Equip Your Character Items are all the tools and treasures that expand a character’s abilities and possibilities. From a mundane wrench to a magitechnical spell anchor, from a suit of pleather armor to a biomechanical crab-head, all are items.

Open the Template Character Sheet, then click on the Duplicate to Edit button on the bottom left. Rename your new Character Sheet space.

You have 7 + strength inventory slots for items.

Example: boiler suit, ship overalls, field loincloth, civilian sarong.

Example: a cat lord wearing a cute little jump suit (1 st) and knit cap with foopy antennae (1 st) may not look annoyed, but they can’t carry quite as many sacrificial mouse victims as they might wish.

Characters who are not evolved to wear clothes, such as cat lords, spectrum satraps, some golems, and other strange creatures, do not get a free inventory slot for the garments they wear.

Example: a corporate suit (1 st) provides status benefits and access to temples of finance, a classical toga (3 st) blocks one arm and marks the wearer as a member of the ruling class in some Decapolitan republics, nomad robes (1 st) provide an armor bonus, very warm clothes (2 st) are useful in the domains of Winterwhite, an environment suit (1 st) may protect against radiation ghosts, etc.

Additional sets of clothes, or special garments that provide benefits or modifiers do occupy inventory slots as usual.

Human Clothes Baseline humans have evolved to wear clothes. Any garments suitable for a tropical or temperate climate that such a character is wearing take up no inventory slots. You can describe them on the back of the character sheet.

Example: Rafts let characters float, climbing gear helps scale surfaces that are impossible to free-climb.

Improvising With Items Items are not just bundles of game mechanics. They improve a character’s performance and let them do new things. Use common sense and imagination to figure out how to take advantage of your PC’s equipment.

Example: A pair of shoes chucked onto a grassy slope may roll downhill, a sack of stolen glass statuettes dropped on a marble floor may produce a lot of sharp glass caltrops.

Dropping Items A character can quickly drop one item or pack as a free action on their turn, reducing any penalties suffered from encumbrance. A quickly dropped item may break, get damaged, roll away, or otherwise suffer the consequences. The referee decides on a suitable save target. A character taking an action to carefully put down an item or pack avoids any risk of damaging their precious property.

Example: A dagger (5 sp) takes up a whole inventory slot (1 st = 10 sp) when carried ready for use. Packed in a bundle, two daggers take up a single inventory slot and are treated as one item.

Loose items take up at least one inventory slot each, but a character can use them immediately. Some traits allow more efficient packing or quicker access to items.

Packed and Loose Items Items can be packed in backpacks, pouches, purses, ammo belts, and other containers. You can draw a box for each pack on your character sheet. Packing items is efficient for transport, but you need at least one action to unpack and ready them for use.

1 cash (€, silver): a standard unit of currency equal to a laborer’s day wages. Named as a nod to ancient Chinese cash (文).

1 soap (sp) = 25 cash: a small item, like a signal whistle or signet ring or spike. Or a bar of soap (surprisingly useful in the grasslands!).

1 stone (st) = 10 soaps: a significant item, like a saber or spear or shield or shovel. About 7 kilograms, or 14 pounds.

1 sack (sk) = 10 stones: a basic cargo unit, about as much as a human.

Sizes Item sizes in the Vastlands are measured in abstract units that combine weight and bulk. Unless otherwise specified, an item takes up 1 stone of inventory space.

A level 0 character starts with one item and less cash. Higher level characters start with more items and cash.

At level 1 you start with two items and some starting cash.

Each loose item or package occupies at least one item inventory slot. Other traits, items, and events can increase the number of item slots. Each item inventory slot is 1 stone in size.

Company/Caravan

Later, you can acquire other characters: pets, sidekicks, secondary PCs and more. Their adventures, their defeats and victories, are yours to chart.

generate remaining attributes and motivations

name your character

learn how to level them up

review your character and set off on your adventure

generate their ability scores

Players experience the fantastic world of the Ultraviolet Grasslands through their character(s). In this space, you will:

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