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Battlestar
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| Hey guys sorry I've been away its been crazy around here lately. Also I haven't really started the KOTOR book so your welcome to it, if you need any help though don't hesitate to ask. |
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KageRyu
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| Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Rahl Jynco wrote: | | I know this is a little off topic, but have any of you tried making any conversions of other games to work with the SW D6 system? I'm looking at converting Rifts over to D6. Just wondering if anyone has already thought of it and had made something, this seemed to be the type of group to ask. |
Now that D6 is in a new format I am converting a lot of my older game material over to it, slowly. I am soon going to be starting a few new campaigns using the mixed D6 Adventure and Space rules. For now, though, My primary D6 is still Star Wars.
As for Rifts to D6...in my opinion Rifts is just way too imbalanced to begin with (one of the many reasons I don't play it any longer). They have some great artwork, and some of the background ideas are neat (not all though), but the game stats and mechanics are just completely hinky. IMHO converting such a system to D6 would be doing a great dis-service to D6. To convert it I would recomend just using the background, and throwing out about all of the stats, and rewriting them in D6 from the ground up, with much more balance (I mean, a guy in power armor who can withstand as much damage as a capital ship? really now, come on. And let's not even talk about the handgun that levels city blocks...).
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Rahl Jynco
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| Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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See thats exactly want I plan on doing, Killing the MDC (God mode) and converting everything over. Basically using the equipment and vehicles converted over to D6 while trying to keep some sort of closeness in the stats. For example mabey SAMAS power armor might be under Speeder or walker scale with a 4D hull, just picking numbers off the top of my head. I've been throwing the idea around in my head for a long time, D6 is such an easy system and Rifts is a very very complicated system which I think is what keeps it from being, well, fun.
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Gry Sarth
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Joined: 25 May 2004
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| Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 11:23 am Post subject: |
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Just thought I'd let you guys know that I have started work on my 5th book: Droids Stats. I've finished the primary gathering of pictures and am now in the process of typing up all of WEG's stats. This will take a while, though it seems this book might be smaller than Vehicles Stats.
Here's a sneak peek at the covers:
http://community.webshots.com/photo/371943938/440107390tWFybu
If you have anything you think I should know about, send it in.
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gollummen
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Joined: 18 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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Looking good Gry Sarth!
We are looking forward to another great source book. |
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ambrose82
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| Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Hey Gry. Love the other books so I'm glad to see you picking this one up as well. I was thinking about doing it, but looks like you've got it covered, so I'll just leave it to your capable hands! |
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ambrose82
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| Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:28 pm Post subject: Clone Wars Sourcebook |
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So, here's an update on the CW sourcebook I've been working on.
Right now I'm in the "info gathering stage" I've got a few timelines to work with and I'm working on the "history" of the wars. Fortunately, most of the major characters, vehicles, ships and such have already been stated as conversions from the "other" version of the Star Wars RPG. So there won't be too much work in that arena.
Mostly, I want to create a true sourcebook feel by providing history and background info, general organizational information on both armies, lists and stats for planets and partisan forces(if not already available) and also a summary of all the major battles. I'd like to toss in some "fiction" and a series of adventure hooks and maybe a few adventure ideas.
So, I'm compiling lists of all the nouns involved in the story. I'll post a list when I have the extra time... |
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Gry Sarth
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| Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 12:53 am Post subject: |
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Update on Droids Stats:
Ugh!! Finally finished typing up all of WEG's stats. That was more work than I expected....
I just HATE it when they give us just those very small and incomplete stats for a droid, and not even a picture to accompany it. Or worse yet, when the picture doesn't match the stats, like the stats saying the droid has treads and the pic has legs. And then there are those cases where two books use the exact same picture for different droids. Agh!
Oh well... moving on to d20 now....
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ambrose82
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Gry,
Was researching some stuff for Clone Wars and came across 2 droids listed in some literature (Incredible Cross Sections, I think). The LAAT/i republic gunship and AT-TE carry a IM-6 Battlefield medical droid. Do you have stats for this droid? Also, the FX-4 pilot droid for the Geonosian Solar Sailer. These two are of interest to me if you've got them handy. |
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Gry Sarth
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Thanks for the heads up. I was aware of the Pilot droid, which I think is actually called FA-4, got a nice full body picture of it. Will try to come up with some stats for it. However I know nothing of this IM-6 medical droid, do you have a link for any info on it or something? A pic?
Almost finished with the Arms & Equipment Guide conversions....
PS. The official site says this about the JN-66 analysis droid seen in the Ep2 cut scene:
| Quote: | | These mechanicals possess many of the same components as their less sophisticated PK-unit cousins, and are shipped standard with empty logic ports and sensor-cradles to allow for easy modification and customization. Much of the framework also serves Cybot Galactica's IM-6 series of field medicine droid. |
So I guess they're pretty similar....
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Gry Sarth
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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Hummm.. I wonder if the IM-6 is actually Padme´s "she's lost the will to live" droid from Ep3. It's actually quite similar to the JN-66.
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ambrose82
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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It's referenced in the "Attack of the Clones: Incredible Cross-section" book. There is no picture of it that I know of. In the book it is stated that both the LAAT/i and the AT-TE carry them in storage lockers. Beyond that, I don't have anything "hard" to point to. I'll do more research...
ok. According to http://www.theforce.net/swtc/exhibit/it0.html The IM-6 looks a lot like the interrogator droid from ANH. |
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Gry Sarth
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, I saw that one as well. However I don't think it's accurate anymore, considering what the official site says about it. I think the IM-6 is probably just similar to the IT-0 in that it's small, repulsorlift guided and has medical instruments appendages.
I'd say the IM-6 is pretty much identical to the JN-66, only with medical equipments attached to its arms.
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Gry Sarth
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Droid Stats update:
Finally finished with all of the official RPG info (both d6 and d20). Now it's on for the murky territory of the web for some elusive things, home-made stats and whatnot....
I'm having a very hard time deciding how I'm going to organize all these droids in the book. What I though was to categorize by degree. 1st Degree droid, 2nd Degree, up to 5th Degree. And then add a last chapater with Individual droids, such as Artoo or 4-LOM.
Just to make things clear, this is roughly what the degrees mean:
1-Science droids. Medics, mathematicians, accountants and so on.
2-Tech droids. Astromechs, repair droids and such.
3-Human relations droids. Protocol, servants, valet droids.
4-Battle droids. Military, security, assassin droids.
5-Labor droids. Loaders, cleaners, scouts, etc.
After typing up all of the droids in both d6 and d20, I see that this system is quite messy. First of all I don't agree with some of WEG's categorizing, mostly done by Cynabar's. I mean, Viper Probe Droid and M38 Explorer are 2nd degree, Mouse droid is 3rd degree.... it just seems wrong. Then comes Wizards and contradicts a lot of WEG's categorizing, what one says is a 1st degree droid, becomes a 5th degree droid in the other. Some of these changes I agree with, some I don't.
I'm starting to consider scrapping the whole Degree system and just categorize it like it's done on d20's Arms and Equipment Book: Repair Droids, Protocol Droids, Military Droid, Cleaning Droids, and so on....
And THEN, there's also the issue of where to stick the individual droids, which are quite a lot. Some of them are just modified versions of models for which there are stats for the stock version, others are the sole representative of a model. Some of them are droids that crossed categories, like Protocol droids who became assassins, etc. So, what to do...... any input is welcome.
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Grimace
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| Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 9:22 am Post subject: |
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My opinion...keep the degrees, but plug each droid in where you think it should go. Get rid of the things you think are inconsistant, but at least keep the degrees of droids so those of us that use them can still do so.
I like your idea of including the "specific" droids, like 3P0, Artoo, 4LOM and such at the end of the book. That way you don't have a stat for a protocol droid followed immediately by the stas of 3PO. Plus, what people will use the base stats for is for either purchasing droids to be property of the PCs, or for a player to play a droid, so you don't want the uniquely modified droids being listed and possibly mistaken as a regular droid.
Can't wait to see the stuff you make.
BTW, are you putting anything in there for maintenance and cleaning of droids, or is this just going to be a baseline "these are the droids" stat type of book? |
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