Savage Fallout

The only starting race accepted in pure human for now. Ghouls, Super Mutants, Androids, etc will be accepted once the game gets to the point of including them.

Human characters start play with one free Edge of their choice
(see Edges, below).

Your hero starts with a d4 in each attribute, and has 5 points
with which to raise them. Raising an attribute a die type costs
1 point. Die types are d4, d6, d8, d10, and d12.

You have 15 points for skills. A list of standard skills appears
below. Note that skills in Savage Worlds are very broad. You
don’t have to take Fighting for your sword, dagger, dirk, and
axe—Fighting covers it all. Remember, this is a game of Fast!
Furious! Fun! Don’t worry though—you’ll have plenty of ways
to customize your character with Edges.

Each die type in a skill costs 1 point up to the linked attribute.
Going over the linked attribute costs 2 points per level. If your
hero has a Strength of d6, for example, it costs 1 point to buy
Climbing at d4, another point to buy it at d6, and 2 points to
raise it to a d8.

Charisma is equal to the total bonuses or penalties given by
Edges and Hindrances.

Pace is 6”.

Parry is equal to 2 plus half of the Fighting die. (Half of Fighting
d8 is 4 + 2 = Parry of 6.)

Toughness is equal to 2 plus half the character’s Vigor. Add
the bonus granted by armor worn on the torso to this value, but
remember it may not count if attacks target other parts of the
body. (Half of Vigor d6 is 3 + 2 + 2 (chain armor) = Toughness of 7.)

Your character gains an “advance” for each Minor Hindrance
she takes (up to two), and two advances for taking a single Major
Hindrance. You’ll find a summary of core Edges & Hindrances
at the end of this document, and more can be found in your
setting book.

For 2 advances you can either:
• Gain another attribute point.
• Choose an Edge.

For 1 advance you can either:
• Gain another skill point.
• Increase starting funds by 100%. (When relevant)

The list of Edges and Hindrances available can be found on page 10 and 11-12 at
http://www.peginc.com/Downloads/SWEX/TD06.pdf

Skill - Linked Attribute

Boating - Agility
Climbing - Strength
Driving - Agility
Fighting - Agility
Gambling - Smarts
Guts - Spirit
Healing - Smarts
Intimidation - Spirit
Investigation - Smarts
Knowledge - Smarts
Lockpicking - Agility
Notice - Smarts
Persuasion - Spirit
Piloting - Agility
Psionics* - Smarts
Repair - Smarts
Riding - Agility
Shooting - Agility
Stealth - Agility
Streetwise - Smarts
Superpower* - Special
Survival - Smarts
Swimming - Agility
Taunt - Smarts
Throwing - Agility
Tracking - Smarts

*Ask the GM, possibly available later on in the game

If your main character starts out with the bunker at the beginning of the game, must/may have a Profession Edge that benefits the settlement/faction, such as a Soldier, Engineer, Technician, Doctor, Botanist, etc)

Gear will be supplied at the beginning of the game.

Fill in any other background details you care to add.

Beyond Traits, Edges, and Skill points mentioned previously, every character starts at 0 Experience Points. Experience Points are only gained by exchanging Fudge Points (FP) to Experience Points (EP) at the following rate: one Fudge Point = two Experience Points.

Every 5 points accumulated grants a hero an Advance. An Advance lets a character levels do one of the following:

• Gain a new Edge.
• Increase a skill that is equal to or greater
than its linked attribute by one die type.
• Increase two skills that are lower than their
linked attributes by one die type each.
• Buy a new skill at d4.
• Increase one attribute by a die type.*

*You may only choose this option once per 20 Experience Points. No Trait may be raised above a d12 unless stated otherwise by an edge. Legendary characters may raise an attribute every other Advance.

Fudge Points can also be used to save your bacon from deadly attacks. Choose carefully where you spend them! A character can spend a Fudge Point to automatically eliminate a Shaken condition (see Shaken, below). If the Fudge Point is spent immediately after taking one or more wounds from a single attack, you may make a Vigor roll as well. A success and each raise on the roll reduces the number of wounds suffered from that attack by 1. If the character is left with any wounds from the attack however, he’s still Shaken as usual. Don’t count the wound modifiers you’re about to suffer when making this roll.

A character may only make one soak roll per attack. If a soak roll eliminates 2 of 3 wounds, for instance, a hero can’t make
another soak roll to eliminate the third wound. (The hero could spend a second Fudge Point to reroll the Vigor roll as usual, however.) If a character suffers multiple hits on the same action card, he needs to spend Fudge Points and make soak rolls after each result—before the next “set” of wounds is soaked.