# Intro Drugs! Love 'em or hate 'em, there's no doubt they can be pretty fun. As you check out the rules below you might find yourself asking "if all of these debuffs are so horrible, why would I ever have my character take drugs??" Great question! To create interesting character moments. To make your character dependent on something that hurts them. To give your character fun, crazy buffs in the moment and then pay for them afterwards. Drugs are dangerous, in real life and in the game! I wanted to portray both the fun and interesting part of drugs by giving you huge buffs or odd experiences when you take them and also the addictive and risky nature of toying with one's own brain chemistry. # Rule Overview ![[Drug Rules Drawing.png|646]] Here's the rundown: 1. Drugs give buffs and benefits when you take them and then debuffs after the high wears off 2. Taking the drug again when the debuff kicks in staves off the debuff, but it'll return after the high wears off 1. For Soft Drugs, the debuff is worse depending on how many times you've tried to stave it off 3. Each time you take a drug you gain a stack of Addiction. Gain enough Addiction stacks to hit the Dependency Threshold and you become [[Drug Rules#Dependency and Addiction|Dependent]] 1. Dependency Threshold is 10 for Soft Drugs and varies for Hard Drugs 2. You lose two stacks of Addiction every week (at the top of the week) for each drug that you have a stack for 4. Being Dependent on a drug gets worse the longer you stay Dependent 5. If you ever want to get off of a drug then you'll start experiencing [[Drug Rules#Withdrawal Symptoms|Withdrawal Symptoms]]. It takes a couple days for the symptoms to go away and a full month to completely wipe out your Addiction stacks. 6. If you ever want to mix Hard Drugs together or mix Hard Drugs and Soft Drugs then roll on the [[Drug Rules#Mixing Drugs|Mixing Drugs]] table at the bottom # Soft Drugs Soft drugs will give you a stat bonus for an hour when you take them and then a similarly-scaled stat debuff for an hour afterwards. To extend the high and the stat bonus you can take the drug again, in which case the debuff will be worse. The **standard versions** of these drugs have buffs and debuffs that last for an hour each, but there are **stronger versions** whose buffs and debuffs both last for 6 hours each. Also, the stronger versions count as taking the drug twice so it moves you down the debuff table faster. Standard versions give you 1 Addiction stack and move you 1 level down the Soft Drug Debuff table, and Strong versions give you 2 Addiction stacks and move you 2 levels down when you come off the high. The buffs don't stack! If you take another dose before the previous one has worn off, all it does is give you stacks of Addiction and resets the time it will take before the debuff happens. Soft Drugs have an Dependency Threshold of 10 (see Dependency and Addiction rules below). Most Soft Drugs cost about 2 credits per dose, with the strong versions costing 5 per dose. Here are the substances and their buffs, debuffs, and standard and strong versions. ## Soft Substances | Substance | Buff | Debuff | Standard | Strong | | ----------- | -------- | -------- | -------------------- | ------------- | | Nicotine | +1 Wit | -1 Wit | Cigs, Cigars, Hookah | Pipe, Nuul | | Amphetamine | +1 Int | -1 Int | Amphetamine | Ivarin, Tears | | Alcohol | +1 Vigor | -1 Vigor | Beer, Wine | Liquor | | Drolaphor | +1 End | -1 End | Drola Min | Drola Max | ## Soft Drug Debuffs | Times<br>Taken <br>Quickly | Post-Effect Debuff | | -------------------------: | ------------------------------------------------------------ | | 1 | -1 to stat | | 2 | -2 to stat | | 3 | -3 to stat, you feel fatigued | | 4 | -4 to stat, horrible headache, fatigue, sensitivity to light | | 5+ | -5 to stat, anxiety, irritability, fatigue, nausea | ## More Info - Most nicotine products you can get anywhere (except for Nuul, which is a Strobe product) - Regular amphetamines are sold on the streets and from pharmacists, Ivarin is a Strobe drug and Tears is a Lyon drug taken as eyedrops (full name is Lyon Tears) - Alcohol is everywhere (obvs) - Drolaphor is a Lyon drug # Hard Drugs So you wanna take hard drugs, huh? Get away from the monotony of life, or maybe escape some trauma? I can't say I blame ya, buddy. Hard drugs have a variety of effects, and often their debuffs after the effects wear off are much, much worse. You gain a stack of Addiction each time you take the drug. If your Addiction stacks ever hit the Dependency Threshold then see the Dependency and Addiction rules below for effects. Make sure to check the Mixing Drugs section at the very bottom if you feel like mixing Hard Drugs together or Hard Drugs with Soft Drugs. Most Hard Drugs cost a minimum of 10 credits per dose. ## Hard Substances | Substance | Buff | Debuff | Dep. Thresh. | Method | Details | | --------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | "Stimmy" (Rovidav 202) | +5 to Vig and End for 3 turns (30 seconds) | -5 to Wit and Int for an hour | 10 | Inject | Very quick high. <br>1 hit in a day makes the debuff last an hour, 2 hits makes it last 5 hours, 3 hits makes it last 24 hours, 4 hits and you take 5 dmg and the [[Critical Injuries#More Intense\|Necrosis]] Critical Injury, 5 hits and you take 15 dmg and the [[Critical Injuries#More Intense\|Necrosis]] Critical Injury, 6 hits and you take 25 dmg and the [[Critical Injuries#More Intense\|Necrosis]] Critical Injury.<br>Was used as a strength enhancer by Krangor brutes until they got something better. | | Trance | +3 to Wit for an hour | -3 to all other checks for the duration | 5 | Tab | You enter a trance, gaining an insane level of focus and mental speed. <br>On your third hit in one day you get disadvantage on all checks when the drug wears off (unless you're Dependent), and taking trance a fourth time in a day doesn't grant the buff at all (resets when a new day has begun).<br>Strobe drug | | Nerve | +2 to Int checks for 6 hours | - | 3 | Smoke, Powder | Nerve makes you feel amazing, like you're floating, flying through sunbeams, like a nebula is moving through your veins.<br>Too bad it's also extremely addictive.<br>Lyon drug | | Stoneface | Can't take damage for 10 minutes | Gain all of the damage and healing you would've taken all at once | 7 | Inject | So your body is taking damage, but you don't feel it: stoneface makes it so you can't feel anything at all<br>There are tales of people taking stoneface before a big sport fighting match, doing the match, and dying instantly afterwards<br>Lyon drug | | Phase | Become partially immaterial for 10 minutes | Become painfully material for an hour | 4 | Pill | Can move through most substances except thick metal<br>You float off the ground like 5 ft<br>Fun tingly feeling<br>when you come down, though, just moving hurts<br>Strobe drug | | Bloody Tears | +5 on checks to resist effects<br>10 minutes | Take dmg equal to your level divided by 2 (min of 1) each time you resist an effect | 6 | Inject | You feel every sensation as pleasure, including pain and discomfort<br>Taken as eyedrops<br>Lyon drug | | Bpgorrg (commonly known as "Hell Yeah") | You feel really really good | You feel really really bad | 2 | Powder | Take it and you feel like you could live forever<br>Come down afterwards and you want to die<br>Both high and withdrawal afterwards can last anywhere from an hour to a day<br>Strobe drug | | Mercury | Possibility to experience visions | Possibility to get poisoned | - | Drink | Rumor is that if you're a strong gray this drug makes you experience visions of the future, the past, and present possibilities<br>Rumor has it if you're not a gray you just straight-up get the [[Critical Injuries#Disease or Poison\|Brutal Poison]] Critical Injury<br>It's actually an old potion made into a street drug for grays | | Standard Psychedelics | Maybe good trip | Maybe bad trip | - | Smoke, Eat | Just go on a trip, could be fun or bad. If it's a riskier drug roll a d20, 10 and below it's a bad trip and 11 and above it's great. | | EPG-10 | Maybe GOOD trip | Maybe YOU DIE | - | Tab | CRAZY trip that lasts 1d4 hours. At the end of the trip, roll a d10. On a 10 you go through something life-changing and get a permanent stat upgrade (can only happen once). On 9-2 you start [[Critical Injuries#More Intense\|Withering]] and take a level of [[Spirit Decay]]. On a 1 the trip was so bad you instantly combust and die (does not destroy a [[Spirit Anchors\|Xenic Anchor]] if you have one).<br>Experimental drug created by the corp E.G. Bio. | # Dependency and Addiction If you ever hit the Dependency Threshold for a certain drug then you are addicted to that drug. You lose two stacks of Addiction each week (at the top of the week) for each drug that you have a stack for. The longer you stay Dependent the worse things get. Soft drug debuffs cap out at 5 weeks, but hard drugs go all the way down. Taking the substance while Dependent still gives all the same benefits and staves off your withdrawal symptoms for 6 hours, but after 6 hours you start suffering. See the Withdrawal Symptoms table below. ## Weeks Dependent Debuffs Debuffs stack. | Weeks Dependent | Debuffs | | ----------------: | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 0 | No debuffs | | 1 | It starts to gnaw at you. | | 2 | You can't stop thinking about when you're gonna get your next fix. | | 3 | You can't seem to concentrate when you're not on your drug. You can't learn any new skills (when using the [[Gaining New Skills and Decaying DRs\|Decaying DR]] rules). | | 4 | Whenever you roll a 2, 3, or 4 on your dice the next check you make is with disadvantage. | | 5 (Soft Drug Cap) | You have a hard time sleeping, you only gain a quarter of your HP when you Shallow Rest and half of your HP when you Deep Rest. | | 6 | Roll on the Stat Loss Table. | | 7 | Roll on the Stat Loss Table. If you get one you've already gotten, roll again. | | 8 | Roll on the Stat Loss Table. If you get one you've already gotten, roll again. | | 9 | Take the last effect on the Stat Loss Table. | | 10 | You're wasting away. You gain double disadv. on all checks. Whenever you go unconscious from damage you gain a [[Critical Injuries#More Intense\|Necrosis]] Critical Injury. | | | | ### Stat Loss Table | d4 Roll | Effect | | ------: | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | 1 | Your hair starts falling out, sores appear on your face, and your joints hurt. -5 on Int checks. | | 2 | You get weak and susceptible to disease. -5 on End checks. | | 3 | It's getting hard to remember things. -5 on Wit checks. | | 4 | You're getting even weaker by the day. -5 on Vig checks. | ## Withdrawal Symptoms Here's a quick rundown! ![[Withdrawal Symptoms Drawing.png]] ### More Details | Time Since Last Hit | Debuff | Symptoms | | ------------------- | ---------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 6 hours | -2 all checks | You begin shaking and are feeling cold and clammy. | | 9 hours | -5 all checks | You feel extremely nauseated and fatigued. | | 12 hours | -3 all checks | Starting to feel a bit better but you're sooooo tired. | | 1 day | -1 all physical checks | Feels like a normal hangover now: horrible but manageable. | | 2 days | Debuffs are gone | You feel fine now, almost back to normal, and your body is starting to heal. You lose a stack of Addiction and are no longer Addicted BUT if you become Addicted again you go back to the last place you were on the Weeks Addicted table.<br> | | 1 week-3 weeks | - | Each week that goes by makes you lose two stacks of Addiction, like normal. | | 1 month | - | You're ok! Your progress through the Weeks Addicted table is reset to 0, so if you get Addicted again you'll be back at the start. | # Mixing Drugs Mixing drugs can be dangerous! You can mix any Soft Drugs together, but any time you mix Soft and Hard Drugs or multiple Hard Drugs together roll on this table! | d10 Roll | Effect | | -------: | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 1 | You feel DISGUSTING. Lose half your current health. | | 2 | You feel awful! Like barfing your guts out! And your head feels like it's going to explode! Your next check is done with triple disadvantage. | | 3 | You start feeling really **aggressive**. Take out your aggression! You don't have to fight or even take it out on a person, but you just _have_ to take it out somehow. | | 4 | You get reaaaaally sleepy. Like, so sleepy. A nap would be nice, wouldn't it? | | 5 | Absolutely nothing happens! You honestly didn't expect this. | | 6 | You come to a realization. It could be a "weed thought" or a real introspective breakthrough. Drugs must be good for you, cuz this feels really nice! | | 7 | You get a huge burst of energy and either want to talk a lot, eat a lot, or run a lot. | | 8 | You start hallucinating! It's weird, and maybe a little disturbing, or maybe it's nice, who knows. | | 9 | You feel great! Somehow that mix of drugs is even better than just one drug alone. Your next check is done with triple advantage. | | 10 | You feel AMAZING. Heal half your health. | --- ![[Footer]]