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(10-27-2007, 06:24 AM)Snoopy link Wrote: D&D in the army? Lol, never thought one had enough down time for something like that...but age is right. Used to play a fair share myself in university, even DM'd a few sessions. People that played in mine had alot of fun with it. Pity I dropped it after leaving univ. :'( On a side note, my daughters now an avid D&D fan...guess it runs in the family. 
Well maybe you guys can break down some of the character attributes down for me and what they do, or are needed for. ;D
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(10-27-2007, 04:07 AM)M1A2Tanker link Wrote: Not Battletech, Avalon Hill tactical wargames. Hex grids, map boards, complicated firing tables...games like Panzerblitz, Gettysburg, MBT...among others. The games that were made for the hobbyist gamer that focused more on the historical and technical, as well as strategic and tactical, aspects of the game versus playability and such.
I'm just modifying that a bit and downgrading the tactical aspects, as well as the technical and strategic ones. Nothing historical here beyond the era lol.
Bro, battletech is the hex-grid board game of Mech warrior. Check it out some time.
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Yea, I know. Where do you think Battle Tech got it from? Games like Panzerblitz, Squad Leader/Advanced Squad Leader and others...all of which were created in the 50's and 60's.
BattleTech appeared in 1984. So...yea. 
And I played some of the 60's Civil War games from Avalon Hill (Fredricksburg, Chancellorsville, and one other that escapes me) when I was probably 10-13, somewhere in there.
Was also playing the first Mechwarrior PC game at that time. Polygon block mechs lol. Gotta love it.
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I would love to help anyway I can bro. Just send me the info and let me know what ya need.
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Whoosh! all this just flew over my head. Then again I've never played DnD. I started to get into the SWRP but I could never find anyone to play with 
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Well I'll happily post up my rough draft of the game design, along with a spreadsheet of the record pages for the character, platoon and company stats here in awhile.
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Alrighty, here we go.
Here's the draft: http://rblm1a2tanker.com/Other/WarGameDesignRTF.rtf
And here's the stats: http://rblm1a2tanker.com/Other/WarGameStats-2.xls
Oh, and completely unrelated, I have met Micheal Stackpole twice now, both times at GenCon. Pretty cool guy, and he had some good writers workshops going on. I've been to almost all of them. Should he be there again next year...I'm totally going to the last couple of them. 
Here's the notes for the ones I have been to though.
GenCon 06: http://rblm1a2tanker.com/Other/Story_plo...ckpole.doc
GenCon 07: http://rblm1a2tanker.com/Other/MoreonStoryPlotting.doc
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Heyo, Im Hobovu ;D
and i don't think theirs any new guy thats after me... :'(
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...well that conversation suddenly dried right up...
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haha, I haven't had a chance to look at it, but when I go back home this weekend, I'll take a look.
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