Heritage event tables are randomized dice roll tables used during the character creation process of Mongoose Traveller 2e and related games. Rolling on these tables provides a player character with a background event and benefits, drawbacks, or both related to the event. They are generally unique to a given species or culture, but within reason, GMs may choose to allow players to roll on a different heritage event table.
Generally speaking, a character will only roll on one heritage event table once and keep that result, but GMs may choose to have players roll on a single table multiple times or roll on different tables and then choose one result.
Unless otherwise stated, a character will always roll 2d6 to determine the outcome of a heritage event.
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Heritage: Cybernetic Augmentation
| Roll | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | You never got an augmentation — maybe because you decided against it, perhaps for lack of opportunity, or maybe even because your body rejected cybernetics entirely the last time you had the chance. This makes you a bit of an outcast among your kind, and you may have even had family members or former friends turn against you for your lack of augmentations. -2 SOC and gain 1 Enemy. | ||
| 3 | Your augmentations came at a cost to your body in some way. +1 to a characteristic of your choosing other than Social Standing and Fortune, and -1 to Strength, Dexterity, or Endurance (cannot be the same as a characteristic you improved with this heritage event). | ||
| 4 | Your augmentations came at a cost to your mind in some way. +1 to a characteristic of your choosing other than Social Standing and Fortune, and -1 to Intelligence, Education, or Rapport (cannot be the same as a characteristic you improved with this heritage event). | ||
| 5 | Your augmentations were a mix of risk and reward, but you chose how to apply that risk. +1 to a characteristic of your choosing other than Social Standing and Fortune, and -1 to a characteristic other than Social Standing and Fortune (cannot be the same as a characteristic you improved with this heritage event). | ||
| 6 | Your augmentations came at a steep medical cost, and maybe you haven’t been diligent in paying off the debt for whatever reason. It’s resulted in either you having some kind of person out for a bounty on your head or compounded interest rates with catastrophic repayments. Gain either [amount TBD] medical debt or [amount TBD but less than previous] medical debt and 1 Enemy. | ||
| 7 | Your augmentations work, but they came at a steep financial cost either in the parts involved or in related medical care after installation, and you’re not going to be let off the hook that easily in paying them off. +1 to a characteristic of your choosing other than Social Standing and Fortune, but gain medical debt [amount TBD but less than result 6]. | ||
| 8 | Your augmentations work and had a steep financial cost to get that way; thankfully, you had a benefactor who paid off much of the cost for you, like a wealthy family member or someone you’re now indebted to who, at least, seems to have your best interests in mind. +1 to a characteristic of your choosing other than Social Standing and Fortune, and gain medical debt [amount TBD but less than result 7] 1 Contact. | ||
| 9 | You have functioning augmentations with no lasting complications to your body and mind, but you had to travel abroad, navigate complicated legal issues, or secure exotic parts for them to be built exactly as you needed. +1 to a characteristic of your choosing other than Social Standing or Fortune and gain either Broker 0 (from having to make the deals yourself) or Advocate 0 (from having to navigate legal systems). | ||
| 10 | Your augmentation installation went well, and you actually ended up with an opportunity afterwards to get back some of your money. Perhaps you had extra parts that weren’t needed and could be sold off, or maybe you served as an aide to others recovering from installation afterwards. +1 to a characteristic of your choosing other than Social Standing or Fortune and gain [amount TBD] credits. | ||
| 11 | You kept in contact with the source of your augmentations and cybernetics; they may be a doctor, a parts seller, or someone else involved in the cybernetics trade, but they’d be happy to do business with you again. +1 to a characteristic of your choosing other than Social Standing or Fortune and gain 1 Contact. | ||
| 12 | You have prestigious, top-of-the-line augmentations that are the envy of anyone who sees them such that in some cases, they can even serve as a signal for wealth and prestige and earn you respect just by sight alone. +1 to any two characteristics of your choosing other than Fortune. |