Rules for Creating New Mummies

By "Sidewinder" (mtsterre@dpcmail.dukepower.com)

Author's notes

Don't get me wrong. I love Mummy 2nd edition as it. However, while playing a being several thousand years old is fun, I also enjoy playing characters new to their powers and responsibilities. It is in this spirit that I created these rules, adapted from the official White Wolf rules for Mummy 2nd edition. These stats would represent an individual who has undergone the spell of life recently and has had some training in the arts of Hekau

Character Generation

Attributes: 7/5/3
Abilities: 13/9/5
Hekau: 3
Backgrounds: 6
Virtues: 7
Willpower: Integrity
Humanity: Memory + Joy
Sekhem: 3
Ba: 5
Ka: 5

Freebie Points: 15
Choose Merits & Flaws normally.
Choose Hekau Spells normally.

Freebie Point Costs

Attributes: 5/dot
Abilities: 2/dot
Hekau: 5/dot
Backgrounds: 1/dot
Virtues: 2/dot
Willpower: 2/dot
Humanity: 1/dot
Sekhem: 10/dot
Ba: 2/dot
Ka: 1/dot

New Background

True Names: This is the knowledge of the names used in Ren-Hekau.

*	Character knows a handful of names (5)
**	Character has begun serious study (15)
***	Character is somewhat knowledgeable (45)
****	Character has profound understanding (135)
*****	Character is a master of names (almost all)

Note that Ba generation is not random in this generation process, the theory being that most new mummies have a similar amount of Ba. If you like random better then role 1d10 for Ba and do no allow freebie points to be spent to increase this stat.

Also the new mummy does not get the one free point in necromancy as per the standard rules. The new mummy has three dots to distribute in any of the standard Hekau. The rationale here is that the new mummy has yet to spend much time in the underworld to develop this skill.

Other changes include how Willpower and Humanity are calculated. I felt that the rules given in Mummy 2nd edition resulted in Willpower numbers that were too high, especially for starting characters. Also I felt that Joy and Memory were more important for determining Humanity and that Integrity was more closely linked to Willpower than Humanity. Once again this can be changed back to standard Mummy rules at your whim.

Alternate History to allow for new mummy characters

After his latest rebirth Horus reluctantly suspended his decree against the creation of new mummies. He realized that to have any chance to defeat the minions of his adversary Set, that he would need more undying warriors than his current 42, given the questionable loyalty and disinterest in his cause evidenced by so many of his followers. So he instructed each of his visors to keep an eye out for potential recruits and to send them on to Switzerland for further training and possible conversion by the spell of life.

What Horus had not foreseen was that in relaxing this law he gave others the chance to do as he was. Mummies in other factions that knew one version or another of the spell of life had been avoiding creating more of the undying because of fear of Horus and his organized group of followers. However with the fear of reprisal gone, there was nothing to hold them back. New mummies were born across the globe.

Infuriated, Horus reinstated his second law, amending that only he was exempt from it and instructed his followers to seek out these new mummies and their creators to either capture them or destroy their khat and ba, thus dispersing them for the moment.

Thus began the war of the Undying. Hostility between factions escalated quickly and new mummies were created to replace the dispersed on all sides.

Mummy society was posed to tear itself apart. However after the complete destruction of one of Horus' oldest allies when his true name was discovered, all sides agreed to a reluctant truce. Tensions still simmer however and in some places the conflict still goes on, abet in a quieter manner.