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Skills

Unified Skills List

Everyman Skills

New Skills

Advantages

Powers

Unified Powers List

Psionic Advantages

Psionics

Unified Psionics List

Modifiers

Unified Disadvantages List

Equipment

Cybernetics

Combat

Hit Locations

Critical Hits

Gorefest

Index

[WW]    Waste World Rulebook
[Sh]    Shogunate
[Hy]    Hydra
[CP]    Force Shield Campaign Pak

   This is only a quick-reference list into the WW rules right now. It's not my job to make them a real index.

Disease	[Hy 158-162]
Growth Powers and Armor	[Hy 162]
Hardship (Starvation, Thirst)	[Hy 156-158]
Medicine and Healing	[WW 129,132,148,178-179,182-183,189,190,214, 230-232]
Outside Air	[WW 177 "Rebreather Mask"]
Pets	[WW 132-133, Hy 100]
Symbionic Grafting	[Hy 134]

Skills

   Easy skills are VERY cheap at high levels; +9, the highest skill level around, only costs 24 points by the rules, which means a beginning low-power character (100 pts + 50 pts disads) could be at maximum mastery at 6 Easy skills, many of them combat skills. Hi ho, this way to Munchkinland. Not on my watch, bucko.

   Use the Easy pricing to +5, then Normal to +9 (the alternative of 2/3 normal cost, inverting the 3/2 normal cost of Hard, didn't change the low numbers enough and left the higher numbers lower than they should have been), for the new cumulative costs (not counting the initial 1 pt):

	
Level  
+1  
+2  
+3  
+4  
+5  
+6  
+7  
+8 
+9
	
Cost   
 1  
 2  
 3  
 5  
 8  
14  
21  
29 
38
	

Unified Skill List

Dexterity Skills

	Skill (subskill): slots	Difficulty	Page	Notes
*	Acrobatics	H	[WW 125]
*	Aerobatics	N	[WW 125]	prereq: Ikarean battlesuit or pilot
*	Battlesuit	H	[WW 125]
*	Blade: Sword, Dagger, Two-Handed Sword, Chainsword	N	[WW 125]
*	Bludgeon	E	[WW 125]
*	Bow: Bow, Crossbow	N	[WW 125]
*	Climbing	E	[WW 125]
*	Dancing	N	[Hy 98]
*	Dodge	H	[WW 125]	max level=DX+3
*	Driving (Hover): Bike, Car, Truk, Hauler	N	[WW 125]
*	Driving (Skimmer): Bike, Car, Truk, Hauler	N	[WW 125]
*	Driving (Suspensor): Bike, Car, Truk, Hauler	N	[WW 126]
*	Driving (Tracked): Bike, Car, Truk, Hauler	N	[WW 126]
*	Driving (Walker): Bike, Car, Truk, Hauler	N	[WW 126]
*	Driving (Wheeled): Bike, Car, Truk, Hauler	N	[WW 126]
*	Escape Artist	H	[Hy 98]
*	Forceblade	E	[WW 126]	prereq: Blade
*	Handgun: Autopistol, Blaster Pistol, Holdout Pistol, Laser Pistol, Machine Pistol	E	[WW 126]
*	Heavy Weapon: Autocannon, Heavy Blaster, Heavy Laser, Heavy Shredder, Heavy Machine-Gun, Megablaster	N	[WW 126]
*	Ikarean Battlesuit	H	[WW 126]
*	Martial Arts	N	[WW 126]	prereq: Unarmed Combat:Brawling
*	Pickpocket	N	[WW 126]
*	Pilot (Dirigible): Personal, Cruiser	N	[Hy 98]
*	Pilot (Ornithopter): per type	N	[Hy 98]
*	Play Instrument: by instrument type	N	[WW 126]
*	Quick Draw: by weapon type	E	[WW 127]
*	Ride: per beast	N	[WW 127]
*	Rifle: Assault Rifle, Blaster Rifle, Laser Rifle, Railgun, Shotgun, Shredder, Sniper Rifle	N	[WW 127]
*	Sailor: per type	N	[Hy 98]
*	Rocket Launcher	N	[WW 127]
*	Shield	E	[WW 127]
*	Spear: One-Handed Spear, Two-Handed Spear, Bayonet	N	[WW 127]
*	Special Weapon (weapon type)	H	[WW 127]
*	Security Systems	N	[WW 127]
*	Staff: Ripstaff, Shockstaff, Staff	N	[WW 127]
*	Stealth	N	[WW 127]
*	Swimming	N	[WW 128]
*	Thrown Weapons	E	[WW 128]
*	Unarmed Combat: Brawling, Claws, Fangs, Horns, Razor Wheels, Ripper-Claw, Spiked Gauntlet, Tail	E	[WW 128]
*	Weapon Implant: by weapon type	E	[WW 128]
*	Whip	N	[WW 128]

Intelligence Skills

	Skill (subskill): slots	Difficulty	Page	Notes
*	Acting	N	[WW 128]
*	Alien Lore (by species)	N	[WW 128]
*	Ancient Lore	N	[WW 128]
*	Animal Handling: per beast	N	[Hy 98]
*	Animal Lore	N	[WW 128]
*	Appraise Value	H	[WW 128]
*	Armory	N	[WW 128]
*	Artistry: per art form	N	[Hy 98]
*	Awareness	N	[WW 128]	max level=IN+3
*	City Lore (by metrozone)	N	[WW 128]
*	Cooking	E	[Hy 98]
*	Courtier	N	[WW 129]
*	Craftsmanship: per craft	N	[Hy 98]
*	Cybersurgery	H	[WW 129]
*	Demolitions	H	[Hy 98]
*	Demon Lore	N	[WW 129]
*	Disease Lore	N	[Hy 98]
*	Disguise	N	[WW 129]
*	Fast Talk	N	[WW 129]
*	Gamble	N	[WW 129]
*	Genesculpting	H	[Hy 100]
*	Healing	H	[WW 129]
*	Interrogation	N	[WW 129]
*	Intimidate	N	[WW 129]
*	Leadership	N	[WW 129]
*	Lore (by subject)	N	[WW 129]
*	Lore (Science): per science	H	[Hy 100]
*	Machine Lore	N	[WW 129]
*	Mek	N	[WW 129]
*	Navigator	N	[WW 129]
*	Pain-Pleasure Conditioning	H	[Hy 100]	prereq: U.B. Radost & Gift of Subjugation
*	Poison Lore	N	[WW 129-130]
*	Positronics	H	[WW 130]
*	Religious Lore (by faith)	N	[WW 130]
*	Resistance	H	[WW 130]
*	Robomancy	H	[WW 130]
*	Savoire Faire	N	[WW 130]
*	Scholar	N	[WW 130]
*	Security Systems	N	[WW 127]
*	Seduction	N	[WW 130]
*	Shadowing/Tailing	N	[WW 130]
*	Singing	E	[Hy 100]
*	Streetwise	N	[WW 130]
*	Survival	N	[WW 130]
*	Symbionics	H	[WW 130]
*	Tactics	N	[Hy 100]
*	Torture	H	[Hy 100]
*	Tracking	N	[WW 130]
*	Trade	N	[WW 130]
*	Trapping	N	[Hy 100]
*	Ultramancy	H	[WW 130, Sh 139-143]

Everyman Skills

   Nearly all characters begin with the following skills at +0 (many of these were originally "no non-proficiency penalty", but this is easier to explain in a unified manner, and the few extra CP won't harm anything). All skills that can even be attempted without proficiency now have the -8 penalize for non-proficiency. The +0 does count as having spent the 1, 2, or 3 CP for easy, normal, or hard skills.

Dexterity Skills

Bludgeon

Climbing

Dodge

Stealth

Thrown Weapons

Unarmed Combat

Intelligence Skills

Awareness

City Lore (Home Metrozone) or Navigation (Skavengers)

Resistance

Shadowing/Tailing

Survival

Trade

New Skills

Animal Training (IN)

Slots: by creature
Modifiers: +4 bonus each for Animal Friend and Beast Speech.

Animals have a base obedience rating, and this can be improved over time - roll once each day spent working with the animal, and accumulate one training point per successful day. When you reach the animal's training time in training points, its obedience rating improves by 1, up to the animal's max obedience. The obedience stat is added to any roll to control an animal. NPCs can train animals at a cost of 20C per day; assume it takes 1.5x training time.

[Note: I haven't really tested this or written down obedience ratings or anything yet, it's just me thinking "out loud"]

Unified Advantage List

   I've moved some of the more bizarre Advantages to Powers or Psionic Advantages. Old Race humans just shouldn't have some of these.

   I've added a new advantage "Latent Psycher". All Psionic Powers require the character to have Latent Psycher, Tau, or full Psycher.

   Anything non-standard is underlined.

	Advantage	Cost	Page	Notes
*	Berserk	5	[WW 131]
*	Catfall	5	[WW 131]
*	Charismatic	10	[WW 132]
*	Double Jointed	5	[WW 132]
*	Eidetic Memory	10	[Hy 100]
*	Handsome/Beautiful	10	[WW 132]
*	Hardy	5	[WW 132]
*	Immune to Mutation	10	[WW 132]
		Technically a mutation itself, but because characters with it are by definition non-mutant, I'm leaving it here.
*	Increased Carrying Capacity	bonus*3 cumulative	[Hy 108]	moved from Powers
*	Innate Sense of Direction	5	[WW 132]
*	Karmachip	30	[WW 132, Sh 97]	prereq: Samurai
*		See also Resurrection Contract below.
*	Keen Eyes	5	[WW 132]
*	Keen Hearing	5	[WW 132]
*	Latent Psycher	5	[new]	prereq: PW 0+
		Gives the character access to all Psionic Advantages (see below), even though the character is not a full-fledged psycher and cannot learn psionics (yet). This can be upgraded to full Psycher by paying 15 xp.
*	Lightsleep	5	[WW 132]
*	Luck	5 per re-roll	[Hy 100]
*	Natural Driver	5	[Hy 109]	moved from Powers
		This could be applied to other pursuits as well - a natural swordsman who can use any blade, etc., though the GM will have to specifically approve any variants.
*	Monk	5	[Sh 97]	prereq: Shogunate
*	Pet	varies	[WW 132-133, Hy 100]
*	Psycher	20	[WW 133, Sh 100]	prereq: PW 1+
*	Resurrection Contract	30+	[new]
		Gives the character a Nekrochip and basic resurrection contract. Every additional 10 cp gives the character a +1M reward posted.
*	Sense Weakness	10 + level*2 cumulative	[Hy 109]	moved from Powers
*	Shogunate Clan Member	5	[Sh 97]	prereq: Shogunate
*	Shogunate Overclan Member	10	[Sh 97]	prereq: Shogunate
*	Spirit Walker	5	[Sh 97]	prereq: Shogunate
*	Tau	5+	[Sh 97-100]	prereq: Shogunate, PW 0+
*	Unique Background	5, 15, or 30	[WW 133]

Powers

Remember, anyone with one of these is a mutant, Hydran, or Xenogen.

Unified Powers List

	Power	Cost	Page	Notes
*	Acid Spray	20	[Hy 100-102]
*	Allure	10+	[Hy 102]
*	Armor	2 per AR, cumulative	[WW 134]
*	Bat Sonar	10	[WW 134]
*	Beastform	50+	[Hy 102]
*	Big Ears	10	[WW 134]
*	Bloodhound Scent	10	[WW 134]
*	Blue Eye	10	[WW 134]
*	Boneless	10	[WW 134]
*	Burrowing	10	[Hy 104]
*	Centauroid	15	[Hy 104]
*	Chameleon Skin	10	[WW 134]
*	Claws	10	[WW 136]
*	Claw of Typhon	15	[Hy 104]	prereq: U.B. Typhon
*	Concealed Natural Weapons	+5	[Hy 104]
*	Damage Resistance	10+	[Hy 104]
*	Dark Sight	5	[WW 136]
*	Demonic Form	40, NC only	[WW 136]
*	Doughboy	10	[WW 136]
*	Elongated	10	[WW 136]
*	Enhanced Natural Weapons	bonus*10 cumulative	[Hy 104]
*	Extra Limb	10/15	[WW 136]
*	Fangs	10	[WW 136]
*	Fast Healing	10	[WW 132]	moved from Advantages
*	Filtermouth/Eye Membranes	10	[WW 136]
*	Giant	75	[WW 136, Hy 162]
*	Gift of Anthor	5	[Hy 106]	prereq: U.B. Anthor
*	Gift of Fera	5	[Hy 106]	prereq: U.B. Fera
*	Gift of Karkosa	15+	[Hy 106]	prereq: U.B. Karkosa, Negative Appearance
*	Gift of Luxor	15	[Hy 106]	prereq: U.B. Luxor, Neg App
*	Gift of Meleus	5	[Hy 107]	prereq: U.B. Meleus
*	Gift of Numera	10+	[Hy 107]	prereq: U.B. Numera
*	Gift of Spydra	5	[Hy 107]	prereq: U.B. Spydra
*	Gift of Subjugation	10+	[Hy 107]	prereq: Allure
*	Gift of Valka	5	[Hy 107]	prereq: U.B. Valka
*	Gills	10	[WW 136]
*	Hideous Stench	10	[WW 136]
*	Hooves	5	[Hy 107]
*	Horns	10	[WW 136]
*	Hyper Metabolism	10	[Hy 108]
*	Hypnotic Gaze	10	[WW 137]
*	Immune to Disease	10	[WW 132]	moved from Advantages
*	Immune to Poison	10	[WW 132]	moved from Advantages
*	Invulnerability	40 per immunity	[Hy 108]
*	Iron Gut	10	[Hy 100]	moved from Advantages
*	Large Claw	10	[Hy 109]
*	Leap	10	[WW 137]
*	Long Legs	10	[WW 137]
*	Mask of Spydra	5	[Hy 109]	prereq: U.B. Spydra
*	Midget	10	[WW 137]
*	Multiple Eyes	10	[WW 137]
*	Mutarch Transformation	20+	[WW 137-138, Hy 162]
*	Patagia	10	[Hy 109]
*	Poison	10	[WW 138]
*	Prehensile Feet	5	[WW 138]
*	Psi Disruptor	10 per level	[Hy 109]	prereq: Psychically Inert
*	Psychically Inert	15	[WW 133]	moved from Advantages
*	Quick Reflexes	level*3 cumulative	[Hy 109]
*	Rancid Breath	20	[Hy 109]
*	Red Eye	10	[WW 138]
*	Regeneration	20	[WW 138]
*	Roar	10	[Hy 109]
*	Shadow Form	20	[WW 138]
*	Shock Generation	10 + level*5 cumulative	[Hy 110]
*	Slimy	10	[WW 138]
*	Slither	10	[WW 138]
*	Spiked Tail	15	[WW 140]
*	Spines	10	[WW 140]
*	Spit Poison	15+	[Hy 110]
*	Starwings	10	[Hy 110]
*	Suckers	10	[WW 140]
*	Symborg	20	[Hy 110]
*	Systemic Autorepair	10	[WW 140]
*	Telescopic Neck	5	[WW 140]
*	Tentacle Tongue	5	[Hy 110]
*	Third Eye	10	[WW 140]
*	Webbed Feet and Hands	10	[WW 140]
*	Webspinning	10 + level*4 cumulative	[Hy 110]
*	Wings	20	[WW 140]

Psionic Advantages

   Unless noted otherwise below, all Psionic Advantages require the character to have Latent Psycher, Tau, or full Psycher (see Advantages).

	Psionic Advantage	Cost	Page	Notes
*	Animal Friendship	5	[WW 131]
*	Beast Speech	5	[WW 131]
*	Bugei	5+	[Sh 98,100]	prereq: Tau
*	Evasion	10	[Hy 106]	moved from Powers
*	Invisible To Machines	20	[WW 132]
*	Mindspeech	10	[WW 137]	moved from Powers
*	Path	5+	[Sh 111]	prereq: Psycher, Shogunate
*	Psisniffer	10	[WW 133]
*	Sense Enemy	5	[WW 133]
*	Sixth Sense	10	[WW 133]
*	Soul Link	10	[WW 138]	moved from Powers
*	Way	5 each	[Sh 97,99]	prereq: Tau

Psionics

Unified Psionics List

	Psionic Power	Cost	Page	Notes
*	Absorption	x4	[WW 145]
*	Adaption	x3	[Hy 112]
*	Animate Dead	x5	[WW 145]
*	Beast Master	x5	[Hy 112-114]
*	Binding	x5	[Hy 114-115]
*	Body of Flame	x5	[Sh 112]
*	Body of Metal	x3	[Sh 112]
*	Clairvoyance	x3	[WW 145]
*	Cryokinesis	x5	[WW 145-146]
*	Curse	x5	[Hy 115]
*	Darkness	x3	[Sh 112]
*	Deathgaze	x5	[Hy 115]
*	Demon Binding	x5	[WW 146]
*	Dispel	x3	[WW 146]
*	Domination	x5	[WW 146-147]
*	Electrokinesis	x5	[WW 147]
*	Emotion Control	x5	[WW 147-148]
*	Gateway	x5	[Hy 115-116]
*	Growth	x4	[Hy 116]
*	Heal	x4	[WW 148]
*	Hydromancy	x4	[Hy 116-118]
*	Illusion	x5	[WW 148]
*	Invisibility	x5	[WW 148]
*	Levitation	x4	[WW 148]
*	Life Drain	x5	[WW 148-149]
*	Mind Link	x3	[WW 149]
*	Possession	x5	[WW 149]
*	Precognition	x3	[WW 149]
*	Psiblade	x2	[Hy 118]
*	Psi Sense	x2	[WW 149-150]
*	Psionic Blast	x5	[WW 150]
*	Psionic Screen	x3	[WW 150]	vs. psionics
*	Psionic Shield	x2	[WW 150-151]	vs. physical
*	Psionic Wall	x3	[WW 151]	vs. physical
*	Psychometry	x3	[WW 151]
*	Pyrokinesis	x5	[WW 151]
*	Razorform	x2	[Sh 112-113]	prereq: Body of Metal
*	Scanning	x3	[WW 152]
*	Shapeshift	x3	[Sh 113]
*	Telekinesis	x5	[WW 152]
*	Telepathy	x3	[WW 152]
*	Teleportation	x5	[WW 152]
*	Weapon Master	x5	[Hy 118]
*	Weather Control	x4	[Sh 113]

Modifiers

   See Upgrade: Psionic Powers [CP 41-44].

Uncertain (-2)

Requires a skill roll of PW+PL to activate power. Highly-skilled or talented characters can activate their powers more often than they could with Wild, and yet there's always a chance of failure with this.

Wild (-3)

Increased the value of this rather overbearing

Unified Disadvantage List

Physical Disadvantages

	Disadvantage	Cost	Page	Notes
*	Albino	-5	[Hy 118]	prereq: Exotic Appearance
*	Allergy	-5/-15/-30	[Hy 118]
*	Brittle Bones	-20	[Hy 118]
*	Exotic Appearance	-5	[WW 153]
*	Impaired Vision	-5/-15/-30	[WW 153]
*	Incandescent	-10	[Hy 118]	prereq: Exotic Appearance
*	Missing Eye/Eyes	-15	[WW 153]
*	Mute	-5	[WW 153]
*	Negative Appearance	-5/-15/-30	[WW 153]
*	Negative Characteristics	varies	[WW 154,110]
*	Partial Biped	-5	[Hy 119]
*	Positronic Brain	-15	[WW 154]
*	Reduced LF	-1 per LF	[Hy 119]
*	Reduced Movement	-3 per MR	[Hy 119]
*	Rejection Syndrome	-5/-15/-30	[WW 154-155]
*	Robotic Body	-20	[WW 154]
*	Snake Tail	-5	[Hy 119]
*	Specialized Substance	-5	[Hy 119]
*	Unnatural Hunger	-10/-20/-30	[Hy 119]
*	Unnatural Thirst	-10/-20/-30	[Hy 119]
*	Unusable Arm	-10/-15	[WW 154]
*	Unusable Legs	-15/-30	[WW 155]
*	Weak Immune System	-5/-10/-15	[Hy 119]

Mental Disadvantages

	Disadvantage	Cost	Page	Notes
*	Addiction	-5/-15/-30	[WW 155-156]
*	Amnesia	-5	[WW 156]
*	Animal Intelligence	-30	[WW 156]
*	Assimilated	-5/-15/-30	[Hy 119-120]
*	Avarice	-5/-15/-30	[Hy 120]
*	Code of Honor	-5/-15/-30	[WW 156]
*	Death-Command Conditioned	-20	[Hy 120]
*	Fanatic	-5/-15/-30	[WW 156]
*	Hallucinations	-5/-15/-30	[Hy 120]
*	Lust	-5/-15/-30	[Hy 120]
*	Megalomania	-5/-15/-30	[WW 156]
*	Obedience	-5/-15/-30	[Hy 120]
*	Obsession	-5/-15/-30	[WW 157]
*	Overconfidence	-5/-15/-30	[WW 157]
*	Paranoia	-5/-15/-30	[WW 157]
*	Phobia	-5/-15/-30	[WW 157]
*	Prejudiced	-5/-15/-30	[WW 157]
*	Psychopath	-5/-15/-30	[WW 158]	(NCs only)
*	Vengeance Seeker	-5/-15/-30	[WW 157]

Social Disadvantages

	Disadvantage	Cost	Page	Notes
*	Bad Reputation	-10	[WW 158]
*	Dark Secret	-10	[WW 158]
*	Dependent	-10	[WW 158]
*	Hunted	-5/-15/-30	[WW 158]
*	Obligation	-10	[WW 158]
*	Prejudiced Against	-10	[WW 158]
*	Ronin	-5	[Sh 98]

Equipment

Cybernetics

   Cybernetics adaptation XP costs are unclear. As far as I can tell, it's 15xp for each arm, leg, or eye replaced, and all other systems are unknown, probably undefined. I'm going with 15xp for all active systems (those that send or receive nerve impulses) and 5xp for passive (just getting used to their presence).

Combat

Hit Location

	
 1d20  
Location   

	
 1- 6  
Legs       
even = right
	
 7-14  
Torso      
odd = left
	
15-18  
Arms
	
19-20  
Head
	

Critical Hits

   Always use 1d10 for critical hits - a d20 gives too much variation by the die, and not enough influence from the damage successes; too many attacks go directly to death.

Gorefest (optional)

   See More Optional Combat Rules, but until victim is at 0LF, use 1d6 for the critical roll, not 1d10 (my critical hits rule) or 1d20 (standard rules). Extras do the same damage as everyone else in this system, but still cannot get a critical hit over 16.

These rules are © Copyright 1998 by Mark Damon Hughes <kamikaze@kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu>
Waste WorldTM and all associated trademarks are owned by Manticore Productions Ltd, and no challenge to their trademark is intended.
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Last modified: 99Mar25
Split off "Psionic Advantages" section