Recent content by anselyn

ECM? If the homing mechanism can be tricked then you're better off not using homing tech.

Seconded.

Your allegiance to a yet unfinished game is nice (and perhaps prescient) but if you'll take MgT2 whatever it is then I think you needn't be bothering to hang around perturbing the discussion of people trying to improve the game. Plus, putting an Edition Wars spin on any dissidence from your view...

Smart Weapons. Smart is used two ways in the rules. p75 Smart - weapon trait; p97 - smart fabrics (also smart plastics elsewhere). The weapons trait just as well be replaced by Homing - it is not used elsewhere in the rules. Homing: This weapon has intelligent or semi-intelligent rounds that...

Well, to a first approximation; yes. And my answer is - for shooters at the skilled end of the table (Total DM 1 or more) 50%/(1/2) Human-sized target: DM -2 (or one difficulty level harder) 25%/(1/4) Human-sized target: DM -4 (or two difficulty level harder) 12% (1/8) Human-sized target: DM...

And after a while to recover, some integration and fiddling about. If you assume that the probability to hit is a 2D Gaussian distribution with a probability P0 to hit a circular area A0, the the probability P to hit a circular area A is, P = 1- (1-Po)^(A/A0). This works as you'd expect. If...

Fair point. I did so as my reading of the rules was that as the move for a pop-up takes less time or effort than a "Changing Stance" minor action then it would be a free action. I could have classed it as a generic Movement (of 0m), which would also be a minor action - and probably a better...

I agree. Statements of design intent are useful. I think the sidebars in 13th Age along these lines are helpful and good. Also, the purist/pulp options in Trail of Cthulhu that allow you to tune the game to the genre that you want.

I agree - very hard to playtest by playing and only playing the RAWBeta. Equally, any house rule that everyone has being doing for RAW1 should probably just be a rule in RAWBeta. So - do share!

Are you sure your version of CT doesn't say Metamorphosis Alpha on the front? I think that CT was a very well written set of rules, written by professional game designers (GDW - founded June 22 1973 by designers already with experience at designing games, including educational roleplaying...

As a GM (especially a playtesting one) I don't want to have to make calls. I want the rules to be clear. Where I got this from is observation. In films/cop shows shooters lean out from hiding by slightly altering their stance in order to take a pop-up shot. They often do not fully stand (from a...

[Order changed in reply] I agree that that is the current written rules. However, I think that we don't want Traveller rules that exist only to perfectly replicate Traveller. The rules have to pass two checks: (a) Do they give a satisfying game by having the right of game detail, the right...

I assume it would be DMs to the value of the Effect that can be distributed to anyone being lead who is in contact with the Leader. As to stacking, the DM could be +n, but any character can only have one leader in a situation. Didn't a previous version of Traveller have a rule like this? I...

Ok - this may sound like a dumb question. But: What is aiming - or perhaps - where is aiming in the logical process of the rules? After all, who shoots at someone without aiming the gun at them? There must be some aiming in every shot. So, where and when does aiming occur. If we think of a...

I agree that smaller areas are harder to hit. Back to shooting cats again .... or womp rats, I guess.