Julius The Red

Alignment: Unprincipled
Attributes: IQ 11,   ME 12,   MA 29,   PS 10,   PE 16,   PP 11,   PB 9,   Spd. 20
Age: 22   Gender: Male
Species: Red Squirrel
Size Level: 6    Length: 2'10" (5' 8" with tail)    Weight: 18lbs.
Hit Points: 45   SDC: 28
Disposition: Megalomaniac
Human Features: Hands: Partial   Legs: Partial   Speech: Full   Looks: None   Other: Fluffy Tail (2' 10" long)
Powers: Extra I.Q.; Extra M.A.; Rodent Leaping; Climbing Claws
Psionics: Danger Sense; Animal Control; Animal Speech
Level of Experience: 6th
Background: Guerrilla Warrior
Apprenticeship: n/a
Occupation: Guerrilla Leader
Primary Skills of Note: Wilderness Survival, Prowl, Camouflage, Demolitions, Demo. Disposal, Intelligence, Land Navigation, Recognize Weapon Quality, Climbing, Hand to Hand: Assassin
Languages and Literacy: English 88/78%
Weapon Proficiencies: Revolver, Shotgun, Bolt-Action Rifle, Paired Weapons
Secondary Skills: Identify Plants & Fruits, Tracking, Climbing, Escape Artist, Public Speaking
Attacks per Melee: 6
Bonuses: +1 to initiative, +3 to parry/dodge, +2 to strike, +3 to roll with punch/fall/impact, +3 to pull punch, +2 to entangle, +4 to damage, +3 to pull punch
Special Weapons: Julius always wears a pair of pearl handle Bantam .22 Revolvers and six quick-loaders.
Personal Profile: (pending)

Muscle Doubling Package

Though out the early and mid 21st Century, biologists worked on ways to remedy food shortages around the world. One method that was developed early on was known as muscle doubling, which literally caused the transgenically altered animals to double their muscle mass.

When the EGG (Embryonic Genome Generator) was introduced, muscle doubling was one of the more popular transgenic alterations gene-hackers introduced to their creations, which soon became a highlight in illegal mutant animal fight arenas. Soon after hackers were even able to splice the transgenic code for this mutation into a virus which could be used on humans.

BIO-E Cost: 30
Attribute Bonuses: Character gains Crushing Strength, 2D4 P.S., and +15 SDC
Increased Mass: Character base weight increases one size level.
NOTE: This package can be purchased by those who already have Crushing Strength for the additional bonuses, but must also take the increased mass.

Genetically-Modified "Terminator" Trout Have 20% More Muscle [io9.com]

New Character Sheets

I finally got around to finishing and uploading some new After the Bomb character sheets.
-UPDATE- I've converted the sheets into .pdf files to make them more accessible.

Download Character Sheet Page 1 (PDF)

Download Character Sheet Page 2 (PDF)

Patrol Boat, Light

The Cardanian Navy utilizes many salvaged and refurbished boats from before the Crash in their patrols and defense of the Cardanian coast line and it's many rivers.

Generic Patrol Boat (Light)

Engine: Internal Combustion
Speed: (Cruise) 25mph / (Max) 35mph [Speed Class 2 30/20]
Range: 250 Miles

Hull Length: 30'
Crew: 4 (Captain, 2x Gunners, Mechanic)

SDC: 300
AR: 12

Armaments:
1) (Bow) .50 cal -- 315 degree forward arc Dmg: 1D6x10
2) (Aft) .50 cal -- 315 degree rear arc Dmg: 1D6x10
3) (Midship) Mortar -- 360 degree Dmg: varies
4) (optional) Grenade Launcher, M60

Other Standard Equipment:

• Radar
• Sonar/Depth Guage
• Searchlight
• Radio, Mid-Range

[IN THE NEWS] Digital Doomsday

Ever wonder why everyone seems to be down in the dirt in post-apocalyptic settings, even several decades after? Even though we are so brilliant now and would probably be even more some time down the road? Why don't the survivors just use that knowledge to pick themselves up by the boot straps and get back to it?

Because everything we are is built on a house of cards.

Read this Article: Digital doomsday: the end of knowledge

Tom Simonite and Michael Le Page write:

Yet even as we are acquiring ever more extraordinary knowledge, we are storing it in ever more fragile and ephemeral forms. If our civilisation runs into trouble, like all others before it, how much would survive?

[snip]

Whatever the cause, if the power was cut off to the banks of computers that now store much of humanity's knowledge, and people stopped looking after them and the buildings housing them, and factories ceased to churn out new chips and drives, how long would all our knowledge survive? How much would the survivors of such a disaster be able to retrieve decades or centuries hence?

[snip]

In 2008, for instance, it emerged that the US had "forgotten" how to make a secret ingredient of some nuclear warheads, dubbed Fogbank. Adequate records had not been kept and all the key personnel had retired or left the agency responsible. The fiasco ended up adding $69 million to the cost of a warhead refurbishment programme.

Something to keep in mind next time your AtB players/characters try booting up an old computer that's been gathering dust in the ruins on the Crash, or wonder why the few surviving humans didn't just rebuild the nuclear power plants and fast food joints.

Of course, since AtB is science fiction, anything is possible.