https://www.matrix.curufea.com/ 2026-04-08T06:02:03+00:00 https://www.matrix.curufea.com/ https://www.matrix.curufea.com/lib/tpl/20cones/images/favicon.ico text/html 2023-06-30T02:17:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:aappearance&rev=1688116627&do=diff ALIEN APPEARANCE Prerequisite: Alien While many aliens can pass for human under some circumstances (or low lighting), the character with this trait will have an obviously alien appearance. It could be that they’re basically human but green, or have a large head to accommodate their massive brain power, or pointy ears, or obviously reptilian features. Players should feel free to be creative. This trait could also be taken by a human whose physical form has been altered by mutation or experiment… text/html 2023-07-02T18:52:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:abduction&rev=1688349169&do=diff ABDUCTION BEAM Ships with an Abduction Beam are able to pick up items and transport them aboard without having to land first. Characters wishing to use the Beam must make a successful Coordination + Transport roll, with the Difficulty determined by the size, weight, and speed of the item they’re trying to pick up. See the table on the following page for some suggested difficulty ratings. text/html 2023-06-29T22:55:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:ablative&rev=1688104535&do=diff ABLATIVE The protection offered by the armour weakens with every hit. Effect After the Gadget or its wearer has been damaged, any armour is decreased by 1. trait:bad level:minor object:gadgets text/html 2023-06-30T01:31:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:aburrowing&rev=1688113872&do=diff BURROWING Prerequisite: Alien A rare ability in sentient species, this Trait allows the creature to tunnel or burrow at speed through soft ground, usually dirt, mud or sand. The alien will require an alternate means of breathing (see Environmental Trait overleaf) to avoid suffocating while tunnelling but this Trait allows the creature to move at half of their normal Speed underground. They will have to avoid obstacles such as concrete or hard ground and most creatures like this will have some … text/html 2023-07-02T18:56:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:achilles&rev=1688349369&do=diff ACHILLES HEEL An item with this trait has a weakness a skilled attacker can exploit. By increasing the Difficulty needed to hit the target by 2, an attacker can ignore the target’s armour, if any. object:spaceship text/html 2023-06-29T22:18:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:acidic&rev=1688102320&do=diff ACIDIC Acidic gadgets do 2/4/6 damage, but also reduce the armour of their target by the same amount. Apply the damage first, then the armour reduction. So, if you throw an acid bomb at a Dalek (Armour 10) and get a Fantastic Success, you do six damage, but then reduce the Dalek’s armour by six to 4. Your next bomb will be a lot more damaging. text/html 2023-06-30T01:17:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:additional&rev=1688113067&do=diff ADDITIONAL LIMBS* Prerequisite: Alien Many hands make light work, or so they say (though try saying that to Alexander Monro). Taking this trait means that the alien has an additional pair of limbs. This can mean arms or legs or an odd alien limb or tentacle that functions as both. Of course, taking an additional pair of limbs means that the character is usually very obviously an alien in appearance, and will automatically get the Alien Appearance Bad Trait (Minor). The Additional Limbs trait c… text/html 2023-06-30T02:24:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:advanced&rev=1688117040&do=diff ADVANCED SYSTEMS Prerequisite: Type 60+ The TARDIS has the pinnacle of Gallifreyan (or possibly alien) technology installed to streamline its function. Effect This Trait adds a +2 bonus to any TARDIS operation rolls. This reduces the TARDIS’ Story Point total by 2. text/html 2023-06-27T00:04:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:adversary&rev=1687849497&do=diff ADVERSARY* The Doctor has made many enemies in his travels, but a few of them recur enough to warrant a whole trait to themselves. The Adversary trait means that the character has made an enemy in the past who is actively trying to hinder them whenever possible. The key word here is ‘actively’. For example, the Daleks have gone to great lengths to battle the Doctor, chasing him through time and space, laying traps, and even luring him to WWII London to trick him into aiding the rebirth of their… text/html 2023-06-30T01:35:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:afast&rev=1688114125&do=diff FAST Prerequisite: Alien Some aliens are very fast and move with a quickness that is seldom seen in humans. It could be that they’re born predators, fast like an Earth cheetah, or they have some unearthly ability to move so fast that they are no more than a blur to the naked eye. text/html 2023-06-25T20:23:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:agent&rev=1687749817&do=diff AGENT OF SCOTLAND YARD You have a few contacts at New Scotland Yard, the new home of the Metropolitan Police, or you do work for them on the side. You may have particular knowledge they have found useful, or perhaps they somehow owe you a favour. Either way, you have a certain degree of access not usually granted to the public. text/html 2023-07-02T18:56:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:agile&rev=1688349390&do=diff AGILE This vehicle is quick and easy to pilot and grants a +2 bonus to any manoeuvres made with it. object:spaceship text/html 2023-06-30T01:49:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:ainvisible&rev=1688114951&do=diff INVISIBLE Prerequisite: Alien The ability to be unseen is possibly one of the best weapons and defence on the battlefield. It is an ability seldom seen (pardon the pun) naturally occurring in aliens but a mild version of this Trait can be accomplished with shifting pigments in the skin, allowing chameleon-like blending into their surroundings. Full invisibility is more commonly found in advanced technology, such as the optical camouflage developed by the Sontarans, or in ghostly, intangible cr… text/html 2023-07-02T18:57:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:airship&rev=1688349428&do=diff AIRSHIP This trait allows a spaceship to operate in the dangerous upper atmosphere of gas giant planets. A ship with this trait must also have propellers, granting it an air speed of 65 kph. The ship also gains the Fragile and Achilles Heel traits. text/html 2023-06-27T02:16:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:alien&rev=1687857403&do=diff ALIEN Aliens come in all shapes and sizes, but in the majority of cases these aliens are basically humanoid in shape, with certain abilities and features that set them apart. By purchasing the Alien trait, the character is of an alien race, alien to humanity, and one of the infinite varieties of lifeforms. text/html 2023-06-27T00:05:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:all&rev=1687849529&do=diff ALL TOO MUCH For all the wonder and joy of travelling in time, to say nothing of the comfort that comes from knowing your home time will always be there, sometimes the weight of the centuries is too much. Just like Peri felt when she saw the Marble Station sign, the weight of history comes crashing down on the character. Any time an adventure is set on the characters’ homeworld or somewhere the character states reminds them of their homeworld, every action is at -1 unless their life is threaten… text/html 2023-06-27T00:07:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:alover&rev=1687849629&do=diff ANIMAL LOVER The character can’t stand to see animals hurt. Effect If you stand by and do nothing when an animal is being injured or in pain, you lose Story Points. How many is up to the Gamemaster. You can still fight back to save your life, or the lives of innocents, but you must always try to find non-harmful solutions first. This might make it somewhat difficult when trying to survive in the dinosaur-infested past. text/html 2023-06-27T00:06:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:amnesia&rev=1687849570&do=diff AMNESIA Memory is a fragile thing that can easily be manipulated or lost entirely. The Amnesia trait means that some or even all of the character’s memories are missing and they have ‘holes’ in their past. These memories may return in time, with the right triggers, but for the time being there are periods in their past that they know nothing about. This could be deliberate, the result of mind-wiping technology, psychic powers or Torchwood’s amnesia drug Retcon, or due to mental or physical dama… text/html 2023-06-25T20:29:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:animal&rev=1687750141&do=diff ANIMAL FRIENDSHIP Some people just have a natural affinity for animals – creatures seem to like them for no apparent reason. Maybe they just smell friendly or give off the right signals, but animals are put at ease and may even go against their training to greet their new friend. text/html 2023-06-25T20:46:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:another&rev=1687751180&do=diff ANOTHER LIFETIME That’s the thing about rebooting the universe. Some people manage to keep their memories of another lifetime – like, say, being an Auton copy of a Roman Centurion for two thousand years. Normally, these memories are only barely there, but can emerge in time of need. text/html 2023-06-30T01:19:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:aorgans&rev=1688113184&do=diff ALIEN ORGANS Prerequisite: Alien With an alien physiology, comes alien anatomy. You may attempt to kill or harm the alien by shooting it in a certain location but it may be that their vital organs are in a completely different location, possibly not even in the alien’s body at all! text/html 2023-06-30T00:16:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:apocalyptic&rev=1688109398&do=diff Apocalyptic These traits are restricted to weapons, devices, vehicles and creatures of ancient design, god-like power and terrible purpose. text/html 2023-06-30T00:16:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:area&rev=1688109371&do=diff AREA EFFECT Prerequisite: Apocalyptic Some Gadgets can affect an entire area. This could be as small as a room or cover an entire planet! Effect For 2 points, the gadget affects a 3D6 metre radius. For every 2 points thereafter, the radius increases by a factor of 10. text/html 2023-06-27T00:07:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:argumentative&rev=1687849664&do=diff ARGUMENTATIVE Some people just think they’re right all the time, even when they’re not. Some even provoke an argument just for arguing’s sake. Characters with the Argumentative trait are like this and will argue their point of view even if it is with their teammates or with the leader of an invading alien fleet. However, they don’t start arguments all the time – that would make the character impossible to be around, but when someone contradicts their opinion or knowledge, they will actively try… text/html 2023-06-29T22:20:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:armour-piercing&rev=1688102426&do=diff ARMOUR-PIERCING Some gadgets (e.g. any weapon) may need to punch through armour in order to be effective. This trait helps reduce or eliminate the effects of armour. Some gadgets with this trait have a restriction that limits this use to particular circumstances. For example, a laser-based weapon may not pierce through reflective armour. text/html 2023-06-30T01:27:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:armour&rev=1688113672&do=diff ARMOUR* Prerequisite: Alien Armour as an Alien Trait means that the alien has ‘natural’ armour that protects it. Armour counts as ‘natural’ if it cannot be removed. For example, a Sontaran wears very heavy battle armour, but can remove it. Cybermen and Daleks are literally built into their armoured casings and the armour cannot be removed. If it’s a permanent feature (whether this is a cybernetic suit, or just very tough, leathery skin) it is an Alien Trait. text/html 2023-07-02T22:27:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:armoury&rev=1688362049&do=diff ARMOURY The base has a large and comprehensive armoury. You can get any weapons you need, from machine guns and sniper rifles to missile launchers and field artillery, as well as plenty of grenades and explosives. You’ve even got exotic weapons and ammo, like gold rounds for Cybermen and chemical sprays to drive off the Slitheen. text/html 2023-06-25T20:32:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:arrogant&rev=1687750346&do=diff ARROGANT While it doesn’t make them very easy to get along with, some individuals have a powerful confidence that allow them to deal with any situation. Effect The character gains +2 to resisting fear and feelings of hopelessness, but suffer –1 to social interactions with those they consider to be inferior. text/html 2023-06-30T00:30:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:artron&rev=1688110219&do=diff ARTRON BATTERY Prerequisite: Time Lord The Time Lord’s mind stores a larger than usual amount of Artron Energy. Effect Once per adventure, the Time Lord can gain 3 Story Points whenever their mind is invaded (as in the case of possession or a psychic duel) or they enter into a virtual mindscape like that of the Matrix. text/html 2023-06-30T01:26:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:asenses&rev=1688113573&do=diff ALIEN SENSES* Prerequisite: Alien Most of the time, simply having a really high Awareness means that your senses are particularly acute. However, some aliens have senses that go above and beyond what is considered normal. It could be that they can see infra-red or ultraviolet ends of the spectrum, they could see the eddies and flows of time, see paradoxes or simply smell their prey from a dozen rooms away. The cost of this trait could easily be offset by the Alien Appearance trait, saying that… text/html 2023-06-30T02:20:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:aslow&rev=1688116845&do=diff SLOW Prerequisite: Alien A lot of the Doctor’s adversaries are incredibly dangerous but thankfully many of them move slowly. Cybermen are walking tanks able to withstand gunfire and damage but the Doctor is quick to avoid them as they lumber from one place to the next with a slow marching stomp. text/html 2023-06-30T02:09:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:ateleport&rev=1688116154&do=diff TELEPORT Prerequisite: Alien It is rare for a creature to be able to teleport, to disappear from one location and appear in another. However, some aliens have developed the technology to do it. Some, particularly scarce creatures can do it without the means of gadgets or gizmos. If, like the Slitheen, they can teleport with a device, then it’s simply a Gadget. If they can teleport without a device, appearing wherever is necessary, like the Reapers, who appear where a paradox is evident, then t… text/html 2023-06-25T20:36:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:attractive&rev=1687750596&do=diff ATTRACTIVE For every horrible beastie the Doctor encounters, there’s a pretty face. Of course, a lot of this is subjective, and can depend upon personal taste or even species! After all, Chantho was kinda pretty for a big bug lady, even to us humans, so imagine how pretty she would be to another of the Malmooth on Malcassairo. Having the Attractive trait means the character is attractive and pleasant on the eye. text/html 2023-06-29T22:21:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:attribute&rev=1688102519&do=diff ATTRIBUTE The Gadget augments a character’s attributes, sometimes to inhuman levels. Effect The Gadget may increase one or more of the character’s attributes. The cost is 1 for each +1 the Gadget grants; a combat exoskeleton that increases Coordination and Strength by 1 each would cost 2 points, while an alien teaching helmet that boosts Ingenuity by 3 would cost 3 points. text/html 2023-06-29T22:19:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:augment&rev=1688102365&do=diff AUGMENT The gadget improves a character’s Attributes. A Minor Augmentation gives a +1 to two Attributes, while a Major Augmentation either gives a +2 to two Attributes or a +3 to one Attribute. The benefits from a Gadget can lift a character’s Attributes to inhuman levels (7+). An alien teaching helmet might boost Ingenuity, while a combat exoskeleton could increase Strength. text/html 2023-06-30T01:30:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:aura&rev=1688113807&do=diff AURA Prerequisite: Alien With the Aura Trait, the alien gives off a strange feeling that affects those near to it. Unlike the Fear Factor Trait, the feeling is not always that of danger. The aura could be a feeling of peace and calm, used as a defence, or perhaps to lull their prey into a false sense of security before the alien attacks. text/html 2023-06-30T02:12:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:avortex&rev=1688116325&do=diff VORTEX Prerequisite: Alien The Alien version of the Vortex trait costs 8 points. This high level of Vortex means the character can time travel without the need of a ship or device, literally stepping through time. Effect The Vortex trait adds +2 to any roll that involves piloting a time travel or Vortex manipulating device. Controlling the TARDIS (or other such time vessels) is so tricky to the unskilled, that it is almost impossible to actually be able to succeed at the task without having … text/html 2023-06-25T20:37:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:backup&rev=1687750668&do=diff BACK UP You have a group of people you know you can rely on. You might be a gang leader, the head of a group of paramilitaries or even a scout leader. Whoever they are, you know you can rely on their help in a time of crisis. As a Minor Good trait your group has no special skills or training, but they will do what they can. As a Major Good trait your group is not only trained but have access to decent equipment as well. It is up to you to define the group, who may or may not consider you their … text/html 2023-07-02T22:25:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:badvanced&rev=1688361927&do=diff ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY* The base has got a piece of advanced human-built technology, perhaps one that has been reverse-engineered from alien sources. Examples include the turbo-fans that keep the Valiant aloft, or the experimental teleporters of Project INDIGO. text/html 2023-07-02T22:26:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:balien&rev=1688361995&do=diff ALIEN GADGET* You’ve got a... thing. It glows, and it’s covered in weird alien symbols and strange lights. You are not sure how it works, but it sometimes comes in handy. You are under orders to study it and eventually reverse-engineer it. The gadget has a strange power or ability that is partially under your control. text/html 2023-07-02T23:10:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:bases&rev=1688364640&do=diff Traits for Bases Good Traits Bad Traits text/html 2023-07-02T19:16:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:beam&rev=1688350578&do=diff BEAM The weapon fires an energy beam. Energy beams are difficult to dodge and increase the difficulty of dodging them by +2. object:spaceship_weapon text/html 2023-06-27T02:19:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:berserker&rev=1687857558&do=diff BERSERKER Some warriors are known as Berserkers. They can enter a fighting rage; when raging, they gain a +2 bonus to Strength, but have trouble distinguishing friend from foe. trait:good level:special object:characters text/html 2023-06-29T22:23:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:bigger&rev=1688102589&do=diff BIGGER ON THE INSIDE This trait can be applied to any object with an interior space or holding area, like a bag, backpack or vehicle interior. In effect, the interior of the item is a pocket dimension of greater size than is possible for the actual volume of the object, allowing one to store vastly larger items inside, assuming they can fit through the opening. text/html 2023-06-30T00:30:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:bio-rhythmic&rev=1688110259&do=diff BIO-RHYTHMIC CONTROL Prerequisite: Time Lord The Time Lord can bio-rhythmically control all individual aspects of their bodily functions, including the their hearts rate, body temperature, etc. and can even place themselves in a self-induced coma. Effect text/html 2023-06-25T20:38:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:biochemical&rev=1687750733&do=diff BIOCHEMICAL GENIUS Some people are a dab hand with chemistry and biology and have a natural ‘feel’ for the way the two combine. Effect The character gains Areas of Expertise for the Science skill in Biology and Chemistry and may create biological or chemical ‘Gadgets’ using the Jiggery-Pokery rules, using the Science skill instead of Technology for all relevant rolls. text/html 2023-06-30T00:31:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:block&rev=1688110290&do=diff BLOCK TRANSFER SPECIALIST Prerequisite: Time Lord The Time Lord has such an intuitive grasp of Mathematics that they are one of the few beings in the universe who understand Block Transfer Computation. Besides being a walking calculator, the Time Lord is particularly adept at handling structures, like the TARDIS, which are based on the mathematical creation of physical matter. text/html 2023-06-30T00:57:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:blunt&rev=1688111847&do=diff BLUNT Prerequisite: Time Lord For some reason, the Time Lord’s mind is atypically unreceptive to telepathic stimuli. Effect The Time Lord may not take any traits related to powers of the mind, like Precognition, Psychic, Telekinesis, Telepathy or the Special version of Hypnosis. text/html 2023-06-25T20:40:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:boffin&rev=1687750835&do=diff BOFFIN Boffin is a term that originated in WWII to describe those who constantly tinkered and experimented with equipment and technology to create futuristic devices. Having the Boffin trait means that you’re a genius when it comes to tweaking with electronics and machinery to cobble together the most useful gadgets and gizmos. text/html 2023-06-27T00:08:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:book&rev=1687849699&do=diff BY THE BOOK I’m sorry, I can’t let you do that. Protocol clearly states that you must follow the correct procedure when you are opening a dialogue with a potentially hostile species. I really shouldn’t let you do that at all. Look, if you want to go that way and ignore the signs, then be my guest. I, however, will be following the arrows to the nearest escape hatch while putting on my lifejacket. text/html 2023-06-30T00:59:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:bottom&rev=1688111974&do=diff BOTTOM OF THE CLASS Prerequisite: Time Lord Although the average Time Lord is light years ahead of most other beings in education and intelligence, this particular Time Lord barely scraped by graduation. Some Time Lord’s actually fail their finals on the first go and have to wait some time before taking the test again. In some cases, the Cardinals force them to prove their academic bona fides by earning a Doctorate before allowing them to resit their exam text/html 2023-06-25T20:42:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:brave&rev=1687750923&do=diff BRAVE Facing the invading monsters, bloodthirsty aliens and the many threats that companions encounter will mean that the characters are usually fairly courageous to even get involved. However, some people are more fearless, and can stare down a Sontaran in the face without flinching or shout at the Cybermen without worrying about the imminent reprisal. text/html 2023-06-29T22:56:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:bulky&rev=1688104564&do=diff BULKY This Gadget is bigger and heavier than it should be. As a Minor Bad Trait, the Gadget can be carried by a single person, but it’s the size of a heavy rucksack. As a Major Bad Trait, the Gadget fits on the back of a truck. This Bad Trait only applies to Gadgets that you’d expect to be small. Trying to argue that your flying car is Bulky will just make the Gamemaster laugh at you, but a Sonic Screwdriver the size of a tuba is a perfect example of Bulky. text/html 2023-06-25T20:42:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:burn&rev=1687750973&do=diff BURN ESSENCE You are able to use your own physical form and energy to empower your skills and abilities. You may spend Attribute points as if they were Story Points, but no more than 2 at a time. Unfortunately you suffer the same effects as being wounded when Attributes are reduced, which heal at the normal rate. This includes reducing an Attribute to 0. text/html 2023-06-29T22:23:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:burrowing&rev=1688102628&do=diff BURROWING This Trait allows the Gadget to tunnel or burrow at speed through soft ground, usually dirt, mud or sand. Anyone using the Gadget will require an alternate means of breathing (such as the Environmental trait) to avoid suffocating while tunnelling but this trait allows the Gadget’s user to move at half of their normal Speed underground. They will have to avoid obstacles such as concrete or hard ground and most creatures like this will have some sort of Alien Sense to allow them to sens… text/html 2023-06-27T00:09:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:caregiver&rev=1687849798&do=diff CAREGIVER The character is always looking after people. It is their nature to put their own needs second, and help other people first. They find it difficult walking away from people in need, and often end up postponing their own goals for far too long. text/html 2023-06-27T20:37:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:cfailed&rev=1687923437&do=diff FAILED CYBER CONVERSION Failed Cyber Conversion is a Special Good Trait that costs 2 Character Points. The character has been through, and failed, the process of Cyber Conversion. This means they’ve retained their memories, features and torso but have had their limbs replaced with Cyberman prosthetics. These are indistinguishable from normal, provided they’re concealed, and offer the following effects: +3 to Strength -1 to Coordination -2 to Awareness +1 to Presence Also the character must make… text/html 2023-07-02T23:12:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:characters&rev=1688364733&do=diff Traits for Characters Good Traits Bad Traits text/html 2023-06-25T20:43:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:charming&rev=1687751012&do=diff CHARMING Robin Hood could probably charm his way through an entire adventure, just by smiling at the people he meets and carousing his way. Some people are naturally charming, and can make people swoon; very handy if you need to get people to do something for you, or to let you into a facility. The Charming trait reflects this additional seductive quality, and gives them an edge when trying to schmooze their way through any situation. text/html 2023-06-30T00:32:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:cia&rev=1688110354&do=diff CIA AGENT Prerequisite: Time Lord The Time Lord is currently or was formerly a member of the Celestial Intervention Agency, a shadow organization on Gallifrey, and is trained in many clandestine skills. Of course, this training comes with a price and the Time Lord will often find their TARDIS, or possibly just their body, hijacked and transported into various strange and dangerous situations whenever their superiors, or former superiors, need their services. text/html 2023-06-30T01:11:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:clairvoyance&rev=1688112679&do=diff CLAIRVOYANCE Prerequisite: Psychic A true clairvoyant has the ability to see distant locations through intense concentration as if they were actually there. In the past, this talent was found in tribal ‘seers’ and visionaries. During the Cold War this was called ‘Remote Viewing’ as teams of intelligence psychics tried to spy on distant countries to uncover secret bases and weapons. text/html 2023-06-30T01:33:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:climbing&rev=1688114005&do=diff CLIMBING Prerequisite: Alien The alien is exceptionally good at climbing. As a Minor Trait, they can climb walls particularly well, and as a Major Trait they are equally adept at clinging to the ceiling! Effect As a Minor Good Trait, Climbing means that the alien can climb up sheer and difficult surfaces. While they cannot climb surfaces without any grip, such as glass, they certainly find it easy to climb walls. They receive a +4 bonus to Coordination and Athletics rolls when climbing. text/html 2023-06-30T01:00:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:cloistered&rev=1688112015&do=diff CLOISTERED Prerequisite: Time Lord The Time Lord has never left Gallifrey, having spent their entire post-Academy career doing theoretical research, maintaining archives, repairing equipment or serving some other functionary duty, and has little or no practical experience with the creatures and technology of other worlds and time zones. text/html 2023-06-27T02:23:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:clone&rev=1687857798&do=diff CLONE Clone is a Special Good Trait costing 3 character points and 1 Story Points. The character has a clone; a perfect physical copy of themselves stored securely. If they ever die, the clone will be automatically activated and take their place. In order to make sure the clone knows everything they know, they must regularly visit the storage facility to update the clone’s memory engrams (say, between each adventure). If they don’t, then when the clone is activated, it will only have memories u… text/html 2023-06-27T00:10:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:clumsy&rev=1687849828&do=diff CLUMSY It seems as if the character is unable to keep hold of things, keeps tripping over the smallest hazard, and shouldn’t be trusted with that pocket universe suspended in a glass chamber. Effect Clumsy is a Minor Bad Trait, but it doesn’t mean the character will pratfall every five minutes. It does mean that in times of stress, especially when being chased, the player will have to make additional Awareness and Coordination rolls to avoid knocking vital things over, dropping the vial of to… text/html 2023-06-25T20:44:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:code&rev=1687751090&do=diff CODE BREAKER The character is the best there is at solving problems with a missing piece, unscrambling the letters and cracking encoded transmissions. Effect Characters with this trait gain a +2 bonus to Ingenuity + Knowledge rolls when trying to decode, decipher or translate. This trait does not grant fluency in speaking languages – that is the province of the text/html 2023-07-02T18:57:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:complicated&rev=1688349449&do=diff COMPLICATED CONTROLS The controls of the ship are so complex, that any character with a Technology Level of 7 or less suffers a -2 penalty on any attempt to operate the craft. object:spaceship text/html 2023-06-29T22:24:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:compress&rev=1688102670&do=diff COMPRESS A compression field squeezes molecules closer together, making things smaller. It’s not dimensionally transcendent – it’s a lot smellier than that! Compression fields show up in all sorts of places, from Miniscopes to the Master’s Tissue Compression Eliminator to the Teselecta justice vessel to the Molecular Nanoscaler that allowed the Doctor to go inside a Dalek. The Minor Good version of this trait is a one-way shrinking – it can make big things small, but cannot unshrink them. The M… text/html 2023-07-02T22:28:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:computing&rev=1688362105&do=diff COMPUTING POWER You’ve got access to a high-tech supercomputer and a high-speed secure internet connection. Effect This Trait provides 3 Story Points every game session that can only be spent on Technology-related rolls and related activities, like hacking into another computer system or performing some complex computer modelling to solve a problem. text/html 2023-07-02T18:57:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:concealed&rev=1688349468&do=diff CONCEALED The spaceship is easily hidden, either through clever construction or a device of some kind. Any attempts to discover it are at -2. object:spaceship text/html 2023-06-27T20:54:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:conduct&rev=1687924487&do=diff CODE OF CONDUCT The Code of Conduct trait means that the character adheres to a strict moral standing or self-imposed set of rules they follow at all times. Depending upon whether it’s a Minor or Major rait, this can be purely guidelines or a deep-seated way of life. The Doctor has a strict Major Code of Conduct, as he believes all life is precious and would even offer his hand of forgiveness and help to a Dalek or Missy. While this is listed as a Bad Trait, it doesn’t mean that having a code i… text/html 2023-06-30T01:54:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:consciousness&rev=1688115246&do=diff SYMBIOTIC CONSCIOUSNESS Prerequisite: Alien This is a variation on Possess and is the main weapon of the Deathworm Morphant see The Eighth Doctor Sourcebook, P. 29), which uses it to take over the bodies of its prey, in order to attack others while hidden. text/html 2023-06-29T22:26:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:control&rev=1688102807&do=diff CONTROL The Gadget controls other machines. This is similar to the Possess Alien Trait, but only applies to non-living things (although, at the Gamemaster’s discretion, this could apply to Robots or Cyborgs). An alien computer virus that overrides any humanbuilt firewall is a great example of a Gadget with the Control trait. text/html 2023-06-29T22:27:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:convert&rev=1688102850&do=diff CONVERT The Gadget turns something into something else. It might turn rock into mud, lead into gold, poisonous gas into breathable air and so on. Effect The Gadget can turn one type of object into another type of object (with ‘object’ being liberally interpreted). The size of the conversion field is usually about one metre in diameter, although this can be boosted with Story Points. As with Delete, most Gadgets with Convert have a restriction that doesn’t allow them to work on living flesh or… text/html 2023-06-27T00:12:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:cowardly&rev=1687849942&do=diff COWARDLY Facing those monsters, some people become nervous wrecks rather than becoming hardened to it. Cowardly is a Bad Trait reflecting the character’s lack of natural courage, and means they will usually avoid dangerous situations unless it means that staying where they are is even more life-threatening! text/html 2023-06-27T02:24:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:cplanner&rev=1687857848&do=diff CYBER-PLANNER Anyone with this trait has been converted by the Cybermen and is now one of their elite Cyber-Planners. Usually the Cyberiad targets children, but sometimes exceptional others are selected. This trait may only be taken with the Gamemaster’s approval. text/html 2023-06-25T20:48:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:crack&rev=1687751330&do=diff CRACK SHOT A special knack for hitting things from distance. They might have fired weapons for sport or just had a particular gift for accuracy, but it means that they rarely miss, and can literally shoot the wings off a giant insect mutated by chemical slime. text/html 2023-07-02T18:58:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:crew&rev=1688349516&do=diff CREW (X) The ship or weapon requires a crew to operate, the number of the crew being equal to (X). object:spaceship text/html 2023-06-25T20:49:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:cutting&rev=1687751376&do=diff CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY UNIT has access to the best technology and researchers on Earth, as well as a lot of salvaged alien gadgets. Their scientists are at the cutting edge. Effects: The character has no penalty when operating technology from one Technology Level above his home time period. Normally, a character from the present day (Technology Level 5) would have a -2 penalty when trying to use something from the 22nd century (Technology Level 6), but Cutting Edge eliminates this penalty. text/html 2023-06-27T00:13:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:cyber&rev=1687850025&do=diff CYBER-HYSTERIA The character has once been programmed by the Cybermen but managed to retain their own personality. Still, remnants of such programming often remain buried somewhere within their brain and when they lose control that programming can resurface. Having this trait does not necessarily mean that the character is a cyborg; thanks to several invasions the Cybermen have mentally controlled several humans and made them do their bidding without Cyber-conversion. Thus, this trait is equall… text/html 2023-06-27T02:25:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:cyborg&rev=1687857915&do=diff CYBORG On some high tech worlds machinery can be used to replace body parts lost due to an injury, improvement or simply old age. The character is such a merging of flesh and machine. The cybernetic part is able to act like a Gadget, but it does also mean the character could be subject to discrimination in certain parts of the galaxy, where cyborgs are regarded as second class citizens. text/html 2023-06-25T20:50:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:danger&rev=1687751459&do=diff DANGER SENSE The character has a sixth sense that alerts them to nearby danger, at least most of the time. If taken by surprise, such as an ambush, the character may spend a Story Point to negate the effects of being taken unawares. trait:good level:major object:characters text/html 2023-07-02T22:40:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:dangerous&rev=1688362829&do=diff DANGEROUS EXPERIMENTS UNIT uses (or has used) your base for an experiment involving troublesome alien technology. They might have once drilled into the Earth’s core and released poisonous gas, or weakened the dimensional barriers through out-of-control time travel experiments, or accidentally created dangerous alien hybrids. These experiments can – and will – cause problems for your base. text/html 2023-06-27T00:14:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:dark&rev=1687850084&do=diff DARK SECRET The character has a skeleton in the closet and if it’s revealed it could change the way people think about them. It could be something mundane, such as a criminal record that they’re trying to gloss over after turning their back on a life of crime. Or it could be something more extreme, that the character is actually an alien (though the Alien trait should be taken as well, or the result of some strange genetic experiments conducted by the US Government. It’s probably best to discus… text/html 2023-06-29T22:28:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:data&rev=1688102914&do=diff DATA STORAGE This device can hold almost unlimited data on one subject. The one that transformed Jackson Lake into the Doctor contained all the information acquired by the Daleks over hundreds of years. Technology Level 6. trait:good level:minor level:major object:gadgets text/html 2023-07-02T22:27:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:database&rev=1688362074&do=diff DATABASE ACCESS Your base is connected directly to the UNIT worldwide database, giving you a constantly updated feed of military movements, political events and possible alien activity across the globe. You can tap into telecommunications and secret government records. You also have access to UNIT’s exhaustive database of past encounters text/html 2023-06-30T01:00:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:dead&rev=1688112055&do=diff DEAD TARDIS Prerequisite: Time Lord The Time Lord has lost their TARDIS, through accident or violence. The shocking loss of their symbiotic partner removes two from each of their attributes and they lose Feel The Turn of the Universe as a trait. trait:bad level:major prerequisite:time_lord object:characters text/html 2023-06-30T00:34:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:decho&rev=1688110487&do=diff DARK ECHO Prerequisite: Time Lord The character is a dark, future incarnation of a Time Lord, dedicated to acquiring more life for themselves at their ‘creator’s’ expense. It costs 3 Character Points, can be bought multiple times and the character gains the following: text/html 2023-07-02T22:29:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:defence&rev=1688362143&do=diff DEFENCE SYSTEMS* Your base is equipped with high-tech defence systems designed to stop a particular sort of attack. It might have anti-aircraft missile launchers, or be surrounded by anti-tank landmines. It could even be equipped with lasers to shoot down spacecraft, or teleport jammers to stop Sontaran commandos from blipping into the middle of your HQ. text/html 2023-06-29T22:29:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:delete&rev=1688102952&do=diff DELETE This means that the Gadget can remove something from existence, almost like a one-way teleporter. It transforms the item into its component molecules, and records it. Usually, the item stored in its memory is deleted later, literally thrown into the object’s memory trash. However, it can be stored for up to an hour and reconstructed (‘digital rewind’ if you like). While the Gadget is holding the item in its memory, it cannot be used to delete something else, without ‘trashing’ the first … text/html 2023-06-27T00:16:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:dependency&rev=1687850202&do=diff DEPENDENCY Sometimes you just rely on others. It could be said that the Doctor’s companions are all dependent upon him, but there have been many times when they’ve shown that they are easily his equals, so they’re far from dependent. Having the Dependency trait means they are dependent upon something or someone to survive. Maybe this is blood like a Plasmavore or the support of others, like Lady Cassandra. The level of the trait determines how desperate they will get, and how bad the effects wi… text/html 2023-07-02T19:12:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:destruct&rev=1688350351&do=diff SELF-DESTRUCT SYSTEM This vehicle can be set to self-destruct; creating a massive explosion that obliterates the vehicle, but keeps it from falling into enemy hands. A character must spend a Story Point to activate the self destruct sequence, setting how long until the vehicle explodes. When it explodes, it causes Lethal damage with the Armour Penetration trait to everything within its undamaged Structure x 10m if of vehicle scale, or x 100m if of Spaceship Scale. text/html 2023-06-30T01:14:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:detect&rev=1688112885&do=diff DETECT TRUTH Prerequisite: Alien, Psychic or Robot You have the ability to tell if the person you are talking to is lying. This grants you a bonus of +6 when trying to determine the veracity of someone you are speaking to. It might be a psychic talent, or a built-in gadget such as a truth beam. While it is a powerful ability, it can only tell if the target believes what they are saying, and it can also be fooled by cleverly worded deceit. text/html 2023-06-25T21:01:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:devotion&rev=1687752086&do=diff DEVOTION The Character has deep and intense feelings for another character. This can inspire them to great heights of accomplishment or force them to act impulsively when the object of their devotion is threatened. Effect Once per adventure, when an action is directly related to protecting the well-being of the object of the character’s devotion or impressing them, the character may gain a single temporary Story Point which can only be used on that action. text/html 2023-06-27T02:26:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:dfactor&rev=1687857980&do=diff DALEK FACTOR The inverse Dalek Factor increases the character’s Ingenuity, Resolve and Marksman scores by 1, and gives the traits Obsession and Obligation (Serve the Daleks). Furthermore, the character gets a free Story Point every adventure that can only be spent on furthering the cause of conquering and exterminating lesser species to ensure the ultimate victory of the Daleks. Gaining the Dalek Factor costs 2 Character Points. text/html 2023-06-27T02:27:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:dhabit&rev=1687858065&do=diff DEATH HABIT Prerequisite: The character has died and come back to life somehow. Death is not always the end. There are many ways back from beyond the veil, including rewriting history and discovering it was all a dream. Once a character has crossed that marker once, they might find their relationship with death changes. It costs only 2 Character Points to purchase this trait, but the Gamemaster must approve the selection. text/html 2023-06-29T22:29:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:dimension&rev=1688102988&do=diff DIMENSION MODIFICATION The Dimension Modification trait allows a Gadget to modify the length, width, height and volume of an object to any size, large or small with little or no harm to it. The target can be made as large or small as the user likes. The effect will only last 2D6 hours unless the item is constantly trained on it and functioning. text/html 2023-06-29T22:30:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:disable&rev=1688103030&do=diff DISABLE The Disable trait stops another Gadget from working. As a Minor Good Trait the effect only works on one particular target – it might Disable a Dalek forcefield, or stop one sort of weapon from working within its area of effect. The Major Good Trait is more likely to drain the power from every Gadget nearby. Disable effects are usually temporary, but a One-Shot Disable may destroy its targets at the Gamemaster’s whim. text/html 2023-06-27T02:28:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:disembodied&rev=1687858106&do=diff DISEMBODIED HEAD The character is a living disembodied head. Unfortunately, this means they don’t have a body and aren’t up for running, playing tennis, or much of anything else. They cannot move themselves, and cannot manipulate objects except with teeth. The upside is that they’re exceptionally portable. They now fit inside a large lunch box or a bag designed for carrying a bowling ball. Also, someone can easily carry them while running. Unfortunately, that also includes someone who wants to … text/html 2023-06-25T21:01:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:disguise&rev=1687752118&do=diff DISGUISE The character gains +2 on rolls to disguise themselves. trait:good level:minor object:characters text/html 2023-07-02T19:16:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:disintegrate&rev=1688350594&do=diff DISINTEGRATE If this weapon strikes an armoured target, then 4 points of armour are permanently lost. object:spaceship_weapon text/html 2023-06-29T22:31:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:disrupt&rev=1688103065&do=diff DISRUPT When activated, the gadget scrambles the systems of the target. All rolls made using the targeted thing automatically fail, unless the operator spends 2 Story Points. This effect fades after a few hours. trait:good level:major object:gadgets text/html 2023-06-27T00:17:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:distinctive&rev=1687850261&do=diff DISTINCTIVE There is something very striking or obvious about your character that makes them stand out in the crowd. Whether they are just tall, short, have coloured hair or are striking in the way they dress or act, they get noticed and people seem to remember them. They’re not going to provoke people pointing and staring, but they’ll certainly be remembered and recognised if encountered again. This doesn’t mean ‘Alien’ in appearance – for example, if Bannakaffalatta walked around on modern Ea… text/html 2023-06-27T00:18:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:distrustful&rev=1687850289&do=diff DISTRUSTFUL The character does not trust easily. They might naturally dislike strangers or perhaps have been hunted or alone for a long time. They suffer a -2 penalty to all social rolls with any new people they meet. This penalty is only removed when the person has proved true to their word. text/html 2023-06-30T00:35:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:doctorate&rev=1688110522&do=diff DOCTORATE Prerequisite: Time Lord As Time Lords work through the academy, they have a chance to pick up certificates and Doctorates in many different academic and scientific specialties and some become renowned for their expertise in esoteric or niche subjects. text/html 2023-06-27T00:18:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:doppelganger&rev=1687850324&do=diff DOPPELGANGER The character closely resembles another person. This can cause awkwardness or even put their life in danger for being someone that they are not. Effect As a Minor Bad Trait, their assumed appearance causes a minor inconvenience or awkward situation once per adventure, as someone assumes them to be another person. As a Major Bad Trait, their assumed appearance causes a major inconvenience each session. Alternatively, the character resembles someone else’s arch rival, in which case… text/html 2023-06-29T22:56:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:draining&rev=1688104597&do=diff DRAINING The Gadget is dangerous to anyone who carries it. Unlike the Harmful trait, which injures the character when the Gadget is used, a Gadget with this trait harms the character simply for being in contact with it. Effect As a Minor Bad Trait, being in contact with the Gadget is mentally taxing. The character takes a -2 penalty on all mental actions while carrying the Gadget. text/html 2023-06-27T00:19:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:eccentric&rev=1687850371&do=diff ECCENTRIC Some people behave rather oddly. The Doctor acts in ways that baffles his companions and throws his opponents off their game, switching from excited schoolboy to dark and imposing in a moment. The Eccentric trait means the character has a behaviour that makes them stand out, or sometimes makes it more difficult when interacting with others. As a Minor Bad trait, their behaviour isn’t too upsetting. It could be an odd mannerism during times of stress, out-of-place reactions to everyday… text/html 2023-07-02T18:58:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:emergency&rev=1688349537&do=diff EMERGENCY BACKUP SYSTEM This spaceship has emergency backup systems, allowing it to continue to operate even when damaged, although at a reduced efficiency. When any of the vehicle’s attributes are reduced to 0, a Story Point can be spent to bring the emergency backups online, restoring 1 point to the damaged attribute. text/html 2023-06-25T21:10:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:empathic&rev=1687752653&do=diff EMPATHIC People naturally hide their true emotions unless they are really upset or stressed, and it takes training or a natural gift to be able to read the tiny signals that give away what they’re really thinking or feeling. Some people have an empathy with how others are feeling and can use this gift to aid them when trying to get information or to calm someone down. text/html 2023-07-02T18:59:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:energy&rev=1688349566&do=diff ENERGY DRAIN This spaceship has incredible energy needs, and its cells are drained completely when an attribute is reduced to 0, rendering the craft useless. object:spaceship text/html 2023-06-30T02:29:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:enhanced&rev=1688117367&do=diff ENHANCED SENTIENCE This TARDIS learns from its experiences and becomes increasingly more self aware. Effect Each time this Trait is taken, the TARDIS may take a +1 upgrade in either Awareness, Presence or Resolve and reduces its Story Point total by 1. It may be taken once for each of the Attributes listed above. text/html 2023-06-30T02:17:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:enslaved&rev=1688116672&do=diff ENSLAVED Prerequisite: Alien In a universe of war and hostility, there are many races that are unable to defend themselves, and suffer under the dominion of others. The Enslaved trait can mean that the alien is part of an enslaved race, such as the Ood, or even just a race that has been genetically created to serve others, such as the Pig Slaves that served the Cult of Skaro in Manhattan. text/html 2023-06-29T22:31:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:entrap&rev=1688103107&do=diff ENTRAP The Entrap trait means the Gadget is able to entangle, restrain, capture or otherwise hold a target. Entrapment is equivalent to a Stun result except it doesn’t go away after 15 minutes. Instead, it remains in place until the target is released, or until they find a way to escape. As a Minor Good Trait, escape will usually be a Difficult task. As a Major Good Trait, escape is usually an Improbable task. text/html 2023-06-30T01:34:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:environmental&rev=1688114066&do=diff ENVIRONMENTAL Prerequisite: Alien Environmental is a catch-all trait that means the alien can exist in strange or harsh environments. It could be that they are aquatic, and can exist just as well underwater as on land. They may be able to survive in the vacuum of space, endure the harsh heat of a volcanic world, the extreme cold of Volag- Noc or exist in the Vortex itself. text/html 2023-07-02T18:59:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:environmentally&rev=1688349586&do=diff ENVIRONMENTALLY SEALED The spaceship has its own self-contained environment including air supply, food, waste extraction and climate control, and as such can be used to explore otherwise unappealing areas. object:spaceship text/html 2023-06-25T21:11:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:epicurean&rev=1687752710&do=diff EPICUREAN TASTES The character has a sensitive mental and physical palette and appreciates the finer things in life, like good food, good drink, fashionable clothing and fine art. Effect The character gains a +2 bonus on any roll to judge the quality of luxury items. They also gain a +2 bonus to any roll to impress others with their sense of taste, assuming the targets are actually impressed by such things. text/html 2023-07-02T19:00:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:escape&rev=1688349628&do=diff ESCAPE PODS This spaceship has escape pods that allows the crew to exit safely in the case of its destruction. Each crew member escaping must spend a Story Point, allowing them to leave the immediate blast area of the destroyed vehicle unharmed. object:spaceship text/html 2023-06-25T21:12:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:escapology&rev=1687752742&do=diff ESCAPOLOGY TRAINING The character gains +2 on any roll to escape. trait:good level:minor object:characters text/html 2023-06-27T02:28:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:experienced&rev=1687858136&do=diff EXPERIENCED* The character creation rules are suited to companions and normal heroes. Players may find it tricky to create a character as experienced or as powerful as River Song or Captain Jack Harkness. This trait provides the character with additional Character Points and Skill Points, at the cost of Story Points. This reduction in Story Points not only applies at character creation, it also reduces the number of Story Points the character can carry over between adventures. text/html 2023-06-27T20:36:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:expert&rev=1687923376&do=diff EXPERT* The character is extremely talented or knowledgeable about a particular subject, even if they are unremarkable in related areas of that particular subject. Effect For 1 point, the character may add +2 to any roll involving a certain Area of Expertise. The character need not already have that Area of Expertise, nor do they even need to have any ranks in the appropriate skill. This bonus stacks with the appropriate skill and Area of Expertise (if chosen) and even if the character lacks … text/html 2023-06-29T22:33:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:exploit&rev=1688103213&do=diff EXPLOIT WEAKNESS The gadget exploits whatever weakness the target has, ignores all defences and inflicts damage of 4/8/12 or otherwise affects the target in the defined way. trait:good level:major object:gadgets text/html 2023-06-29T22:57:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:extra&rev=1688104641&do=diff EXTRA FINGERS Controls designed for use by one species may not be universally adaptable for everyone else to use. For example, a Dalek would have trouble operating touch-screen technology, just as a human would struggle to fly a Zygon craft. Effect text/html 2023-06-25T21:13:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:face&rev=1687752827&do=diff FACE IN THE CROWD Some people can be unremarkable in manner or appearance, or are so comfortable in foreign places and with alien creatures that they can fade into the background and not be too noticeable. This means that despite wearing something that might not be authentic to the time period, you fit in and people seem to ignore your ‘alien-ness’. text/html 2023-06-25T21:14:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:failed&rev=1687752890&do=diff FAILED MIND WIPE The character has been subjected to some sort of mind wipe at some point in their past. Unfortunately, the process was somehow incomplete or has not proved successful on the subject. Their old memories are beginning to break through. These memories begin to return in flashes and visions sparked by seemingly innocuous events. Anything might open up the character’s memories, but it will take time for them to put the pieces together. text/html 2023-06-25T21:16:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:fast&rev=1687752981&do=diff FAST HEALING The ability to recover quickly from an injury is bound to be useful in your daily attempts to fend off alien invasion. Some people simply recover quicker than others, halting the bleeding and managing to carry on. Some very special individuals can heal major injuries, even regrowing limbs, within moments! This doesn’t make them immortal (they can still be killed if they receive too much damage) but if they survive, the injuries they sustain heal themselves at a remarkable rate. text/html 2023-07-02T19:05:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:fault&rev=1688349917&do=diff FAULT LOCATOR The ship has inbuilt systems designed to pick up on any faults within its workings. Ships with this trait will alert the crew to an impending fault 2 action rounds before the effects of the fault take hold. object:spaceship text/html 2023-06-30T01:01:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:faulty&rev=1688112113&do=diff FAULTY HEART Prerequisite: Time Lord One of the Time Lord’s hearts is defective or weak and fails during moments of extreme stress or exertion, causing great pain followed by unconsciousness and, on rare occasions, regeneration. Effect During a period of great stress (as determined by the GM, but typically only once per adventure unless the character is particularly active or stressed), the Time Lord’s weak heart will suffer an attack and they must make a Strength + Resolve roll at Difficult… text/html 2023-06-30T01:36:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:fear&rev=1688114208&do=diff FEAR FACTOR* Prerequisite: Alien The Fear Factor trait is designed for monsters, and those truly scary individuals who can send people running in terror. They don’t have to be ugly or monstrous – people cowered at the Master’s feet in fear of their lives – but sometimes just looking at the alien with the mouth full of sharp fangs that fills them with fear. text/html 2023-06-27T20:39:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:feel&rev=1687923542&do=diff FEEL THE TURN OF THE UNIVERSE Not many people experience the clarity and the wonder that is feeling the whole universe. Knowing you’re just a small part in the vast, almost endless universe of planets and possibilities. It can drive some people mad, and others can sense when something is wrong. text/html 2023-07-02T19:01:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:fingers&rev=1688349668&do=diff EXTRA FINGERS Controls designed for use by one species may not be universally adaptable for everyone else to use. For example, a Dalek would have trouble operating touchscreen technology, just as a human would struggle to fly a Zygon craft. The Extra Fingers trait must specify a species, and characters of any other species suffer a -2 penalty to all rolls involving the use of this ship. text/html 2023-06-25T21:17:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:five&rev=1687753046&do=diff FIVE ROUNDS, RAPID The Brigadier’s favourite solution to any problem: “Five rounds, rapid!” Characters with this Trait have an unsettling tendency to shoot first and ask questions later, but at least they’re exceptionally good at shooting first! text/html 2023-06-30T01:38:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:flight&rev=1688114314&do=diff FLIGHT Prerequisite: Alien Flight is quite a common feature of aliens, whether it is the hovering of Daleks over the city, the flapping of leathery wings heard when the Krillitane are about to feed or the silent gliding of sharks in a crystalline cloud belt. This trait means that the alien has wings, gas bladders, jetpacks, anti-gravity devices or rotors, but one way or another they can leave the ground for extended periods. text/html 2023-06-29T22:34:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:forcefield&rev=1688103247&do=diff FORCEFIELD The Gadget can project a protective forcefield that automatically knocks any damage sustained down by a level. Damage the character or item would receive due to a Disastrous Result from the character (or a Fantastic from the attacker) is knocked down to a Bad (or Good), and a Bad to a Failure. The Major equivalent of this trait knocks the damage down by two levels. Many repeated hits might deplete the item’s Story Points until the forcefield is useless. text/html 2023-06-27T00:20:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:forgetful&rev=1687850423&do=diff FORGETFUL The character’s memory is less than reliable. It usually isn’t too drastic if they don’t remember everything on the shopping list when they’re standing in the supermarket, but if they’ve got to they’re which wire to cut to stop a bomb, or the precise words to use to halt a curse, there’s a good chance you’re going to forget and cause a disaster. text/html 2023-07-02T22:29:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:fortified&rev=1688362182&do=diff FORTIFIED This place is tough – the walls are made of hardened concrete, the doors are forged from an advanced alloy that’s much harder than steel, and the whole base is surrounded by fences and defensive earthworks. Taking it won’t be easy. Effect text/html 2023-06-29T22:59:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:fragile&rev=1688104740&do=diff FRAGILE The Gadget breaks easily. It may be made of brittle materials or the connections may be so dicey that a slight bump is all it takes to disable it. The device won’t work until it is repaired. Effect As a Minor Bad Trait, this Gadget only has a Hit Capacity of 1 point per Good Gadget Trait, rather than the 2 points normally afforded to Gadgets. text/html 2023-06-27T00:21:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:fragment&rev=1687850500&do=diff FRAGMENTS When characters are subjected to frequent mind wipes and replacement memories, eventually something slips through the cracks. The character remembers things that clearly can’t be true due to contrary memories or other evidence. Effect text/html 2023-06-30T01:39:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:frenzy&rev=1688114399&do=diff FRENZY Prerequisite: Alien Sometimes, a creature becomes so incensed with rage or bloodlust that they cannot think or act beyond attacking blindly. Creatures that go into these frenzies are incredibly dangerous and able to continue when other creatures would collapse from their wounds. text/html 2023-06-27T00:22:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:fresh&rev=1687850559&do=diff FRESH MEAT Something about the character smells good to meat-eating predators. Dinosaurs and other alien predators can’t help but want to eat them. Effect Firstly, any attempts to use Subterfuge to hide from predators suffer a -2 penalty if they can smell the character. Secondly, given a choice, any hungry monster is going to snack on the character instead of anyone else nearby; they’re always target number one. text/html 2023-06-25T21:19:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:friends&rev=1687753156&do=diff FRIENDS The character has people they can call upon for information or help. They may have reliable friends who can help them out (maybe they know someone who has some political pull or is well respected in the community), contacts within an institution (do they know someone who works in UNIT, Torchwood or even the White House?), or someone who can supply information (a shady guy who keeps finding out things that the public aren’t meant to know). Friends can be either a Minor or a Major Trait, … text/html 2023-06-30T00:37:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:frivolous&rev=1688110630&do=diff FRIVOLOUS TALENT Prerequisite: Time Lord Despite the typical Time Lord snobbery towards wasteful frivolity, this Time Lord has a ‘hobby’ that they picked up on some world they have visited, taken a liking to and show superior Time Lord aptitude in. Effect text/html 2023-06-30T01:40:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:gadget&rev=1688114453&do=diff GADGET Prerequisite: Alien Aliens sometimes have in-built cybernetic or mechanical enhancement, giving them Gadget traits. Bannakaffalatta had an EMP device, Daleks have forcefields as well as the ability to “Emergency Temporal Shift!” Gadgets are purchased as normal, but how and where the gadget is ‘plugged in’ (and if it can be removed) should be defined. text/html 2023-07-02T23:19:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:gadgets&rev=1688365143&do=diff Traits for Gadgets Good Traits Bad Traits Apocalyptic Traits text/html 2023-06-27T20:40:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:ganger&rev=1687923601&do=diff GANGER The character is made of the Flesh, a kind of fully programmable matter that can mimic everything from kidneys to clothes. However, Gangers have historically had a difficult time in society, and are frequently feared and abused by “normal” people. The character may try to keep their true nature secret, or may be very open about it in order to educate those around them. text/html 2023-06-29T22:32:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:gfast&rev=1688103176&do=diff FAST Some Gadgets allow their users to move with a quickness that is seldom seen in the wild. It might be a pair of rocket boots or a jetpack, or even a car fitted with an afterburner. Effect A Gadget with the Fast trait allows the user to travel unnaturally fast. As a Minor Good Trait, the user’s effective Speed is increased by 1.5 times (round up), so a character with a Coordination of 2 has an effective Speed of 2 x 1.5 = 3. As a Major Good Trait, their Speed is doubled, so a character wit… text/html 2023-06-29T22:59:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:glitch&rev=1688104796&do=diff GLITCH The Gadget occasionally causes an error or other side effect that doesn’t negate its usefulness but does add an extra complication. Effect Whenever a character uses the Gadget roll two dice. If the result is any double then the Gadget produces a side-effect. Examples include a flashy side-effect that draws attention to the gadget’s use or the bearer of a Skill-Jack acquiring a memory from the original donor of the skill. The Gamemaster should determine the nature of the Glitch; any tim… text/html 2023-07-02T19:06:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:gravitic&rev=1688349962&do=diff GRAVITIC PULSE DRIVE A spaceship equipped with a Gravitic Pulse Drive is capable of making astounding manoeuvres and reaching high speeds in seconds. At the cost of 1 Story Point, the vehicle can make a free move action in the action phase to accelerate or make manoeuvres. text/html 2023-06-29T23:15:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:gslow&rev=1688105739&do=diff SLOW This Gadget does what it’s designed to do, but it takes its time about it. As a Minor Bad Trait the delay between activating the Gadget and something actually happening is at least two minutes. As a Major Bad Trait the Gadget can take hours or days to get going. text/html 2023-06-30T01:54:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:gulp&rev=1688115288&do=diff GULP! Prerequisite: Alien and Size – Huge or Colossal This creature swallows prey of Average size or lower in one gulp. The creature makes a standard Fighting roll to swallow its target. This horrible attack automatically kills the target but costs 2 Story Points to use. text/html 2023-07-02T19:06:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:hardened&rev=1688349985&do=diff HARDENED ARMOUR This spaceship has a type of armour that is impervious to all but Armour Piercing weapons, and against them it is treated as having 8 points of armour. object:spaceship text/html 2023-06-29T23:00:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:harmful&rev=1688104852&do=diff HARMFUL Whether by accident or design, using the Gadget causes harm to the user. Effect As a Minor Bad Trait, whenever a character uses this Gadget it either Stuns the character, inflicts 4 levels of damage, or imposes a Minor Bad Trait on the character. text/html 2023-07-02T22:40:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:harsh&rev=1688362857&do=diff HARSH CONDITIONS You’re in the army now, soldier – did you expect to have an easy ride? Life in this base is hard. No luxuries. No molly-coddling. The base is cramped, cold and unpleasant. Outside is worse – the base is located somewhere like Siberia or the middle of the Sahara. Or maybe it’s on the moon. text/html 2023-06-30T18:31:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:haunted&rev=1688175103&do=diff HAUNTED There are entities out in the Vortex that might be considered ghosts by some. Usually a TARDIS shields both against the physical effects of the Vortex and the more insubstantial elements as well. Unfortunately your TARDIS does not always filter or protect the occupants from the potential mind tricks the Vortex plays or the strange entities that inhabit it. This means that voices echo down the corridors, and strange spirits can be glimpsed passing through the walls sometimes. Certain Tim… text/html 2023-06-25T21:32:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:have&rev=1687753921&do=diff HAVE I BEEN HERE BEFORE? Sometimes you get somewhere before you arrive when you travel in time. The character has an innate sense of familiarity when they arrive somewhere for the first time, even though in its past they’ve already visited. +2 to Ingenuity the first time they arrive on a new planet or point in history. text/html 2023-06-29T22:34:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:heal&rev=1688103276&do=diff HEAL This Trait can restore lost Strength with a successful Ingenuity + Medicine roll. The Difficulty for this roll is usually a 9, and using the gadget results in the recovery of 1/2/3 points of Strength. trait:good level:minor object:gadgets text/html 2023-06-25T21:32:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:healer&rev=1687753960&do=diff HEALER This character can make medical miracles happen no matter what resources are available to him. Effect +2 bonus on Medicine rolls when trying to heal someone. trait:good level:minor object:characters text/html 2023-06-30T00:18:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:heart&rev=1688109483&do=diff HEART OF A BLACK STAR Prerequisite: Apocalyptic By an amazing feat of Block Transfer Engineering, the device, vehicle or creature has a low mass singularity contained within it, powering it so that it might never flux nor wither. Its energy reserves and lifespan are, for all intents and purposes, eternal. Black Hole Carriers were the literal manifestation of this Trait during the Time War text/html 2023-06-30T00:37:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:high&rev=1688110669&do=diff HIGH OFFICE Prerequisite: Time Lord The Time Lord held some high office or position of power on Gallifrey that gave them great respect, access to the more dangerous secrets of the Time Lords, and possibly possession of a powerful artefact. Effect As a Major Trait, the Time Lord held a major leadership position and gains the Voice of Authority Trait at +3 instead of +2, as well a +1 to Knowledge with an Area of Expertise in Secrets of the Time Lords. text/html 2023-07-02T22:30:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:holding&rev=1688362226&do=diff HOLDING CELLS You’ve got the facilities to hold prisoners – including alien prisoners. These cells could keep a Dalek chained up! Having Holding Cells means that any prisoners you’ve captured are certain not to break free. In fact, your cells may even come with a few aliens captured by previous UNIT missions text/html 2023-06-29T23:01:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:homing&rev=1688104899&do=diff HOMING BEACON This Gadget automatically transmits a homing beacon when operational. Effect Whenever the Gadget is used it automatically transmits a homing beacon – whether those it is designed to find decide to come and how long it takes them to get there depends on the usual limitations of time and space. Homing beacons are normally innocuous – when the Gadget is powered it requires an Awareness + Ingenuity roll (Difficulty 15) to notice, or an Ingenuity + Technology roll (Difficulty 12) if … text/html 2023-06-30T02:31:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:hostile&rev=1688117507&do=diff HOSTILE ACTION DISPLACEMENT SYSTEM The HADS system takes advantage of both the TARDIS’ clairvoyance and its ability to travel in time by dematerialising shortly before an attack takes place. It’s a highly effective system and that’s been a problem for Time Lords in the past (or future) who’ve left the system on, left their TARDIS and then watched it dematerialise without them as soon as they get in trouble. The system on the Justice Station lacks this problem due to the fact the crew rarely, if… text/html 2023-06-25T21:33:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:hot&rev=1687754004&do=diff HOT SHOT Some people are a natural when it comes to most forms of transport. They can fly planes through the harshest of thunderstorms or drive cars at high speeds without crashing. They are the best of the best when it comes to piloting vehicles. Effect text/html 2023-07-02T19:07:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:hover&rev=1688350022&do=diff HOVER The vehicle can maintain a stationary position above the ground. If a number is listed after the Hover trait, then this indicates the number of metres above the ground that the vehicle can hover. Vehicles with this trait can move over obstacles and difficult terrain lower than their Hover rating without reducing their speed. text/html 2023-06-29T23:02:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:huge&rev=1688104937&do=diff HUGE The gadget is larger than the characters themselves, or is woven into the structure of the building they found it in. It can’t be moved, or at the very least, will have to be completely disassembled in order to do so. trait:bad level:minor object:gadgets text/html 2023-06-27T20:40:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:human&rev=1687923656&do=diff HUMAN FACTOR Possession of the Human Factor increases the character’s Resolve by 1, and gives the traits Empathic or Brave. It also makes the possessor more compassionate. Most importantly, it gives an extra 2 Story Points. The Human Factor costs 4 Character Points. text/html 2023-06-29T23:03:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:hungry&rev=1688105003&do=diff HUNGRY The Gadget’s a fuel or battery hog, and runs through its power reserves very quickly. Effect As a Minor Bad Trait, any roll of ‘Yes, But’ or ‘No, And’ results when using the Gadget means that the battery just ran out. As a Major Bad Trait, the user needs to hook the Gadget up to a really big power source (like a power plant, or an alien ship’s power core) to get the thing working. text/html 2023-06-25T21:34:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:hypnosis&rev=1687754090&do=diff HYPNOSIS The Doctor has been known to use a bit of hypnotism to calm a savage beast and to help people to remember things, putting them in a calm and relaxed state. Hypnosis as a Minor Good Trait means the character can put people into a mild hypnotic state. We’re not talking mind control here, just some basic hypnotic techniques – a tone of voice, a calm way of talking – that can calm people down and possibly influence them to do what you want. The Major Good Trait verges on mind control, and … text/html 2023-06-30T00:18:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:hysteresis&rev=1688109533&do=diff HYSTERESIS GENERATOR Prerequisite: Apocalyptic The weapon is capable of causing massive warps in space-time that wrap in upon themselves, trapping those within the warp in a Chronic Hysteresis like flies in amber, an eternal hell for time-aware species. Effect text/html 2023-06-29T23:04:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:immobilise&rev=1688105068&do=diff IMMOBILISE The Gadget may be carried about, but while in use the character is effectively immobilised and oblivious to everything around them. Effect While a character is using this Gadget they are considered to be Stunned. Once the Gadget’s effect is over, the character may act normally. A character may be ‘awakened’ while the Gadget is in use but this automatically ends the Gadget’s effect. text/html 2023-06-30T01:08:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:immortal&rev=1688112515&do=diff IMMORTAL Prerequisite: Alien There are two types of Immortal being in existence. The first never gets old, never ages and will never die of old age. They simply continue on. While it’s rare for them to die from a disease, they still can, and can certainly be killed through violence or accident. Immortal at this level is a Major Good Trait and while it doesn’t affect the actual game (as they can still be killed through violence) they could have already lived a long time. The Gamemaster may allo… text/html 2023-06-30T00:20:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:immovable&rev=1688109607&do=diff IMMOVABLE OBJECT Prerequisite: Apocalyptic The weapon is impervious to physical damage of any type, shrugging it off or recovering from it with amazing rapidity and maintaining its position even in the face of an exploding star. This might be due to quantum force-fields, a transdimensional nature or temporal facilities that ‘turn back the clock’ on damage. text/html 2023-06-30T01:45:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:immunity&rev=1688114708&do=diff IMMUNITY* Prerequisite: Alien Many aliens are immune to one form of harm or another. A former head of UNIT once commented how nice it would be to face an alien enemy that wasn’t immune to bullets! However, being immune to the effects of certain weapons is not as common as he’d liked to believe, and often the cost of this trait is countered by taking the Weakness trait. For example, Autons are immune to bullets – they can be shot many times – but are vulnerable to having their control signal cu… text/html 2023-06-27T00:23:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:impaired&rev=1687850600&do=diff IMPAIRED The character is severely restricted in some way, for example, being unable to walk or use one's arms or hands. Their attributes may also indicate their handicap. trait:bad level:major object:characters text/html 2023-06-30T01:45:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:impervious&rev=1688114751&do=diff IMPERVIOUS Prerequisite: Alien The Impervious trait means the alien is extremely resistant to damage from any form of weapon. This might be due to an almost insubstantial form or a body of stone or metal. Effect When hit by a weapon, shift the damage result down by one step (for example, Fantastic becomes Good) before applying any other abilities. Successful attacks will always do a minimum of 1 point of damage though. text/html 2023-06-30T01:04:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:imprimatur&rev=1688112258&do=diff NO IMPRIMATUR Prerequisite: Time Lord The Time Lord has had their Imprimatur removed or never developed it. This may be due to their relative youth, damage sustained in the Time War or its surgical removal (Ingenuity + Medicine, Difficulty 30). Regardless, the Time Lord cannot connect with their TARDIS and must find another way to ensure safe travel or, worse, another time machine. They can develop more over time (the Nuclei reform every regeneration at least) or they can receive a transfusion… text/html 2023-06-27T20:44:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:imprinted&rev=1687923842&do=diff IMPRINTED MEMORIES You have absorbed the memories of someone else, a whole lifetime’s worth in fact. You might have accidentally triggered a Cybermen infostamp, or maintained telepathic contact with someone else’s mind for too long. While you have not inherited the personality of the person in question, you can sometimes access their memories. Imprinted Memories is a Special Good Trait that costs 3 Character Points. text/html 2023-06-27T20:48:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:imprison&rev=1687924082&do=diff IMPRISON When a Tenza feels uncomfortable or ill-at-ease, they might instinctively create a psychic prison. Anyone who threatens the Tenza may be dragged into it. This will usually happen after they leave the Tenza’s presence, to help keep the Tenza insulated from the threat. The prison always has a physical anchor and overlaps with a physical space, but it exists mostly in the psychic realm. In this prison, victims wander through a disorienting landscape, and they are threatened by nightmare c… text/html 2023-06-27T00:25:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:impulsive&rev=1687850719&do=diff IMPULSIVE “Why worry, it’ll be fine, let’s go!” Impulsive people do not think things through before acting and are likely to leap before they look. It doesn’t mean they have a death wish – far from it – it’s just that they do things on a whim and sometimes come to regret it. text/html 2023-06-29T23:05:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:inaccurate&rev=1688105106&do=diff INACCURATE While the Gadget is designed to be a ranged weapon, it has an inherent design flaw that hinders its accuracy. Most smoothbore rifles would have this trait, as would a particularly unwieldy rifle designed for a larger or differently-built alien. text/html 2023-06-30T01:03:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:incarnation&rev=1688112224&do=diff INCARNATION ALLERGY Prerequisite: Time Lord The Time Lord picked up an allergy during their last regeneration that seriously sickens and might even kill them, like certain gases or even something as harmless as aspirin. This is usually caused by exposure to or contact with some rare element that is incorporated into the body during regeneration and is typically only seen in field agents or renegades who insist on mucking about in the relatively unhygienic universe outside of Gallifrey. text/html 2023-06-27T00:25:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:indolent&rev=1687850742&do=diff INDOLENT The character is far more concerned with their own pleasures and comfort. Work is something to be done tomorrow or better yet by someone else. They are not entirely lazy or selfish, but a strange mixture of the two. To the character, everything is just too much effort, and they are just too busy to do anything but pursue their own pleasures. Whenever the character is engaged in some leisure pastime, they suffer -2 to any action that interrupts their ‘relaxation time’. text/html 2023-06-25T21:35:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:indomitable&rev=1687754156&do=diff INDOMITABLE That’s the human race all round… indomitable. The character has determination and an iron will, meaning they are better at resisting mind control and hypnosis. They have something that grounds them, reassures them of who they are and protects their minds against invasion or hypnotic control. text/html 2023-06-27T20:48:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:inexperienced&rev=1687924131&do=diff INEXPERIENCED* The character creation rules here are suited to companions and normal heroes. Players may find, however, that this doesn’t reflect very inexperienced or young characters. Courtney would be a perfect example of this. She’s still in school, hasn’t finished growing, and is very inexperienced when it comes to adventuring through time and space. But, she is brave and keen to help the Doctor in the most dangerous situations. text/html 2023-06-30T01:47:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:infection&rev=1688114879&do=diff INFECTION Prerequisite: Alien Some aliens have the nasty ability to transmit their ‘alien-ness’ into other beings. Sometimes it can start as a strange green rash that comes from a bite or scratch that takes over the victim until they become alien themselves, or it could mean that the unsuspecting target becomes host to the alien’s consciousness. text/html 2023-06-29T22:35:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:inhibit&rev=1688103324&do=diff INHIBIT This trait reduces or diminishes a target in some manner. It is the opposite of the Augment trait, but instead of raising Attributes, it lowers them. It might be a beam fired at a target, or a collar shackled around the victim’s neck. Effect text/html 2023-06-27T20:49:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:initiate&rev=1687924165&do=diff INITIATE OF THE SISTERHOOD You are a member of the Sisterhood of Karn, initiated into the mysteries of the Sacred Flame. You have drunk of the Elixir of Life and you shall never die. Effect As a member of the Sisterhood, you pick up quite a few Traits as a package deal. You’ve got Psychic Training, you’re Psychic, Telepathic, unaging (Immortal: Major) and you may increase your Resolve and Medicine by +1 each. You also pick up a Major Obligation to the Sisterhood. text/html 2023-06-25T21:36:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:innocent&rev=1687754201&do=diff INNOCENT There is something about you that makes people think you can do no wrong. You might be very young or just have a sweet smile. Of course, this doesn’t mean you actually are a goody-two shoes, just that people think you are. Whenever someone is looking for suspects, you may spend a story point for them to pass you by. In fact, if there are other people near the scene of the crime the authorities will arrest them rather than you. text/html 2023-06-29T22:36:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:innocuous&rev=1688103369&do=diff INNOCUOUS A Gadget with the Minor Good Trait looks like something perfectly ordinary. That Engineer’s Mate looks just like a wrench until you switch it on, the Scanner’s built into your bog-standard laptop, and your jeep looks completely normal until you switch it to flight mode. In fact, your Gadget won’t even show up as alien technology until you’re actually using it. A Gadget with the Major Good Trait has a perception filter built into it. People ignore it except when it’s in active use, and… text/html 2023-06-27T00:27:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:insatiable&rev=1687850823&do=diff INSATIABLE CURIOSITY The character has a thirst for knowing what’s going on and investigating, even when it may not be good for them to do so. What was that down that hole? Where does that corridor go, and what are those aliens up to? In many cases, Insatiable Curiosity has been the cause of many adventures (especially in Clara’s case). text/html 2023-06-30T00:20:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:insidious&rev=1688109653&do=diff INSIDIOUS Prerequisite: Apocalyptic The weapon is adept at infiltrating from within a specific dimension, from computer networks, to life-forms to weird stuff like shadows or light, the weapon can insert itself at will and try to take control from within. N-Forms were the primary example of this sort of weapon in the Time War. text/html 2023-06-25T21:37:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:inspiring&rev=1687754270&do=diff INSPIRING LOVE You love someone and they love you back. Being with them fills you with confidence, granting you +1 to rolls you make when they are with you and supporting you. This trait may be taken with ‘Passionate Love’. If you lose the object of your affection, you suffer -1 to all rolls until the Gamemaster decides that you have recovered from the loss or rejection. text/html 2023-06-30T02:35:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:interface&rev=1688117707&do=diff MATRIX INTERFACE All TARDIS units have Matrix Interface links installed. These can be used by the Time Lord to access the vast amount of information stored in the Matrix, aside from anything restricted by the High Council. The link is, unfortunately for some, two way, allowing the Council to spy on the whereabouts and movements of renegade Time Lords. This is one of the reasons why renegades tend to favour outdated models as they are harder to track and tend not to be missed as quickly. text/html 2023-07-02T22:31:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:internal&rev=1688362286&do=diff INTERNAL SENSORS The base is equipped with security cameras and advanced internal sensors that pick up on movement, thermal traces, electrical activity, radiation and other signs of trouble. You can track the movement of people within the base, and even detect cloaked people or objects. As a bonus, the internal sensors can usually detect shapeshifters and alien technology. text/html 2023-07-02T19:07:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:interstellar&rev=1688350041&do=diff INTERSTELLAR This ship is capable of travelling beyond its immediate planetary system, allowing occupants to travel vast distances across the universe. object:spaceship text/html 2023-06-29T22:36:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:invisible&rev=1688103415&do=diff INVISIBLE The ability to be unseen is possibly one of the best weapons and defences on the battlefield. It is an ability seldom seen (pardon the pun) naturally occurring in aliens but a mild version of this trait can be accomplished with shifting pigments in the skin, allowing chameleon-like aliens- to blend into their surroundings. Full invisibility is more commonly found in advanced technology, such as the optical camouflage developed by the Sontarans, or in ghostly, intangible creatures that… text/html 2023-06-27T00:24:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:isenses&rev=1687850684&do=diff IMPAIRED SENSES* The Impaired Senses trait means that one of the character’s senses is not at its best. Whether this is the need for glasses, a hearing aid or being colour blind, the sense is less sensitive than the average person’s. When selecting this trait, the player should choose which sense is affected. text/html 2023-07-02T22:41:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:isolated&rev=1688362889&do=diff ISOLATED The base is in the middle of nowhere, miles away from anywhere. Getting here requires a long flight or a very, very, very long drive. Effect It takes a very long time for help to arrive if something goes wrong. It may take days or even weeks before UNIT responds to a distress call from your base. As long as nothing goes wrong, you’ll be fine text/html 2023-06-29T22:38:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:isomorphic&rev=1688103483&do=diff ISOMORPHIC CONTROLS This trait means the controls of the gadget only work for one person. The Minor Good version of this trait allows other people to use the Gadget, but at a -3 penalty. The Major Good version of this trait means other people cannot use the Gadget at all. (An Improbable result might be enough to get around this text/html 2023-06-25T21:39:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:jack&rev=1687754360&do=diff JACK OF ALL TRADES The character knows a little bit about everything. Effect The character ignores any penalties for being unskilled when making an action roll. trait:good level:major object:characters text/html 2023-06-27T00:27:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:jingoist&rev=1687850855&do=diff JINGOIST You have an unwavering belief in the superiority of the British Empire (Technology Level 4) and her people. It’s not that other nations or people are bad, they just cannot be as organised, intelligent or all round amazing as the British and their way of life. text/html 2023-06-29T23:05:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:jury-rigged&rev=1688105147&do=diff JURY-RIGGED The Gadget shouldn’t work, but someone has kludged it together with substitute parts. Effect This Gadget does not work unless the character first spends a Story Point, substituting a needed part. For the duration of the scene, the Gadget acquires an appropriate Minor Bad Trait (One Shot or a Restriction are good examples). text/html 2023-06-30T18:38:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:justice&rev=1688175527&do=diff JUSTICE MACHINE This TARDIS has spent a good deal of its life in the service of the High Council. As such, it is driven to achieve their goals, especially regarding enforcement of the Laws of Time and the capture of Time Lord Renegades, particularly the Doctor and the Master. text/html 2023-06-25T21:40:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:keen&rev=1687754439&do=diff KEEN SENSES The character is very aware of their surroundings. Whether they have a keen eye for detail and noticing when something is wrong, or a nose for a particular scent, they are particularly perceptive – always a good thing when tracking or encountering alien intruders. text/html 2023-06-27T00:28:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:know&rev=1687850894&do=diff KNOW YOUR PLACE Everyone, even the rich, knows that they have a part to play in the machinery of Empire (Technology Level 4). You are so consumed with this that obedience has become a gut instinct for you. Effect When given an order or instruction by a social superior, you will obey without question unless you first spend a Story Point. text/html 2023-07-02T22:32:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:laboratory&rev=1688362326&do=diff LABORATORY* Your base is equipped with a high-tech laboratory and research staff. These scientific advisors aren’t any good in a fight, but they can analyse samples, identify aliens, find cures to diseases and provide other such technical support. text/html 2023-06-30T01:10:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:lammasteen&rev=1688112654&do=diff LAMMASTEEN TECHNOLOGIST Prerequisite: Craft of 3 The Lammasteen were a race of aliens who employed non-technological technology, building sophisticated gadgets out of non technological items. The Doctor made use of similar principles to build a complicated scanner out of a traffic cone and an umbrella. text/html 2023-07-02T22:33:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:landing&rev=1688362392&do=diff LANDING PAD* The base has an airstrip or helipad and a hangar containing either a few helicopters or an aircraft like a C130 transport or a few fighter jets. Effect The base has landing facilities and a number of aircraft. Pick one sort of aircraft: text/html 2023-06-30T01:08:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:last&rev=1688112528&do=diff LAST OF MY KIND Prerequisite: Alien Being the last of your kind can be a burden as well as lonely. To know that there is no one else like you out there, and that an entire race dies when you do. Effect Last of My Kind is a Minor Bad Trait, and has the prerequisite of the ‘Alien’ Special Trait (unless, during the course of the game, every other human in the universe is wiped out… but that’s what the Doctor’s around for, to prevent things like that happening!). As the last of their kind, the c… text/html 2023-07-02T19:10:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:leakage&rev=1688350203&do=diff RADIATION LEAKAGE While the ship is in flight, it leaks a little radiation every 1d6 action rounds, causing 1/2/3 damage to the crew. object:spaceship text/html 2023-06-30T02:33:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:life&rev=1688117603&do=diff LIFE SUPPORT The TARDIS Life Support systems are designed to give the operator the ability to tailor their environment however they see fit. This appears to be a luxury but in many cases, the Time Lord piloting the Extraction TARDIS has either been altered to suit the environment of their mission or is evacuating the area with assistants. The Life Support controls allow the environment to be tailored to all their needs. text/html 2023-06-29T23:06:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:limited&rev=1688105197&do=diff LIMITED USE While better than a single-shot Gadget, some Gadgets only allow a handful of uses before it is rendered inert. This may be due to an instability in design, a limited amount of a necessary component or any other reasonable restriction. Effect text/html 2023-06-25T21:44:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:linguist&rev=1687754684&do=diff LINGUIST The character knows several languages. Effect As a Minor Good Trait, the character is familiar with several languages and can pick up new languages easily. They start play knowing three additional languages and, from that point forward, can spend a Story Point to acquire a new language whenever it would come up in play. The character can only learn languages for which their backstory would allow: there’s no way for a a 17th century Frenchwoman to ‘know’ the Martian tongue spoken by t… text/html 2023-06-27T00:28:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:literally&rev=1687850929&do=diff LITERALLY BY THE BOOK A fictional construct that can only say words attributed to him from the fiction in which he was created. trait:bad level:minor object:characters text/html 2023-07-02T22:33:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:lockdown&rev=1688362429&do=diff LOCKDOWN Your base has an emergency lockdown protocol. At the press of a switch, heavy doors slam shut throughout the base, sealing it off from the outside world. Nothing, not even bacteria, can escape from a locked-down base. Effect If lockdown is activated, nothing can escape the base using conventional means. Lockdown also means that the base has its own internal air supply, which can come in handy if the whole building is abducted by Judoon. text/html 2023-06-27T00:29:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:logical&rev=1687850970&do=diff LOGICAL The character makes decisions based solely on logic, whether it be because they are repressing their true emotions or they lack emotions by design. Whatever the case, such characters have difficulty relating to other people. Effect As a Minor Bad Trait, the character is simply aloof or apathetic. They always choose the most logical course of action, even when it means harm to themselves or others. Convincing others to join them when the logical path goes against their desires attracts… text/html 2023-06-27T00:29:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:loud&rev=1687850993&do=diff LOUD The character seems to make more noise than anyone else. Their voice always carries and they tend to stamp a little when they walk. They suffer a -2 penalty to stealth rolls, and unless they specify they are trying to be quiet their approach is automatically detected and their voice is easy to overhear by those nearby. text/html 2023-07-02T19:07:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:low&rev=1688350061&do=diff LOW SIGNATURE The ship is designed in such a way to make it difficult to detect using sensors, making any attempts to do so at a -2 penalty. object:spaceship text/html 2023-06-25T21:45:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:lucky&rev=1687754744&do=diff LUCKY Lady Luck is on their side. Call it a fluke, call it chance, but fortune is smiling on the character. The traffic lights changed just at the right moment to give them a chance to get through, they just managed to roll under the blast doors before they closed and they flicked the right switch to restart the ship’s engines. Every day is their lucky day! text/html 2023-06-25T21:47:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:machine&rev=1687754822&do=diff MACHINE Androids are robotic creatures and have critical systems in different areas than an organic being. All targeted damage is reduced by 2. trait:good level:minor object:characters text/html 2023-06-27T20:55:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:mail&rev=1687924540&do=diff MAIL IN KNIGHT Orcini claimed to be the last of his order and he may well have been right. But there are some who still follow the code of Oberon, reconstructed through years of research. They don’t have the Knights’ monastery or the ability to apprentice knights to an experienced master, but they do have the Galactic Communications Network. Anyone who finds their contact details, and anyone who’s interested can become a Knight of the Grand Order, training their mind and body to a level they ne… text/html 2023-06-27T00:30:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:marginalised&rev=1687851027&do=diff MARGINALISED Due to your gender or ethnic background, you usually have to work harder to prove yourself or get your voice heard in your community. You suffer prejudice at every turn, especially when working in non-traditional roles. You and your opinion are generally overlooked, and your professional qualifications are often questioned by those who don’t know you. You often hear that certain tasks or positions are considered ‘unsuitable’ for you simply due to your background. text/html 2023-06-30T00:21:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:matrix&rev=1688109710&do=diff MATRIX CHILD Prerequisite: Apocalyptic The weapon embodies the totality of the Gallifreyan Matrix, either through a direct umbilical like connection to the original or through a memory that stores the entire data content of the APC Net in a block transfer neural network lattice that forms a transcendent computational dimension within it. It can draw others into this realm, forcing them to fight for their lives in the nightmare reality of a surreal world in which it makes the rules. Once there,… text/html 2023-07-02T22:35:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:medic&rev=1688362507&do=diff MEDIC You’ve got a state-of-the-art medical centre. Effect This Trait provides 3 Story Points every adventure that can only be spent on Medicine-related rolls and related activities. You can also spend these Story Points to restore Attribute points lost by damage – each point spent restores half the total of lost points (rounding up). The player can decide how these points are allocated between the damaged Attributes. text/html 2023-06-25T21:49:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:menacing&rev=1687754950&do=diff MENACING Some characters appear charming but their words are tinged with a hint of menace. They influence others through quiet threats rather than outright Intimidation. Effect +2 bonus on attempts to get people to do what you want. Characters you have menaced also get a +2 to resist attempts by others to act against you. text/html 2023-06-25T21:49:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:mental&rev=1687754999&do=diff MENTAL CALCULATOR The character can make lightning-quick calculations in their head. Effect The character gains a +2 bonus on Science rolls when making quick mental calculations would be an asset, such as using Jiggery-Pokery with the Biochemical Genius trait. trait:good level:minor object:characters text/html 2023-06-25T21:54:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:military&rev=1687755292&do=diff MILITARY RANK* The character has a military rank, with all the privileges and responsibilities that entails. If they belong to UNIT but do not have this trait they are considered to be regular enlisted soldiers (Privates or Corporals). Effect As a Minor Trait, the character is a Sergeant. text/html 2023-06-30T01:09:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:mind&rev=1688112589&do=diff MIND LORD Prerequisite: Time Lord and psychic The Time Lord has had special training that enhances the already formidable abilities of the Time Lord mind. Effect The Time Lord gains a +2 to any rolls involving powers of the mind, like Precognition, Psychic, Telekinesis, Telepathy or the Special version of Hypnosis. They also gain a +2 to any rolls involving the operation of their TARDIS. text/html 2023-07-02T22:36:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:minions&rev=1688362588&do=diff MINIONS* Your Base has a research staff, a security force or other assistants. Effect You have a team of up to six people reporting directly to you. You pick the type of Minions when you take this trait, and you can take different kinds of Minions each time. text/html 2023-06-30T00:38:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:mlord&rev=1688110707&do=diff MATRIX LORD Prerequisite: Time Lord The Time Lord has an innate connection with the virtual reality world of the Matrix and has a much greater ability to mould it with his will. They might have gained this ability while serving as Keeper of the Matrix, as President or by unauthorized research forays into the APC Net through an illicit tap. text/html 2023-07-02T22:35:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:mobile&rev=1688362545&do=diff MOBILE BASE The whole base can move under its own power. Effect The base is a giant vehicle. Some mobile bases are small enough to fit into the cargo hold of an aircraft. Other bases might be on board a ship, or consist of a fleet of road vehicles. At the top end of the scale, you’ve got bases like the Valiant. text/html 2023-06-30T18:32:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:modifed&rev=1688175140&do=diff HIGHLY MODIFED This TARDIS had a previous operator who was an inveterate tinkerer, modifying systems left and right until the machine was so rewired that the average Gallifreyan technician would be at a total loss to put things back the way they were. This doesn’t make the TARDIS run any worse, in some cases the modifications might even be useful, but it makes repairing the thing a nightmare. text/html 2023-06-30T00:23:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:mutator&rev=1688109785&do=diff MUTATOR Prerequisite: Apocalyptic The weapon has a warping effect on biological matter, changing its DNA randomly, devolving here, evolving there and bringing vestigial traits, long ago lost, like tails or fins, back into prominence. The effect is completely random and can create super-predators as easily as it can reduce an entire species into puddles of protoplasmic goo. text/html 2023-06-30T01:50:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:natural&rev=1688115027&do=diff NATURAL WEAPONS* Prerequisite: Alien The alien has some form of weaponry that is part of their form. This could be something as simple as toxic breath, a poisonous bite or sharp claws, to built in guns or being able to fire sharp spines. As long is it is not something that is usually dropped or carried (like a gun or sword), and is part of the alien (like a Dalek’s gun or a Weeping Angels’ claws) then it is technically a ‘natural’ weapon. text/html 2023-06-30T01:51:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:networked&rev=1688115070&do=diff NETWORKED Prerequisite: Alien The Networked trait means that the alien is connected in some way to others of their kind. Whether this is an inbuilt gadget this connects them to others, a telepathic field or a ‘hive mind’, it means that if one is in trouble or injured, it can call for aid. Whether others are in close proximity to help is another matter text/html 2023-07-02T19:08:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:neural&rev=1688350102&do=diff NEURAL INTERFACE Through the use of a Neural Interface, a spaceship can be more accurately handled. On the up side, the pilot can use Ingenuity in place of Coordination for any rolls involving the handling of the vehicle, using its weapons, sensors or communication systems. Also, all rolls involving the spaceship that the pilot makes are at +2. On the downside, the pilot takes 1 point of damage through psychic and electrical feedback any time the vehicle itself is damaged. text/html 2023-06-25T21:55:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:noble&rev=1687755325&do=diff NOBLE Some people are born into the highest levels of society and are used to entertaining dignitaries, ambassadors and even kings and queens. Effect The character’s experience gives them a +2 bonus whenever they deal socially with the cream of society, especially when you are in a formal environment. text/html 2023-06-27T00:31:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:obligation&rev=1687851066&do=diff OBLIGATION The character has a duty to a group or organisation and responsibilities that need to be upheld. They may be member of a government agency, such as UNIT, Torchwood, part of the government, a teacher at a school or even a secret order. Effect text/html 2023-06-27T00:31:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:obsession&rev=1687851108&do=diff OBSESSION Someone, something, or some goal constantly weighs on the character’s mind. It may be just keeping track of time, doing things in threes, or it could be something as strong as the need for revenge or the love of a special someone. Having the Obsession trait is rarely something helpful, and this Bad Trait is uncommon in player characters. This sort of fanaticism is best suited to people like Missy or the Half-Face Man. text/html 2023-06-29T23:07:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:one&rev=1688105240&do=diff ONE SHOT The Gadget has one use, and one use only, so you better make it count. One shot, and it’s history. Some items just burn out or explode – others are designed to break after doing what they’re supposed to. If the Gamemaster feels the use of the Gadget is dramatic enough, they may refund the Story Points used to build the item. text/html 2023-07-02T22:42:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:ongoing&rev=1688362961&do=diff ONGOING MISSION Your base was built to fulfil a particular purpose, and you have to stay on top of this in addition to your regular duties. Effect You have a mission to perform, like patrolling the skies of Earth, guarding a rift, conducting research, or hosting diplomatic talks. This mission can interfere with your other adventures by forcing you to split your efforts. text/html 2023-06-29T22:39:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:open_close&rev=1688103557&do=diff OPEN/CLOSE This trait gives the Gadget the power to open locks, and to seal things shut again if necessary. If used with the Subterfuge skill to pick a lock, it gives the character a +4 bonus to the roll. Locking a door is far easier than opening it, as most locks (mechanical or electronic) tend to lock when they are tampered with, giving the character a +6 bonus if the Gamemaster decides a roll to lock the door is necessary. text/html 2023-06-27T00:32:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:outcast&rev=1687851147&do=diff OUTCAST The character has done something that has led to a section of society, or an entire race or planet, shunning them or viewing them with fear, dread or loathing. It could be that they’ve offended someone’s beliefs, or committed a crime, or even just made such a fool of themselves that people regard them with complete disdain. They could have spoken out about their extreme scientific belief in aliens and been ridiculed in academic circles, or shunned by the government agency they work for … text/html 2023-07-02T19:07:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:outdated&rev=1688350079&do=diff OUTDATED TECHNOLOGY The ship is of such an old fashioned design, that it’s only just capable of keeping up with modern space faring demands. Any character attempting to use the ship will suffer a -2 penalty to all rolls. object:spaceship text/html 2023-06-27T00:32:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:outsider&rev=1687851177&do=diff OUTSIDER You aren’t very good at making friends and fitting in with groups. Somehow you just don’t seem to connect to other people very well. Effect You suffer a -2 penalty to social rolls with strangers and may not take the ‘Friends’ trait at character creation. text/html 2023-06-30T18:39:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:over-protective&rev=1688175564&do=diff OVER-PROTECTIVE The TARDIS tends to mother its operator and passengers, seeking to keep them out of harm’s way as much as possible. This can be highly annoying for a Time Lord who needs to land in a Dalek base and finds, instead, that he has set down 10 kilometres away. Occasionally, this will cause additional difficulties that the TARDIS, in its protective mode, just couldn’t foresee, like having to trudge through kilometres of monster infested swamps to get to the original destination. On the… text/html 2023-07-02T19:16:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:overcharge&rev=1688350612&do=diff OVERCHARGE This weapon has variable setting that can be adjusted to generate higher levels of damage. By spending a Story Point, a character can double the range or increase the damage by 4 levels. In the case of Lethal weapons, the damage value for penetrating armour is increased to 12, and the weapon gains Armour Penetration if it does not already have it. Stun weapons are -2 to resist. text/html 2023-07-02T19:17:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:overheats&rev=1688350633&do=diff OVERHEATS This item generates a great deal of excess heat that must be allowed to bleed off. Any time a Disastrous result is rolled the weapon has overheated and needs to cool off for 1d6 action rounds before it can be used again. object:spaceship_weapon text/html 2023-06-25T21:56:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:owed&rev=1687755406&do=diff OWED FAVOUR* Someone out there owes the character a favour. It can be anything from a sum of money, repayment for introducing them to their future wife or even saving their life. Whatever it was, they’re not going to forget it, and in the character’s moment of need they can be called upon to help out in a dire situation. text/html 2023-06-27T00:33:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:owes&rev=1687851220&do=diff OWES FAVOUR* In the past, someone did the character a favour. It could be anything from a sum of money, repaying them for getting a great job, or even saving the character’s life. Whatever it was, they’re not going to forget it, and they can call on the character to repay the favour. text/html 2023-06-27T00:34:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:passionate&rev=1687851248&do=diff PASSIONATE LOVE Your love for someone is so consuming it is hard to see past it. When you are separated from them you can think of little else but finding them again. You are constantly in fear for their safety. When you are not with the object of your affection you suffer –2 on any action except those that will help reunite you. You must also pass a Resolve + Ingenuity check (Difficulty 15) to do anything that will not bring them back to you. text/html 2023-06-27T00:40:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:past&rev=1687851625&do=diff PAST TRAUMA The character has suffered deep emotional trauma at some point in their past or their formative years and been unable to face it. The trauma might take several forms but any number of things might remind the character of a past they try very hard to forget. The player and Gamemaster should discuss the nature of the trauma and what might trigger it. It might be one event or manifest in a series of phobias (such as a fear of clowns and crowds). When the character finds themselves conf… text/html 2023-07-02T19:16:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:penetration&rev=1688350562&do=diff ARMOUR PENETRATION The weapon ignores 4 points of the target’s armour. object:spaceship_weapon text/html 2023-06-25T21:57:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:percussive&rev=1687755466&do=diff PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE There are some people (mad scientists, leather jacketed greasers from the 1950s, etc.) who have a rather peculiar innate understanding of machines that allows them to activate malfunctioning machinery with a single well placed blow to the appropriate area. text/html 2023-06-27T00:34:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:persistent&rev=1687851293&do=diff PERSISTENT ILLNESS Some time ago, perhaps as a child, you suffered a terrible illness. It nearly killed you, but you somehow survived; it has, however, permanently damaged you in such a way medical science and natural healing can never repair. Alternatively, you might be still caught in the grip of a disease that will eventually kill you, but will allow you a few years of health before it finally takes you. text/html 2023-06-25T21:58:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:person&rev=1687755509&do=diff PERSON OF REPUTE You are considered a person of good character and standing. Your word is your bond and you have proved to be upright and morally proper at all times. So when the finger of suspicion points in your direction, people have a hard time believing it might possibly be anything to do with you. text/html 2023-07-02T19:08:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:personal&rev=1688350124&do=diff PERSONAL The ship is so small and compact that it can be flown even in the tightest of spots, such as a city or a scattered asteroid field. These ships gain +2 on all rolls involving Manoeuvrability. object:spaceship text/html 2023-06-25T21:59:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:pet&rev=1687755540&do=diff PET The character has a trained pet! Effect This Trait gives you a faithful, loyal companion – it could be a cat or a parrot, or perhaps even a small dinosaur. A small, harmless creature won’t be much good in a fight, but it could distract a bad guy at the right moment, screech a warning or track a monster. Alternatively, your pet could be a bigger creature – a guard dog, a horse or a pterodactyl that lives in your attic – that can attack people on command or carry a rider. The downside of a … text/html 2023-06-27T00:36:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:phobia&rev=1687851400&do=diff PHOBIA* Some people just don’t like spiders. Others, it’s cats. Or heights, flying, llamas or cheese. Having a Phobia trait means that there is something (that the player will define, usually with the Gamemaster’s help) that they are afraid of. A Phobia ignores the Brave trait – the character can be brave and courageous most of the time but crumble in the face of their biggest fear! Phobias can sometimes be gained during the course of an adventure if the character encounters something particula… text/html 2023-06-25T21:59:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:photographic&rev=1687755594&do=diff PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY With just a few seconds of concentration, the character can commit something to memory to be instantly recalled when needed. People with this trait rarely have problems passing exams, and can remember exact lines from books. Effect text/html 2023-06-25T22:00:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:positive&rev=1687755652&do=diff POSITIVE OUTLOOK The character is relentlessly positive, upbeat and cheerful. So much so in fact that they gain a +1 to Convince rolls and Convince rolls against them are at a -1 Difficulty. trait:good level:minor object:characters text/html 2023-06-30T01:51:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:possess&rev=1688115118&do=diff POSSESS Prerequisite: Alien This is technically the highest possible level of the Hypnosis trait. Possess allows the alien to take over another person and control their actions. While in the host body, the alien can make it do or say almost anything (though they cannot make the host kill themselves; their survival instinct is too strong for even that). Possessing someone is an exhausting affair, and if the alien has a normal body that it has left behind somewhere, it will need protecting (and … text/html 2023-06-30T18:40:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:power&rev=1688175639&do=diff POWER FLUCTUATIONS The Dynamorphic Generators are faulty and occasionally cause power to ebb and surge in an unpredictable manner. This can occasionally cause power shortages that shut down major systems or result in power surges that blow out circuits. text/html 2023-06-30T01:11:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:precognition&rev=1688112718&do=diff PRECOGNITION Prerequisite: Psychic Some people, such as the Sybilline Sisterhood, are gifted with the ability to see the future. In many civilisations, they become the town ‘seer’, or are outcast from society due to their strange abilities. Most of the time, these abilities manifest as visions – incomplete fragments of a potential future seen as a strange and abstract dream. The future is usually in flux, ever changing, except for certain fixed points in history, so the visions of the future a… text/html 2023-06-27T00:39:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:prejudice&rev=1687851579&do=diff PREJUDICE There is a group of people you just don’t like. It may be based on a past trauma or simple bigotry but you have a knee jerk reaction to them in any situation. You also have a tendency to think “they are all the same” and stereotype anyone who fits into this group. As a Minor Trait you have a low level of bigotry and simply suffer a -3 to any social rolls interacting with this group. As a Major Trait you are an active bigot who does their best to expel or even destroy this group. This … text/html 2023-06-30T00:23:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:probability&rev=1688109834&do=diff PROBABILITY SHREDDER Prerequisite: Apocalyptic The four-dimensional nature of this weapon allows it to make minor adjustments to the past that create ripples which affect its present for good or ill, apparently granting the user (or the weapon itself) and their allies improbable levels of luck while enemies suffer the most catastrophic misfortune. text/html 2023-06-27T00:09:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:program&rev=1687849760&do=diff BY THE PROGRAM This is the ‘major’ version of By The Book. Robotic, or programmed beings follow their programs blindly. Unless directly controlled by an operator, the Machine can easily run into difficulty. trait:bad level:major object:characters text/html 2023-07-02T19:09:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:propellers&rev=1688350171&do=diff PROPELLERS The spaceship has propellers to drive it through the atmosphere, but cannot fly through space nor can it remain stationary. It must move at least one quarter its base Speed per action or chase round. object:spaceship text/html 2023-06-30T01:12:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:pshield&rev=1688112730&do=diff PSYCHIC SHIELD Prerequisite: Psychic The character can manifest a powerful shield of mental energy that protects them from physical harm. Manifesting the shield requires no roll, but if the character performs any other action they must make a Resolve + Awareness roll (Difficulty 18) and if they fail it the shield vanishes with their loss of concentration. text/html 2023-06-30T01:12:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:pstun&rev=1688112735&do=diff PSYCHIC STUN Prerequisite: Psychic This trait allows a psychic character to blast an opponent with psychic force, overwhelming them into unconsciousness. The character selects a single target and both must make a double Resolve roll. If the psychic character only just succeeds, the target remains conscious but cannot act. They may attempt to stun the target again next round. A Good Success renders the target unconscious, and a Fantastic Success also reduces the target’s Resolve by 2 when they … text/html 2023-06-27T20:59:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:psychic&rev=1687924749&do=diff PSYCHIC Psychic is a Special Good Trait, costing 2 points to purchase (or 1 point if the character already has the Psychic Training trait) that allows them to reach into another person’s mind and try to access hidden information, though the target can resist. Companions or humans are rarely Psychic, but it occurs in a scarce few. The Gamemaster should approve selection of this trait. text/html 2023-06-30T01:12:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:psychometry&rev=1688112779&do=diff PSYCHOMETRY Prerequisite: Psychic In its own way, being able to glimpse the past is just as potent as the ability to foresee the future. The past holds its own secrets and, unlike precognition, which posits possible futures, psychometric information is factual as it has already happened. By getting close to a person, place or object, the character can gain information about it. text/html 2023-06-26T23:46:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:ptraining&rev=1687848392&do=diff PSYCHIC TRAINING Don’t you just hate it when you wave your Psychic Paper at someone and they don’t see anything? Psychic Training means they are able to protect themselves from mental coercion or deception and are aware of psychic attack or memory alteration. They can put up basic defences to protect themselves, which can be as simple as imagining a plain white wall to repeating a Beatles tune in their head. text/html 2023-06-29T22:40:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:push_pull&rev=1688103600&do=diff PUSH/PULL Gadgets with this Trait can push their targets further away or move them closer to the user. Effect For a Minor Trait, the Gadget can either push or pull (chosen at Gadget creation) a target 2D6 ‘spaces’ (based on the scale of the encounter). The user may move the target a shorter distance than that rolled if they so desire. The GM should compare the relative sizes of the target and the Gadget in question to determine just how big an object can be moved and the Difficulty of moving … text/html 2023-06-26T23:47:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:quick&rev=1687848449&do=diff QUICK REFLEXES The character is fast to act when things happen, reacting to situations almost instinctively. It doesn’t mean they cannot be surprised – if they don’t know something’s coming they can’t react to it – but when something attacks or bad happens, they’re often the first to react to it. text/html 2023-06-30T01:04:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:random&rev=1688112299&do=diff RANDOM REGENERATOR Prerequisite: Time Lord The Time Lord has no control over their body during Regeneration, and they’re pretty much stuck with whatever they get. Effect Regardless of how well the Time Lord does on their Regeneration Roll, they can never achieve more than a regular Success. The Time Lord may not take the Tailored Regeneration Trait. text/html 2023-07-02T22:42:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:reactor&rev=1688362930&do=diff MAIN REACTOR Your base needs a lot of electrical power to keep running, so it is equipped with a high-tech reactor. The downside is that the base has a single major weak point – any damage to the reactor can disable the whole base. Effect If this Trait is taken, the Gamemaster picks any number of suitable Traits possessed by the base. If the main reactor is damaged or sabotaged, these traits are lost until the reactor is repaired. The main reactor is an obvious target for any attackers, and i… text/html 2023-06-30T02:36:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:real&rev=1688117781&do=diff REAL WORLD INTERFACE The Real World Interface or RWI connects the outer shell of the TARDIS and its internal architecture. In a normal TARDIS this would appear as a black void when the TARDIS doors opened, that would dissipate when stepped across it, maintaining the illusion of the TARDIS and its outer shell being the same size. Alternatively, the doors themselves are sometimes designed to function as the RWI, although anyone opening them will see a seemingly impossibly space inside when they d… text/html 2023-06-29T23:08:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:recharge&rev=1688105292&do=diff RECHARGE This Gadget does what it’s designed to do, but it can only do so once without having to recharge. Effect As a Minor Bad Trait, the delay before being able to activate the Gadget again is at least 30 minutes. As a Major Bad Trait, it can take hours or even days to recharge. text/html 2023-06-29T22:40:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:record&rev=1688103650&do=diff RECORD The Gadget can take a recording of something. Effect As a Minor Good Trait, the Gadget acts as a conventional recording device. As a Major Good Trait, the recordings may include special information like infra-red video, sound waves or even Artron radiation. text/html 2023-06-29T22:41:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:reflective&rev=1688103709&do=diff REFLECTIVE The Gadget is particularly effective at reflecting energy weapons. Effect This Gadget creates a shield (either a force field or reflective coating) that not only resists an energy attack but reflects the bolt back at the shooter (unless the shooter made a Fantastic success, in which case the bolt is reflected harmlessly away). As a Special Trait worth 5 points, the Gadget can reflect another type of damage, such as physical damage or mental attacks. text/html 2023-06-26T23:48:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:relentless&rev=1687848489&do=diff RELENTLESS The character does not stop. Ever. Until they catch their quarry. Effect +2 to any roll when chasing after someone or something in a pursuit situation. This includes rolling to increase Speed, pull a Stunt, repeat the quarry’s Stunt, get through barriers and any other part of the chase. text/html 2023-06-26T23:48:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:reliable&rev=1687848526&do=diff RELIABLE When something important needs doing, you can be relied on to do what needs to be done. You are an allround good egg who takes responsibility seriously and doesn’t desert their post. You gain a +2 to any task you are left on your own to perform by someone you trust. text/html 2023-06-29T22:42:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:remote&rev=1688103760&do=diff REMOTE The Gadget can be controlled remotely. Effect As a Minor Good Trait, the operator can control the Gadget so long as it is within range (usually eyesight) either with a remote or voice control. As a Major Good Trait, the operator can control the device even when they are not in the same general area. Such a remote usually requires a more sophisticated interface to give the user the ability to see and hear what the Gadget does. text/html 2023-06-30T01:06:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:renegade&rev=1688112389&do=diff WANTED RENEGADE Prerequisite: Time Lord The Time Lord is an outlaw, on the run from Galllifrey and his fellow Time Lords. While the High Council’s official policy is ‘good riddance to bad rubbish’ when it comes to upstarts and revolutionaries, there are rumoured to be A secret organization whose task it is to hound the more dangerous criminals to the ends of time. text/html 2023-06-30T01:52:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:replication&rev=1688115155&do=diff REPLICATION Prerequisite: Alien Unlike the Infection trait, Replication means that the alien can multiply itself by various means without the need of transmitting its alien-ness to another life form. It could be that they ‘bud’ and create a youthful clone of themselves without natural reproduction, or it could be that any limbs lost or removed will grow into a duplicate version of themselves. text/html 2023-06-27T00:40:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:repulsive&rev=1687851652&do=diff REPULSIVE The individual is highly arrogant and wears it on his sleeve. He gets a -2 to rolls in situations that call for Charm. trait:bad level:minor object:characters text/html 2023-06-30T02:36:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:research&rev=1688117819&do=diff RESEARCH CAPSULE This TARDIS was specially kitted out with an extra large laboratory stocked with all the latest research equipment in order to provide support for dedicated Time Lord research scientists. Effect Any research rolls made using the TARDIS lab have a +2 Bonus. This reduces the TARDIS’ Story Point total by 1. text/html 2023-06-29T22:43:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:resilient&rev=1688103805&do=diff RESILIENT While the Armour and Force Field traits are designed to protect the user, this trait protects the Gadget itself from harm. Effect As a Minor Good Trait, the Gadget adds an additional point to its Hit Capacity per Story Point and it takes 3 Hits to remove a Gadget Story Point. text/html 2023-06-30T01:53:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:resistance&rev=1688115187&do=diff RESISTANCE Prerequisite: Alien One specific environmental force or source of damage has less effect on the alien than it would on a human. Effect Pick a single element or force, like gunfire, radiation or heat. You halve any damage or effects from that specific source. text/html 2023-07-02T22:44:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:resource&rev=1688363096&do=diff UNRELIABLE RESOURCE* Some aspect of your base is unreliable. Maybe your vehicles break down, or electrical storms regularly disrupt communications, or the alien gadget is especially problematic. Effect Pick one of your Good Base Traits. That Trait is now unreliable. Sometimes, it just isn’t available. For example, an Unreliable Mobile Base might only be able to move under certain conditions. An Unreliable Secure Base might be mostly secure, but occasionally gaps open up in the security perime… text/html 2023-06-26T23:49:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:resourceful&rev=1687848566&do=diff RESOURCEFUL POCKETS The Doctor has said that he has pockets like the TARDIS, and he does seem to carry some strange things around in them. Sometimes people just have that knack of accumulating things – nothing terribly important or bulky, but little things that can be useful when you have to MacGyver something together at a time of peril. If you have the Resourceful Pockets trait there’s a chance, albeit a slim one, that you may have something useful in them that could get you out of a sticky s… text/html 2023-06-29T23:08:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:restriction&rev=1688105330&do=diff RESTRICTION* Most Gadgets have their limitations. The Sonic Screwdriver cannot open deadlock seals and psychic paper doesn’t work against people with psychic training. A Restriction is a specific limitation of the Gadget’s current function, not a list of things the item doesn’t do. For example, though the Sonic Screwdriver can do many things, it can’t make a good cup of tea. This isn’t a restriction, as the Screwdriver doesn’t have a Brew Tea function! text/html 2023-06-26T23:50:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:reverse&rev=1687848642&do=diff REVERSE THE POLARITY OF THE NEUTRON FLOW Those with a particular genius for science have an innate understanding of the ebb and flow of energy and can make intuitive leaps that allow them to solve scientific and technological problems through unusual applications of that energy. text/html 2023-06-29T23:10:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:revulsion&rev=1688105448&do=diff REVULSION Whether it’s an organic interface that is squishy to the touch or the Gadget runs on animal blood, there is just something about the Gadget that repulses the owner. Effect The character has a -2 penalty on all attempts to use the Gadget. text/html 2023-07-02T22:43:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:rift&rev=1688362992&do=diff SPACE-TIME RIFT Like the Torchwood Three Hub in Cardiff, your base is built on or near a rift in space-time. This crack in reality sometimes opens up and vomits out strange alien creatures or energy fields. The presence of the rift puts your base on the front line in the battle to defend the Earth. text/html 2023-06-28T02:21:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:robot&rev=1687944095&do=diff ROBOT Instead of flesh and bone they are made of steel, wires and plastics. Instead of an organic brain their mind is made of circuitry and a powerful computer. Robot is a Special Good Trait that costs 2 points as a robot of normal appearance – that is, they look like a robot, such as K-9, a Host, a Roboform or even Kamelion (one of the Doctor’s earlier companions). However, the trait can be purchased at a higher level, costing 4 points, which means externally you look convincingly human – most… text/html 2023-06-26T23:51:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:run&rev=1687848684&do=diff RUN FOR YOUR LIFE! There are many times when the opposing forces are too numerous or just too powerful to take down. The best thing you can do is to flee, run for your life and regroup to plan a new angle of attack. The character with this trait has obviously got this running thing down to a fine art and when danger is close behind there is that extra motivation to simply scarper! text/html 2023-06-27T00:41:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:ruthless&rev=1687851683&do=diff RUTHLESS As a Minor Bad Trait, any attempt to Convince the character to do something that wasn’t in their plan or isn’t immediately in their interests is at -1. As a Major Bad Trait, it’s at -2. trait:bad level:minor level:major object:characters text/html 2023-07-02T18:55:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:sablative&rev=1688349345&do=diff ABLATIVE This armour is proof against even Laser Cannons and Heat Rays. When struck by an energy weapon, the armour loses one permanent point of armour value, but negates the hit. object:spaceship text/html 2023-06-30T00:24:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:sanity&rev=1688109869&do=diff SANITY EATER Prerequisite: Apocalyptic The very presence of this weapon is a blasphemy against nature that causes the mind to violently recoil, with only the strongest of wills able to resist a complete descent into madness, and only for a short time, at that. The Nightmare Child destroyed many minds in this manner during the Time War. text/html 2023-07-02T19:11:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:scale&rev=1688350275&do=diff SPACESHIP SCALE This vehicle is of such a large size and high complexity that it counts as being a different scale than characters or other vehicles. Weapons of smaller scale cannot harm it, and targets and cover of smaller scale have little defence against them. If a weapon with this trait is fired at a normal-sized target, multiply the damage caused by 10. text/html 2023-06-29T22:44:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:scan&rev=1688103863&do=diff SCAN* The Scan trait means that the Gadget can investigate something from a range of a metre and see what’s going on inside it. Whether this is a medical function, checking inside someone to see what’s wrong or what species they are, or a technical function looking at the wiring and circuitry of a device, it all works on the same basic principle. In most cases, the user has to make an Awareness roll coupled with a suitable skill (Medicine for a medical or biological scan, Technology to scan the… text/html 2023-06-28T02:22:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:scion&rev=1687944129&do=diff SCION OF GALLIFREY Scion of Gallifrey is a Special Good Trait that shows the character was conceived in a vessel within the flux of the Time Vortex, under the aura of Time Lord science. Effect The character can regenerate exactly like a Time Lord, and they automatically gain the Feel the Turn of the Universe and Vortex traits. They also gain a +1 to Ingenuity, which is no longer restricted to a maximum of 6. This Special Trait costs 1 Character Point and reduces their maximum Story Points by … text/html 2023-06-30T18:17:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:scoop&rev=1688174268&do=diff TIME SCOOP The Time Scoop is keyed to the Sensor Preset Controls and is designed to be the penultimate stage in bringing a renegade to justice. The sensors allow the Justice Station to zero in on an errant Time Lord and, using the Matrix Link in their TARDIS, take control of their body. This is done using a Presence + Convince roll (Difficulty 25). If Successful, the Time Lord is compelled to return to their TARDIS and activate the HADS system. Once this is done, the Time Scoop redirects the HA… text/html 2023-06-30T02:39:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:scout&rev=1688117954&do=diff SCOUT CAPSULE Prerequisite: Type 60+ This TARDIS was equipped with improved Perception Filters and Chameleon Circuits, either to aid Time Lord anthropologists in closely studying an alien species, cloak clandestine activities or to function as a recon unit in the Time War. text/html 2023-06-26T23:52:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:screamer&rev=1687848764&do=diff SCREAMER! The character has been known to scream in the face of terror on many occasion, and this ear-splitting sound will penetrate miles of corridor to alert others to their location and the imminent threat. Effect At times when they are scared or threatened, the character can scream their lungs out. No roll is necessary, though using this trait will cost a Story Point. Anything or anyone else in the room will be stunned and will be unable to act for their next action. The Screamer should t… text/html 2023-07-02T23:02:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:search&rev=1688364165&do=diff Search Trait Tags Traits that can be purchased multiple times are marked with an asterisk (*). text/html 2023-07-02T22:36:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:secret&rev=1688362613&do=diff SECRET BASE Your base is cleverly concealed from outsiders. Either it looks like a perfectly ordinary building, is hidden underground, or is concealed by a perception filter. Effect Finding the base if you do not know it is there is almost impossible. Even if an advanced enemy is scanning for the base, the characters have several minutes to prepare before they are discovered. text/html 2023-07-02T22:37:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:secure&rev=1688362648&do=diff SECURE BASE Your base is protected by security cameras, locked doors, barbed-wire fences and other security measures. No-one’s getting in here without you knowing about it. Effect It’s very hard to sneak into your base. It’s not impossible, but if someone gets past your security, the GM should throw the group a Story Point each. text/html 2023-06-29T22:45:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:self-repairing&rev=1688103942&do=diff SELF-REPAIRING The Gadget has the ability to repair itself if damaged. Effect The self-repairing Gadget heals 1 Hit Capacity point per day. Note Faster rates of self-repair are possible, but these should be bought as the Fast Healing trait. trait:good level:minor object:gadgets text/html 2023-06-27T00:42:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:selfish&rev=1687851720&do=diff SELFISH “But what’s in it for me?” It’s all about me. Me, me, me, me, me. The character may go along with the rest of the group, helping civilisations out of trouble or rescuing people in danger, but at the back of their mind is always the thought that they may be able to get something out of it: a reward, riches, hidden treasure, technological knowledge, or just information about the future that they can exploit. text/html 2023-06-26T23:53:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:sense&rev=1687848797&do=diff SENSE OF DIRECTION There are some people who instinctively know the easiest way to get from one place to the next. It may be a labyrinthine maze of streets and identical houses, but characters with the Sense of Direction trait rarely seem to get lost, or can usually find their bearings if they do. text/html 2023-06-30T18:14:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:sensor&rev=1688174095&do=diff SENSOR PRESET CONTROLS These are settings that the sensors can be locked to, meaning they will always search for them first. Once a character using them makes a Sensor roll, they don’t have to roll to detect that energy or matter for the rest of the adventure. The Justice Stations preset controls are set to the specific exhaust wake of a TARDIS, to enable them to track down and retrieve renegade Time Lords. text/html 2023-06-30T18:16:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:sensors&rev=1688174181&do=diff TARDIS SENSORS TARDIS sensors are able to pick up and identify any kind of energy or matter in the universe and a few which aren’t from round here as well. General use of them requires an Awareness + Science roll at (Difficulty 12). A success will gather general information about the surroundings including radiation levels, atmospheric thickness and make up and so on. text/html 2023-06-27T00:42:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:sesquipedalian&rev=1687851758&do=diff SESQUIPEDALIAN You habitually use complicated phraseology, abstruse verbiage and academic language, even while in the process of elucidating the most commonplace and quotidian concepts. You suffer a –2 penalty when trying to explain or teach anything. However, you gain +1 when attempting to impress people with your skills and abilities. text/html 2023-07-02T19:05:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:sfragile&rev=1688349942&do=diff FRAGILE This ship is delicate, and any Disastrous result in its use will break it, rendering it useless until repaired. object:spaceship text/html 2023-07-02T19:11:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:sfull&rev=1688350308&do=diff SCAN (FULL) Can be used to detect objects at a distance, pinpointing their location, range and nature. object:spaceship text/html 2023-06-30T02:06:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:shapeshift&rev=1688115965&do=diff SHAPESHIFT Prerequisite: Alien Some aliens have the ability to look like something else. This is especially useful if you’re a 2 1/2 metre tall green alien with claws, or if you wish to try to mimic someone to gain information. The actual methods of ‘shapeshifting’ can be as complex as genetic manipulation, or a racial ability, to something as basic (and barbaric) as wearing a suit of human skin. text/html 2023-06-26T23:53:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:sharpshooter&rev=1687848836&do=diff SHARPSHOOTER Wait... wait... wait... and then shoot. Being a sniper is all about patience and waiting for the right moment. When that moment comes, though... bang. Effect When aiming (see page 92 of the UNIT Sourcebook), you can aim for two actions instead of one. text/html 2023-06-29T23:12:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:shield&rev=1688105529&do=diff SHIELD The Armour and Forcefield traits assume that a character using them is completely protected. Some armour, such as bullet-proof vests, only cover the torso, while both antique and futuristic versions of a hand-held shield only protects its bearer from frontal attacks. text/html 2023-07-02T19:10:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:shielding&rev=1688350219&do=diff RADIATION SHIELDING This trait protects its wearers or occupants from damage caused by radiation. object:spaceship text/html 2023-06-30T18:42:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:shifting&rev=1688175741&do=diff SHIFTING STRUCTURE A permanent fault in the Architectural Configuration Circuit causes the internal structure of the TARDIS to occasionally shift about. This can cause no end of confusion for its operator and passengers, although the TARDIS will help those who know what they are looking for, or have a particularly strong intuition, to follow the right path. text/html 2023-07-02T19:06:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:signature&rev=1688350004&do=diff HIGH SIGNATURE This ship is poorly designed or sends out so much heat or other energies that it is easy to detect with sensors, giving a +2 bonus on rolls to do so. object:spaceship text/html 2023-06-27T00:43:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:silver&rev=1687851789&do=diff SILVER SPOON You have been brought up in an atmosphere of wealth and privilege that has left you a little out of touch with the ‘common folk’. While this might not have made you a snob, you are still not used to doing things for yourself or having to go without. You suffer a -2 penalty when dealing with the poor and destitute and also when attempting actions that might be dirty or unpleasant and might be ‘beneath you’. text/html 2023-06-26T23:54:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:single&rev=1687848874&do=diff SINGLE-MINDED The more you are thwarted in your plans, the more obsessed you get about pursuing them. Each battle you lose makes you more dedicated to winning the war. For the minor level, each time your plans are interrupted by someone acting against you, you gain a Story Point. text/html 2023-06-30T02:04:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:size&rev=1688115892&do=diff SIZE Prerequisite: Alien Aliens and prehistoric monsters come in all shapes and sizes. When facing gigantic creatures such as a Tyrannosaurus rex or a Wooly Mammoth, or tiny foes such as Compsognathus, the Gamemaster may wish to include some additional rules to take their size into account. text/html 2023-06-29T22:46:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:skill&rev=1688103994&do=diff SKILL* The Gadget is programmed or designed in such a way that it can perform a specific skilled task when the user has no ability. It could be an electronic lock pick (Skill: Subterfuge) or an auto-aiming feature on a pistol that aids the user (Skill: Marksman). The Gadget has a Skill of 2 in a single skill, which can be used in place of the character’s skill if higher. This is particularly handy for characters who completely lack the skill as it allows them to ignore the -4 penalty for unskil… text/html 2023-06-26T23:55:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:sleuth&rev=1687848913&do=diff SLEUTH The character is a master of deduction and has an eye for finding clues. Effect The character gains +2 to Ingenuity rolls when searching for clues or asking probing questions. trait:good level:minor object:characters text/html 2023-06-30T02:20:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:slow&rev=1688116802&do=diff SLOW A lot of the Doctor’s adversaries are incredibly dangerous but thankfully many of them move slowly. Cybermen are walking tanks able to withstand gunfire and damage but the Doctor is quick to avoid them as they lumber from one place to the next with a slow marching stomp. This trait can also be used for characters that are physically impaired from moving properly. text/html 2023-06-30T18:43:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:sluggish&rev=1688175796&do=diff SLUGGISH Prerequisite: Type 1-30 The TARDIS is old and slow, struggling to accomplish most tasks, much less accomplish them with any speed. Database retrieval is sluggish, circuits take extra time to kick in and dematerialization takes forever, the machine moaning and wheezing in an extremely noisome manner, even for a TARDIS. text/html 2023-06-30T18:44:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:smaller&rev=1688175852&do=diff SMALLER ON THE INSIDE Prerequisite: Type 1-30 The TARDIS Dimensional Stabilizer and related Architectural Configuration Circuitry is faulty or is one of the earliest examples of Transcendent Dimension Technology, the practical upshot of which is that the interior is of a finite size, and in some cases, may not be much bigger than the exterior, if at all. text/html 2023-06-30T02:06:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:snap&rev=1688116012&do=diff SNAP! Prerequisite: Alien If it spends a Story Point, the creature makes an additional Bite attack this round. trait:good level:minor prerequisite:alien object:characters text/html 2023-07-02T23:14:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:spaceship_weapons&rev=1688364852&do=diff Traits for Spaceship Weapons text/html 2023-07-02T23:16:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:spaceships&rev=1688364981&do=diff Traits for Spaceships text/html 2023-06-30T02:07:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:special&rev=1688116058&do=diff SPECIAL Prerequisite: Alien Sometimes aliens can do something remarkable and odd, something that none of the other powers and abilities listed here covers. It could be the Weeping Angel’s ability to send its victims back through time or the Krillitane’s ability to steal the traits and features of the races they conquer. This trait allows the Gamemaster to go wild and create the odd and special powers that can sometimes define the race. text/html 2023-06-28T02:22:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:splintered&rev=1687944166&do=diff SPLINTERED If a player is looking for an unconventional character to play, they could take inspiration from Scaroth and play someone who’s been splintered across time and space. The character only becomes aware of his splintered status after coming into contact with other time travellers. In each new adventure, the rest of the characters encounter a new incarnation of the splintered character – and after that encounter, that incarnation can psychically communicate with the other ‘active’ incarn… text/html 2023-07-02T19:09:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:spower&rev=1688350152&do=diff POWER UP (X) A spaceship with this trait takes some time to come to full power before it can be used (be it for flight, weapons, communication or scanning). The ship needs a number of action rounds equal to (X) rating to come to full power, before which it cannot be used or operated. text/html 2023-07-02T19:18:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:spread&rev=1688350700&do=diff SPREAD This weapon fires a spread of shot that can easily hit two adjacent targets at ranges less than 100 metres, but the spread loses power quickly, dropping its damage rating by two levels per 50 metres after that. object:spaceship_weapon text/html 2023-07-02T19:12:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:sradar&rev=1688350327&do=diff SCAN (RADAR) Can be used to detect objects at a distance, pinpointing their location and range. object:spaceship text/html 2023-06-27T00:46:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:sreflexes&rev=1687851987&do=diff SLOW REFLEXES A character with this trait is constantly surprised by events, unable to get a word into a conversation, last to react in a confrontation and often hit in the face when a ball is thrown to them. Effect As a Minor Bad Trait, the character always goes last when multiple people are acting at the same time in a round. Others will always go first. However, as a Major Bad Trait, the character always goes last in a round, going after everyone else, as they try to take in all the inform… text/html 2023-07-02T19:10:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:sshielding&rev=1688350242&do=diff SHIELDING Shields provide complete protection against beam weapons at the cost of 1 Story Point per use. object:spaceship text/html 2023-06-28T02:24:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:sss&rev=1687944296&do=diff SSS AGENT You’re a member of the Space Security Service, in the 40th Century (Technology Level 7), charged with protecting Earth against all dangers. Effect Space Security Service operatives get a +1 to their Strength and Resolve, and gain a +2 bonus when trying to intimidate or order other humans from the Second Empire. They have the Good Traits ' text/html 2023-07-02T23:20:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:start&rev=1688365254&do=diff Traits * Bases * Characters * Gadgets * Spaceships * Spaceship Weapons * TARDIS * Search all traits based on their tags - note this page takes the longest to load. Traits that can be purchased multiple times are marked with an asterisk (*). text/html 2023-06-29T22:47:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:stasis&rev=1688104045&do=diff STASIS This gadget has the ability to deflect the flow of time around the target, ‘freezing’ it in an impenetrable area of ‘null time.’ Effect As a Minor Trait, the field will hold everything within a roughly elephant sized radius within 10 yards of the Gadget, for 2D6x10 minutes. This is at least late TL 7 technology and requires one of the Gadget’s Story Points to power the field. The Gadget may not be moved while the field is in effect. text/html 2023-07-02T19:12:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:steady&rev=1688350370&do=diff STEADY A ship with this trait is an unusually stable firing platform, granting +2 to any rolls made to shoot a weapon from it. object:spaceship text/html 2023-07-02T19:13:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:story&rev=1688350386&do=diff STORY POINTS This trait gives the spaceship a pool of Story Points that can be used to activate the item’s Traits or spent on rolls involving the item (actually, they can be used for any normal Story Point expenditures as long as the item is affected). The amount of Story Points the item has is listed after this trait in the item’s description. text/html 2023-07-02T19:14:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:stransmit&rev=1688350490&do=diff TRANSMIT This item transmits data over a great distance. object:spaceship text/html 2023-06-27T00:48:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:stubborn&rev=1687852132&do=diff STUBBORN The character gets a +2 on Resolve rolls to resist coercion or hypnotism. trait:bad level:minor object:characters text/html 2023-06-29T22:48:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:stun&rev=1688104108&do=diff STUN Gadgets with this Trait can stun their targets, making them inactive for a number of rounds. Effect As a Minor Trait the target will be stunned for 2D6 – their Strength in Rounds. As a Major Trait, they are stunned for 2D6 x their Strength in Hours (minimum of 1). text/html 2023-06-30T00:25:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:summon&rev=1688109934&do=diff SUMMON HORDE Prerequisite: Apocalyptic The weapon is capable of calling down hordes of minions seemingly out of nowhere. It might do this by opening up random holes across spacetime, reaching in and grabbing out whatever forces it can find and dominate. It might be a dimensionally transcendental carrier ship that is only the size of a small squad carrier but actually contains a base with enough facilities and troops to invade a planet. Alternately, it might be a creature that carries internal … text/html 2023-06-30T02:08:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:swarm&rev=1688116112&do=diff SWARM Prerequisite: Alien This trait is used to represent lots of small creatures – say, a hundred crawling Cybermites or hundreds of Vashta Nerada – where it’s easier to treat the whole group as a single creature, called a Swarm. The value in brackets after the Swarm trait determines how dangerous it is – the higher the number, the more attacking creatures there are in the Swarm. A Swarm makes one attack roll each round, and then makes a number of hits equal to its trait value. Furthermore, a… text/html 2023-06-26T23:55:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:symbiotic&rev=1687848956&do=diff SYMBIOTIC NUCLEI The character has travelled with a Time Lord for long enough that they’ve picked up trace elements of the nuclei that the Time Lord and TARDIS share. This is far more easily detectable than Artron radiation and will mark the character out as being the companion of a Time Lord. On the plus side, it will also mean that the translation circuit in any TARDIS will work for them. text/html 2023-06-30T18:45:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:system&rev=1688175945&do=diff SYSTEM FAULT The TARDIS has a permanent system fault due to damage or deterioration or is simply so old that it is missing a vital system found on all later models. This damage or missing system cannot be repaired or replaced without extensive work and a great deal of time, which, strangely enough, Time Lords never seem to have text/html 2023-06-30T18:15:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:systems&rev=1688174134&do=diff SYSTEMS UPGRADE As the Time Lord travels, they may occasionally find enough down time, and interest, to customize and improve their TARDIS. They may still be flying around in a museum piece, but after a bit of work it will be a far more functional one text/html 2023-06-28T02:29:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tagent&rev=1687944568&do=diff TIME AGENT Time Agents are special operatives of the Time Agency, a shadowy group performing undercover espionage work involving time travel. Little is known of them, only that their operations spanned the galaxies and all of time. When Jack Harkness returned to Cardiff after the Harold Saxon encounter, he was told that there were only seven surviving operatives (including the renegade agents Captain Jack Harkness and Captain John Hart). They are usually equipped with Vortex Manipulators, and ‘… text/html 2023-06-30T00:42:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tailored&rev=1688110963&do=diff TAILORED REGENERATION Prerequisite: Time Lord The Time Lord has an intuitive control over their body during Regeneration which allows them to tailor their form to their liking. Effect Whenever the Time Lord Regenerates, they receive D6 Picks in addition to any Redraws or Picks they might gain as a result of their Regeneration Roll. text/html 2023-06-30T01:13:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:talk&rev=1688112786&do=diff TALK TO EVERYTHING Prerequisite: Psychic There are plenty of creatures who can’t say what’s on their mind, like animals and babies. However if you listen carefully, and you’re just a little bit psychic, you can communicate with them. Effect Talk to Everything costs 1 Character Point. It only works when you’re at normal conversational distance from the creature you want to talk with. Make an Ingenuity + Resolve roll (Difficulty 15) to work out how to chat with the baby or animal or anemone or… text/html 2023-06-27T01:35:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tamnesia&rev=1687854952&do=diff TEMPORAL AMNESIA The character has been plucked out of the time stream. This has wreaked havoc on their short term memory (-3 to all Awareness rolls) and almost as much damage on their long-term (-2 to all Knowledge). The character will regain the memories the longer they stay in one place but do so in a fractured, incomplete way. On returning to their time, their memories will reappear instantly. text/html 2023-07-02T23:14:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tardis&rev=1688364880&do=diff Traits for TARDISes Good Traits Bad Traits text/html 2023-07-02T19:13:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:targeting&rev=1688350404&do=diff TARGETING SYSTEM A built-in targeting system makes it easier to aim the vehicle’s weapons. Any Marksman rolls made from this vehicle gain a +2 to the attack roll. Alternatively, the vehicle’s Story Points can be spent to add dice to the roll or increase the level of success. text/html 2023-06-30T18:28:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:targumentative&rev=1688174931&do=diff ARGUMENTATIVE The TARDIS has ideas of its own on how to go about things and will often make life difficult for its weary Time Lord operator, freezing controls, slamming the door in their face, or ‘accidently’ activating the HADS system so it can sulk in the Vortex until it gets its way. Usually, the operator has to flatter or soothe it to get it out of its mood and free up the controls, but some operators find a hammer is also an effective correctional tool when they’re really in a hurry. text/html 2023-06-30T02:25:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tbrave&rev=1688117115&do=diff BRAVE Most TARDIS units take a logical approach to the use of the HADS system, dematerializing the moment the probability of damage reaches 51%. This TARDIS, however, has experienced some of the most dangerous circumstances the universe can throw at it and is willing to stay put until the last moment in order to avoid abandoning its operator at an unfortunate moment. text/html 2023-06-27T01:36:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tcastaway&rev=1687854985&do=diff TEMPORAL CASTAWAY The character is from another time and place but is now stuck in a single, unfamiliar time and place; they have a bit of trouble adapting to their new home. Effect Whenever the character attempts to use technology that is unfamiliar to their home time and place, they take a -2 penalty on the roll. Over time, the Gamemaster may reduce this penalty to -1 or even 0 as they become more familiar with that particular technology. This trait cannot be taken with the Time Traveller t… text/html 2023-06-30T02:28:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tclairvoyance&rev=1688117326&do=diff CLAIRVOYANCE All TARDIS models use a 4-Dimensional Interstitial Scanning Array linked to their Exo-Chronoplasmic shells to ‘see’ the area surrounding the Real World Interface and beyond. Some models can even see a bit into the future... Effect text/html 2023-06-30T18:29:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tconduct&rev=1688174966&do=diff CODE OF CONDUCT The TARDIS is heavily motivated to adhere to a strict set of moral rules. This might be due to programming, the influence of a long time relationship with a single Time Lord operator, or because it picked up the cultural mores of a civilization it had spent a long time with as part of an anthropological mission. Whatever the reason, it not only follows the code but also tries to force its operator and passengers to do so as well. text/html 2023-06-30T18:30:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tcowardly&rev=1688175005&do=diff COWARDLY This TARDIS has seen the worst the universe can throw at it and the experience has scarred it, psychologically. Now it simply wants to go somewhere safe and stay put. Unfortunately, life with a Time Lord is rarely safe and there is no running back to Gallifrey anymore, so this TARDIS has taken to retreating into the Vortex at the least sign of trouble. This causes no end of consternation for its operator, of course text/html 2023-06-30T00:26:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:teater&rev=1688110005&do=diff TIME EATER Prerequisite: Apocalyptic These weapons eat time, both future and past and the most powerful ones can even devour whole timelines, their targets literally ceasing to have ever been or to ever be. Many of them use this energy to power themselves, running on stolen years like a car runs on petrol. text/html 2023-06-30T01:13:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tech&rev=1688112802&do=diff TECH SENSITIVE Prerequisite: Psychic Something about the character resonates when they are in the presence of alien technology. It might be that the energy field makes the hairs of their neck stand on end, or they get a sick feeling in the stomach when they touch a type of alien material. However it manifests, when the character is in the vicinity of alien technology they just know. The more powerful the technology, the stronger the feeling and the further away they can feel its presence. text/html 2023-06-26T23:58:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:technically&rev=1687849132&do=diff TECHNICALLY ADEPT The character has an innate connection to technology, and can sometimes fix things just by hitting them! They’re skilled enough to operate and repair most things with limited tools, taking half the time it normally takes. Often, if the device stopped working within thirty minutes, it can be restarted just by thumping it. It may not last long, but long enough… text/html 2023-06-30T01:13:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:telekinesis&rev=1688112812&do=diff TELEKINESIS Prerequisite: Psychic Telekinesis, sometimes called psychokinesis, is the power to move something with thought alone. Just concentrating on something can make it move, bend, float or break. This power is usually limited to line-of-sight. That is, if the character cannot see it (because it is too far away or in another room) they cannot concentrate enough on the object to lift or manipulate it (though characters with Clairvoyance may be able to see the object psychically, though the… text/html 2023-06-30T01:13:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:telepathy&rev=1688112824&do=diff TELEPATHY Prerequisite: Psychic Telepathy is the ability to communicate with others through the power of the mind. Telepaths can project their thoughts directly into someone else’s head and they’ll hear it as if they’re speaking to them. Usually, the person isn’t too far away, but if the character’s Resolve is high, they could communicate to someone up to a kilometre away or even further. Very handy if you need to call for help! Once a link has been established, they can hold a short conversat… text/html 2023-06-29T22:49:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:teleport&rev=1688104140&do=diff TELEPORT Teleport means the user can disappear from one location, and instantly appear in another. This is usually very draining on the Gadget and it will require recharging frequently. Teleporters, or ‘Transmats’ are usually dedicated devices as it takes a lot of processing power to not only transport the user, but also to check the exit location is clear and avoid any nasty materialisation mishaps. The distance travelled is usually limited to around 400km (enough to get from a planet’s surfac… text/html 2023-06-30T01:09:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tengineer&rev=1688112596&do=diff TIME LORD ENGINEER Prerequisite: Time Lord and Technically Adept Some Time Lords eschew the more theoretical and philosophical sciences and concentrate, instead, on the more practical application of technology. Obsessed with honing their technical skills, these inveterate tinkerers typically find themselves working to maintain Gallifrey’s vast infrastructure or working in a TARDIS repair bay after they graduate from the Academy. text/html 2023-06-30T02:30:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tface&rev=1688117410&do=diff FACE IN THE CROWD All but the most ancient of TARDIS Units are fixed with a Perception Filter that encourage other beings to ignore their presence. Effect The TARDIS gains a bonus to Subterfuge rolls equal to the TARDIS’ Resolve score. All TARDIS units of Type 30+ come with this Trait as standard. Older TARDIS models may be retrofitted with it by reducing their Story Point total by 1. text/html 2023-06-30T02:30:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tfast&rev=1688117444&do=diff FAST HEALING TARDIS units are slow to heal as it takes a massive amount of energy to regenerate lost superstructure and recalculate Block Transfer components. This TARDIS, however, is particularly quick healer. Effect The TARDIS heals 3 points of Attribute damage per adventure instead of 1. This reduces the TARDIS’ Story Point total by 2. text/html 2023-06-30T02:31:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tfeel&rev=1688117478&do=diff FEEL THE TURN OF THE UNIVERSE Creatures of the 4th Dimension, TARDIS units are exceptionally perceptive when it comes to the flow of history and causality and they can use this to aid their Time Lord operator in identifying and solving problems with the timestream. text/html 2023-06-30T18:31:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tforgetful&rev=1688175072&do=diff FORGETFUL Prerequisite: Type 1-59 There is a glitch in the TARDIS’ memory banks, typically caused by irreversible system degradation due to great age, that make it a bit senile. As such, it can often forget to carry out random bits of programmed instructions and access to its database is spotty at best. text/html 2023-07-02T22:40:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:threat&rev=1688362802&do=diff ALIEN THREAT There is an ongoing threat near the base. Maybe your base is built on top of a slumbering Silurian colony. Maybe there are Weevils in the sewers nearby, or there’s a Carrionite church in the village down the road. Perhaps a Sycorax survivor has targeted your base for destruction. In any event, you face attacks from an implacable enemy on a regular basis. text/html 2023-07-02T19:13:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:thrill&rev=1688350421&do=diff THRILL RIDE This vehicle is flat out dangerous to drive; it is fast, lightly constructed, with very sensitive controls. A character can spend a Story Point to perform an extra Stunt during a chase. object:spaceship text/html 2023-06-27T00:00:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:time&rev=1687849242&do=diff TIME TRAVELLER* The character is experienced with the technology and society of time periods different to their own. The Time Traveller trait also reflects how much travelling in time the character has done, and can be used as a rough indicator of how much background Artron Radiation they have picked up from travelling the Vortex. While this isn’t actually harmful, some alien races have been known to target individuals that have high Artron levels to fuel or activate their technology. text/html 2023-06-30T18:32:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:timpulsive&rev=1688175175&do=diff IMPULSIVE The TARDIS is eager, ready for action and gets bored hanging about on worlds where there is little or nothing exciting going on. As it tends to experience excitement vicariously, through the experiences of its operator, this means that it will often ‘slightly modify’ coordinates to dump them in ‘exciting’ situations, allow strange (but interesting) people to see through its perception filters and enter freely, or otherwise spice up life for its exasperated Time Lord companion. text/html 2023-06-27T00:50:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tinept&rev=1687852209&do=diff TECHNICALLY INEPT Technology seems to hate the character. Things break when touched, using advanced technology is frustrating and annoying, trying to fix technology presents the character with a mass of wires and welding that is so completely confusing that they hardly know where to start. text/html 2023-06-30T18:33:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tinexperienced&rev=1688175234&do=diff INEXPERIENCED Prerequisite: Type 60+ This TARDIS has rarely seen use or has only been used for a single specific purpose, such as a long term anthropological study of a minor species on an insignificant blue green planet in Mutter’s Spiral. Effect The TARDIS suffers a -2 to its Knowledge Skill. This Trait raises the TARDIS’ Story Point total by 1. text/html 2023-06-30T18:36:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tinsatiable&rev=1688175387&do=diff INSATIABLE CURIOSITY The TARDIS has an almost childlike curiosity about other places and times and, if left too long, it will occasionally nip off for short jaunts when its operator is away in order to slake its thirst for knowledge. These trips can last any amount of subjective time, with the TARDIS having many ‘adventures’ of its own, like being worshipped by a strange primitive tribe it is observing or becoming caught in a prehistoric mudslide that leaves a fossil impression destined to blow… text/html 2023-06-30T02:32:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tisomorphic&rev=1688117537&do=diff ISOMORPHIC CONTROLS These lock the TARDIS so it can only be used by the passenger Time Lord. The controls can be reset once the TARDIS arrives at its destination, but prior to that anyone other than the passenger trying to modify them will receiving an electric shock (1 level of damage per round of contact after the first). Disabling the system requires a TL7 or higher species to make an Ingenuity+ Technology Roll (Difficulty 18). text/html 2023-06-29T22:50:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tloop&rev=1688104203&do=diff TIME LOOP This Gadget has the ability to fold time back on itself, trapping those inside like flies in amber, doomed to repeat the same series of events over and over and over again for eternity. Or until the power runs out... Effect For 3 Story Points, the Gadget is capable of creating a temporary Time Loop of 2D6x10 seconds in length, encompassing an area roughly 1 kilometre in diameter. The Loop will last for D6 scenes and one additional scene for every extra Story Point put into it (the G… text/html 2023-06-28T02:31:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tlord&rev=1687944690&do=diff TIME LORD The Time Lords of Gallifrey were one of the first and most powerful civilisations in the universe. Pioneers of time travel technology, they became self appointed custodians of time before their fall during the Time War with the Daleks. Effect text/html 2023-06-30T00:29:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tlordexperienced&rev=1688110147&do=diff TIME LORD (EXPERIENCED)* Prerequisite: Time Lord The experienced Time Lord has been around for centuries, gaining a vast repertoire of skills and knowledge. Although, in gaining all of this experience, they may have exhausted a regeneration or two in the process. text/html 2023-06-30T02:33:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tlucky&rev=1688117638&do=diff LUCKY This TARDIS has a talent at seeing a few seconds into the future and then making lightning quick corrections to overcome unfortunate circumstances. Those inside the TARDIS often make the mistake of thinking that they got lucky when, in actuality, it was a bit of clairvoyance and quick thinking on the part of ‘the machine.’ text/html 2023-06-26T23:59:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tmentor&rev=1687849174&do=diff TIME LORD MENTOR One, or in fact, all the characters have attracted the attention of a Time Lord, either as students, colleagues or those funny little hairless ape things from Earth that just seem to get everywhere these days. The Mentor will turn up when they feel like it, drag the characters off on adventures and make a general nuisance of themselves. Which, let’s face it, is something every Time Lord we’ve ever met excels at. In the game, this can be played in one of two ways. Either sit dow… text/html 2023-06-27T00:01:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tough&rev=1687849285&do=diff TOUGH Not everyone can take a punch on the nose and brush it off as if nothing had happened. Few people can take getting shot or starved, tortured or wounded in the course of their everyday lives. However, people with the Tough trait are used to the adventure, can take the knocks and brush them off. text/html 2023-06-30T00:41:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:toutsider&rev=1688110879&do=diff OUTSIDER (Time Lord) Prerequisite: Time Lord This Time Lord rejected the staid lifestyle and effete snobbery of society in the Citadel and exiled themselves into the wilds of Gallifrey, abandoning technology and learning to survive without it. Effect The Time Lord is strong, tough and self sufficient, gaining a +1 Strength and Resolve and +1 to both the Craft and Survival skills, but -1 to Technology. They are also assumed to have the Time Traveller Trait for Tech Levels 1 and 2. Their statu… text/html 2023-06-30T18:40:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tphobia&rev=1688175604&do=diff PHOBIA For whatever reason, the TARDIS has a primal fear of something. It could be a type of environmental factor, like water, fire or lightning, or it could be a type of creature, like Daleks or even butterflies. It could even be a type of situation or place, like a battlefield or swamps. Whatever the case, the TARDIS will do a scan of the landing area and if it detects the object of its Phobia, it will materialize as far out of sight of it as possible, and it will tend to activate the HADS sy… text/html 2023-06-30T02:35:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tpsychic&rev=1688117742&do=diff PSYCHIC A TARDIS gets inside your head. This is essential to its function as it helps the operator to run the ship, translate alien thought patterns into recognisable speech, monitor potential threats and perform many other tasks that help to streamline the lives of its occupants. text/html 2023-06-29T22:50:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:track&rev=1688104233&do=diff TRACK The Track trait means the Gadget can find things for you. As a Minor Good Trait it can locate the target as long as it is on the same planet, by showing the operator how close they are and guiding them towards it. As a Major Good Trait the device can find the quarry anywhere in the universe, able to offer coordinates to its general whereabouts where it can be tracked on the ground as with the Minor Good Trait. text/html 2023-06-30T18:19:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tractor&rev=1688174390&do=diff TRACTOR BEAM The final stage of retrieving a TARDIS is guiding it into land at one of the Courtrooms. Once the TARDIS has materialised in the same space and time as the station, the tractor beam is activated. The operator has to make an Ingenuity + Technology roll at a difficulty determined by the size of the object being pulled in to ensure it’s grabbed successfully. Once it’s in place, the Time Scoop activates one last time, dropping the TARDIS into place, dematerialising then materialising t… text/html 2023-06-30T02:10:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:trade&rev=1688116214&do=diff TRADE VALUE Prerequisite: Alien The organism has some special value as a commodity. Effect As a Minor Trait, the creature is a source of food, basic clothing or has some aesthetic value. As a Major Trait, this food, clothing or aesthetic value is particularly high due to unique properties, rarity or both. text/html 2023-07-02T22:37:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:training&rev=1688362673&do=diff TRAINING Your base includes a gym, a firing range, and other training facilities. Between missions, you’re busy honing your skills. Effect As a group, you receive 3 bonus Story Points every adventure that can be used by a character in any situation where their physical or martial training may be of benefit. text/html 2023-07-02T22:43:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:traitor&rev=1688363019&do=diff TRAITOR There’s an enemy among you. Someone in the group is a traitor, working for another organisation (like Torchwood) or for an alien power (like the Master or the Krillitane). This traitor is undercover, hiding their secret goals from you. One day in the future, when the time is right, they will betray you. text/html 2023-06-30T02:11:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:trample&rev=1688116279&do=diff TRAMPLE Prerequisite: Alien and Size Huge or Colossal The creature walks over smaller creatures. It inflicts Strength damage on all creatures that it runs over. Characters can dodge a trample attack with a successful Coordination + Athletics. This trait costs a Story Point to use. text/html 2023-06-30T01:10:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:trance&rev=1688112607&do=diff TRANCE Prerequisite: Time Lord and Psychic Trance is a Special Trait, requiring the character to already have the Time Lord and Psychic Traits. Trance costs 2 points. The Time Lord must either pay a story point or Roll Resolve + Survival (Difficulty 16) to enter a trance in which they can see the current location of their past self relative to their position in time. Once located, the Time Lord sees and hears everything their previous incarnation does but at wildly variable levels. Sounds beco… text/html 2023-06-29T23:18:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:transformation&rev=1688105903&do=diff TRANSFORMATION Rather than directly harm a user, some Gadgets have the side-effect of slowly transforming them into something else. Effect This is a variation on the Infection Alien Trait. If the character uses the Gadget without wearing some form of protection, then the Gadget transforms the character. text/html 2023-06-29T22:51:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:transmit&rev=1688104276&do=diff TRANSMIT Transmit is a general Gadget Trait that means the device can pick up and/or send out signals, from picking up radio or phone transmissions, to intercepting calls, blocking the transmissions of a teleporter, or something similar. It can be used anywhere that signals are transmitted or received to block, listen in or alter the message. To use the Gadget like this will require an Ingenuity + Technology roll, the Gamemaster deciding the Difficulty depending upon the signal being intercepte… text/html 2023-06-29T22:51:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:transmute&rev=1688104316&do=diff TRANSMUTE The Gadget is capable of rearranging itself to produce a different effect. A sword may become a crowbar or a rifle may become a shield. Effect Only one Good Gadget Trait may be operable at any given time – it takes one round to change the Gadget from using one trait to another as the Gadget ‘reassembles’ itself (in combat, the character wielding the Gadget may perform another action during this reassembly, such as Talk or Run). All Good Gadget Traits tied to Transmute must take the … text/html 2023-06-29T22:52:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:travel&rev=1688104354&do=diff TRAVEL The Gadget is able to transport people from place to place. Usually this means that the Gadget is a vehicle, although it also may be a portal or ‘magical’ object. Effect As a Minor Good Trait, the Gadget is able to move across land or water. By purchasing the Flight, Environmental or Vortex traits in conjunction with this trait, the Gadget can operate further afield still, such as underwater, in the air or through time and space! text/html 2023-06-30T00:27:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:treacherous&rev=1688110041&do=diff TREACHEROUS Prerequisite: Apocalyptic The weapon is dangerous to handle, beyond even the level of danger normally associated with utilizing Time War Weaponry. It actively radiates baleful energies, feeds on the user, or otherwise causes massive damage to those who would dare to wield it. text/html 2023-07-02T19:15:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:treads&rev=1688350508&do=diff TREADS This vehicle has treads, allowing it to roll over most land terrain and small obstacles, but making it slow and ungainly, levying a -2 penalty to any rolls made to drive it. object:spaceship text/html 2023-06-30T02:37:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tresourceful&rev=1688117869&do=diff RESOURCEFUL POCKETS Having massive interiors with numerous storage spaces, TARDIS units are typically chock-a-block with all manner of odds or ends, but it is the Utility Room just off the main console room that is filled with all the most important equipment. text/html 2023-06-30T18:20:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:trick&rev=1688174453&do=diff TRICK The TARDIS and its operator have such a deep understanding of each other that the Time Lordose the use of the Telepathic Translation Field (although the Translation Circuit will still be functional and available via the Communications Console for manual translations).As the Time Lord travels, they may occasionally find enough down time, and interest, to customize and improve their TARDIS. They may still be flying around in a museum piece, but after a bit of work it will be a far more func… text/html 2023-07-02T22:38:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:troops&rev=1688362701&do=diff TROOPS Your base has a barracks and plenty of soldiers. Not every UNIT base is full of soldiers; an isolated listening post or research station might have only a handful of guards. Effect There is a large supply of manpower on the base. The characters have plenty of back-up in a firefight, and can call on other soldiers to serve as scouts or guards. text/html 2023-07-02T22:44:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:trouble&rev=1688363053&do=diff TROUBLE AT THE TOP There are problems with the chain of command in your base. Maybe your superior officers are incompetent, or do not trust you, or maybe they are ambitious and demand the impossible from you. Maybe some politicians are interfering in UNIT’s mission or the local population objects to UNIT’s presence. text/html 2023-06-27T00:01:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:true&rev=1687849319&do=diff TRUE CONNECTION The character has a deep, positive connection to another person that can help them in crisis situations. Parents might have such a connection for their children, or lovers for their partners, or it might develop between life-long friends. text/html 2023-06-30T02:38:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:trun&rev=1688117909&do=diff RUN FOR YOR LIFE! This TARDIS has spent a lot of time running away from ‘very bad things,’ and has a knack for shaking off pursuit. Effect The TARDIS gains a +1 Bonus to Speed when fleeing. If being pursued through the Vortex, by Wake Shadowing or other means, it receives a +3 bonus on any roll to shake pursuers. This Trait reduces the TARDIS’ Story Point total by 1. text/html 2023-06-30T18:14:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tsense&rev=1688174065&do=diff SENSE OF DIRECTION This Trait represents the TARDIS Homing System which allows it to home in on various types of signals. It also has a store of D6 Homing Beacons which may be used to find one’s way back to the TARDIS, no matter how far away or how well disguised it is. text/html 2023-06-30T18:17:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:ttelepathy&rev=1688174225&do=diff TELEPATHY The Telepathic Circuits allow the TARDIS to ‘communicate’ with its operator and others. Without it, a Time Lord would have greater difficulty operating and repairing the TARDIS and, in addition, would be reduced to learning alien languages the hard way. text/html 2023-06-30T18:18:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:ttough&rev=1688174334&do=diff TOUGH This TARDIS unit is particularly resilient due to intentional dimensional hardening or because of peculiar coral build-up, similar to scarring, that has resulted from previous damage. Effect Reduces the amount of damage sustained by the TARDIS by 2 points, after any other affects, like Armour and Force Fields, are taken into account. This Trait reduces the TARDIS’ Story Points by 1. text/html 2023-06-30T18:46:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tunlucky&rev=1688175981&do=diff UNLUCKY The TARDIS is slightly out of tune with the flow of the universe and seems to be forever behind the curve of events. This hampers its ability to work with its operator to achieve the best results where its functions are concerned. To the operator and passengers, this might seem like a string of bad luck, but in reality, it is the result of errors on the part of a machine that works in 4 dimensions text/html 2023-07-02T19:15:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:turbo&rev=1688350528&do=diff TURBO-BOOSTERS The vehicle has extra boosters that feed more power to the engines. By spending a Story Point, the pilot can increase the vehicle’s Speed by +4 for one action or chase round. object:spaceship text/html 2023-06-30T18:21:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tvortex&rev=1688174509&do=diff VORTEX The TARDIS is a creature of the Vortex, designed and grown to step into the swirling maelstrom and return again safely. This takes massive amounts of energy, however, and after a great deal of use, a TARDIS may have to recharge its batteries, either through the Dynamorphic Generators converting power from the Eye of Harmony on Gallifrey, or after the Time War, by opening up the engines on top of a temporal power source, like the Cardiff Rift or, in an emergency, using the Time Lord’s own… text/html 2023-06-30T18:23:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:twell&rev=1688174628&do=diff WELL TRAVELLED Prerequisite: Type 1-59 The TARDIS has seen many alien worlds and possibly even an alternate dimension or a parallel world or two. Effect The TARDIS gains 3 extra skill points to spend on new or existing skills. This reduces the TARDIS’ Story Point total by 1. text/html 2023-07-02T19:14:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:tyres&rev=1688350442&do=diff TYRES This vehicle rides on tyres, allowing it to traverse most land terrain save those that are particularly soft or muddy. object:spaceship text/html 2023-06-27T01:41:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:unadventurous&rev=1687855318&do=diff UNADVENTUROUS The idea of exploring or seeing the world and the universe just doesn’t seem to appeal. Why spend money travelling across the world when you don’t have anything to show for your expense afterwards except some trinkets and fading photographs? Sometimes, it’s just laziness, fatigue or bad experience, but either way the excitement and thrill of travelling or experiencing the new just isn’t there, or has faded. text/html 2023-06-27T01:43:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:unattractive&rev=1687855380&do=diff UNATTRACTIVE For every stunningly gorgeous individual there are those whose faces do not launch a thousand Jathaa Sungliders or stop traffic on the New New York motorways (unless that face is the Face of Boe). They’re not necessarily ugly or hideous, but their looks may hinder when it comes to some social situations. text/html 2023-06-27T02:00:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:uncommunicative&rev=1687856435&do=diff UNCOMMUNICATIVE You are unable to use human speech, making it hard to communicate with any but your own species. As a minor trait you can still understand human speech, but needs some sort of device to be able to communicate effectively. As a major trait you have no conceptual commonality with normal speech, making you unable to understand or communicate with others. No device is able to accurately translate for you, making you reliant on some form of intelligent interpreter. Characters with … text/html 2023-06-27T02:01:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:uncreative&rev=1687856473&do=diff UNCREATIVE The character lacks the creative spark to ‘think outside the box’ and think of creative ways to approach a situation. The character doesn’t handle new situations well and relies on past experiences or wisdom to approach problems. Effect text/html 2023-06-29T23:19:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:unfamiliar&rev=1688105950&do=diff UNFAMILIAR INTERFACE Whether due to a different philosophy of design or due to alien biology, the Gadget’s interface is not intuitive to the operator. Effect As a Minor Bad Trait, the Gadget is simply awkward to use – a UNIT soldier may have to hold a laser pistol designed for a larger creature like a rifle. The character has a -2 penalty on any attempts to use the Gadget. text/html 2023-06-28T02:33:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:unfeeling&rev=1687944813&do=diff UNFEELING The character is emotionless. They’ve got a -4 penalty to any Social Conflict that hinges on their understanding of this thing you humans call love (or fear, or doubt, or jealousy, or happiness, or good, or evil, or anything else that only makes sense to Ephemerals). text/html 2023-06-27T02:10:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:unlucky&rev=1687857022&do=diff UNLUCKY Call it a curse, call it chance, but fortune hasn’t smiled for a while. The traffic lights turn red whenever approached, the character pressed the wrong button on the control panel and shorted the autopilot or their attempt at being diplomatic has resulted in insulting the city’s patron and her entire family. text/html 2023-06-29T23:19:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:unreliable&rev=1688105999&do=diff UNRELIABLE The Gadget doesn’t always work. Effect A character using this Gadget needs to make a Good result or better in order for the Gadget to work. Note This trait may only be taken if the Gadget requires a skill roll to use. trait:bad level:minor object:gadgets text/html 2023-06-29T23:21:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:unstable&rev=1688106081&do=diff UNSTABLE The Gadget is made of volatile materials. It could explode at any time. Effect Once per scene, or at any point when the character holding the Gadget is jostled or shaken, roll two dice. If the result is doubles then the Gadget explodes. text/html 2023-06-30T00:28:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:unstoppable&rev=1688110081&do=diff UNSTOPPABLE FORCE Prerequisite: Apocalyptic The weapon emits a damaging force that cannot be countered by any known defence, due to its transdimensional, temporal and/or unstoppable destructive power. What it hits, it destroys... Effect By expending 1 Story Point, the weapon delivers an ‘L’ result that instantly destroys any target within a 3D6 meter radius, regardless of Attribute Levels, Hit Capacity, or Traits of any kind. It can expand the radius of the blast by a factor of 10 for every … text/html 2023-06-27T00:02:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:unthreatening&rev=1687849366&do=diff UNTHREATENING You are not seen as a threat. In fact, you are automatically assumed not to be a physical threat when the fists or bullets fly. It is common for the Victorians to think this of women, but also the young or the hopelessly academic might be overlooked as well. Whenever combat breaks out, as long as you don’t participate, you will be left alone and ignored. text/html 2023-06-28T02:34:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:uploaded&rev=1687944885&do=diff UPLOADED CHARACTER The character's personality has been uploaded onto a computer chip. These chips can then be inserted into an android to give the personality a body again. An uploaded character counts as a Robot, but must pay two extra Character Points for the trait. The advantage is that the character can be placed in a new body if needed. For example, a character could be immediately given a new body if her old one was destroyed, or she could have a ‘wardrobe’ of android forms that she swap… text/html 2023-06-27T02:12:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:upper&rev=1687857126&do=diff UPPER CLASS/MIDDLE CLASS/LOWER CLASS Each class does things in a slightly different way. The upper class have their balls and the lower class their ‘knees ups’. Knowing which fork to use or how not to look the local gangster in the eye are both forms of etiquette. However, if you are used to one and not the other you will run into problems. text/html 2023-06-28T02:38:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:vampire&rev=1687945125&do=diff VAMPIRE Vampire Player Characters: * Vampires gain +3 to their Strength. * Vampires get all those nice Vampire traits, with the exception of Enslaved – a player character Vampire is assumed to have broken free of the control of its master. They instead gain text/html 2023-06-30T00:56:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:vborn&rev=1688111783&do=diff VORTEX BORN Prerequisite: Time Lord The Time Lord has an innate and conceptual understanding of time that astounds even other Time Lords. Effect The Time Lord may Reroll a failed test involving Time or Time Travel. In addition, when a misjump occurs, they recieve one Reroll to use on the Misjump Type or Misjump Results tables. text/html 2023-07-02T22:39:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:vehicle&rev=1688362741&do=diff VEHICLE POOL* Your base has a large vehicle garage, and you’ve got access to lots of vehicles. Effect Every UNIT base has a few jeeps and trucks, but this trait gives lots, as well as one ‘special’ vehicle. Choose one type of vehicle from the following list every time you take this Trait. text/html 2023-06-28T02:34:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:veteran&rev=1687944849&do=diff UNIT VETERAN UNIT Veteran is a special trait, costing 4 Character Points. You’ve been part of UNIT for many years, and have seen things that you can’t quite believe. Dalek attack-ships hanging in the skies over Earth, plastic duplicates, time-travelling dinosaurs, dimensional rips, and a madman in a blue box. You’ve seen it all. You’ve got the benefits of Brave and Voice of Authority, plus you can take either Five Rounds Rapid or Rank (Major). Furthermore, your experience with past alien encoun… text/html 2023-06-30T01:10:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:visionary&rev=1688112617&do=diff VISIONARY Prerequisite: Time Lord and Resolve of 5 Some Time Lords look into the Untempered Schism and run away. Some go mad. An even rarer few have their minds opened to the infinite complexity of time and space (which makes them run away and go mad). These exceptionally unique Time Lords are known as Visionaries, the prophets of Gallifrey, and they are able to ‘see’ the threads of fate and destiny with far more clarity than any other Time Lord. text/html 2023-06-27T00:03:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:voice&rev=1687849404&do=diff VOICE OF AUTHORITY The character has the air of command about them, possibly from being a figure of authority – a doctor, politician, military commander or a police constable – or they may have an aura of intelligence or experience that inspires people to listen and trust their judgement. This is especially handy when trying to clear an area because of some approaching danger, to order people about or simply try to gain their trust. text/html 2023-06-28T02:40:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:vortex&rev=1687945201&do=diff VORTEX The Space-time Vortex is a swirling maelstrom that requires great knowledge and skill to navigate. The character may not have access to a TARDIS, Vortex Manipulator or another time travel device, but they have experience in travelling through the Vortex and are familiar with its dangers. text/html 2023-07-02T22:46:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:wandering&rev=1688363166&do=diff WANDERING CIVILIANS Your base is not a secure environment. It might be located in a very public place, or have a lot of visitors. In an emergency, you will have to deal with numerous civilians right in the line of fire. Effect Any crisis or attack on the base will endanger lots of civilians. The characters have to protect these civilians while dealing with the bigger problem. text/html 2023-06-27T02:13:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:wanted&rev=1687857205&do=diff WANTED You are actively hunted by a group. They may believe you have committed a crime, but they might just as easily want to worship you as the chosen one. Either way, you don’t want them to catch up with you. Effect As a Minor Bad Trait the group will sometimes come across you, but they have limited resources and are unable to send a large force to bring you in. As a Major Trait the group are very powerful, and if they catch up with you, you are as good as captured. text/html 2023-06-30T18:22:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:war&rev=1688174559&do=diff WAR MACHINE This TARDIS was built or adapted to be used in a Time War and is armed with various Temporal Weapons and Defences. This call to war goes deeper than equipment load-out, however, and the machine sees everything from a tactical point of view, treating every time and place as a potential battlefield. text/html 2023-06-27T02:14:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:weakness&rev=1687857286&do=diff WEAKNESS* The Weakness trait reflects a single area where the character is susceptible to harm or temptation. This could be anything from an allergy like hay fever or wasp stings (not so good when fighting giant wasps!), to being weak willed and susceptible to mind control, or suffering from occasional - but paralysing - drive glitches. text/html 2023-06-29T22:53:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:weapon&rev=1688104388&do=diff WEAPON Gadgets with this Trait have some sort of weapon built into them. Effect For a Minor Trait, the weapon is simply a blade attachment, a heavy clubbing end or some other enhancement that allows the gadget to be used in melee combat, adding +2 to the unarmed damage of the wielder. text/html 2023-06-29T22:53:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:weld&rev=1688104422&do=diff WELD The Weld trait covers all sorts of incendiary uses;– the Gadget can be used to burn something, cut through thin substances or even solder and weld small items together. While the trait doesn’t give the task any bonuses, it works as a great multi-purpose tool for all your sealing and cutting requirements! text/html 2023-06-27T00:03:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:well&rev=1687849434&do=diff WELL MANNERED You know how to behave in polite society and how to engage in mannered small-talk. You know when to speak, when to listen and how to address those you speak to. You gain a +2 bonus when trying to fit in or use charm in well to do society. text/html 2023-06-28T02:42:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:werewolf&rev=1687945369&do=diff WEREWOLF Werewolf is a Special Good trait costing 5 character points. Those touched by the moon surrender to their bestial nature when bathed in its light. The nature of Werewolves might vary from creature to creature, but Mags is reasonably typical, if a little sensitive. The Doctor will encounter another type of Werewolf later on when his travels take him to Scotland (see Tooth and Claw in The Tenth Doctor Sourcebook). text/html 2023-06-29T22:54:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:wicked&rev=1688104458&do=diff WICKED The Gadget is a melee weapon that does much more damage than normally attributed to a weapon of that type. Effect As a Minor Good Trait, the Gadget does an additional 2 damage when used as a melee weapon due to its exceptional hardness, sharpness, or other property. text/html 2023-06-30T02:13:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:worship&rev=1688116391&do=diff WORSHIP FIELD Prerequisite: Alien The alien, when they have no worshippers, to ensure they don’t go hungry, forces that faith on unsuspecting and unwilling targets. The alien uses a form of Possession to replace a target’s existing faith with their own. The alien is surrounded by a ‘Worship Field’, an effect that extends to an area roughly the size of a few city blocks. This is passive and instinctual for the alien, but through an effort of will the field can be extended further for a time.… text/html 2023-07-02T19:17:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:wslow&rev=1688350652&do=diff SLOW The weapon is slow to reload or recharge and can only be fired once per action round. object:spaceship_weapon text/html 2023-06-29T22:54:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.matrix.curufea.com/doku.php?id=traits:zap&rev=1688104494&do=diff ZAP The Zap Trait turns the Gadget into a ranged weapon. As a Minor Good Trait it has two versions: either the Zap does 4/L/L damage on people, or it does 4/8/12 damage but can also make things explode and burn. As a Major Good Trait it also has two versions: either the Zap can hit multiple targets standing close together with a single shot, or it is strong enough that it can blast vehicles or even spaceships. If you are creating a Gadget with the Zap trait, remember the Doctor’s stance on weap…