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[theweaselking]

I am at work, and have nothing to do.

AMUSE me. Go, my loyal minions. Find for me things on this great inter-web thing that are work-safe, interesting to spend time on, and that I have not yet seen.

I await your responses with bated breath. If I don't get some good stuff, I'm going to turn blue, and nobody wants that. It would clash with my shirt.

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[dolston.livejournal.com]

Starting planning stuff for B-Tech game. I got my books.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Eeeeexcellent.

What am I planning? Character, history, unit? Do I get to pick a mech, and if so, what restrictions (weight, year, customisability, BV, fluff) are on it? Or are players running multiple mechwarriors as a commander?

Running it TT or over Megamek - and LAN or WAN? Any changes or special rules you'd like in Megamek if that's the way you want things to go?

[dolston.livejournal.com]

Good question. I don't think MegaMek handles "Edge" very well. The general idea I have is a Reg Force Cappellan unit starting a couple of years before the Clan Invasion. Will need to find four players total. Customized units not so much. The unit will likely be a pretty standard mix of lights and mediums.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Megamek doesn't handle "Edge" at all, and it's really difficult to make it do so properly. However, by redefining Edge (spend it to not die from a deadly head hit, spend one to have your ammo-boomed mech out for the fight but salvagable as if it had CASE in that section, etc) - basically, give it slightly more powerful uses that only come up post-battle - it could be done. Also, with the "PC" as lance commander and several units under his control, Edge is much less necessary.

Worst case, I can custom-build Megamek to give each pilot Edge, and an *automatic* system for using it. Head hit that will kill you? Spend Edge to reroll a die. TAC on enemy came up 6+1? Spend Edge automatically to reroll the 1. You wouldn't be able to alter specific results, but you could automatically spend Edge when specific circumstances came up and note in the log that Edge has been spent.

This could also be configurable, per pilot, so pilot A could use his Edge only offensively (he LOVES TACs, and rerolls non-head punch locs) while pilot B doesn't care if you die as long as he doesn't - and if I got Nathan to give me a little bit of a hand, I could make it configurable during the fire phase of each round.

But if I wanted to invent a pilot with a standard Capellan mech (I'm thinking Vindicator, really - I love those things) that would be fine, right?

[dolston.livejournal.com]

Pretty much. However, the PCs will be the lance.

I love eggs....

[musique174.livejournal.com]

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