Sovereign Struggle
V1.00 02/22/95, The Very Rough Cut!
Copyright 1994, 1995 John S. Muller
john@peri.com
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to a Scenario For FUDGE. The purpose of this document
is to briefly describe a scenario that will lay on top of the
rules of FUDGE. It is my goal to further refine the rules, as
time goes on, until there is a fully defined and functional Role
Playing Game. I also hope, that this is done with the feedback
from you all, but until then, the rules are based the on the
following hierarchy:
1) This Document
2) FUDGE (See Appendix For Copyright)
3) Game Master
4) Players
Legal
Sovereign Struggle is Copyrighted 1994, 1995 by John S. Muller.
The author gives permision to copy this document and distrubute
it freely provided the document is not modified, this legal
notice is included, and no profit is gained from the distrubution.
Sovereign Struggle may not be published unless you gain written
consent from the author.
SCENARIO
In the year 2002, space travelers from the planet earth landed
on planet X to colonize. This planet was a woodland planet and
had very much the same climate as earth. Until the the
coloinization , there were no higher life forms living on planet
X. However, sometime shortly after an asteroid collided with this
planet, and as a result caused some strange chemical imbalances.
This imbalence lead to the vanishing of the human explorers and
the birth of a unique world.
RACES
Currently there are two major races defined for the PC. They are
Giants and Goblins. To make it more interesting, each race is broken
into sub-races. Since the collision, there have been no human presence.
Human race may be introduced via a lost survivor or space traveler
by the players or GM.
Giants tend to be a nomad human-like race. However they are
incredibly large and posses superhuman strength. This strength allows
them to pick up huge objects and hurl them as they were weapons.
Intelligence is typically lower and are very easily tricked. Tend
to carry sacks of objects when they leave there dwelling. Giants
tend to be wealthy, since they tend to hoard and have a fondness
for jewels/precious metals. Giants may be broken into the following
sub-races:
Green: Mutated humans due to chemical debris. They are least
intelligent and are unable to communicate by speaking or
writting. However, Green giants are the physically the
strongest amonst all races.
Mountain: Also called Stone giants, tend to dwell in caves and
usually have creatures which they tame for pets and guards.
These creatures include wolves, mountain lions, and bears.
They are also capable of animal summoning for these creatures.
Mystical: Weakest of all giants as far as physical strength.
Because of this weakness, they are unable to hurl large
objects. However, they are the most intelligent of them all.
They have the ability to conjure up air elemental and limited
weather control. They dwell in castles on top of clouds, which
is typically refered to as the cloud panes. Typically have a
vast monetary treasure which is secluded away in the castle.
They do not take to others who visit cloudlands or enter their
castles. It is not known to others how they travel between the
earth and clouds, but is done by a secret magical door which
connects earth and the cloud planes.
Goblins are a tribal culture, with the utmost loyalty to the sovereign.
Typical when this race is choosen as a PC, his charactor will be the
soveriegn king. As a result soverien king typically will start out
with aproximatly 10 henchmen of other goblins. It should be his/her
utmost goal to building a powerful kindom. This is done by finding
a lair, breeding, and recruiting other goblins to your tribe. As a
general rule, goblin soveigns tend to be very teritorial. A goblin
lair will be protected by a creature, which varies depending on the
goblin class. The following goblin classes are defined:
Aquatic: Habitat is underwater colonies in lakes or the great ocean.
They gain a bonus for fighting in the water and suffer a penalty
when fighting on the land. Although they could sustain underwater
activity slightly longer than average, their underwater lifestyle
is dependent on a secret cybernetic device. This device allows
them to conduct underwater breathing. There lair is usually
protected by Gator Gars.
Sand: Habitat is the desert and sand areas. They are the dwarfs of all
other goblins and tend to hide there physical features with baggy
hooded clothing. Their lair is usually boobed trapped with
quicksand. All sand goblins have the natural ability to detect
quicksand. They also will have a pit that holds sand snake
captive. As an entertainment, they enjoy throwing prisoners into
the snake pit to meet their death.
Swamp: Are never found without be accompanied by a monoclonius under
their control. Although it is extremely rare, if a monoclonius
is not in the swamp goblin lair, it can be summoned to come
immediately with their psi power. As their name suggests, their
habitat is the swamplands and they are the most powerful of all
goblins. They might not always be the strongest, but their psi
powers allow them to exceed in combat.
Minium/Maxium Trait Requirements
Soverign Struggle adapts the FUDGE trait levels and are summarized here
from lowest to highest.
Pathetic -4
Terrible -3
Poor -2
Mediocre -1
Fair 0
Good 1
Great 2
Superb 3
Legendary 4
To keep the race definition consitent, Soveriegn Struggle requires
the following traits: Charisma(Char), Intellegenct(Int), Stregnth(Str),
Thief Like Abilities(Tla), and Wealth(Wlth). You are free to add as
many as you want, but these 5 traits are the minium. These traits
have minium and maxium values which are summarized in the tables below.
Minium Trait values for different races
Race Int Str Wlth Char Tla
Green Giant -2 3 NR NR NR
Mountain Giant -1 2 NR NR NR
Mystical Giant 0 1 2 NR NR
Aquatic Goblin 2 NR NR 0 2
Sand Goblin 1 NR NR 0 2
Swamp Goblin 3 NR NR 1 NR
Maxium Trait values for different races
Race Int Str Wlth Char Tla
Green Giant 1 NR 3 1 2
Mountain Giant 1 NR 3 1 2
Mystical Giant 2 NR NR 1 2
Aquatic Goblin NR 1 2 2 2
Sand Goblin NR 1 1 2 NR
Swamp Goblin NR 0 1 NR 2
NR - No Restriction
BEASTS
Goo: It appearance looks like mud, but it is actually an intelligent
form of quicksand. It has the ability to form to a hard cement when
it victim is covered and then it slowly devours its victim using an
acid like substance.
Gator Gar: Simplest description is a combination of a fish and an
alligator. The body of a fish and the head of a gator. They
have a fierce bite and are on average 10 feet long.
Giant Musca: Giant mosquitoes and their sting can kill on impact.
If for some chance one survives the sting(bite), they ill die
due to blood lose. Since this is the Musca primary source of
food. Habitat is the swamplands/water area.
Hive-Plant: This is a plant, in which killer bees nest inside of.
The plant itself is harmless and provides excellent grub, however
on must overcome the bees.
Insect Like: These are mutated bugs which gain characteristic of
humans. This includes size, walking erect, talking, etc...
Monoclonius - Monoclonius are 7 foot alligator that erect. However,
they have a low intelligence and are unable to speak any high level
language. Occasionally, a Monoclonius will be found in a campaign
as a NPC. These creatures are semi-aquatic and capable of breathing
underwater. The normal habitat is the swamplands, marshes. Like
the alligator, they have powerful jaws and a ferocious bite. This
bite provides is considered their most powerful attack. Another attack
that is used, they usually jump into the air ~4 feet, spinning and using
their tail as a club like weapon.
Night Crawlers: This creature is commonly called a sand snake by the
Sand Goblins. They are found in the desert and are giant worms.
They burrow through the sand and attack any moving piece of meat.
They have a tremendous mouth with very sharp teeth.
Poisonous Cactus: Like on earth, there exist cactus. However these
cactus needles contain poisonous venom. If pricked by this venom,
the victim falls prey to 5% death, 10% open wound that is subject
to disease and 85% temporary paralysis.
Purple Stone:
Sand Snake: See Night Crawlers.
Space Creature: Any non-human like creature that visits this planet.
Space Traveler: Any human like creature that visits this planet.
Swamp Thing: A mysterious creatures which dwells in the swamp lands.
This creature is one of rumors. It has never been capture and its
existence never proven.
Weapons And The Introduction To Technology
This current version does not support any so called Technology. This
term only comes into play if there is intervention with humans, since
they are an "Advanced Race." As specified before, they are not a
supported race, but may be introduced if the players or game master
wishes to.
Until so, most prehistoric weapons are supported. They include
and as you would expect are (But of course not limited to): Arrow,
Ax, Blowgun, Boomerang, Club, Dagger, Rock, Sling Shot, Spear, Sword,
and Tree Branch.
Appendix
A1: FUDGE Info and Copyright
Version: November 14, 1993
FUDGE is copyright 1992, 1993 by Steffan O'Sullivan. It may be
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