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Aftermath: The Rules

The aftermath campaign rules fall into four categories:

skill use
weapons
armour
ammunition
medical & healing and
repair

For most tasks a card system (a card from a normal deck of cards) is used to determine the result of any particular action. A deck of cards is used for healing, damage to equipment and repair attempts, ammunition check for each weapon used.

Skill Use

In general terms skills are used between missions although the Referee during later missions may apply some skills. Laser skirmish supports 4 skill levels for each allowable skill:

Skill Level	Title	Description
0	Novice	No skill at all in the specified area.
1	Trainee	Has learned the basic rudiment of the skill. For healing this includes someone with solid first aid. For weapons and armour this includes apprentices
2	Practitioner	Is considered experienced in all areas of the skill use. In the medical arena, a trained nurse or para-medic would be considered a practitioner.
3	Master	Recognised by his/her peers as an expert in all areas of the skill. For medicine this means a Doctor.

The skill level indicates the number of cards a character can draw in an attempt to successfully complete an action. Any success card drawn out of a set indicates a successful action. Therefore a master has a much greater chance of success than a trainee does.

Skill levels can be improved with training and experience. Training however is often hard to come across so characters will often have to rely on pre-ruin skills.

A character can obtain skills in the following areas, included is the point cost for new characters to obtain this skill to a particular skill level.

Skill	Skill Level 1	Skill Level 2	Skill Level 3
Medical	10	25	50
Weapon Repair	5	15	30
Armour Repair	3	10	20

Weapons

At the end of any mission in which a character fired a particular weapon, a check must be made to determine if the weapon is now disabled. Weapons are broken down into 3 grades to determine their endurance to battle.

Endurance Category	Disabled Cards	Typical Examples
Poor	Jack or higher	Sub Machine Guns Machine Pistols Home Made Guns
Average	King or higher	Single Action Revolver Autloader Rifle Single Shot Rifle Bolt Action Rifle LMG Double-Barrel Shot Gun Pump Action Shot Gun Combat ShotGun Mini-Gun
Excellent	Ace	Assault �Pulse� Rifle Heavy Machine Gun Sniper Rifle

To check the character simply draws the next card from the top of the deck. If the card is the disabled card or higher, then the weapon is disabled and cannot be used until repaired by a weapon-smith

Armour

At the end of any mission where the character has taken at least 1 hit, then the character needs to check to see if any worn armour including helmets are in a serviceable condition.

Item	Damaged Cards	Points Cost	Comments	Armour Points (hits absorbed)
Military Helmets	Ace	20	Must wear Sensor Helmet	2
Motorcycle Helmet	Jack or higher	5	Must wear Sensor Helmet	1
Flak Jack	King or higher	50	Provided by player. Must be a thick hot jacket	3
Hardened Leather	Queen or higher	10	Must wear a leather jacket	1
Police Riot Helmet	Queen or higher	5	Must wear Sensor Helmet	1
Regenerative Shield[1]	Ace	100	Must have a SmartSensor � Can�t be used with a Helmet	2
Plastic Police Shield	Jack or higher	10	Provided by Player, some sort of shield looking thing	1

[1] Can be used in addition to any other armour. It absorbs damage 1^stotherwise damage is awarded to the shield 1^st.

If the armour is damaged, it cannot be used until repaired by someone with armour repair skill.

Ammunition

In www.Lasertag.com.au we do not try to keep track of individual clips and rounds, we simply assume that each type of weapon comes with a supply of ammunition. The amount of ammunition is measured in packs. A pack is the standard default amount of ammunition that comes with that weapon. During character generation, a selection of a particular weapon is assumed to come with one standard pack.

In any mission where a character has discharged one or more rounds of ammunition (or equivalent for other weapons) of a particular weapon, there is a chance that a standard ammunition pack for that weapon has been used up.

At the end of each mission of the campaign, a card is drawn from the ammunition pack. If the card is a picture (Jack or higher) card, then the pack is empty. An empty pack should be removed from the character sheet. If the character has no more packs for that weapon, then the weapon cannot be used in the next missions until a new pack is found.

Additional packs can be obtained during the course of the campaign.

Medical & Healing Rules

At the end of the mission any characters that have lost body hits (armour is considered to take damage first) can have one character attempt to heal one or more wounds. Healing is not without danger however particularly when performed by someone with little experience.

The character performing the healing attempt draws from the top of the deck the number of cards equal to their medical skill role. If a first aid kit is used, one extra card is drawn. If a medical kit is used, 2 extra cards are drawn. A first aid kit or a medical kit is a one-use item, after it has been used, it is discarded.

The effective card is the card with the highest value.

Effective Card (highest drawn)	Result
Ace	Character to return to maximum body hits And gains 1 additional maximum body hit if damage was taken in the last mission.
King	Add 3 body hit up to character maximum
Queen	Add 2 body hit up to character maximum
Jack	Add 1 body Hit
3 to 10	No Result
2	Character is killed

Each character (except those currently on 0 hit points), can attempt one healing on each other character at the end of each mission.

Characters with zero hit points left

If a character is reduced to 0 hit points during a mission, the character is considered to be bleeding to death. If the character takes another hit while down to 0 hit points, the character immediately dies.

While on 0 hit points, the character cannot shoot, move or speak except to cry out �Medic�. Sensor must remain on and the wounded character must listen for any additional sensor hits. If the character dies, the player must remove his/her sensor and return immediately and directly to the base camp area and is not to speak to any player.

The character needs first aid before the mission is completed else the character is considered to die by missions end. First Aid can be performed by any character with skill level 1 or greater. The First aider must spent at least 2 minutes at the wounded characters side and not do anything. If the referee is not available, the first aider can use a watch or count to 120 slowly to determine 2 minutes. After first aid, the wounded character is still on 0 hit points, can walk and talk (and die if he/she takes another hit) but cannot shoot or use any skills.

At the end of the mission the character that has had first aid can be healed as normal by another character.

Repair

If a weapon is disabled, one attempt can be made to repair the weapon. If the repair fails, then the weapon is considered permanently destroyed.

If a gun repair kit is available, the weapon smith can draw one additional card. Unlike a medical kit, the gun repair kit is not discarded after a repair attempt.

The highest card drawn is the effective card. An 8 or higher repairs the weapon otherwise it is destroyed.

Armour Repair

If an item of armour is damaged during the mission, a repair attempt can be made. If the repair fails, the armour is considered permanently destroyed.

If an armour repair kit is available, the armourer can draw one additional card. The armour repair kit is discarded after a repair attempt.

The highest card drawn is the effective card. An 8 or higher repairs the armour otherwise it is destroyed.