• Select a Clique [Pg. 13]

• Select one Profession [Pg. 17]

• Spend some or all of your 14 Starter XP points on skills, Heart, and Will. 

• Many professions have a Unique Skill that they get for free. If you select a Hybrid profession (Iconoclast, Prepper, Martial Artist, or Agent) you may select any one skill off that Profession’s list for free. Hybrid Professions have the flexibility of choosing their starting skill and have one more skill on their list than non-Hybrid Professions.

• For various reasons, no people who were once bigots or zealots survived the apocalypse. These character backgrounds are simply not acceptable in 198X, nor will they be represented by NPCs. 

• Everyone spent 18 months or more, post-fall, in a shelter without going outside. 

• All PCs are 18 years old or older. 

• Players who all agree can have spent their 18+ months in a shelter together. You're free to include other NPCs that may or may not have survived and any further details about how life worked in the shelter. The maximum player-created shelter population is 30.

• PCs may have spent their 18 months with any one of the local NPC Townships in a large shelter. PCs who were once part of a Township must no longer be members. You are free to determine if you're still on good terms with them, or they kicked you out, or you fled, etc. 

• Any PC may start with a small positive Reputation with up to one of the nearby Townships. This can have any reasonable justification but must be approved by the worldbuilding team based on a written and submitted background. You may also have a negative starting Reputation with any number of NPC Townships, no writeup required, but you do need to make sure those negative Reputations are properly marked on your character sheet. 

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