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Contents 1 Rules for the Buck Rogers XXVc 1.1 Character creation 1.1.1 Buying stats 1.1.2 Hit Dice 1.1.3 Character Class Bonuses 1.1.3.1 Warrior 1.1.3.2 Rocket Jock 1.1.3.3 Rogue 1.1.3.4 Engineer 1.1.3.5 Medic 1.1.3.6 Scout

[edit] Rules for the Buck Rogers XXVc

It's time for me to list some of the rules I promised you.

[edit] Character creation

[edit] Buying stats

As I mentioned before, I'm not going to be using a random method for generating characters. Instead, it's going to be points based. Each character starts of with 75 points with which to buy their primary scores, at a cost listed below. These are the levels possesed before racial modifiers, and don't forget that in the Buck Rogers system everybody has SEVEN scores (Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma, and Tech. Tech is a measure of how skilled your character is with machinary. Very useful for engineers, but also medics. A more technical minded rogue might want a decent score in this, along with Int.)

Score	Cost
3	0
4	1
5	2
6	3
7	4
8	5
9	6
10	7
11	8
12	9
13	11
14	13
15	15
16	18
17	22
18	27

[edit] Hit Dice

At first level, you will all recieve maximum hps for your class (10 for fighters, 8 for engineers and scouts, 6 for everyone else.). However, upon going up a level, you will not recieve a random dice roll, but rather a set figure plus con bonus. (This will be 6 for fighters, 5 for engineers and scouts, 4 for everyone else.) I don't really like the random element in hp's, so I'm getting rid of it.

[edit] Character Class Bonuses

In the standard rules, each character class had a fixed set of advantages, regardless of how inappropriate they were. Consider for example a seductive rocket jock spacer... He can't even speak unaided, sends most of his life sitting alone on top of an asteroid not talking to anyone and was born out of a vat, but somehow he still manages to be a smooth talker when chating up other spacers, who can't talk, live on asteroids... Well, you get the picture.

In my game you are going to have a little more choice, so you can tailor your chacater to what you envisage. If I haven't listed a type of advantage that you want for your character, let me know in the questions section, and I see what I can do. Furthermore, bear in mind that all of this is unplay tested yet, so I might change any of them in the future.

I've also adding 'skill sets', so you can choose at group of career skills that best reflects what your character actually does. Again, feel free to ask for anything that doesn't already exist.

[edit] Warrior

Choose one basic advantage, and one advanced.

BASIC

• Martial arts: The warrior knows how to fight unarmed with great proficency. Unarmed attacks do 1d6 damage, which can be normal or subdual, as the chacter wishes. (Note for those with the rules book, this is a little different to the standard ability listed, but I like this one better.)
• Expert: The character is highly trained, and agains a straight +10 bonus on all career skills.
• Warrior Resilience: The warrior is used to avoiding the hazards of a battle field and surviving hash conditions. They gain +2 save vs explosions, and +1 vs heat/cold.

ADVANCED

• Specialist: The character is very skilled with certain weapons. Every even numbered level they gain a +1 to hit and damage that can be asigned to any weapon they like, including unarmed if they know martial arts. The same weapon can benefit more than once, up to a maximum of +3.
• Supreme Toughness: The character doesn't know how to die. +5 hps at 1st level and +1 per level there after, even beyond 9th.
• Backstab: This works like the rogue ability of the same name.

SKILL SETS

Minimums: st10, dex 8, con 10, int8

• Commando: This is the traditional set. It's skills are those of a proffesional, trained soldier.
• Brawler: The Brawler is a space borne trouble maker, used to fighting in bars and dealing with thugs.
• Martial Artist: Martial artist aim to keep the traditional martial arts alive. Others aim to create new ones suitable to a zero g enviroment. min dex 13
• Sprawls warrior: In the ends ruins of earth there are plenty of opportunities to practice violence. Although ignorant of the universe at large, the sprawls warrior knows his home turf so very well.

Commando	Brawler	Martial Artist	Sprawls warrior
Battle Tactics	First aid	Battle Tactics	Speak/read Language
Demolitions	Fast talk/convince	History	First aid
Leadership	Intimidation	Acrobatics	Intimidation
Maneuver in zero g	Maneuver in zero g	Maneuver in zero g	Animal riding
Move silently	Shadowing	Move silently	Move silently
Notice	Notice	Notice	Notice
Repair weapon	Repair weapon	Hide in shadows	Repair weapon
Use rocket belt	Use rocket belt	Use rocket belt	Swimming

[edit] Rocket Jock

All rocket jocks get a +10 bonus on any Drive/Pilot skill. Also choose one of the following.

• Smooth Talker: +1 cha/2 levels when dealing with members of the opposite sex and same species.
• Fighter Pilot: The rocket jock is skilled at dog figting, and when firing a ship to ship weapon they use the THAC0 score of a warrior of the same level.
• Traveler: The chacrter has wondered all over the solar system, seeing parts of it most people don't even know exist. They gain a 15 point bonus on the general skill of navigation. They gain +20 on Maths and Astronavigation, as well as +25 on astronomy.

SKILL SETS

Minimums: dex 13, int 11, cha 12.

• Ace: The traditional set. The rocket jock is skilled at flying a whole variety of fast, flashy vehicles.
• Trucker: You think pulling a roll with a space fighter is hard? Try just parking a 2,000 ton space linner. Piloting is a living for this character, not some sort of glamorus hobby. This kind of rocket jock tends to share a certain mind set with engineers. There is no cha minimum to be a trucker.
• Road warrior: This sort of 'rocket jock' has never been inside a space craft. Instead specilize in driving custome made vehicles around the pot hole covered roads of earth. Yes, some of them are called max and are of questionable sanity. There is no cha minimum to be a road warrior.

Ace	Trucker	Road warrior
Drive jetcar	Drive heavy ground vehicle	Drive motorcycle
Drive ground car	Astronavigation	Drive ground car
Maneuver in zero g	Maneuver in zero g
Notice	Notice	Votice
Pilot fixed wing	Maths	Pilot fixed wing
Pilot rocket	Pilot rocket	Repair Mechanical
Piolot rotorwing aircraft	Astronomy	Pilot rotor wing aircraft
Use rocket belt	Use rocket belt	Drive heavy ground vehicle

[edit] Rogue

Chose two:-

• Expert: +10 on career skills.
• Smooth Talker: Same as the rocket jock ability.
• Backstab: +4 to hit, damage multiple by level.
• Thug: The rogue has 8 hp at level one, and gains 5 per level there after, up to 10th.
• Famous Handle: Most appropriate for hackers, but not nessesarilly limited to them. The character is famous amongst his peers, and gains a +1 cha bonus/2 levels when dealing with people in the same profession. Does not stack with the smooth talker benefit.
• Specialist: Works in the same way as the warrior ability, but the rogue is limited to smaller items or those with perticular significants to their career.

SKILL SETS

Minimums: dex 13, int 8, wis 9, cha 13

• Thief: The traditional set. The rogues skills are set up to fasilitate pilfering in a hi-tech age.
• Hacker: Not much in the way of stealth, but great at dealing with electronic systems. Tends to talk in jargon. There are no minimums for dex and cha, but needs at least int 13 and tech 13.
• Detective: The dectective tends to rely more on force of personality and deception then stealth. The detectives activities are usually legal. perhaps even condoned by the planetary government he works for. Min dex 8, wis 13.
• Spy: The spy is skill at impersonating people, breaking codes and memorizing long lists of information so they want fall into enemy hands.
• Merchant: In some ways not an exciting choice, but the merchant does have the potential to become richer than anybody elses wildest dreams. The merchant, though, can always imagine more... No dex minimum.
• Stage Magician: Much like martial arts, stage magic has fallen into decline against the quicker and flashier effects that can be achieved through technology, but a few individuals strive to keep the art alive.

Thief	Hacker	Detective		Merchant	Stage Magician
Bypass security	Bypass security	Bypass security	Bypass security	Economics	Acrobatics
Climb	Maths	Etiquette	Memorize	Law	Memorize
Fast talk/convince	Repair computer	Fast talk convince	Fast talk/convince	Fast talk convince	Fast talk/convince
Hide in shadows	Library search	Intimidate	Disguise	General knowledge	Hypnosis
Move silently	Sensor operation	Shadowing	Mimic	Leadership	History
Open lock	Repair electrical	Law	Open lock	Etiquette	Open lock
Pick pocket	Programming	Leadership	Cryptography	Planetology	Pick pocket
Notice	Notice	Notice	Noice	Notice

[edit] Engineer

Choose one.

• Expert: +10 on career skills.
• Tool Fighting: The engineer is familiar enough with the tools of his trade to again a +2 bonus to hit and damage when fighting with them.
• Engineers Resilience: +1 save vs explosions, radiation, electrity, suffocation, gas and heat.

SKILL SETS

Minimum: str10, con 12, int 8, tech 13

• Naval: Traditional. The engineer is skilled a repairing and maintaining spacecraft.
• Civil: The engineer is used to designing buildings - and taking them apart again afterwards.
• Hobbyist: THe hobbyist is used to working on a smaller scale then other engineers, and also making do with whatever is to hand.
• Sprawls Engineer: Working at a far more basic level than others engineers in the 25th century, the character is used to constructionn from the ground up, working with naturally available materials - wood, leather and metal ores. There knowledge is rare on earth.

Naval	Civil	Hobbyist
Jury rig	Planetology	Jury rig	Jury rig
Manruver in zero g	Demolitions	Maneuver in zero g	Repair weapon
Notice	Notice	Notice	Notice
Repair elecrtical	Repair electrical	Repair electrical	Repair electrical
Repair lifesuport	Repair life support	Repair computer	Metallurgy
Repair mechanical	Repair mechanical	Repair mechanical	Repair mechanical
Repair nuclear engine	Repair nuclear engine	Open locks	Repair nuclear engine
Repair rocket hull	Design engineering	Repair weapon	Design engineering

[edit] Medic

Choose one.

• Drug Frabricator: The medic knows the complex formula needed to use a drug fabricator.
• Herbalist: The medic is skilled at creating cures from naturally available substances. They can create various potions and lotions using Botony. Essentially, this is a more natural version of the drug fabricator.
• Pathologist: The medic is far more used to dealing with people who are already dead. They gain a +10 bonus on the diagnose skill.

SKILL SETS

As a quick aside. One of the standard advantages o fthe doctor is that they are the only class that has access to the medic skills. That still applies, even if they are nolonger career skills. A medic can take missing skills as part of their general skills rrepatoire.

Minimums: dex12, int 12, wis 12.

• Doctor: Traditional. Set up for dealing injured people, whether it be by gunshot, poison or disease.
• Coroner: More used to assertaining the cause of death then preventing it.
• Sprawls healer: Same as the doctor, but without access to the hight tech gadgets.
• Psychiatrist: Used to dealing with problems of the mind. THey can twist and break minds too, when required.

Doctor	Coroner	Sprawls doctor	Psychiatrist
Diagnose	Diagnose	Diagnose	Diagnose
Life suspension tech	Notice	Botony	Hypnosis
Treat critical wounds	Biology	Treat critical wounds	Notice
Treat disease	Treat disease	Treat disease	Intimidate
Treat light wounds	Treat light wounds	Treat light wounds	Treat light wounds
Treat serious wounds	Chemistry	Treat serious wounds	Fast talk/convince
Treat stun/paralysis	Treat stun/paralysis	Treat stun/paralysis	Treat stun/paralysis
Treat poisoning	Treat poisoning	Treat poisoning	Leadership

[edit] Scout

Choose one.

• Mastery: At each level beyond 1st the scout gains a +5 bonus on all career skills.
• Survivor: Sooner or later the scout will run into just about every sort of hazard that can be imagined. They gain a +1 bonus on all saves every 2nd level, rather than every 3rd for noraml characters.

Minimums: con 8, int 8, wis 9, cha 8.