Modify
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Requirements: You are holding or wearing your custom rig.
Using your trusty custom rig, you quickly customize a piece of gear. Interact to draw, retrieve, or swap an item, then add one of the mods listed below to the item. The item remains modded until the start of your next turn, but the effect ends early if you use Modify again or if the item is destroyed or leaves your possession.
When you Modify an item, you can apply one of the following effects of your choice, called a mod, or any other mod you know. Some mods can only be applied to items of specific types or items with certain traits; these requirements are listed in parentheses. The selected mod lasts as long as the item is your modded item.
Standard Mods
Big Boom (grenade/area weapon): Amplifies explosives/propellant. Increases burst radius by 5 feet, cone area by 5 feet, or line area by 10 feet.
Bunker Buster (grenade/weapon): Overclocks destructive force. Item bypasses 5 Hardness, or, if it has razing, bypasses Hardness equal to 5 plus the razing value.
Incapacitant (grenade/weapon): Swaps ammo for dummy rounds. Item gains the nonlethal trait.
Magnetic Levitators (armor): Activates built-in magnetic lifters. Your base land Speed gains "hover."
Long-Range Propulsors (grenade/ranged weapon): Upgrades propellant or firing system. Increase grenade throw by 10 feet or ranged weapon's range increment by 30 feet.
Troubleshoot (any item, drone, or turret exocortex): Rapid recalibration. Reduce the value of the glitching condition by 1.
Starfall Flavor & Applications
Mechanics in Starfall use "Modify" for every deadly situation and countless daily tasks—rewiring salvage, customizing security gadgets, and even tuning armor for hazardous Rift environments. Mods are the core of Starfall’s tech culture:
Guild specialists and freelancers regularly deploy "Big Boom" for demolition, mining, or crowd dispersal.
Security and law enforcement rely on "Incapacitant" to nonlethally subdue suspects.
Exploration teams tweak armor with "Magnetic Levitators" for zero-gravity repair and hazardous terrain.
Technicians and mercenaries use "Troubleshoot" to keep expensive synths, drones, and defensive emplacements operational in volatile environments.Modify-Tools-of-the-Trade.md
Modify helps define the tech duelist, the battlefield architect, and the survivalist engineer—each able to pivot a device’s function to suit the moment’s crisis or opportunity.
The "Modify" action is Starfall Galaxy’s signature mechanic move: adapting gear for chaos, solving problems in seconds, and shaping every encounter with ingenuity and technical mastery.
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