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[Aseaheru]

2300AD

Greetings, have a thread for a game called 2300AD, a game nearly twice my age and has technology that was mostly laughable when I was born.

in any event, HERE is the core rulebook and HERE is the link for a discord channel to yammer at me in, and for me to yammer at you guys.

Beginners' tips:

-Follow the steps third column on the core book PDF page 17. They should have just started the damn chapter with that checklist.

-You can roll your stats on Discord, it's got the Sidekick dice bot. Use "/r 4d6-4 #texthere" for the main stats, "/r 1d10 #texthere" for almost everything else. You can also compare to a target number "/r 1d10+2>=6"

-Skills DO NOT start at zero, the first skill point you buy only allows you to familiarize. The progression starts at skill 0, and then 1.

-Read up on the careers, especially what skills they allow as Primary and Secondary to make the character as close as possible to your desired archetype.

-The normal skills cost 1/2 point on char gen, and a full point during play.
Primary skills cost normal, Secondary cost double and Unrelated cost triple the desired skill level
Better yet, use this little table that I think I got right:

Desired  Char gen     XP
Skill        points      points
level        P/S/U       P/S/U
0            1/1/2       1/2/3
1            1/1/2       1/2/3
2            1/2/3       2/4/6
3            2/3/5       3/6/9
4            2/4/6       4/8/12
5            3/5/8       5/10/15
6            3/6/9       6/12/18
7            4/7/11     7/14/21
8            4/8/12     8/16/24

-Each level must be bought separately, rounded up, and you must spend all your points in each round of char gen or lose them.

-The prices stack; to go from nil to a level 3 primary skill in char gen it's not just 2 points, it'd be 1+1+1+2=5 points; to raise it to 4, then level 5 on another char gen round it'd be 2+3=5 more points.

-The rounds of char gen are separated by a roll of increasing difficulty: 1d10 + (determination/4 rounded down) against difficulty 2 on the first and second roll, 6 on the third, 10 on the fourth, 14 on the fifth and the sixth is an auto-fail.

-You can voluntarily stop the char gen at any moment, but if you continue and fail a roll there may be consequences (ask the GM for the resolution)

IMPORTANT NOTES!
-Game is starting On Doris, which is at the end of the Canadian finger inthe Chinese arm.
-Due to Throw Range being shockingly far to most peoples brains to comprehend, throw range is only strengthx2.

FIRST BLOODY IC POST IS HERE

[Maegil]

Can you host the rule book on some other cloud service like Mediafire or whatnot? Damn Google drive is phishing for my e-mail, and I refuse to volunteer any info on the internet.

[Sirus]

Posting to sign up and potentially play. I can't look at the rulebook at work so I'm afraid that's the best I can do for now.

[Aseaheru]

 I can try putting it in discord, but it may not be able to fit.

-edit-

Right, its on dropbox, link is in the discord. Also includes all the other books I could find.

[Maegil]

Bumping for more players.

[Aseaheru]

Thusfar we have three sheets in, From Stirk, Maegil, and Immaterial.

[Sirus]

Agh, I gotta take the time to read the rulebook a bit more.

Will try to get a sheet in later today.

[Maegil]

Beginners' tips:

-Follow the steps on the third column of the core book PDF page 17. They should have just started the damn chapter with that checklist.

-You can roll your stats on Discord, it's got the Sidekick dice bot. Use "/r 4d6-4 #texthere" for the main stats, "/r 1d10 #texthere" for almost everything else. You can also compare to a target number "/r 1d10+2>=6"

-Skills DO NOT start at zero, the first skill point you buy only allows you to familiarize. The progression starts at skill 0, and then 1.

-Read up on the careers, especially what skills they allow as Primary and Secondary to make the character as close as possible to your desired archetype.

-The normal skills cost 1/2 point on char gen, and a full point during play.
Primary skills cost normal, Secondary cost double and Unrelated cost triple the desired skill level
Better yet, use this little table that I think I got right:

Desired  Char gen     XP
Skill        points      points
level        P/S/U       P/S/U
0            1/1/2       1/2/3
1            1/1/2       1/2/3
2            1/2/3       2/4/6
3            2/3/5       3/6/9
4            2/4/6       4/8/12
5            3/5/8       5/10/15
6            3/6/9       6/12/18
7            4/7/11     7/14/21
8            4/8/12     8/16/24

-Each level must be bought separately, rounded up, and you must spend all your points in each round of char gen or lose them.

-The prices stack; to go from nil to a level 3 primary skill in char gen it's not just 2 points, it'd be 1+1+1+2=5 points; to raise it to 4, then level 5 on another char gen round it'd be 2+3=5 more points.

-The rounds of char gen are separated by a roll of increasing difficulty: 1d10 + (determination/4 rounded down) against difficulty 2 on the first and second roll, 6 on the third, 10 on the fourth, 14 on the fifth and the sixth is an auto-fail.

-You can voluntarily stop the char gen at any moment, but if you continue and fail a roll there may be consequences (ask the GM for the resolution)

I think that more or less covers it, if I forgot or got something wrong (very likely) please tell me so I can correct or add it.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Realized that I forgot to post here.

[Maegil]

Bumping for new players.

[Elvish Miner]

This looks fun. Sheet inbound eventually.

[Dwarmin]

Playing an old flunky game system? Sounds cool to me. Working on generating a sheet.

[Dwarmin]

@Aseaheru: Btw, I have connection problems with discord, do you trust me to roll my own stuff or should I have you do that?

I have been on these forums for quite a long time, played lots of games, just check my post history. I would hope I could be trusted not to cheat.

[Aseaheru]

 You can roll yerself. Discord is mostly for discussion and getting of material. Ill send you and Miner the additional materials that are available for use.

[Dwarmin]

Here's the stats of my completely randomly generated character, no bio/lore yet. I even rolled for starting homeworld.

Apparently, I'm an absolutely average German living on a penal colony world! I'm a bit on the weedy side, and I had no time for formal edumacation, but I did roll extremely high in determination, tho.

Also, I failed my 2nd turning point by rolling a natural 1 (lol), so that's def going to play into my characters bio. I figure he/she is your basic 'do whatever it takes' type. But being so utterly ordinary, except for an abundance of willpower would probably make them an cocky and overconfident person-I think they would believe they can do far in excess of what their skills might say. Irony that I failed that roll. Both my character and I didn't think we could possibly fail. :V

Incoming bad space cop.

Spoiler: Confidence (click to show/hide)

Bio
Homeworld: Frontier/Low-G
Bodytype: Normal

Physical Attributes
Size: 7
Strength: 7
Dexterity: 9
Endurance: 6

Psychological Attributes
Determination: 16
Intelligence: 9
Eloquence: 10
Education: 6

Background Skills
Mechanical 1, Ground Vehicle 2

Career
Started as Colonist
(Sidearm 1, Melee 2, Ground Vehicle 2, Sea Vehicle 1, Survival 2, First-aid 1, Swim 1, P-Suit 1)

Turning Point 2 Years

+2 Skill Points (Mechanical 1, Ground Vehicle 1)

Career change to Law Enforcement
(Sidearm 2, Melee 2, Streetwise 1, Ground Vehicle 2, Psychology 1, Stealth 1)

Turning Point 9 Years

+9 Skill Points (Sidearm 2, Combat Rifle 1, Interviewing 2, Psychology 1, Streetwise 2, Melee 1)

Failed 2nd Turning Point (lol)

Final Statistics
Mass: 71
Consciousness: 3
Life Level: 7
Encumbrance: 21
Throw Range: 14
Coolness Under Fire: 5

Nationality: German
Homeword: Dunkelheim
Languages: German, French

Age: 30
Money: Lv11,000

Eyesight: Average
Hearing: Average
Appearance: Plain

Finalized Skills (Total Skill points invested)
Ground Vehicle Lv.4 (2+2+1+2=7)
Melee Lv. 3 (2+2+1=5)
Sidearm Lv. 3 (1+2+2=5)
Mechanical Lv. 2 (1+1=2)
Streetwise Lv. 2
Psychology Lv. 1
Interviewing. Lv.1
Combat Rifleman Lv. 0
First-aid Lv. 0
Sea Vehicle Lv. 0
Swim Lv. 0
Stealth Lv 0
P-Suit Lv. 0

Spoiler: Equipment (click to show/hide)

Starting Cash
Lv11,000

Guscard FC70 Rifle (-220LV)
2x200 7.5mm round box (-4 LV)

Traylor Model 10 Riot Gun (-300LV)
1x100 18mm round box (-2 LV)

Rawling Redbird (-400 LV)
1x100 11.2mm round box (-5 LV)

Walther GSP (-325 LV)
2x200 9mm round box (-12 LV)

Quinn Optronics Restraint Carbine (-150 LV)
3x5 MJ LMS Cell (-15 LV)

High Threat Helmet (-20 LV)
Full Body Inertial Armor (-300 LV)
Inertial Armor Vest (-100 LV)

Backpack (-10 LV)
Respirator (-350Lv)
Photosensitive Goggles (-100 lv)
4xCompact Rations (-20 lv)
Biomonitor (-500lv)
Medkit (-500LV)
Hand Communicator (-50lv)

Biocontacts (-500lv)
Pentapod Direction Finder (Free!)

=
Lv7,118

...

lv.0=(1) 1
lv.1=(1) 2
lv.2=(1) 3
lv.3=(2) 5
lv.4=(2) 7