You use technology to keep back the forces of unreason.
Maybe you monitor the Web for vampire chat rooms, or design electric pentacles to imprison ghosts. Just because you’re more comfortable with a soldering iron than a shooting iron doesn’t mean you don’t fight the good fight, too.
■Attributes:
ST 10 [0];
DX 10 [0];
IQ 13 [60];
HT 10 [0]. ■Secondary Characteristics:
Dmg 1d-2/1d;
BL 20 lbs.;
HP 10 [0];
Will 10 [-15];
Per 12 [-5];
FP 10 [0]; Basic Speed 5.00 [0];
BM 5 [0].
■Advantages: 25 points chosen from among
Per +1 to +5 [5/level], Absolute Timing [2], Acute Hearing [2/level],
Artificer [10/level], Contact Group (Online associates; Skill-15; 9 or less; Somewhat Reliable) [10], Eidetic Memory
[5], Gadgeteer [25], Gizmos [5/gizmo], High Manual Dexterity 1-4 [5/level], Less Sleep [2/level], Lightning Calculator or Intuitive Mathematician [2 or 5], Mathematical Ability [10/level], Serendipity 1 [15], Signature Gear
[Varies], Single-Minded [5], or Versatile [5].
■DisAdvantages: -20 points chosen from among Addiction (Caffeine or diet pills) [-5], Clueless [-10], Combat Paralysis [-15], Curious [-5*], Gullibility [-10*], Honesty [-10*], Lecherousness [-15*], Loner [-5*], Oblivious [-5], Overconfidence [-5*], Pacifism (Reluctant Killer) [-5], Post-Combat Shakes [-5*], Secret (Hacker) [-5 or -10], Shyness [-5 or -10], Slow Riser [-5], Stubbornness [-5], Unfit [-5], or Workaholic [-5].
■Primary Skills: Computer Operation (E)
IQ+1 [2]-14 and Current Affairs (Science & Technology) (E)
IQ [1]-13.
● Three of Armoury (any), Electrician, Electronics Operation (any), Electronics Repair (any), Machinist, or Mechanic (any), all (A)
IQ [2]-13; Engineer (any) or Computer Programming, both (H)
IQ-1 [2]-12; or Computer Hacking (VH)
IQ-2 [2]-11.
■Secondary Skills: Five of Explosives (any), Hazardous Materials (any), Lockpicking, Photography, or Traps, all (A)
IQ-1 [1]-12; or Expert Skill (Computer Security), Forgery, or Intelligence Analysis, all (H)
IQ-2 [1]-11.
■Background Skills: One of Accounting (H)
IQ-2 [1]-11, Scrounging (E)
Per [1]-12, or Speed-Reading (A)
IQ-1 [1]-12.
* Multiplied for self-control number; see p. B120.
□Customization Notes
Consider Signature Gear for your valuable prototype or thrashed-out laptop. In a pre-TL8 setting, replace Computer Operation with Research (A)
IQ [2]-13. More
IQ, even one level, produces a big boost in skills; you can stereotypically scrape up some of the needed points by lowering ST.