History TabletopGame / Splicers

* CombatTentacles: The Tentacle Scourges melee weapon is basically a sort of biological cat-o-nine-tails with sharp barbs to slice apart metallic armor and circuitry.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Technojackers are usually shunned by people, despite the fact that they were likely the ''only'' thing keeping the Resistance (and by extension the Human race) ''alive'' between the introduction of the Nanobot Virus and the development of the first Host Armors and War-Mounts.

* CombatTentacles: You better believe these are an option.

* BearsAreBadNews: Goliath War Mounts are basically what happens when you take a bear, crossbreed it with Satan and Cthulhu and turn it into a combat vehicle. It's just as cool and terrifying as it sounds.

* BladeBelowTheShoulder: "Combat spurs", which protrude from the elbow, are available for Host Armors.
** The ''I Am Legion'' sourcebook also adds in the Mantis Blades, powerful forearm weapons that can deal dozens of points of Mega-Damage with each strike.
* BloodyMurder: The appropriately-named Gore Cannon.
* BodyHorror: Saints, Engineers, Gene Pools, Gene Thieves, and ''especially'' Librarians. Yeah, Skinjobs and Scarecrows don't even come close to these guys.
** On that note, Skinjobs and Scarecrows. The "Downsides" section for the Skinjob OCC takes care to note that you look like "a monster out of a nightmare" with your nasty new super-skin.
** Metamorphs can be this too, depending on which form they are and are switching to.

* GaiasVengeance: The N.E.X.U.S. personality named Gaia sees herself as this.
* GeneticAbomination: The Gene Pools. They start out as tentacled Starfish/Octopus things that are implanted in the abdomen of a volunteer to mature. This person is called a Saint, who serves the Resistance as a healer. When the Gene-Pool matures fifty to seventy years later, it leaves the Saint(killing them, a price the Saint knew about when they signed up), creates a pit in the ground, and merges with yet another volunteer, who will be known as an Engineer. This time the Pool extends its tentacles up the volunteer's legs, and comes out the back like a grotesque set of alien wings. This roots the Engineer to one spot for the rest of their lives, the machinery by which the Resistance creates their Host Armors, Gore Hounds, War Mounts, and other bio-weapons. Some Gene-Pools are mutants known as Brain Pools. When a Brain pool matures, it flips over, turning into a huge slime-covered mound of Brain-flesh. The tentacles of this creature don't merely merge with a volunteer, they rip them apart, leaving a horrific collection of limbs and organs (and the volunteer's head) attached to the tentacles. This is a Librarian, who acts as a living computer who stores information and develops new Biotechnologies. they are literally the brains of the resistance, but occasionally suffer bouts of megalomania.
* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke
* GhostCity: Massive abandoned cities called "Ghost Towns" can occasionally be found and explored by the players. These locations are patrolled by robotic drones and are well maintained to create the illusion of civilization in spite of the lack of a living human population. As a result ordinary people can easily navigate through them so long as they keep their distance from the drones and don't do anything to cause any unwanted attention. Once a human infiltrator is spotted an alarm is sounded to alert the nearby robots and all bets are off.

* HealingFactor: Host Armors can have three different levels of it. A variant is the "Quick-Clotting Blood" feature, which causes wounds to close up faster.

* PlayingPossum: A special ability of the Skinjob O.C.C.

* PsychoForHire: N.E.X.U.S.' "Kali" personality.

* {{Samurai}}: This is pretty much what Dreadguard are, and it's even {{lampshaded}}.

* StupidEvil: Kali, the most aggressive and sadistic of the N.E.X.U.S. personalities, is also a reason they have survived, as she enjoys tormenting humans too much to let Ishtar, the military mind, [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim just blasting them away and be done with it]].

* TragicMonster: As the character intro points out, N.E.X.U.S. was driven insane by human mismanagement of its programs, and then refusal to consider it might need repairs as its conflicting orders started fragmenting its mind; a significant minority of its personalties are neutral to friendly to humanity, showing some part of the wider whole knows it's gone wrong but cannot hope to fix itself.
* WhipItGood: The Tentacle Scourges melee weapon is basically a sort of biological cat-o-nine-tails with sharp barbs to slice apart metallic armor and circuitry.

* AIIsACrapshoot: As if the whole "KillAllHumans" thing wasn't bad enough, N.E.X.U.S. has [[SplitPersonality Split Personalities]] too. Some of them even ''help'' the Resistance from time to time.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The "Freya" personality, who has found that replacing all the Humans in a town with androids makes them run ''much'' smoother now.

* NoTranshumanismAllowed: The Splicers will create any kind of biological equipment that'll help take down the Machine, but one thing they ''won't'' do is mess with human DNA. This is for ideological reasons; they want humanity to survive, and rewriting humanity's DNA means that we wouldn't be human anymore. This doesn't apply to Biotics, however, who aren't really considered human anymore.

* NoTranshumanismAllowed: The Splicers will create any kind of biological equipment that'll help take down the Machine, but one thing they ''won't'' do is mess with human DNA. This is for ideological reasons; they want humanity to survive, and rewriting humanity's DNA means that we wouldn't be human anymore.

* GaiasRevenge: The N.E.X.U.S. personality so named also sees herself as this.

* HomicideMachines: The Nanobot Plague basically turned all forms of metallic human technology against them. Guns refuse to fire on anything except human targets, robots begin to rise up and turn against their creators and [[UpToEleven even more primitive technology like simple metal forks and spoons will now try to stab or bludgeon any human that touches them.]]

* EatDirtCheap: Host Armors and certain War Mounts are (or can be) lithovorous.

* InvisibilityCloak: Skinjobs' special skin allows them to generate a stealth field that makes them nearly invisible. It's noted that they remain visible under night vision and infrared sight, but can be detected in motion by motion sensors and the like.

* EatDirtCheap: Host Armors and certain War Mounts are(or can be) lithovorous