I agree with The Git - they are two distinct careers, in my opinion at least.

The nasty little rat fink weasle who gets Ripley back to the planet in Aliens is no agent/spy - he was just a corporate exec out of his depth. If he had have sent a real operative to do the job instead of going himself (to get the glory) he might have succeeded.

And if not, he'd at least still be alive.

But as ever, it's what works at your table that's the way to go.

Long time no read. As is often the case I got sidetracked by life and did not continue my work. Also got distracted by Microlite20, Crazy8 and other light systems. But in the end, whatever I hack together sooner or later looks an awful lot like BoV. That says something I guess. Reading through a lot of pages since December and like a lot what I read. Still did not have a chance to look at BoV 2.01 or whatever the version is, but will remedy this soon. Jasales, are you still playing?
 

Last edited by Chaosmeister (6/24/2015 2:53 am)

Hey Jasales, great to hear. Is there a recent version of your Sci Fi Setting Book?

I am digging through my Sci Fi Hack again and review some things. One of them are my Mental Energy and Cybernetic Capacity derived stats. They are currently as follows:
Mental Energy
All characters in Desolation have Mental Energy (ME). Starting ME is equal to Strength+ Mind+ Rank in PsiCorps/Mutant career. You use it to power Psionic abilities as described in the PSI Chapter.  Activating certain Cyberware also drains ME. Certain PSI powers or hazards of space travel can drain your ME pool as well.
Whenever ME goes negative the character incurs a modifier to all his rolls equivalent to the negative ME score. Example: at -3 ME all actions suffer a -3 modifier. At -10 a character falls unconscious, but does not die. You recover ME at a rate of 1 per hour of rest. Sleeping, reading a book, watching a movie, eating a good dinner etc. all help regain ME
Cybernetic Capacity
This represents the readiness of your body to accept cyberware as well as the mental capacity to take control of them.
Your starting Cybernetic Capacity (CC) is calculated by adding Strength + Mind. CC does not change when either of these attributes increases after character creation. It can only improve with a boon. The CC value is the number of cybernetic implants you can receive without any negative impact. For any piece of cyberware you are installing above your CC you need to take an additional Flaw, as it takes it´s toll on your mental and bodily health.

I am worrying that with the addition of these two derived stats Strength and Mind get too much of an importance. I am pondering changing Appeal to Presence and having everything relating to willpower under Presence and not Mind. That way I could switch CC to Strength + Appeal and had Intelligence only for one derived statistic. However Strength is still used twiece, in addition to be the base for Lifeblood and adding damage to melee attacks. I fear it would turn strenght into a must have. I would like to use Agility instead but I can`t find a "fictional" reason for it to factor into CC instead of Brawn.

 

Last edited by Chaosmeister (6/25/2015 2:26 am)

Jasales, have you made any modification to your game since you sent it to me? By the way, I'm reading "Barbarians of the aftermath", it's great!

Nothing new on my end for BotV.