{"id":906,"date":"2024-06-09T08:51:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T13:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=906"},"modified":"2025-09-11T07:09:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:09:20","slug":"custom-specialties-updated-twilight-2000-4e-house-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=906","title":{"rendered":"Custom Specialties II (Twilight: 2000 4e House Rules)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A while ago, I posted a few of the custom specialties<\/a> I’ve thrown together for Kaserne on the Borderlands<\/a>. Since then, I’ve added a few more at player request – or because it seemed like a good idea at the time. Here’s the most recent full list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Battle Planner (Command)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Roll Command when you spend a shift or more planning your unit’s actions in an upcoming combat. You get a +1 modifier for each of the following factors that is decisively in your team’s favor, and a -1 modifier (or greater, at the referee’s discretion) for each one that’s decisively stacked against your team: numbers, troop quality, equipment, terrain, weather, intelligence, surprise. During the planned combat and while generally following your plan, each member of your unit may completely re-roll a number of their own rolls equal to the number of successes you received on your Command roll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fireteam Leader (Command)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Roll Command as a fast action. If you succeed, choose one PC or allied NPC per success who can hear your voice. Each target immediately becomes unsuppressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Folklorist (Persuasion)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When you encounter a phenomenon that appears to be of supernatural origin, roll Persuasion. If you succeed, the GM will tell you something about related folklore or mythology. You\u2019ll generally get more information on folklore that originated from cultures with which you share a language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Herbal Medicine (Medical Aid)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When you attempt to forage, you may choose to gather medicinal plants rather than edible ones.  If you succeed, roll 1d12 on the following table and gain one dose per success of the indicated medicine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Pain reliever<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Pain reliever<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Pain reliever<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Anesthetic, local<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Antibiotics<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Antacid<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Anti-diarrheal<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Multivitamins<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Sedative<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Stimulant, mild<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. Stimulant, mild<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. Stimulant, strong<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    [Some of these meds are also homebrewed. I\u2019ll eventually post them too.]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Insurgent Leader (Command)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Roll Command when you spend a shift or more interacting with allied NPCs. If you succeed, each affected NPC gains Unit Morale one step lower than your own (to a minimum of D6) while within 5 hexes of you. In abstract mass combat, while within voice or visual range of you, each affected NPC gains one step of troop quality, to a maximum of D12. These effects last for one day per success you rolled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Jerry-Rig (Tech)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Gives a +1 bonus to Survival when scrounging for parts and a +1 bonus to Tech when repairing or improvising construction of simple machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    [We\u2019re currently monitoring this one to see if it\u2019s too powerful.]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Medical Examiner (Medical Aid)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Roll Medical Aid when you spend a stretch or more examining a dead body.  If you succeed, the Referee should give you some useful information about what happened to your subject and when.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Meteorologist (Survival)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Roll Survival when you spend a stretch or more making weather observations.\u00a0 If you succeed, the Referee should tell you the upcoming weather trend for a number of days equal to the successes you rolled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Pharmacist (Medical Aid)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Gain a +1 to Tech rolls for creating medications, and to Medical Aid rolls to use medications or identify and treat poisons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Prepared Packer (Survival)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Once per session, roll Survival. If you succeed, you may declare that one common item was “in your pack all along.” Add the item to your inventory. The item may not have a weight greater than the number of successes you rolled, may not exceed your available encumbrance, and must plausibly fit inside your backpack or pockets. If you use this specialty to produce a common firearm or limited-use item, it comes with 1d3 reloads or uses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    [Some of us are Night’s Black Agents fans.]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Storyteller (Persuasion)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Once per shift, roll Persuasion when you spend a stretch (5-10 minutes) telling a moving or inspirational story. For each success, choose one audience member who may remove 1 stress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    [We\u2019re also monitoring this one to see if it\u2019s calibrated appropriately.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A while ago, I posted a few of the custom specialties I’ve thrown together for Kaserne on the Borderlands. Since then, I’ve added a few more at player request – or because it seemed like a good idea at the time. Here’s the most recent full list. Battle Planner (Command) Roll Command when you spend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,112],"tags":[12,6],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kaserne-on-the-borderlands","category-mechanics","tag-t2k","tag-t2k-4e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}