GAMERS - a CT clone(ish)

StormBringer · March 25, 2010, 01:24:38 AM

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;369400Pffft there are no supernatural ones. Naw, a nice alphabetical list of the more or less good ones followed by the more or less bad ones, with numbers next to them so you can roll them up.

Well, by 'supernatural' I was more meaning 'metaphysical', like Luck, or maybe Combat Sense.

Kyle Aaron · May 05, 2010, 08:59:26 PM

The most recent edition... Changes from original are,

changed font from arial to souveneir, 'cos that's more old school
removed all illustrations except for the cover
removed Features (psyche, license, etc) as was found in playtest that people would rather roleplay it
added Contacts - before or during play, player can describe an NPC their character knows
changed character generation to - "Each character gets 2d6 random skills. These are generated by the player choosing 3-6 skill categories [of the 9 plus 1 attribute table], and assigning the numbers 1-6 to them, then rolling 1d6 to see which categories they get, and rolling again to see which individual skill they get. If the Attribute subtable is selected, each time one is thrown, the relevant Attribute rises by +1." - this acts like a class-based skill system.
established default skill level as +0, and first level as +3 (rather than -2/+1). Though a bit counter-intuitive, since people are worse at subtraction than addition, and since people tend to forget they're at -2 and not remember until after deciding to roll for it...
thus, base skill roll required changes from 8 to 10
to make an Attribute complement another check, rolling 14+ is required, instead of the old "roll under". Players prefer consistency in "do I need to roll low or high?"
added Heft/Recoil to weapon stats, the minimum Strength/Reflexes required to use a weapon; being under gives a DM-2, being 4 over gives DM+1. This was done to replicate the CT rules, and also to differentiate weapons in areas other than damage done
rather than roll to hit, roll damage, subtract armour from damage - armour now adds to defence (Reflexes + skill). Again this makes it more like CT.
deleted the rating campaign section, left the "making yourself as a character" section
noted that players who want to claim improvement in their attributes after having made themselves as characters can always have a retest

All this is in preparation for HEROIC.

At some stage I will remove the quirk descriptions, leaving only the names. It's not old school to describe everything in detail.

I'd attach the file, but the forum has a 200kb limit for pdfs, and the file is 450kb or so. Interested people can fire me an email.

Cylonophile · May 06, 2010, 12:02:26 AM

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;369348Yeah, I've entirely ditched Features in my most recent revision. Too thespy.

Quirks give flavour, baby. Plenty of short games have that many pages just for firearms.

Did you do the render of the dice yourself? If so what software did you use? Looks good.

Kyle Aaron · May 06, 2010, 12:26:38 AM

See the caption to the picture. It's this guy.

Cylonophile · May 06, 2010, 12:43:43 AM

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;378848See the caption to the picture. It's this guy.

Well, one of the earliest tutorials for blender 3d was how to make pipped dice.

Needless to say one of my first thoughts was about making numbered dice.

If you'd like me to try kicking out a few of them for you, let me know, it really wouldn't be hard to do in blender. In fact I ought to just for the practice...

Come to think of it, I think I will anyway, perhaps using a few textures like marble, clear, etc.

Cylonophile · May 06, 2010, 06:29:26 PM

Wouldn't a good name for this be the Hexadecimal RPG system since it uses hexadecimal for the stats?

BTW, I did up some digital dice for you in blender, and will post a pic of the initial work soon. I'm trying to get some ideas on how to do dice in a 3d format and did some of my own last night. I'm asking advice from users on a blender forum and got some good replies.

I have a pair of gold digital d6's on a chessboard now, I may add a few figures like a man holding a sword, a man with a gun and maybe a crude model of a traveller scout and a horse on the chessboard to round it out.

Cylonophile · May 06, 2010, 10:34:28 PM

There's the initial renders. I might change the color of the inlay, or try making new ones completely with what I learned from these.

Cylonophile · May 07, 2010, 06:36:10 PM

After getting some tips from blender masters, here's the next dice I made.

I could so them in any material, more or less, and may try d10's next.

Kyle Aaron · May 08, 2010, 12:34:48 AM

That's pretty funky, but I'd rather you just got the file off me and made a character, that's what the thing is for

Cylonophile · May 08, 2010, 02:39:57 AM

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;379241That's pretty funky, but I'd rather you just got the file off me and made a character, that's what the thing is for

Well, if it's a free system I might give it a look. I prefer systems where one creates a character instead of rolling one randomly.

And if you want a logo or image with gamer dice instead of pipped ones, let me know. Did you catch the font on the last pair of dice? Just about the same as the one on the classic traveller dice, I think.

Narf the Mouse · May 16, 2010, 02:44:45 AM

Hexidecimal stats need d15's.

Cylonophile · May 16, 2010, 06:09:23 AM

Quote from: Narf the Mouse;380998Hexidecimal stats need d15's.

The stats are laid out in hexadecimal format.

Narf the Mouse · May 16, 2010, 06:08:26 PM

Exactly. 1 to 9; A to F. Technically, you can only count to decimal fifteen with that.

...It's a computer joke.

StormBringer · May 16, 2010, 06:10:07 PM

Quote from: Narf the Mouse;381156Exactly. 1 to 9; A to F. Technically, you can only count to decimal fifteen with that.

...It's a computer joke.

Ahem.

Zero to nine.

Narf the Mouse · May 16, 2010, 06:25:15 PM

Quote from: StormBringer;381158Ahem.

Zero to nine.

*Ahem*

Dice. Traditionally, 1 is the lowest number on a die.