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4th Edition Mutations
Tormentor

Beneficial Mutations

Aggressive Coagulation
 Normally, when a mutant's hit points drop below zero, but have not yet dropped farther below zero than their Constitution score, they continue to lose one hit point per minute when they are not treated. Mutants with Aggressive Coagulation lose only one hit point for every 10 minutes not treated if their wounds resulted in blood loss
(e.g. some mental attacks would be excluded).

Water Pouch
 The mutant has a small bladder-like organ in his abdomen that stores extra water. This allows the mutant to survive twice as long as normal without water.


Defective Mutations

Hemophilia (D)
 The description of this defect provided in 1st Edition Gamma World can be used in 4th Edition. The lack of blood clotting agents in the mutant's blood causes serious bleeding in even the smallest of cuts. Once this mutant has lost even 1 hit point caused by blood loss, he begins to bleed and loses 2 extra hit points per melee round until he has time to stop and bind his wounds.

Moebius Syndrome (D)
 Moebius Syndrome is a disorder characterized by permanent facial paralysis. People with Moebius Syndrome can't smile or frown, and they can't blink or move their eyes from side to side. Two important cranial nerves are not fully developed, causing lateral eye movements, facial expressions, and sometimes even adequate blinking, to be impossible. Because the mutant is powerless to transmit emotions through facial expressions, his Charisma attribute is reduced by 2. The inadequate flushing (blinking) and loss of lateral eye movement affords the mutant a -2 penalty to the Perception derived attribute.

Osteoporosis (D)
The mutant's body generates and replaces deteriorating bone tissue at a much slower pace than normal. The weakened bones become fragile. Crushing blows, bashing attacks, and falls inflict double damage to the mutant. The mutant suffers a -2 damage penalty in unarmed combat, and also risks (50% chance) of doing 1d6 points of damage to himself with each successful hit on an opponent.