Languages

Either assume anyone can talk to anyone else, choose a native and a commonly spoken language that you are fluent in, or roll d10 twice to randomly determine your languages. The most commonly spoken languages on Earth are, in order:

  1. American English
  2. Mandarin Chinese
  3. Hindi
  4. Bengali
  5. Arabic
  6. Spanish
  7. French
  8. Brazilian Portuguese
  9. Russian
  10. Japanese

Resource Tracks

You begin each exploration with full tracks (3 points) in each of the following resources:

  • Oxygen
  • Power
  • Food
  • Water
  • Ammunition

When you need to use a resource, reduce the value of the track by 1. When you reach 0 in a track, something bad happens.

  • Oxygen: You cannot use items with the #oxygen tag, and you begin to asphyxiate.
  • Power: You cannot use items with the #power tag.
  • Food: You begin to starve.
  • Water: You become dehydrated.
  • Ammunition: You cannot use weapons with the #ammo tag.

Gear

You start with 3 items of chosen or randomly rolled from the following list. If your gear gets used up or damaged, you’ll have to return to your home base to resupply.

  1. Armored life jacket
  2. Ceramic survival knife
  3. Electronics toolkit
  4. Fishing net
  5. Mechanical toolkit
  6. Flashbang grenades #ammo
  7. Harpoon gun #ammo #oxygen
  8. Plasma torch #oxygen #power
  9. Scuba gear #oxygen
  10. Sea scooter #power
  11. Submersible drone #power
  12. Waterproof tablet computer #power
  13. Bangstick #ammo
  14. TBD
  15. TBD
  16. TBD
  17. TBD
  18. TBD
  19. TBD
  20. TBD