So we made
MechWarrior 3E characters. Holy crap everybody has lots of skills and
Donald has an uber-Mech. The problem is that I wasn't ready for
character generation so I let them get away with way too much. They
went to the best schools and then I let them have too many creation
points. And of course everybody made these crazy assed characters, none
of them from Altair like I planned. A real clusterfuck on my part.
I'm still at least a month away from being ready. The first act will be
based on "Operation: Flashpoint" which I've read half of and it looks
fairly good. 21 BattleTech scenarios with hooks for out of Mech play
(though the GM has to do all the work for those). GURPS Lite was
released Thursday night and I read it Friday. I've written down some
conversion notes but lots more work needs to be done and I need the
full rules for that and probably won't have a the books until close to
the end of this month.
Of course then I have to read the books. It's like 400 pages so that
will take a while. A couple of weeks to read and another couple of
weeks for conversions. Hmm, I may not be ready until September. So
about two months from starting the GURPS BattleTech campaign. Lots of
work to do...
Goddess, what the heck was I thinking when they made their characters.
Woo has a St Ives native who attended school in Terra and joined
ComStar and worked for them for 14 years. Donald has the freakishly
high-tech uber-noble character. Fulton has his kidnapped by pirates who
killed her parents and then attended the Nagelring in the Lyran
Commonwealth. Sweet it turns out has the least crazy/most plausible
character and that's because he was sleeping through character
generation.
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I'm sorely
tempted to reset and have them do it again I fully develop the
character generation limits. MW 3E is set up to make 3060 characters
and they're in 3034. I need to limit the tech levels and a lot of the
life path options. I shouldn't have let them customize their characters
so much (my original plan was that they couldn't spend any generation
points on anything other than sttributes). I'll think about it some
more.
I'm also slowly scanning in all of the BattleTech Record Sheets.
Finished the 3025/3026 book and I'm on the 3050 book. It's several
hours per book (it's a slow scanner) so in a couple of months I might
have all the books done (though I certainly don't need to since most of
those of Mechs are too high of a tech level but I want to get it all
done once and for all). Dude, the Heavy Metal Pro record sheets are
amazingly ugly. Makes me glad they don't make their software available
on the Macintosh platform.
Sales are continuing slowly. I've sold a few things and I'm trying to
do a couple of lots each week. I'll definitely sell a lot of my comics
and a lot of other things too. The goal is to clear enough space so
that I can put all my stuff in the master bedroom and closet and in the
library/former server room. That means moving the BattleTech stuff out
of the linen closet, moving the wargames out of the pantry, moving the
misc stuff out of the hallway cupboards. This is going to take a long
time and I'm definitely not going to be done before Christopher moves
in.
On the buying front, someone is selling all of their Star Trek books
(though no original series books). I bid on a bunch of stuff and have
been outbid on three lots. But I still have a shot on nine lots
totalling about 90 books that I don't have. We'll see how many I do win
tomorrow and I'll have to be careful about snipers. People who outbid
me with plenty of time left won fair and square. Snipers I have to be
wary about.
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