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kilakan

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Under the Alien Stars-Burned World
« on: July 26, 2015, 02:00:48 pm »

OOC Thread
    Intro

   Humanity has always been driven to explore the unknown, reaching out to grasp at that which is out of reach.  It is a well spoken about trait that many humans pride themselves on, what however is rarely less spoken about is the blood thirst that accompanies this driving urge to explore.  Throughout history humans have passed accomplishments that allowed them to explore previously unreachable locations and very often there are those who go to these places to hunt the deadly and unknown.  You are one such person who in ages past would be known as a Big Game hunter now your official title is Xenos Poacher a crime that carries immense penalties and lucrative rewards to the courageous and lucky.  You and a small group of like minded individuals, on a rickety old blockade runner space ship set off into the unknown reaches of the universe in hopes of challenging your shooting, fighting and trapping skills in the hopes of bagging a rare specimen that collectors will pay a worlds ransom for.  Contending with unknown foes, conditions and even the law enforcement of your own people will you make it big or die in the cold reaches of deep space?

    GM Notes
  Using a d20 for rolls.

   This system will be a major work in progress, I apologize in advance as i change mechanics during the game.  What I am attempting to build is a sort of sci-fi monster hunter style system that will work with both massive creatures as well as many small elusive ones, consider this more of a test than anything.  On that note I appreciate feedback greatly as it will serve to make everything better.

    Four players for now to keep the work a bit lighter, but as the mechanics get sorted out I will gladly take on more players.  My hopes is to get it fluid enough to allow for Fire Emblem on Forums level players and battles.

Inspiration Drawn from: Traveller RPG, Monster Hunter, Xcom, Wh40k and a myriad of other fantasy and sci-fi sources.

   Game System Notes

Turns:
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Stats:
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Derived Statistics:
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  Character Creation

Note-For now no psionic's will be allowed or accepted as that idea has yet to be worked on.

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Equipment:
1 Weapon of following category's, either choose a category or suggest a type of weapon from them you would like Ex:Energy Melee OR Laser Sword, Gravitational sledgehammer for examples.
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1 Suit of armor from the following category's OR unarmored but you get an additional item of another category in equipment.  ((tell me the category and then make up how it looks if you like, otherwise I will fill it in for you.))
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1 Ship part-You may describe a personalized room or part that your character added onto the little ship that the group is now using.  It can be a medical facility, sleeping quarters, or otherwise but keep it relatively small and inexpensive.

    Skills

This part shall require the most work and overhaul, for now choose 4 favored skills that represent somewhat general categories.  For combat skills choose one of the weapon categories as the skill (Solid ballistics, Laser Ranged, ect)  for other skills simply give me a short description and I will let you know if it's too focused or generalized.


Any questions or recommendations are highly appreciated, does the system seem too complicated?  Would you prefer a more simplistic stats system or more detailed even?


Players:

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« Last Edit: August 22, 2015, 08:57:30 am by kilakan »
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Re: Under the Alien Stars 0/4 (Player-Testers wanted!)
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2015, 02:01:08 pm »

Players sheets:

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Edit: Edited in the last skill!

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Re: Under the Alien Stars 0/4 (Player-Testers wanted!)
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2015, 02:01:28 pm »

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Re: Under the Alien Stars 0/4 (Player-Testers wanted!)
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2015, 02:23:42 pm »

PTW, probably have a sheet later.
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Re: Under the Alien Stars 0/4 (Player-Testers wanted!)
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2015, 02:37:58 pm »

What is the difference between solid ballistics and lasers mechanics wise?

I will have a sheet up within the next hour, I just need to think of a not-too-generic character concept  :P.
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Re: Under the Alien Stars 0/4 (Player-Testers wanted!)
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2015, 02:41:41 pm »

Lasers are effectively unlimited range in space or planets with no/little atmosphere, and they travel from the firing point to where they hit substantially faster making aiming over large distances easier. 

In atmosphere lasers tend to be less effective, and have about the same fall-off range as ballistics do with the downside of loosing damage to distance faster.

The other major difference is that advanced armors are designed to stop energy weapons like lasers but are generally less competent at stopping solid metal, so a lot of ballistics will pass straight through the dispersion field.

Basically:
In vaccuum
Lasers-Better range, accuracy speed
Ballistics-Pass through more types of shields and armor

In atmosphere
Ballistics-Better damage over distance, still pass through more types of armor
Lasers-Ignite fires, melt armor and shielding, tends to panic wildlife more than ballistics.


Also glad to have you guys interested!
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Re: Under the Alien Stars 0/4 (Player-Testers wanted!)
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2015, 03:20:32 pm »

Crikey!

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Re: Under the Alien Stars 0/4 (Player-Testers wanted!)
« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2015, 03:27:25 pm »

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How is that? The character concept came off a lot....Creepier then I thought it would  :P
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Re: Under the Alien Stars 0/4 (Player-Testers wanted!)
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2015, 03:28:20 pm »

NaNNaN
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Re: Under the Alien Stars 0/4 (Player-Testers wanted!)
« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2015, 03:37:18 pm »

PTW
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Re: Under the Alien Stars 0/4 (Player-Testers wanted!)
« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2015, 04:06:07 pm »

Crikey!

Your body would be Heavy-Advanced. Also no stats above 6 so your BS would be 6 leaving you with one more point. 
Also you get to choose 4 skills.

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How is that? The character concept came off a lot....Creepier then I thought it would  :P
That looks excellent, and no more creepy than I had in mind.
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Re: Under the Alien Stars 0/4 (Player-Testers wanted!)
« Reply #11 on: July 26, 2015, 04:41:56 pm »

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Re: Under the Alien Stars 3/4 (Player-Testers wanted!)
« Reply #12 on: July 26, 2015, 05:44:18 pm »

Ok, like the description of the moon-woman quite a bit.  Once dwarmin and Giglamesh finish their sheet's we'd be good to start.  I'll work on transferring some of the rules to google doc's to make it a bit easier to read.
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Re: Under the Alien Stars 0/4 (Player-Testers wanted!)
« Reply #13 on: July 26, 2015, 05:46:01 pm »

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Re: Under the Alien Stars 3/4 (Player-Testers wanted!)
« Reply #14 on: July 26, 2015, 05:57:31 pm »

The health calculates "feat bonuses", are we supposed to have Feats picked out? Or is that outdated or something?
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