Core General Equipment PL 5

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**Detonator (PL 5)**

This conical device primes and detonates explosives (including grenades) with a push of a button. Programming a detonator to a specific package of explosives takes 1 minute, after which the detonator can be triggered in one of several ways. The detonator can be set to ignite its payload with the simple press of a button (no action), a four-digit command code (a move action), or a complex input method, such as scanning your retina or thumbprint (a full action). You choose the triggering method when setting the detonator. A detonator detonates its payload only if it is within 150 meters, but some detonators can make use of signal-boosting technologies at the risk of becoming vulnerable to countermeasures like signal jammers and other effects. Explosives have the same price, effect, and weight as grenades. If you successfully set an explosive on a stationary object with a detonator using the Engineering skill, the explosive’s damage ignores half of the object’s hardness.

**Fire Extinguisher (PL 5)**

As a standard action, you can deploy a fire extinguisher to end a burn effect on any one creature or object of Medium or smaller size. Extinguishing a Large creature or object takes 2 rounds, and the number of rounds required doubles with each size category beyond Large. A fire extinguisher can function for 20 rounds (which need not be consecutive) and can be recharged for 10% of the purchase price.

**Sedative (PL 5)**

Numerous mild sedatives commonly available for purchase have legitimate medical uses, but they are also popular among some bounty hunters to help capture their quarries alive. If you take or are injected with a sedative, you take nonlethal damage. A tier 1 sedative deals 1d4 nonlethal damage, a tier 2 sedative deals 2d4 nonlethal damage, a tier 3 sedative deals 4d4 nonlethal damage, and a tier 4 sedative deals 8d4 nonlethal damage. When suffering from an emotion or fear effect that allows a saving throw to negate it, you can take or be injected with a sedative that permits you to immediately attempt a new saving throw with a bonus equal to the sedative’s tier to end the effect, as long as it’s not a permanent or instantaneous effect.

**Laser Tripwire (PL 5)**

The laser tripwire is a simple devise that replaces the standard physical tripwire. A single focused beam of light is projected out from the tripwire generator until it hits a solid surface. If the beam is broken by, for example, a person passing through the beam, the tripwire generator immediately sends out its signal from its data port. This can be used to activate an alarm, trigger an explosive device, or simply turn on the lights in a given room, depending on what event the device is set to trigger.

**Nanobeacon (PL 5)**

An invaluable device used in tracking, and search and rescue, the nanobeacon is a very small microchip transmitter that can be placed on a targets body (or on an object). It sends out a microburst UHF pulse on a long wave frequency on a single channel, allowing it to be tracked from 500 kilometers away.

**Telephone Line Tracer (PL 5)**

Essentially a highly specialized computer, a line tracer hooked to a phone line can trace phone calls made to that line, even if there’s a caller ID defeater hooked up at the other end. All it takes is time.

Operating a line tracer is a full-round action requiring a Computer Use check (TN 10). Success gains one digit of the target phone number, starting with the first number of the area code.

**Ghillie Suit (PL 5)**

The ultimate in camouflage, a ghillie suit is a loose mesh overgarment covered in strips of burlap in woodland colors, to which other camouflaging elements can easily be added. A figure under a ghillie suit is nearly impossible to discern.

A character wearing a ghillie suit with appropriate coloration gains a +10 bonus on Hide checks. (The suit’s coloration can be changed with a move action. However, the bulky suit imposes a penalty of –4 on all Dexterity checks, Dexterity-based skill checks (except Hide), and melee attack rolls.

**Metal Detector (PL 5)**

This handheld device provides a +10 equipment bonus on all Search checks involving metal objects.

**Night Vision Goggles (PL 5)**

Night vision goggles use passive light gathering to improve vision in near-dark conditions. They grant the user the ability to see in darkness, also called darkvision (range 120 ft.)—but because of the restricted field of view and lack of depth perception these goggles provide, they impose a –4 penalty on all Spot and Search checks made by someone wearing them.

Night vision goggles must have at least a little light to operate. A cloudy night provides sufficient ambient light, but a pitch-black cave or a sealed room doesn’t. For situations of total darkness, the goggles come with an infrared illuminator that, when switched on, operates like a standard flashlight whose light is visible only to the wearer (or anyone else wearing night vision goggles).

**Tap Detector (PL 5)**

Plug this into a telephone line between the phone and the outlet, and it helps detect if the line is tapped. To detect a tap, make a Computer Use check (the TN varies according to the type of telephone tap used; see below). With a success, the tap detector indicates that a tap is present. It does not indicate the type or location of the tap however. Also, it can’t be used to detect a lineman’s buttset.

**Telephone Line Tap (PL 5)**

These devices allow a character to listen to conversations over a particular phone line.

*Line Tap:* This tap can be attached to a phone line at any point between a phone and the nearest junction box (usually on the street nearby). Installing it requires a Repair check (TN 15). It broadcasts all conversations on the line over a radio frequency that can be picked up by any professional walkie-talkie. Detecting a line tap by using a tap detector requires a Computer Use check (TN 25).

*Receiver Tap:* This item can be easily slipped into a telephone handset as a Repair check (TN 5). It broadcasts all conversations over a radio frequency that can be picked up by any professional walkie-talkie. Detecting a receiver tap by using a tap detector requires a Computer Use check (TN 15).

**Black Box (PL 5)**

This device, easily concealed in the palm of one hand, emits digital tones that convince the phone system to make a long-distance connection free of charge. They also let a user “bounce” a call through multiple switches, making the call harder to trace (the TN of any Computer Use check to trace the call is increased by 5).

**Caller ID Defeater (PL 5)**

When a phone line contains a caller ID defeater, phones attempting to connect with that line show up as “anonymous” or “unavailable” on a caller ID unit. Such a call can still be traced as normal, however.

**Cellular Interceptor (PL 5)**

About the size of a small briefcase, a cellular interceptor can detect and monitor a cell phone conversation within a 5-mile area by listening in on the cellular service’s own transmitters. Intercepting the calls of a particular cell phone requires a Computer Use check (TN 35); if the user knows the phone number of the phone in question, the TN drops by 10. Obviously, the phone must be in use for someone to intercept the call. A cellular interceptor cannot be used to intercept regular (ground line) phone connections.

**Lineman’s Buttset (PL 5)**

This device resembles an oversized telephone handset with a numeric keypad on the back and wire leads hanging from the bottom. It functions as a portable, reusable telephone line tap. With a Repair check (TN 10), a user can connect to a phone wire and hear any conversation that crosses it. A lineman’s buttset is a common tool for telephone repair personnel.

**Gas Mask (PL 5)**

This apparatus covers the face and connects to a chemical air filter canister to protect the lungs and eyes from toxic gases. It provides total protection from eye and lung irritants. The filter canister lasts for 12 hours of use. Changing a filter is a move action. The purchase TN for one extra filter canister is 6.

**GPS Receiver (PL 5)**

Global positioning system receivers use signals from GPS satellites to determine the receiver’s location to within a few dozen feet. A GPS receiver grants its user a +4 equipment bonus on Navigate checks, but because the receiver must be able to pick up satellite signals, it only works outdoors.

**Map (PL 5)**

While a compass or GPS receiver can help characters find their way through the wilderness, a map can tell a character where he or she is going and what to expect when he or she gets there.

*Road Atlas:* Road atlases are available for the entire United States, showing all major roads in each state. They can also be purchased for most major metropolitan areas, detailing every street in the entire region.

*Tactical Map:* A tactical map covers a small area—usually a few miles on a side—in exacting detail. Generally, every building is represented, along with all roads, trails, and areas of vegetation. Tactical maps are not available for all areas, and, though inexpensive, they generally have to be ordered from federal mapping agencies (taking a week or longer to obtain).

**Mesh Vest (PL 5)**

This is a lightweight vest with a series of pockets for items such as a compass, spare ammunition magazines, pressure bandages, and a radio, along with loops for attaching grenades, knives, or tools. It can hold up to 40 pounds of equipment.

A mesh vest provides a +2 equipment bonus to Strength for the purpose of determining carrying capacity.

**Portable Stove (PL 5)**

This small stove works on kerosene or white gasoline, and can easily be broken down and carried for backpacking.

**Climbing Rope (PL 5)**

Climbing rope can support up to 1,000 pounds.

**Sleeping Bag (PL 5)**

This lightweight sleeping bag rolls up compactly. It can keep a character warm even in severe weather and can also double as a stretcher in an emergency.

**Trail Rations (PL 5)**

Trail rations come in a number of commercial options. They all provide the necessary energy and nutrition for survival. The purchase TN given is for a case of 12 meals.

**Fire Extinguisher (PL 5)**

This portable apparatus uses a chemical spray to extinguish small fires. The typical fire extinguisher ejects enough extinguishing chemicals to put out a fire in a 10-foot-by-10-foot area as a move action. It contains enough material for two such uses.

**Flash Goggles (PL 5)**

These eye coverings provide total protection against blinding light.

**Flashlight (PL 5)**

Flashlights come in a wide variety of sizes and quality levels. Those covered here are professional, heavy-duty models, rugged enough to withstand the rigors of modern adventuring. Flashlights negate penalties for darkness within their illuminated areas.

*Penlight:* This small flashlight can be carried on a key ring. It projects a beam of light 10 feet long and 5 feet wide at its end.

*Standard:* This heavy metal flashlight projects a beam 30 feet long and 15 feet across at its end.

*Battery Flood:* Practically a handheld spotlight, this item projects a bright beam 100 feet long and 50 feet across at its end.

**Tent (PL 5)**

A tent keeps a character warm and dry in severe weather, providing a +2 equipment bonus on Fortitude saves against the effects of cold weather.

**Binoculars (PL 5)**

Binoculars are useful for watching opponents, wild game, and sporting events from a long distance.

*Standard:* Standard binoculars reduce the range penalty for Spot checks to –1 for every 50 feet (instead of –1 for every 10 feet). Using binoculars for Spot checks takes five times as long as making the check unaided.

*Rangefinding:* In addition to the benefit of standard binoculars, rangefinding binoculars include a digital readout that indicates the exact distance to the object on which they are focused.

*Electro-Optical:* Electro-optical binoculars function the same as standard binoculars in normal light. In darkness, however, users looking through them see as if they had the darkvision ability granted by night vision goggles.

**Chemical Light Stick (PL 5)**

This disposable plastic stick, when activated, uses a chemical reaction to create light for 6 hours. It illuminates an area only 5 feet in radius. Once activated, it can’t be turned off or reused. The listed purchase TN is for a pack of 5 sticks.

**Climbing Gear (PL 5)**

All of the tools and equipment that climbing enthusiasts use to make climbing easier and, in some cases, possible, including ropes, pulleys, helmet and pads, gloves, spikes, chocks, ascenders, pitons, a handax, and a harness. It takes 10 minutes to remove the gear from its pack and outfit it for use. Use this gear with the Climb skill.

**Compass (PL 5)**

A compass relies on the Earth’s magnetic field to determine the direction of magnetic north. A compass grants its user a +2 equipment bonus on Navigate checks.

**Aluminum Travel Case (PL 5)**

A travel case is a reinforced metal box with foam inserts. Wing-style clamps keep it from opening accidentally.

**Briefcase (PL 5)**

A briefcase can carry up to 5 pounds worth of gear. A briefcase can be locked, but its cheap lock is not very secure (Disable Device TN 20; break TN 10).

**Contractor’s Field Bag (PL 5)**

A combination tool bag and notebook computer case, this has pockets for tools, pens, notepads, and cell phones. It even has a clear plastic flap for maps or plans. Made of durable fabric, it holds 10 pounds worth of equipment and comes with a shoulder strap.

**Day Pack (PL 5)**

This is a small backpack, the sort often used by students to carry their books around, or by outdoor enthusiasts on short hikes. It holds 8 pounds of gear and fits comfortably over one or both shoulders.

**Handbag (PL 5)**

Handbags provide another way to carry 2 pounds of equipment. The purchase TN shown is for a basic bag; high-fashion purses can increase the TN by as much as 5.

**Range Pack (PL 5)**

This lightweight black bag has a spacious inner compartment capable of holding roughly 8 pounds of gear and can hold an additional 4 pounds in six zippered external compartments. The larger version holds 12 pounds of equipment in the internal compartment and another 6 pounds in the zippered external pouches. A range pack easily holds several pistols and a submachine gun, and the larger version can hold disassembled rifles.

**Patrol Box (PL 5)**

Originally developed for use by police officers, this portable file cabinet has found favor with traveling salespeople. This hard-sided briefcase takes up the passenger seat of an automobile and provides easy access to files, storage for a laptop computer, and a writing surface. It holds 5 pounds worth of equipment and has an average lock (Disable Device TN 25; break TN 15).

**Backpack (PL 5)**

This is a good-sized backpack, made of tough water-resistant material. It has one or two central sections, as well as several exterior pockets and straps for attaching tents, bedrolls, or other gear. It can carry up to 60 pounds of gear.
A backpack gives a character a +1 equipment bonus to Strength for the purpose of determining carrying capacity.

**Camera (PL 5)**

Still cameras let a character capture a record of what he or she has seen.

*35mm:* The best choice for the professional photographer, this camera can accept different lenses and takes the highest-quality picture. A camera is needed to use the photography aspect of the Craft (visual art) skill. The film used in a camera must be developed.

*Digital:* A digital camera uses no film; instead, its pictures are simply downloaded to a computer as image files. No film developing is necessary.

'Disposable: *A 35mm camera with film built in can be purchased from vending machines, tourist traps, drugstores, and hundreds of other places. Once the film is used, the entire camera is turned in to have the film developed.*
*Film:* The medium upon which photographs are stored, film comes in a variety of sizes and speeds. The purchase TN represents the cost of a roll of 24 exposures of high-speed (ASA 400) film.

*Film Developing:* In most areas, drugstores and photo shops provide 1-hour service; in others, it takes 24 hours. In really remote areas, film may have to be sent away for developing, taking a week or longer. The purchase TN represents the cost of getting two prints of each shot on a roll of film, or one of each and any two also blown up to a larger size.

**Cell Phone (PL 5)**

A digital communications device that comes in a hand-held model or as a headset, a cell phone uses a battery that lasts for 24 hours before it must be recharged. It works in any area covered by cellular service.

**Computer (PL 5)**

Whether a desktop or notebook model, a computer includes a keyboard, a mouse, a monitor, speakers, a CD-ROM drive, a dial-up modem, and the latest processor. A character needs a computer to make Computer Use checks and to make Research checks involving the Internet.

*Desktop:* Bulky but powerful, these machines are common on desks everywhere.

*Notebook:* Slim, lightweight, and portable, notebook computers have most of the functions available on desktop computers.

*Upgrade:* A character can upgrade a desktop or notebook computer’s processor to provide a +1 equipment bonus on Computer Use checks. Increase the purchase TN of a desktop by +1 or a notebook by +2 to purchase an upgrade.

**Digital Audio Recorder (PL 5)**

These tiny recorders (about the size of a deck of playing cards) can record up to eight hours of audio and can be connected to a computer to download the digital recording. Digital audio recorders don’t have extremely sensitive microphones; they only pick up sounds within 10 feet.

**Modem (PL 5)**

A modem allows a character to connect a computer to the Internet. To use a modem, a character must have a computer and an appropriate data line (or a cell phone, in the case of a cellular modem).

All computers come with dial-up modems, which allow connection to the Internet but without the speed of broadband or the flexibility of cellular. A dial-up modem uses a standard telephone line; while it’s connected, that telephone line can’t be used for another purpose.

*Broadband:* Cable modems and DSL services bring high-speed Internet access into the homes of millions. A broadband modem gives a character on-demand, high-speed access to data, allowing Computer Use and Research checks involving the Internet to be made in half the normal time.

*Cellular:* A cellular modem allows a character to connect her notebook computer to the Internet anywhere he or she can use a cell phone. However, access speed is slow, and any Computer Use or Research check involving the Internet takes half again the normal time (multiply by 1.5).

**PDA (PL 5)**

Personal data assistants are handy tools for storing data. They can be linked to a notebook or desktop computer to move files back and forth, but can’t be used for Computer Use or Research checks.

**Portable Satellite Telephone (PL 5)**

This object looks much like a bulky cell phone, and functions in much the same way as well. However, because it communicates directly via satellite, it can be used anywhere on earth, even in remote areas well beyond the extent of cell phone service.

Portable satellite phones are very expensive to use. When used in a place not served by regular cellular service, each call requires a Wealth check (TN 6).

**Portable Video Camera (PL 5)**

Portable video cameras use some format of videotape to record activity. The tape can be played back through a VCR or via the camera eyepiece.

**Printer (PL 5)**

The color inkjet printer described here is suited for creating hard copies of text and image files from computers.

**Scanner (PL 5)**

A color flatbed scanner allows the user to transfer images and documents from hard copy into a computer in digital form.

**Walkie-Talkie (PL 5)**

This hand-held radio transceiver communicates with any similar device operating on the same frequency and within range.

***Basic:*** This dime-store variety has only a few channels. Anyone else using a similar walkie-talkie within range can listen in on the character’s conversations. It has a range of 2 miles.

***Professional:*** This high-end civilian model allows a character to program in twenty different frequencies from thousands of choices—making it likely that the character can find a frequency that’s not being used by anyone else within range. The device can be used with or without a voice-activated headset (included). It has a range of 15 miles.

**Clothing Outfit (PL 5)**

An outfit of clothing represents everything a character needs to dress a part: pants or skirt, shirt, undergarments, appropriate shoes or boots, socks or stockings, and any necessary belt or suspenders. The clothes a character wears does not count against the weight limit for encumbrance.

*Business:* A business outfit generally includes a jacket or blazer, and it tends to look sharp and well groomed without being overly formal.

*Casual:* Casual clothes range from cut-off jeans and a T-shirt to neatly pressed khakis and a hand-knit sweater.

*Formal:* From a little black dress to a fully appointed tuxedo, formal clothes are appropriate for “black tie” occasions. Special designer creations can have purchase DCs much higher than shown on the table.

*Fatigues:* Called “battle dress uniforms” (or BDUs) in the United States Army, these are worn by hardened veterans and wannabes alike. They’re rugged, comfortable, and provide lots of pockets. They are also printed in camouflage patterns: woodland, desert, winter (primarily white), urban (gray patterned), and black are available. When worn in an appropriate setting, fatigues grant a +2 bonus on Hide checks.

*Uniform:* From the cable guy to a senior Air Force officer, people on the job tend to wear uniforms—making such clothing an essential part of some disguises, since a uniform inclines people to trust the wearer.

**Outerwear (PL 5)**

In addition to keeping a character warm and dry, coats and jackets provide additional concealment for things a character is carrying (they often qualify as loose or bulky clothing; see Concealed Weapons and Objects).

*Coat:* An outer garment worn on the upper body. Its length and style vary according to fashion and use.

*Fatigue Jacket:* A lightweight outer garment fashioned after the fatigue uniforms worn by military personnel when performing their standard duties.

*Overcoat:* A warm coat worn over a suit jacket or indoor clothing.

*Parka:* This winter coat grants the wearer a +2 equipment bonus on Fortitude saves made to resist the effects of cold weather.

*Photojournalist’s Vest:* Made of cotton with mesh panels to keep the wearer cool, the photojournalist’s vest has numerous obvious—and hidden—pockets. It counts as loose and bulky clothing when used to conceal Small or smaller weapons, and also grants the “specially modified to conceal object” bonus when used to conceal Tiny or smaller objects. See Concealed Weapons and Objects.

*Windbreaker:* This is a lightweight jacket made of wind-resistant material.

**Tool Belt (PL 5)**

This sturdy leather belt has numerous pockets and loops for tools, nails, pencils, and other necessities for repair and construction work, making it easy to keep about 10 pounds of items on hand. The pockets are open, however, and items can easily fall out if the belt is tipped.

**Bolt Cutter (PL 5)**

An exceptionally heavy wire cutter, a bolt cutter can snip through padlocks or chain-link fences. Using a bolt cutter requires a Strength check (TN 10).

**Car Opening Kit (PL 5)**

This set of odd-shaped flat metal bars can be slipped into the window seam of a car door to trip the lock. The TN of a Disable Device check to accomplish this varies with the quality of the lock; see the skill description.

**Chemical Kit (PL 5)**

A portable laboratory for use with the Craft (chemical) skill, a chemical kit includes the tools and components necessary for mixing and analyzing acids, bases, explosives, toxic gases, and other chemical compounds.

**Demolitions Kit (PL 5)**

This kit contains everything needed to use the Demolitions skill to set detonators, wire explosive devices, and disarm explosive devices. Detonators must be purchased separately.

**Disguise Kit (PL 5)**

This kit contains everything needed to use the Disguise skill, including makeup, brushes, mirrors, wigs, and other accoutrements. It doesn’t contain clothing or uniforms, however.

**Duct Tape (PL 5)**

The usefulness of duct tape is limited only by a character’s imagination. Duct tape can support up to 200 pounds indefinitely, or up to 300 pounds for 1d6 rounds. Characters bound with duct tape must make a Strength or Escape Artist check (TN 20) to free themselves.
A roll provides 70 feet of tape, 2 inches wide.

**Electrical Tool Kit (PL 5)**

This collection of hand tools and small parts typically includes a variety of pliers, drivers, cutting devices, fasteners, power tools, and leads and wires.

*Basic:* This small kit allows a character to make Repair checks to electrical or electronic devices without penalty.

*Deluxe:* This kit consists of a number of specialized diagnostic and repair tools as well as thousands of spare parts. It grants a +2 equipment bonus on Repair checks for electrical or electronic devices and allows a character to make Craft (electronic) checks without penalty.

**Evidence Kits (PL 5)**

Law enforcement agencies around the world use generally the same tools to gather evidence. Having an evidence kit does not grant access to a law enforcement agency’s crime lab; it merely assists in the proper gathering and storing of evidence for use by such a lab. Without an evidence kit, a character receives a –4 penalty to use the collect evidence option of the Investigate skill.

*Basic:* A basic evidence kit includes clean containers, labels, gloves, tweezers, swabs, and other items to gather bits of physical evidence and prevent them from becoming contaminated.

*Deluxe:* A deluxe kit includes all the materials in a basic kit, plus supplies for analyzing narcotic substances at the scene and for gathering more esoteric forms of physical evidence such as casts and molds of footprints or vehicle tracks, as well as chemical residues and organic fluids. It also contains the necessary dusts, sprays, brushes, adhesives, and cards to gather fingerprints. It grants a +2 equipment bonus on Investigate checks under appropriate circumstances (whenever the GM rules that the equipment in the kit can be of use in the current situation).

Using a deluxe kit to analyze a possible narcotic substance or basic chemical requires a Craft (chemical) check (TN 15). In this case, the +2 equipment bonus does not apply.

**Fake ID (PL 5)**

Purchasing a falsified driver’s license from a black market source can produce mixed results, depending on the skill of the forger. Typically, a forger has 1 to 4 ranks in the Forgery skill, with a +1 ability modifier. When a character purchases a fake ID, the GM secretly makes a Forgery check for the forger, which serves as the TN for the opposed check when someone inspects the fake ID. The purchase TN of a fake ID is 10 + the forger’s ranks in the Forgery skill.

**First Aid Kit (PL 5)**

Available at most drugstores and camping supply stores, this kit contains enough supplies (and simple instructions for their use) to treat an injury before transporting the injured person to a medical professional. A first aid kit can be used to help a dazed, unconscious, or stunned character by making a Treat Injury check (TN 15). A first aid kit can be used only once. Skill checks made without a first aid kit incur a –4 penalty.

**Forgery Kit (PL 5)**

This kit contains everything needed to use the Forgery skill to prepare forged items. Depending on the item to be forged, a character might need legal documents or other items not included in the kit.

**Handcuffs (PL 5)**

Handcuffs are restraints designed to lock two limbs—normally the wrists—of a prisoner together. They fit any Medium-size or Small human or other creature that has an appropriate body structure.

*Steel:* These heavy-duty cuffs have hardness 10, 10 hit points, a break TN of 30, and require a Disable Device check (TN 25) or Escape Artist check (TN 35) to remove without the key.

*Zip-Tie:* These are single-use disposable handcuffs, much like heavy-duty cable ties. They have hardness 0, 4 hit points, and a break TN of 25. They can only be removed by cutting them off (Disable Device and Escape Artist checks automatically fail).

**Instrument, Keyboard (PL 5)**

A portable keyboard, necessary in order to use the Perform (keyboard instrument) skill.

**Instrument, Percussion (PL 5)**

A set of drums, necessary in order to use the Perform (percussion instrument) skill.

**Instrument, Stringed (PL 5)**

An electric guitar, necessary in order to use the Perform (stringed instrument) skill.

**Instrument, Wind (PL 5)**

A flute, necessary in order to use the Perform (wind instrument) skill.

**Lockpick Set (PL 5)**

A lockpick set includes picks and tension bars for opening locks operated by standard keys. A lockpick set allows a character to make Disable Device checks to open mechanical locks (deadbolts, keyed entry locks, and so forth) without penalty.

**Lock Release Gun (PL 5)**

This small, pistollike device automatically disables cheap and average mechanical locks operated by standard keys (no Disable Device check necessary).

**Mechanical Tool Kit (PL 5)**

This collection of hand tools and small parts typically includes a variety of pliers, drivers, cutting devices, fasteners, and even power tools.

*Basic:* This kit, which fits in a portable toolbox, allows a character to make Repair checks for mechanical devices without penalty.

*Deluxe:* This kit fills a good-sized shop cabinet. It includes a broad variety of specialized hand tools and a selection of high-quality power tools. It grants a +2 equipment bonus on Repair checks for mechanical devices and allows a character to make Craft (mechanical) or Craft (structural) checks without penalty.

**Medical Kit (PL 5)**

About the size of a large tackle box, this is the sort of kit commonly carried by military medics and civilian EMTs. It contains a wide variety of medical supplies and equipment. A medical kit can be used to treat a dazed, unconscious, or stunned character, to provide long-term care, to restore hit points, to treat a diseased or poisoned character, or to stabilize a dying character (see the Treat Injury skill). Skill checks made without a medical kit incur a –4 penalty.

**Multipurpose Tool (PL 5)**

This device contains several different screwdrivers, a knife blade or two, can opener, bottle opener, file, short ruler, scissors, tweezers, and wire cutters. The whole thing unfolds into a handy pair of pliers. A multipurpose tool can lessen the penalty for making Repair, Craft (mechanical), Craft (electronic), or Craft (structural) checks without appropriate tools to –2 instead of the normal –4. The tool is useful for certain tasks, as determined by the GM, but may not be useful in all situations.

**Pharmacist Kit (PL 5)**

A portable pharmacy for use with the Craft (pharmaceutical) skill, a pharmacist kit includes everything needed to prepare, preserve, compound, analyze, and dispense medicinal drugs.

**Search-and-Rescue Kit (PL 5)**

This waist pack contains a first aid kit, a compass, waterproof matches, a lightweight “space” blanket, a standard flashlight, 50 feet of durable nylon rope, two smoke grenades, and one signal flare.

**Spike Strip (PL 5)**

This device is designed to help the police end car chases. The strip comes rolled in a spool about the size of a small suitcase. Deploy it by rolling it across a roadway, where it lies like a flat, segmented belt. (The user can roll it out onto the road without entering the lane of traffic.) Until the strip is activated, the spikes do not protrude, and cars can pass safely over it. When the user activates it (via a control device attached to the end of the strip by a 10-foot-long cord), the spikes extend.

Each time a creature moves through a square containing an activated spike strip at any rate greater than half speed, or each round a creature spends fighting in such an area, the spike strip makes a touch attack roll (base attack bonus +0). The strip deals 2 points of damage on a successful hit, and the injury reduces foot speed to half normal (a successful Treat Injury check, TN 15, or one day’s rest removes this penalty). Wheeled vehicles passing over the strip are automatically hit—although vehicles equipped with puncture-resistant tires are not affected.

**Surgery Kit (PL 5)**

About the size of a small backpack, this kit contains the instruments needed for rudimentary emergency field surgery. A surgery kit is used when performing surgery (see the Treat Injury skill). A character performing surgery without a surgery kit takes a -4 penalty on the Treat Injury check. (This penalty is in addition to the -4 penalty that applies if the character does not have the Surgery feat.)