Re: (TFT) Starship troopers.

[Rick Smith <rsmith@lightspeed.ca>]

Starship Troopers:  Worst Movie Adaption Ever.

I do not see any problem with doing an 
adaption for the book.  For a long time
I ran a TFT SF campaign called 'delta 
world'.  My only real adaption was making
the combat turns 1 second so individual
shots could be taken with a pistol.

It was kinda cool.  People would say, "I 
leap behind those bins for cover and 
while I'm in the air I fire 3 shots at
him with my laser!"

Then the action would begin and shots
would be fired.  Combat felt like it was
happening in slow motion as cascades of
bullets filled the air and the PC 
floated thru the open area, firing 
one shot between batches of return fire.

It required a lot more GM fiat than 
regular TFT, but we all had fun.

However, building equimpment, space
ships, weapons, armor, etc, etc, etc.
was so much work, that my current space
campaign is using the GURPS Traveler 
rules.


I would also be interested in seeing
what you come up with.

Rick



On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 18:04, rmorger wrote:
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "Charles Gadda" <cgadda@earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: tft@brainiac.com
> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:42:09 -0800
> 
> >Well, that, and the fact that in the original book the troopers 
> >also carried small tac-nukes...
> >
> >Lessee, here... wow! Rolled a three to hit! That will be 25,000 
> >dice of damage, tripled!
> >
> >That will take awhile to roll up, I think...
> >
> >I would submit that there are serious scalability issues here - 
> >perhaps an adaptation of "Aliens" might be a better idea.
> >
> 
> Didnt say it would be a easy conversion and I wasnt really 
> thinking about using it for a full scale tactical battle type 
> situation.
> I was thinking more along the lines of the small group insertion
> capture the brain bug and get out type deal or insert track down 
> and evac the general who got trapped when the bugs overran the 
> alpha base. Keep TFT doing what it does best.
> 
> As far as nukes are concerned why would you need to roll for 
> anything other than whether it detonated? since everything else 
> was vaporized.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Robert Morger 
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