An man-or woman -in a robe approaches you. He could be a monk, but there is something strange about him. Two eyes glow from under the hood. No-one else seems to notice but you. He puts a gnarled finger into his robe, and pulls out three strange pieces of junk. You feel compelled to take one.

-Take the rusty mechanical eye - cyborg path, increases accuracy and attack, decreases charisma

-Take the phial of strange liquid - mutant path, increases strength and defense, decreases mind

-Take the worm - mental path, increases mind + plus allows psi powers

You black out after choosing. When you wake up, the man is gone. But you feel different.

-When the war occurred, a mad scientist (or entire science group) froze themselves in a vault several hundred feet underground, with a veritable treasure trove of tech and weaponry being developed by a private weapons company. Though originally meant to seal until the fallout was gone, the seal was broken. You activate it after hearing legends of a massive treasure store underground, by completing some clever code puzzle - or blasting the door open.

Silly boy.

-Aforesaid weapons company survived the war, and have been supplying some of the more warlike clans with experimental weaponry, (in small amounts) to test them out. You have to locate the weapons, all belonging to different clan leaders, and destroy them...or give them in for research to a scientist...give them to the monks...or keep them.

-The tribes that you are part of, in your area are in fact a simplistic utopia - outside the world has moved on. This is semi relevant to the above...

-Some horrible bioweapon never detonated...until now. This causes something nasty to happen, and you are forced to find a cure  - or to kill everyone with the virus/disease until it is gone.

-Aliens/rift to hell

-A large group of army-based militia is marching through the land, trying to re-establish rule. The soldiers could perhaps be genetically modified vault dwellers, all highly developed descendants of a test group left underground. By now, (nearly) all mutations in the modification (except, that is, for the useful ones) have worn out due to years of careful breeding . Join them? Or fight them? Or run away?

-A crazy exile from the monks has set up a lab in the desert. He can ...enhance...you, but only if you bring him corpses (or something gruesome). Of course, these enhancements are VERY crude, making you a social outcast in most groups, but perhaps permitting you entry to others...

Really sorry to make you read all this text, and I'm sorry if you already have a long storyline plotted out...

I think it would suit the game a bit more than the current arrows to move system, as I tend to see it as a bit of a one man RTS rather than hard and fast FPS-y rpg etc.

If you had a -10 at Choctaw, for example, speak with the town leader.  He would give you a choice to do community service to get your reputation back up to zero.  Thirty actions would be deleted from your total, and your reputation would go back up to zero.  If you only had 15 actions, then you would only get a +5 to your reputation, leaving you with a total of -5 (which you could fix the following day.)

Thoughts, anyone?

3 levels.
+1 concussion healed per action spent per level.

If you have this at level 1, then each action spent resting will remove 2 points of concussed instead of just 1.
At level 2, you will heal 3 concussed per resting action.
At level 3, you will heal 4 concussed per resting action.

5 levels
-1 point of poison damage per round per level, and +1 healing per action spent sweating it out of your system

Note - If you have this at level 2, and you get hit by three fire ants (each with level 1 poison) you should take 1 point of poison damage per round.
If you have this perk at level 3, and you're hit by a Giant Scorpion (Level 10 poison), you will take7 points of poison damage per round.  Assuming you survive the fight, you will be able to purge 4 points of poison from your system for each action spent resting.

notably deer antlers and broken widgets

is this supposed to happen or is it a bug

now if you want to equip another weapon ( or probably something else) you have to take of the old weapon and then drag the new

maybe an improvment would be that you could just drag the weapon over the slot and if would autoequip it (old wepon goes to inventory new weapon is equiped)