UFO Issue 03 - Winter 2023 - Kill Sector Quarterly Zine

...The first duel of the day was simple. The enemy wore a suit covered in mirrors, so Gned's laser pistol could not harm him. The battle quickly became a hand-to-hand brawl. Eventually, Gned was able to get a hold of his foe's heavy club and cave his head in with it.

The second duel was much more difficult. Gned battled a fiery anger elemental. The two combatants dodged and weaved between the arena's towering pillars. At one point, Gned was caught by a particularly well placed fireball and he was blanketed in flames. The enemy approached to finish him off as he extinguished himself, but Gned surprised them with a handful of sand to the eyes. Gned snuck up behind his blinded foe and drove his sword through them in a sneak attack. The enemy panicked and tried to flee, but Gned caught them with a second slash from his blade.

Gned wondered who he would fight in the final round. No bounty hunters had appeared yet, but Gned knew that even an arena as remote as this one wasn't safe from them. He turned back to the basin hoping to drink just a little more of its water, but it was already beginning to vanish. Round three was about to begin...

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This is the third issue of UFO - Unidentified Fighting Object, Kill Sector's official periodical, filled to the brim with new functions, fiction, GM advice, and more.

UFO 3 features the following:

• Gnarly Gned in "Gnarly Gned is Stuck in the Desert"
• Introduction to the Thonn, an original alien species for Kill Sector, penned by Noah and Tyson, including new functions themed around their biology and tactics
• Control your fate with a new set of functions that alter how your character is affected by crits, including the ability to completely ignore them altogether for your character
• Godling functions allow you to play as a disembodied, abstract presence - yeah, that's right, we have balanced rules for playing as a sheer CONCEPT
• The Panflute Gun channels the might of the chaos gods, allowing you to know exactly how the weapon will perform ahead of time due to a deep. intuitive understanding of unpredictable cosmic forces
• Community chest functions return, organized and curated by our new developer, icebrick1
• Tough But Fair helps GM's tread the treacherous ground of making a deadly, no-holds-barred, extra difficult gauntlet while still being fair to the players

Important: In order to use UFO to its fullest capacity, you'll need the Kill Sector Core Rulebook, also available on DriveThruRPG!