Character:Driz Deadearthen

Driz Deadearthen, a character for Anarchy inK's and later The Game Crafter's post-apocalyptic trainwreck deadEarth. Created by g026r.

Campaign

Wait? People actually play deadEarth? I'm just surprised that I managed a character who is, by the standards of character creation, both alive and marginally competent at something. The name should tell you how seriously I'm taking this.

Character

Name: Driz Deadearthen

Gender: Male

Age: 30

Height: 6'6"

Weight: 201lbs

Move: 17

Resiliency: 7

Strength: 0

Maximum carrying weight: 30lbs

Natural Abilities: Drive Vessel, Intimidate, Tracking, WS Blade Paired

Natural Inabilities: Medic, WS Thrown

Renown: 0

Money: 1400$

Skills

Acrobatics 2D6

Beast Handling 4D6

Beast Lore 4D6

Beast Ride 2D6

Bemuse 2D6

Biology 2D6

Brawling 2D6

Charisma 2D6

Climbing 2D6

Computer Operations 2D6

Domestics 2D6

Drive Automobile 2D6

Drive Boat 2D6

Drive Cart 2D6

Drive Heavy Machine 2D6

Drive Non Motorized 2D6

Drive Railed 2D6

Drive Recreational 2D6

Drive Sailcar 2D6

Drive Tracked 2D6

+Drive Vessel 0D6

Escape 2D6

First Aid 2D6

Forgery 2D6

Guile 2D6

Herb Lore 2D6

Hide 2D6

+Intimidate 0D6

Intuition 4D6

Jimmy Lock 2D6

Jury Rig 2D6

Math 2D6

-Medic 0D6

Memory 2D6

Metallurgy 2D6

Navigate 2D6

Pioneering 3D6

Reason 4D6

Resolve 2D6

Running 4D6

Search 2D6

Senses 4D6

Sensors 2D6

Stealth 2D6

Streetwise 2D6

Swimming 2D6

+Tracking 4D6

Trapping/Fishing 2D6

Weight Training 2D6

Wrestling 2D6

WS Ballista 2D6

WS Blade 6D6

WS Handgun 2D6

WS Melee 2D6

WS Missile 2D6

+WS Paired Blade 4D6

WS Rifle 2D6

WS Shield 2D6

-WS Thrown 2D6

Radiations

• 592 Thyroid condition. Add or subtract (flip a coin) 2D6 inches to your height and adjust your modifiers accordingly. (1d2 = 1, so add, and 2d6 = 11)
• 671 Community. Roll another radiation from the table and add it to your list. The next D6 people you contact also add this radiation to their lists. Remove community from your list when D6 people have been irradiated. (1D6 = 2. So 2 people.) And the Community radiation is:
  • 351 Homesick. Subtract one (cumulative) from all rolls for each week your character spends away from the place of his/her origin/residence.
• 234 Toxic freedom. Poisons and noxious gasses no longer have an effect on you.
• 185 Sage. You have a unique ability to perceive beyond your normal five senses, to see into a situation and determine a better way to accomplish the task at hand. Roll two distinguishable dice with each of your skill rolls from now on. If they match each other, you may add them to your roll.
• 278 Insect. You have cross-mutated with an insect. Take one attribute from an insect of your choice and add it to your character. (Ant-like mandibles.)
• 318 Microwave. Your character absorbs radiation and remits it as microwaves. Anybody within five feet of you will become uncomfortably warm within five minutes. Anything combustible within five feet of you has a 50% chance of igniting every five minutes, including ammunition. Your character will not feel the heat generated by the microwaves, and will feel any radiation effects as normal.

Character Description

A gangly and naked ant-man (his clothes keep catching on fire for some reason), Driz Deadearthen wanders the wastelands. Cast out from his home (his neighbours kept catching fire for some reason) he wanders from town to town, never staying long (the towns keep catching fire for some reason).

Commentary

Ugh. What a dog of a system. Skill prerequisites everywhere, which means that it's next to impossible to make a character who's competent at anything. (Average difficulty is 15, so you need to spend 70 points on a single skill to make it succeed on most average rolls. If that skill has a prerequisite you need to spend 30 points on the prerequisite before you can even put points into the other skill. Repeat this over and over.)

That said, I'm frankly surprised that the character's alive. For more on deadEarth see this thread.