Since the rules don specify, are all characters assumed to be Medium creatures, regardless of their base stock?
A. Yes, all the stocks listed are Medium. Originally, I had “big” (Medium) and “little” (Small) versions of each nonhuman stock. After all, most mammals, reptiles, and arthropods are smaller than humans, so I figured lots of mutants of those types would also be smaller than humans. But playtesters (especially Rob Heinsoo) didn’t like playing little guys, so I made all the stocks Medium. When I took out the rules for Small characters I probably wound up accidentally deleting all reference to size from the stock descriptions. Oops. My idea that lots of mutated animals should be Small was a wrong-headed intrusion of biological logic into a virulently anti-biological game. Stock Mutations and Defects Q. The way I understand it, clickies, hairies, and scalies receive their stock mutations for free (they do not count against their total mutation value). But if they roll Stock Mutation when rolling for Random Mutations, they then roll in the Random Stock Mutation column of Table 1-2, and thes
A. Yes, all the stocks listed are Medium. Originally, I had “big” (Medium) and “little” (Small) versions of each nonhuman stock. After all, most mammals, reptiles, and arthropods are smaller than humans, so I figured lots of mutants of those types would also be smaller than humans. But playtesters (especially Rob Heinsoo) didn’t like playing little guys, so I made all the stocks Medium. When I took out the rules for Small characters I probably wound up accidentally deleting all reference to size from the stock descriptions. Oops. My idea that lots of mutated animals should be Small was a wrong-headed intrusion of biological logic into a virulently anti-biological game. Stock Mutations and Defects Q. The way I understand it, clickies, hairies, and scalies receive their stock mutations for free (they do not count against their total mutation value). But if they roll Stock Mutation when rolling for Random Mutations, they then roll in the Random Stock Mutation column of Table 1-2, and thes
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