The Regiment: Colonial Marines 2.5
Saturday, February 09, 2013
The version 2.5 playtest kit for The Regiment: Colonial Marines is ready.
GOALS FOR 2.5
A slightly simpler game: I reduced the overall number of moves as well as removing some exceptional cases so it’s easier to remember and apply rules.
Fictional results for stress and wounds: In previous versions, it was easy to gloss over the effects of stress and wounds, falling back on shorthand: “Take 2 wounds.” I wanted each box of damage to have a specific effect to cue a result in the fiction.
More difficult choices: Tough choices are always fun. I revised the old push yourself move into something more interesting (I hope): Keep it together. The engagement move now accounts for details of the specific situation, including morale elements, so choices of fictional positioning have a bigger impact when making that move.
CHANGELOG
New volume of fire table: There are now 5 VOFs: Incidental, Scattered, Direct, Focused, and Concentrated.
New stress system: Each time you take stress, you choose how your solider will react to it: Flight, Fight, or Shock.
New wounds system: Wounds have locations now, and critical wounds take you out of action. There’s a critical move that determines how badly you’re injured, so there’s more uncertainty (you can’t count on a 2d pistol to not kill you).
New and revised moves: Assault now includes covering fire. Push yourself has been revised into keep it together. Help has been revised into aid. Hit the deck no longer requires a roll. New critical move. Rally is now a Sergeant move.
New and revised playbook moves: Changes to each playbook! Give them a close look. Also check out when you mark xp (upper right corner of playbooks).
Thanks for checking it out! If you give it a try, let me know here, on G+, or at the Regiment forum. As always, I'm happy to answer questions.
Labels: apocalypse world, hack, regiment, rpg
7 Comments:
Who have the Synthetics been writing home to in your play tests? The Tyrell Corporation? ;^)
Hey John, Vincent apparently cannot be arsed to confirm my forum registration, so I'll write my questions and opinions here:
1) For all the streamlining, isn't LUCKY left in as a dead stat? Especially without choosing stat blocks, when it will always be set to 0 and never improved?
2) I dislike merging assault and covering fire. It should work mechanically and lowers the move count, but it's in serious need of renaming. The fictional trigger makes no sense for fire element left behind, and if handwaved leaves no need to actually assault, since you can flush enemies from your cozy fire base, no problem.
3) I love the new keep it together move and stress system. They're just great.
4) The new wound system, not so much. Similarly to fuseboy on the forums, I thought the VOF system strength was that it was so hands-off, a general threat level was set, which the players could manage and deal with consequences - no talk of GM being asshole-ish or taking it easy. Yes, you can roll dice or whatever, but still it adds rolling dice (also for critical move), tracking boxes and needlessly expanding the VOF table. I think it's simply too much for the extra flavor it grants. Perhaps the could be to simply use a AW-style +wound when hurt, that could give stress or pin on hit, cripple a limb or whatever on a 10+ and go critical at 12+?
Thanks for the feedback! You make good points. I'm meeting with Paul tomorrow night to discuss this stuff and we'll consider your comments. I think you're right. :)
Cool!
I'd appreciate if the next release would be of vanilla Regiment, I'll probably get a game going soon and it'd be a slight pain in the ass to update the playbooks manually. ;)
Hi!
A simple and fast question: I'm traslating the playsheet in Italian, it's ok with you John? Can I publish it online after translating it?
Sure, that's fine. Be advised: it's an older version of the game (I'm a couple drafts away from this one now).
Thank you, John.
I will keep it updated with the last public playtest version, of course :)
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