[Doc Chaos]

Damn lingo soft going haywire again Thx

[Welshman]

At this range, I need to roll a 4 or better on both cannons. It's bliss.

...and I missed with both. Even jammed the Ultra cannon.

Um Hellbie, this is you we are talking about, you should have know you were going to miss? (Ask Hellbie about dice luck and him sometime, wear a flak jacket)

As for LAMs-
Yes they were pretty darn broken. We worked very hard on new rules and are very proud of the results. So far BattleTech fan feedback has been positive.

The TRO3085 Print Record Sheet, with the LAM QSR rules is only $5 in PDF format.

If you have any other LAM questions, I encourage you to come over to my patch at Classicbattletech.com and ask questions. CBT community is great and we welcome you all. (And that way Jason doesn't beat me up for BT creeping into his forum. Then again, Hellbie started it!)

Best,
Joel BC
TRO3085 Product Developer

[Usda Beph]

Subtle!

[FastJack]

Heh... All I know is that if any of you are going to be at GenCon next year, we should enter the Shadowrun Tournament as a team...

[Usda Beph]

That would be super cool! Somehow I don't see having the Nuyen for that yet again.

[voydangel]

^I'm a bit scared we have a player that might turn out to be that. :/ I hope not. I sure's hell like him as a person but I don't quite like the vibe I'm getting off of him at the table. He's trying to make his character TOO perfect (then again, I'm great at making mine too flawed >_>;; ).

Ah, the curse of the role player

Role Player and Psych Major. I love crazies.

Awesome - I'm a role player and psych major too. =) Well, technically I GM more often than I get to play, but w/e.
Do you have a focus? I'm just starting down my track, but planning on getting my MA in behavioral psych with a focus on non-verbal communication.

[FastJack]

^I'm a bit scared we have a player that might turn out to be that. :/ I hope not. I sure's hell like him as a person but I don't quite like the vibe I'm getting off of him at the table. He's trying to make his character TOO perfect (then again, I'm great at making mine too flawed >_>;; ).

Ah, the curse of the role player

Role Player and Psych Major. I love crazies.

Awesome - I'm a role player and psych major too. =) Well, technically I GM more often than I get to play, but w/e.
Do you have a focus? I'm just starting down my track, but planning on getting my MA in behavioral psych with a focus on non-verbal communication.

<stares at voydangel with wide eyes>

[voydangel]

what? o.0
*looks around behind him for the troll*

[FastJack]

I was trying to get my point across with non-verbal communication.

[voydangel]

<narrows eyes viciously>

[Chaotic Insane]

Isn't it already over for this year?

Maybe next year. Hell. I might be able to wrangle going with the boys on my own next year if I keep my job and we all just pile into one hotel room...

Although I think Gencon is WAY TOO CLOSE to World Steam Expo to pull off both of them... And if you ignore Wies and Hickman for Gencon (because I worship those two)... I really do like World Steam more.

@ Voy : Criminal. My ultimate goal is to be able to work in the prisons and as expert testimony for criminal trials. So many of the people in our prison system NEED proper psychiatric care so desperately. :/ Either criminal psychiatry or becoming a specialist for Schizophrenia. There's so many doctors that turn schizophrenics away too because "we don't deal with them here" or they're too complicated of a case and that completely and utterly sickens me. Both fields are pretty fierce passions of mine and they might just end up overlapping a bit. Hopefully they do because I really can't decide between them.

[Welshman]

I used to naturally fall into the party leader roll in my days when I had time to do RPGs. Even when I wasn't, I tended to be one that folks looked too after the party leader gave out instructions.

I now make a living as a Program Manager.

Not exactly an horror story, but I think it is interesting to see how your game personality dictates your real personality

[Mystic]

Isn't it already over for this year?

Maybe next year. Hell. I might be able to wrangle going with the boys on my own next year if I keep my job and we all just pile into one hotel room...

Although I think Gencon is WAY TOO CLOSE to World Steam Expo to pull off both of them... And if you ignore Wies and Hickman for Gencon (because I worship those two)... I really do like World Steam more.

@ Voy : Criminal. My ultimate goal is to be able to work in the prisons and as expert testimony for criminal trials. So many of the people in our prison system NEED proper psychiatric care so desperately. :/ Either criminal psychiatry or becoming a specialist for Schizophrenia. There's so many doctors that turn schizophrenics away too because "we don't deal with them here" or they're too complicated of a case and that completely and utterly sickens me. Both fields are pretty fierce passions of mine and they might just end up overlapping a bit. Hopefully they do because I really can't decide between them.

Kewl, Im a special deputy sheriff in my county and have spent a lot of time (professionally  ) in the jail. I tend to agree with your assessment of people needing REAL help. I've seen a lot of...interesting people. Few of them get the care they need, but unfortunately, there is very little we, as the SO can do until we get the call. And by then, the damage is already done way or another.

 

[PeterSmith]

Don't have the money for that at the moment.  So unless it's free, it will be a while before I can take a look at that.

Your FLGS charges you to flip through books?

[Teknodragon]

OK, another Battletech one, because... well, because that's what I feel like posting.

So I had this long-running mercenary campaign. Whole thing was from scratch- they'd select one of four or five contracts that I'd write up, and each one had different employers, time of contract, type of missions, pay, bonuses, etc... and to my dismay, I totally biffed their salvage rules- they were pretty much treating the game like a shopping trip after a while, and by my own rules I'd hosed myself- soon they were running ridiculously tricked-out gear. And I was mad- mostly at myself, but it was easier to take it out on them.

[snip by Teknodragon]

For a minute there, I thought you were the one running a Battletech game I was in.  Mercs, select missions, etc.  Got pretty crazy as it practically became 'Grand Theft Battlemech' for a while. Then a mission choice came up, with Clan tech missiles waved under my nose.  At around 90million c-bills, I knew it was going to be tough.  Then the GM turned it into the Battletech RPG.  I... tried a few missions, but with nobody having a handle on the rules, I just got too frustrated and dropped out.

Still feel guilty about leaving my chums in the lurch there, but I couldn't take the frustration, and quietly backing out was better than the other choice that came to mind, which was a rather unseemly, immature fit.  /That/ much frustration.