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Items are devices that enhance a character in some way or that serve as a useful tool, vehicle, base, or weapon. Items can represent powerful weapons, magical artefacts, or experimental or future technology, while the Gear Attribute (page 95) represents a character’s access to useful, but not overly powerful, equipment. A player can assign this Attribute to their character multiple times to acquire different Items. Items can be created for the character (subject to GM approval) or selected from the extensive list of ready-to-use Items in Chapter 10 (page 196). A device or object that cannot be lost or stolen (such as something implanted in or fused to the character’s body) is not an Item. Any such device is considered part of the character and thus the player should use Character Points to acquire the relevant Attributes directly. If a character requires a specific object, or group of objects, to act as a focus when using one or more of their innate Attributes (such as requiring an amulet to focus a character’s magical Weapon attack) Item does not apply either – that would be represented by a Limiter (page 148) on the particular Attribute, rather than any quality of the object itself. Assign the Item any Attributes appropriate to its normal function that will benefit the character while using it.

For example, a magic wand or a gun would have Weapon, a ring of invisibility would have Undetectable, and a hoverboard would have Ground Speed. A complex vehicle, such as a 50-metre-tall flying transformable battle mecha, could have a multitude of Attributes, such as Alternate Form, Armour, Features, Flight, Ground Speed, Resilient, Supersense, Superstrength, Tough, Weapon, etc. Attributes contained in Items can also be assigned Enhancements or Limiters which increase or decrease their effectiveness. Attributes that an Item has do not usually stack with those of a character. If a vehicle has Flight Level 1 and so does its operator, this does not give the vehicle Flight

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