Survivor

You get by, but sometimes only just. Surviving means enduring situations that may seem unbearable. Sustaining yourself could mean you've had to harden your heart; with limited resources, even others who initially survived the apocalypse might have only put off the inevitable. But not you—you know how to find needful things among the remains of the past, you have the reflexes to avoid danger, and you have the flexibility required to prevail during the most difficult times.

You help your team survive, mainly through your expertise in scavenging for food, shelter, and useful things. You're also reasonably good in a fight, though running away (at least a little bit) from immediate danger always gives you an edge in what happens next, which could be to help an ally.

Background Options

• Your small-town life was placid until the apocalypse, but in the immediate aftermath, you were forced to make some horrifying decisions. Now you seek to atone.
• You were pressed into a raider gang until you were able to flee two months ago.
• You heard rumors of a refuge around here, but when you arrived recently, you found only bones.
• You survived the collapse holed up in a big-box store, but that's all gone because of a comrade's betrayal. Now, you hoard anything useful and find it hard to trust others.
• You emerged from a fallout shelter about a week ago when it ran out of resources.
• You were invited to join a community a few months ago, but you stole from them and fled the area instead.
• You were a before-times sheriff, but your decisions in the immediate aftermath of the disaster led to unnecessary deaths. Ashamed, you're driven to protect strangers to redeem your past failures.
• You kept a child alive for years, but they recently grew up and went their own way.

Survivor Abilities

You gain all of the following benefits:

• Able to take three more minor wounds and one more moderate wound
• Add +1 to Might Pool
• Add +2 to Speed Pool
• Add +1 to Intellect Pool
• Add +1 Edge in Pool of your choice
• Freely use light and medium weapons
• Freely use light armor
• Gain one weapon of your choice
• At tier 3 and tier 6, choose an ability from the Science Fiction Genre Abilities list

Despite My Wounds: While you have two or more moderate wounds or one major wound, you get a free reroll on one action each round (as if you had spent 1 XP). Enabler.

Enhanced Scavenging (2+ Intellect): When you roll to scavenge the postapocalyptic landscape for something useful and your roll is less than a 9, treat the roll as a 9. (This means you don't get a GM intrusion if you roll a 1.) Your enhanced effect persists until you take a ten-minute or longer recovery.

Effort: Increase the minimum number rolled for this ability by 3.

At tier 3, the minimum number rolled for this ability increases to 12. Enabler.

Get Out: If you move at least an immediate distance away from the most obvious threat or toward what promises to offer safety, one task you attempt next round is eased. Enabler.

Survivor Equipment Bundle

Choose the following equipment bundle to quickly outfit your character, or assemble your own starting equipment.

A medium rifle (with 10 bullets), appropriate clothing, a flashlight (rechargeable with crank), a backpack, a sleeping bag, a bolt cutter, a first aid kit, a water filter straw, a cast-iron frying pan, a roll of duct tape, a book of matches, a manual hand drill, a crowbar, and a rusted knife. Your character also starts with currency or barter equivalent to a moderately priced item.

Part of Postapocalypse