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General Equipment
This section covers the wide variety of general gear available to adventurers of all sorts.
| Tools | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Mini-Tool Kit | This is a belt-sized tool kit. It gives a -2 (quality) modifier for the skill for which it’s designed. | $200 | 4 lbs |
| Portable Tool Kit | This is the standard tool kit – the type found in a toolbox behind a truck seat or under the kitchen sink. It counts as basic equipment for the specific skill which it’s designed for | $600 | 20 lbs |
| Utility Knife | A short handle with 2-3cm of blade at one end. Treat as a small knife The blade is retractable and replaceable. | $2 | 0.25lb. |
| Shovel, Folding | Entrenching tools are sometimes used by soldiers in close combat. Treat as an axe at -2 to skill. | $10 | 3 lbs |
| Bolt Cutters, Heavy | 12d6 Cut chains, bars, cables, etc., | $50 | 30 lbs |
| Bolt Cutters, Light | As above, but do 3d8 cut | $30 | 15 lbs |
| Wire Cutters | Cut 1d6 to rope, barbed wire, thin cable, etc. | $30 | 2 lbs |
| Hammer | Some have claws for removing nails, others have two heads. TL7+ models have all-steel heads and steel or fiberglass handles; halve weight. Treat as a small mace in combat. | $15 | 3 lbs |
Jack A hand-pumped hydraulic jack lifts 8 tons . $75, 38 lbs.
Saw A handsaw for carpentry. $20, 3 lbs.
Shovel When used as a weapon, treat as a great axe at -2 to skill. $15, 6 lbs.
Sledgehammer (TL5). A two-handed hammer for driving posts, rock drills, and so on. Treat as a maul at -2 to skill. $10, 15 lbs.
Multi-Function Knife original knife had wooden scales concealing a clip-point blade, a screwdriver, an awl, and a can opener. The officer’s model quickly followed. It added a second, smaller blade and the famous corkscrew. Knives since then have added other features, including saw blade, scissors, magnifying glass, emergency whistle, toothpick, and tweezers. Treat the largest models as multi- tools (see below). A basic version is $25, neg.
| Multi-Tool | Their versatility and compactness make them popular among soldiers and emergency personnel. Many variations exist, featuring such tools as blasting cap crimpers , needle-nose pliers, locking pliers, digital tire-pressure gauges, saw blades, and differ ent types of screw- and hex- drivers. Finishes range from stainless steel to stealthy matte black. | $50 | 0.5 lb |
| Duct Tape | This tape consists of three layers: a plastic covering, a cloth mesh, and a thick rubber adhesive. Silvery tape is most familiar (a testament to its use in air-conditioning vent work), but it comes in every color and even in camouflage patterns. Clever characters may use duct tape as improvised equipment (p. B345) for many tasks – repairs, bandaging, splint wrapping, etc. An entire roll can be braided into a 20-yard rope capable of holding 200 lbs. Duct tape is also a handy makeshift restraint; a prisoner must make a ST-3 roll to break free. A 60-yard roll is | $1 | 2 lbs. |
| Small First Aid Kit | This is basic equipment for First Aid. It can treat one major wound(stop dying) or two smaller ones. A soldier’s individual kit might con tain a handful of bandages, an autoinjector with a dose of morphine, and two doses of antibiotic ointment | $10 | 1 lb |
| First Aid Kit. | This kit gives +1 (quality) to First Aid. It contains more of everything in the small kit, plus foot powder, insect repellant , salt tablets, ammonia inhalants, analgesics, antibiotic ointment and water purification tablets | $50 | 2 lbs |
| Hemostatic Bandages | Bandages impregnated with a protein – derived from insect chitin – that promotes clotting. This significantly reduces bleeding. When bandaging, these heal a second hitpoint | $20 | neg. |
| Cellular Phone | A big “brick,” with 15-30 minutes of talk time. | $100 | 2 lbs | S/30 minutes |
| Organizer | Obolete pocket computer 0.9 MHz, 4 kB of ROM,2 kB of RAM, 1 line 16 character screen,a 100 baud modem | $100 | 0.225kg | S/3 months |
| Organizer II | Old pocket computer 1.3 MHz, 32 kB of ROM,8 kB of RAM, 2 line 16 character screen,a 100 baud modem | $200 | 0.25kg | S/2 months |
| Organizer XL | typical pocket computer 1.8 MHz, 32 kB of ROM,16 kB of RAM, 2 line 16 character screen,a 300 baud modem | $400 | 0.275kg | 2xS/3 months |
| Organizer Series III | Good pocket computer 2.6 MHz, 64 kB of ROM,64 kB of RAM, 4 line 20 character screen,a 300 baud modem | $800 | 0.325kg | 3xS/2 months |
| Organizer Series III+ | Newest and best pocket computer 4.3 MHz, 64 kB of ROM,96 kB of RAM, 4 line 20 character screen,a 600 baud modem | $1600 | 0.325kg | 3xS/1 month |
