Everyone is Human

I've played around with this idea before, and got to thinking of expanding it upon seeing Trey Causey over at Sorcerer's Skull do something similar, as well as Joe Fatula's stuff over at Signs in the Wilderness.

Reverse-engineering the Standard Fantasy Races (TM) into primates that exist in the real-world has fourfold purpose: one, stale fantasy tropes are stale and mythologizing the real world is much more fun and meaningful for me. Two, it's the easy go between of "humans only" and "lots of choice of fantasy peoples", since both are true. Third, it allows you to focus on the really weird fantasy species that can be thrown into the world to interact with. Fourth, I have a feeling it's a solid way to circumvent "let's go into the caves and just murder everyone". We have chaos-spawn for that.

Human Species

Humans - Homo sapiens sapiens - This is us.

Dwarves - Homo sapiens neanderthalensis - A bit shorter, a bit stockier, live up in the lands of ice and snow. Possibly deceptively high-pitched voices.

Elves - Homo sapiens idaltu - Immediate ancestors of humans, now fading out.

Halflings / gnomes - Homo sapiens floresiensis - The little people. Tend to come from small, remote islands.

Orcs - Homo sapiens denisova - Closely related to dwarves, significant cross-pollination between the two peoples. Live in a vast and rugged wilderness, far from civilization.

Ogres - Homo sapiens carnifex - The result of heavy arcane reagent poisoning. Gigantism, mental degradation, violent cannibalistic tendencies.

Tiefling - Homo sapiens cambionis - The result of a cubus transferring sperm between a male and female victim. Sterile, generally mutated.

Aasimar - Homo sapiens nephilli - The result of a angelic siring and miraculous birth. Sterile, generally mutated.
 

Other Primates

Goblins - Lemurs and tarsiers - Loud, rowdy, huge tribes, downright bizarre looking really.

Hobgoblins - Chimpanzees and bonobos - Tool usage, have figured out war and raiding parties.

Bugbears - Mandrills - Ye gods, look at those teeth.

Firbolgs - Orangutans and gorillas - Eminently chill dwellers of the inner forests.

Trolls - A hunchbacked, ape-like mass of tumors. No one knows what it used to be.

Giants - Gigantopithicus - Huge, rarely seen.

Converting Eclipse Phase Monsters to Mothership

Save the section at the end of Dead Planet, there's no bestiary for Mothership. There will be one in time, but for now we are on our own.

Thankfully, the freely-available Eclipse Phase library can fill in. These are all stripped right from the X-Risks book.

Basic Conversion Guidelines

• SOM / 5 = number of health pools a creature has.
• For lower health (or more human enemies), divide by 10 instead.
• DUR = Amount in each health pool.
• INT + REF = Instinct (a creature's catch-all save)
• Speed is weird, as EP only has two levels of it for monsters. This is just going to have to be eyeballed.
• Attacks remain the same, keeping hit percentages and damage.
• Special powers follow the same procedure as attacks.
• Everything else gets ditched.

Barbed Eel

Seems more like a slug, fatter than an eel. Barbels with bioluminescent tips. Six eyes, gigantic mouth.

Combat:

• 40% bite 1d10+4

Speed: 30%
Instinct: 30%
Hits: 3(40)
Special: 1d10 electric stun. 10m range in water, 60% touch attack on land.

 

Blister Beast

A purplish, ape-sized thing. Hairless, with a long tail. Six limbs, thin. Bright orange pustules.

Combat:

• Tail Strike 60, 2d10, body save vs knocked prone.
• Sting 50, 1d10+5, body save vs 1 hr paralysis and 1d10 damage / turn for 5 turns. Successful save resists paralysis and halves damage.

Speed: 45%
Instinct: 35%
Hits: 3(30)
Special: Blister Defense - Attacks against the blister beast have a 40+damage% chance of triggering a neurotoxin cloud (1d10 / turn inside cloud, save vs 1 hour blindness, save vs incapacitation by choking.)

 

Flesh Party

Giblets splattered all over the walls, victims still alive. A web of skin, muscle, gristle and fat.

Combat:

• Bite 50, body save vs engulfed, victims take acid damage as below until freed or dead.
• Acid Spit 40, 1d10+5 for 3 turns
• Bone Spur 40, 1d10+4

Speed: 10%
Instinct: 20%
Hits: 4(80)
Special: Regenerates 1d10 / hour

 

Fractal Troll

Humans, once. Lumbering, neckless. Arms are huge, second set spurts from shoulder blades with fractal fingers.

Combat:

• Claws 70, 1d10+7
• Subdual 70, strength check to resist.
• Fractal Gouge, 1d10+4, can be used as a bonus attack to subdued targets.

Speed: 40%
Instinct: 70%
Hits: 8(55)
Special: Vacuum-immune. Memories of previous life.

 

Immolator 

Human victims of Glory virus. Leathery grey-blue skin, hairless. Horns. Breeding pairs fuck constantly, deposit zygotes into the Mother.

Combat:

• Claws 60, 1d10+3
• Particle Beam Bolter 60, 2d10+4 (can be replaced for other firearm)

Speed: 60%
Instinct: 40%
Hits: 5(40)
Special: Drones indistinguishable from humans in appearance. Breeders only distracted by threats to the nest. Can pass on Glory strain via fluid transfer.

 

Immolator Mother

A mass of flesh, wombs and mouths and teeth and tentacles. Blood everywhere. Breeders depositing zygotes.


Combat:

• Bite 70, 2d10+3,  body save vs infection with the Glory strain.
• Tentacles 70, 1d10+3, makes 1d10/2 attacks
• Brain Spike 60, 2d10+, fear save for half.

Speed: 10%
Instinct: 10%
Hits: 6(100)
Special: Glory strain via fluid transfer. In center of immolator hive.

 

Land Anemone

What it says on the box.

Combat:

• Tentacle Attack 60, 1d10 + toxin
• Grapple 60 - Swallows on next action, 1d10 damage / turn

Speed: 15%
Instinct: 35%
Hits: 3(30)
Special: Tentacle toxin, 2d10 + 10 for three turns, body save vs paralysis. Sometimes bury themselves for better ambush.

 

Predator

Human, once. Chose this. No empathy, regret, or doubt. Blood red skin, patches like dark stone. Gaping mouth with too many teeth.

Combat:

• Diamond Bite 70, 1d10+7 
• Monofilament Claws 70 1d10+8
• Tail sting 80, 2d10 +7. Toxin activates in 3 turns, lasts 10 minutes. Failed body save = incapacitated, success = -20 to all checks for duration.

Speed: 75%
Instinct: 80%
Hits: 8(65)
Special: Nasty motherfuckers, but not very creative in the grand scheme.

 

Stinger Hound

A sturdy shell. Four thin legs. Small head. Fast. Pack hunter.

Combat:

• Tongue Stinger 65, 1d10+3, target loses 5 points of strength / turn for 6 turns (3 on save)
• Claws 60, 2d10+2
• Pounce 70, 2d10+5, save vs knocked prone and pinned.

Speed: 65%
Instinct: 35%
Hits: 4(40)
Special: Camouflage - gain +30 to attempts to hide when remaining still and silent.

 

Veiled Leech

About the size of chimpanzee. Hairless, clammy, slimy. Invisible, most of the time. Tentacle mouth.

Combat: 

• Pounce 60, save vs subdual, following turn sucker bite 1d10/2 + toxin.
• Toxin - Save vs unconscious 1 hr. -30 to all checks for duration.

Speed: 35%
Instinct: 30%
Hits: 3(25)
Special: Gliding membranes, thermal vision, camouflage to the point of invisibility.

 

Void Crawler

Clever little things. Mostly arms and tail. Vacuum-adapted. Coordinated packs. Tool-use.

Combat: 

• Hook 50, 1d10 +1. 
• Tail Whip 60, 1d10, body save vs choked unconscious

Speed: 40%
Instinct: 35%
Hits: 2(30)
Special: Confusion sleight 60 - Target is disorientated, takes -20 to all rolls. Vacuum adapted.

 

Wastewalker

Human, once. Lanky. Rubbery brown-black skin. Bone white mask. No expression.

Combat:

• Claws 40, 1d10 
• SMG 80, 4d10

Speed: 50%
Instinct: 30%
Hits: 3(50)
Special: Infection vector - interacting with a wastewalker mask will drive individuals to wear it, swiftly transforming into another.

 

Zombie Crab

Giant enemy crab. Aggressive. 
 
Combat:

• Claw 50, 2d10+4. Body save vs protist infection. 
• Bite 50, 3d10, save vs protist infection.

Speed: 15%
Instinct: 15%
Hits: 4(50)
Special: Protist infection - 5 day incubation. Afterwards, lose 5 points from each stat per day to minimum of 5. Gain obsessive compulsion to seek out water to drown and be eaten.

Horizon Zero Dawn in the OSR

Tacosauceninja

Horizon Zero Dawn, despite the silly name, is a great game. And for our purposes a fine fit, like Banner Saga before it, for OSR conversion.

This is going to be spoilered to all hell.

Primer for Players

Far future Earth. Green apocalypse. Civilization is pre-industrial and, as far as we know, is centered in the western US (Colorado, Montana, Utah, Arizona in particular). The primary remnants of the old world are the machine-creatures found throughout the wilderness. Beyond that it's just some rusting ruins, hidden bunkers, and the occasional bit of salvage (metals and ceramics, no plastics). The robots have been getting more aggressive over the last decade or so (the Derangement).

Primer for DMs

There was a grey-goo scenario in the 2060s. self-replicating, biomass-eating warbots built without a remote shutdown backdoor, all that good stuff. Total biosphere collapse, extinction of all life on Earth. Project Zero Dawn was a last-ditch reboot effort - build an AI (GAIA) capable of brute-forcing the shutdown the Faro warbots, and then clean up and re-seed the biosphere from seed and gene banks using it's own robots. It succeeded (hence, why there is a game), but the subfunction APOLLO was sabotaged, wiping out the entire recorded history of humanity and destroying any resources for the humans raised in the Cradle facilities (this is why there are no cultural remnants of the Old World to be found in any of the post-ZD civilizations) The first Cradles started releasing people into the wild some 700 years ago or so. Current year is 3040.

Practical Basics

• Common weapons are simple and pretty standard: bows, spears, swords, axes, slings. Simple explosives and rapid-crossbows are less common but still widespread.More exotic weapons include tripwire launchers and restraining ropecasters.
• The Osteran have been able to develop proper cannons, and some Carja have fire-spear launchers of their own. Any other firearms are scavenged off of robots and usually in possession of the Eclipse.
• HZD does not match up to any pre-existing historical era particularly well, but it is safe enough to think "anachronistic bronze age".
• The largest animal seen in-game is a wild boar. Some livestock can be presumed, but it seems most of the bigger animals have gone extinct for good.
• Primary currency is metal shards chipped off of machine plating. Ruinations scrap works just fine to this end.

Characters

There are four primary cultures featured in the game, plus three minor.

• Nora - Matriarchal, isolationist. Strict taboos on personal behavior and even stricter against exploration of ruins or meddling with machines, punishable through exile. Keep to themselves in their Sacred Lands, which are in the general Colorado area.
• Carja - Theocratic cultural hub, largest civilization in the known world. Consider their king the vessel of the divine sun. The old king (Jiran) was a murderous tyrant and was overthrown by his son in a civil war. The current king (Avad) is a pretty cool dude: banned slavery, opened the borders, more rights for women and foreigners. The Carja Sundom includes a lot of territory in the Utah / Arizona region.
• Osteran - Industrious, mercantile, forthright. Smiths, miners, mercenaries, tinkerers. They come from the Claim, which should be Idaho and possibly some of Montana.
• Banuk - Survivalist, technospiritualist. Clans formed via trial rather than bloodline. Shamans deal with machines and commune with the "Blue Light". They live in Ban-Ur, which begins in Wyoming and proceeds further north, possibly to Canada.
• Utaru - Pastoral, pacifist. Live in the Plainsong (Kansas and Nebraska, likely), and are rarely seen in the Sundom or surrounding territories.
• Tenakth - Cannibalistic raiders from further south. Nasty motherfuckers.
• Carja-in-Shadow - Supporters of the previous Carja king, driven westward by the terms of the ceasefire. Mostly the old priesthood trying to claim legitimacy through the six year old Itamen (youngest son of Jiran by a different wife) and acting as a cover for the Eclipse cult (who believes that the HADES subfunction is the Buried Shadow of their myth come to rebalance the disorder caused by Avad).

Only two other Cradle facilities are confirmed: one in Xinjiang Province (China) and one under Mt. Namuli (Mozambique). Potential sites (via in-game graphics only) include Greenland, Nigeria, northern France and eastern Russia.

Land west of the Rockies is entirely fucked, according to in-game sources.

The Medicine Pouch

A successful survival check (takes 1 hour) will gather enough medicinal herbs to restore 1 HP. You can store up to your max HP in your medicine pouch.

Equipment & Mods

The heaviest armor available is the equivalent of chain, with the lightest being no more than common clothing. What is more important is an armor's quality, which determines how many modification weaves can be applied. There are three ranks of quality for armor (1/2/3 mods) and for modifications themselves. Modifications provide damage reduction (1/2/3) against one of the following types.

• Melee 
• Ranged
• Fire
• Freezing
• Spark
• Corruption 

So, for example, Quality 2 Light Armor has an AC of 14 and two mod slots.

Weapons can also be modded to do additional damage in the same manner, doing 1-3 additional damage when using the appropriate ammo type.

Machine Creatures

Machines are easy: just take your favorite wildlife from the Monster Manual, make it a robot, and give it a simple title related to what it does or what it's like ("Watcher", "Snapmaw", etc). While more exotic-appearing machines are certainly possible, it seems that HEPHAESTUS has kept it all within the boundaries of creatures that once existed on Earth (GAIA was quite fond of megafauna, it turned out.)

Major machine classifications include: terraformer (maintain soil fertility), purifier (clean & maintain air and water), acquisition (gathering and recycling resources), transport (moving resources), recon (detection, guiding other machines to needed locations), communication (maintaining network), combat (post-Derangement hunter-killers) and chariot (Old World warbots).

Each creature has a chance of dropping a lens (40%) or a heart (10%). These are worth, respectively, 10xHD and 50xHD shards.

Machines are generated in HEPHASTUS-run cauldron facilities.

Project Updates for 2019

With the new year of 12019 upon us (Holocene Era calendar for life), here's some of the stuff I've been working on and hopefully will be working on in the future.

Unicorn Meat

(This is a module about an abandoned backwoods factory farm for unicorns that has gone full True Detective / LISA the Painful)

The first draft of the module is complete, but first drafts have a way of revealing to you that completion is a fair way away. I've got potential revisions all written down and ready for addition once the mental batteries recharge.

The main change will be one of framing and focus. All of the playtests so far have been about a adventuring party happening upon the events at the farm, and this has brought with it issues of motivation and confusion of what to do. To address this, I feel that a switcheroo is in order: "carvergirls attempting to escape the farm" gets bumped up to the primary hook, while "adventurers from the outside" gets bumped down the list.

All the rest is just cleanup and reorganization of what I've already got down, with a bit of expansion where needed. With the carvergirls bumped up as the primary player option adding a Nightwatch class and their spells is going to happen.

There's a ways to go, but I'm excited. It's gonna be great.

The Great Discape

(This is a weirdo setting of a bunch of strange places on the back of a giant whale.)

I haven't forgotten about it.

The Danscape, while loads of fun to play and run,was a bit of a big, unguided mess. Setting was so big that it might as well not have existed or could have been a single planet, maybe even within walking distance. The 100-long list of species went mostly untouched and unused. It's all diluted, and in the heat of the moment it is too much for a DM to use adequately on the fly.

I had some thoughts of paring the setting down, perhaps adding the Wanderers as the main races, but that didn't come to fruition.

Because I've already got a project with "scape" in it already. (Draft here.)

After some feedback from folks and a good time of thinking, I've got some notions of combining the two, so that everyone is far less confused about everything.

Some ideas and edits that have taken hold.

• Cutting down the number of major regions - already done in the draft, down to 14.
• Adding a list of minor regions (which will include abridged versions of those cut)
• Consolidating the places of note from Danscape to Discape.
• The Discape itself is made of dead gods, because why not?
• There is no off switch to the K6BD influences.
• Filling out the Discape with some more random tables.
• There was that huge race table made for the Danscape. I don't think it will be added in, but I'll figure something out for it.

One of the advantages of jumping from half-baked project to half-baked project is that you can occasionally bake an entire project out of the pieces.

Mother Stole Fire

(This is my "default" fantasy setting)

Broad-view plans for all this is to make a sort of setting gazetteer, in the vein of Chromatic Soup. A map of the Olen River Valley adventure region and a series of background equipment kits have been sketched out and I've got a decent short list of  pre-existing posts to polish and throw together.

Untitled Post Apocalyptic Project

(This has yet to be made)

There is in my head the shape of a game. An apocalyptic game, but after a revelatory apocalypse rather than a destructive one. Fit for fighting monsters and paranormal investigation, but more in the vein of Hellboy and the BPRD than Call of Cthulhu or Delta Green. Something that scratches the Degenesis itch more than a hack can.

If Hellboy + Dreamlands + Esoteric Enterprises + Degenesis + Warframe for some fucking reason sounds like a good time to you, this is one to keep tabs on.

Games I Want to Run

Got plenty of stuff on the docket for this year, but the main plans are:

• Mothership - Got plenty of stuff to use already and I can't wait to get started.
• Warhammer 40k via SWN - Using John B's excellent little hack, I can finally knock 40k off the bucket list.
• DCC - Want to try a longer campaign on this one, I've got plenty of material for it. Once my copy of Chained Coffin comes in that'll definitely see some use.
• Other stuff - Who knows? There shall always be more opportunities.

Post-Apocalyptic Nuns on the Run, Having Fun, Insert Pun

Josan Gonzalez

Skerples' escape nuns post has always been one of my favorites, and my recent dalliance with Ruinations means that I can take those runaway nuns and apply the apocalypse which means it's time for A Canticle for Leibowitz, and I shall never give up that opportunity.

d4: Why are you adventuring?

1. Exiled.
2. Fleeing danger.
3. Need to find something or someone.
4. On a mission from God.

d6: What happened to the world?

1. Climate catastrophe.
2. Nuclear war.
3. Plague.
4. Supervolcano.
5. Meteor impact.
6. AI disaster.

d8: Your convent is...

1. Overcrowded.
2. Corrupt.
3. Collapsing.
4. A den of vice.
5. Ultraconservative.
6. Barely surviving.
7. Under insquisition.
8. Just starting out.

d10: Local environs

1. Jungle or rainforest.
2. Frozen wasteland.
3. Coral atoll.
4. Desert badlands.
5. Fertile hill country.
6. Deciduous forest.
7. Death-zone margin.
8. City ruins.
9. Up in the mountains.
10. Wide open prairie.

d%: Local threats

1. Toxic groundwater.
2. Encroaching totalitarians.
3. Swarms of feral boars.
4. Swiftly changing outside culture.
5. Dangerous new mutant strain.
6. Destabilizing old-world tech.
7. Famine + mass migration.
8. Rogue warbots.
9. Some jackass just found a fresh nuke.
10. There's something out there in the night.

d12: Strange vows

1. Always honor dogs.
2. Wear smoked glasses between dawn and dusk.
3. Prayer tattoos. You get your first at the age of 3.
4. Drink fresh pig's blood at dinner.
5. Listen first, speak second. Always.
6. Save anything with writing on it.
7. Confession via duel. Own up or go a round. 
8. Personalized hymnbooks containing songs of the Old Ones.
9. Lock a door when entering a home, mark it with chalk, unlock it.
10. Secret convent language of Old World terms.
11. Yearly scapegoat festival. Animal varies.
12. Mock human sacrifices + fake orgies.

d20: Patron

1. The Great God Ohn, patron of Machines.
2. Man was God, but committed suicide.
3. The Giant Eagle, Star-Spangled.
4. Saints Armstrong and Aldrin.
5. The Old Ones in the Bunkers Below.
6. Leviathan of the Great Lakes.
7. The Black Glass Gods; the Multitudes.
8. The Mangled God, tortured and murdered.
9. Elephant and Ass, petty dualists.
10. Igna Atomica, the Purifier.
11. The ghosts and petty death gods of the Anthropocene Extinction.
12. Old-World Simulationist Congregation.
13. Nara, God of the Guns
14. Melek Taus, the Peacock Angel.
15. Our Lady of Fallout.
16. Aresian Escapists (Muskovite Branch).
17. The Holy Cosmic Sciences.
18. Good Neighbor Rogers.
19. Capricious Meem, the chaos-trickster.
20. Random Number God.

Games in My Folders

George Weidman, noted seller of socks and talker-about-of-video-games, has an occasional series called "Games From My Inbox" where he talks about games that he has heard of solely through press releases in his inbox.

I don't have an inbox full of press releases for obscure indie video games, but I do have a "right click, save as" compulsion. Same difference. So here's a bunch of strange little pdfs I've got sitting in my RPG folders.  The only criteria I'm using here are 1) it formed an opinion in me 2) I hear no one or next to no one talking about it 3) it is freely available.

100 Rare Wonders

Telecanter
Grotty bizarre overcrowded magical metropoli hold a special place in my heart, and this list is all the spice you could want. They're bizarre, they're evocative, you can spin them out for hooks, it's great.  

(Link)

40k Conversion for Stars Without Number

John B.
I've always wanted to run a 40k game, but none of the rulesets really . There are a couple other hacks out there (Future Heresy for Barbarians of Lemuria and Warband! for general OSR usage) but I settled on this one because SWN has psychics and world generation tables baked in, and is geared more towards the lower-power-level parts of 40k that I like (give me rogue traders and guardsmen over space marines any day.) Plus I just want to run SWN at some point.

(Link) - (PDF here)

Halo Mythic

Brandon "Vorked" Miller
A commendable effort in converting everything that's seen screen time in the Halo setting (spinoff games and that miniseries included) but crunchier than a mouthful of gravel. Bit of a Dark Heresy undercurrent (percentile attributes, purchasing upgrades with XP, having melee and ranged weapons as stats). Hits the predictable limiting wall that comes with being based on military sci-fi, in that there is next to no material supporting anything outside of shooting aliens with guns and entirely too much specificity within that genre. No expansion upon the setting of any kind. The kind of game for people who like having three different kinds of every weapon with maybe two different numbers.

(Link)

Dungeons the Dragoning: 7th Edition

LawfulNice
The joke that lived. As outrageous and obtuse a knot of mechanics and settings as one could possibly make and still come out with a technically-playable system. And the crazy thing is that if you stare at it long enough it starts making sense. Sure, it's got feats, buy-upgrades-with-XP, and those class-tree things (again with the Dark Heresy)...but I feel less inclined to toss it out than I would normally. Maybe it's because it's a joke. Maybe it's because I can be a demontouched tau minstrel who can do gun katas without even touching the homebrew and that statement appeals to me on some primal level of silliness.

(Link)

Journey

Neldelx
A solo game that uses a deck of cards to determine events that happen to you on your journey. Players can select one of four archetypes, which determines the rarity of different event types. I've not yet been able to try it out myself, but it seems like it would make for a fun creative writing exercise. Especially if you break out wilderness / travel encounter tables to go along with it.

(Link)

Phonomicon ex Cultis

Duncan Young
A system-agnostic collection of 100 minor cult patrons and the powers they grant to their believers. Each one is accompanied by a syllable (to be used in making their name), their typical worshipers, portfolio, a symbol and a short description. Not as in-depth as Petty Gods, but provides just what you need when handling petty gods. Could even make a class out of it, a cleric of small gods or the like.

(Link)

The Lorian Gendarme Guidebook

MK Reed and Jonathan Hill
A book within a book, the LGG is a sort of encyclopedia volume for a fictional fantasy series within the creators' comic Americus. It's a proper setting book in less than 40 pages, bestiary and grimoire included. It's pitch perfect for a YA-series that could have been, a mix of the familiar and the out-there. Excellent, excellent monsters.

(Link)

One Hundred Wilderness Hexes

Ktrey Parker
This one's a real treat. Twenty hexes for each of five environment types (Forest, Mountains, Desert, Swamp, Ocean), and each hex has three subtables to determine the details within. Drop these around a bigger map and you have everything you may need - many are linked to other hexes, sometimes multiple! Everything's got a very classic feel to it, where the weird is waiting to be stumbled upon. Would be very much in line with the baseline DCC motif.

(Link)

So there we have it; eight little things you may or may not have previously seen. If you've got obscure stuff you've collected (and if you're reading this blog, you probably do), give it a dig and see what's worth sharing.

RED and BLU Enterprises

You tell 'em, Saxton.

You know it, I know it, we all know it: these jolly bastards are OSR as hell. Go rewatch the Meet the Team videos for the proof, or just because it's probably been years since you last saw them and they're still hilarious.

For Esoteric Enterprises, naturally.

Scout

"If you were from where I was from, you'd be fuckin' dead!"
Explorer 

• Scattergun (d10, short range)
• Pistol (d6)
• BONK! Atomic Punch (Speed x2, AC +4 for 1 turn)
• Bat (d6)

When you need to get somewhere fast, get something done fast, or generally just harass the living daylights out of someone, Scout's ya boy.

Soldier

"Sun Tzu said that!"
Mercenary

• Rocket Launcher (d12, area damage, 4 shots)
• Shotgun (d12)
• Buff Banner (All allies get +1 to hit for 1 turn. Refresh 5)
• Shovel (d10)
• Rocket Jump - Spend 1 rocket, take 1/4 Flesh damage, get launched in the air.
  

Has taken a few too many blows to the head. Entirely too many.

Pyro

"Hudda hudda huh!"
Spook

• Flamethrower (d10, save vs hazards or set alight, depletes on 1-2)
• Shotgun (d12)
• Flare Gun (d8 save vs hazards or set alight)
• Fire Axe (d10)
• Spook Powers - Immune to Fire, Flame, Extinguish, Painless, Mad Insight
  

Who is behind the mask? What horrors lie beneath that asbestos-lined suit? None who still live know.

Demoman

"If I were a bad demoman, I wouldn't be sittin' here discussin' it wit ya!"
Mercenary

• Grenade Launcher (d12, 4 shots)
• Stickybomb Launcher (d12, remote detonation, 4 shots)
• Chargin' Targe (+1 AC, can be used with Eyelander)
• Eyelander (d12, two-handed)
• Boozer (+1d6 temporary Grit if drunk)

Is constant drinking really that good of a coping mechanism? Our sources say "possibly."

Heavy

"CRY SOME MORE!"
Bodyguard

• Minigun (d12, suppressing fire, depletes on 1-3)
• Shotgun (d12)
• Sandvich (Restores 1 Flesh)
• Boxing Gloves (d8)

A big Russian man with a big Russian gun.

Engineer

"And if that don't work? Use more gun"
Bodyguard

• Shotgun (d12)
• Pistol (d8)
• Wrench (d8)
• Construction PDA (choose 1 of the below)
• Sentry Turret - (d10, attacks nearest enemy, depletes 1-3)
• Dispenser - Contains 5 additional ammunition.
• Teleporter - Consists of entrance and exit modules. 6 changes
  

Southern homestyle problem-solving through technical prowess and excessive violence.

Medic

"Anyway, zat's how I lost my medical license."
Doctor

• Syringe Gun (d8)
• Medigun (Heals Flesh wounds.)
• Bonesaw (d10)
• Archimedes (Pet dove)
• Ubercharge (Burn all healing points to make target invulnerable for LVL turns)

Owns a fridge full of organs. Not all of them are human. Sees nothing strange about it.

Sniper

"I'm not a crazed gunman, Dad, I'm an assassin."
Mercenary

• Sniper Rifle (d12)
• Submachine Gun (d8, covering fire, depletes on 1 or 2)
• Jarate (Crit range on soaked enemies increases by 1)
• Kukri (d10)

Calm, collected, professional. Lives in a van and pisses in jars.

Spy

"He could me you! He could be me! He could even be [gunshot]"
Criminal

• Revolver (d8)
• Knife (d6)
• Disguise Kit
• Sapper (Destroys mechanical device)
• Invis Watch (1/day, remain invisible when standing still)

International man of mystery. Fucked your mother.