After Reset Rebooted Kickstarter Updates
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With only ten days to go in the rebooted After Reset Kickstarter campaign, I wanted to check in and share a few snippets from the most recent of the thirty-three updates posted to the project to date. Check out some of the feats we'll be picking from for our characters:
FAST METABOLISM
Type of feat: Background.
Requirements: 1st level background feat.
Required for: None.
Specifics: Character recovers from addictions twice as fast. On the other hand the chances to become addicted doubled.
Use: Automatic.
You've always been blessed with a baby's metabolism, so everything runs its course twice as fast but is twice as likely to affect you.
GIFTED
Type of feat: Background.
Requirements: 1st level background feat.
Required for: None.
Specifics: Character receives +1 to all primary stats, in exchange only receiving half the proper skill points at the 1st level and onwards.
Use: Automatic.
You were born special, but maybe a little bit conceited, because though your natural abilities are superior to others, you never bothered to practice improving your skills.
HANDYMAN
Type of feat: Background.
Requirements: 1st level background feat.
Required for: None.
Specifics: Character gains a +2 bonus to checks on Repair, Science, Traps and Lockpick, but suffers a -3 penalty to checks on Speech, Trade, and Outdoorsman.
Use: Automatic.
Although you lack much of an outgoing personality, you've always had a knack for working with your hands.
HAWKEYE
Type of feat: Background.
Requirements: 1st level background feat.
Required for: None.
Specifics: Character gains a +5% bonus to base Range of Sight, but suffers from -10% penalty to base Angle of Sight.
Use: Automatic.
True to the name, you see much farther, like a real hawk, but find it more difficult to identify objects outside of your tunnel vision.
HUCKSTER
Type of feat: Background.
Requirements: 1st level background feat.
Required for: None.
Specifics: Character gains a +2 bonus on Trade and Speech checks, but suffers a -2 penalty to Science and Lockpic checks. Useful to any trader.
Use: Automatic.
You have a real way with words, you snake oil peddler, you. However, your chatty nature affects your concentration with manual activities.
HUMANIST
Type of feat: Background.
Requirements: 1st level background feat.
Required for: None.
Specifics: Character gains a +5 bonus to Fist Aid, Doctor, Speech, and Trade skills,.but suffers -3 penalty to all combat skills, Melee Weapons, Throwing Weapons, Firearms Weapons, Energy Weapons, Field Weapons.
Use: Automatic.
While not quite a pacifist, you place more value in your fellow man than in ways to rip them apart.
INQUISITIVE MIND
Type of feat: Background.
Requirements: 1st level background trait.
Required for: None.
Specifics: Character gains a +2 bonus on Science and Expertise checks, but suffers a -2 penalty to Doctor and Repair checks. Useful for any explorer.
Use: Automatic.
A mind that never rests is a gift for any traveler seeking out valuable technology remaining from the Past Age. At the same time, such curiosity does not play well when it comes to monotonous, laborious activity.
