Hidden rule, crouching facepalm

[Adm.Lee]

I made it kind of easy for them in the last game, I told them to make up 1 combat-arms character and 1 support character. That meant that finding wrecks wasn't a problem.

It was sort of self-correcting, half the combat characters got shot early on, and were ineffective for most of the campaign. This was a v2 game, by the way. The kids also figured out to make Str the highest ability, to aid in shooting. In hindsight, I should have also made them roll in order.

In v1, I found that everyone had so many skill points available, it wasn't hard to cover a lot of bases (one of my few quibbles with v1). I remember in particular one character named "Mr. Fifty"-- the player wanted to see how many skills he could set at 50% and no higher. He was pretty capable, but I forget what the number was. I think he even was a SEAL officer, but that might have been a different PC from the same player

I do remember that in v1, once skills went over 50, the points were cut in half.

[pmulcahy11b]

I used to like to make up weird characters -- the reactor metallurgist, the psychiatrist, the war reporter, the motocross champion (made a good scout), the Olympic biathlon skier.

[Panther Al]

Heh...


Always missed that one too.

My favourite character was one who while, yes, did have that stupid high Small Arms Skill, I moved from Combat Arms after a few terms. Basicly, I was rolling like a loon during the whole generation process. Stupidly high attributes, and really lucky rolls on rank, and war term. After the 3rd term of Special Ops, I made him a supply guy - for another 3 terms and then the War Term. Old Codger: Ran him as that Crusty Veteran Scrounger, who let all those younger guys do all the fighting while he took care of the gear. Since he had more cash than you could shake a stick at, I made a deal with the GM: I got a Ambulance Humvee made out to be his private office/hooch on wheels, stocked with about any item you could wish that wasn't combat usable. Needless to say, loaded with things like stoogies, coffee, pressed uniforms... always looked like he came right out of an advert, always with the best of anything.

Of course, those first three terms came in handy now and then as he would occasionally pull out something really weird (Like that old German Anti Tank rifle from the small arms book) and take shots that boggled the imagination.

Was a lot of fun.

[jester]

Yeah, I missed that the first five years, no worries.