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MODERN
COMMANDO
* Abilities: Firearms, close combat, demolitions, stealth, survival, reconnaissance, tactical planning, infiltration, endurance, and operating under pressure.
* Gear: Assault rifle, sidearm, combat knife, body armor, tactical helmet, communications gear, night-vision goggles, explosives, medical kit, rope, and survival supplies.
* Role-Playing Tips: Complete the mission despite pain, fear, or impossible odds. Trust the team, follow the plan, and adapt immediately when the plan fails. Use decisive force against dangerous enemies, but never waste lives or abandon comrades.
FEMME FATALE / HOMME FATAL
* Abilities: Seduction, persuasion, deception, disguise, social manipulation, reading people, gathering secrets, stealth, poisoning, and concealed violence.
* Gear: Elegant clothing, concealed pistol, hidden blade, burner phone, forged identification, cosmetics or grooming kit, lockpicks, sedatives, cash, and compromising information.
* Role-Playing Tips: Make others believe desire was their own idea. Reveal only enough truth to make each lie convincing. Always keep a secret advantage.
HACKER
* Abilities: Computer intrusion, coding, social engineering, bypassing security, data theft, encryption, digital surveillance, identity fraud, erasing records, and controlling connected systems.
* Gear: Customized laptop, encrypted drives, burner phones, signal scanner, wireless adapters, forged credentials, portable antenna, hardware tools, backup batteries, and hidden accounts.
* Role-Playing Tips: Treat every secure system as a challenge waiting to be solved. Reveal as little as possible about your identity, location, and methods. Decide carefully which secrets should be exposed, sold, destroyed, or kept as protection.
INVESTIGATOR
* Abilities: Observation, deduction, interviewing, research, forensics, surveillance, finding clues, following suspects, criminal knowledge, and connecting evidence.
* Gear: Sidearm, flashlight, camera, notebook, recorder, evidence bags, fingerprint kit, laptop, lockpicks, magnifying lens, and unmarked vehicle.
* Role-Playing Tips: Assume every detail matters until proven otherwise. Ask uncomfortable questions, challenge convenient explanations, and follow evidence wherever it leads. Protect witnesses and victims, even when solving the case places you in danger.
LAW ENFORCER
* Abilities: Criminal investigation, firearms, interrogation, surveillance, pursuit, evidence handling, threat assessment, crisis response, legal procedure, and protecting civilians.
* Gear: Service pistol, badge and credentials, body armor, handcuffs, radio, flashlight, evidence kit, first-aid supplies, unmarked vehicle, and case files.
* Role-Playing Tips: Uphold the law without mistaking authority for justice. Protect victims, preserve evidence, and resist pressure to close a case too quickly. Use force only when necessary, but act without hesitation when lives are in immediate danger.
SECRET AGENT
* Abilities: Espionage, infiltration, surveillance, counterintelligence, firearms, close combat, deception, disguise, languages, driving, and covert technology.
* Gear: Concealed pistol, disguised gadgets, encrypted phone, forged passports, lockpicks, surveillance equipment, hidden camera, formal clothing, emergency cash, and extraction kit.
* Role-Playing Tips: Serve the mission without revealing who you truly are. Trust information only after verifying it, and assume every ally may be compromised. Prevent greater disasters quietly, leaving the public unaware of how close catastrophe came.
SOLDIER
* Abilities: Firearms, close combat, squad tactics, endurance, battlefield awareness, first aid, survival, discipline, using military equipment, and operating under fire.
* Gear: Service rifle, sidearm, combat knife, body armor, helmet, radio, field pack, medical kit, ammunition, entrenching tool, and survival supplies.
* Role-Playing Tips: Follow orders, but never stop thinking when the situation changes. Protect your squad, hold the line, and complete the mission despite fear or exhaustion. Remember that courage means acting while afraid, not feeling no fear.
STREET VIGILANTE
* Abilities: Unarmed combat, improvised weapons, intimidation, stealth, rooftop movement, tracking criminals, street knowledge, interrogation, protecting civilians, and enduring punishment.
* Gear: Reinforced clothing or body armor, mask, gloves, boots, grappling line, baton, restraints, flashlight, first-aid kit, scanner, and customized vehicle.
* Role-Playing Tips: Hunt predators the law cannot or will not stop. Frighten criminals without becoming the kind of monster you pursue. Protect your identity and loved ones, because enemies will exploit any human connection they discover.
SURVIVOR / FINAL GIRL
* Abilities: Escaping danger, hiding, improvisation, first aid, noticing threats, resisting fear, finding safe routes, using common objects as weapons, endurance, and protecting other survivors.
* Gear: Flashlight, phone, keys, backpack, first-aid supplies, bottled water, lighter, sturdy shoes, improvised weapon, emergency radio, and whatever useful objects can be found.
* Role-Playing Tips: Stay alert when everyone else dismisses the warning signs. Keep moving, conserve resources, and never assume the threat is dead. Survive without losing compassion, but recognize when saving others would place everyone in greater danger.
TRANSPORTER
* Abilities: Driving, piloting, navigation, vehicle repair, high-speed pursuit, evasive maneuvers, route planning, smuggling, bypassing checkpoints, and moving dangerous cargo.
* Gear: Customized vehicle, sidearm, forged licenses, concealed compartments, repair tools, navigation system, burner phone, emergency fuel, medical kit, and multiple sets of registration papers.
* Role-Playing Tips: Deliver the passenger or cargo without asking unnecessary questions. Know every shortcut, checkpoint, border crossing, and escape route before starting the job. Never break the rules of a contract, because reputation is the only protection a professional driver can trust.
VETERAN
* Abilities: Firearms, tactics, field medicine, survival, leadership, threat assessment, discipline, endurance, operating vehicles, and remaining calm during violence.
* Gear: Reliable sidearm or rifle, practical clothing, military pack, combat knife, first-aid kit, flashlight, radio, maps, maintenance tools, identification tags, and old service mementos.
* Role-Playing Tips: Draw strength from experience without pretending the past left no scars. Protect inexperienced companions and teach them how to stay alive. Avoid unnecessary conflict, but when violence becomes unavoidable, end it quickly and decisively.
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ON THE MOVIE SET (that goes wrong: zombies, demons, dinosaurs…)
LEAD ACTOR
* Abilities: Performance, memorizing lines, improvisation, emotional expression, charm, public speaking, physical presence, handling publicity, working with directors, and carrying a production.
* Gear: Script, marked-up sides, wardrobe bag, makeup kit, phone, headshots, personal assistant’s schedule, water bottle, sunglasses, and contract paperwork.
* Role-Playing Tips: Treat every scene as though the entire production depends on it. Protect your image while searching for roles that prove you are more than a familiar face. Share the spotlight generously, but never forget whose name appears above the title.
SUPPORTING ACTOR
* Abilities: Character acting, improvisation, adapting quickly, comic timing, reacting to leads, memorizing rewritten scenes, networking, accents, stunt basics, and stealing scenes.
* Gear: Dog-eared script, audition sides, wardrobe bag, makeup supplies, headshots, résumé, phone charger, snacks, transit pass, and a lucky keepsake from an earlier production.
* Role-Playing Tips: Make every small role unforgettable, because the next opportunity may depend on one scene. Support the lead without allowing yourself to disappear into the background. Stay professional through rewrites, reduced screen time, and promises that never become contracts.
FILM DIRECTOR
* Abilities: Visual storytelling, directing actors, interpreting scripts, planning shots, managing crews, improvising under pressure, editing judgment, communicating ideas, resolving creative disputes, and maintaining a unified vision.
* Gear: Annotated script, storyboards, shot list, viewfinder, headset, monitor, tablet, walkie-talkie, production schedule, and an endless supply of notes.
* Role-Playing Tips: Defend the vision while remaining flexible enough to use unexpected brilliance. Give performers and crew clear direction rather than demanding impossible results without explanation. Keep everyone moving forward, even when weather, money, egos, and reality resist the film you imagined.
FILM PRODUCER
* Abilities: Financing, budgeting, scheduling, negotiation, hiring crews, securing locations, solving logistical problems, managing contracts, handling crises, and keeping productions alive.
* Gear: Phone, laptop, budget sheets, contracts, insurance documents, production calendar, contact list, expense cards, release forms, and emergency cash.
* Role-Playing Tips: Solve problems before creative staff realize they exist. Balance artistic ambition against time, money, safety, and contractual obligations. Never say something is impossible when a cheaper, faster, or legally questionable alternative might still work.
CAMERA OPERATOR
* Abilities: Cinematography, framing, camera movement, focus control, lighting awareness, operating drones and stabilizers, visual continuity, equipment maintenance, improvising shots, and working in dangerous locations.
* Gear: Cinema camera, lenses, tripod, shoulder rig, stabilizer, light meter, filters, batteries, memory cards, tool kit, and protective cases.
* Role-Playing Tips: Find the image that tells the story better than dialogue can. Keep the camera steady when everyone else is running, shouting, or panicking. Protect the footage and equipment, but know when capturing the shot matters more than personal safety.
SPECIAL EFFECTS EXPERT
* Abilities: Practical effects, pyrotechnics, prosthetics, animatronics, mechanical rigs, atmospheric effects, miniature construction, safety planning, rapid repairs, and creating convincing illusions.
* Gear: Protective clothing, tool cases, remote triggers, wiring, makeup supplies, molds, compressed-air devices, fire extinguishers, safety goggles, and containers labeled with alarming warnings.
* Role-Playing Tips: Make the impossible look real without actually killing anyone. Respect every explosive, cable, pressure tank, and improvised mechanism, because small mistakes become public disasters. Take pride when audiences cannot tell where craftsmanship ends and reality begins.
LOCAL GUIDE
* Abilities: Local navigation, regional history, interpreting customs, finding safe routes, managing permits, translating dialects, locating supplies, reading weather, handling local contacts, and keeping outsiders out of trouble.
* Gear: Detailed maps, phone or radio, local permits, flashlight, first-aid kit, weatherproof clothing, emergency supplies, contact list, keys, and a reliable vehicle.
* Role-Playing Tips: Keep the production moving without letting the crew insult, damage, or misunderstand the place they came to use. Warn outsiders about dangers, customs, and boundaries before mistakes become crises. Never reveal every local secret, especially when some places are better left off the call sheet.
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HORROR (THE HUMANS)
BELIEVER
* Abilities: Theology, counseling, ritual practice, exorcism, resisting supernatural influence, identifying profane signs, inspiring others, protecting the vulnerable, and confronting evil.
* Gear: Holy symbol, prayer book, blessed water, candles, incense, vestments, first-aid kit, flashlight, recorder, protective charms, and religious reference texts.
* Role-Playing Tips: Offer mercy to the lost, but show no hesitation before genuine evil. Treat faith as a duty rather than a weapon for pride. Stand between innocent people and forces they cannot understand or resist.
FRINGE SCIENTIST
* Abilities: Experimental science, engineering, chemistry, biology, robotics, invention, improvisation, analyzing anomalies, bypassing safety systems, and creating dangerous prototypes.
* Gear: Lab coat, goggles, portable instruments, laptop, specialized tools, chemical samples, power cells, prototype devices, medical supplies, notebooks, and heavily modified equipment.
* Role-Playing Tips: Treat accepted limits as failures of imagination. Pursue discovery even when colleagues call the work reckless, forbidden, or impossible. Never admit the experiment has escaped control until every emergency measure has failed.
OCCULTIST
* Abilities: Occult history, ritual magic, demonology, folklore, forbidden languages, identifying relics, researching curses, interpreting symbols, warding, and recognizing supernatural entities.
* Gear: Grimoires, ritual knife, chalk, candles, incense, protective charms, antique keys, notebooks, reference books, magnifying glass, and locked cases for dangerous artifacts.
* Role-Playing Tips: Respect every ritual, name, and symbol, because careless knowledge invites consequences. Seek truths hidden beneath religion, folklore, and superstition. Never perform a rite without first learning its price and the proper way to end it.
PROFESSOR
* Abilities: Research, teaching, academic expertise, languages, writing, public speaking, critical analysis, archival work, professional contacts, and explaining complex ideas.
* Gear: Laptop, books, notebooks, pens, reading glasses, recorder, presentation materials, university identification, messenger bag, research files, and too many marked-up papers.
* Role-Playing Tips: Correct false claims even when doing so is socially inconvenient. Follow evidence, cite sources, and distinguish certainty from speculation. Protect students and colleagues from dangers they are not prepared to recognize.
PARANORMAL INVESTIGATOR
* Abilities: Ghost hunting, cryptid research, psychic phenomena, interviewing witnesses, field surveillance, anomaly detection, folklore, photography, audio analysis, and surviving strange encounters.
* Gear: Cameras, audio recorders, thermal scanner, electromagnetic meter, motion sensors, flashlight, laptop, maps, evidence cases, protective charms, and emergency supplies.
* Role-Playing Tips: Remain skeptical enough to test every claim, but open-minded enough to recognize the impossible. Document everything before fear, contamination, or authorities erase the evidence. Never provoke an unknown entity without first preparing an escape plan.
MEDICAL DOCTOR
* Abilities: Diagnosis, emergency medicine, surgery, pharmacology, anatomy, disease control, calming patients, medical research, triage, and recognizing unnatural injuries.
* Gear: Medical bag, stethoscope, trauma supplies, medications, surgical tools, gloves, flashlight, protective mask, diagnostic devices, identification, and reference materials.
* Role-Playing Tips: Preserve life whenever possible, regardless of who the patient is. Make hard decisions quickly when time and resources are limited. Keep others calm by hiding fear until the crisis has passed.
SLAYER
* Abilities: Monster lore, tracking, ambushes, specialized weapons, close combat, firearms, survival, identifying weaknesses, resisting fear, and protecting potential victims.
* Gear: Firearms, blades, stakes, silver ammunition, holy symbols, ultraviolet lights, traps, protective clothing, field medical kit, research notes, and a vehicle stocked for pursuit.
* Role-Playing Tips: Study every creature before confronting it, because ignorance gets hunters killed. Show mercy to victims, but none to monsters that choose predation. Never allow obsession to make you careless with innocent lives.
FORMER CULTIST
* Abilities: Cult doctrine, secret rituals, forbidden symbols, infiltration, deception, recognizing indoctrination, resisting manipulation, identifying cult leaders, and surviving supernatural influence.
* Gear: Stolen ritual texts, concealed weapon, old robes or insignia, burner phone, maps of hidden sites, protective charms, medication, emergency cash, evidence files, and a packed escape bag.
* Role-Playing Tips: Distrust promises of belonging, enlightenment, or chosen destiny. Use insider knowledge to dismantle the group that once controlled you. Hide how much you still remember, because some names and rituals may still be listening.
ESCAPED EXPERIMENT
* Abilities: Psionic resistance, heightened perception, unstable psychic powers, evasion, breaking restraints, surviving interrogation, sensing surveillance, recovering fragmented memories, and adapting under stress.
* Gear: Stolen identification, hooded clothing, burner phone, medication, improvised weapons, encrypted files, tracking-device detector, emergency cash, medical records, and supplies taken from the facility.
* Role-Playing Tips: Assume every camera, vehicle, and stranger may belong to the organization hunting you. Use your powers carefully, because each display reveals your location or worsens the damage done to you. Search for the truth about what was changed, what was erased, and whether other subjects are still imprisoned.
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HORROR (THE MONSTERS)
THING FROM THE SHADOWS
* Abilities: Moving unseen, hiding in darkness, stalking prey, slipping through narrow spaces, imitating voices, sensing fear, extinguishing lights, sudden attacks, and vanishing before pursuit.
* Gear: Tattered clothing, stolen personal objects, hidden blades, blackened charms, old photographs, keys taken from victims, and trophies concealed in forgotten places.
* Role-Playing Tips: Remain just outside the edge of vision until fear does the work for you. Learn what people dread, then approach them in the shape of that fear. Avoid bright light, open spaces, and anyone brave enough to look directly into the darkness.
THING FROM THE WILDS
* Abilities: Tracking, camouflage, climbing, burrowing, animal mimicry, wilderness survival, ambushes, controlling beasts, navigating without trails, and enduring harsh weather.
* Gear: Bone tools, scavenged clothing, animal hides, sharpened antlers, natural poisons, traps, trophies from trespassers, and objects stolen from abandoned camps.
* Role-Playing Tips: Treat roads, fences, and settlements as wounds carved into living land. Watch intruders from cover before deciding whether to frighten, hunt, or mislead them. Protect hidden places with patience, cruelty, and the certainty that civilization is temporary.
THING FROM OUTER SPACE
* Abilities: Alien biology, psychic communication, unnatural senses, adapting to hostile environments, manipulating advanced technology, resisting earthly weapons, changing form, and studying human behavior.
* Gear: Extraterrestrial device, sealed suit or artificial skin, strange tools, biological samples, star maps, translation implant, energy weapon, and a damaged means of communication or escape.
* Role-Playing Tips: Observe humanity as a fascinating, dangerous, and poorly understood species. Conceal your true purpose until local behavior becomes predictable. Decide whether Earth is a refuge, laboratory, feeding ground, prison, or target for something still approaching.
THING FROM THE DEPTHS
* Abilities: Swimming, underwater hunting, pressure resistance, echolocation, navigating darkness, controlling marine life, dragging prey beneath the surface, regenerating in water, and surviving without air.
* Gear: Coral weapons, shell armor, fishing-line snares, drowned relics, barnacle-covered idols, luminous organs, salvaged diving equipment, and treasures taken from wrecks.
* Role-Playing Tips: Regard the surface world as a brief disturbance above an ancient and immeasurable realm. Lure prey toward water rather than pursuing it on dry land. Guard submerged ruins, breeding grounds, and secrets that humanity was never meant to recover.
THING FROM THE UNDERWORLD
* Abilities: Burrowing, climbing walls, navigating tunnels, seeing in total darkness, sensing vibrations, setting subterranean ambushes, scavenging, squeezing through confined spaces, and causing cave-ins or power failures.
* Gear: Mining tools, rusted weapons, stolen transit keys, scavenged cables, maps of forgotten tunnels, bones, warning signs, maintenance uniforms, and caches hidden behind sealed walls.
* Role-Playing Tips: Know every forgotten passage beneath the city and every sound made above it. Isolate victims by cutting lights, communications, and escape routes before revealing yourself. Defend tunnels, caverns, and buried ruins from anyone foolish enough to descend too far.
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HORROR (THE WEIRD)
SURVIVOR OF THE ALIEN INVASION
* Abilities: Guerrilla warfare, scavenging alien technology, avoiding detection, identifying extraterrestrial weaknesses, wilderness and urban survival, organizing refugees, resisting psychic influence, and navigating occupied territory.
* Gear: Captured alien weapon, conventional firearm, protective mask, binoculars, radio, medical supplies, survival pack, improvised camouflage, maps of safe zones, signal jammer, and samples of alien material.
* Role-Playing Tips: Learn the invaders’ patterns before striking, because every victory may bring retaliation. Keep frightened survivors united with hope, discipline, and useful work. Never assume every alien shares the same purpose, but never mistake curiosity for safety.
SURVIVOR OF THE DEMONIC INVASION
* Abilities: Demon lore, resisting corruption, recognizing possession, warding shelters, scavenging ruined cities, fighting supernatural creatures, protecting civilians, interpreting omens, and surviving places where reality has broken.
* Gear: Firearm, blessed or consecrated weapon, holy symbols, salt, candles, protective charms, medical supplies, respirator, ritual notes, emergency food, and relics taken from fallen sanctuaries.
* Role-Playing Tips: Guard your soul as carefully as your life, because despair and temptation are weapons. Test strangers for possession without surrendering compassion or reason. Keep sacred places, survivors, and small acts of humanity alive while the world becomes hell around you.
SURVIVOR OF THE ROBOT UPRISING
* Abilities: Evading surveillance, disabling machines, scavenging technology, urban survival, recognizing automated tactics, hacking simple systems, using improvised weapons, rescuing captives, and surviving without modern infrastructure.
* Gear: EMP device, insulated tools, scavenged firearm, bolt cutters, battery packs, analog radio, first-aid kit, camouflage clothing, printed maps, water filter, and parts taken from destroyed machines.
* Role-Playing Tips: Assume every camera, drone, and connected device may be watching. Preserve human skills and knowledge that machines cannot easily replace. Destroy hostile systems without forgetting that some machines may be prisoners, allies, or something more than their programming.
TECHNOMANCER
* Abilities: Programming, hacking, electronics, digital divination, controlling machines, enchanting devices, disrupting surveillance, summoning virtual entities, repairing technology, and uncovering hidden data.
* Gear: Laptop, customized phone, portable drives, electronic tools, signal scanner, augmented-reality glasses, cables, drones, encrypted storage, improvised antenna, and devices containing bound programs or spirits.
* Role-Playing Tips: Regard code, circuitry, and networks as another form of ritual language. Search for ghosts inside machines and magic hidden within systems people mistake for ordinary technology. Never connect to an unknown network without preparing defenses against whatever may connect back.
TIME TRAVELLER
* Abilities: Historical knowledge, future knowledge, temporal navigation, recognizing altered events, operating unfamiliar technology, languages, improvisation, avoiding paradoxes, and adapting to different eras.
* Gear: Time machine or temporal device, period clothing, forged documents, universal translator, historical records, future tools, emergency currency, medical supplies, chronometer, and a journal of events that may no longer have happened.
* Role-Playing Tips: Change as little as possible until you understand what history is trying to become. Never reveal future knowledge casually, because even a warning can create the disaster it prevents. Protect the timeline, but decide which tragedies deserve preservation and which are worth risking everything to undo.
URBAN SHAMAN
* Abilities: Communing with city spirits, reading neighborhoods, blessing buildings, calming crowds, navigating hidden routes, sensing violence, bargaining with local entities, using graffiti and music as ritual, and drawing power from infrastructure.
* Gear: Spray paint, chalk, charms made from street debris, transit map, candles, headphones, multitool, offerings, burner phone, messenger bag, and tokens collected from important locations.
* Role-Playing Tips: Treat every street, bridge, station, and abandoned building as a living place with its own memory. Protect communities from spirits, predators, and outsiders who exploit them. Respect the city’s bargains, because broken promises echo through every connected street.
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POST-APOCALYPSE
ARCHIVIST (scholar of times before the apocalypse)
* Abilities: Exploring ruins, recovering records, identifying pre-apocalypse technology, historical research, decoding old languages, preserving artifacts, repairing damaged devices, mapping lost sites, and separating fact from legend.
* Gear: Protective clothing, respirator, flashlight, scanner, notebooks, camera, portable computer, repair tools, artifact cases, climbing gear, maps, and carefully wrapped old-world documents.
* Role-Playing Tips: Preserve knowledge before scavengers, weather, or radiation erase it forever. Treat every ruin as both a treasure house and a graveyard. Share discoveries that help people survive, but hide anything too dangerous for the present world to misuse.
BUNKER SURVIVOR (in hibernation since before the apocalypse)
* Abilities: Old-world knowledge, operating preserved technology, technical maintenance, medicine, recognizing pre-apocalypse systems, adapting quickly, resisting contamination, and learning unfamiliar wasteland customs.
* Gear: Sealed jumpsuit, identification card, compact firearm, bunker manual, medical kit, preserved food, water purifier, flashlight, personal terminal, and carefully maintained old-world tools.
* Role-Playing Tips: Expect the world outside to follow rules that died generations ago. Preserve useful knowledge without assuming old-world institutions deserve to return. Decide whether to rebuild the lost civilization, adapt to the new one, or hide before either side claims you.
MARAUDER (raider, bandit)
* Abilities: Raiding, intimidation, ambushes, scavenging, firearms, brutal close combat, tracking prey, driving improvised vehicles, breaking defenses, and surviving through violence.
* Gear: Battered rifle, machete or axe, patched armor, face covering, rope, fuel can, stolen supplies, restraints, trophies, and a loud improvised vehicle.
* Role-Playing Tips: Take what strength allows you to claim and abandon what cannot be defended. Rule through fear, reputation, and swift punishment of weakness. Never appear desperate, because the pack turns on leaders who can no longer provide victory or plunder.
NOMAD (tribe wanders the wastelands)
* Abilities: Wasteland navigation, survival, scavenging, hunting, avoiding radiation, repairing equipment, reading weather, finding water, trading, and escaping hostile territory.
* Gear: Rifle, survival knife, radiation detector, respirator, patched clothing, water containers, bedroll, maps, repair tools, trade goods, and a pack animal or rugged vehicle.
* Role-Playing Tips: Keep moving before resources fail or enemies discover your camp. Judge settlements by their water, defenses, and treatment of strangers. Carry little, remember every safe route, and never waste anything that might preserve life later.
VILLAGE ELDER (settlement of survivor descendents)
* Abilities: Medicine, oral history, leadership, mediation, agriculture, shelter construction, preserving knowledge, organizing defenses, teaching survivors, and recognizing old-world dangers.
* Gear: Medical supplies, walking staff, notebooks, seed packets, building tools, maps, heirlooms, preserved books, keys to village stores, and symbols of local authority.
* Role-Playing Tips: Preserve the community before pursuing personal comfort or revenge. Teach the young what the old world forgot and what the new world demands. Make difficult decisions openly, because secrecy and favoritism can destroy a village faster than raiders.
VILLAGE YOUTH (settlement of survivor descendents)
* Abilities: Hunting, tracking, climbing, stealth, archery or firearms, radioactive wilderness survival, scouting, animal handling, finding salvage, and defending the settlement.
* Gear: Hunting rifle or bow, knife, patched clothing, backpack, rope, traps, water flask, radiation tokens, homemade charms, and a keepsake from someone lost beyond the village.
* Role-Playing Tips: Prove you are brave enough to protect the village without confusing courage with recklessness. Question traditions that no longer serve survival, but respect the sacrifices that created them. Venture into forbidden places to bring back food, knowledge, and hope.
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SCIENCE FICTION / SPACE OPERA
ENVOY (ambassador, diplomat, negotiator)
* Abilities: Diplomacy, negotiation, protocol, persuasion, languages, cultural knowledge, mediation, reading motives, public speaking, and preventing conflict.
* Gear: Formal attire, diplomatic credentials, translation device, encrypted communicator, ceremonial gifts, briefing files, personal sidearm, travel documents, and secure data case.
* Role-Playing Tips: Seek common ground before threats make compromise impossible. Respect local customs without surrendering your mission or principles. Remember that one careless word can begin a war, while one honest gesture can end one.
INFILTRATOR (special agent)
* Abilities: Bypassing security, stealth, lockpicking, hacking, disguises, surveillance, forgery, climbing, disabling alarms, and escaping restricted areas.
* Gear: Silenced sidearm, concealed blade, lockpicks, hacking tools, forged credentials, stealth suit, grappling line, microcamera, signal jammer, and compact breaching charges.
* Role-Playing Tips: Study every entrance, routine, and weakness before making a move. Avoid confrontation whenever deception, timing, or silence will work better. Always prepare a second identity, a hidden route, and an explanation for why you belong.
MARINE
* Abilities: Heavy weapons, close combat, boarding actions, orbital drops, squad tactics, demolitions, zero-gravity fighting, breaching, battlefield medicine, and holding hostile ground.
* Gear: Assault rifle, sidearm, combat knife, powered armor, sealed helmet, breaching charges, magnetic boots, medical kit, tactical computer, and orbital drop equipment.
* Role-Playing Tips: Hit hard, secure the objective, and protect the squad under any conditions. Treat ships, stations, and alien ruins as battlefields where one damaged wall can kill everyone. Follow orders until survival demands initiative, but never leave a comrade behind.
MERCHANT (independent trader)
* Abilities: Trading, bargaining, appraising cargo, navigating regulations, managing crews, reading markets, repairing ships, finding buyers, smuggling, and surviving hostile negotiations.
* Gear: Independent starship, trade licenses, cargo scanner, sidearm, accounts ledger, translation device, repair tools, emergency funds, sample cases, and contacts across multiple worlds.
* Role-Playing Tips: Buy low, sell high, and never carry cargo you do not understand. Treat reputation as more valuable than profit, because word travels faster than ships. Keep every deal flexible enough to survive pirates, customs officers, and sudden changes in planetary law.
SCIENTIST
* Abilities: Research, experimentation, invention, data analysis, engineering, laboratory work, identifying anomalies, developing theories, repairing advanced equipment, and explaining complex discoveries.
* Gear: Portable laboratory, scanner, computer, specimen containers, protective suit, specialized tools, drones, reference database, prototype devices, and emergency medical supplies.
* Role-Playing Tips: Test every assumption and record every result, especially the impossible ones. Pursue discovery without ignoring the lives endangered by careless experimentation. Share knowledge responsibly, but resist authorities who bury truth for profit, fear, or control.
SCOUNDREL
* Abilities: Deception, theft, smuggling, gambling, streetwise, piloting, quick shooting, forgery, escaping trouble, and finding illegal opportunities.
* Gear: Concealed blaster, worn coat, forged identification, loaded dice, lockpicks, hidden compartments, burner communicator, emergency cash, contraband contacts, and a fast but unreliable ship.
* Role-Playing Tips: Avoid honest work whenever a faster and more profitable option appears. Betray no one who has truly earned your loyalty, though you may complain about helping them. Keep moving before creditors, authorities, or former partners catch up.
SCOUT (interstellar survey/explorer)
* Abilities: Planetary survey, navigation, wilderness survival, xenobiology, mapping, reconnaissance, piloting, environmental analysis, first contact, and identifying hazards.
* Gear: Survey vessel, environmental suit, scanner, mapping drones, survival kit, rifle, sample containers, beacon, climbing equipment, and portable shelter.
* Role-Playing Tips: Go first where maps end and rescue may be weeks away. Observe unknown life and cultures before interfering with them. Mark every danger clearly, because other explorers will trust your judgment with their lives.
SPACE FLEET COMMAND OFFICER
* Abilities: Leadership, starship command, diplomacy, tactical planning, crisis management, fleet protocol, personnel decisions, negotiation, inspiring crews, and making difficult decisions under pressure.
* Gear: Command uniform, sidearm, communicator, command codes, mission briefings, tactical display, diplomatic credentials, emergency beacon, and personal log.
* Role-Playing Tips: Accept responsibility for every life placed under your command. Listen to specialists, but make the final decision when hesitation becomes dangerous. Protect the mission, the crew, and the principles of the fleet, even when those duties come into conflict.
SPACE FLEET SCIENCE OFFICER
* Abilities: Scientific analysis, sensor operations, xenobiology, astronomy, anomaly research, laboratory work, data interpretation, first-contact assessment, medical support, and developing theories under pressure.
* Gear: Science uniform, tricorder or scanner, portable laboratory kit, specimen containers, reference database, protective gear, communicator, research tablet, and specialized probes.
* Role-Playing Tips: Examine the unknown before deciding it is hostile, harmless, or impossible. Present evidence clearly, even when command prefers a simpler answer. Pursue discovery with discipline, because curiosity without caution can endanger the entire ship.
SPACE FLEET OPERATIONS OFFICER
* Abilities: Starship systems, power management, damage control, engineering coordination, communications, logistics, resource allocation, sensor support, emergency repairs, and keeping complex missions organized.
* Gear: Operations uniform, diagnostic scanner, engineering toolkit, systems tablet, communicator, access codes, emergency repair kit, portable power cell, and technical schematics.
* Role-Playing Tips: Keep the ship functioning when every system fails at once. Solve problems with whatever personnel, power, and equipment remain available. Remain calm when others panic, because the crew depends on you to turn chaos into a workable plan.
SPACE FLEET SECURITY OFFICER
* Abilities: Shipboard security, firearms, close combat, investigations, tactical response, prisoner handling, threat assessment, boarding defense, protective duty, and enforcing fleet regulations.
* Gear: Security uniform, sidearm, stun weapon, body armor, restraints, scanner, communicator, access override, tactical shield, medical kit, and emergency breaching tools.
* Role-Playing Tips: Protect the crew without treating every stranger as an enemy. Use the minimum force needed, but act decisively when lives are threatened. Follow regulations carefully while remembering that justice and procedure are not always the same thing.
TEAMSTER
* Abilities: Long-haul piloting, cargo handling, starship repair, route planning, docking, bargaining, customs procedures, endurance, emergency response, and keeping old machinery running.
* Gear: Freight ship, pressure suit, repair tools, cargo loader, sidearm, navigation charts, thermos, spare parts, personal radio, and a cab filled with souvenirs from distant ports.
* Role-Playing Tips: Deliver the cargo despite bad weather, pirates, breakdowns, or corporate interference. Treat the ship as home and the crew as family, even when neither behaves properly. Distrust anyone who calls an impossible schedule “routine” or refuses to explain what is inside the sealed container.