Miss GayleSo, battle droids.
And sexbots.
But battle droids first. If getting rid of pesky humans in factories and offices is good, getting rid of pesky human soldiers who might report war crimes to someone is even better, right?
LexTenebris@pookie If that tickles your fancy, you might enjoy reading my conversion of original #BattleDroids to Steel Rift, a modern, high speed / low drag tabletop stompy mech wargame. I think it turned out pretty well.
Finished up the Battledroids to Steel Rift conversion by covering servo redundancy, critical damage effects, creating factions, ace droid pilots, and a bit of setup for a Outer Sphere campaign. The ORP: Battledroids to Steel Rift Advanced Starter Kit is done!
You want more Battledroids in your Steel Rift? I have converted rules and cleaned up mechanics for infantry and vehicles. I have every single droid/mech listed in BD ready for your pleasure. I even have a three mission sequence for you to throw them against one another in. ORP: Battledroids to Steel Rift Intermediate Starter Kit is ready to rock and roll.
Okay the ORP: Battledroids to Steel Rift Intermediate Starter Kit is finally written. It's certainly not the longest thing I've ever written, but it does have something on the order of over 10,000 words. So it's not a short, breezy thing necessarily.
Flipping through it, I'm fairly proud of the fact that I put together some patches for the infantry and vehicle rules in SR, which make sense. Converted every droid from Battledroids. I even snuck in a three battle mission sequence to give you an excuse to make your own combat forces and teams.
Overall, not a bad piece of work.
Tomorrow I will put together one more read-through just to make sure there's nothing hideously terrible in the copy, and then I'll get it posted. After that, I start thinking about what goes into the ORP: Battledroids to Steel Rift Advanced Starter Kit. I'm pretty sure off the top of my head, I'll introduce factions to cover a couple of the major political divisions in the setting and set up to explain how campaigns work in Steel Rift.
That's going to just wait until I regenerate some neurotransmitters from writing this stuff.
Expect the Intermediate Kit tomorrow, probably before noon Eastern.
I'm pretty sure I cranked out over 4,000 words today on the ORP: Battledroids to Steel Rift Intermediate Kit, which involved actually going to look for clarification on some rules issues on their social media Facebook page, getting into some interesting discussions and then getting directly messaged by the current author/developer of the game, who agreed that I pointed out some valid points, and we talked about things that might be upcoming that will/may address many of them.
That isn't going to keep me from effectively rewriting the parts that were bugging me for my article but... I think that's one of my favorite things about the small press side of the TTRPG / tabletop wargaming hobby.
You can literally be an active force, on little more than a whim, and improve something that other people have real affection for. Hell, I literally got the errata for the errata amended today for something that's been there wrong for several months.
That's not going to happen if you are a D&D or a Warhammer player. Play things that you can actually affect.
I'm pretty thrilled right this moment. I have completed converting all 11 of the mechs in Battledroids into Steel Rift stats. That technically means there will be 12 mechs listed since I threw in the Locust.
Every one of them has some design notes, and I have tested the math in the online build system just to double-check myself. That's not to say there won't be errors, but if there are, so mote it be.
Now I just have to write the rest of the Intermediate Kit and the scenario.
You know it. You love it. It's Battledroids from 1984, but not as you remember it. Instead, we're going to re-implement it as a starter kit for Steel Rift. All it requires is the core SR book and miniatures you already have if you love BattleTech. You know you want to.
NinjaDebuggerI've discovered I have at least four original Battledroids minis, so far. A Falcon, a Bombardier, a Battlemaster, and a Rifleman.
RockyCReal-life battle droids.
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