Cultures composed entirely of artificial beings are unusual, but they are not unknown. In some cases, organic beings evolve to integrate themselves with technology before eventually completing the transformation to a fully robotic society. Others might be enclaves of androids who have deliberately created their own spaces, free from the prejudices of organic species–or, worse, opposed to them and dedicated to their destruction–and yet others may have somehow evolved as robotic people from the very start. There are even stories of artificial civilizations which abduct and assimilate beings from other cultures, turning them into machines. Of course, one does not need to be artificial to grow up in an artificial society; some organic beings may prefer the company of robots. 

Characters raised in the artificial culture share a variety of traits in common with one another.

I Know A Back Door. Your lifelong familiarity with robotics and computers gives you an intuitive sense of how they work. You get an expertise die when using hacking tools.

Pattern Recognition. You are so used to an environment where everything is ordered and in its place that something unusual sticks out to you like a sore thumb. You gain an expertise die  on Investigation checks and initiative rolls.

Surrounded By Tech. You gain proficiency in computers and Engineering, and an Engineering specialty in robotics.

Languages. You can read, sign, speak, and write Common and Machine.

Not every world is a sparkling jewel of dazzling skylines and dizzying society galas, filled with elites and the underclass that supports them and supported by shipyards and places of great commerce. Sometimes it’s because the world has so little to offer; others times what the world had to offer has already been taken. Whatever the case, there are backwaters.

Most citizens of backwaters spend their lives scrounging and scavenging to make a few credits while the void hangs over their heads, shining in the night and tantalizingly out of reach. A lot of backwater brats spend their time trying to gather the parts of a ship or the creds to at least buy a ticket off their rock. Some even make it.

Spaceports and criminal enclaves are the only place to really find excitement on a backwater— or a valuable job. There are far more credits to be had working a counter at the spaceport as a facilitator than scavenging, while running messages and merchandise pays even more—if one is smart and fast enough to stay a step ahead of the law.

But whether they’re running, or scrounging, or kissing up to tourists, the goal for would-be voidrunners is getting off this rock and seeing what is out there to see. Because until then they’re stuck, hanging out with childhood friends, doing odd jobs, and staring up at the stars when everyone around them is looking at the ground.

Characters raised in the backwater culture share a variety of traits in common with one another.

Blastin’ Rats. You gain proficiency with rifles and land vehicles and gain an expertise die on checks to repair them, even if you do not have the appropriate tools.

Eye for Parts. Whether you’re at a spaceport, on a space station, or visiting an alien world, you know how to find parts and components for ships, weapons, and armor, as well as where to get the right parts at the right price. So long as you have two hours to work through junk yards and consignment shops, you can get almost any part or material component for 15% below market value.

Tightened Belt. On backwater worlds supplies can be scarce. You can go a number of days equal to half your Constitution modifier without suffering any fatigue from lack of Supply.

Versatile Skill. Living in a lonely world where the population tends to be very condensed into pockets of civilization means you often need to be self-sufficient just to make it through the day. You gain proficiency in Survival and one other skill of your choice.

Languages. You can read, sign, speak, and write Common and one other language.

Shipyards need a lot of things to keep voidrunners moving: raw materials for hulls, fuel for generators, and countless other necessities. And they need it all in bulk, because ships are large and plentiful. That’s where Belters come in.

Mining planets for their unique mineral contents and rare materials is something most societies accomplish well before the beginning of an industrial era. By the space age, though, a lot of those minerals are already in use, and the ecological damage of tearing new supplies out of your own world can cause socio-political upheaval and strife. All this is why most societies start mining uninhabited—and largely uninhabitable— rocks drifting in space.

Bouncing around the accretion disks of countless stars in the night sky are belters: people raised on starships and space-stations that are designed to land on a particularly large asteroid and act as a central hub and workstation for the processing of ores, crystals, and any other materials the asteroid might have that are worth taking. Life as a belter is one of cramped quarters, loud noises, and families doing their best to live in a dangerous and difficult profession. There are endless stories about atmo leaks, reactor breaches, and monsters just outside the bulkhead told to children at bedtime, after a long day of playing tag in narrow corridors or hide-and-seek in the ore-processing center.

When not planted on an asteroid, the behemoth ships drift slowly to stardock to deliver their cache of goods or toward the next asteroid in the belt to hollow it out in turn. This travel time gives belters plenty of time in between to try and live something resembling a normal life with their loved ones.

Characters raised in the belter culture share a variety of traits in common with one another.

All Hands on Deck. From an early age you got to know the machines of your asteroid hopper, and as you grew up you were instructed on their care and maintenance. You gain proficiency in the Engineering skill and space vehicles. In addition, when you undertake the Repair journey activity, you count your result as one higher. Critical failures become failures, failures become successes, and successes become critical successes. If you roll a critical success, you can remove an additional critical malfunction of your choice.

Gauge Threat. Growing up on asteroid hoppers and the space stations where you dropped your cargo, you learned how to pick out the petty toughs from the actual threats. You can use an action to make an Insight check against a DC equal to the target’s passive Deception check score (or an Engineering check in the case of androids and other constructs) against a creature you can see within 60 feet. On a success, you learn the creature’s Challenge Rating (or level in the case of a creature with character levels).

Vent-Rat. As a child and young adult you got skilled at hiding in cramped spaces, particularly if you were boarded. You gain an expertise die when making a Stealth check in cramped spaces and can move at full speed while squeezing.

Languages. You can read, sign, speak, and write Common and one other language.

Some voidrunners grew up hearing stories of their ancestors who lived on a planet once upon a time. This could be as recent as within the last decade or so, with parents being able to recall exactly where and how they lived, or as distant as an era before their elders’ elders. Massive evacuations from planetary-scale destruction, catastrophic failure of the environment or civilization, or warfare that bombarded the entire planet could all be the cause. More peaceful tales involve ambitious plans of migrating to a habitable planet in a different galaxy, establishing colonies, or scientific expeditions expected to last generations.

Many young drifters spend their entire lives never coming into contact with land, so learning how to work spaceships and space stations is a matter of duty and obligation. Such voidrunners are utterly at home in space, making them valuable assets for any voidrunner crew.

Given that adventuring provides a chance to break from the routine life and duty, many drifters jump at the opportunity to leave their home ship or station, whether as an act of rebellion or as a sanctioned representative of their floating colony.

Characters raised in the drifter culture share a variety of traits in common with one another.

At The Ready. You developed the habit of keeping your tools on your person for quick access. You are proficient with a tool of your choice. Taking the Use an Object action to use this tool is a bonus action for you.

Familiar Operations. Living in a space colony means you are well-versed in such systems. You gain proficiency in your choice of computers or Engineering, and with space vehicles. You also gain an expertise die on checks with the chosen skill that involve working with your home ship or station or similar system.

In addition, being born into a life in the cold blackness has made you mentally resilient. You gain an expertise die on checks to resist becoming rattled or suffering a level of strife.

System Hotwire. Your familiarity with starships and space stations allows you to optimize their systems. Choose two deck types. Up to three times per long rest, when you make a system maneuver through those decks, you can reduce the power point cost of the maneuver by 1, to a minimum of 0. You can change your chosen deck type over the course of a long rest.

Void Native. You know how to maneuver easily with little gravity. Zero-g does not count as difficult terrain for you. When you make a Dexterity check to maneuver in zero- or low-gravity conditions, any rolls under 10 count as 10 instead.

Languages. You can read, sign, speak, and write Common and two other languages.

In the wide, beautiful, and uncaring cosmos, the only thing we can control is ourselves. The “enlightened” cultures who follow this path center a contemplative and intellectual lifestyle in balance with galactic events. For them, the main objective in life is selfcultivation. At their best, enclaves of this culture are truly spiritual and practice contemplation as a liberative practice and support their allies on their mutual quest for liberation. At worst, these enclaves believe that their way is “the true way”, leading them to be self-righteous, aloof, or even colonialist or tyrannical. The truth is frequently somewhere between.

The people of this culture generally have a mature disposition towards science. In their view, science is a worthy path of investigation, but technology is to be subordinated to the correct way of living. Craftsmanship among the enlightened is often highly artistic, accentuating or blending in with the features of nature. Ruins of enlightened cultures feature beautiful stonework and woodwork merged seamlessly with their high tech, practically whispering the story of certain enclaves who used their technology to transcend the mortal coil (or become extinct due to a perilous final mistake). Empires of this culture often do not shy away from using behavior control technology to enforce adherence to “the way.”

Characters raised in the enlightened culture share a variety of traits in common with one another.

Defensive Training. Self-cultivation also includes the practice of meditation and martial arts. Choose one of the following:

Student of the Body: Choose one 1st degree combat maneuver from any tradition. Once per short rest, you can use this combat maneuver without spending exertion.

Student of the Mind: You learn one psionic reflex. Your psionic ability for this trait is your choice of Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma.

Inner Path. Your people value cultivating the intellect and spirit, so you can always find your way in life. Choose two from History, Insight, Nature, Religion, Performance, or Science. You have proficiency in the chosen skills.

Artisan. You have proficiency in a musical instrument or artisanal tools.

Languages. You can read, sign, speak, and write Common and three other languages.

The world can be a dangerous place and the environment might pose a deadly threat all by itself. In addition to their inherent danger, encounter elements offer ways to enhance the perils of exploration challenges or combat to make both more satisfying. A duel atop a bridge or traversing a narrow crossing is all the more exciting when deadly lava runs below rather than rushing water, and a hallway fight or dungeon trap with a plethora of green slime is a different kind of challenge altogether!

Challenge Rating Increase

The challenge rating of a combat encounter or exploration challenge can be increased when an encounter element is included so long as it poses an active threat—a cage match near a volcanic pit is more dramatic, but no more dangerous than usual.

Bombarded (+2)

An area which is under constant bombardment from artillery or starship fire can be very hazardous.

Loud Noise. Creatures within the area participants can only hear sounds within 15 feet of them (except for loud, explosive noises).

World Actions

Artillery. Each creature in the area makes a DC 10 Dexterity saving throw or they take 4d6 bludgeoning damage.

Irradiated (+2)

Deadly radiation fills the air, threatening the lives of all who brave exposure.

Every five minutes a creature spends in an irradiated area it must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw . On a failure, the creature contracts radiation sickness (see Maladies on page 281).

Creatures immune to poison damage, or who are wearing radiation shielded clothing, are not affected by irradiated areas.

Irradiated, Severe (+4)

Nuclear meltdowns, quasars, and breached antimatter engines create even more intense radiation.

Creatures immune to poison damage, or who are wearing radiation shielded clothing, treat severely irradiated areas as irradiated areas.

World Actions

Radiation Poisoning. A creature which begins its turn in a severely irradiated area must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw . On a failure, the creature takes 28 (8d8) poison damage and is poisoned until medically treated using an anti-rad drug or similar effect. Additionally, the creature contracts radiation sickness .

High Gravity (+2)

The ranges of ranged weapons are halved, as are all jump distances. When a creature makes its first attack in a round using a weapon that does not have the dual-wielding property, it makes a DC 12 Athletics check or subtracts 1d4 from its attack rolls for 1 round. Falling damage is treated as twice the distance in the area and there is no maximum amount of damage that can be taken from a fall. For every hour spent in the area, a creature not acclimated to it makes a Constitution saving throw (DC 8 + the number of hours spent in the area) or gain a level of fatigue (maximum 4 levels of fatigue).

Low Gravity (-1)

The ranges of ranged weapons are doubled, as are all jump distances. Falling damage is treated as half the distance in the area. In addition, damage from bludgeoning weapons is reduced by half.

Zero Gravity (+1)

While artificial gravity is a staple of most sci-fi settings, many settings stick to a more realistic depiction of weightless movement, using the environment around them as useful handholds and points to kick off from.

Creatures treat zero-G environments as difficult terrain so long as they are adjacent to a solid surface. Creatures may move into areas without an adjacent surface in this way, but if they end their turn with no adjacent surface they begin drifting and their movement speed is reduced to 0. Drifting creatures can throw any item on their person that weighs at least 5 pounds or use any propellant item (such as a cytospray, construction foam, spray adhesive, spray paint, or zero-friction lubricant) to move up to 10 feet as a bonus action.

Spacesuits. Creatures with the spacefaring feature or creatures wearing armor with the spacefaring feature ignore the difficult terrain caused by zero-G environments and are immune to drifting. Creatures with a natural climb speed also ignore the difficult terrain caused by zero-G environments, but are not immune to drifting.

Thick/Thin Atmosphere (+1)

While both thick and thin atmospheres are very dissimilar, their effects on creatures are not so different. Creatures can breathe in these atmospheres, but it is harder. Every hour, a creature in a thick or thin atmosphere must make a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or gain one level of fatigue .

Vacuum (+2)

An area of vacuum has no air, so creatures that need to breathe must use another source of air or begin to suffocate once they cannot hold their breath. In addition, the area carries no sound, so hearing-based checks made to perceive automatically fail.

Spacesuits. Armor with the spacefaring classification protects its wearer from hard vacuum, but even the smallest puncture in a suit can be deadly. As such, most spacefaring suits are equipped with self-sealing technology to protect against small punctures, tears, and fractures, but a critical hit renders a spacefaring suit damaged. When a creature’s spacefaring suit is damaged, roll 1d6 at the start of each of the creature’s turns. On a roll of 6 the suit is no longer able to provide protection from hard vacuum. A second critical hit before the damage is patched or repaired completely breaks the suit, rendering it broken and ineffective.

Vacuum Breach (+3)

When there is a pressure differential between two areas, such as a hull breach or an open door leading to the surface of an airless rock, the atmosphere rushes out in an attempt to level out the differential. This takes the form of a rushing wind.

Ranged weapon attacks and Perception checks that rely on hearing have disadvantage in high winds. In addition, the rushing air extinguishes any open flames, disperses fogs and smoke, and forces any flying creature to land before the end of its turn or fall.

World Actions

Rushing Winds. Each creature in the area must make a DC 14 Strength saving throw or be pulled 20 feet in the direction of the winds. A creature with one or more spare limbs (at the Narrator’s discretion) may use a bonus action to grab on or anchor itself, which allows it to make the saving throw with advantage .

Hard Vacuum & Lingering Injuries

The vacuum of space is also utterly chilling or scorching hot, depending on whether a creature is in sunlight or shadow. The vacuum deals 11 (3d6) cold or fire damage to a creature at the start of each of its turns in the area. If cold damage (but not fire damage) from a vacuum drops a creature to 0 hit points or happens after they are already at 0 hit points, they suffer a lingering injury. The Narrator can dictate an injury and its effects or determine it by rolling a d4: 1—blindness, 2—burns, 3—loss of taste, 4—frostbite (see Table: Frostbite).

After a day of rest, the affected creature may make a DC15 Constitution saving throw , made with advantage if it has received medical attention since the exposure. On a success, the creature heals; on a failure, the affliction persists. The creature may make further Constitution saving throws after each subsequent day, but the DC increases by 1. If the creature fails three of these saves, the injury becomes permanent.

Zirkon Crystals (+2)

Zirkon is a rare natural crystal which dampens psionic energy. The cost to manifest psionic powers in an area containing zirkon crystals is doubled. Additionally, psionic powers of level III or less cannot penetrate solid zirkon barriers (see Objects).
 

In a fleeting and inhospitable cosmos, all that matters to some is having the strength to live and die with honor. On a small scale, honorbound cultures adapt extremely well to harsh environments—their enclaves are found even on the remotest planets. On a larger scale, the honorbound culture may be but one culture within a larger civilization. In this case, it is likely followed by a particular subset of the population, most often the warrior class.

For the honorbound, duty is a priority in all things. The particulars vary between individual communities, but they often focus on honesty, valor, and a sense of fairness. Compassion and charity towards the weaker or less fortunate is a great virtue among the rich, strong, and powerful, and all are expected to fulfill their roll to the utmost. Even the most mundane work brings its own kind of honor if done with diligence.

Those who are found violating the community’s terms of honor are expected to feel an equal amount of shame (often along with their families) and to make public shows of remorse and recompense, such a performing community service or making a large donation to a righteous cause or religious institution. The more prominent the member of the culture, the more substantial their reparations to their people must be. Many such cultures espouse the idea of death before dishonor, and to willingly dishonor oneself is to become a pariah at best.

Characters raised in an honorbound culture share a variety of traits in common with one another.

Gentler Pursuits. While combat and physical capabilities are important to your culture, there is little respect for one who spurns intellect and beauty. You are proficient with your choice of either Culture, Performance, two musical instruments, or two artisan’s tools.

Peak Performance. You have trained relentlessly to become a paragon of physical capability. Choose two from Athletics, Acrobatics, or Intimidation. You are proficient with the chosen skills.

Save Face. You are careful not to show weakness, lest your capabilities or dedication be questioned. If you miss with an attack roll or fail an ability check, you can gain a bonus to the roll equal to the number of allies you can see within 30 feet of you (maximum +3), possibly changing a failure into a success.
Once you use this trait, you cannot do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

Weapon Training. You have been taught the ways of combat from an early age. You gain proficiency with 2 martial weapons of your choice and with starship weapons.

Languages. You can read, sign, speak, and write Common, plus one other language.

Duty, diligence, and sacrifice. While they are important to any civilization, they are the central conceits of most empires. Such civilizations seek to expand their borders to fuel their growing needs, which in turn expands its borders and increases the cost of governance, repeating the vicious cycle. However, this “progress” does not come without cost from its people. Soldiers, civilians, and even entire worlds may fall securing resources for the ever-teeming masses of the empire. It is the greatest hope of the imperial leadership that star charts will, some day within their lifetime, show that the empire has no borders. That all will have been welcomed into it—either through diplomacy or the barrel of a blaster.

Full citizens in the heart of such an empire live quite comfortably, and though there are always discrepancies in wealth and power even the near-destitute enjoy comforts and luxuries unheard of in distant colonies. Medicine and education, relatively safe streets at night, a judicial system that generally works for them rather than against them—all are taken for granted as a base living standard. Regardless, every adult citizen must be prepared to join when conscription begins on their world. After all, sacrifices must be made for the greater good.

Characters raised as an imperium subject share a variety of traits in common with one another.

Conscript. All citizens must register for the draft and receive basic training packets and educational courses on blaster safety, as well as basic vehicle skills. You are proficient with pistols and rifles. You also have proficiency with land, air, and space vehicles.

Sheltered Education. Those at the safe center of empires often have privileged access to fine teachers and the opportunity to follow academic interests that might otherwise be too impractical. You gain proficiency in History and either Culture, Nature, Performance, or Religion.

Station in Society. As a citizen of the empire you benefited from some measure of station that those outside your society did not. When interacting with merchants from a sector associated with your empire, you are able to use your station to secure a 10% discount on most goods and services.

Languages. You can read, sign, speak, and write Common and one other language.

Keridani Traits

Characters with the keridani heritage share a variety of traits in common with one another.

Age. Keridani physically mature at a similar rate as humans. They intellectually mature faster, as they possess lifetimes of memories from birth, but their emotional maturity develops at the same rate as their bodies. Keridani can live to be 200 years old without advanced medicine.

Size. Keridani are tall and slim, typically standing between 6 and 7 feet tall. They have similar masses as humans, and are thus built lighter. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Telepathy. Keridani are able to communicate mentally with others. You can speak telepathically to any creature you can see within 60 feet of you that shares a language with you. This does not give the creature the ability to respond to you telepathically.

Venomous Mandibles. Your mandibles are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes that deal piercing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier. A creature damaged by your mandibles makes a Constitution saving throw. The DC for this saving throw is 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus. A creature takes 2d4 poison damage on a failed save. You can use the poison element of this feature number of times equal to your proficiency bonus before you need to take a long rest.

Adhesive Pads. Keridani are able to secrete adhesive fluid from their hands and feet, helping them to climb. You gain an expertise die on ability checks made to climb and on saving throws to resist being disarmed.

Keridani Gifts

Keridani are exemplified by their mental control, their telepathy, and their ancestral memories. In addition to the traits found in your keridani heritage, select one of the following gifts.

Ancestral Walking

Some keridani have stronger ties to their ancestral memories. They gain access to the skills and wisdom of their ancestors as they lucidly walk through those past lives. Whenever you finish a long rest, choose one skill, tool, or language. You are proficient with the chosen skill, tool, or language until you complete a long rest. If you were already proficient, you instead gain an expertise die.

Empathic Sense

Some keridani display more sensitive innate psychic ability than others. You are able to sense emotions in creatures you can see. A creature may attempt to hide their emotions from you by making a Deception check vs. your passive Insight.

Stronger Poison

Your poisonous bite is even more toxic. Your target makes their saving throw against it at disadvantage, and additionally gains the slowed condition upon a failed save. The target may make a saving throw at the end of each turn to end the condition. If you do not already have the Venomous Mandibles trait, you gain the Venomous Mandibles trait instead.

Telepathic Bond

You can create a mental link between you and up to a number of willing creatures equal to your proficiency bonus. For the next hour, you and the targets can speak telepathically with each other. You need physical contact in order to create the bond, but once it is established it continues to operate no matter the distance, as long as you are on the same plane of existence. After you use this trait, you must complete a long rest before you can use it again.

Keridani Paragon

It takes a lifetime of experience to master one’s mental abilities. Upon reaching 10th level, you gain one of the following paragon gifts.

Ancestral Awakening

Prerequisite: Ancestral Walking

You can channel the skills and strengths of your forebears. Each time you use this feature, choose two ability scores to represent these ancestors. As a bonus action, you can gain an expertise die to all rolls using the chosen ability scores for 1 minute. Once you have used this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency modifier, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.

Inscrutable Mind

Your insectoid mind is almost impenetrable. You are immune to effects which would detect or read your thoughts or emotions, and you have advantage on saving throws made to resist the charmed, confused, frightened, or rattled conditions, or to maintain concentration. Finally, you recover one level of strife any time you take a long rest, even if you are not at a haven.

Telepathic Intrusion

Prerequisite: Empathic Sense

Your empathic sense becomes sensitive enough to read the very thoughts of your targets. You learn the read mind psionic power and can activate it once per long rest without expending psionic points. Choose Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma to be your manifesting ability for this power. Once you make this choice, you cannot change it. If you have a psychic reservoir and are able to use psionic powers, you can activate this power with those points as normal.

Keridani Culture

Keridani are stoic thinkers, aspiring towards peace and enlightenment, though such aspirations must often be put aside for more immediate concerns of survival. The insectoid people were born of struggle on their harsh homeworld and they found life among the stars no easier. Their early diplomatic efforts fell on warlike ears, and their enlightened age has been marred by countless conflicts. Still, keridani have spread throughout the stars, still stoic, still learning, and perhaps wiser for the hurdles they’ve overcome. Day to day life for keridani is one of ritual and rote, simple activities and chores they set their bodies to while their minds are deep within their own psyches or communing with their neighbors. To outsiders they seem like blank husks robotically performing pointless rituals, but inside they are alight and living. Keridani are reflective, introspective, and awash with emotional vibrancy that rarely transitions outwardly into the expressions or inflections that other beings relate to. Most desperately want to make these sorts of connections with other beings, though, a drive that often leads them down the dangerous and exciting life of a voidrunner.

Suggested Cultures

While you can choose any culture for your keridani character, the following cultures are linked closely with this heritage: backwater, drifter, enlightened, stoic, union.

While medical advances make many common health hazards inconsequential, some maladies still present a threat to voidrunners who are unlucky enough to suffer them.

Treating a diseased creature over the course of a short rest with a successful Medicine check (tier 1: DC 10, tier 2: DC 14, tier 3: DC 18, tier 4: DC 22) grants advantage on its next saving throw against the disease.

Severe diseases. The diseases below are presented in their most common form. Sometimes a more severe version of a disease is encountered. These diseases are considered one tier higher, and all saving throws made against the disease are made at disadvantage .

Mental stress effects. Some maladies inflict a short or long-term mental stress effect (see Appendix A of the Adventurer’s Guide). The duration of these effects is noted in the malady’s description.

Fatigue and strife. Some maladies either inflict levels of fatigue or strife , or they prevent the victim from recovering levels of fatigue or strife, even if they are able to rest at a haven.

Recovery. Each malady describes the ways in which a victim might recover. Typically this requires three successful consecutive saving throws.

Apoplectic Psychosis (Tier 2)

This disorder affects the emotional regulation of the brain, resulting in extreme anger and aggression. Victims are provoked to outburst of rage by insignificant triggers, often resulting in violence.

A creature which contracts apoplectic psychosis gains the enraged condition. Additionally, they suffer from the enraged mental stress effect.

Recovery. The victim makes a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw after each long rest. After three consecutive successful saving throws, the victim recovers.

Brainpox (Tier 3)

This virus affects the brain and nerve centers of its victim. It is often caught via physical contact, especially via the eyes or nose. The victim begins to lose their senses of sight and hearing, with paralysis being the end result.

At the end of each week, the victim must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw . After the first failure, the victim gains the blinded condition. After the second failure, they gain the deafened condition. After the third failure, the victim gains the paralyzed condition and stops making weekly saving throws.

Recovery. On a successful weekly saving throw, the victim loses the most recent of those three conditions which it gained via this malady. Once they have made a successful saving throw while not suffering from one of the conditions, they recover.

Victims which have reached the paralysis stage of this malady do not recover naturally. However, a DC 21 Medicine check performed by a practitioner who keeps the victim under their care for a full week removes the paralyzed condition and allows the victim to resume making weekly saving throws.

Cellular Shingles (Tier 2)

This painful viral infection, affects the victim at a cellular level. While it is not life-threatening, it is intensely painful. The victim develops rashes and blisters all over their body, and becomes very sensitive to bright lights.

A creature which has contracted cellular shingles gains the agonized condition.

Recovery. The victim makes a DC 15 Constitution saving throw after each long rest. After three consecutive successful Constitution saving throws, the victim recovers.

Orman’s Syndrome (Tier 2)

This illness attacks the neural structures of the brain, gradually causing memory loss. By the time it reaches its conclusion, the victim loses all sense of identity and all long-term memories. The victim will not recognize close friends or family members, or recall their own name, career, or skills.

At the end of each long rest, the victim must make a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw . On a failure, their Wisdom score is reduced by 1 point and they spend that day suffering from the amnesiac condition.

A creature whose Wisdom is reduced to zero suffers complete, permanent amnesia.

Recovery. After three consecutive successful Wisdom saving throws, the victim recovers and their Wisdom score returns to its normal value.

Macrovirus (Tier 1)

This airborne illness is particularly dangerous because it reduces the victim’s desire to actually do anything about it. The illness causes extreme lethargy, worsening to the point where the victim will not eat, and simply wastes away.

A creature which has contracted macrovirus cannot recover fatigue during a long rest, even if they are in a haven.

Recovery. Creatures with macrovirus do not recover on their own. However, it can be treated with daily DC 12 Medicine checks, with the victim recovering after three consecutive successful checks.

Psionic Evervation Syndrome (Tier 2)

This malady only affects creatures with psionic ability. After every long rest, the creature makes a DC 15 saving throw using its psionic ability score. On a failed saving throw, the creature’s maximum psionic points are reduced by 1 point.

Recovery. After three consecutive successful saving throws, the victim recovers. Their psionic pool recovers by 1 point per long rest until it has been restored to its normal value.

Psychic Melancholia (Tier 2)

This malady plunges the victim into a rapid, increasing spiral of depression. After each long rest, the victim must make a DC 12 Wisdom saving throw . On a failed save, the victim gains one level of strife .

A creature which has contracted psychic melancholia cannot recover strife during a long rest, even if they are in a haven.

Recovery. After three consecutive successful Wisdom saving throws, the victim recovers.

Radiation Sickness (Tier 2)

Radiation is deadly, and those exposed to it risk contracting radiation sickness. Symptoms include vomiting, intestinal pain, bleeding, hair loss, and fever.

A creature with radiation sickness is poisoned . Additionally, at the end of each long rest, the creature must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or their hit die maximum is reduced by 1 die. A creature whose hit die maximum is reduced to zero hit dice dies.

Recovery. Left alone, radiation sickness will result in death. However, it can be treated with daily DC 15 Medicine checks, with the victim recovering after three consecutive successful checks. The checks are made at advantage if anti-rad drugs are available (see Chapter 3: Equipment).

RAR-1 (Tier 3)

This frightening malady, Rapid Aging Retrovirus, causes its victims to age rapidly. It is believed that this malady is an artificially created bioweapon, but its specific origins are unknown.

A creature which has contracted RAR-1 ages one year during each long rest. For every 5 years in which the creature ages in this manner, its Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution ability scores are reduced by 1 point. When any of these scores reaches zero, the victim dies of old age.

Recovery. Creatures with RAR-1 do not recover on their own. However, it can be treated with weekly DC 21 Medicine checks, curing the victim after three successful checks. However, the victim does not recover the lost years, and remains at the biological age it reaches before it was cured. The victim recovers half (round up) of any lost ability score points.

Rigellian Fever (Tier 1)

This powerful virus causes extreme fever, sweating, and nausea, eventually resulting in the victim’s death. At the end of each long rest, the victim must make a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or suffer a level of fatigue .

Recovery. After three consecutive successful Constitution saving throws, the victim recovers.

Salt Plague (Tier 1)

This unpleasant disease feeds on the victim’s salt levels. The victim eventually loses their humanity as their salt cravings become so intense that they become violent, seeking the salty blood of other victims. This malady has many things in common with legends of vampirism.

A creature which has contracted salt plague suffers intense fatigue if it does not consume sufficient salt. It can draw salt from the blood of other living creatures, making an unarmed attack roll, and dealing 1d4 piercing damage on a hit. Each day, the creature must successfully drain salt three times from one or more living creatures or gain one level of fatigue .

Normal salt deposits, or even table salt, can help to alleviate the cravings. A creature with salt plague which consumes regular salt can make a DC 10 Wisdom saving throw. On a success that dose of salt counts as one of their three required doses per day. On a failure, the salt has no effect. A creature can only attempt to alleviate cravings in this way three times per day.

Recovery. The only cure for salt plague is isolation. After 7 days with no intake of salt, the victim is cured of the malady–if they survive the process.

Space Dementia (Tier 1)

Space dementia affects a small number of space travelers when they first encounter FTL speeds. It can be treated, but left alone it will result in hallucinations, and madness.

After each long rest , the victim must make a DC 12 Wisdom saving throw . On a failed saving throw, the victim suffers a randomly determined short-term mental stress effect (see Trials & Treasures) until their next long rest.

Recovery. Space dementia is usually temporary. The victim recovers after a single successful Wisdom saving throw.

Space Ennui (Tier 1)

The void affects different people in different ways. Space ennui degrades the victim’s emotional centers, causing depression, weariness, and apathy. The victim simply stops caring about things, including their own interests, hobbies, friends, family, and even food.

At the end of each long rest , the victim must make a DC 12 Wisdom saving throw . On a failure, they spend that day suffering from the placid condition. Medical treatment cannot assist with these saving throws, and the victim does not make the saving throws at advantage as normal when under medical care.

A creature which has contracted space ennui cannot recover strife during a long rest, even if they are in a haven.

Recovery. After three consecutive successful Wisdom saving throws, the victim recovers.

Some cultures embrace the principles of trade and commerce almost to the exclusion of all else. Everything is a transaction, and everything has a price. In such societies, trading houses or corporations reign supreme, and the rules of commerce supersede other ethical considerations. Such rules encourage honesty in trade, as adherence to contracts is the foundation of a mercantile civilization, and the punishments for breach of contract are amongst the most severe in such jurisdictions.

Members of mercantile societies are often expert hagglers, and highly accomplished businessfolk, with an excellent grasp of legislation and an almost instinctual ability to estimate the value of anything.

Characters raised in a mercantile culture share a variety of traits in common with one another.

Accumulated Wealth. You start play with twice the credits you ordinarily would. If you are creating a character of higher than 1st level, this feature does not affect your starting wealth.

Expert Trader. Negotiation is a fundamental skill. You gain proficiency in Culture, Insight, and Persuasion.

Quick Valuation. You can readily determine the value of any object by examining it for one minute.

Languages. You can read, sign, speak, and write Common and two other languages.

Despite their endless variety, all humanoid races have a tendency for war. Militant cultures are steeped in traditions which value glory and honor and proudly display both whenever possible. In battle they follow their chosen warrior code to the hilt, and take pride in hopeless causes and valiant struggles between equals.

Militant cultures place the military at the center of society, venerating warriors above all others. Military prowess is taught from an early age, and military victory is rewarded while failure is often punished. Naturally, even militant societies need non-warriors to function, but such individuals are not treated with the same respect that those who choose the path of war do, often regarded as lesser citizens despite their importance to the running of the state.

These cultures can be violent in nature, with many disputes resolved by force of arms. Insults often result in duels, and vendettas between individuals and families can last decades.

Characters raised in a militant culture share a variety of traits in common with one another.

Dueling Challenge. You can issue a challenge of single combat to a single creature you can see who can hear and understand you. If that creature accepts your challenge, you enter a duel with them. When engaged in a duel, you gain an expertise die on attack rolls against your designated foe. If any other creature attacks your foe, or assists you in any manner, you no longer gain that expertise die.

Military Traditions. You are proficient in History, and gain a specialization in military history. You are also proficient with light armor, starship weapons, one martial weapon of your choice, and your choice of land, air, or space vehicles.

Quick Valuation. You can readily determine the value of any object by examining it for one minute.

Languages. You can read, sign, speak, and write Common and one other language.

Even in a densely populated galaxy teeming with space travelers, many worlds exist which have not yet joined that stellar community. Some may not even know that life even exists beyond their own horizon, while others may have been visited by life from beyond the stars–even if they don’t realize it.

Pre-industrial cultures are characterized by a lack of machines, limited production, and agricultural economies. Some are little more than simple villages and collections of farms; others may boast cities and palaces–these societies range from humble groups of hunter-gatherers to renaissance-era civilizations. Feudal governments and monarchies are common in such societies, but other forms of leadership can be found, including theocracies, republics, and other more unusual arrangements.

When a character hails from such a society, the wonders of voidrunning may be overwhelming at first, but many folk adapt and embrace their new life, and throw themselves into adventure with wild abandon.

Characters raised in a pre-industrial culture share a variety of traits in common with one another.

Rural Life. You are proficient in Animal Handling, Nature, and Survival. Additionally, you are proficient in your choice of an artisan's tool, a musical instrument, or smith’s tools.

Simple Cooking. You gain an expertise die on saving throws made to resist the effects of poisons.

Temporary Expert. You pick up new skills quickly. Each time you gain a level, you may choose to lose proficiency in one skill or tool and gain proficiency in a different skill or tool in its place. You cannot trade a skill proficiency for a tool proficiency, and vice versa.

Weather Sense. After observing an area for 1 minute, you can predict the weather in this terrain within the next 24 hours. You cannot foresee non-natural changes, but you can use an action to make an Insight or Perception check to notice them.

Languages. You can read, sign, speak, and write Common and one other language.

Psyche Unleashed

When the mind’s eye opens, a psion begins their journey towards self improvement, but the accidental triggering of a psychokinetic push in the wrong place at the wrong time might have dire consequences. And even when such an unleashing of psychic power actually ends up doing good rather than causing disaster, those that witness it (including the psychics themselves) may react in fear.

In the best case scenario, the burgeoning psychic has someone they can trust and a mentor they can seek out or study under. In the worst case, fear of these uncanny powers can drive many negative behaviors, even from the well-meaning.

Self-Empowered

Psions direct their thoughts, master their emotions, and temper their bodies. They are at the pinnacle of self actualization. Sometimes a psionicist’s powers are mistakenly attributed to dark, sorcerous ways or ancient religions. In truth, psionics is powered by an internal force, willed into being, cultivated through effort, and mastered by self discipline.

Creating a Psion

A psion’s personality often informs their psychic abilities and vice versa. You may be an athlete who excels in altering your physiology and augmenting your strength and speed. You might be an intellectual whose impatience with the incompetence of others has led you to habitually transfer your thoughts directly into their heads. Your psionic powers and abilities set you apart from others. As you create your psion, consider how this may have affected you. Did you hide your psychic talent? Do you still? What was your psionic awakening moment? Did it occur in early childhood or later in life? Were you supported in your efforts or shunned for your uncanny nature? Are your psychic talents more intellectual, sensory, or visceral in nature?

CLASS FEATURES

As a psion, you gain the following class features.

Hit Points

Hit Dice: 1d6 per psion level

Hit Points at 1st Level: 6 + your Constitution modifier

Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d6 (or 4) + your Constitution modifier per psion level after 1st

Proficiencies

Armor: Light armor, medium armor

Weapons: Simple weapons, medium mauls, tk gauntlets

Tools: None

Saving Throws: Constitution, Intelligence

Skills: Arcana, plus three from Animal Handling, Athletics, Insight, Investigation, Perception, Religion, and Stealth

Equipment

You begin the game with 200 credits which you can spend on your character’s starting weapons, armor, and adventuring gear. You can select your own gear or choose one of the following equipment packages. Also consult the Suggested Equipment section of your chosen background.

• Pensive Sage’s Package (cost 137 credits): antiinhibitive (2 uses), backpack, data wafer with historical lore, medium shock maul, canvas armor, focusing agent (2 uses), nano-bandage, notebook and pen, rations (10 Supply), psychic crystal (totem), two-person tent
• Commercial Telepath’s Package (cost 115 credits): personal communicator, slugger, synthweave, fine clothes
• Field Medic’s Package (cost 185 credits): antiseptic (5 uses), anxiety medication, blanket, 2 data wafers (medical journals), first aid kit (15 uses), flashlight, hyperweave armor, medium maul, handgun and 5 standard ammunition cartridges (20 ea.), smelling salts, sleeping bag, tactical case, two-person tent, universal airhypo.

Pionic Powers

At 1st level you have learned to tap into your reservoir of psychic energy to manifest and channel psionic powers.

Reflexes

At 1st level, you learn certain fundamentals of psionics. Level 0 psionic powers, called reflexes, can be channeled without spending psionic points. You learn one reflex of your choice from the psionics powers list. You learn additional reflexes of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Reflexes Known column of the Psion table. Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of the psychic reflexes you know with another reflex from the psionics powers list.

Psionic Points

The Psion table shows the total number of psionic points you have. To use one of your psionic powers, you must expend a number of points equal to its level. When you finish a short rest, you may expend one or more hit dice to regain some of your energy. You gain a number of psionic points equal to the result, up to your total psionic points. You regain all spent psionic points when you finish a long rest.

Psionic Powers Known of Rating I And Higher

You know one level I psionic power of your choice from the psionic powers list.

Whenever your power rating increases, as shown in the Power Rating column of the Psion table, you learn one new power of your choice. This power must be of a level less than or equal to your power rating.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can replace one power you know with a different power of your choice. This power must also be of a level less than or equal to your power rating.

Psionics Ability

There are many paths to mental mastery. Choose Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma to be your psionics ability. Once you make this choice, you cannot change it. You use the chosen ability whenever a power or feature refers to your psionics ability. In addition, you use that ability modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a psionic power or feature and when making an attack roll with one.

Psionics save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your chosen ability modifier

Psionics attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your chosen ability modifier

Psionic Focus

You can use a psionic focus, such as a psychic crystal, for any of your powers. This enables you to concentrate on one additional power you know, as long as the sum of the powers’ levels is less than or equal to your power rating. If you have to make a check to maintain concentration, roll for both powers individually.

Psionic Blast

Starting at 1st level you learn to direct your mental energies as a focused blast. Choose a damage type from the following list: cold, fire, lightning, psychic, or thunder. Your Psionic Blast deals damage of the chosen type, also called your primary damage type. Once this choice is made it cannot be changed. You can use an action to strike a creature you can see within 30 feet. Make a ranged psionic attack against the creature, dealing 1d8 damage plus your psionic ability modifier of the chosen type. The damage dealt increases as you gain Psion levels, as shown in the Blast Damage column of the Psion table.

Cognitive Discoveries

At 2nd level you gain one cognitive discovery of your choice. As a psion, much of your exploration is inward facing. However, sometimes being aware of your surroundings is exactly what is needed to reach the next level of psionic mastery. Your discoveries are detailed at the end of the class description. The Discoveries Known column of the Psion table shows when you learn more cognitive discoveries. If you gain a bonus discovery, it does not count against your Discoveries known.

Psionic Speciality

When you reach 2nd level and again at 11th level, you can choose a psionic discipline to specialize in: dynakinetic, kinesthetic, telekinetic, or telepathic. All psionic powers belong to one or more of these disciplines. As your psionic power grows, your focused dedication allows you to manifest more strongly within one discipline over the others. You gain the following benefits from this focused specialization:

• You learn one power from this discipline. This power does not count against your number of powers known.
• Once per long rest you can manifest a power you know from this discipline without expending points from your reservoir as long as that power’s level doesn’t exceed your current power rating. You must still expend points for any surge options you wish to apply.

Unassailable Ego

At 2nd level, the ability to transform reality with the power of your mind requires removing any self-imposed limits or doubts. It requires a measure of belief that borders on blind faith. Choose one of the following features.

Ambition

You believe you are born for greatness and nothing must stand in your way; the rules that pertain to most don’t apply to you. You gain proficiency with History and Intimidation or an expertise die if you already have proficiency.

Order

You believe you must always follow a strict code, whether that be religious or legal. Whatever the consequences, the ends justify the means. You gain proficiency with Culture and Investigation or an expertise die if you already have proficiency.

Selflessness

You believe your powers must be used in service to a greater purpose. You gain proficiency with Medicine and Religion or an expertise die if you already have proficiency.

Psion Archetype

At 3rd level, you choose a psion archetype that reflects the journey upon which you have embarked, which are detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 7th and 15th level.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Demanding Excellence

At 4th level, and again at 9th and 17th level, choose one of the following skills: Insight, Perception, Persuasion, or Religion. You gain proficiency with the chosen skill. If you are already proficient, you gain an expertise die in that skill instead

Psionic Effort

Starting at 5th level, you may use a bonus action to expend one or more hit dice to gain a number of psionic points equal to the number of hit dice you expended.

Enhanced Blast

At 6th level choose two of the following improvements to your Psionic Blast feature. A level prerequisite refers to your level in the psion class.

You may choose one additional improvement from this list at 9th level, and again at 12th level and 15th level. Unless otherwise noted, these effects are cumulative. When you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the improvements you know and replace it with another improvement that you could learn at that level.

Blast Accuracy

You gain an expertise die to your Psionic Blast attack roll. You can choose this enhancement multiple times, improving the expertise die each time.

Blast Alternator

Each time you use your Psionic Blast, you can choose to inflict a damage type based on your Unassailable Ego choice: force (Order), necrotic (Ambition), or radiant (Selflessness).

Blast Multiplier

Prerequisite 9th level

When you make a Psionic Blast attack, you can make a second Psionic Blast attack at a different target.

Blast Output

Your Psionic Blast deals additional damage equal to your proficiency bonus.

Blast Radius

You can pick a spot within range instead of individual targets. All creatures within 10 feet of that spot are targeted, but your damage is halved.

Blast Range

Your range increases by 30 feet.

Blast Response

When a creature you can see within 30 feet deals damage to you, you can use your reaction to make one Psionic Blast attack against it.

Archetype Feature

At 7th level you gain another archetype feature.

Guarded Mind

At 10th level, you gain resistance to psychic damage. Additionally, choose one of the following conditions: charmed, frightened, poisoned, rattled. Once between long rests when you would suffer the chosen condition, you can choose to ignore it instead. 

At 15th level you can use this feature with all of the listed conditions

Mental Fortitude

At 13th level, you gain an expertise die on concentration checks and can use a psionic focus to channel up to 3 powers simultaneously. The sum of the power levels must be less than or equal to your power rating.

Self Evolution

At 14th level, you gain proficiency in Wisdom and Charisma saving throws.

Archetype Feature

At 15th level you gain another archetype feature.

Space & Mind

At 20th level, your mental power is unparalleled and you transcend the barriers between space, matter, and mind. With only a thought, your consciousness can travel the cosmos, taking your physical form along with you. As an action you can teleport instantly to any location in the universe. Once you have used this feature, you cannot do so again until you have finished a long rest

Cognitive Discoveries

If a cognitive discovery has prerequisites, you must meet them to learn it. You can learn the discovery at the same time that you meet its prerequisites. A level prerequisite refers to your psion class level.

Buoy Spirits

You use your empathic resonance to uplift your companions’ spirits as they travel. Once per region (or planetary system), allies can gain an expertise die for one journey activity they undertake.

Empty Mind

You are able to clear your mind of emotional distraction. Any psionic attempt to read or detect your emotions automatically fails, and Insight checks against you are made at disadvantage.

Energy Conservation

You can forgo your Supply requirement for a number of days equal to your Constitution modifier. Once you use this feature you cannot do so again until you complete a long rest at a haven.

Into the Void

Prerequisite: Suspended Breath

You can survive in the void of space for a number of minutes equal to your Constitution modifier. Once you use this feature you cannot do so again until you complete a long rest at a haven.

Meditative Rest

When you take a long rest, you can choose to meditate instead. You remain conscious during the rest, although you may not undertake strenuous actions.

Psychic Isometric

You learn one of the following psyknight isometrics, which counts as a cognitive discovery for you: Diplomatic Intervention, Faceless Mask, Mystic Hunter, Haptic Feedback. You can take this discovery more than once, each time learning a new psychic isometric.

Sense Disturbance

You can always choose to use your psionics ability when making Perception checks and determining your passive Perception. You also gain an expertise die on checks made to detect or identify hidden emotions, imminent danger, and psionic or other supernatural powers.

Speed of Thought

Prerequisite: 3rd Level

When you manifest a reflex that requires 1 action, you can use 1 bonus action instead.

Suppress Hunger 

Prerequisite: Energy Conservation

You can share your ability to forgo Supply requirements with others, dividing the number of days between yourself and the chosen creatures.

Suspended Breath

Once between long rests, you can go without breathing for up to one hour.

Forged Talent

When a psyknight first becomes aware of their psionic abilities, it often manifests in uncontrolled and unpredictable outbursts. Some are discovered early on by mentors and organizations capable of giving them the knowledge, tools, and intense training needed to transform their raw talent into precision instruments of psionic power. Others are largely self-taught, attending the less structured but equally challenging school of hard knocks. While psyknights may vary in their formative training, one thing remains constant: their growth in power and mastery is a direct reflection of the effort they put in. When faced with tests, trials, or tribulations, psyknights push themselves to the edge of, and often right past, their physical limits.

Tempered Weapons

With an intuitive sense of kinesthetic psionics, psyknights find they can quickly gain mastery with close combat armaments. Unlike psions, psyknights excel at melee combat. Such is their reputation as living weapons that psyknights claim some victories without a single shot fired or sword drawn.

Creating a Psyknight

A psyknight is a quick study of both martial and intellectual pursuits and must be quick on their feet in more ways than one to pass various the tests and trials that help unlock their psionic abilities. As you create your psyknight, think about some of the early challenges you faced and overcame. Were they designed and administered by a disciplined organization that recruited you at a young age? Or did the ordered chaos of the universe send them your way at just the right time in just the right place? Consider too, your motivations. Did you learn to suppress or control your power to prevent harming yourself and those around you? Perhaps you lashed out against an attack on someone you love. How you respond to your early experiences can shape the psyknight you will become.

CLASS FEATURES

As a psion, you gain the following class features.

Hit Points

Hit Dice: 1d10 per psyknight level

Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier

Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) + your Constitution modifier per psion level after 1st

Proficiencies

Armor: Light armor, medium armor, shields

Weapons: Simple weapons, blades, starship weapons

Tools: Space vehicles

Saving Throws: Dexterity, Charisma

Skills: Choose three from Acrobatics, Athletics, Insight, Perception, and Sleight of Hand, Stealth

Equipment

You begin the game with 200 credits which you can spend on your character’s starting weapons, armor, and adventuring gear. You can select your own gear or choose one of the following equipment packages. Also consult the Suggested Equipment section of your chosen background.

• Confidence Artist’s Package (cost 177 credits): backpack, camouflage canvas armor, flashlight, jolt pistol and shock energy battery (20), lighter (30 uses), multitool, sleeping bag, one-person tent, 2 light polearms
• Master Duelist’s Package (cost 186 credits): blanket, earplugs, dueling sword (medium force blade), lighter (30 uses), mirrored synthweave armor (2 pockets), smelling salts, tactical maul
• Wayward Drifter’s Package (cost 139 credits): backpack, first aid kit (15 uses), flashlight, psychic crystal, first aid kit (15 uses), leather armor, light blade