Environmental Hazards

This section has expanded options and examples for modelling environmental hazards in your games. These are recommendations to give you an idea but it is strongly encouraged that you tweak and alter these to suit your sessions. It is advised that in a scene or encounter that you make players only test for these once per encounter or scene unless you intend it to be the primary threat.


Minimal Hazards	Effects
Mud	Movement speed reduced by 1. Complications on traversal tests result in being stuck (Piloting or Athletics test to escape). Endurance test required after 1+ hour failure causes Exhaustion. Engineering tests increase DS by 1.
Rocky	Movement speed reduced by 2. Complications break mobility equipment (repairable).
Snow	Move speed reduced by 1. +1 DS to Piloting tests. Complications cause crashes (lose d3 Armour on random segment). Unprotected beings gain Freezing. Endurance test required for on-foot traversal.
Blizzard	Move speed reduced by d6. Visibility reduced to Flash Point. Complications bury targets (free with Piloting/Athletics test).
Scorching	Endurance tests during traversal failure loses 1 Vigour. Complications cause Exhaustion (requires safe temperature to fix). Long exposure inflicts Weakened Body. Vehicle repairs take 2x longer.
Acidic	Unprotected beings take 1 Wound/traversal (Fortitude test reduces; no Vigour cost). Complications inflict Severity 1 (throat, eyes, ears, respiratory).
Sleet	Visibility reduced to AO. Complications inflict Severity 1 Eye condition. 1+ hour exposure causes Freezing.
Hailstones	Complications count as an attack: (5 Kinetic DMG, 5 ED, Heavy Weapon).
Sandstorm	Visibility Flash Point. Unprotected beings suffer Severity 1 Throat/Eye on failed Endurance tests.
Brightness	Severity 2 Eye (unprotected). +3 DS to Detect tests.
Insect Swarm	+2 DS to Detect tests. Impaired on skill tests. Attack complications = miss.

Moderate Hazards


Hazard	Effects
Avalanche	Targets hit: (10 Kinetic DMG, 8 ED, Heavy Weapon, Snare 8). Snared = Suffocating.
Rain	+1 Bonus Die to Stealth. +1 DS to Piloting.
High Winds	Targets tossed 3d6 spaces.
Flood	Targets moved 2d6 spaces. Complications break random vehicle equipment.
Tsunami	Targets suffer Crushed, Suffocating, Impaired (d6 rounds). Athletics test to move fail = swept away.
Lightning	Vehicles: Impaired. Others: (3d6 Energy DMG, 3 ED) + Exposed & Dazed.
Vacuum	Severity 1 (eyes, ears, respiratory) + Suffocating.
Explosive Decompression	d6 Severity 2 Physical Conditions + d6 Wounds.
Pyroclastic Flow	Burning, Crushed, Suffocating + (8 Explosive DMG, 8 ED).
Lava	Burning + (18 Energy DMG, 6 ED, AP-d6).
Mudslide	Crushed, Suffocating + tossed d6 spaces.
Electrocution	Electrocution Status + (7 Energy DMG, 2d6 ED).
Crush Depth	Crushed, Suffocating. After d3 rounds: all Severity 2 Physical Conditions + Bleeding Out.
Eviscerating Wind	Severity 2 Eye + (5 Kinetic DMG, 1 ED, AP-3, Hemorrhage {5}).

Extreme Hazards


Hazard	Effects
Radiation Storm	Unprotected: Severity 2 random condition per hour. Electronics gain Impaired.
Solar Flare	All electronics fail (Engineering test to repair; complications = permanent damage).
Micro-Meteor	Attack: (8 Kinetic DMG, 2 ED).
Impact	Attack: (15 Explosive DMG, 6 ED, AP-d3). Complications = Burning.
Toxic Gas	Severity 2 Respiratory per round. Complications = Unconscious.
Blaze	Burning status.visibility reduced to flash point Movement halved. (5 Energy DMG/round, 3 ED).
Inferno	Burning . (10 Energy DMG/round, 5 ED). visibilty reduced to to detect value range, suffocating status, Structures collapse in d3 rounds.
Artillery Barrage	Roll d6 players that roll a 1: (12 Explosive DMG, 10 ED, Blast 3) per round.
Nuclear Blast	Initial zone: (30 Explosive DMG, 20 ED, AP-10, rad{6}). Secondary: severity 1 eye condition and 1 random physical condition, hit by weapon with following profile (10 explosive damage, AP-d3, {conflagrate}, {rad d6)
Fusion Blast	(50 Energy DMG, 15 ED, AP-10) + burning status. Electronics destroyed.