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FATE – Traveller: Imperial Leader
High Concept: Head Rebellion Suppressor
Top Ranker
Rumoured to have Volcano Incident Disfigurement
+8 Strength
+4 Dexterity
+4 Endurance
+6 Intelligence
+8 Education
+8 Social Standing
+7 Psionics
+6 Blade
+4 Jack of All Trades
+3 Pilot
+2 Leader
A game of leftover heroes who happened to not get wiped out in interstellar battle with the Imperial forces. The Star Teams. Humans, crystal clone, hybrids, polar bear and catpeople. Some amusing artwork, but a poor game with a really oddball tone. The Luck attribute is interesting in an evolution sense. Percentile system with a resolution table. Everyone gets a fighter and a proton rifle and a literal in a game sense handful of cash to start…so odd right from there.
Take Traveller, bloat it up a lot, make sure you have tables for as much as you can think of, including double level fatigue and dropping the ball. This comment also nails it :- “the barely sketched out campaign milieu is a mish-mash of animal-men, vulcans, jedi, lightsabres, space nazis, space commies, martians-from-War-of-the-Worlds and implacable hiveminded insectoids.” http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?461973-Necro-FGU-s-Space… Some very dodgy writing and concepts, but it has a certain charm, and some of the stuff you could have enhanced Traveller with..more detailed character enlistments, some effects of the planet that your character has come from, etc. How to bias stat rolling to make players likely to have higher level stats than the ordinary by using d100 to roll d20, that sort of thing. Much weapons and gear, too. The middle game I guess you could call it of Traveller and Spacemaster from the time. Worth a browse for entertainment and occasional useful part.
Athletics – Agility, MicroG
Burglary
Contacts – Bureaucracy
Crafts – Animal Handler, Computer, Demolitions, Engineering, EVA, Repair, Survival
Deceive
Drive – Aircraft, Navigation, Pilot, Vehicle
Empathy – Culture/Tech
Fight – Brawling, Close Combat, Tactics
Investigate – Communications
Lore – Archaeology, Arts, Medical, Profession, Science
Notice – Alertness
Physique – Stamina
Provoke – Intimidation
Rapport – Charm, Oratory
Resources – Assets, Brokerage
Shoot – Energy Weapons, Gunnery, Slug Throwers
Stealth – Stealth
Will – Resolve
A different approach to running this game – collaborative improv with a ‘Lead Narrator’ rotating between the players.
The setting is basically Captain Future. Space Patrolmen adventure in an old school planetary romance setting a la Edmond Hamilton. Amazons of Mars, Venus madmen, robots, Lizard People, three eyed guys with big heads, all that sort of thing.
It uses the different dice for stats type idea, too, d6, d8, d10, d12 that you assign to a few basic statistics.
Character tag and cue ideas in an aspect type sense, the use of plot points to change things.
There are some sample NPCs and plot scenario ideas at the end.
So this would be cool seeing it is along those lines to already to lift as a FATE setting/adaptation too.
FATE – Traveller: Imperial Leader
High Concept: Head Rebellion Suppressor
Top Ranker
Rumoured to have Volcano Incident Disfigurement
+8 Strength
+4 Dexterity
+4 Endurance
+6 Intelligence
+8 Education
+8 Social Standing
+7 Psionics
+6 Blade
+4 Jack of All Trades
+3 Pilot
+2 Leader
FATE: Apotheosis Drive X - Neon Genesis Cybertron
The Angel threat has been defeated in a surreal apotheostic haze. Or so we thought. An independent astronomy station saw it first. A much, much bigger threat. Titan Angels.
Draft 1.1 April 22, 2013 - Blue Tyson
SETTING
The near Evangelion future. The humans have fought off the Angel threat. Or so they thought. Pragmatic reality intrudes on psychedelic reverie. A not-quite finished project is scrambled into action to try and stop the threat. The only defense that can possibly work is a MegaTitan and this weapon can only be piloted by a Titan. Three senior Titan pilots draw lots to fly the prototype and Ayanami wins.
A cataclysmic conflict leads to a victory of a sort after a 17 second confrontation. Along with the loss of North Korea (which no-one ever noticed in anime anyway) and most of the MegaTitan. A recovery team finds what is left of the pilot inside the scrap, in a coma, short a couple of limbs. At the same time, some sort of backlash effect leaves the other two pilots curled into foetal balls, gibbering about horrors from beyond space and time. Nothing can bring them out of it, and only an abundance of stuffed penguins seems to calm their ravings.
With their only hope of operating MegaTitans about as competent for combat as fluffy pet rabbits the military and civilian heads agree that the time has come. The authorisation of the reactivation of a secret Antarctic base.
Roll out: Stasis Project Cybertron.
Containing the only known beings capable of piloting a MegaTitan unaided.
Optimus Prime.
Megatron.
ISSUES
Test the MegaTitans
Build a new MegaTitan Green
Don't get shafted by Megatron
Mediate Autobot-Decepticon Conflict
Finish hybrid crewed MegaTitan Pink
Politics and spy games
Restore The Korea Zone
Rumours ask: Is there a God Machine?
Deal with tougher Titan Angels
THE PLAYERS
TRANSFORMERS
Note, statistics are given for Autobots and Deceptions on Transformers scale.
Optimus Prime
Autobots, Roll Out!
We Must Live Together With the Humans
Freedom Is the Right of All Sentient Beings
F: Incredible +4
A: Excellent +2
S: Amazing +5
E: Monstrous +6
R: Excellent +2
I: Excellent +2
P: Excellent +2
Resources Excellent (+2)
Popularity Remarkable (+3)
Other Skills
Incredible (+4) Blaster, Courage, Leadership, Warfare
Remarkable (+3) Body Armour
Excellent (+2) Speed: Truck Form, Drive
Good (+1) Engineering
Megatron
Decepticons, transform and rise up!
I'm In Charge!
I Deserve to Rule All Cybertron
Primes! We hates them, precious
F: Incredible +4
A: Excellent +2
S: Incredible +4
E: Amazing +5
R: Excellent +2
I: Excellent +2
P: Good +1
Resources Excellent (+2)
Popularity -Remarkable (-3)
Other Skills
Amazing (+5) Blaster
Remarkable (+3) Body Armour, Leadership, Warfare
Good (+1) Engineering, Speed
Bumblebee
Hot Car
The Least Likely Can Be the Most Dangerous
Must Prove Myself
F: Excellent +2
A: Incredible +4
S: Remarkable +3
E: Remarkable +3
R: Good +1
I: Remarkable +3
P: Excellent +2
Resources Good (+1)
Popularity Remarkable (+3)
Other Skills
Amazing (+5) Drive
Remarkable (+3) Speed: Car Form, Sonic Blaster
Excellent (+2) Body Armour
Good (+1) Engineering
Ironhide
Autobot Muscle
Hi-tech circuitry is no replacement for guts
Protecting is What I Do
F: Remarkable +3
A: Excellent +2
S: Amazing +5
E: Amazing +5
R: Typical +0
I: Good +1
P: Good +1
Resources Good (+1)
Popularity Good (+1)
Other Skills
Amazing (+5) Body Armour, Shield
Remarkable (+3) Blaster
Excellent (+2) Speed: Truck Form
Jazz
Stylish Autobot
Right Hand Autobot
Pop Culture is cool
F: Remarkable +3
A: Excellent +2
S: Remarkable +3
E: Remarkable +3
R: Typical +0
I: Good +1
P: Good +1
Resources Good (+1)
Popularity Excellent (+2)
Other Skills
Incredible (+4) Communications
Remarkable (+3) Blaster, Speed: Car Form
Excellent (+2) Body Armour, Contacts, Arts [Popular Culture]
PROJECT PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY
Civilian Head
Secretive Bureaucrat
F: Typical +0
A: Typical +0
S: Typical +0
E: Good +1
R: Excellent +2
I: Excellent +2
P: Excellent +2
Resources Incredible (+4)
Popularity Good (+1)
Other Skills
Incredible (+4) Administration, Politics
Military Head
Aging military genius
F: Excellent +2
A: Good +1
S: Excellent +2
E: Good +1
R: Good +1
I: Excellent +2
P: Excellent +2
Resources Incredible (+4)
Popularity Excellent (+2)
Other Skills
Incredible (+4) Leadership, Politics, Warfare
MegaTitan (Green/Orange generation)
F: Monstrous +6
A: Incredible +4
S: Monstrous +6
E: Monstrous +6
Other Skills
Monstrous (+6) Blaster
Amazing (+5) Body Armour
Incredible (+4) Speed
Titan Angel
F: Unearthly +7
A: Amazing +5
S: Unearthly +7
E: Unearthly +7
Other Skills
Unearthly (+7) Blaster
Monstrous (+6) Body Armour
Amazing (+5) Speed
ADVENTURING
The Titan Angels will keep coming. Probably getting worse. The third MegaTitan is to be a hybrid that requires one of the other Autobots [or Decepticons if that is how you fly] to pilot it, along with a team of humans. Eventually the Project wants them to be human only for obvious reasons. Any humans trying to operate the Green or Orange MegaTitans will be brainfried after a few minutes. As in out of Fate Points.
So player characters could be Autobots etc. or the team of humans working on the new MegaTitan - pilots, scientists, engineers, etc. It will require a crew of several to fly it. One robot, several small people.
Are the rumours about the God Machine true? Is there another level of Titan? How big is it? How does it work? Joining? A three level Matrioshka? Other?
SCALE
There are three :-
Human
Titan/Autobot/Decepticon
MegaTitan/Titan Angel
THE LADDER
Being a big Marvel Super Heroes fan from way back, this is how I like to think:
Value Adjective
+13 Cosmic 5 (Class 5000)
+12 Cosmic 3 (Class 3000)
+11 Cosmic 1 (Class 1000)
+10 Legendary Z (Shift Z)
+9 Legendary Y (Shift Y)
+8 Legendary X (Shift X)
+7 Unearthly (Epic)
+6 Monstrous (Fantastic)
+5 Amazing (Superb)
+4 Incredible (Great)
+3 Remarkable (Good)
+2 Excellent (Fair)
+1 Good (Average)
+0 Typical (Mediocre)
-1 Poor
-2 Feeble (Terrible)
-3 Awful 0 (Shift 0)
-4 Abysmal
FASERIP - basic human attributes
Physique is split compared to Core, into a Strength component and an Endurance component, the latter of which should be used for the Stress track. Reason is native intelligence.
Fighting (Fight)
Agility (Athletics)
Strength
Endurance
Reason
Intuition (Notice)
Psyche (Will)
secondary
Popularity is a measure of charisma, reputation and public influence. If you like, bad people can have a negative popularity ladder equivalent. Supervillains, mass murderers, ruthless thugs in The Ball, etc.
Popularity
Resources
REFERENCES
Neon Geneis Evangelion : Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion
Transformers: Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers
Ron Frazier’s FATE Transformers - http://evilhat.wikidot.com/community-fate-core-extensions