Quills

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quills

	Physical
	4
	Body
	no
	Carapace
	Quills
	no

quills

Hundreds of needle-pointed quills cover your body.

(level based) quills
May expel 10% of your quills in a burst around yourself (→(level based) 1d3)
Regenerate quills at the approximate rate of (level based) per round
+(level based) AV as long as you retain half your quills ((level based) AV otherwise)
Creatures attacking you in melee may impale themselves on your quills, breaking roughly 1% of them and reflecting 3% damage per quill broken.
Cannot wear body armor
Immune to other creatures' quills

Max Quills

At level 1, Quills starts with 300 max quills. At level up, the next max number of quills is randomly chosen:

Math.Max(300, this.nMaxQuills + (NewLevel - 1) * Random(80, 120))

(For the non-code-literate, this formula simply means that, at each level-up, the player’s max quill count is increased by a random number from 80 to 120)

Advancement Table

Mutation Level	Max Quills	Quill Burst Damage	Quill Regen / 10 rounds	AV Bonus (≥ 50% Quills)	AV Bonus (< 50% Quills)
1	Avg: 300 Range: 300 - 300	→0 1d3	1d4 Quills	2	1
2	Avg: 400 Range: 380 - 420	→0 1d3	2d4 Quills	2	1
3	Avg: 500 Range: 460 - 540	→1 1d3	3d4 Quills	2	1
4	Avg: 600 Range: 540 - 660	→1 1d3	4d4 Quills	3	1
5	Avg: 700 Range: 620 - 780	→2 1d3	5d4 Quills	3	1
6	Avg: 800 Range: 700 - 900	→2 1d3	6d4 Quills	4	2
7	Avg: 900 Range: 780 - 1020	→3 1d3	7d4 Quills	4	2
8	Avg: 1000 Range: 860 - 1140	→3 1d3	8d4 Quills	5	2
9	Avg: 1100 Range: 960 - 1260	→4 1d3	9d4 Quills	5	2
10	Avg: 1200 Range: 1040 - 1380	→4 1d3	10d4 Quills	6	3

Advantages & Disadvantages

This section is opinion-based. Your mileage may vary.

Advantages

• Quills provide a moderate AV (as long as the player retains at least half of their quills) which scales with mutation level while also having no DV penalty or weight
• Quill burst hits all adjacent tiles
• Makes the player immune to other creature’s quills
• Hits flying creatures

Disadvantages

• Quill burst has fairly poor damage and penetration at all levels
• Quills prevents the player from wearing any body Armor.
• Quills lacks elemental resistance that normal high tier body armor provides
• Relatively high mutation point cost at character generation
• Quill regeneration speed does not scale using willpower
• Quill fling only attacks adjacent squares. If the quilled creature is engulfed, quill fling will not damage the engulfing creature.