The core attributes have been shrunk from 6 to 4. Constitution and Strength have been combined into Strength, and Intelligence and Wisdom have been combined into Intelligence. The skills have been changed from 18 to 15. Athletics, Acrobatics, Stealth, Sleight (sleight of hand), Investigation, Medicine, Insight, Persuasion, Deception, Intimidation and Performance persist from 5e. The new skills are; Pilotry (the skill of driving and piloting), Knowledge (a combination of history, religion and nature from 5e), Technology (the skill to interact with advanced and digital technology) and Mechanics (the skill to work with mechanical systems such as firearms and vehicles).

In addition to the above major changes to combat, the following are miscellaneous changes to combat:

• It takes a bonus action to switch weapons

• Dual-wielding 1 handed weapons reduces the attack rolls by 6

• All weapons have a stat called “critical range” which determines how many attack roll outcomes count as a crit (in 5e this value is 1, hence only nat 20 is a crit) by default all weapons have a crit range of 0

• Initiative is not rolled but rather it is a constant value in the character sheet equal to Dexterity + Athletics modifier or Intelligence + Deception modifier, tie breakers are determined arbitrarily at the DM’s discretion

• Instead of being binary (you have it or you don’t), inspiration points can be accumulated to a maximum of 20, using inspiration points (maximum of 5) simply increases a given roll by the amount of inspiration points used instead of granting advantage

• Being prone increases the reload time by 1 step along the following list:

  • free action → bonus action → action → full turn → [n > 1] actions.

• You can change the direction you are facing on your turn as a free action any number of times or as part of a prepared reaction

• You automatically change direction to face your target when you make an attack

• For the sake of simplicity with regard to keeping track of ammo, an optional rule exists called “encounter packages”; instead of counting the exact number of rounds a character has in their inventory, each character consumes an encounter package once per encounter per weapon they use. The package is consumed regardless of how many rounds the weapon expends. Packages are unique to each ammo type and some weapons, such as rocket launchers, will still require individual rounds be tracked (at the DM’s discretion). This way, player need only track the number of remaining shots in their weapon’s magazine

There are four classes of defensive apparel one can equip:

1. Light Armour

2. Medium Armour

3. Heavy Armour

4. Shields

The three classes of armour differ only slightly by the magnitude of their defensive capacity and a few traits each set is likely to have. Being proficient in an armour grants no additional bonuses unless otherwise stated, not being proficient in an armour reduces its AC by 2 and reduces attack rolls by 1.

Shields function differently to armours in a few ways.

• The direction in which they provide protection is relative to the direction you're facing, by default, this is a 90° span in front of you, such that any attack made from within that span interacts with your shield, and any attack made outside of that span ignores it

• Shields do not modify your AC, instead they use a different value; shield class, which functions the same way as AC

• If you have both a shield and armour equipped, when you receive an attack, one of four outcome occur depending on the attack roll

  • If the attack roll is below your MHR, the attack hits your cover or is simply negated

  • If the attack roll is above your MHR but below your shield class, it damages your shield (assuming the direction is appropriate)

  • If the attack roll is between your shield class and armour class, it damages whichever is higher

  • If the attack roll exceeds your MHR, shield class and armour class, it damages your character's health

• Unless otherwise specified, shields occupy a hand and thus negate use with larger weapons

• A creature can only benefit from one shield at a time regardless of however many are equipped

• Being proficient with shields allows you to reload a one handed weapon in your unoccupied hand (a process that would normally require two hands)

• not being proficient in shields reduces their shield class by 2 and reduces your attack rolls by 1

Vehicles will denote their movement with a few stats, an example is given in the above image.

The first stat of the movement cone is a fraction that represents the number of steps to the side for each step forward the vehicle can move. In this example, for every 5 steps forward, the vehicle can move up to 3 steps sideways. The greater this fraction, the more manoeuvrable the vehicle. In this case "steps" can mean any unit of distance.

The second stat of movement cone is the maximum distance the vehicle can move in 1 turn. In this case it is 100ft. This distance includes distance moved sideways.

The minimum movement stat denotes the minimum distance the vehicle can move each turn. This represents how some vehicles (such as planes) can't be stationary, they can only slow down.

At the end of each movement, the direction of the vehicle is straight away from the location it started its movement.

1 Handed Weapons can be used in akimbo (one weapon in each hand). Doing so doubles the potential damage and ammo consumption of each attack but reduces the attack rolls by 6 and requires that each weapon be reloaded individually.

2 Handed Weapons require 2 hands to operate

Semi-Auto: fires once per action

Auto: fires up to [weapon dependent] times per action. The attack roll for an attack with an automatic weapon is made only once per attack regardless of the number of actions the attack consumes. The attack roll of each successive shot is reduced by the stat labelled "recoil". For example if the first attack roll were 16 and the weapon's recoil were 4, the attack rolls would be; 16, 12, 8, etc. A fresh attack roll may be made only after the user of the weapon has spent a full turn not firing the automatic weapon. Taking damage from an outside source while firing an automatic weapon reduces the attack roll by 5 for all following shots until a new attack roll is rolled.

Partial Load: Reloads 1 round per reload action (unless otherwise specified)

Targets a Cone: Damage is evenly spread between all targeted 5x5ft spaces.

Fires A Projectile: weapons with this trait fire projectiles that are affected by gravity and can be reacted to.

Does AOE Damage: the weapon affects an area.

Causes Afterburn: affected targets take 1d4 fire damage for the next 3 turns unless extinguished.

Requires a Bonus Action to Cycle: This weapon requires a bonus action be expended between shots.

Malfunctions on critical failure and critical success: When making attack rolls with this weapon, a natural 1 and a natural 20 both cause malfunctions unique to the item.

Stationary Weaponry: Stationary weapons can't instantly aim in any direction. Instead, where a different class of weapon would indicate range, stationary weapons have a targeting cone, such that they can aim at anything in that cone. The direction of that cone is relative to the current direction the weapon is facing. Unless otherwise specified, the direction the weapon is facing, and thus the area covered by the targeting cone, can be changed on an action. Additionally, stationary weapons cannot be ready to fire and ready to move at the same time. Instead they can be transitioned between states on however many actions are specified on the weapon's stat sheet. When ready to fire, the weapon is deployed on the ground. When ready to move, the weapon is packed up.