Sewerpunk - Perks (d100)

1

Air of Confidence

You get a bonus to first impressions and ignore critical failures on those rolls.

2

Anarchist Cook

You know how to craft some basic poisons, acids, and explosives using household materials.

3

Bargain Hunter

Whenever you visit a merchant, one item they are selling at random is half price.

4

Bigger Fish

At the beginning of each combat encounter, you may roll a d6. On a result of 6, a giant creature shows up and attacks indiscriminately.

5

Blindfighting

You can fight normally against enemies that you can't see if they are adjacent to you.

6

Bloody Nose

Your attacks do a little extra damage as long as you've been damaged by an enemy attack this combat.

7

Bribery Ettiquite

You get a bonus to bribery, and you are not busted if you fail, unless you critically fail.

8

Burning Vengeance

Whenever an ally is incapacitated by an enemy in combat, you get a bonus to attack that enemy for the remainder of the encounter. If the ally was killed, the bonus is permanent.

9

Burst of Strength

Once per day, when you attempt an action that relies primarily on strength, you can double the weight limit or roll twice and keep the better result.

10

Cheap Shot

Whenever an enemy within your reach is stunned, blinded, or distracted, you may react by making an unarmed attack against them.

11

Cold Read

Whenever you take time to interact with an NPC or investigate them, the GM tells you whether they are trustworthy or not, in general.

12

Collective Defense

You get a bonus to defense for each ally adjacent to you.

13

Comeback Kid

Whenever you roll a critical failure, you get a bonus to your next roll this encounter.

14

Combat Awareness

Whenever you use a reaction during an enemy's turn, you get a bonus to that reaction.

15

Combat Schemer

At the end of your turn in combat, if you didn't attack, you get a bonus to an attack during your next turn.

16

Concealed Weapon

Once after a resupply, you can take creative license to say you had a small weapon concealed on yourself.

17

Cornered Animal

You get a bonus to attacks while you are cornered or surrounded.

18

Cover to Cover

Enemies can't shoot at you while you are moving between cover.

19

Covert Point Man

If you are hidden, nearby allies that can see or hear you succeed automatically at attempts to become hidden.

20

Crafty Trapper

You get a bonus to setting traps, and you can make traps out of just about anything.

21

Curious Mind

Whenever you would find random loot, you may opt to find a clue, message, secret, or bit of lore instead.

22

Dazzling Display

You get a bonus to perform, distract, and blind.

23

Dead Inside

You are immune to emotion effects (panic, berserk, gloom, etc).

24

Dead Weight

While you are carrying a single body (living or dead) you are not slowed or encumbered by it at all.

25

Deep Breath

You can hold your breath for three times longer than normal.

26

Dirty Blades

Your edged weapons poison enemies on a hit.

27

Disease Carrier

You are carrying a disease that has no appreciable effect on you or the other player characters, but may afflict NPCs that you interact with. NPCs that know you have the disease will be reluctant to get near you.

28

Dive Specialist

Choose a skill. You can use that skill underwater with no penalty. You also get a bonus to swimming.

29

Don't Shoot!

Enemies can't shoot at you or your allies during the first round of combat unless someone attacks them first.

30

Emergency Exit

Once per location, you may roll a d6. On a result of 4-6, you may take creative license to find a convenient means of escape.

31

Fastball

Enemies can't dodge or otherwise react to your throwing attacks.

32

Fatal Distraction

You get a bonus to distraction and can distract enemies that are alert.

33

Feeling Lucky

When you use something with an unknown effect (throwing a switch, drinking chemicals, etc). You have a 50% chance to avoid any negative effects.

34

Finders Keepers

You get a bonus to theft and searching.

35

Fingers Crossed

Once per session, you can cross your fingers before an ally rolls. They roll twice and keep the better result.

36

Fix Anything

You can attempt to repair anything, even if you don't have an appropriate skill, with a small penalty.

37

Friend of Dogs

Dogs are friendly toward you by default and you get a bonus to interacting with them.

38

Ghoulish Appetite

You can eat fresh meat of any kind without becoming sickened, and whenever you do so, you get a minor boon, but no more than once per day.

39

Hammerhead

You get a bonus to charging through walls and doors and you take only minimal damage when doing so.

40

Hot Pursuit

You get a bonus to movement while you are chasing someone.

41

Hot to Trot

You get a bonus to movement and attacks during your first turn of a combat.

42

Job Perks

When you take a job, choose one: You get either a 50% advance on the pay, or a 10% bonus once complete.

43

Just Kidding

Once per NPC per encounter, you can take back something you just said to that NPC, avoiding any consequences.

44

Knock Heads

You can attempt to sap two enemies simultaneously by knocking their heads together. They must be adjacent to each other.

45

Know-it-All

You have a 1 in 6 chance of knowing information about any NPC, creature, item, or location.

46

Lasting Effects

Status effects that you apply to yourself or to others last twice as long.

47

Lost Tourist

NPCs that would be hostile toward you by default are merely unfriendly instead. (For example, they won't attack you on sight for trespassing.)

48

Man in Motion

At the beginning of each encounter, you can take an immediate dash action.

49

Masochist

You can choose to take additional damage instead of suffering an injury effect.

50

Massive Knockback

Double the distance that you knock back enemies.

51

Mean Business

You get a bonus to bargaining. Unfriendly merchants won't overcharge you or refuse to do business with you.

52

Mental Sanctuary

Your concentration can't be broken except by supernatural effects, and even then you still get a bonus to maintain your concentration.

53

Model Patient

Other characters get a bonus to first aid and medicine when treating you.

54

Mushroom Hunter

You can identify mushrooms (and other fungi) and know their uses and effects. You get a bonus to finding useful mushrooms and to attacking fungal creatures.

55

Mysterious Benefactor

You have an ally that provides resources and information. Their true identity and motives are unknown to you, and you can only contact them indirectly through messages or gobetweens.

56

Paper Trail

You keep an exhaustive record of the party's activities (maps, purchases, people encountered, etc). You can use the record to look up details that may have been forgotten. You get a bonus to filling out paperwork or searching records, and you can do so in half the time.

57

Parkour Enthusiast

You can climb, move through rough terrain, and vault over obstructions shorter than yourself without slowing down.

58

Party Starter

You get a bonus to persuade NPCs to start or join a party, or to travel with you to your next destination.

59

Pep Talk

Once per day, you can take time to talk to an ally and give them an extra use of one of their limited-use abilities. If they don't use it before their next rest, they lose it.

60

Perfect Balance

You never lose your balance. You don't even have to roll. This doesn't prevent you from being knocked down by force.

61

Pest Control

You get a bonus to attacking tiny creatures or trapping them.

62

Pizza Delivery

If you have access to a phone or computer, you can order a pizza and have it delivered to you in 5d6 minutes, no matter where you are. You still have to pay for the pizza.

63

Pocket Traps

The first time someone tries to grapple you or take something from you during an encounter, they will get a nasty surprise that either stuns or damages them (mousetrap, electric buzzer, snapping turtle, etc).

64

Polyglot

You know all foreign languages (but not secret or ancient ones).

65

Pot Shot

Instead of choosing an enemy to shoot at, you may make an attack roll for each potential target and shoot only at the one for which you rolled the highest.

66

Power Swing

When you make a melee attack, you can choose to take a penalty to your defense until your next turn. If you do, and the attack hits, it deals extra damage. You can't use this ability if you used it last turn.

67

Quick Change

You get a bonus to disguises and take only the minimum amount of time to change your clothes and/or armor.

68

Quiet as a Mouse

You automatically succeed at sneaking and theft rolls versus sleeping NPCs.

69

Quiet Swimmer

You don't make any noise while swimming, entering water, or leaving it, unless you unintentionally fall into the water.

70

Resourceful

When crafting or repairing, you can use whatever you have at hand to substitute for one required tool or ingredient.

71

Return Fire

You get a bonus to shoot at enemies that shot at you since your last turn.

72

Safety First

During each encounter, the first time you or an ally rolls a critical failure, it counts as only a normal failure.

73

Second Wind

Once per day, ignore a status effect for the duration of one encounter (or 3d6 minutes).

74

See You in Hell

When you are incapacitated, you can take an immediate action, such as attacking a nearby enemy or using an item. You can take creative license to say you have an explosive for this purpose.

75

Shrug Off

Once per day, reduce an instance of damage you would take by half.

76

Sixth Sense

You can sense when you are being watched or followed, and know from what general direction.

77

Sleeper

You get a bonus to sapping, and when you knock out an enemy by any means, they remain unconscious for twice as long.

78

Slimy

You get a bonus to escape grapples and restraints, and you leave a slippery trail as you move.

79

Smartass

You get a bonus to taunting and distracting NPCs.

80

Smooth Criminal

You get a bonus to deception, and NPCs get a penalty to track or investigate you.

81

Smug Satisfaction

Whenever you discover an NPC's secret, your next roll against them is an automatic success.

82

Social Network

Whenever you meet an unnamed NPC, you may roll a d10. On a result of 10, it turns out you know each other and they are friendly toward you by default.

83

Spare Change

You can take creative license to say you have money for a small purchase (snack, toll, parking, etc). Useable once per location, NPC, vending machine, etc.

84

Spontaneity

You get a bonus to initiative, and in situations where you and an enemy would both be surprised, only the enemy is surprised.

85

Stay Cool

You and nearby allies have resistance to panic, heat, and fire.

86

Sterling Reputation

Improve your reputation with a faction of your choice. Once per session, you may avoid a negative effect to your reputation with that faction.

87

Strong Grip

You get a bonus to grappling, climbing, and keeping hold of items you are wielding.

88

Superconductor

Minimize the damage you would suffer from electrical shock. You can use your body to complete a circuit. You can store an electrical charge in your body for d6 turns (or 6d6 seconds) and then discharge it by touching an enemy or conductive object.

89

Swift Kick

Once during your turn, when you attack an enemy and miss, you can immediately try to kick them.

90

Teamwork

Once per encounter, you may give your turn to another player, allowing their character to act in place of yours.

91

That's Good Stuff

You get a bonus to resist poison, and when you do so successfully, you get a beneficial effect instead.

92

Throw Down

If you are unarmed, you can attempt to persuade an enemy to put down their weapons and fight you hand-to-hand.

93

Throw Voice

You can make it sound as though your voice is coming from another spot within 30 feet, potentially distracting enemies or luring them away.

94

Time Management

Halve the time it takes you to complete tasks that normally take a minute or longer.

95

Too Good for This

Once per session, you can spend money to turn a failed roll into a success.

96

Tread Carefully

While walking, you may ignore rough terrain and hazards on the ground such as land mines and caltrops.

97

Tunnel Rat

You ignore penalties for moving, working, or fighting in tight spaces.

98

Twitchy

You get a small bonus to defense versus attacks and hazards that you are surprised by.

99

Upright Citizen

When dealing honestly with the authorities, you get a bonus to law, investigation, and persuasion.

100

Weapon Tinker

You can modify any weapon you are skilled with in the field using only basic tools.