Setting

Setting Rules

Character Creation Rules

▼ More Skill Points

Thanks to technology and improved education, characters in modern and futuristic settings have 15 skill points at character creation rather than 12. This helps them take Driving, Electronics, and other skills common in the modern world.

Gameplay Rules

▼ Additional Fatigue

Characters in this setting have one extra level of Fatigue (Debilitated) before becoming Incapacitated—in other words, a character can take the same amount of Fatigue as he can Wounds. This is to help adjust for things like Strain which makes Interface Zero more Fatigue-intensive than in other Savage Worlds settings.

Aside from this extra level, Fatigue works in all ways exactly as presented in Savage Worlds: a character becomes Fatigued, Exhausted, Debilitated, and then Incapacitated. A character who is Debilitated suffers a −3 penalty to all actions.

▼ Conviction

Conviction is a special award granted when a character experiences a great victory or catastrophic misfortune.

Conviction can be spent to add a d6 to all a character’s Trait and damage totals until the beginning of their next turn. This die can Ace, and its result is added to the final total.

Conviction tokens aren’t Bennies and can’t be used as such. They are kept between sessions, however.

A character may maintain Conviction from round to round by spending a Benny (at the start of their turn, before it runs out). Once Conviction lapses, however, the effect ends.

▼ Gritty Damage

Whenever a Wild Card takes a Wound, roll on the Injury Table and apply the results immediately (but roll only once per incident regardless of how many Wounds are actually caused). A hero who takes two Wounds from an attack, for example, rolls once on the Injury Table.

Injuries sustained in this way are cured when the Wound is healed. Injuries sustained via Incapacitation may be temporary or permanent as usual.

A Shaken character who’s Shaken a second time (from damage) receives a Wound as usual but does not roll on the Injury Table.

▼ Street Cred

Reputation is key to surviving and thriving. Reputation is the key to getting the best work, to keeping enemies at bay, and getting favors when needed. Street cred increases as you do impressive things or prove yourself reliable. It drops if you use it, you’re unreliable, a failure, or the target of ‘social assassination’. It’s hard to get, harder to keep, and worthless if you don’t use it.

Street Cred is represented by a die type. It isn’t a Trait, but it acts like one—with Acing, Bennies, a Wild Die, and benefitting from allies’ Support. The roll can be modified by the value requested, risk to the supplier, and current availability at the GM’s discretion.

Street Cred is rolled to gain favors, such as temporary allies or supplies. For complete details see Interface Zero 3.0, page 149.

▼ Wound Cap

Characters can never suffer more than four Wounds in a single hit and therefore never have to Soak more than four wounds either.

Large Creatures: The Wound Cap applies even to creatures with more than three Wounds (due to their Scale or the Resilient/Very Resilient Special Ability). A Huge creature that can take five Wounds, for example, can’t take more than four from a single attack, so it can’t normally be killed with a single attack. The GM can always overrule this in specific and obvious situations, of course, such as massive blasts, falling from towering cliffs or mountains, etc.

Characters

Lore

• Timeline

Locations

References

• Hacking

Galleries

• Icons
• Images
• Portraits

Campaigns

Campaign	Summary

Character Page Tags

Interface Zero characters should be tagged according to the guidelines below.

Tag	Use for:	Examples
character	All characters.
character-name	All characters. As it appears in page name.	name
affiliation:group	Membership in a given group or faction.	affiliation:<group>
affiliation:none	Unaffiliated with any major group/faction.
campaign:campaign-title	Characters connected to a given campaign.	campaign:<campaign>
wip	Work in progress (unfinished page).