Professions
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Professions allow you to start a new character with more gear than usual, themed around a given profession or personality type. The more or more useful items they give you the more points they will cost, while some professions will hinder your character in some way, giving you points instead.
The default profession is "Survivor", which will give your character the default gear you might be familiar with from previous versions.
List of professions
The skills provided by a profession do stack up with the ones you pick from the skill list at character creation. So, if you pick for example a Fast Food Cook (which gives you cooking level 1) and put one point in Cooking (which brings your cooking up to level 2), you'll end up with a cooking level of 3.
| Name | Pts | Items | Skills | Addictions | Description |
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| Survivor | 0 |
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"They say you don't have any 'useful skills', but at least your clothes fit well." | ||
| Tailor | 1 |
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"Tailoring may not seem like the most useful skill when the world has ended. Most people wouldn't expect a simple tailor to live long. This is your opportunity to prove them wrong." | ||
| Chef | 1 |
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"Bork bork! Years in the kitchen have left you carrying a prodigious bulk, but you managed to escape the carnage with a butchers knife and only a small collection of stains on your uniform." | ||
| Lab Technician | 2 |
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"Thanks to your time in the lab, you're familiar with the basics of conducting science. You escaped along with the lucky civilians, but at least you kept your lab gear." | ||
| Home Mechanic | 1 |
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"Although you never got your driver's license, you've always loved cars. You start with a wrench, a toolbelt, and some car-related reading material." | ||
| Scoundrel | 2 |
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"Your flexible outlook on the law, the scuffles you've been in (and avoided) at the bar, and your impressive ability to weasel your way out of the consequences of your actions - all these skills have helped ensure your survival. But how much longer will they hold out?" | ||
| Military Recruit | 3 |
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"You were a high school drop-out with one goal in mind: to join the military. You finally got in, just in time for your training to get interrupted by a national emergency. As far as you can tell, military command abandoned you in this hellhole when you missed the emergency evac." | ||
| Medical Resident | 1 |
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Fresh out of med school, you've got little in the way of practical experience. You just hope it will be enough if the old adage of 'Doctor, heal thyself' ends up being required." | |
| Gangster | 3 |
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"The boss always said he could rely on you to pull through on the tough jobs. A shame he didn't manage it, himself. No stranger to a spot of violence, you almost feel at home in this new world already." | ||
| Security Guard | 1 | "A low paid security guard, things have suddenly gotten a lot more dangerous than patrolling the grounds warding off potential thieves. You don't have any particularly useful skills, but you do have some useful equipment since you were on the job when things started going south." | |||
| Survivalist | 3 |
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"Skilled at surviving off the land far from civilization, your skills are quite likely to come in useful considering civilization is now full of monsters that want you dead. Your equipment is basic, but versatile - and with your skills, more than you need." | ||
| Chain Smoker | -1 |
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"Everyone at work knew you as the person who always had a cigarette or two in hand. Now, you're down to a single pack, and you hope you find more soon. You start out with a strong nicotine addiction, and 10 cigarettes." | ||
| Crackhead | -1 |
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"Cocaine. It is, indeed, a helluva drug. You blew your money on some dust, and before you knew it you were turning tricks behind the local CVS just to score one more line | ||
| Hobo | -1 |
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"Society drove you to the fringes and set you wandering, with no home, no family, no friends, until you could only find solace in the bottom of a bottle. But society doesn't mean a thing any more, and for all the crap thrown your way, you're still standing. God damn, you need a drink." | |
| Tweaker | -2 | "You're not entirely sure what happened, but everything has gone to shit, and the only thing running through your head is where you're gonna find your next hit." | |||
| Cop | 2 |
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""Just a small-town deputy when you got the call, you were still ready to come to the rescue. Except that soon it was you who needed rescuing - you were lucky to escape with your life. Who's going to respect your authority when the government this badge represents might not even exist anymore?" | ||
| Used Car Salesman | 0 |
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"You've been accused of being the sort of guy who'd be willing to sell his own mother for a dollar. It always left you insulted - you've been around the block a time or two, and you'd charge way more than a dollar - and get it, too!" | ||
| Bow Hunter | 2 |
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"Ever since you were a child you loved hunting, and you soon took a liking to the challenge of hunting with a bow. Why, if the world ended there's nothing you'd want at your side more than your trusty bow. So when it did, you made made sure to bring it along." | ||
| Handy Man | 1 |
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"You used to work at a local hardware store, and you did a lot of home renovations yourself. Now you look out at the horizon of a ruined world, and wonder - are your meager skills, and the few supplies you grabbed on the way out, sufficient to help it rebuild?" | ||
| Lumberjack | 0 | "You're a lumberjack, and you're okay. You felled trees before before the world ended, but suspect the undead aren't nearly as tough." | |||
| Backpacker | 0 | "You've travelled for a living, sightseeing here and there, and living off your parents' trust fund. But now they're gone, and the only thing between you and death is the open road and your backpack." | |||
| Fast Food Cook | 0 |
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"You used to work at a fancy fast food joint a week ago, but now you show the meaning of \"fast\" food by running for your life." | ||
| Electrician | 1 |
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"You used to work for some small-time business owners doing minor electrical work, and you just so happened to be working on one of these jokes of an evac shelter when the cataclysm struck. Unfortunately, you didn't finish wiring anything up except the computer - fat lot of good it's doing you now." | ||
| Computer Hacker | 1 |
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"Caffeine pills and all-nighters in front of a computer screen have given you skills in an area that seem, on the face of it, distinctly less-than-useful when the world has ended. You suppose you can't really get in trouble for fulfilling your dream of hacking into a military mainframe, now. That's a plus." | ||
| Student | 1 | "You were a high school student, but the tests you'll face now will have much higher stakes. There might even be something useful in one of these books you've been lugging around all year." | |||
| Shower Victim | -1 | "You were in the middle of a nice shower when the cataclysm struck! You fled without so much as a towel." | |||
| Biker | 2 |
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"You spent most of your life on a Harley, and it's only natural you spend the rest of it riding one." | ||
| Ballroom Dancer | 0 |
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"You used to be a ballroom dancer before the cataclysm, and now you use your skills to save your life." | ||
| Bionic Thief | 2 |
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"You have done many high profile heists, but your gains mean nothing in this world. All you have left is your bionic lockpick that you keep powered via batteries." | ||
| Bionic Patient | 3 |
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"Medical advances have saved your body from certain death. You are augmented with bionic muscles and sensors monitoring your blood powered by your own metabolism. Make the most of your second chance at life." | ||
| Bionic Agent | 3 |
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"Your body has several bionics worth millions of dollars, paid for by public taxes. The government has turned you into an infiltration and recon specialist: you have night vision, an alarm and a hacking module. And it all runs off piles and piles of everyday household batteries." | ||
| Failed Android | -2 |
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"Your body is a wreck of bionic parts. You have a large capacity for power, but are filled with broken bionics. At least your ethanol power supply still works." | ||
| Hitchhiker | 0 | "Your house has been demolished and your planet destroyed, but at least you still have your towel." | |||
| Trapper | 1 |
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"You spent most of your life trapping with your father. Both of you made a decent living off of your catches, and trapping tutorials. Hopefully, your skills will come in useful against less conventional game." | ||
| Blacksmith | 1 |
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"You were going through your community college's metalsmithing program when the world ended. You ran into trouble coming out of class - but managed to keep ahold of the equipment you were carrying at the time.." | ||
| Clown | 0 | "All you ever wanted was to make people laugh. Dropping out of school and performing at kids' parties was a dream come true until the world ended. There's precious few balloon animals in your future now." | |||
| Lost Submissive | 0 | "Early in the rush to safety, you were separated from your master by cruel fate. Now you are on your own with nothing to your name but a suit of really kinky black leather. Unfortunately, there's no safewords in the apocalypse." | |||
| Senior Citizen | 0 | "You haven't seen this much blood since the war. The whole world's gone crazy! They ate your grandkids! But dagnabbit, you'll make them all pay for what they've done. You start with a cane and your pocketwatch." | |||
| Otaku | 2 |
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"Late nights with friends watching anime and eating snacks has prepared you for the premier anime convention in the Northeast. It just had to be the day of the apocalypse. At least you were ready in case your costume tore." | ||
| Hockey Player | 0 | "You were a minor-league hockey goalie before the rest of your team became zombies. It's just you and your hockey equipment versus the undead, but at least you can cross-check them now." | |||
| Baseball Player | 0 | "You were a batter on a local minor league team before the cataclysm. You escaped with your equipment, but how long can you survive until your innings are up?" | |||
| Football Player | 0 | "You were the star player for the local football team, adored by teammates and fans alike. Now they just adore your brains. You've still got your bulky football gear on." | |||
| Golfer | 0 | "You were the star player for the local football team, adored by teammates and fans alike. Now they just adore your brains. You've still got your bulky football gear on." | |||
| Groom | 0 | "You were about to marry your bride before the cataclysm, now you spend your days searching for her." | |||
| Bride | 0 | "You chose a bad day for your wedding. You just barely escaped with your wedding dress intact." | |||
| Punk Rock Girl | 0 | "The apocalypse has been your psychotic dream come true. Now that the system is dead, it's time to party among the bones of the world!" | |||
| Rudeboy | 0 | "The apocalypse has been your psychotic dream come true. Now that the system is dead, it's time to party among the bones of the world!" | |||
| Firefighter | 2 |
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"As a first responder you were direct witness to the gutwrenching horrors of the apocalypse. Separated from most of your equipment and your unit while on call, you were forced to fight your way to safety with little more than your trusty iron and bunker gear to protect you." | ||
| Mail Carrier | 1 |
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"You were a proud postal service worker. Neither snow nor rain would stop you from delivering correspondence near and far. But you weren't counting on the cataclysm!" | ||
| Razor Boy | 5 |
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"Through a series of painful and expensive surgeries you became a walking bionic weapon, your services as a mercenary available to the highest bidder. Now that the world has ended, those bionic enhancements may spell the difference between life and death." | ||
| Cyberjunkie | 0 |
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"Long ago your lifelong infatuation with bionic enhancement lead you into a shady world of back-alley bionic clinics and self-installed secondhand CBMs. The world has moved on but your posthuman hunger still cries out to be fed; where will you get your bionic fix now?" | |
| Special Operator | 5 |
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"You were the best of the best, the military's finest. That's why you're still alive, even after all your comrades fell to the undead. As far as you can tell, military command abandoned you in this hellhole when you missed the emergency evac." |