Re: (TFT) Starship troopers.

["rmorger" <rmorger@mail.ev1.net>]

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Rick Smith <rsmith@lightspeed.ca>
Reply-To: tft@brainiac.com
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 19:01:22 -0800

>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.

I figured that time would need to slowed to 1 or
2 seconds per turn. 5 seconds would really be
pushing it with high power rapid fire weapons.

>
>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.
>

Yes this does seem to be the most daunting task 
of the whole idea. Ships I wouldnt worry too much
about and if I did this it would be on a very small 
scale to begin with to see where it goes.
 
>
>I would also be interested in seeing
>what you come up with.
>
Will keep you informed if I run with it

>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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