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Re: Honorverse RPGing...

PostPosted:Sun Feb 23, 2020 7:58 pm
by Jeremy Carsten
Not SITS! That's a long, long game in itself, and while good at ship combat, not good at what people are doing to contribute to said combat. Which is what reminded me of STA...ship combat the ship is just the tool a person uses.

Re: Honorverse RPGing...

PostPosted:Tue Feb 25, 2020 8:09 pm
by CAPT Thom Shartle, QMB
Peter Gold wrote:
Sun Feb 23, 2020 7:22 pm
Jeremy Carsten wrote:Absolutely, any system chosen really needs to focus on combat and diplomacy (the two things we really see people doing in the Honorverse).

Sadly I've not gotten very far with this.
Maybe.
Most of the combat we've seen has been at the ship to ship level. For that you want SITS. Or see if someone is going to make a simpler version of such a game.



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SITS is unsuited to RPG's. There are plenty of examples of Marine action starting in On Basilisk Station with all the action against the Stilties, Searching the merchanter ships and the Havenite Agent's Provocateur camps, In "Honor of the Queen" when they raid Blackbird, Ship clearing in tons of books, etc.

A good example would be capturing a pirate ship - Bridge Crew could run the Ship Combat portion and then the Marines need ot do a boarding action!

Re: Honorverse RPGing...

PostPosted:Tue Feb 25, 2020 9:59 pm
by Peter Gold
Thom Shartle, CDR wrote:
Peter Gold wrote:
Sun Feb 23, 2020 7:22 pm
Jeremy Carsten wrote:Absolutely, any system chosen really needs to focus on combat and diplomacy (the two things we really see people doing in the Honorverse).

Sadly I've not gotten very far with this.
Maybe.
Most of the combat we've seen has been at the ship to ship level. For that you want SITS. Or see if someone is going to make a simpler version of such a game.



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SITS is unsuited to RPG's. There are plenty of examples of Marine action starting in On Basilisk Station with all the action against the Stilties, Searching the merchanter ships and the Havenite Agent's Provocateur camps, In "Honor of the Queen" when they raid Blackbird, Ship clearing in tons of books, etc.

A good example would be capturing a pirate ship - Bridge Crew could run the Ship Combat portion and then the Marines need ot do a boarding action!
Yeah but the comment was about ship to ship combat not the rpg side.

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Re: Honorverse RPGing...

PostPosted:Mon May 18, 2020 5:00 pm
by Ben Overmyer
I've read through the A Routine Custom Inspection self-contained adventure put out by Final Sword Productions. The system it uses is the D6 Epic Core rules, a quick-start version of which is present in the book. It's basically a variant of the old D6 system from West End Games.

Ship-to-ship combat is handled fairly well, as is interpersonal combat. Diplomacy is more nuanced in this system than I've seen in others - there are individual skills for Bargain, Bluff, Intimidate, Persuade, and Charm.

I would love to see a more polished version of this get published. As it stands, A Routine Custom Inspection offers a good system, a sampler of Honorverse item and ship stats, and some interesting ideas, but the presentation is really rough. I bought it because it's the only Honorverse RPG product out there, but I'd want to see a big improvement in layout and artwork if they came out with an Honorverse core rulebook.

Re: Honorverse RPGing...

PostPosted:Tue May 19, 2020 8:15 am
by Alex Shaffer
As of right now, there is an RPG they are working on, not sure when it will come out, but they are working on it.

Re: Honorverse RPGing...

PostPosted:Tue May 19, 2020 1:47 pm
by Ben Overmyer
Alex Shaffer wrote:
Tue May 19, 2020 8:15 am
As of right now, there is an RPG they are working on, not sure when it will come out, but they are working on it.
I'm aware of that. I tried to volunteer to help with layout (as that's what I'm best at), but I think they assumed I wanted to help write/index content and put me in a Facebook group for that. This was prior to the unfortunate passing of Daniel Scott Palter. Following that event, I haven't seen much communication on any front from Final Sword Productions.