Qualities/Complete Trog

Black Forest Native

The Complete Trog, p. 188

Cost

22 Karma

You were born and raised in the Black Forest Troll Republic, and that has given you certain knowledge and benefits. You receive both the You Know a Guy and Street Politics variants of the Home Ground quality, and you may choose one of the following bonuses: a +2 bonus when casting the preferred spells of the Druidic tradition (Camouflage, Control Pack, Invisibility, Resist Pain, and Stunball), or +2 on Infiltration tests and Survival tests in wooded areas.

Anarchy: Choose one effect when this quality is selected: +2 dice on Sorcery tests or +2 dice on Survival tests.

Community Connection

The Complete Trog, p. 188

Cost

5 Karma

The ork and troll community is not well-known for its wealth, but there are a number of trogs who have gained some money and are determined to use it to help others. Fortunately for you, you made contact with them and have become one of the beneficiaries. It didn’t make you rich, but it’s a nice boost. Ork and troll characters with this quaity can maintain a Squatter lifestyle for free, or a Low lifestyle for half the usual amount (making it 1,000 nuyen per month for orks, 2,000 for trolls).

Anarchy: Improve an existing Shadow Amp by a single level for free.

Delicate Fingers

The Complete Trog, p. 188

Prerequisite

Troll (including variants)

Cost

5 Karma

You’ve lived for a while as a troll in a human world, and you’ve gotten quite good at adapting. Plus, you have thinner-than-usual fingers and hands, which are good for using human-size devices and gear. You do not suffer the −2 penalty for using gear that is not adapted to your troll size (see Using Unadapted Gear, p. 420, SR5).

Anarchy: +1 die on Escape Artists tests and +1 die on Engineering tests.

Human Lifespan

The Complete Trog, p. 188

Cost

10 Karma

This quality can only be taken at character creation. It replaces the ork’s normal average lifespan with that of a human, so they age and mature at a human rate. It has no other effect on the character.

Anarchy: The effect is the same as the SR5 variant.

Nasty Trog

The Complete Trog, p. 188

Cost

5 Karma

With sharpened horns and/or tusks, clothing worn to highlight dermal deposits, and so forth, you highlight your inherent trog characteristics in ways that make other metatypes nervous. You receive +3 to Intimidation tests against all non-orks and -trolls (a group that includes ork and troll variants).

Anarchy: +2 dice on Intimidation tests.

Trog Artisan

The Complete Trog, p. 188

Cost

8 Karma

Maybe you learned making things out of scraps in Seattle’s Ork Underground. Or maybe you spent time in Sweetwater Creek, learning how to craft things for orks and trolls. You gain a +2 dice pool bonus whenever using the Artisan skill for items designed specifically for use by orks or trolls. Note that it must be made especially for orks or trolls, not just equally usable by them and other groups.

Anarchy: +2 dice on Engineering tests.

Trog Historian

The Complete Trog, p. 188

Cost

4 Karma

Whether through dedicated study of recorded history or long conversations with the people who were there, you have amassed a considerable body of knowledge of trog history. Whenever you are making a Knowledge Skill test that in some way involves a significant event in ork or troll history, you receive a +2 dice pool bonus.

Anarchy: Add 2 history-related Knowledge skills.

Trog Leader

The Complete Trog, p. 188

Prerequisite

Ork or Troll (including variants)

Cost

7 Karma

You say the right things, make the right gestures, and your people respond. When making Leadership tests with any group entirely composed of orks and/or trolls, you receive a +2 dice pool bonus.

Anarchy: +1 die to Con tests, +1 die to Negotiation tests.

Trog Networker

The Complete Trog, p. 189

Prerequisite

Ork or Troll (including variants)

Cost

12 Karma

You are at one with your people. Wherever you go, once you are in predominantly ork or troll areas (whichever matches your particular metatype), you either find someone you know, or someone who knows someone you know, or someone who is eager to get to know you. When you are in neighborhoods that have a majority of your metatype, you get a +2 dice pool bonus on Etiquette tests, and you receive a +1 dice pool bonus on Navigation tests— because you either have a good feel for these areas, or you’re skilled at finding the right people to give you quick directions.

Anarchy: +1 dice on Con tests, +1 to Survival tests.

Negative Qualities

Bad Credit

The Complete Trog, p. 189

Bonus

8 Karma

Money has never flowed easily to you. You didn’t have a network or friends and families with money who could help you out in hard times, and landlords and employers always seemed to take one look at you and rescind their offers, or make the terms much worse. In order to survive, you had to fall in with the type of lenders and financiers who charge scandalous interest rates and ruinous late fees. All that has resulted in black marks that seem to follow you wherever you go, no matter what names or SINs you use. Your lifestyle costs are 10 percent higher than they would otherwise be, and Availability for all pieces of gear is treated as 1 higher than it would otherwise be (note that this effect does not apply to gear purchased during the character creation process).

Anarchy: Whenever you receive 4 or more Karma for a mission, reduce that amount by 1.

Elevated Stress

The Complete Trog, p. 189

Bonus

8 Karma

Years of having mainstream society look down on you has taken its toll, as has the long-term stress associated with it. You take −1 dice pool penalty on any Addiction and Toxin Resistance tests due to the strain on your health system.

Anarchy: After you take any sort of damage, on your next three tests, add a Glitch Die that cannot roll any hits.

Force of Chaos

The Complete Trog, p. 189

Bonus

4 Karma

Planning is great—for others. You prefer to throw yourself into whatever is happening and see what you can pull off, which makes you chafe against plans. Any bonuses you might receive from employing tactics or group maneuvers in combat are cut in half (rounded up).

Anarchy: When other players try to assist you on a test, the dice bonus you receive equals half the hits on their assist roll, rounded up.

Trog Traitor

The Complete Trog, p. 189

Bonus

5 Karma

Maybe you were a security executive in Renraku. Maybe you had some hints that the Mr. Johnson you were working for was funded by the Human Nation, but you decided to take the money and not ask too many questions. Whatever it was, other orks and trolls look at you with suspicion. Your Notoriety is considered to be 5 higher than its actual value when you are in ork- or troll-majority neighborhoods.

Anarchy: −2 dice on Con and Intimidation tests in ork- and troll-majority neighborhoods.