Tuesday 1 September 2020

Mothership Radiation Rules

 The name of my blog is 'Atomic Witch Coven' but I havn't made a single post about anything vaguely nuclear-related. I'm a hack and a fraud.

Adapted almost entirely from Skerple's radiation table. Make a body save at the end of
Make a body test after every interval or suffer the effects, plus the effects from less intense sources as well. Remember to follow your space OSHA protocols lads.

 
Weak                                     
Interval: 30 days
  •  Sources: Broken X-Ray machine. Unshielded habitats and spaceships. Spending time in an area irradiated years ago. Spent reactor fuel rods.
  •  Effects: Sickness, hair loss, red and patchy skin. Clears up after a few hours away from the sourc.

 

Moderate   
Interval: 5 Days
  • Sources:  Spent laser cells. Unshielded Casaba howitzer rounds. Spending time in an area recently irradiated.
  • Effects: Nausea and weakness. Disadvatantage to Body saves for 1d10 hours. Save or develop some kind of cancer, unlikely to be terminal.
  
High 
Interval: 10 Hours
  • Sources: Unshielded reactor. Corpse of the victim of Extreme or Lethal radiation. Geiger shamblers.
  • Effects:  1d10 damage, 1d10 Stat damage, blind for 1d10 hours, Body save or permenantly sterile and develop terminal cancer. Disadvantage to Body, Strength and Speed Saves/checks for 1d5 weeks.

 

Extreme
Interval: 1 Hour
  • Sources: Nuclear weapon casing fragments. Reactor meltdown. Unstable warp core. Nuclear airburst.
  • Effects: 1d10 damage, 2d10 Stat damage, blind for d5 weeks, sterile. Immediate medical attention required or death in 1d10 rounds as your stomach acid melts your organs.

 

Lethal
Interval: 1 Round 
  • Sources: Radiation Spectre. Pulsar star. Direct hit from a ships particle beam. Jump drive meltdown.
  • Effects: Horrific, painful death over the next 1d10 rounds. Fear save from all nearby or 1d10 stress.
     

 

2 comments:

  1. I will note that if a Casaba Howitzer, or any other nuclear warhead, is releasing noticeable significant amounts of radiation, then something has gone very wrong.

    The warheads contain plutonium or uranium. They are radioactive, but that level of activity is very low. Far more dangerous are the 'hot' isotopes used in RTGs, or spent fuel coming out of a reactor. Material sitting in a warhead? It is stable and safe.

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    1. yeah as you can see I'm not very good at science haha

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