I am currently aware the weapons in the equipment chapter still list different damage types now defunct in the current system. This will be fixed in the next update.

It's finished! Enjoy!

To the second question, yes it does. I realize that was missing when I wrote this month's bonus content. For the first question, ranged is the skill for all explosive style weapons, while melee doesn't apply to working with such weapons. For the ability score, either one would have probably worked. I can see agility as part of the 'careful' handling of an explosive. Ranged is used because that is the default for ranged skill and explosives. But overall either one could have worked. I just chose instinct at the time.

As a progress update, the Fallout overhaul is almost finished. The Core Rulebook and Bestiary 1&2 are completely finished, and Bestiary 3 is 75% finished. Once it is finished, an extra editing pass and clarifications in the core rulebook is going to be my next priority, but then it is ready for republishing. Once it is all published, Bestiary 4 should follow in a few weeks, a month tops.

Sorry for late response. Busy day. A few major things are changing in the new system that will make it difficult to convert later on. For example, the trait system is going away, and the Mutual Survivor system is no longer going to be a default option or work the same way. Characteristic point costs are also changing. However, if you ignored traits and Mutual Survivors, it should be fairly easy to rebuild characters for the new system. I can get you an early version of the Core Rulebook if you want to see it. Attack Overage is not extra accuracy. When you make an attack, your attack deals extra damage by how much the attack roll bypassed the target's defense. The maximum amount of bonus damage an attack can gain from attack overage is equal to relevant statistic (perception for guns, strength for melee, etc). Your skill, on the other hand, simply determines your base accuracy as you said. Then your stat determines the maximum bonus damage you can deal with an attack. I will make sure this is clear in the new Rulebook. Hope this helps.

Hey thanks for your interest. It is indeed correct that agility is used for initiative, not perception. Prowess skills include melee, defensive training, durability, mental training, guns, and energy weapons, or any stat that is used to determine statistics. I often use ability scores and SPECIALs interchangeably. I will attempt to make that more clear. There are a lot of problems with the fallout RPG right now relating to typos, contradicting statements, and bad 'copy paste' errors as you mentioned before. Also, a lot of the numbers have needed work. That's the reason I am working on the complete overhaul for the game right now, as you may have seen mentioned in the blog. The overhaul of the Fallout Core Rulebook is done, except for some editing, and overall I am quite pleased with it. I can actually find myself enjoying working on the game again. You will see that the game has been extensively streamlined and cleaned up. However, I am always looking for things to make more clear. Based on your suggestion, I added more information clarifying 'prowess skills' and making them easier to recognize what I am talking about regarding that. I am currently waiting to finish updating all the bestiaries before publishing the overhaul of the Core Rulebook. If you want an early copy, let me know and I will try to get one for you. I don't know how long it will take to finish redoing the bestiaries. But I always work more on projects that spark community interest. Coming along with the Fallout release will be the character sheet and the basic rules reference sheet for Fallout. If you find anything else that needs fixing, let me know so it will be done before I publish.

Yes, these are in error. 2nd edition StarCraft was going to be 3d6, but community feedback preserved it as d20. Any mention of 3d6 are incorrect. Treat as 1d20.

Interesting thought. I like the idea of a zerg creature that acts like a magical item. First, if you were implementing something like that, it would be important to limit how many a player could have at once, much like protoss augmentation crystals. Beyond that, I would actually use said crystals as a guideline in how balance and design those little organisms, with similar benefits. You could even do them so they give different benefits based on what limbs or organs receive the symbiote? It could be a nice way to reward zerg characters. As for using them on terran characters; yes, I don't imagine many terrans would want a zerg spud attached to their body. That's a valid RP concern. But there are other ways you could do it. Terrans are big on cybernetic implants. Imagine a series of cranial implants that could be inserted into the brain that helped with different tasks and functions based on related brain processes. A targeting chip to help you aim, a chip that has tons of information encoded in it that can be used for Lore checks, and so on.

Glad to hear you like the resource. If you get an ability score from a specialization, it can go over your cap. The cap is just for limiting the ability score by spending characteristics point in directly increasing it. +AS from other sources can allow you to bypass the limits.

Pyromancers are not immune to their own powers. However, the Brimestone Form should indeed make you immune to Burning. This not being listed is an error. Pyromancy is designed around synergy between powers, thus Brimestone Form is designed to be a method to protect you from your own abilities among its other benefits. Thanks for the callout!

All listed benefits.

It is correct, all psychic masters, no matter which protoss sub-race, gain telepathy discipline focus through Psychic Master. Purifiers, however, do not have telepathy by base, so they gain no benefit from this unless they also take fateweaver. This is just because the base class benefits are static no matter which tribe takes it, and that was a universal benefit to taking the psychic master. For purifiers, that level will be a little underwhelming. But purifiers have a lot going for them already.

Nice. Sounds like a good adventure, like something I have coming up in one of my campaigns! Terrazine is listed as a drug in the Core Rulebook. BUT, I may go ahead and leak some rules coming in the next supplement, in case they change their mind on that spectre business. Becoming a Spectre Becoming a spectre involves finding the right groups, and proving worthy of the psi indoctrination process. Only psionic terrans with the Ghost background can become spectres. The indoctrination procedure takes about a day. Once the player emerges, they gain the Spectre Enhancement talent as a bonus talent. This talent gives them a powerful psionic boon, but also gives them a fatal flaw. Spectre Enhancement Talent Requirements: Ghost Background, must have undertaken the Spectre Psi Indoctrination procedure Benefit: The character has undergone the specter enhancement process and has gained both a psionic enhancement and a drawback. They chose what enhancement they gain when they take this talent, but randomly roll on the spectre drawback table to determine which penalty they receive. This talent can be taken multiple times; each time select an enhancement and roll for a random drawback. Reroll if you have get a drawback you already possess. When you take the spectre enhancement talent, select one of the following results. A single result cannot be selected more than once. Ascension The character increases 1 psionic mastery level. Therefore, if they were a Basic Telepath they would become Advanced Telepathy. Likewise, Advanced Telepaths become Telekinetics, and likewise Telekinetics become Psychokinetics Conjure Energy Regardless of what level of psionic mastery the character is, they gain access to either the Pyromancy or Energy psionic disciplines. Infinite Energy The character recovers from energy fatigue very quickly. They gain energy fatigue recovery every round equal to their Psi Level. Peerless Invisibility The character is nearly impossible to detect. When cloaking and wearing their Shadowblade Hostile Environment Suit, the character is immune to psionic detection, and enemies using a detection to location them must still succeed a perception check to detect them. The DC for the perception check is 12+ spectre’s Psi Level + Spectre’s ranks in psionics. Strength and Focus While wearing the Shadowblade Hostile Enviroment Suit, the spectre channels their psionic power into increasing their strength, speed, reflexes, and power. While wearing their armor, they add ½ their Psi Level to defense, toughness, damage resistance, damage threshold, and attack accuracy. Void Connection Through psionic ascension, the spectre has made a connection with the Void. They gain either the Void or Corruption psionic power sources, modifying how their energy psionic powers manifest. In addition, any weapon or ammunition they use that has the Psionic trait gains Psionic Weapon Origin trait that associates with their Psionic Power Source (see Psionic Power Sources later). Roll on the following table to determine which drawback you receive as per of your procedure. Reroll any results you have already received if you take the talent multiple times. Drawbacks: Bloodlust (1-3) The character is ruled by an overwhelming blood lust that blinds them when they are stressed or wounded. When the character loses a morale level, or fulfills any circumstances that would cause them to lose a morale level, they make an immediate opportunity attack to the closest target, regardless of whether they are friend or foe. This can occur on their turn or on another turn, and does not obey the character’s normal restrictions on numbers of opportunity attacks. Broken Mind (4-6): Constant exposure to terrazine has left the spectre’s mind shattered and highly unstable. They are easily rattled and often despair. At the start of every one of their turns in an encounter, the character loses a morale level. Hallucinations (7-10): The character sees hallucinations of other people. Often it is people they know or knew, but it is always a reflection of their subconscious. They are so busy listening to their hallucinations they cannot gain another character’s leadership combat augmentation in an encounter. Furthermore, they occasionally get distracted by the mirages. If they ever roll a 1 on a check in an encounter, their action does not go off and their turn immediately ends. Odd Behavior (11-14): The character adopts many peculiarities in personality and attitude, such as speaking to themselves in third person, using nonsense words, rambling, or referring to a fictitious spirit or deity that follows them around. The spectre suffers disadvantage on all influence and leadership checks. Permanent Fever (15-17): The character physical body has been crippled by the exposure to too much terrazine. They suffer -2 to their fortitude ability score, and suffer disadvantage on all endurance checks. If this effect reduces their fortitude to 0, they are instantly killed by the process and cannot be resurrected. Not everyone survives the Psi Indoctrination procedure. Raging Psychic (18-20): The character cannot control the huge amounts of psionic energy swelling in them. Every psionic power they manifest is boosted and overcharge to the maximum degree, with all the benefits and penalties that come with it.

I really want to get roll20 support for StarCraft out there, because there is a lot of requests for it. I'm also looking at getting a Roll20 group going for me and friends. I am thinking about making custom tokens for it. Not being an artist, I am largely thinking about taking unit models/portraits from the game, giving them a border, and using that as tokens. For example, having little zergling portraits for zerglings, and so on. It is something I am thinking of doing, anyway. I will have to look into how it is done.

Sorry for the late response. Heavy Power Suit USED to give two free psi blades as part of it, back in the 1st edition of the game. It was also about 100-120 honor to purchase at the time. Since then, I have updated it so it does not have the psi blades built in, to promote characters to use their own weapon options in case they want to fight with something other than regular psi blades. The mention of psi-blades in the fluff description is a hold over from 1st edition that was not properly updated in 2nd. The customization mentioned in the fluff is not mechanical, but cosmetic. The armor can have a variety of looks and appearances, designed differently for various tribes and factions, but as you said has a lot of options for augmentation crystals. I'm sorry for the confusion. I will try to rewrite that fluff section to be less misleading.

Xhupi and I both really like your idea, Grymrock. We are starting our notes on our next supplement, Monsters of Koprulu. The 2nd edition of this resource will, obviously, have a huge zerg component. We will try to see if we can incorporate some of these ideas into it!

Hey. It was a complicated decision. It originated from two core problems. The first is the weapon type zerg skills (brutality, projectile, and corrosive). They had an odd place with infested terran in particular. They would increase brutality, but then have no skill with terran melee weapons. They would increase corrosive or projectile, but could still not use terran guns because they had no pistol/rifle skill. With the condensing of weapon categories in the base game (pistol, rifle, etc down to just ranged), it seemed prudent to condense all weapon skills for simplicity's sake. At that point, half of the zerg skills had been removed and it seemed odd to just have Rush, Zoom, and Stamina remaining on their own. The second issue was record sheets. Having so many specialty skills relating to the different races made it complicated to have a solid record sheet without having blank spaces for 'fill in' skills, or having a different character sheet for every race (which I did not want). I wanted every race to have the same skill list. Obviously, this is not perfect because the Command skill still exists (but that kind of replaces leadership for Zerg). As you've seen, I've tried to replace the skills with the Zerg Skill Focus talent. But I see what you mean with number of skills that zerg have to use. And you can only take Zerg Skill Focus once. The easiest solution is to add more talents to compensate the weaknesses, possibly having a talent that allows Athletics to function as the Rush skill did before, and so on. This would also make it more attractive to put more skill points in skills you don't put as much ranks into. It would almost function like a secondary Zerg Skill Focus. But adding skills is tricky. Are you more concerned for infested terrans or primal zerg? And what do you think would be a good solution?

Fixed.

No. All protoss armor gets from equipment tiers is damage resistance, and reduced defense penalty.

Hey, welcome to the site! The next resource I am working on is the Advanced Terran Training Manual. It is going to have a lot of options for terran character design, including a requisition system for military focused characters such as ghosts and marines. I believe the level 1 requisition is 8,000 credits for such a character. Make sure to take the powered armor training talent! One of the important design philosophies that the StarCraft RPG has is that it encompasses all possible power levels, although the way to the very bottom. Level 1 characters are essentially civilians with no combat training or expertise, thrust into a life of adventure and danger. These characters are generally very poor, and do not have access to expensive military grade gear as mid-high tier terrans. Thus is the recommendation for people wanting to do the 'StarCraft' experience of regularly fighting enemies in the video games and using advanced weaponry and armor to start around level 5. Powered armor is designed to be earned around the level 5-8 range for normal StarCraft heroes. I can see your argument, however, for reducing the cost of old models of CMC down a little bit. Perhaps 4-5k for the older CMC-200 powered armor. You still wouldn't be able to start with it, but you could get it in a few levels. Protoss are complicated because their wealth system is so different than terrans. Basically, their wealth increases much slower, as they can't just pick up additional honor, so I wanted them to have all their essentials early on. In previous builds, low level protoss struggled in having basic gear at low level. Now they start with a great deal of gear, to make up for that it will not get much higher for a time. Protoss plasma shields are kind of like terran powered armor: its something they earn after they get some experience. As mentioned before, level 1 characters are basically civilians, and do not have access to higher defensive equipment right from the get go. Protoss characters should get plasma shields pretty early, around levels 2-5. Hope this helps!