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Gear-Focused Powers

The Viridian Practice (source context): album context for hallmark projectile-weapon anchoring and gun-monk usage.
Mother of Bullets: interfaces with ammo/replenish flow for ranged gear and anchor weapons.
Dancing in the Hail: defensive ranged-combat stance tied to equipped projectile weapons.
Ring of Lead: converts loaded/available ammo into adjacent multi-target weapon output.
Depleted Heavy Metal Rain: modifies the next anchored weapon shot and its damage profile.
Nunka’S Epidermal Sculpt: permanent body-mod effects that function as gear-adjacent defensive/utility loadout changes.
Nunka’s Weapon Morph: creates natural weapon loadout equivalents as persistent creature modifications.
Burdenbeast Modification: increases carry capacity and directly interfaces with sacks/load logistics.

Nunka’S Epidermal Sculpt Reference Table

Reference table retained for body-mods/cybernetics/mutations/vome-implants context. The modification occupies one inventory slot.

Sculpt	Effect
Leathery Hide	armor +2
Fur, Feather or Fat Insulation	cold resistant
Sweat or Radiators	heat resistant
Scales	armor +3, reduced water loss
Armored Nodules	armor +5, agility -1
Armored Plates	armor +8, agility -3
Rejuvenated	look a decade younger
Soft Skin	armor -2, look younger
Squishy	armor -5, agility +2
Vesicles	store liquids or gases, agility -1
Spines	attackers suffer 1d4 damage in close combat
Lethal Spines	attackers suffer 1d8 damage in close combat, agility -1
Webbing / Gliding Surfaces	movement bonus, agility -1
Transparent	creepy
Glowing	like a bioluminescent candle
Camouflage	bonus to hide, conceal
Slippery	bonus to grapple, escape

Gear Mechanics

VLG Available Items and Packed Items

In the Vastlands, gear has two states: available and packed.

Available means hand, belt, bandolier, sling, or otherwise ready now. It is used immediately, but still consumes a real slot even when tiny.

Packed means bundled, nested, and stowed for travel. Packed gear is efficient, not quick. Retrieving a specific packed item costs at least one action.

Backpacks are honest containers, not sorcery. They let travelers compress more small gear into practical loadout (+stones), but do not erase retrieval time under pressure. If it was not declared available before danger, rule it packed.

Pockets are smuggler craft: hidden seams and secret folds for tiny things (+soaps). On frisk, intake, or search, pocketed items stay hidden unless someone performs a targeted search.

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Weapon Mechanics

Bullets, swords, rocks, explosions, fireballs, gouges, and chokes. They hurt the body, but usually spare the soul. Civilized humans frown upon personal weapons, much to the delight of rapacious barbarians.

Weapon Features

Features can be anything, from an unusual but mundane aspect (decorated with Onion-and-Skull filigree), to exceptional (vorpal). Tables may skip self-evident features to save space (for example, all melee weapons are designed for close combat, so the melee weapons table doesn’t specify range). This list covers 40 possible weapon features.

Armor Piercing. Bonus to attack rolls against heavily armored targets.
Atrophy. Deals ability score damage.
Attune. This weapon must be attuned by investing xp and turning it into a hallmark before its special abilities can be fully utilized.
Backfiring. Harms the user on a natural 1.
Blinding. Target can’t see for one round. Critical hits may blind permanently.
Burdening. A hit imposes a burden on the target. They suffer a -1 to all subsequent rolls.
Cavalry. One-handed weapon for use with a steed. Deals double damage when charging.
Confusing. Target is confused, suffering a penalty to its actions for one round.
Burst. Unload all your ammo to deal damage in a small area. Targets can take cover and forfeit their next move for half damage. Targets already under cover take no damage if they forfeit their next move.
Clumsy. Penalty to attack rolls, obviously.
Concealed. Easy to hide.
Corrupting. The target saves or suffers a mutation.
Deathly. Has a save or die or similar terminal effect.
Entangling. Target saves or is immobilized. Getting free takes some work.
Fantascience (fantastic). Gifts of the Logos unbound; use charisma for their attack rolls.
Fearsome. Makes animals howl in fear and forces humans to roll a morale test.
Frag. Its epic energies make slain enemies explode and deal 1d6 damage in a small area.
Glowing. The weapon glows bright as a torch.
Hands-Free. No hands required to use this weapon.
Heat. Metals glow. Flammable targets save or burn.
Intravenous. Loaded with holy or toxic liquids.
Mad. Drives its target mad and—if they are a PC—unplayable until treated or rebooted.
Mercy. This weapon ends suffering. Target suffers a penalty to death rolls.
Necrotic. Kills living tissue directly. Often toxic.
Oldtech. Found in archives and vaults, these ancient weapons use thought for their attack rolls.
Petrifying. Makes the target feel as though they have been turned to stone. Save allowed.
Psychic. Causes scars on the inside.
Radiant. Uses energy rays. May set things aflame.
Reach. Longer, so it attacks first in close combat.
Restricted. Hard to find, overpriced, often illegal. Zombies are such a thing.
Semi-Sentient. This weapon can follow simple instructions and attack on its own. Set it up on a powered swivel mount for best effect.
Silent. This weapon makes no sound.
Slow. Goes after the usual initiative order.
Slumber. Puts targets to sleep.
Subdual. Target gets a bonus to death rolls.
Throwing. Designed for throwing. Fine at short range, but suffers a penalty at longer ranges.
Two-Handed (2H). Needs two hands to use properly. Big weapons (2+ st) are usually two-handed.
Versatile. Can be used two-handed to increase its damage dice one step (1d6 → 1d8, 1d12 → 1d20), unless specified otherwise (e.g. 1d10 → 2d8).
Vital. This weapon drains the user of 1 life (or more) each time it is used.
Vorpal. Decapitating, bisecting, truncating on a natural 20 (or other specified natural roll). Turns one target into two ex-targets.

Standard Fabricated Weapon Sizes

Classic autofabers create everything to the standard six-cubit height of a truemade god-blessed human.

Category	Small	Medium	Large	Very Large
size	<1 st	1 st	2 st	3+ st
damage	1d3 or 1d4	1d6 or 1d8	1d10 or 1d12	2d8 or more
feature	concealed	one-handed	two-handed	mounted
melee	dagger	sword	polearm	divine rod
ranged	pistol	blaster	projector	autocannon

Standard Attack Ability

All weapons can be divided into melee or ranged, but within those categories there are two stranger types: oldtech are the wonders of the Long and Long Long Agos, while fantascience weapons are alien irruptions into this cosmos.

Weapon Type	Ability	Benefit
Melee	strength	no ammo
Ranged	agility	attack at a distance
Oldtech	thought	weird powers
Fantascience	charisma	mental impact

Baseline Human Scale Ranges

In scenes with more-or-less baseline humans, imperial meters (1m = 1 old yard = 2 high cubits = 3 left feet) offer a reasonable metric for visualizing the action. Using a weapon outside its range usually imposes a penalty.

Range	Close	Short	Medium	Long
meters	<2m	1–10m	5–50m	40m+
words	here	there	over there	way off over there
combat	melee	pistol, blaster	rod, projector	mortar, cannon

Area Effects

Dimension and target numbers help the referee adjudicate effects. They may adjust them to fit the situation.

Area	Single	Small	Medium	Large
circle	<1m across	1–4m across	4–16m across	16–64m across
cone	15° wide and <2m long	30° wide and 4m long	60° wide and 8m long	90° wide and 16m long
line	2m	8m	32m	128m
# targets	one	a few (~1d4-1)	some (~2d6-2)	many (~2d12-2)

Undead Immunities

There is no Ministry pamphlet for this.
No approved chart.
No clean little doctrine.

“Undead immunities” is caravan language for all the unliving ways a target refuses to be hurt properly: post-mortal stubbornness, ghost-phased bodies, old burial logic, and the hateful arithmetic of things that should have stayed dead.

So when a weapon says it ignores undead immunities, read that as a practical cruelty: if undeath changes incoming weapon damage, ignore that change. Half-damage clauses, minimum-damage clauses, critical-negation, “normal steel barely counts,” and similar corpse-privileges are bypassed.

But nothing else is magically dissolved. You still roll to hit. Defense is still Defense. Armor is still armor unless another tag says otherwise. Saves still happen. Command structures, fearlessness, maintenance chains, social/legal undead status, and other non-damage rules remain intact.

Likewise, when a weapon says full damage to ghosts or full damage to spirits, it means the blow is not thinned just because the target is half-here. It does not mean automatic hits, and it does not mean “ignore all spirit rules forever.”

In SDM+, “spirit” is a broad and unruly category: it includes Ultras and other entities that are explicitly immune to physical attacks, and it includes Astral Sea noospheric spirits. These Spirit-path characters are usually out-of-phase, difficult to strike with ordinary force, and still bound by wards, names, and noospheric rules. Keep the range. Do not flatten it into one template.

Referee touchstone: if a rule changes weapon damage because the target is undead/ghostly, this clause bypasses it. If the rule is about something else, it stands.

Field sanity checks:

Ghost Bone Axe bypasses undead damage protections and deals full damage to ghosts.
Ghost Bone Sabre deals full damage to spirits; precise clause, precise effect.

UVG Weapon Mechanics

UVG Ranges and Areas

Like The Black Hack (check it out), the UVG assumes abstract ranges and areas. Don’t worry too much about precise distances, keep combat sketchy and descriptive and fast. A weapon’s listed range is its optimal range – attacks one category beyond that range are possible, but suffer major penalties [-].

Range	Area	Dimensions	Movement
Close	Small, 1 or 2 people.	2 meters or 7 feet.	Adjacent.
Short	Medium, 2 to 8 people.	10 meters or 30 feet.	One move.
Medium	Large, 3 to 18 people.	40 meters or 120 feet.	Two moves.
Long	Massive, a crowd.	Further away. Aim carefully.	Three or more moves.

UVG Weapon size

The average weapon weighs one stone. Light weapons take less space, heavy ones more.

It wouldn’t be a pseudo-colonial-apocalyptic savanna-crawl without guns. Unless specified otherwise, weapons are one-handed.

UVG Weapon Features

Ammo: unless noted otherwise, ammo weighs one stone and costs one tenth the price of its weapon.
Blinding: if any damage dice roll maximum, the target is blinded for one round. Critical hits may blind permanently.
Burst: unload all your charges or ammo to deal damage in a small area. Targets can take cover and forfeit their next move for half damage. Targets already under cover take no damage if they forfeit their next move.
Frag: charged with epic energies beyond mortal ken. Slain enemies explode and deal 1d6 damage in a small area.
Intravenous: can be loaded with liquid toxins or holy water.
Mounted: a heavy one-handed weapon for mounted use. Does double damage when charging.
Rare and restricted: such equipment is hard to find, overpriced outside of the settlement that produces it, often controlled by some faction or powerful group and may provoke hostile reactions. Zombies are such a thing.
Reach: weapon is longer and attacks first in close combat.
Relevant stats: most ranged attacks use Agility, while melee attacks use Strength. Some weapons can use other stats.
Reload #: a weapon is out of ammo and needs to be reloaded after an attacking d20 shows the reload number or less. Reloading is an action. Skilled fighters reload for free.
Throwing: lots of weapons can be thrown, some are even made for it. Throwing a weapon at a nearby or close target is fine, but the attacker is at a disadvantage against far-off enemies.
Two-Handed: it’s big. Needs two hands (2H) to use properly.
Versatile: can be used two-handed. In that case, its damage dice increase one step (1d6 becomes 1d8, 1d12 becomes 1d20).

Armor Mechanics

Shells, carapaces, plates, harnesses, mails, masks, helms, force fields. Armors protect the soft flesh of the human mollusc against the terrible world. The civilized mock the ferals who go about in fur, with little faith in the guardian angel phylakes who block all harm. The outlanders suspect the divine guardians may be unreliable.

Armor Features

All armors have features, just like weapons. Here are some possibilities:

Bulky. Cumbersome. Hampers stealth and agility.
Bulletproof. Grants resistance against high-velocity kinetic attacks. That means half damage.
Camo [Lion]. Like that scaly, color-changing lion of legend, this armor adjusts itself to help you hide.
Cool. Looks good in the sun, but a thermal blanket is recommended at night because it gets chilly.
Enviro[nmental]. Grants resistance (half damage) to acid, toxins, and dehydration—often with hazmat runes and breathing implants.
Flare #. Dissipate damage in excess of the flare number. Good against one attack per round.
Hot. Good in winter, terrible in muggy summers. After exertion, you may well need some rest.
Interfacing. Allows direct neural control of secondary systems, such as artillery or colossal golems.
Intra[venous]. Inject potions as a free action. Doff the armor slowly and carefully.
Large. The armor is large enough that you will struggle with normal human doors and rooms.
Living. It’s alive. Feed it and it repair itself.
Lucent. Clear enough to let light and some attack beams through.
Mirror. Half damage from rays and beams.
Oldtech. A valuable status symbol, not fabricated in these later times.
Pocket #. A secret pocket, that is. Hides # soaps.
Powered. Spiritual engines power golem muscles. Armor gains a replenish score and a burn effect. Unpowered: penalty to physical activities.
Sunder. The kind of shield you can allow to be destroyed to negate one attack.
Spiked. Unarmed attackers suffer 1d3 damage.
Stylish. Reveals you as a person of taste. Can be worn in civilian settings without raised eyebrows.
Weapon. Also serves as a weapon.

Standard Fabricated Armor Sizes

Modern humans prefer 4 cubit armor, even 2.5 cubit armor in the Orange Lands, but the self-willed fabricators refuse to change their blue prince designs, so artisans usually have to adjust every new-fab suit of armor.

Category	Small	Light	Medium	Heavy	Golem
size	<1 st	1 st	2 st	3 st	4+ st
armors	bracers	shield, linen	amber, chitin	porcelain, chain	automato
bonus	1–2	1–3	2–6	3–9	4–12

Related item tables: VLG Armors, WARDS, SALVAGABLE ARMOR!, WHAT DO THESE SYMBOLS MEAN?.

UVG Armor Mechanics

UVG Armor Bonus

The defensive bonus armor provides, assuming an ascending armor class. A simple defense score = 7 + Agility (or Dexterity) + Armor (+ Skill, optional). (Note: All characters in the UVG book are ‘skilled in Defense’, and have 7 + 3 = 10 Base Defense.)

UVG Armor Features

Cool: Looks good in a hot environment, but a thermal blanket is recommended at night because it gets chilly.
Cumbersome: Stealthy and nimble activities are more difficult in this armor.
Environmental: Magically provides advantage ([+]) to tests against environmental effects like acid, toxic clouds and dying of thirst. Often with magical hazmat runes or post-mechanical breathing implants.
Hot: Good in winter, but sucks in hot environments. After exertion, such as a battle, the hero needs a rest and water. Without such a breather, the hero may become fatigued.
Intravenous: Set up to inject a potion directly into the body with a free action.
Powered #: Uses a magical source of energy, be it solar prayers, thermonuclear batteries, blood sacrifice or something else. Armor has # charges and loses a charge after every combat or significant exertion. The wearer can also spend a charge to boost their combat prowess. A spare power source and automagical recharging cradle (or prayer altar) takes a whole sack and costs €500. See Fuel, Power, and Supplies.
Size: As a rule, ordinary shields and light armors take one stone, medium armors take two stones, and heavy armors take three.

Wards Mechanics

Scarabs, necklaces, glasses, shawls, tomes, gems, scrolls, pectorals, amulets, bags, cloaks, caps, circlets, loincloths, and other relics coupling Long Ago oldtech and postmodern fantascience to protect from metaphysical harm. Anyone afraid of curses, charms, nocturnal terrors, mental necroscopy, ill fate, daemons of self-loathing, ghosts of doubt, mere misery or other uncommon psycho-spiritual assault would do well to kit themselves out with suitable wards.

Ward Features

All wards have features besides providing a bonus to saving throws. They may also have some armor features.

Album. Holds 1d4+1 powers. Efficient storage!
Antimagic. Spend 1d6+1 life to nullify an effect (save).
Armor. Also serves as armor.
Auto. Moves around. Claims to be alive.
Booster. Adds ward bonus to another item or effect.
Corpsefed. Double bonus for an hour after it eats.
Cramping. Penalty to defense. Usually -1.
Deathlike. Makes you look undead.
Emplaced. Set up to generate a small warding aura.
Heretical. Blasphemous technology. Don’t get caught with it. Makes authorities hostile.
Implant. Attaches to your body. 1 life to remove.
Jade. Grants ward bonus against ghosts and spirits.
[Limited] Land. Only works in one region.
Spell Eater. Spend 1d4+1 life to capture a spell targeting you (save). Using it later takes an action.
Scary. Applies ward bonus to foes’ morale.
Stealthy. Makes you more silent and sneaky.
Undreaming. Spend 1d4 life to look past illusions.
Vessel. Can carry up to a dozen drinkable doses.
Watchful. Keeps an eye on you. Like an alarm.
Weapon. Also serves as a weapon.

Standard Found Wards

Modern wards tend towards the jury-rigged pectoral, poorly inscribed amulet, or repurposed soul battery. The wards of Long Ago are available with more varieties, powers, and features. Some even move and talk and say they are alive.

Category	Trinket	Wearable	Portable	Bulky
size	<1 st	1 st	1–2 st	3+ st
wards	scarab	circlet	pectoral	homunculo
bonus	1–5	1–5	2–7	3–9

Ward Compatibility Error

Stacking identical wards or wearing them on a single body part causes a psycho-spiritual error. Roll d20 + aura.

d20	Initial Effect	d20	Ongoing Effect (if stacked)
1–4	Suffer corruption and one ward is destroyed.	1–4	After a week, suffer corruption.
5–8	Suffer corruption or one ward is destroyed.	5–8	After a week, one ward is destroyed.
9–12	One ward ceases to work for a week.	9–12	After a week, one ward falls off.
13–16	One ward falls off, repelled by a strange force.	13–16	Both wards continue to function as initially.
17–20	One ward provides its bonus and nothing else.	17–20	After a day, gain +1 to an ability while wearing both.
21+	Both wards work as expected.	21+	After a day, the two wards merge into one.

Wards in Autonomous Mode

The ward bonus translates into level, life, and other attributes. Sentience module recommended to avoid void-ghost personalities. The ritual to heal a ward takes a week and transfers your life force 1-to-1.

Ward Bonus	Level (L)	Life	Mor	Def	Bonus	Dmg	Mood
+1 to +2	1d4	L × 2	6	1d4 + 7	L + 3	L × 1d4*	Twitching, dazed and confused.
+3 to +5	1d6	L × 4	7	1d6 + 8	L + 5	L × 1d4*	Gibbering, hungry for destruction.
+6 to +7	1d8	L × 6	8	1d8 + 9	L + 7	L × 1d4*	Cold, harsh, thirsting for salvation.
+8 to +10	1d10	L × 8	9	1d10 + 10	L + 9	L × 1d4*	Yellow tangerine ray fracture ERROR.

Cybernetics Mechanics

Implants & Prosthetics

Cybernetics include implants and prosthetics that integrate oldtech, biomancy, golem systems, or vomish source code into a living or living-adjacent body.

Implant Varieties

Biomantic: Sculpted from the user’s own flesh. Each such implant reduces Life by 1. Can only be used by organics.
Golem: The finest of implants draw their energy from the stars.
Oldtech: Cannot be modified without Long Long Ago tools.
Psychic: Modulates a creature’s aura, invisible to the naked eye.
Vampiric: Inoperable unless fed 1 Life per week.
Vomish: Extracted from a vome. These implants require a life-long regimen of healing rituals, prayers, and mech-suppressants (€5/week/implant) to avoid the corruption inherent in the bug-ridden vomish source code.

Integrated

Any active implant occupies one trait slot, not item slots.

Related item tables: Implants & Prosthetics.

Custom Combat Gear Mechanics

Each item can support a number of upgrades or customizations equal to its level plus one. This is convenient, since most weapon or armor fresh out of its fabricator has no levels (that is, its level is 0).

To customize an item further, characters level it up by investing experience and turning it into a hallmark item. Some treasured items (what simple types might call ‘magic’ items) are effectively the hallmarks of heroes or civilizations long gone and already have levels—upgrading them further is thus more expensive.

Lvl	+Level XP	+New Trait XP	Combined XP	Mods	Hallmark
0	0	0	0	1	-
1	150	150	300	2	personal
2	380	380	760	3	calibrated
3	750	750	1,500	4	bound
4	1,500	1,500	3,000	5	imbued
5	3,000	3,000	6,000	6	quickened
6	6,250	6,250	12,500	7	resonant
7	12,500	12,500	25,000	8	awakened
8	25,000	25,000	50,000	9	ascended
9	50,000	50,000	100,000	10	transcended

Alignment note: this table is aligned to canonical OGA/Quickstart item-upgrade costs in Golden Age Item Upgrading (Lvl/Roll/Dmg/Armor/Ward/Trait Table), using separate tracks for +Level and +Trait.

Mod-sourcing note: the +New Trait XP track can be substituted in play by discovering, acquiring, or fabricating equivalent mods/upgrades through the fiction, with referee approval.

Upgrading an item may require materials, fees, skilled labor, traditional rituals, or hardcoded daemons who demand cash to unlock features.

Final costs are somewhat liable to the referee’s discretion.

customization cost = mod cost × total number of upgrades or item base cost if higher than above

Some mods are repeatable ( R ). Long Ago treasures and rare fabricators may provide access to level 0 items with inherent mods.

Related item tables: CUSTOM COMBAT GEAR, Weapon Mods, Armor and Ward Mods, WEAPONS, ARMORS, WARDS.

Vehicle and Mount Mechanics

When your feet won’t do, when you’re weary and the road goes ever on and on, few things are as satisfying as the bell of the ancient bus, the mechanical servant of the human settlements, programmed to transport. Well, a private golem cruiser or even a bicycle may be more satisfying, to be honest.

Ride Features

Your friendly transportation, logistics, and combat solutions have many possibilities:

All-Terrain. Designed to overcome obstacles, grants a bonus in mud and snow. May consume more fuel.
Atom. Converts matter into energy, like a sun.
Cart. Lets your steed pull triple its normal capacity.
Coalem. False golem that eats compressed and fossilized biomatter. Some have converted themselves to eat other types of biomatter: oil, wood, carcasses, flesh, even blood.
Combat. Designed for combat. No penalties on its riders in combat, may even grant bonuses.
Dark. This ride is not on any books. Its jewel is clouded. It is invisible to local gods and daemons.
Sled. Lets your steed pull double its normal capacity. May include stretchers, ropes, rollers or skids.
Flying. Dangerous in the west because of the mind-rotting Purple Haze and the razor stuckforce shards littering the sky. In civilized lands, painted statoliths and flags mark safe routes.
Fuel. High-energy juices refined from biomass by biomagical-eating vat animalcules or domesticated autofacs. Some communities even refine their dead.
Golem. True golem vehicles use near-inexhaustible radiothermal batteries. Each lasts for decades. Popular target for thieves.
Grazer. Eats plants. In deserts, consumes a sack of supplies per week. Desert-adapted rides only consume half.
Pneuma[vore]. A soul-eater. One human soul powers even the largest vehicle or mount for a year.
Semi-Sentient. There is something of a brain in this ride. It can steer itself and follow simple orders.
Sentient. This ride is at least as smart as a human. It may be unionized.
Solar. Powered by the radiation of the Green Sun or other solar stars. May be keyed to a specific sun.
Vital. Drains its user’s life force for motion.
Undead. This ride is powered by eldritch powers. It requires no upkeep, but makes you unpopular.
Underwater. This ride goes under water—and keeps functioning. It may even resurface!
Void. Keeps occupants safe in the terrible void outside the envelope of Heaven.
Water. A watercraft. It floats.

Standard Cultivated Human Rides

As specified by the One and Eternal Garden Path (revised 3rd yellow edition), humans can use any vehicles they create by themselves, without the inputs of self-willed or builder-made fabricators. Other vehicles are traditionally restricted. Modern humans don’t quite understand what this means, but there are some standard rides found in the civil lands.

Attribute	Velocipede	Conveyance	Familiar Van	Golem Bus	Road Train
Level	0–1	1–4	2–7	4–9	7–13
Size	skeleton-sized	cow-sized	greater unicorn-sized	indricothere-sized	whale-sized
Capacity	1–2 sk	2–6 sk	4–12 sk	6–24 sk	12–48 sk
Speed	normal	slow	normal or fast	slow or normal	very slow or slow
Power	pedal	pull or push	fuel or golem	coalem or golem	atom or pneuma
Supply	1 / wk	2 / wk	3 / wk	-	-

Level and Non-Sentient Rides

Level determines the defense, life, bonus, and damage attributes of a ride. Sentient rides are treated like any creature. Non-sentient rides have more life, no morale, and lower defenses and bonuses than usual. Riders add their skill to the defense of a ride they control. Characters using the ride to attack add their skill to its bonus. The damage represents a ramming attack, unless otherwise specified. Attacking a hard target deals equal damage to the ride.

β(Lvl)	Life	Def	Bon	Dmg
0	5	7	+0	1d4
1	11	7	+1	1d6
2	18	6	+2	1d8
3	26	6	+3	1d10
4	35	5	+4	2d6
5	45	5	+5	2d6+3
6	60	5	+4	2d6+6

β(Lvl)	Life	Def	Bon	Dmg
7	80	4	+4	3d6+6
8	110	4	+3	3d6+9
9	140	4	+3	4d6+12
10	180	4	+2	5d6+15
11	230	3	+2	6d6+18
12	300	3	+1	7d6+21
13	400	3	+1	8d6+24

Size

Size matters to give a sense of scale and to help imagine how a character can interact with a ride. The precise weight in imperial kilograms is usually not required. The legendary greater unicorn weighed between 1 and 3 imperial tons and made itself go extinct to cure all of humanity’s plagues. The indricothere was a 20–30 imperial ton giraffe. Both air and water whales are beloved of the phylake angel machines and can reach 300 imperial tons.

Capacity

How much a ride carries. Listed in sacks. One sack equals one human (roughly) or 10 stones (precisely).

Overloading a ride is possible, but not smart. Make a driving or riding roll when it makes sense, or once a week.

d20	Oops	What Now
1–2	Death	Repairs cost 25–200% of purchase price (roll 1d8 x 25). Spend a day replacing the engine or reanimating the steed (if you can). Or find help.
3–6	Exhaustion	Spend 1d4 days resting and fixing up the ride. Otherwise, save or it dies at week’s end (above). Ride can’t carry cargo until it is repaired. Repairs cost 20–160% (1d8 x 20) of the purchase price.
7–10	Fracture	If you force it to carry cargo, save or it is permanently slowed at the end of the week.
11–15	Accident	Straps break. Goods spill. Fragile figurines shatter. Lotus leaf crushed. Cargo loses 10–80% of value.
16–19	Delay	Tire bursts. Horseshoe drops. Mud claws at wheels. Lose 1d4 days.
20+	All OK	Deft driving sees you through. Good thing you invested in all those caravaning and packing traits.

Speed

Speed matters for chases and races. The referee assigns bonuses to faster entities and penalties to slower ones.

Listed speeds are descriptive and relative—a horse’s speed is relative to other similar animals, an autogolem’s to other self-propelled sentient vehicles. When vastly different entities interact, for example a void skiff chasing a race horse, the referee may adjudicate the matter as no contest or require exceptional circumstances (or sacrifices) to allow a roll.

Speed	[+]/[-]	Human Baseline	Autogolem Baseline	Flyer Baseline
very slow	[-][-]	decaying zombie, broken human war engine	aerolith blimp
slow	[-]	skeleton, overburdened human	crawler bus	skyship
normal	0	healthy hiking human	road cruiser	flapper
fast	[+]	horse, hound, centaur	warrior	wicker hollowgolem
very fast	[+][+]	metal steed	racing rocketgolem	airjet

Power and Supply

Different rides may consume different types of supplies (fuel, food, souls). Quantities are in sacks per week.

Vehicle Mods and Upgrades Mechanics

Each ride can support a number of upgrades or customizations equal to its level plus one. A mod’s cost represents work, rituals, fees, material, taxes, and other unexpected issues. Some mod costs scale with the ride’s size (capacity). Weapons add attacks, but may require a dedicated gunner if the ride is not sentient (and possibly multi-brained). Many mods have additional effects: filling up capacity, increasing fuel use, or modifying other attributes.

Related item tables: Vehicle Mods and Upgrades, UVG Transport Fixes & Features.

UVG Vehicles & Mounts

Energy
Most vehicles burn synthetic fuel. Traditionally, this is refined from biomass with the use of biomagical eating animalcules and alchemical vats, or with a domesticated autofac. Some remote communities even refine their dead into energy.

Low-Q Diesolene, “Ole Belcher”, costs €10 per sack and produces hot, iridescent smoke. Adds the “smoke” tag to a caravan.
Premium Guzzolene costs €20 per sack.
Oldtech Jetolene costs €50 per sack and adds the “fast” tag to a caravan. It burns white-hot and may explode engines.
See Fuel, Power, and Supplies.

Carting
Wheels are great. A creature can pull triple its normal capacity. A creature pulling one load can’t also carry a second load. Just no.

Dragging
Using improvised stretchers, ropes, rollers or skids, a creature can pull double its normal capacity.

Flying
Not a good idea because of the Purple Haze, which rots human minds. At least, that’s what natives say. Also, there are fragments of stuckforce littering the sky, an invisible cutting hazard.

Golem
Golem vehicles use near-inexhaustible radiothermal batteries. Each lasts for decades. They are popular targets for thieves.

Grazing
Herbivores usually eat grass and other plants. In deserts, they consume a sack of supplies per week. Common supplies cost €2 per sack, like for humans. Camels only consume half, they’re cool.

UVG Overloading

Possible, but not smart. Moderate test once a week or something goes wrong (roll d6):

Engine dies. Lose a day replacing the engine (if you have one) or pull the vehicle to a machine shop.
Exhausted animal. Lose 1d4 days resting or a 1-in-2 chance it dies at the end of the week.
Broken axle. Lose 1d4 days to jury-rig a fix. A replacement axle costs a tenth of the vehicle’s cost.
Lamed animal. It can’t carry anything for a week. Force it to carry cargo and it will be permanently crippled.
Straps break. Random cargo spills. Fragile things break.
Random cargo crushed, loses half value. Badly packed, the fragile black light lotus leaf is now just so much powder.

UVG Upgrading Vehicles and Mounts

Customization is the name of the game. Smaller upgrades can be purchased for larger vehicles and creatures at double the cost. Some upgrades might not make sense at the referee’s discretion.

UVG Transport Fixes & Features

Vehicle Features

d20	Brands of Long Long Ago	Dubious Features
1	Macaroni Integrale	Self-threading caps
2	Atomkraftwagen	Anti-tampering engine configuration
3	Spitz-Schnauzer	Synchrotronic gearbox
4	Deus Machina	Electric transix variator
5	Olive Garden	Dilithium superfluid compressors
6	Singer Metal Humans	Dante’s Gate propulsion unit
7	Void Y	Microhydraulic homeostatic brain
8	<=5H1N3=>	Inhalator body air scoops
9	Vanta-Chouette	Anti-rapture heartbeat sensors
10	AXE Vehicle Lubricants	Nine-axis suspension struts
11	Podzol Kozmos	Swivel bucket seats
12	Vega Utopia Industries	Gyroscopic auto-leveler
13	Barca Real ESL	Automatic anti-crash foam nozzles
14	Omnisentience UI	Extruded poly-chromium trim
15	Langmorgen KNVX	Telepathic key systems
16	Three Ritual	Extensible omniadaptors
17	Aquarius	Trained underbody rust slimes
18	Maya Yuga	Mercurial dimagnetic levitation bearings
19	Feltz & Filtz	Ghost-bone dry-clutch
20	Sombrero Corporation	Hydrophobic faux-fur seat covers

Vehicle Trouble

d20	What Broke?	How Do We Fix It?
1	Sparkulators clogged.	Take ‘em out & file them.
2	Lightning whirler isn’t whirling.	Squint and twiddle some screws.
3	Fuel tube burst.	Run a new one.
4	Brakes gone.	It’ll probably be fine.
5	Flat tire.	Get the tools, patch ‘n’ swap.
6	Radumilator blown.	Keep adding fluids on the go.
7	Fuel pump seized.	Probably need a new one.
8	Won’t hold pressure.	Time for bubblegum welding.
9	Carbassimilator stuck.	Hit it with a wrench.
10	Wheel bearings locked up.	Grease and hammer.
11	Threw a belt.	Find something long & stretchy.
12	Radiothermals leaking.	Duct tape time.
13	Confuser unit ERROR.	Diagnosticator red button time.
14	Transmission goes “clunk”.	Take the whole thing off.
15	It goes “grrtschuktuktuk.”	Don’t use that gear.
16	Thorbox won’t charge the battery.	Replace it. Maybe with a Zeusbox.
17	Omnibattery won’t hold a charge.	Chemical ritual time.
18	No dead dinosaur juice.	Get more juice. Add more juice.
19	Hole in the metal-fragment shield.	Patch it, add liquid, pray.
20	Piston went to space.	Needs a full rebuild.

Animal (or Human) Trouble

d20	What’s the Matter?	How Do We Fix It?
1	Threw a shoe.	New shoe (and maybe a farrier).
2	Perambulator tendon pulled.	Long rest and light duties.
3	Infected spottle-fly bites.	Apply soothing Liger balm daily.
4	Runny yellows from bad water.	Antidiarrheals and extra water.
5	Noxious flatulence.	Regular bleeding. Leeches?
6	Secondary head growth.	Surgical decapitation.
7	Sprained primary foot joint.	Rest, compression, pain killers.
8	Gangrenous amoeboid cyst.	Limb amputation. Or antibiotics.
9	Broken walker appendage.	Needs a new leg.
10	Infectious omnivampirism.	Daily blood rations. Or a stake.
11	Eye fell out.	A fresh optic seed. Or a patch.
12	Bullet hole out of nowhere.	Duck and cover! Then bandage.
13	Sudden philosophical bent.	Teach them to keep a journal.
14	Intense and constant hunger.	Extra rations. De-worming pills.
15	Hair loss and vomiting.	Anti-radiation medicine.
16	Tremors and loss of motor control.	Please visit a neuromancer.
17	Dryland flu.	Anti-virals and quarantine.
18	Vivid hallucinations.	Dark glasses?
19	Creeping, cosmic ennui.	Hide the pain, Kharold.
20	Freak cosmic ray mind wipe.	Needs a new personality.

SDM Gear Index

VASTLANDS GUIDEBOOK

This world is not like that of Old Soil, with its wild west feudalism and deep-delving gong-farmers. Sufficiently advanced technology indistinguishable from magic abounds, if unevenly distributed. The modern human knows that wonders exist, though few can pretend to understand them. Too much knowledge exists even for the hive minds and synthetic intelligences, and more has been forgotten.

What is magic? What mundane? That distinction is impractical. Somewhere in these vast lands nearly every item the human may dream up must already exist. Thus, to list all possible equipment… hubris!

Yet, some useful things for the traveler, for the voyager into the vast beyond the edge of civilization? That, yes, let us list that.

COMBAT GEAR

WEAPONS

Melee Weapons

Melee Weapons

By wrench and machete, the shadowed jungles of lost times must part.

d8 Traditional Melee Weapons Features Dmg Size Cost

1 Shiv — A sharpened butter spork. conceal 1d3 2 sp €0

2 Battle Stick — Hardwood for hard knocks. str or agi 1d4 1 st €1

3 Spear — A blade on a stick. Combines well with shields and other spear bearers. versatile, throwing 1d6 / 1d8 1 st €2

4 Burdenbeast Whip — Can be used to swing. str or agi, reach 1d4 1 st €3

5 Machete — The blade that overthrew the void tunnel jungle and opened a passage to New Soil. chops wood 1d6 1 st €3

6 Wrench Hammer — Maintainer caste tool for divine doors and holy hatches. Today, a badge of priestly office. two-handed 1d10 2 st €10

7 Gentleman’s Cane — A short sword in a cane. Perfect for traipsing down portal avenue or giving ruffians a what-ho. conceal 1d4 or 1d6 1 st €20

8 Stun Baton Wand — Spend 1 life to stun (save). Retractable. conceal 1d4 5 sp €25

d12 Melee Weapons of the Long Ago Features Dmg Size Cost

1 Access Flenser — This less-lethal phantom blade cuts layers of ego and id. Max damage: give target’s soul one direct command (save vs extreme commands). re 5, attune, oldtech, subdual 1d6 1 st €200

2 Agon Whip — Implants the target with your personality homunculus (save). Each round, each implanted personality tries to take control (aura rolls). reach, re 13, attune, fantascience, burdening 1d4 1 st €1,500

3 Arzax Lance — Ultralight energy lance. Switch off the null-field to collapse into a short rod. Stuns on natural 13. reach, cavalry 1d12* 1 st €200

4 Black City Blade — Made of obsidian and shadow and error. It whispers to you of lost histories. ignores damage resistances 1d10 1 st €300

5 Chain Sword — An elegant weapon from the time of the great reincarnation error. Decapitate on natural 20. re 2, versatile, vorpal 1d10 / 2d8 2 st €450

6 Forty-Pound Uranium Rod — Heavy metal staff for a heavy metal wizard. Stuns for 1 round on matching damage dice. 2H, slow 2d10 4 st €900

7 Ghost Bone Axe — Noödaemon bone weapons ignore undead immunities. Deals full damage to ghosts. Its disturbing nature inflicts nightmares (save) on its wielders and victims. 2H, disturbing 2d8 2 st €550

8 Noetic Blade — The onyx and ivory hilt projects a blade of pure psychic energy, slicing through mental and physical barriers. Spend 1 aura to deal triple damage. fantascience, armor piercing 1d8 1 st €500

9 Pleasure Thorn — Related to the neural whip, but more pleasant. Disables with ecstasy. Paroxysms for 1 round on a natural 7. close, re 5, oldtech 1d8 1 st €400

10 Skip Knife — Cuts through time, skips the target forward 1d6 rounds (hard save). Its mass is increased by its future anchors. re 1, fantascience 1d4 7 sp €1,250

11 Soul Siphon Spear — Whips like a cobra, drinking souls and leaving empty husks. Holds three souls. Spend one to animate it as a spear snake (L3 / 12 life) or to regain 1d6* life. 2H, attune, fantascience 2d6 1 st €3,000

12 Wire-Ghoul Hammer-Axe — A thing of undead biomachinery, overgrown with wriggling, acid-belching flagellae. Double damage to heavily-armored enemies. necrotic 1d10 1 st €750

d8	Traditional Melee Weapons	Features	Dmg	Size	Cost
1	Shiv — A sharpened butter spork.	conceal	1d3	2 sp	€0
2	Battle Stick — Hardwood for hard knocks.	str or agi	1d4	1 st	€1
3	Spear — A blade on a stick. Combines well with shields and other spear bearers.	versatile, throwing	1d6 / 1d8	1 st	€2
4	Burdenbeast Whip — Can be used to swing.	str or agi, reach	1d4	1 st	€3
5	Machete — The blade that overthrew the void tunnel jungle and opened a passage to New Soil.	chops wood	1d6	1 st	€3
6	Wrench Hammer — Maintainer caste tool for divine doors and holy hatches. Today, a badge of priestly office.	two-handed	1d10	2 st	€10
7	Gentleman’s Cane — A short sword in a cane. Perfect for traipsing down portal avenue or giving ruffians a what-ho.	conceal	1d4 or 1d6	1 st	€20
8	Stun Baton Wand — Spend 1 life to stun (save). Retractable.	conceal	1d4	5 sp	€25

d12	Melee Weapons of the Long Ago	Features	Dmg	Size	Cost
1	Access Flenser — This less-lethal phantom blade cuts layers of ego and id. Max damage: give target’s soul one direct command (save vs extreme commands).	re 5, attune, oldtech, subdual	1d6	1 st	€200
2	Agon Whip — Implants the target with your personality homunculus (save). Each round, each implanted personality tries to take control (aura rolls).	reach, re 13, attune, fantascience, burdening	1d4	1 st	€1,500
3	Arzax Lance — Ultralight energy lance. Switch off the null-field to collapse into a short rod. Stuns on natural 13.	reach, cavalry	1d12*	1 st	€200
4	Black City Blade — Made of obsidian and shadow and error. It whispers to you of lost histories.	ignores damage resistances	1d10	1 st	€300
5	Chain Sword — An elegant weapon from the time of the great reincarnation error. Decapitate on natural 20.	re 2, versatile, vorpal	1d10 / 2d8	2 st	€450
6	Forty-Pound Uranium Rod — Heavy metal staff for a heavy metal wizard. Stuns for 1 round on matching damage dice.	2H, slow	2d10	4 st	€900
7	Ghost Bone Axe — Noödaemon bone weapons ignore undead immunities. Deals full damage to ghosts. Its disturbing nature inflicts nightmares (save) on its wielders and victims.	2H, disturbing	2d8	2 st	€550
8	Noetic Blade — The onyx and ivory hilt projects a blade of pure psychic energy, slicing through mental and physical barriers. Spend 1 aura to deal triple damage.	fantascience, armor piercing	1d8	1 st	€500
9	Pleasure Thorn — Related to the neural whip, but more pleasant. Disables with ecstasy. Paroxysms for 1 round on a natural 7.	close, re 5, oldtech	1d8	1 st	€400
10	Skip Knife — Cuts through time, skips the target forward 1d6 rounds (hard save). Its mass is increased by its future anchors.	re 1, fantascience	1d4	7 sp	€1,250
11	Soul Siphon Spear — Whips like a cobra, drinking souls and leaving empty husks. Holds three souls. Spend one to animate it as a spear snake (L3 / 12 life) or to regain 1d6* life.	2H, attune, fantascience	2d6	1 st	€3,000
12	Wire-Ghoul Hammer-Axe — A thing of undead biomachinery, overgrown with wriggling, acid-belching flagellae. Double damage to heavily-armored enemies.	necrotic	1d10	1 st	€750

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book: Vastlands_Guidebook; section: EQUIPMENT > COMBAT GEAR > WEAPONS

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d6	Traditional Bows and Guns	Features	Dmg	Size	Cost
1	Bow — Recurved metalbird pinion and laminated chitin strips. Its lack of features is a feature.	med, 2H	1d6	1 st	€20
2	Crossbow — Simple, silent clocktech. Rewind after each shot.	med	1d8	1 st	€25
3	Golem Lance — Take a defunct war golem’s arm, remove the war golem, and you have an effective heat ray.	short, re 6, 2H, heat	1d10	2 st	€200
4	Inquisition Squirtgun — Originally an effective tranquilizer delivery device. Now adapted for all kinds of fluids.	short, re 5, intravenous	1d6	5 sp	€300
5	Scavenger Bolter — Rugged, tough, notoriously easy to modify. Not the most accurate, though.	med, re 10, 2H, clumsy	1d10	1 st	€100
6	Redland District Submachine Gun — The mass-produced firearm of the people. Rare outside the RLD, restricted inside.	med, re 1, 2H, burst	2d6	1 st	€500

d8	Traditional Stones and Grenades	Features	Dmg	Size	Cost
1	Stone — Man’s first weapon. May be synthetic.	—	1d3	1 st	€0
2	Bola — Corded weights to entangle a target. Popular with herders and nomads.	entangling	1d4	1 st	€1
3	Throwing Knife — The classic combat shuriken of Rustlanders, alley-dwellers, and other ne’er-do-wells.	concealed	1d4	2 sp	€1
4	Concussive — A clay pot filled with black powder. A grenade any modern artisan could make.	area S	1d6*	2 sp	€5
5	Flarestick — Fruit of the flambén tree, preserved with resin. Thrown, it bursts into bright, flaring light. As fuel, it burns for an hour with a low-heat flame.	heat	1d4	2 sp	€10
6	Flasher — A glitch-vome’s signaling eye set to St. Vitus. Causes blindness, nausea, and/or robot dancing.	area S	1d6	2 sp	€30
7	Builderbang — The holy fragmentation grenade of elder times, treasured by inquisition grenadiers.	area L	3d6*	2 sp	€250
8	Slowtime — Creates a bubble of altered spacetime that lasts several rounds. Those within (save) only act every other round. Ranged attacks through the bubble suffer a penalty.	area M, 1d3/round	1d3*/round	1 st	€450

d30	Weapons of the Time of Rats and Worm Portals	Features	Dmg	Size	Cost
1	Dusk Emitter — This convenient, pocket-sized anti-light ray wandgun emits “dusk” in a 15° cone.	med, re 3, blinding, oldtech	1d4	5 sp	€50
2	Diagnostic Wand — Demands a full summary of intent. Target’s next action takes two actions to complete.	short, re 15, attune, oldtech	1d4	5 sp	€120
3	Ego Echo Wandpistol — Reverberates thoughts and emotions, disorienting the target (save). A disoriented creature (1d6): (1) attacks itself, (2) attacks an ally, (3) sits down, (4) wanders away, (5) does what it planned, (6) pauses and gains 1d6 life.	short, re 4, attune, fantascience, psychic	1d4	5 sp	€200
4	Jetolene Igniter — A flame-thrower from the anti-anti-zombie wars. Sets hearts (and heads) afire.	short, re 15, 2H, high heat	3d6	3 st	€250
5	Transfer Gun — Originally a medical device. It transfers a burden from the user to the target (save).	short, re 5, attune, oldtech	1d8	1 st	€300
6	Radiothermal Horn — Emits hard radiation. Causes illness (hard save). Backfires on a natural 1. Works as a portable stove.	short, re 2, glowing, oldtech	2d4*	1 st	€400
7	Telempathy Blaster — Repurposed psychemedical device. Minimum damage: the target stops fighting for one round and tries to parley.	short, re 6, attune, fantascience, psychic	1d10	1 st	€600
8	Aerolith Impactor — Fires an aerolith seed reducing the target’s weight by 1 sack per hit. Effect lasts 10 minutes.	med, re 4, oldtech	1d6	1 st	€800
9	Porcelain Death Mask — Micro-rocket headset. Generates hornet-sized ammo using integrated fabricators (1d4 life to reload). Designed for polybody drones.	med, re 7, hands-free	2d6*	1 st	€1,000
10	Solipsism Shotgun — Dream a lifetime in a day! This old prayer gun is useful for putting enemies to sleep (save).	short, re 2, 2H, attune, slumber, fantascience	1d8	2 st	€1,000
11	Satrap Radiant Gun — Semi-sentient laser weapon that communicates through its crystal soul display.	long, re 7, 2H, blinding, radiant	2d12	2 st	€1,100
12	Fold-Field Array — Repurposed cracked levi drive. Reduces spatial dimensions in the target area by 50%. Targets are slowed and weakened (save). On a natural 2, one target’s skull folds in on itself instead.	short, area S, re 10, oldtech	1d10*	1 st	€1,500
13	Hellfire Hand Cannon — Projects part of the target’s mind into hell. They are burdened with the fire of pain, the acid of despair, the depredation of time (save). The burden dissipates after 1d6* days.	med, re 5, 2H, attune, burdening, fantascience	1d8*	2 st	€1,500
14	Phase Handgun — Shifts the target (or a 3 cubit sphere) out of phase with normal matter for 1 round (save).	short, re 6, attune, oldtech	2d8*	1 st	€1,650
15	Reality Flense — The target glimpses the true, underlying nature of reality. On a natural 20, their mind breaks. On a natural 7, they permanently gain 1 aura.	short, re 3, attune, mad, psychic	1d6*	1 st	€1,800
16	Golem Killer — Gray-orange anti-mechanical emitter. Damage roll 13: target mech shuts down for an hour.	med, re 4, 2H, silent	2d8*	2 st	€2,000
17	Ultra Blaster — For void use, with fully shielded particle coils that function even in the subspace of the dullways.	short, re 1, blinding, radiant	3d6	5 sp	€2,000
18	Crystal Siege Rod — Disintegration ray amplifier housed in a heavily glyphed brass and brazilwood casing. A leftover from the rationalist living god wars. Breaks open doors if any die rolls a natural 6.	short, re 4, 2H, clumsy, slow ×4	1d6	3 st	€2,000
19	Lamarckian Needler — This fleshy green wandgun turns your blood into corrupting serum. Max damage: corrupted.	short, attune, vital, intravenous, corrupting	1d4*	5 sp	€2,800
20	Replacer Rod — Replaces target with an almost identical copy of themselves (save). Ever after, they feel alien to themselves.	short, re 7, atrophy, fantascience	2d4* & 1 tho	1 st	€2,900
21	Blue God Blaster — Particle of the divine, subverted and converted into a toxic array for tunnel combat.	v. short, re 7, 2H, necrotic, burst	4d8	1 st	€3,000
22	Mouth of the Void — Hear the song of the cosmos, merge with your existential dread. Adjacent creatures suffer 1d6 damage. Stops a heart on a natural 13.	short, re 4, attune, fantascience, deathly	2d10	6 sp	€3,900
23	Angelroarer — Portable solid hologram projector manifests a divine progenitor to smite unbelievers. Loud, bright, inflammatory, and terrifying.	short, re 7, 2H, fearsome, heat, subdual	3d10	2 st	€4,000
24	Eye Solar — The Hard Sun’s divine eye smites your foes with its cruel, luminous hands.	med, 2H, vital, petrifying	1d6*	2 st	€4,400
25	Gate Daemon Actuator — Once used to spin up travel gates, now it serves as a pair of gravity shears. Bisects target on a natural 13. Also, reorients gravity in a small area.	med, re 13, 2H, vorpal, oldtech	1d12	3 st	€4,500
26	Magnificent Fireball Wandpistol — Converts the dross of mortal life into balls of fire. Drains the user of 1 life per shot.	short, area S, vital, attune, oldtech	3d6	1 st	€5,000
27	Autoportal Conflux — Fires itself and its user through itself into the destination, re-materializing with a bang. Natural 13: re-materialization delay; roll d6: (1–3) 1–6 rounds later, (4–5) 10–60 minutes, (6) 1–6 hours.	long, area M, re 7, 2H, attune, slow, oldtech	6d6	2 st	€7,500
28	White City Matter Creator — This coiling, whorling device duplicates 1d6 stones of matter at range.	short, re 5, 2H, attune	1d12*	2 st	€10,000
29	Ultra Ba “Leapfrog” — Raygun and skull-cap combo that translates your personality into another body after reducing the target to 0 life.	short, re 10, 2H, attune, fantascience	1d20	2 st	€17,500
30	Mazing Crown — Rays from its labyrinth jewel cause confusion (save). Minimum damage: target falls into a bubble maze dimension for a week.	short, re 3, hands-free, attune, fantascience	2d12	1 st	€45,000

d6	Modern and Ancient Shields	Features	Armor	Size	Cost
1	Shield Mk74c — Modern wicker and pleather classic.	sunder	+2	1 st	€2
2	Strapguard — Brass and plaz strapped to your forearm.	hands-free	+1	1 st	€5
3	Field Glove — Plastic and living-wire gauntlet with a small protective field. Spend 1 life to boost defense by +1d6 until the end of the next round.	hands-free	+1	5 sp	€15
4	Blazeglass — You can shoot beam weapons through this polarized glass shield.	lucent, sunder	+3	1 st	€100
5	Void Infantry Dissipator — Towering pavise of ceramic, aerolith, and cryptic coils. Any damage over 10 dissipates harmlessly as a polychrome flare.	flare 10, sunder	+4	2 st	€500
6	Hard Light Targe — A push-button shield of force. In melee, it deals 1d4 damage and severs limbs on a natural 17.	weapon, vorpal	+3	1 st	€950

SDM Gear Table of Contents

SDM Gear Mechanics

Gear Table Template

Gear-Focused Powers

Nunka’S Epidermal Sculpt Reference Table

Gear Mechanics

VLG Available Items and Packed Items

Weapon Mechanics

Weapon Features

Standard Fabricated Weapon Sizes

Standard Attack Ability

Baseline Human Scale Ranges

Area Effects

Undead Immunities

UVG Weapon Mechanics

UVG Ranges and Areas

UVG Weapon size

UVG Weapon Features

Armor Mechanics

Armor Features

Standard Fabricated Armor Sizes

UVG Armor Mechanics

UVG Armor Bonus

UVG Armor Features

Wards Mechanics

Ward Features

Standard Found Wards

Ward Compatibility Error

Wards in Autonomous Mode

Cybernetics Mechanics

Implants & Prosthetics

Implant Varieties

Integrated

Custom Combat Gear Mechanics

Vehicle and Mount Mechanics

Ride Features

Standard Cultivated Human Rides

Level and Non-Sentient Rides

Size

Capacity

Speed

Power and Supply

Vehicle Mods and Upgrades Mechanics

UVG Vehicles & Mounts

UVG Overloading

UVG Upgrading Vehicles and Mounts

UVG Transport Fixes & Features

Vehicle Features

Vehicle Trouble

Animal (or Human) Trouble

SDM Gear Index

VASTLANDS GUIDEBOOK

COMBAT GEAR

WEAPONS

Melee Weapons

Ranged Weapons

Throwing Weapons

Terrible Ranged Weapons of the Long Ago

ARMORS

Modern and Ancient Shields

Light Armors

Medium Armors

Heavy Armors

Classic Golem Armors

Full Auto Destruction Mode

WARDS

Trinkets

Wearable Wards

Portable Wards

Bulky Wards

CUSTOM COMBAT GEAR

Weapon Mods

Armor and Ward Mods

CYBERNETICS

Prosthetics and Implants

GOODS AND SERVICES

SERVICES

What Cash Buys

One Strange Item

Selling Your Strange Item