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Alright, it looks like everybody's done with their Hx, now for one final step. Take one person you know best(choose who you want if they're equal in Hx.), and tell them to highlight a stat( or person, if Macaluso). Any stat can be chosen, except for stats already chosen, of course.

Here's the list of what I've highlighted.
Battlebabe-scriver-Sharp,Hot
Driver-Fniff-Hot,Cool
Gunlugger-Harry Baldman-Sharp, Weird
Hardholder-Xardalas-Sharp, Weird
Macaluso-Roboson-Olive,Bow
Skinner-VoidSlayer-Hard,Weird

I'm not sure how that would work. I'll let Scriver and Fniff figure it out.

If it's okay, I'd like to skip VoidSlayer, do to the long wait. Anyone else have their Hx stat ready to go?

Fniff first

Also, for my part on highlighting.

Battlebabe-scriver-Sharp
Driver-Fniff-Hot
Gunlugger-Harry Baldman-Sharp
Hardholder-Xardalas-Sharp
Macaluso-Roboson-Olive
Skinner-VoidSlayer-Hard

You gain a point of experience every time you perform a basic action within a highlighted stat. After 5 experience points, you gain an improvement point, and can pick an an option from your improvement chart. After you finish your Hx chart, you pick the character you know most, and tell them to highlight whatever stat you want, as long as it's not already taken.

Rush at the worms with my gun blazing, and my gum chewing

I'm planning on getting started on Tuesday. See ya then.

Seems interesting, though perhaps not best suited as an RTD. Unless you're in charge, it seems rather difficult to change the events of the cold war as one person, or even a group of people.

Perhaps it'd be better either as a suggestion game where the players collectively control one leader, or a game where the players control high ranking officials(or business owners I guess?) Still, if you think you can handle the load of multiple competing nations, more power to you.

Furthermore, the cold war didn't really feature any proper armed combat. However, making the players (even if not all of them) spies would be a good way of adding direct conflict to the game.

In any event this is going to be a lot of research, and I wish you the best of luck. The cold war was very much a war of cultures, so don't forget to consider the role sports, music, and art played in the war, among many other things.

Thanks for the feedback, and yeah, I'll have all the players play as high ranking officials, or spies, or probably just super soldiers, basically whatever they want. Thing is, I'm wanting to make this a legendary, mythologized version of the Cold War, where the heroes are one man armies, and plans and schemes are extremely bold and cool, with battles of epic proportions.

Basically, take what they did to Dynasty Warriors, and apply it to the Cold War. I will respect the war for what it is though, I won't parody or mock any aspect of it. I want epicness, not mockery, and I'll be sure to do all the research that's necessary to make sure to honor the war of cultural values that it was.