A–Z Index

A core GunCraze character whose profile connects the game's tactical identity to its larger cast.

Uses acrobatic movement to improve defense, at the cost of making attacks harder during the maneuver.

Lets a character push through exhaustion in a crisis by drawing on a sudden reserve of Stamina.

Aedro Black was in the United States for advanced helicopter training when the Calamity cut him off from Brazil. He did not treat isolation as permission to quit. He adjusted the mission, loaded an EMP shell, and kept moving.

Makes a character more effective when badly outnumbered, helping them endure pressure from several enemies at once.

Lets a wounded character keep functioning by temporarily ignoring some of the penalties caused by injury.

Akane was training for Olympic gold when the world ended. She traded the wreck of her Ducati for weapons and kept moving south, turning discipline into a search pattern and grief into an edge no machine can dull.

Train, calm, or ride animals like horses or cattle.

Uses a sniper rifle and Tracking Tokens to inflict greater damage on armor, equipment, and hardened targets.

Uses Tracking Tokens and anti-materiel ammunition to inflict additional Durability damage on vehicles.

Improves the destructive effect of anti-tank weapons against vehicle Durability.

Discern the value of objects, scavenged goods, and pre-Calamity tech.

Makes armor-piercing rifle ammunition more reliable against Armor Points.

Improves damage with the heaviest weapons and artillery pieces.

Twenty focused abilities sit beneath the Specializations and shape how a character approaches action.

Axios has no surviving unit file, family record, or reliable address. He simply appears at failing systems, squares his shoulders, and turns chaos into a list of solvable problems. Whoever erased him did excellent work. Axios does better.

Allows a point-blank handgun attack followed by movement away without provoking an Out of Turn Attack.

Reduce purchase costs through negotiation.

Reduces the impact of fear, shock, and other battlefield conditions that can disrupt a character’s actions.

Improves a follow-up rifle attack against the same target after the first shot misses.

Allows a strong character to handle oversized weapons and heavy equipment more effectively.

Jovanni Davis learned survival on Chicago’s South Side and precision in underground gyms. The MMA circuit called him The Devil because his violence was clinical, not chaotic. Bishop is what happened when that discipline found a mission larger than a ring.

Allows a fast character to rush an opponent and turn that movement into a stronger melee attack.

A precise stabbing attack that leaves the victim bleeding after the initial wound.

Builds physical power and resilience through Strength, Endurance, and Toughness.

Represents broad physical conditioning that improves the character’s overall toughness and ability to withstand punishment.

Develops raw muscular power, improving feats of strength and the force behind physical attacks.

Turns bows or crossbows into precision weapons that can use sniper techniques and make accurate follow-up attacks.

Specializes in shotguns, special ammunition, armor-breaking blasts, and forceful knockback.

Uses a shotgun at close range to punish armored targets and force openings.

Allows a character to remain without air longer and function better during dives, smoke exposure, or similar hazards.

Amos Willis is called Bruce the way old gunslingers earned a name—by stepping between danger and people who cannot stop it themselves. Everything in his old life almost worked. In the wasteland, all those unfinished disciplines finally fit together.

Improves a rerolled Reaction, Speed, or Stunt Test when a quick change of plan is needed.

Improves sustained physical effort, helping the character keep moving and recover from strenuous activity.

Transport goods using cargo vehicles.

Focuses rifle fire on the torso for dependable stopping power.

The official digital aid for building GunCraze characters and managing the system's many choices.

Chronik left the world before the world ended. When gunfire reached his forest, the former infantryman returned with a rifle, a chainsaw bayonet, and the kind of routines that keep frightened people alive after panic becomes contagious.

Kurt Hogan is PL 30 before he steps into Heavy Powered Armor. That distinction matters. The suit does not make the Colonel dangerous; it gives a dangerous man enough protection to use telephone poles as anti-robot spears and enough battlefield presence to turn armored survivors into a line.

Allows a character to Dive for Cover without ending prone and can help them roll through an enemy’s reach safely.

Operate computers and software, including terminals and basic systems.

Helps a character control fatigue and recover Stamina through deliberate breathing during stressful situations.

Turns short automatic bursts into controlled, effective attacks.

Prepare food to improve morale with healthy or delicious meals.

By 2080, conglomerates dominate a dramatically cyberpunk world. Corporate rivalries erupt into warfare, with advanced technology, armed forces, and competing interests shaping life inside and beyond their territories.

Uses disciplined fire from cover to improve a combatant's control of an engagement.

Create practical items like clothing or tools in a chosen Specialty Field.

A limited heroic resource used to push key moments beyond ordinary limits.

Creates a custom ranged-weapon specialty with improved attacks, damage, and related Talent effects.

Allows a sniper to spend Tracking Tokens to increase the chance that an Aimed Shot becomes a Critical Hit.

Builds balanced strength and endurance for characters who need to perform several kinds of demanding physical activity.

Use of clubs, hammers, and other impact weapons.

D.D. means Death and Destruction. Daisy Damms was stranded at Cherry Point while trying to get home to Kansas City. When the roads, fuel, and institutions failed, she stopped traveling and started deleting every predator who mistook collapse for permission.

Process collected data to uncover hidden information.

On January 1, 2050, the Calamity shatters civilization. Governments and essential services collapse, Machines turn against humanity, and survivors struggle for food, shelter, and safety. Small communities must decide whom to trust and how to defend what remains.

Portray oneself falsely and believably.

Allows a character to fire a handgun while using a shield to protect someone else.

Pat Timmerson was considered too motivated even by Marine standards. Automation pushed him into the reserves; the Calamity put him back on the line. He turns crowds into teams, panic into movement, and impossible missions into an extremely loud Ooh-rah.

A stealth-and-poison specialist with a dangerous fascination for scavenged chemicals.

Gives a badly injured character a chance to remain alive when an attack should finish them.

Uses a sniper’s Tracking Tokens and an arm shot to hinder the target’s later actions.

Attempts to knock or wrench a weapon away from an opponent.

Uses a precise shot and Tracking Tokens to knock an item from a target’s grasp without destroying it.

Alter appearance or mimic others.

Makes SMG suppressive fire interfere with the attacks of enemies caught in its firing arc.

A sudden defensive movement that gets a character out of an attack's path and into nearby protection.

Doc is one of the most intelligent survivors still operating in the field. He can fly the evacuation aircraft, perform surgery after landing, and use a shotgun to deliver medication—or a much less charitable answer—while the operation is still active.

Train dogs one-on-one for specific commands.

Extends a Dive for Cover through an athletic leap, especially while Running or Sprinting.

Allows a character to fire a second time with a semi-automatic weapon at a penalty to the hit roll.

Operate standard automobiles with precision.

Control drones remotely for surveillance or combat.

Modular machines assembled from components to perform combat, support, scouting, or utility roles.

A Days of Reckoning adventure centered on machine threats, rural survival, and the future of human-machine cooperation.

Sustained exertion and resistance to fatigue.

Allows a character to travel for longer periods and carry on through the fatigue caused by extended movement.

Specializes in SMG attacks, controlled bursts, automatic fire, and seizing the initiative during suppression.

Design and repair machines or systems in a chosen Specialty Field.

Improves Evasion Defense Rolls against attacks the character can dodge.

Allows an immediate handgun counterattack after a successful Evasion Defense.

Training with unusual close-combat weapons.

Training with unusual ranged weapons outside the standard groups.

Uses a point-blank handgun Called Shot to attack gaps in armor that is not fully enclosed.

Create, set, or defuse explosives.

Spends additional SMG ammunition to make a Burst Attack more damaging.

Allows an additional melee attack during the character’s turn, though early versions make that extra strike less accurate.

Discover courage through personal convictions.

Reduces falling damage and offers a chance to turn a dangerous fall into a controlled landing.

Grow crops, raise livestock, and maintain farm machinery.

Improves the character’s ability to draw, aim, and fire quickly when combat begins.

Uses the threat of a support weapon to make enemies less accurate against the gunner and nearby allies.

Uses deceptive movement to make an opponent easier to hit in melee, with a defensive risk if the feint fails.

Specializes in flamethrowers and incendiaries, improving attacks, damage, and sweeping flame techniques.

Provide lifesaving aid.

Protects a flamethrower and its fuel tank from Called Shots while making its attacks more likely to ignite targets.

Reduces the difficulty of making melee attacks while prone.

Allows an unarmed fighter or light-weapon user to make a rapid series of strikes as a Burst Attack.

Forge documents or signatures.

Helps a character resist physical conditions and remain functional after taking serious punishment.

Forty-Five is not a soldier wearing advanced equipment. She is a weapons platform that learned how to survive its makers. The numeral on her forehead marks the 45th cybernetic procedure; she was the second subject to live and the first not left critically disabled. Her current cooperation is verified. Her allegiance is not.

The old world knew Enessa as a supermodel. Several agencies knew her as the person standing near nineteen impossible infiltrations and a series of structures that failed along mathematically perfect lines. Nothing was ever proven. The red fox sigil was never admissible.

Allows a trained mover to slip through danger and avoid detection at a critical moment.

Lets a character spend a Craze! Point to rescue a failed Reaction, Speed, or Stunt Test.

Improves damage dealt with grenade launchers.

Specializes in grenades, grenade launchers, and accurate throwing attacks.

Grizzly is built like a breach team and works like a lie detector. Rumor places him inside a government interrogation program. Field evidence places two medical darts exactly where dying allies needed them and hostile darts exactly where armed men stopped being a problem.

Gabriel King learned marksmanship beneath a church floor and purpose from a combat-medic nun: calm your pulse and protect what the world will not. When fifty raiders came for the orphanage, Guardian made every yard of approach cost them.

A skirmish game that adapts nearly all of GunCraze's combat language for compact tabletop battles.

Specializes in handgun accuracy, damage, and advanced rapid-fire techniques.

Gain illegal access to computer files or networks.

Halt walked away from a noble corporate dynasty because he understood what its power cost everyone else. He kept the education, the Pyrenees bowhunting, and the ability to move through guarded ground without asking permission.

Accuracy and handling with pistols and other handgun-class weapons.

One of GunCraze's core personalities, representing the system's energetic, unconventional survivor archetypes.

Operate large construction machinery.

Specializes in missile launchers, artillery, and anti-tank attacks against vehicles.

Allows a battered character to regain momentum and return to the fight when the situation turns desperate.

Conditions a character for repeated bursts of strenuous tactical movement and combat activity.

Navigate elite social circles and pre-Calamity customs.

Successful attacks land on specific body locations, making armor, injuries, and positioning matter.

Trades some throwing accuracy for greater damage and increased throwing distance.

Helps a character remain alert and effective while going without sleep during long watches or emergencies.

Refines aimed and called shots, helping a marksman place accurate fire where it matters.

Makes it easier to catch thrown objects, including dangerous objects that most characters could not safely intercept.

Generates additional Tracking when a sniper is already prone and emplaced before attacking.

Increases the distance and effectiveness of jumps made through raw strength.

Improves the chance to Seize the Initiative for an automatic attack while maintaining SMG suppressive fire.

Improves the accuracy, distance, and damage potential of thrown objects and throwing weapons.

Turns ordinary objects and tools into practical close-combat weapons.

Allows a sniper to field-tune an ordinary rifle so it can support precision and Tracking techniques.

Improves the character’s chance to react to explosions and avoid Blast damage.

Collect detailed information, rumors, and intel.

Pass information through subtle motions or language.

Read people’s emotions or motives.

Reasoning, technical learning, and applied knowledge.

Makes suppressive fire reduce the protection enemies receive from cover.

Cause fear to influence others.

Improves resistance to disease, environmental hardship, and other threats to physical health.

Makes the character harder to disarm and better able to hold, carry, or control objects through grip strength.

Helps a character withstand pain and physical trauma without losing control of their actions.

A crafting framework for turning materials, expertise, and plans into useful equipment.

Professional roles reinforce Skills and give non-combat specialists a distinct place in the group.

John saw the collapse pattern early, reopened protocols everyone else had forgotten, and turned his home into a forward operating base. He claims not to want command. The Command Center exists largely because people followed him anyway.

Juan Fuze was once paid to make people disappear. He walked away, returned only to bury his brother, survived an AI-guided air crash, and discovered that violence had followed him into the end of the world. He kills now for protection, never profit.

Combines momentum and elevation into an aggressive melee maneuver.

Serena Justice protects four broken blocks as if they are the last city on Earth. Raiders know the patrol pattern. Families know the signal for shelter. Justice knows every doorway where she failed to arrive in time—and she refuses to add another.

Kent Hollinger is a retired engineer, recovering alcoholic, and unwilling owner of the title ‘Bionic Savior.’ He can read a machine’s failure like a confession and treats praise as a more irritating fault condition than exposed wiring.

Adopts a supported rifle stance that improves ranged attacks and defense while kneeling.

Improves combat readiness and reactions while using a light one-handed melee weapon.

Uses a point-blank shotgun blast to knock a target backward and potentially leave them prone.

Mastery of a specific field.

Allows a Downed character to keep firing a handgun at a cost in accuracy and Stamina.

Inspire or rally allies.

Sleight of hand to manipulate objects unnoticed.

Adds additional Burning to rifle attacks that deal Thermal damage.

Arjun Rao paid for school by falling through windows, off rooftops, and past explosions on Mumbai film sets. He brought that stunt discipline to American law enforcement, rose to lieutenant, and carried both instincts into a world where every investigation may become a running gunfight.

Detect sounds like footsteps or machinery.

Gives grenade-launcher blasts Indirect Fire, allowing shots to arc over barriers and cover.

Pick mechanical or electronic locks.

Reduces rifle penalties for firing beyond the weapon’s most effective range.

Improves LRAD attacks and makes their disruptive effects harder to resist.

Improves the automatic-fire capability and damage of machine guns, miniguns, and laser repeaters.

Specializes in machine-gun attacks, automatic fire, and intimidating enemy shooters.

Repair or enhance tech or vehicles in a chosen Specialty Field.

Produce advanced items efficiently in a chosen Specialty Field.

Marshall does not claim authority. He claims responsibility. The former deputy rides roads his department no longer can, calming frightened people with the same steady voice he uses on a horse—and ending violent disputes with the same certainty he once brought to the batter’s box.

Improves Reaction and Initiative while fighting unarmed or with melee weapons.

Humanity attempts to return to Mars, but the arriving craft face devastating resistance and are shot down during their descent. The return goes catastrophically wrong, opening a conflict with the Martians.

Provides a limited opportunity to reroll a failed Reaction, Speed, or Stunt Test.

Use advanced medicine and medications safely.

Covers unarmed fighting, slashing, stabbing, crushing weapons, and shields.

A New Year's Eve crisis aboard a luxury cruise ship as systems fail, hidden weapons surface, and loyalties collapse.

Improves missile-launcher damage and makes its Blast Attacks harder to evade.

Makes point-blank SMG Automatic Bursts deliver their maximum number of hits.

Navigate using maps, stars, or landmarks.

Rewards a character for standing their ground instead of retreating from an immediate threat.

Improves attacks made against enemies who move through the character’s threatened area.

Uses Intelligence, Wisdom, and Presence to support expertise beyond direct fighting.

Allows a sniper to spend Tracking Tokens to increase a successful shot’s damage.

Allows a sniper to spend Tracking Tokens to improve the accuracy of a shot before firing.

Represents patient sniper discipline and decisive long-range fire.

Allows an additional Out of Turn melee attack against enemies moving through the character’s reach.

Both sides roll during attacks and other direct contests, keeping defenders actively involved.

Improves fast movement and stunts while helping the character Run and Sprint farther.

Turns an Aimed rifle shot into an armor-penetrating attack that can also be upgraded to a Called Shot.

Coerce positively through charm or reason.

Operate complex vehicles in a chosen Specialty Field.

Apply poisons safely.

A broad measure used to compare characters, encounters, equipment, and campaign expectations.

Lets a strong character throw weapons and objects farther and with greater force.

Advanced enclosed protection supports heavy loads and battlefield systems at the cost of complexity and scarcity.

Confidence, communication, and personal influence.

Improves defense against melee attacks while the character is prone.

Uses a prone rifle position to improve ranged accuracy.

Allows the character to withdraw from melee without provoking an Out of Turn Attack.

Allows non-heavy weapons to be drawn or stowed freely and improves readiness when Initiative is rolled.

Reduces the time needed to reload weapons, including weapons that normally reload slowly.

Uses speed and practiced weapon handling to deliver additional melee attacks.

Governs Reaction, Speed, and Stunt—the tools for acting and moving under pressure.

Safer high-speed driving using reflexes for chases or races.

Covers handguns, submachine guns, rifles, shotguns, sniper rifles, and support weapons.

Combines two Double Tap sequences into one rapid semi-automatic attack.

Allows the character to chase and re-engage an opponent who tries to disengage from melee.

Awareness and response speed when danger develops.

Uses a planted stance to make the character harder to knock down, move, or physically overwhelm.

Bounces a handgun shot off a hard surface to reduce the protection provided by cover.

Competence with general-purpose rifles and carbines.

Three years after the Calamity, corporations rule separate territories, controlling resources, security, and the lives of those under their protection. These divided powers form alliances against increasingly coordinated Machine legions. Heralds and Nobles direct Machine forces whose allegiance is to a figure they call Mother.

Removes the normal accuracy problems caused by firing while operating or riding in a moving vehicle.

Develops the sustained-fire techniques of a dedicated machine gunner.

Reduces or removes firing penalties while moving and allows advanced attacks during movement.

A heavily armed survivor built around support weapons, crushing force, strength, and hard-won wisdom.

Locate and collect usable resources.

Specializes in sniper-rifle accuracy, Aimed Shot damage, and control over hit location.

Actively search for hidden items or clues.

Specializes in accurate handgun fire and precise Aimed Shots.

In 2049, the modern world remains standing. Technology shapes daily life, powerful interests compete for influence, and people pursue their ambitions amid growing tensions.

Using a shield as protection and as a close-combat tool.

Handling and tactical use of shotguns at their effective distances.

Uses leverage and positioning to throw an opponent to the ground.

Improves damage against Surprised targets and when using weapons designed for silent attacks.

Improves the ability to eliminate a target quietly with suitable weapons.

Thomas Singing Fish moves through eastern Carolina marsh and forest as if the land is reporting directly to him. Knowledge the old world called obsolete now keeps patrols fed, wounded people breathing, and pursuers walking into the wrong clearing.

Allows the second shotgun attack from Double Tap to engage a different target across a wider angle.

Over forty learned abilities cover investigation, survival, medicine, technology, crafting, social action, and more.

Use of swords, axes, and other cutting weapons.

Combines a combat slide with an attack, improving defense while accepting an initial accuracy tradeoff.

Detect and identify scents.

Control and practical use of compact automatic firearms.

Allows a semi-automatic handgun to perform limited Focus Fire and Spray Attacks by rapidly expending ammunition.

Precision shooting with dedicated long-range weapons.

Warfare spans the Solar System. Fleets clash in massive space battles, and campaigns extend beyond a single planet to conflicts fought across interplanetary distances.

Specializes in rifle attacks and improves the damage of Center Mass fire.

Sofi trained to hold a stage, control her breath, and hit an emotional mark on command. The Calamity converted those skills into sniper discipline. Spade rarely raises her voice; she does not need to when a single shot can reorganize the entire fight.

A practical engineer who repairs equipment and is equally happy using a large wrench in a fight.

Represents regular combat practice that improves conditioning and readiness for physical confrontation.

Makes bean-bag rounds more effective at safely knocking a target unconscious without converting the impact into serious torso injury.

Improves the use of birdshot for hunting and finding food in the wilderness.

Improves ranged trip attacks made with bola rounds.

Increases EMP-round damage and keeps affected machines Deactivated longer.

Makes flashbang rounds harder to resist and intensifies their blinding, deafening, and stunning effects.

Improves the armor-piercing and wounding potential of flechette shotgun rounds.

Improves the damage of high-explosive shotgun rounds.

Increases the Burning inflicted by incendiary shotgun rounds.

Improves the placement and effect of injector rounds fired at allies.

Makes pepper-shot rounds harder to resist and extends their disorienting effect.

Improves the damage of shock shotgun rounds.

Five broad areas define a character's strengths: Ranged Combat, Melee Combat, Body, Quickness, and Non-Combat.

How quickly a character moves and acts under pressure.

Lets a character spend Stamina or a Craze! Point for a chance at extra movement or an additional attack.

Visually detect hidden objects or threats.

Improves Speed Tests and increases Run and Sprint movement.

Conduct espionage, surveillance, and code-breaking.

Use of knives, spears, and other thrusting weapons.

Uses Tracking Tokens and a precise leg shot to leave a target Staggered.

Allows a character to recover a sudden reserve of Stamina when they need to keep acting.

Move undetected, hide, or move silently.

Uses a piercing thrown weapon to pin a target to a nearby wall or similar surface.

Navigate street life, gangs, and urban survival.

Raw physical power for lifting, forcing, and hard impacts.

Allows a fast character to use Speed instead of Strength to power melee damage.

Lets a character briefly push beyond their normal strength for an especially demanding feat or attack.

Trades some precision for a heavier melee blow with greater damage potential.

Acrobatics, risky movement, and physical improvisation.

Improves reactions and stunts performed while riding animals or vehicles.

Operation of machine guns and other crew-scale firearms.

Perform major healing operations.

Allows a sniper to spend Tracking Tokens to adjust where a successful shot lands.

Small communities and roaming groups that organize for protection, resources, belief, or control.

Sweeps a flamethrower across an arc to attack several characters instead of following a narrow Torrent chain.

Improves a waiting sniper’s chance to Seize the Initiative and fire at a Tracked target.

Allows a successful first rifle shot to guide the second Double Tap shot into the same Hit Location.

Teach skills to others for basic tasks or assistance.

Develops coordinated movement, speed, and reactions through team-based athletic training.

The global collapse that begins the Days of Reckoning and turns survival into the central struggle.

Alexander Thorne was raised aboard HMS Elizabeth to become Admiral Marcus Thorne’s heir and enforcer. He kept the training, the British one-liners, and none of the certainty that his father deserved obedience.

Makes a character better able to absorb wounds and remain effective after being hurt.

Physical resilience when enduring injury and harsh conditions.

Helps a character resist becoming Poisoned and gives them a chance to purge poison already affecting their system.

Unlocks sniper techniques and lets a character build and spend Tracking Tokens for precision attacks.

Represents conditioning for sustained running, swimming, and other endurance-heavy activity.

Combines simultaneous attacks from two ranged weapons into one more damaging strike.

Improves Initiative and attempts to Seize the Initiative, and helps the character act first when results are tied.

Reduces the attack penalties for firing two one-handed ranged weapons during the same turn.

Allows a sniper to spend Tracking Tokens to reduce the protection a target receives from cover.

Striking, grappling, and fighting without a weapon.

Makes the character harder to shove, knock prone, or otherwise move against their will.

Transport and combat platforms extend the battlefield into pursuits, mounted weapons, ramming, and large-scale encounters.

Uses extra flamethrower fuel to create a damaging fire that remains on the battlefield.

Keywords give weapons distinctive behavior such as automatic fire, armor penetration, blast effects, or concealability.

Helps a character endure extreme weather and environmental exposure without suffering as quickly.

Russell Storm carries more kinetic energy than most vehicles he drives. Military automation removed him from the Corps; the Calamity gave the storm somewhere useful to break. He earned Whirlwind in one night and has been moving ever since.

Expands an SMG Spray Attack across a much wider firing arc.

Survive wilderness, track, forage, forecast weather, and set traps.

Judgment, perception, and practical experience.

Improves attempts to smash doors, barriers, vehicles, and other objects through raw strength.

A dangerous close-combat specialist known for turning enemies into pretzels.