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Azhais posted:AC/2s on tabletop are pretty anemic. The HBS game definitely made it seem cooler than it generally is that's why you bring ten ultra-ac/2s 
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And all those AC/2s still can't do what a pair of HGRs can, even if you crank the fire rate.
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Alright so two of the three kids showed up, mechs they chose to start with. Blackjack (BJ-1) Enforcer (Standard version) Griffin (C) Locust or Wasp Centurion CN9-A Assassin ASN-21 They're dragging their feet on picking a company name, sigil, or making their pilots, I gave them til next session to do that. First mission they chose was a straight up battle against a pirate lance. Skull difficulty 1. They've got 100 Resource Points for their starting budget, and this mission can pay them forty. Forced withdrawal rules in effect. Every turn they have to pay salaries, mech maintenance, in addition to any structure repair. Every session they're going to get a random roleplaying event. Just minor stuff like crewmembers fighting, bargains on a new planet, etc.. Serious answers only, what should the first roleplaying scenario be? Crazy Joe Wilson fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Jan 10, 2024 |
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Jan 10, 2024 18:03
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Local official tries to shake them down for a bribe.
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Jan 10, 2024 18:16
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Shady scavengers try to offload their junk on the company (they'll scam the players into buying a bunch of malfunctioning small lasers, but if the group is savvy enough they could haggle for something actually useful)
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:Every session they're going to get a random roleplaying event. Just minor stuff like crewmembers fighting, bargains on a new planet, etc.. Serious answers only, what should the first roleplaying scenario be? Star crossed romance: One of the astechs has eloped with a local. They insist they not be separated and they be allowed to leave and live on the dropship; this is true love.
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Jan 10, 2024 18:30
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Pull from the events in the HBS game: Two pilots get into it over heritage/nobility. Someone finds questionable foodstuffs. An offer for some Lostech seemingly too good to be true. A close simpod match turns sour after two pilots arguing if the winning move is viable IRL comes to blows. There's a ton of them that could be easily adapted.
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Jan 10, 2024 18:31
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do the triple f burger one for sure. I also like the "jinxed" one, implying in the bt universe there's literal animist magic to the gear and comstar is kind of right.
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Owlbear Camus posted:do the triple f burger one for sure. It's less that they're kind of right and more that the writers kinda like to keep that stuff ambiguous but then also have things like the Phantom Mech ability.
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Amechwarrior posted:Pull from the events in the HBS game: Definitely going to do that, just want more ideas so they don't get too stale. Thanks everybody for the ideas. That bribe one could be really cool, turn into an extra battle that session.
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Bar fight in a local tavern: - deescalate the situation (pay for damages) - fight it out (chance of medbay time)
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The classic back when I played table top in HS 100 years ago was finding a piece of Star League gear. Stress from how to decide which mech gets the cool toy, plus bonus sadness coming when it gets wrecked, which it always seems to.
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Your technicians attend a continuing education session run by a university campus heavily infiltrated by ComStar agents. Now all the techs are trying to apply the principles of Blakist thought to their normal duties. Do you: - spend c-bills and lose time and morale sending them to deprogrammers? - carefully avoid the mech bay and just hope your mechs get refitted and repaired? - convert all members of the company to Blakism in a mistranslated ritual involving a screwdriver and hydraulic fluid?
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Junior Enlisted Never Change: One of the ground security forces troops has purchased a Durandel-British "Blue Nova" Convertible at 25% APR from an unscrupulous dealership near the base. Now nearly his whole salary goes to the car note and he's bumming personal loans off the other staff. You're not even sure what his plan is with the thing when this contract ends and you're skids up offworld (assuming, charitably, it doesn't get repoed); surely he doesn't think he's loading it onto the Leopard?
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Gimmick Poster posted:Your technicians attend a continuing education session run by a university campus heavily infiltrated by ComStar agents. Now all the techs are trying to apply the principles of Blakist thought to their normal duties. Do you: Sadly this campaign will take place in 3145 as the kids wanted to use ALL of their 'mechs potentially, including Clan stuff, so Comstar is dead. Maybe I can have a neo-Blakist show up screaming about toasters though. I do plan on using special high-tech weapons that they can find or buy to give them +damage, since we're playing AS.
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A nest of adorable space raccoons has been found in the left hand actuator of the Centurion. How did they get there? Who knows. They are trainable but intensely mischievous.
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A lost centuries regressed tribal band witnessed a mech engagement and decided that your mechs are gods and build cargo cult wood mechs of their own. they are harmless but overbearing in their praise and prayer to the brain men who live in the heads of the steel gods
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Owlbear Camus posted:A lost centuries regressed tribal band witnessed a mech engagement and decided that your mechs are gods and build cargo cult wood mechs of their own. *cue Smugworth sweating like a pig in his underwear in a Mad Cat* "Yes I am one of the brain men"
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I would be a powerful yet benevolent god to them
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Irl lol
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Owlbear Camus posted:A lost centuries regressed tribal band witnessed a mech engagement and decided that your mechs are gods and build cargo cult wood mechs of their own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QgOwuVdVJU
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Your client's rival offers you a deal to backstab them. Either it pays out or the angry client hires another mercenary company to come after you.
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A client offers an off-the-books contract to act as a Red Force to test unit readiness of one of their planetary garrisons in an exercise. Hiring you through Merc Net could tip off the defending forces and this is a "surprise inspection" to probe defenses and look for weaknesses. Once you start taking live fire it's clear your contact wasn't actually representing the client, but one of their rivals. E: I guess this is more a mid-mission twist than a simple roleplay interlude. Owlbear Camus fucked around with this message at 06:04 on Jan 11, 2024 |
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Owlbear Camus posted:do the triple f burger one for sure. That kind of thing isn't necessarily magic, it's just genre conventions, that this character is the one who suffers the slapstick gags and gets the O'Brien plots. But there's a problem with a lot of players assuming that TRPG rules are a physics engine simulating the setting rather than, y'know, the rules of a game.
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This took a few moments
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Just want to say that even my girlfriend loves this one.
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BT universe canonically has magic because of Morgan Kell and that one Kuritan who can bushido their mechs into being straight up untargetable.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:That kind of thing isn't necessarily magic, it's just genre conventions, that this character is the one who suffers the slapstick gags and gets the O'Brien plots. But there's a problem with a lot of players assuming that TRPG rules are a physics engine simulating the setting rather than, y'know, the rules of a game. The game event has multiple professionals observe in universe the character loving up electronics and mechanical devices by proximity, and quarantining them puts a stop to it. I think the RNG can even serve that one up more than once making the results repeatable. Amusingly there's not even a "grow up there's no such thing as jynxes (ignore it) option.
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GD_American posted:Depending on how hard science you want to go, oceans may have different chemical compositions and may not even be made of water. Even our oceans are basically a corrosive battery that's constantly trying to destroy what we build. https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Kraken_Unleashed
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Assuming humans tend to settle on worlds with Earth-like climates, possibly even terraforming them to spec, it actually would make sense that most of those would have seas and oceans similar to Earth's.
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It's nearly all earthlike or at least earth adjacent. I can think of one planet that was hostile enough that the residents had to live in domes, but that's it. The reason I think conventional navy is silly is because of aerospace fighters. Real world navies have diminished in importance except for their ability to project air power. There's no need for them when you can launch fighters from orbit and the fighters don't need fuel.
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And the dome planet, which iirc had an acidic atmosphere, is no longer habitable because some jerk smashed the domes.
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:It's nearly all earthlike or at least earth adjacent. I can think of one planet that was hostile enough that the residents had to live in domes, but that's it. In their defense, the one blue water carrier that we have stats for carries 140 planes, even a Thera can't match that capacity.
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MRC48B posted:And the dome planet, which iirc had an acidic atmosphere, is no longer habitable because some jerk smashed the domes. Seems like a particularly obvious weakness of a dome planet. I would simply colonize an already habitable planet, but I'm built different.
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