wall to listen for intruders. Eyes and ears cannot move, but a hand could scuttle, and a foot could hop.

The mutant can tear away one body part per two levels of experience. Each torn-away body part has a hit point total of 10% of the mutant’s hit point total. The torn away body parts are delicate. If the torn-away body part gets out of range, it begins to decompose. If the torn away body part stays detached beyond the duration, it begins to compose. Decomposition inflicts 1-8 (1d8) hit points of damage per hour. When a body part reaches 0 hit points, it is dead, and the mutant has lost that body part.

The undersized body part is completely obvious to any observer. Even unintelligent flora and fauna may notice. There is no attribute penalty for having undersized body parts. The effect is cosmetic, and each part functions as expected.

This mutation is a defect and hampers the persona who possesses it. If the player is rolling up a new persona, the player gets to roll an additional mutation along with this defect. Ideally, a non-defective mutation will accompany each defective mutation. If the player is unlucky, it is possible to have two, or more, defective mutations accompanying the non-defective mutation. Defective mutations can lead to a mutant having an unusual amount of mutations.

If the persona acquires the defective mutation during gameplay, there is no accompanying non-defective mutation. Defective mutations that arise from gameplay represent misadventure. They are often the result of malfunctioning pharma or mutagenic toxins.

If you are looking to generate specific mutation types, jump to Mutation Sub Tables.

This mutant creates harmonic patterns transfer through her hands. The vibrations can be soothing and comforting or painful and dangerous. The mutant can dial in whatever she needs.

In combat, vibrations conducted through the hand can inflict damage right through armour. The vibration punch is a type A attack that inflicts 3-12 (3d4) hit points, plus 1 hit point per level of damage. The player adds +97 to any attack rolls made with vibrating hands. The vibrations can also be conducted through metallic type A weapons turning them into organic vibro weapons.

The mutant can also grasp inanimate objects and inflict damage with her vibration attack. When the object reaches zero hit points, it disintegrates.

This mutant can increases or decrease her wate at will. The wate change is nearly immediate, and involves loud bodily noises.

The mutant can triple her body wate by absorbing ambient water and airborne particles She does not increase in hite, but she will appear to plumper. When she increases her wate, and therefore her density, she enjoys some benefits. She increases her damage adjustment by 50%. She becomes harder to move and carry. This will give her benefits in strength challenges, or not being blown away by the wind challenges.

The mutant can reduce her body wate by one third by spewing out bodily fluids and gelatinous matter. There is no noticeable change in the mutant’s hite, but she appears much thinner. The mutant becomes easier to carry. The lighter mutant is more nimble and increases her movement rate by 25%

The mutant will return to her normal wate if she is knocked unconscious.

The mutant has a lovely pair of wings coming off her back. These wings allow the mutant to fly through the air with the greatest of ease. The mutant will be able to fly at her movement rate. Her flying movement rate cannot be less than 8 h/u. The wingspan of the mutant keeps her from flying within normal buildings. Wings require atmosphere to work.

The range of a mutation indicates how far away the effects of the mutation can be delivered to a target. Any exception to this meaning of mutation range will be specified in the mutation. Many mutations can affect targets hexes away; others require contact; and some have a radius of effect. Ranges are not devoted solely to offensive mutations, and even defensive mutations may be critically affected by range limits.

The intensity of a mutation cannot be regulated, and neither can its area of effect. Only a single target mutation can be adjusted for different ranges from the persona. Mutations that have areas of effect will indiscriminately affect all targets in this area of effect.

Nothing can stop a mutation which travels directly from one mind to another. ESP, gyrokinesis, and telekinesis can pass through any barrier if the mutant has positive proof that the target exists. Those mutations which manipulate the environment to attack a target, such as mental blast, or launch-able quills, are subject to terrain effects.

The duration of a mutation almost always refers to the length of time that the mutation effects last. If the mutant has telekinetic flight, she can stay aloft for the duration of the mutation. Mutations usually require complete concentration on the part of the mutant. If a mutation obviously does not require complete concentration on the part of the mutant, then the concentration need not be maintained. Mutations that are always in constant use do not require a significant portion of the mutant’s mental or physical resources.

Mutations usually last so many units per point of MSTR, and they may also be affected by the persona’s experience level. If a mutation has a duration of one until per MSTR, then the mutant can make the mutation last 12 units if she has a 12 MSTR. Other variations of duration exist, and they all function identically to the range variations discussed earlier, except that units replace hexes. Mutations with random durations are determined each time the mutation is employed. Such mutations indicate that the mutant has set in motion physical effects which she has no control over.

The frequency of the mutation indicates how often it can be used during a daily cycle of the mutant. The frequency assumes a 24 hour day (see Chapter 12: Time and Movement) where the mutant sleeps around eight hours each day. If the mutant is in a situation where there is no planetary rotation or one where there is no 24-hour cycle, a complete rest (eight hours’ sleep) will be equivalent to the completion of a daily cycle.

Most mutations can be used several times a day, depending on the MSTR and level of the mutant. The more powerful the mutation, the less frequently it can be used each day. If the frequency of a mutation is one per four MSTR, a persona with a 12 MSTR could employ it three times each day and would have to rest eight hours before using it again. For this type of mutation, rest for the brain is essential. Unless otherwise stated, a mutation can be used at least once a day. This includes mutations which have very low frequencies (e.g. One per 13 MSTR). This mutation could be used once a day, even by a persona with an MSTR of six.

Mutations that can be used more frequently are labelled "as needed" and just as the title states. The mutant can use such a mutation as it is needed. "Constant" mutations are usually defects, and they constantly project their effects regardless of what the mutant is doing. Constant mutations always function whether the mutant is asleep or awake.

Mutations cannot be stored. A mutant cannot use a mutation more often one day than the next because she saved some uses from the previous day. The mutant may use the mutation no more than the frequency states, and each use is cumulative until she rests. Mutations cannot be compounded to double an effect. The mutant can only use one mutation at a time unless one of the mutations has a “constant” or “as needed” frequency.

The mutant has used a mutation whenever the effects start. Even if the target saves and the mutation has no effect, the mutation has been used. If the mutant voluntarily stops the mutation, then it has been used. If the mutant switches from one target to another, this will usually indicate another use.

The general bonus listing of the mutation could contain several arcane bits of information that are related to the use of the mutation in unexpected circumstances. The mutation may indicate a bonus for maneuver rolls, attribute rolls or negotiation rolls. Any simple effect that the mutation has on the dice rolling of the persona should be included beside the general bonus listing.

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