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Oh the time I've spent trying to find a hard copy of that book (ie I've looked at the main site, found it to be out of stock, and left it at that)... I think I'll have to wait till their either reprinted, or one of their shows in the summer (ooh, how appropriate...).

I'm hesitant to post fluff, as it can be a bit heavy. I tend to ah... develop stuff far more than it requires and go off on tangents about totally unrelated things (say detailing a Vault, only to start talking about a particular variant of robot...). I carried a whole game's background once here on Dakka simply by me sitting there spewling on about its world, as the rest of the development team sat there and tried to deal with it all. So if people want to read that kind of thing fine, but... prepare your derrières.

On that note here's the design document for my Shadowrun Returns campaign. Its very brief and runs all over the place. I would have filled it out more and tidied it up had my laptop not died before I could finish it, but some may find it interesting. ...Its mildly embarrassing how poor it is in terms of professionalism (oh the cliches) and is missing a load of content due me just implement stuff without writing it up first, but I seem to recall discussing it back on the game's thread a while ago and I may as well post it here for the interested instead of letting it stew on my drive.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/s/i/at/2013/11/Campaign-27182627.docx

...Oi I'm allowed to derail my own thread with self indulgent twaddle.

Please, by all means, dump your fluff on me, I love that stuff, it's what drives the games for me even more than the game itself sometimes!


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Oh and if you're doing perks, please include some form of TERRIFYING PRESENCE!

Well it depends on how much I'd want to get into things really. I mean the existing "Fearsome" special effect works for that kind of (ie foes must make a moral check when these models come near). The game isn't really geared towards roleplaying in the manner, ie models don't directly interact with one another through conversation in the rules, its up to the players to do that themselves. But, meh, we'll see. As with my 7ombieTv stuff I tend to just sit down one night and right stuff as it comes to me, though considering I have a thread here I suppose I need to be a bit more structured about these things. =P

Here's a draft of the 7ombieTv rules. I had a more up to date version, but, predictably the drive it was on fell off a train in a dramatic fashion.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/s/i/at/2013/11/7ombieTV-27184931.odt

Wrm, please, by all means, post up your fiction. Love that kind of stuff.

Also, I have most of the 7TV rulebooks and spinoffs, so I could collaborate with you on the rules if you like. I was planning to do it anyway, after all (as well as a Judge Dredd conversion).

I have the game guides for FO3 and FO:NV so giving stats to weapons and armor as well as getting all the perks should be a breeze. The FO Wiki would serve for groups and background info.

~Eric

Hey kids want to read some haphazardly written short stories? I have two threads in the fiction setting that, much like the concept art I did for the game, I wrote fairly quickly (I don't even think I proof read it). ...I'm a decent writer despite what that stuff says, honest.

Don't go looking for it, but my Vault wiki account had way too many edits on it. I must made most of the original article edits on the Rage wiki too. 7Tv uses a fairly basic system however, so most every gun would either be strength 2 (for stuff like .22lr), 3 (for .556, etc) or 4 (for... one shot knocked on your butt-ness), 5 would be anti-material rifle level. But we'll see on the collaborating. As in I'm so sporadic with my writing that that may be difficult. ^^

The 7TV rules do have some aspects that make me think it would work as a lite RPG of sorts, but that might just be me.

Oh it can work like that, but its just getting into that mindset. Few of my regular opponents have the mindset to get into roleplaying the situation, rather its treated more as a skirmish game that just happens to have some extra rules. In addition to that only one of them has even played any Fallout games, so that limits my own opponents further (those that do roleplay, but don't play the games wouldn't have too much trouble however). I have another game involving my Fallout stuff planned in future involving some friends who just play the games, and are roleplayers however, so perhaps such a thing could be possible at some point.

The issue I find with the system is that it doesn't enforce roleplaying on the players. Its easy to just discount the setting and characters, leaving it up to killing each other and eugh...tactics. Given the optionality it would seem that a lot of gamers will just ignore a game's backstory and trying to develop a narrative and just try and win. =/

Agreed, 7TV very much thrives on the notion that you play a cinematic game, much less a game of who can do things the best in terms of killing the other cast. It pretty much sums up the local group I'm in, which dogmatically sticks to 40k, nothing wrong with that, but it's simply not a group you can go to with a fluffy list, because that kind of "fun" while tolerated, is seen as not bringing your A-game.

Yes, it does seem to be the attitude that players who focus more on fluff, or modelling seem to be regarded as lesser players by those who care more for playing to win. Personally I like adding in handicaps (to myself of course) and bonuses during games if they add to the experience. The group that I typically play at my club elect to play in a casual manner, so whilst they aren't big on the roleplaying at all times, or the like, they don't play so seriously to disallow myself from doing that kind of thing. Where I've played other members of my club its been a different affair (in cases, I mean I don't want to generalise), with them using whatever's the most optimum build, and chastising me for not building my force to suit one too. So if I played 7Tv with some, I can bet that I wouldn't here any dodgy pulp references or see them throwing out their star's into one on one scuffles my own stars for dramatic effect*.

*An example of which comes from my game last night. I was playing as the Legion, with my opponent being the NCR. The NCR had set up a firing line amidst some ruins and were moeing down the Legion Zula style. My Vexillarius, Castratious, stands up from his cover, vaults over a fence and charges through the bullets straight at the enemy's leader, an NCR Patrol Ranger named Bob Killrory. The Ranger takes a shot with his massive revolver, but misses, and in the next moment the Vexillarius twonks him with his Vexillum and the two are wrapped up in close combat. With the Ranger focussed on his enemy the Troopers about him loses some of their resolve (ok they no longer receive his leader points) and their withering hale of fire abates. For the turns that follow the Legion swamp their positions, as the two leaders duke it out, before ultimately, great Castratious is knocked unconscious by a sneaky blow from the rear, by a mercenary the NCR had hired on, Red Racer and her trusty pair of knuckle dusters. She dispatches Castratious with a blast from her shotgun, and the Ranger returns to trying to hold together the collapsing NCR lines. By this point however the Legion is hacking merrily away at the young troopers with their machetes, and by the time reinforcements arrive they've set up a few Prime Legionaries with Thompsons to deter any thoughts of relieving them.

Whilst somewhat tactical, that whole act was more to involve the game's big players with one another than anything. My leader, an Underworld Boss, was geared up to support his side on a moral level, not to interfere in combat directly. However, charging him towards the enemy in spite of the bullets, and twonking the Ranger over the head with the symbol of authority (...no Cartman puns) suitably inspired his men, and so wasn't out of character for him.

Edit: Oh I'll point out that after the Vexillarius died, and my forced were about to be routed through their poor morale they were saved! But what great leader of men could achieve such a feat? Which individual, with greater morale respect than the Prime Legionaires and Decanus could hold the men together? ...Ah. ...Yeah it was a Legion Mongrel. ... A dog had the highest leadership on my side after the Underworld Boss. ...
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Then my opponent shot the dog, but he'd already lost one of his stars and was down to two men by this point, so.... Tis a silly game. ^^

Impressive....

That does sound like a great play session!

Well, that was the situation from my own perspective. I probably can't quite say the same in regards to my opponent, referring to my previous comments, but we make do. =)

Fallout thats some sweet stuff your doing here, any plans on the masters or the calculators army aswell?

The time period I'm aiming for is around the late 2200's, which would be over a hundred years since the time that the Master's(2162) and Calculator (2198) armies marched the wastes. I do have Super Mutants however, but they're of the type seen in the second game, ie they've either integrated into society, or, much fewer are roaming looking for a place which will give them the feeling that The Unity gave them. As for the Calculator's robots, no on that front. No, as in I'm not planning on a dedicated robot faction, but not that I won't be making anything from that game. It would be possible to create a force similar to those in Tactics using the rules I'm using, but I'm not really thinking about that right now. Robots to me are in use by those who know how to maintain them (ie the BOS, Enclave Remnants, NCR, Shi, etc), roaming the wastes running degraded programs, or still carrying out their functions within hidden pre-war installations.

Yeah, we don't care for competitiveness in the P&M section, we're all about the creativeness here. Competitiveness is for *other* section of Dakka. I can't tell you much more, other than it probably involves Math or OT

Subscribing, love the modeling.

Dude, this is actually really impressive.

Yeah, just let the enjoyment of what ou are doing run through your work and show the pics for others to admire is all!

Heh, cool, this thread's somehow at the top of the recent popular threads list. Really? What's wrong with you people?

So, updates on the model front. I said I'd try and paint some Trogs, but I'm skint this week, and so out of sugar. As a result I can't be bothered with them, so here's some other stuff I did instead.

*That sounded really professional...

New Californian Republic
Veteran Ranger in Advanced Riot Gear* (Infinity Veteran Kazak)



This one was bought second hand. Whatever it was stripped with faded the details a little, so I'm not particularly happy with what I did with it. Still, it looks like it was a nice model to begin with, and "inspired" by the armour from Fallout just a little. Its better than my originally Ranger Veteran at least, but I'll probably make another to see if I can do better.

*Advanced Riot Gear's the set that was issued (salvaged locally) to those Troopers stationed in the Divide (before it went to hell), and before that was used by the United States Cavalry against anti war protesters. Not all rangers wear the same suits, with this particular one perhaps having been stationed in the Divide at one point, or having salvaged it from another location. I painted it as the Advanced set as 1) it looks beefier than the LAPD Riot Armour, 2) why would a riot officer be wearing a trench coat? 3) Meh, it makes her stand out more.


Wastelanders
Raider Brutes


These are from my Warhammer 40,000 Chaos army originally. I never got around to painting them for that, and I rarely play 40k now, so I've salvaged them for this project. Mostly they're Cadians, with Beastmen Ungor arms, along with an assortment of other bits chucked in (including the tracks off of a Tamiya 1/48 Stug for waste armour. ...They eat Buffout like Sugar Bombs apparently).

And terrain:

Wrecked APC Home


A Warhammer 40k Chimera with odds and ends from Ainsty Castings, Ramshackle, etc. The base still needs work ...and I forgot to picture the actual house side (the owner's have knocked in some windows). Either its a home, or a bunker of sorts for the settlement, or both. I may stick a sign saying, "Armoury" to it actually, though given the amount of guns I have laying about on my other terrain, that may be moot (or its where they keep the really big guns).

Portaloo and a Shipping Pallet


...Yup. Dead interesting. I'll base the loo eventually, perhaps with a nice puddle of semi radioactive looking water (not a thing in real life mind, but the games seem to have it) about it.

Aside from that here's a shot of what's on my painting table right now. That terrain's mostly a market addon to my existing (unpainted) shanty town. "Why didn't you paint that stuff instead of the crap you gave us today, it looks much more interesting" I hear you say. Well... Shuttit, I'll get around to it eventually.


And a little something I started after robots being mentioned. Its a little too big (by about two heads span), but finding side by side scale shots is a bit difficult as I don't have the game installed. Go on, have a guess what it is (hopefully my sculpting isn't that crap that it isn't obvious).

"Initiating directive 7395: destroy all communists! Embrace democracy, or you will be eradicated."

Well on that note, ...somehow, I need some "kooky" film titles ("The Communists that Ate Manhattan!!!"). For... no reason. ...I'm totally not being distracted by other things instead of finishing what I said I'd do.

Wyrmalla, a great many of us also play the Fallout and New Vegas, I got Brother vinni casts instead of the putting bits together creatively as you did, love the poo-shack and wreck-homestead.

Desert makes for slow if any rusting, so anything manufactured can last a bit, but the sun and heat are brutal to rubber and plastic goods! Metal will last along with stone for quite some time.

Ah, heh, because I've been turning all my metal into rusted crap-heaps. XD

Tonight's showing are: I Married a Maoist!, RIPPER!, and Love Sets Sail... This Saturday, October 23, is weekly Jalopy Night. Park up and get your snacks by the entrance. Enjoy your time at the Sky-Vue Drive In Theatre, your favourite cinema in the Southwest Commonwealth!

Next Fallout is to be set in the Massachusettes area which is part of the Commonwealth.

- My Neighbour Is A Red!
- Red Terror From The Far East
- The Communist That Ended Us

@shasolenzabi

^^ Yeah, but then how would I manage the factions of the Western US? When I say Commonwealth I mean the Thirteen Commonwealths of the United States (the states were combined into these sometime before the war). "The Commonwealth" is referring to the former state of Massachusettes before it was merged into the New England Commonwealth. ...Hey blame Bethesda for messing up the semantics.

The first two games take place in the South West and North West Commonwealth, whilst New Vegas is set in the South West, with a little bit of the Four States. So, as to accommodate the factions I'm making, canonically my games will mostly be taking place in those three Commonwealths (though the North West does include Oregon and Alaska... but sorry, no mutant snowmen are planned right now).


The Sky-Vue Drive In:


Bubba unfortunately missed the showing of Love Sets Sail! Guess he'll have to go elsewhere to see his starlet Vera Keyes...



The graffiti on the side of the booth reads, 滝… 愛してる。 さようなら。 ("Taki...Aishiteru. Sayonara."). Hey I try and get at least one reference in per building. (The other pieces of graffiti on it are a US flag, and the outline of a monster). I was going to write "Chinks did it", but despite that also being a reference (from Carriers, a post apocalyptic film), I felt it a bit too crass.


I wonder what they did with the ladder they used to get up there afterwards...

All of the above are made from balsa wood and plasticard. The rear of the screen was a particularly annoying to make, though I guess that's why I don't make match stick ships.

Some wrecks to go along with it naturally.



I made these a while ago, so they could do with a touch up (...and basing). They're from Poundland ...the number one source for die cast cars outside of carbootsales.

Evidently whoever used these cars for their at project enjoyed pre-war Japanese video games...



Oh, and as a side, the Sky-Vue's actually a real location, located in New Mexico. Though beyond the sign I wasn't attempting to accurately represent it.

Question: I am sure you have said but where did you get the vehicles?

All looking awesome. You have definately mastered "Dirty".

In that post all of the vehicle are from Poundland. What each shop has varies, but they always seem to have some sort of applicable die cast or plastic (usually wind up) vehicles that fit in with the scale. Along with the station wagons, sports cars and vans, I've bought busses, helicopters, humvees, jeeps, landrovers, and well all sorts from them. Considering good vehicles for the scale cost £10 each on average, buying them for a pound is much more appealing.

Now, I feel that with all these military vehicles toting about that people aught to have something to take them down with...

(Which is to say, stew a little, I've got some painting to do.)

Fantastic stuff! I'm partial to billboards and signage myself You've really been busy chucking out some great stuff!

I love those old derelict cars! I'm probably going to loot that idea, just fyi. Your stuff is really cool and I like the storied theme. Keep up the good work.