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Title: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (Blastoff! here goes)
Post by: Aigre Excalibur on December 03, 2015, 10:53:05 am

The Early 21st Century, the world faces an escalating UFO invasion.

This is a minimalist mission based RTD, with a focus on repetitive, short, brutal missions with clear objectives. Cartography and layout of each mini-scenario will be in the form of a simple flowchart or graph. The teams will move from area to area to clear out the enemy and achieve their objectives. The focus will also be on ER style infantry combat.

The enemy aliens possess both aggression and initiative. They will actively respond to the player teams, attempt to ambush them and/or cut off their lines of retreat. It is entirely possible for the enemy to achieve first strikes and initiate combat with opening kills on the player group despite the players having "done nothing wrong".

Wiki with game info: http://rtdufodefense.wikia.com/wiki/RTDUFODefense_Wikia (http://rtdufodefense.wikia.com/wiki/RTDUFODefense_Wikia)

Character Creation Template:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Pvt Yegor Smirnov
Age: 32 ((Well... The current year was never specified. ))
Gender: Male
Nationality: Ex-Soviet
Role or Previous Occupation: Paratrooper
Bio/Appearance, etc.: Yegor is a grim and fatalistic young man. Born and having served in Soviet Union, he could never quite come to terms with its dissolution. But now, with the danger of alien invasion threatening the whole Earth, he rallied to the call, hoping to finally find peace of the mind - or, if needed, peace of the grave. "Nobody but us" as they say in the Air-Borne Corps.

Stats:
Strength:     +1
Dexterity:    +0
Endurance:    +2
Charisma:     -1
Mind:         +0
Fate:         -1
Intuition:    -2

Skills:
Explosives:   +0
Con. Weapons: +2
Melee Skill:  +1
Psychism:     -2
Auxiliary:    +0
Medical tech: +0
Science:      -2

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Name: Commissar Leonardo Roland Jean Kane
Age: 80
Gender: Male
Nationality: Soviet Politburo
Role or Previous Occupation: Commissar and voice of the people.
Bio/Appearance, etc.: A old soldier of questionable Unshakable sanity. He has come out of retirement to rid the earth of alien scum. He appears to be wearing an old soviet commissar's uniform with a bear-skin greatcoat and a tall fur hat. In his early life, he was an American Marine who defected to Mother Russia to embrace freedom from bourgeois pigs.

Stats:
Strength:     -2
Dexterity:    0
Endurance:    -1
Charisma:     2
Mind:         1
Fate:         -1
Intuition:    0

Skills:
Explosives:   1
Con. Weapons: 1
Melee Skill:  1
Psychism:     -2
Auxiliary:    0
Medical tech: -2
Science:      0

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Character stats: Mostly the same as ER. Distributed the same way too. Just use the existing stat calculator to roll out characters.
You start with 0 in everything
+1 levels means -1 elsewhere.
Every increase costs an additional -1

Strength: Used for heavy lifting and hitting.
Dexterity: Rolling to dodge, etc.
Endurance: Surviving damage and effects.
Charisma: Used for some mind skills, also used to influence teammates' rolls against morale checks
Mind: used to resist and inflict psychic skills. Also affects personal morale checks
Fate: Fate
Intuition: May come in vital for sensing that ambush and warning the team.

Skills:
Explosives: Replaces Handiwork. Roll to not blow yourself up. Also used for setting traps and improvising weapons.
Conventional Weapons: Roll to shoot
Melee Skill: Replaces uncon in ER. Roll to brawl.
Psychism: Not quite like exotic weapons. It's like trying to use your brain without an amp.
Auxiliary: Skill with Robots, vehicles, computer systems.
Medical tech: What it says on the can.
Science: Replaces General Knowledge. Affects retrieval and experimentation on alien artifacts and prisoners.

Ranged Weapon modifiers:

Weapon ranges: Range bonuses and penalties are applied at
Close-Combat (CQB) range, which covers melee and close-in room to room fighting.
Short-Range - About the distance of your average pistol practice range, 20m or less.
Bushfighting range - Around 20 to 100m, most assault carbines are designed for this.
Medium range - Standard Assault Rifle range, from 100 to 300 meters. Said to be the ideal infantry range in open combat when fog of war is considered.
Long Range - Anything above 300m, which is the limit of what the human eye can see and hit accurately with iron sights under battlefield conditions.
Extreme range - The kind of ranges that require special optics to fight at.

Pistols: Range bonuses are: +1, 0, -2, -4, -infinity, -infinity
Submachine guns: Range bonuses are 0, +1, -1, -3, -5, - infinity
Carbines: Range bonuses are -1, 0, +1, -2, -4, -infinity
Assault Rifles: Bonuses are -2, -1, 0, 0, -2, -4
Battle Rifles: Bonuses are: -3, -2, -1, 0, -1, -2

Starting Armory:
The science stat is also meant to be used for gathering specimens properly and using materials safely for research.

Guns:
We get some standard 21st Century tech. Anything more has to be invented using alien stuff and SCIENCE. We also start with a hangover of US Military Surplus M16s. Other types of 21st century guns will have to be acquired more expensively by player request. Other guns can also be designed and researched.

M1911A - Fires .45ACP weighing 15g at 252m/s with 952 joules of energy. 1.1 Kg unloaded. About 1.6kg Loaded with 8 rounds.
Colt RO365 SMG 9mm NATO - THE SMG of the M16 family. Fires 9mm Parabellum weighing 7.45g at 396 m/s with a total energy of 584 joules. Around 3kg Loaded.
M4 Carbine - Shorterned version of the M16 family. A muzzle velocity of 880m/s gives it an energy of 1394 joules. 3.4kg Loaded.
M16A2 - Fires 5.56mm NATO rounds weighing 3.6g each at 990m/s with 1764 j of muzzle energy. Total weight of 4kg with magazine. 0.75kg per loaded 30 round magazine.
M14 - Fires 7.62mm NATO rounds weighing 10g each at 840m/s with 3528 joules of muzzle energy. Weighs 5.2kg loaded. 1.1kg per 20 round magazine.

First Sidearm is free. Everything else is $1000 each. Standard Ball rounds sold at $2 each. Hollow Points and FMJ at $3 Each. Empty Magazines at #50 each.
Hydroshock rounds - $20 each. A hollow point round optimized for maximum fluidic shock on top of bullet expansion.
Soft-nose Jacketed rounds (SNJ) - $20 each. A compromise between FMJ and Hollow point that is actually effective in bringing out the cover-penetrating qualities of FMJ and the bullet expansion effects of hollow points.
Hardened penetrator rounds - $50 each. Usually heat-treated steel of some sort as a bullet penetrator. Can over-penetrate most personal armors.

Gun accessories and Optics sold separately...
Reflex optics - a magic dot that followers the aiming point of the gun no matter what angle you look at it at. Works brilliantly at short ranges. The refractive qualities of the lens might still gimp your ability to judge range and drop at any substantial distance.
Red Dot - A little red dot for fast target acquisition.
Magnifications of various powers.
Also combi-scops and variable zoom scopes.
Other accessories include foregrips, slings, underslung weapons, lights and lasers, silencers, bayonet mounts, receiver modifications, magazine modifications...

Melee:
An overhead swing produces in excess of 120 joules. Most slashing actions are between 80-100 joules. Most thrusting actions are from 60 joules.
M9 Bayonet - 12cm handle, 18 cm blade. about 200 grams.
VTAC Tomahawk - light hatchet, about 1kg. Performs like a fire-axe. Good against doors.
Functional Modern Longswords/katanas - What it says on the can. Made from tough heat treated steel (that still performs nothing like swords made from hand-made tempering) - Anything from 2-5 kg.
Military Machettes are also available.

Explosives: Come in Frag, HE and Chemical.
M203 GL - fires 40mm grenades up to 400m. (150m effective) 1.36 kg unloaded.
M72 LAW - 2.5kg launcher with 1.8 kg rocket. Maximum range of 1000m, (165-200m effective) 250mm RHA penetration.
AT4 6.7 kg disposable launcher - Max 2000m effective 500m. Comes in a variety of warheads including High Explosive, armor piercing, HEAT and bunker-busting variants.
M18A1 Claymore - anti personnel mine, 1.6kg. Fires 700 1/8 inch steel balls at 1200 m/s.
Composition-4: Fairly stable plastic explosive. Comes in 0.57 kg blocks. Requires Blasting Caps to detonate. Has a yield of 6.7 MJ/kg.
Fragmentation Grenade
Thermite grenade
Smoke grenades - comes in pretty colors too.

Prices to be decided.

Psychism: Just listing skills.
Mindscrew - Mindfray equivalent. Just drives target crazy - Difficulty 1
Healing - What it says on the can - Difficulty 1
Battle Meditation - Like the Jedi Equivalent, buffs the squad - Difficulty 2
Panic Enemy - What it says on the can - Difficulty 2
Kinesis - Blasts target with kinetic energy - Difficulty 3
Pyrosis - Sets things on fire - Difficulty 3
Barriers - It's like an energy shield, unknown effectiveness against bullets for now. Difficulty 4
Mental Domination - Tries to really mindscrew the target and possibly control it - Difficulty 4
Open Portal - Doesn't really screw with physics, but blurs the barriers between dimensions to cause area of effect panic effects.

Auxiliary:
Fibre-optics visual cable - for viewing round corners/doors
Field Radio - Wireless communication pack. Very bulky. Can be jammed.
Non-Wireless Radio - Used in some urban operations when jamming and normal radios don't cut it. Wires can be physically cut.
Encoding and Decoding Machines - Protects your communications from snooping alien spies.
Field PDAs/Laptops. - Lets you surf the internet and play solitare.
Gun Cameras - A camera attached to a fire-arm or launcher to facilitate blind-firing. The recoil will still produce interesting effects when firing this way though.
assorted drones, exoskeletons and stuff to be researched/designed by players.

Medical:
Anti-shock Meds
Painkillers
Clotting agents
big pack of gauze
tourniquets
chest seals
steroids
a scalpel
alchohol based disinfectant
assorted needles
tape
cloth and slings

All drugs sold at $50 per dose. Miscellaneous first aid items sold at #50 for 3 units.

Armor and apparel:
Battle Dress Uniform - Standard heavy fabrid uniform made from 50% nylon,, 50% cotton. Gives some kind of protection from the elements and padding for strenuous activity. Free
Tactical Rigging - Carries up to 10 ammunition pouches or other items. Free
Parachutes - For dropping out of the sky to land on things or even hijack UFOs. $250 each
Reserve Parachutes - In case of chute failure due to weather or AA fire. $250 each.
Wingsuits - Fancy skydiving uniform. For precision paradrops.

Interceptor Armor - A suit of Kevlar fibers with Ceramic Ballistic Plates 2kg for a full suit of kevlar. 2kg for each front and back plate. 1 kg for each thigh and shin plate. 10kg total. $4000 for a whole suit. $1500 for just kevlar.
Dragonskin Armor - The most hyped armor in the world, made from titanium alloy plates. 2kg vest. 6 kg for a suit that includes thigh and leg coverage and a coif. $6000 for the vest. $15000 for a suit.
Advanced Combat Helmet - Kevlar and Twaron fiber helmet. Somewhat stops bullets and shrapnel. $200, 1kg.


Some Tactical concepts:
Cover - Soldiers are drawn to cover. You shouldn't be caught in the open unless moving quickly or through deliberate stupidity.
Posture - If you find yourself in a perfect firing position, you aren't using cover properly. Rolling to dodge will also let your character prone. You will also prone if caught in the open to somewhat increase your survival chances.
Blind-firing - Spraying bullets in the general direction of the enemy is somewhat feasible.
Suppression - receiving fire lowers the target's morale and performance. But if you're not dead, returning fire will also have the same effect on your shooter. Spraying the enemy constantly keeps them from getting a good hit on you.
Flanking - is only possible if the map diagram allows it. So you're fairly safe in corridor looking flowchart sections. God help you in a labyrinth style kill house.
Weapon Failure - low but distinct possibility. (not 1 in 6, don't worry.) Your average M16 type weapon has a reliability rate of about 600 rounds, or a 1 in 600 chance of jamming. (Kalashnikovs are known to achieve failure rates of more than 1500)
Morale - Besides direct psychic attack, wounds, teammates dying, being surprised, suppressed and other stuff can result in player-characters making mind rolls to go into shock. Team-mates can make charisma rolls to help other teammates. Also, panic is contagious.

When in doubt, empty the magazine.
Ammo is cheap. But brain preservation tech is non-existent in this era. If you take a serious wound, you could be perma-dead.
The noisiest weapons always look the most powerful.

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (still a bit under constuctionish)
Post by: syvarris on December 03, 2015, 07:50:32 pm

Okay, first, this seems interesting, but is this subforum really the place for it?  Under the rules that it was originally created with, it wasn't supposed to be for any game aside from ER.  The other stuff like DMR only slides through on account of being in the same universe as ER.  I'd think it would be better to do this in the Roll To Dodge subforum, and just post a notice in ER OOC.

Secondly, will this game be at least somewhat conducive to a sniper?

Thirdly, how realistic will it be, as far as combat?  On one hand, you have muzzle energy listed, but on the other, melee combat is a skill.  Will there be some reason melee combat is useful?

Lastly, just a suggestion, but add a difficulty 0 psychic power of "message" or "empathy" or something, which lets people communicate with nearby people who they're familiar with.  That way, we can actually talk to each other and coordinate, and there will be much less worry of OOC abuse.  I'm thinking of this primarily because it's useful to a sniper who's going to be hundreds of meters away from his team most of the time.

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (still a bit under constuctionish)
Post by: Aigre Excalibur on December 04, 2015, 02:19:12 am

At the start of the game, I want to try to simulate 21st century combat, which would mean a somewhat gun dominated battlefield at first unless alien inflence changes the nature of fighting and forces more melee weapons to redevelop.

Fights could still degenerate to melee with the enemy on top of the players. Particularly if we introduce melee oriented enemies or some kind of honor cult caste.

Snipers should still work, maybe the players could develop gear to make them more adaptable to close range sharpshooting on top of long range camping.

I expect players to take the meta to the max. Communications would affect stuff like calling home base for backup or a rescue.

I'll think about moving that ic thread. Meanwhile I'm happy to bounce ideas around in here.

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (still a bit under constuctionish)
Post by: AoshimaMichio on December 04, 2015, 03:18:29 am

Don't wanna sound like an annoying police, but what part of the game is related to ER? ERverse doesn't even have psychic powers (as far as I know, hence amps).

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (still a bit under constuctionish)
Post by: Egan_BW on December 04, 2015, 01:07:04 pm

Can we have shotguns?

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (still a bit under constuctionish)
Post by: Radio Controlled on December 04, 2015, 01:22:05 pm

Quote from: AoshimaMichio on December 04, 2015, 03:18:29 am

Don't wanna sound like an annoying police, but what part of the game is related to ER? ERverse doesn't even have psychic powers (as far as I know, hence amps).

I have to agree. It sounds fun enough, but what is the link with ER? Perhaps,it should be moved to regular rtd board (toady can move threads around I think).

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (still a bit under constuctionish)
Post by: Aigre Excalibur on December 05, 2015, 10:59:36 pm

It's related to ER only cos I copied most of the game engine. It's en experiment to take the combat side of Piecewise's system to the max. I'll see to moving or starting a proper thread in the rtd board then.

As for shotguns, I plan to make it something that players will request for specifically. You can acquire any 21st century small arms by asking for the specific model. Tooling for armory mass production will be a different issue. And players are also encourage to modify existing gear or research new ones.

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (still a bit under constuctionish)
Post by: AoshimaMichio on December 06, 2015, 03:02:09 am

The game engine ER uses is piecewise's brain. Can't copy that.  8)

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (still a bit under constuctionish)
Post by: Nikitian on December 06, 2015, 11:56:05 am

Hmmm. Considering joining (depends on whether I have the time), got a couple of questions:

What is the (implied, even if minimalistic) backstory for our military unit? Are we private military contractors, or are we governmental program? Is the unit specifically USA-originating (based on the weapons selection), or is it international, in the glorious X-Com tradition?
In addition: do the assorted grenade launchers use Con or Exp to shoot? ER logic suggests Con, but then ER's explosives are Uncon and projectile-explosives are listed among Con weapons, so I'm not sure here.

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (still a bit under constuctionish)
Post by: Aigre Excalibur on December 07, 2015, 02:03:21 am

Todo:
Move/start proper i/c thread.

Rethink encumberance. I want over-encumbered armored soldiers running around, but not at the expense of fun or too much worrying over the minmaxing.

I also need to flesh out a research system and a way to acquire non-standard issue gear.

As for backstory, I think it'll be fun playing as pmc or vigilantes who have difficulties in getting paid and have to resort to looting and/or outright plunder of the surrounding civilian areas on top of gathering alien artifacts.

All explosives should be explosive stat. But for grey areas like grenade launchers or combo weapons, we could let the player choose to roll on projectiles. Any failures of the explosives should be rolled on the explosive stat. Mishandling explosives wi result in !fun!.

It will be glorious xcom international style.. I'll flesh out a public relations stat. I may also simulate jealous intelligence agencies who try to fight you for loots. Also, massive civilian casualties or hostage situations, especially in abduction missions could be a thing.

Transport aircraft will be as abundant as the plot requires. Focus should still be mostly on infantry. Unless we get enough vehicle drivers.

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (still a bit under constuctionish)
Post by: Moopli on December 07, 2015, 01:29:28 pm

The max unencumbered carry weight for the standard-issue human is ~40lbs. 15-25 of those pounds could be carried in hands around waist height, but the rest would have to be supported by hips and shoulders, hips preferably. The average American soldier carries at least ~90lbs of kit, so if you consider them to have, say, +1 Str and +1 End, then maybe you could assume that a point of Str/End gives about 25lbs carry weight, because it's either less of a load for you, or a heavy load that you're tough enough to handle. Then again, American soldiers are usually considered to be overencumbered, and they generally won't carry so much into combat, so maybe you can assume that a point of Str adds, say, 30lbs to your unencumbered carry weight but a point of End helps you deal with overencumbrance better.

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (still a bit under constuctionish)
Post by: Aigre Excalibur on December 07, 2015, 06:47:27 pm

Maybe.. 10 kilos at -2 strength. And a 10kg increment per level after -2.

It should also help with hitting things, controlling heavier weapons, and going toe to toe with the enemy in close-up room to room fighting while encumbered.

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (still a bit under constuctionish)
Post by: syvarris on December 07, 2015, 10:45:34 pm

I'd really recommend you keep encumbrance scores more abstract.  IIRC, PW has actually listed this as one of his worst game design mistakes; He highly regretted adding encumbrance and carry capacity to... the one game where you explore a quiet world, I think.  My own experience with encumbrance systems says that generally they're just either annoying or ignored.

Perhaps you could say something like "At W strength, you can carry X heavy objects (Machine guns, higher caliber snipers), Y medium objects (assault rifles, shotguns, larger SMGs), and Z small objects (Pistols, magazines, grenades).  Armor would just fall into one of those categories based on weight; Full interceptor would be heavy, dragonskin suit would be medium, helmet would be small.  This is way easier to keep track of, and will avoid players constantly asking "How many kilos does this alien doo-dad weigh?  How about this one?  I'm only .4 kilos overweight, so I shouldn't get full encumbrance penalty, right?"

Actually, no, that wouldn't work well.  Inevitably somebody would try to use an M240 and full interceptor, but only a couple grenades and no medium stuff.  It would probably be best to just round to the kilogram, and give generic guidelines for volume to weight.  Hrm.

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (still a bit under constuctionish)
Post by: Moopli on December 08, 2015, 01:39:44 am

Here are some ideas on encumbrance -- syvarris is right, you don't want to force people to recalculate backpack weights all the time, so:

Handheld weight: Each strength level increases the set of things you can comfortably wield. Wield something a level above, and you're encumbered. Nobody can wield stuff two levels above. Level 0 would be things like assault rifles, crowbars, shotguns, a shortsword, etc. Level 1 would be, for example, the M60, or a bazooka, or a sledgehammer. Level 2 might be a minigun, for example.

Carry weight: Maybe 30, say, random pieces of small-ish crap, depending on how much time you spend organizing your pockets/bag/utility belt you could carry more small items. Add room for a couple large items on top, with more stuff the stronger you are. This would probably be best played by ear, I can't think of a useful rule yet (apart from, maybe, you can carry less big stuff if you're wielding a big thing).

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (still a bit under constuctionish)
Post by: Aigre Excalibur on December 08, 2015, 10:19:49 pm

A simple map for a hostage/abduction situation at a kindergarten. That'll probably be mission 1:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/7lJ3O1A.jpg)

Also a prototype wiki: http://rtdufodefense.wikia.com/wiki/RTDUFODefense_Wikia (http://rtdufodefense.wikia.com/wiki/RTDUFODefense_Wikia)

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (still a bit under constuctionish)
Post by: Egan_BW on December 08, 2015, 10:45:14 pm

welp that makes collateral damage Fun

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (still a bit under constuctionish)
Post by: Nunzillor on December 08, 2015, 10:59:10 pm

I'm hoping/assuming the hostages are not kids...

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (still a bit under constuctionish)
Post by: Egan_BW on December 08, 2015, 11:24:44 pm

These are aliens we're speaking of, don't be so sure.

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (still a bit under constuctionish)
Post by: Aigre Excalibur on December 09, 2015, 12:08:16 am

I'm thinking that Charisma players will have a heavy crisis-management role to fill.

As for strength. I'd take strength 0 to be the baseline requirements for marine infantry that are expected to run long distances with 40-50 kg of gear. And I'll be slightly vague about the levels, though they do affect performance and raw strength. Assume that each level refers to a half standard deviation above or below the norm.

You should be able to take negative levels in strength without too much worry over combat performance with guns. Even women and children can be very deadly with rifles. Guns by themselves are not that heavy. Infantry train to carry heavy loads because of logistical concerns in fighting wars.

The average tactical webbing carries about 10 pouches. You can add utility belts with holsters for more stuff. Everything else goes into the backpack which only makes it that much more troublesome to quickdraw.

Non-pure-combatants will be very important. The team needs its negotiators and its scientists. I may consider allowing a second character, especially given the mortality rates of 21st century combat.

Also I will add a line of science weapons - like tasers to start with, that would eventually evolve into other stun weapons.

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (still a bit under constuctionish)
Post by: Aigre Excalibur on December 09, 2015, 01:48:42 am

I do need some help with wiki formatting...

My Armory page hurts my eyes.

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (still a bit under constuctionish)
Post by: Nikitian on December 09, 2015, 05:25:35 am

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-Strength 0 as baseline-

Cool!

Also, if we are going international, may I suggest introducing the "Nationality" field into the character sheet? Just for the fun and diversity-tracking reasons.
Additionally, how about adding a (limited) amount of famous/well-proven guns from all over the world? Some Soviet/Russian, some European, a few Israeli, Chinese, etc. (I, for one, would like to specifically request AKM (or AK-103, if possible, as more modern) - because 7.62x39mm and thick alien skin.)

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (still a bit under constuctionish)
Post by: Aigre Excalibur on December 09, 2015, 08:34:03 am

http://rtdufodefense.wikia.com/wiki/RTDUFODefense_Wikia (http://rtdufodefense.wikia.com/wiki/RTDUFODefense_Wikia)

Fleshed out the rules page and some company information.

We still need a name for this PMC though.

When we kick this off (soonTM) I'll conscript players to add weapons they want to the wiki.

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (still a bit under constuctionish)
Post by: Radio Controlled on December 09, 2015, 08:38:44 am

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We still need a name for this PMC though.

Lead Poisoning Delivery Service

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (still a bit under constuctionish)
Post by: Egan_BW on December 09, 2015, 08:56:48 am

ExtraTerrestrial Management Force. ETMF.

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (still a bit under constuctionish)
Post by: Nikitian on December 09, 2015, 09:01:48 am

Oh dear, this really is turning into X-Com, isn't it? With limited funding (which we are responsible for managing) and whatnot...

Quote from: Aigre Excalibur on December 09, 2015, 08:34:03 am

We still need a name for this PMC though.

Emergency Response and Requisition Alliance of Native Terrans (ERRANT)

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (still a bit under constuctionish)
Post by: Aigre Excalibur on December 09, 2015, 09:37:03 am

Does this whole thing look workable so far?

ERRANT is catchy.

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (still a bit under constuctionish)
Post by: Egan_BW on December 09, 2015, 06:03:14 pm

Ayy Removal Milita.

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (still a bit under constuctionish)
Post by: Aigre Excalibur on December 09, 2015, 08:41:09 pm

Got permission from Piecewise to run the game here for now. Let's get the show started!

Main IC thread rewritten.

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (Blastoff! here goes)
Post by: Aigre Excalibur on December 13, 2015, 03:16:19 am

I've got a major exam on Tuesday, might update stuff on Monday if I can find the time.

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (Blastoff! here goes)
Post by: Aigre Excalibur on December 14, 2015, 01:00:44 am

Rough plan for the Alien Races:

Grey Aliens, divided into Alpha and Beta castes. Betas are the short squalid types. They are actually the child soldiers of the Greys. Betas possess a more than human level of cruelty, cunning and tenacity. They are immoral but intelligent, have keen senses, physical and extra-physical. While not physically devloped, they are dangerous at all ranges with ranged weapons. Alpha Greys stand at 1.8 to 2 meters tall, and are as physically potent as any well-trained human soldier. Most are well versed in close-combat martial arts on top of their weapon skills. When not leading squads of betas, some Alpha Greys may form specialized commando units. They have somewhat more balanced personalities and tactics than unled Betas, but are no less bloodthirsty.

There are some Masons who believe that the Greys are devolved inner-terrestrial Lemurians. And that reincarnating black magicians sometimes take that form while waiting for their souls to disintegrate.

Reptilian Race: Commanded by sentient lizard men. They may employ genetically modified velociraptors as bloodhounds, and large carnivorous dinos as shock troops. Dragons and drakes are also among their ranks. The lizard men themselves can take to the field with plasma/energy weapons.

Primates: An extremely versatile Planet of the Apes army. Chimpanzee type light infantry, Gorilla shock troops. In co-masonic lore, apes devolved from sexual experiments with humans, rather than humans having evolved from apes.

Necronom IV, the original xenomorph, with all its sexual undertones. It also avoids the laws of ninjitsu that afflicted its movie brethren.

If all goes well, we could throw in a robotic army into the mix... like if Skynet and the Daleks had a baby...

Outline for mission 1: Understrengthed squad of Greys raising hell at a Kindergarten. Craft damaged and somewhat contained by small town mob and local law. Children and any beautiful busty blond young teachers taken hostage and used as human shields. Alien Removal Militia to swoop in and take control hof the situation, in what will either be a Turkey Shoot, or PR fiasco.

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (Blastoff! here goes)
Post by: Maegil on December 14, 2015, 06:24:22 am

Quote from: Aigre Excalibur on December 14, 2015, 01:00:44 am

beautiful busty blond young teachers taken hostage and used as human shields.

This cannot be tolerated! SCANDINAVIA, WE COME!

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (Blastoff! here goes)
Post by: Nunzillor on December 15, 2015, 02:14:10 am

How much are these items?

Field Radio
Encode/decode machine
Field Laptop

Just need to do Lester now...

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (Blastoff! here goes)
Post by: Aigre Excalibur on December 15, 2015, 04:49:56 am

Lets say 1000, 1000 and 2000 (It's a toughbook!) Charges to the team fund, so free for him.

Radios n stuff are for calling for extraction, support, reinforcements, etc.

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (Blastoff! here goes)
Post by: Maegil on December 15, 2015, 08:54:59 am

They're already on the roster page, but I'm thinking of adding the players' user names also to the characters' pages in the wiki, possibly under the characters' names.

Yes/No?

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (Blastoff! here goes)
Post by: Aigre Excalibur on December 17, 2015, 10:44:26 pm

I'm away for a week for christmas from Saturday to Saturday.

Yeah add ze character pages.

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (Blastoff! here goes)
Post by: Aigre Excalibur on January 02, 2016, 12:39:02 am

I'm back. Ice cream, hot springs and long walks in the park have convinced me that I need to abstract the item system a bit more. One can't simply simulate every single gun in the 21st century.

Title: Re: [Fan Game] ER UFO Defense OOC (Blastoff! here goes)
Post by: Nikitian on January 02, 2016, 05:16:40 am

Truly, this is a sad day to ER UFO Defense community.  :'(

Very well, let us hope that the new system would be as fun as the original one, but far more easier to GM!