FOR EVERYBODY:
I was looking at the game play, and thinking how I could make it better. One problem I have with it right now is the d6 system I am using. While it does work OK, it is a little too random. Using a 6 sided die means that there can be six outcomes, and you will get the worse result 1/6 of the time. You will get the best result 1/6 of the time. This makes combat kind of awkward on my end. It also makes it more difficult to allot bonuses, after all adding or subtracting a single point is a major difference when you normal have 1-6. As such, I am considering switching over to a percentile system, that is D100. The core mechanics will stay the same, though the general percentages will change. Is everyone Ok if I rewrite the rules to try out the tweak?
I will probably add some new rules and tweak some of the old while I am at it.
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Name: Answers to Wizard or Magical Arsehole. Also, there are some who call him... TIM.
Items: Catsplosion (2d3)(3)(AoE 5)(3/6), Fire Bolt (1d6)(4/6)(1), Wildcard (2d6-1d12)(1/6), Wooden Staff, flower hat
Profession: Wizard
Race: Wizard
Health: 6
Additional Status:
Skills: Offensive Spells 3, Overall Magics 3
Bio: The Wizard of Soth, a small island chain with a serious cat infestation.
Motivation: Magical Arsehole is here to get loot and "test" magic on stuff, and he's fresh out of lootsacks!
Strength:3
Dexterity:2
Reflexes:2
Intelligence: 4
You raise your fist and mock the firey orb in the sky, as its radiant, life giving light continues to leave over the mountainside. There is a good chance you angered the sun god, and will get minor burns over your skin next time you go to the beach. Horrified, you realize you are right next to a lake, and thus almost near a beach. But for now, the sun is down, the sun gods can't get you....
You look around for some trees. You don't see any. All there is is a dirt road, a lake, and a field of near-infinite flowers.
What do you do now?
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Name: Harvey
Items: Power Armor (4d6), (-8), 2X FN MAGGIE (3d6) (3/6), 2X Inferno Blades (4d6)(Cauterize)(Peirce)
Profession: Bandit leader
Race: Augmented
Health: 6
Additional Status: Minor bleeding
Skills: Persuasion 2, Long Blades 2, Medium Gun 2
Bio: Harvey grew up the son of a minor bandit who died when he was a child, the clan he belonged to was destroyed in the multitude of never ending clan rivalries and Harvey was left to starve in the wilds. He survived by stealing from farms and slowly gathered other outcasts around him who were in a similar situation and in time they turned to being bandits as well knowing no other life.
During one attack several of them died but they were able to take what looked to be an important group of traders hostage, they claimed to have nobody who would pay for them but wished to make a trade for there own lives and offered to put there skills in genetic and cybernetic augmentation at the clans disposal.
They accepted and were released after carrying out the augmentations that were asked of them and Harvey and his clan set off for the site of the most constant fighting amongst bandits, mercenaries and the other less honorable folk of the world intending to unite or annihilate the clans under his own rule.
Strength: 8 (4)
Dexterity: 2 (~1)
Reflexes: 6 (3)
Intelligence: 3
Charisma: 1 (4)
Anything I forgot:
Augmentation : Harvey.
Positive.
Metal flesh. : His skin has been replaced with power armor making him very hard to injure and enhancing his strength and reflexes.
Internal weaponry. : Has Inferno blades hidden inside both arms that extend from the top of his wrists and a pair of energy guns tucked into his shoulders that extend upwards to stand either side of his head. ( Controlled by a chip implanted in his brain which makes him as skilled as a veteran soldier with those weapons. )
Genetically enhanced senses. : Has far superior sight and hearing over other species able to see in any lightning and hear as well as a dog. Sight also allows him to read body language boosting his charisma. ( Because he can tell what effect his words or actions have on people by reading body language. )
Negative.
Metal flesh : Metal flesh is heavy and results in his speed being lowered and making it completely impossible for him to perform stealth actions except at very long range.
Internal weaponry. : The chip in his brain makes it impossible for him to use non implanted weaponry.
Genetically enhanced senses : Complete loss of all other senses.
Augmentation : Minions.
Positive.
Metal flesh. : There skin has been replaced with power armor making them very hard to injure and enhancing his strength and reflexes.
Internal weaponry. : Has inferno blades hidden inside both arms that extend from the top of there wrists and a pair of energy guns tucked into his shoulders that extend upwards to stand either side of his head. ( Controlled by a chip implanted in his brain which makes him as skilled as a veteran soldier with those weapons. )
Computer link : Minds are able to receive information from Harveys mind directly.
Negative.
Metal flesh : Metal flesh is heavy and results in his speed being lowered and it being impossible for them to perform stealth actions except at very long range.
Internal weaponry. : The chip in there brains makes it impossible for them to use non implanted weaponry. ( Controlled by a chip implanted in there brain which makes them as skilled as a veteran soldier with those weapons. )
Computer link : Unable to understand any other form of communication.
Hover Craft Unit 1
Health: Perfect
Size: 2 vehicals
Distance: 210
Action: Shooting
Additional Status: None
Jeep Unit 1
Health: Perfect
Size: 2 vehicle
Distance: 260
Action: Shooting
Additional Status: None
Assault Rifle Unit
Health: Perfect
Size: 20 men
Distance: 304
Action: Cover
Additional Status: Behind Cover
Sniper Rifle Unit
Health: Perfect
Size: 4 men
Distance: 304
Action: Cover
Additional Status: Behind Cover
Anti Tank Unit
Health: Perfect
Size: 10 men
Distance: 304
Action: Cover
Additional Status: Behind Cover
Allied Unit
Health: Perfect
Size: 9 men
Distance: 0
Action: Following orders
White Knight Unit
Health: Perfect
Size: 5 men
Distance: 50
Action: Charging
Additional Status:
You continue your slow crawl to the ever-larger walls, you are now within distance 50 of them! Finally, the mountain like walls give hints of life, with five clouds of dust appearing under the wall. Knights, armed in heavy white armor with a shield and sword, have jumped off of the wall and begin charging....toward you.
Your men fire at the hovercraft, dealing some minor damage to unnecessary structures. The hovercraft retaliates, spraying a futile blast of bullets against your soldier's sturdy armor. The jeeps fire, denting armor but not injuring anybody. The infantry still hides behind cover.
What do you do now?
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Name: X5
Profession: Vigilante (See Bio)
Race: Augmented - Sub-Dermal armour - Inbuilt armour, provides protection whilst reducing speed. && Computer aided vision - Allows extra vision modes such as infra red and targeting, but vision can be overloaded for a short time and can glitch.
Appearance: X5 is large and well built, with close shaved brown hair. Most of the area around his eye is occupied by his Visual Augmentation system, and his other eye socket is completely empty.
Bio: Victor Kar was in his early life a member of the IEF - International Elite Forces. This group operated under it's own control, taking on tasks which only the brightest and best could achieve in return for two things, a roof over their heads and a certain amount of freedom from the law. With intergalactic travel, their services became more and more neccessary as crime moved rapidly through juristictions and traditional policing had little effect. And in free space, where the raiders often lay in orbit, there was no law at all.
The man himself was known for his no nonsense approach to his work - he took no prisoners and was known for his tenacity and the fact that he had never once backed down for a challenge. Of course, he only had to fail once in the end. A mission on Earth, seeking a criminal - Derius Kar, his brother - who was making people dissapear without any trace whatsoever. He found the villain there, and a massive battle commenced. All the IEF members lost their lives, Kar included. And as he was shot, he witnessed his killer run through a doorway to nothing, and simply vanish.
Kar awoke in a lab, surrounded by the corpses of his squad. Bodies that lay, cold, blue, and lifeless, outlined in red in his head. But he wasn't. And clearly, he had changed.
It took two more years of training before the cyborg deemed himself ready. The process that had ressurected him had failed on those he considered family, and his true family was responsible. Disgusted, Victor discarded that name, and took the project's codename as his own - X5. Then he set out, searching for Derius, a man who dissapeared through the portal.
Items: Winchester 20V Shotgun (2d6) (2/6), Persuader Pistol (1d6)(3/6)(Quick), Sub Dermal Armor (1d6)(-1)
Health: 8
Additional Status:
Skills: Shotguns (3), Hand Guns (3), Heavy Guns (2)
Strength: 4
Dexterity: 3
Reflexes: 4
Intelligence: 2
Charisma: 2
Charisma: 3
.....Do you remember what your charisma is supposed to be? Somehow, I put it in there twice, two different numbers. First time I rolled charisma for you, but either way you passed.
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You try to look nonthreatening while armed to the teeth and standing next to a giant inferno you had created yourself. Which is more difficult then it sounds, and it sounds difficult. A trio of guards, in chain armor, approach you. The one on either side was flashing a sword, while the one in the middle was standing still. He appeared to be the leader, as he had a small insignia on his armor. "Looks like you caught them, all right. Caught them on fire, that is...." he states, with a sigh. He then looks at you for a minute, as you speak briefly to him, before sighing again. He then shrugs "Whatever, I guess Other-worlders are out of our jurisdiction. I don't care if you fight between yourselves, but you can't be setting giant fires around my town..." he snaps his fingers, and the group of men put their swords away. A small group of men wielding a large bucket between them come on the scene, accompanied by a man wearing scholar's robes. The water begins to move, and starts putting out the fire like a fire hose.
"Who are you looking for, traveler?" The man then asked.
What do you do now?
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