MadBeardMan
May 17th, 2020, 00:45
Hi Folks,
Now that MGT2 v1.1.1 is finished and off to FG, I'm starting on the next iteration of the v1.1.X branch. As with v1.1.0 and v1.1.0a and now v1.1.1. the primary focus is to add extra support for items found in Book 2, Central Supply Catalogue.
I've asked for an update on the expected release date for CSC, however at best we still have space for another ruleset update.
[Fixed] NPC Armour Drag & Drop. You can now drag armour onto the NPC sheet that then populates the armour section
[Fixed] Full Auto Ammo use. A weapon with auto/3 that allows up to 3 attacks will use 3 ammo per attack
[Fixed] Adding Psionic Talents. You can now once again Drag Psionic Talents onto the Psionics Section (now in the Skills Tab)
[Updated] Core Rulebook Errata. Been sent errata for the Core Rulebook (includes Impossible Difficulty, and another few pages - both Core rulebook and player reference will get this)
[Updated] Armour skills. Automate the skill checks if a character is wearing Armour without the skill, for example, a Traveller with no Vacc Suit skill who is in a suit that requires Vacc Suit 2 would have DM-3 to all his checks, if they had Vacc Suit 0, they would be DM-2 (-1 DM for every point missing)
[New] Effects system. Add an effects system, supported are Fire, Fatigued and Unconcious. (Fatigued moved to the effects system from the Actions Tab)
[New] Weapon Traits. Bulky and Very Bulky Traits now supported, negative DM's will be applied based on the Travellers STR against 9 (Bulky) or 12 (Very Bulky)
[New] Weapon Traits. Dangerous and Very Dangerous Traits now supported, if the weapon attack effect is less/equal too -5 (Dangerous) or -3 (Very Dangerous) the weapon explodes
[Updated] Skill Roll Results Effect. Is now shown separately from the main text, making it easier to pick it out
[New] Modifier Window. You can drag the above Results Effect into the Modifier window and it that will be the Modifier for the next roll
[Updated] NPCs. Have now imported the Core Rulebook NPC's as NPC's. The rulebook reference manual section will also be updated
[Updated] Skills/Equipment. Clicking the 'Edit' button will now show an Add button, clicking these adds an empty record
[Updated] NPC Skills. If you drag over a specialist skill, ie Athletics (dexterity) it will be set at 1 and the base skill will be added if it's not already at 0
[Updated] NPC Skills. Specialist Skills will not allow the Base Skill to increase above 0 if using Drag and Drop
[Updated] NPC Skills. Specialist Skills will now increase it you drag an existing specialist skill (of the exact same match), just like non-specialist skills
[Updated] Weapon Traits. The tooltips for the Weapon Traits fields gives a basic description of the traits listed
[Fixed] Ammo Damages. Fixed the error when double click/drag the Ammo Damage
[Updated] Weapon Ammo List. The + will not be shown if the weapons isn't a slug weapon, or the Ammo List for that weapon is empty
[Updated] Weapon Ammo List. The + will not be opened unless the + button is clicked, then it will open or close depending on if the list is shown etc
Core Rulebook errata (going into the Players ref if applicable)
Chapter One: Traveller Creation
Page 15, Education Events Table
If drafted, enter the new career next term, but do not graduate. This (and similar effects) can cause a Traveller to be drafted more than once.
Page 16, Commission
Travellers can always roll for advancement, whatever the outcome of a commission roll.
Page 45-46, Benefits
Change any reference of the Old or Outdated Ships table to the Spacecraft Quirks table on page 164.
Chapter Two: Skills and Tasks
Page 58, Task Difficulty table
Add an Impossible difficulty at the end of the table, Target Number 16+
Page 67, Medic
Change time frame for First Aid from 1D minutes to 1D rounds
Chapter Three: Combat
Page 70, Combat Timing
Travellers may freely delay their action until later in the turn. The initiative roll simply indicates the first opportunity to act.
Page 74, Damage Effects
When characteristics have been eroded by damage, their DMs should be recalculated and the impaired DM is used until the damage is healed.
Page 74, Grappling
Change second sentence of last paragraph to: To grapple an enemy, the Traveller makes an opposed Melee (unarmed) check, using either their STR or DEX DM, against their target.
Page 75, Grappling
After ‘inflict damage equal to…’ say ‘This damage ignores any armour.
Page 75, Auto and Aiming
Attacks using the Auto trait Auto lose any benefits gained from aiming.
Page 75, Radiation
Change ‘anyone close to the firer, target and the line of fire in-between the two’ to simply ‘the target’
Chapter Four: Encounters and Dangers
Page 76, Falling
Armour does not protect against damage sustained from falling.
Chapter Five: Equipment
Page 94, Skill penalties
In second paragraph, change DM-2 to DM-1 and DM-4 to DM-2. Also state that not having the skill at all inflicts the usual DM-3 unskilled penalty instead.
Page 96, Self-Sealing
Only repairs minor damage - getting shot or stabbed is about the limit of the self-sealing capability to manage.
Page 106, Intellect Program
Intellect 3, TL 14, missingprice is Cr200000.
Page 101, Wafer Jacks
The Intelligence Interface does not use any Bandwidth, so all available Bandwidth may be used for Expert software. Swapping out software is done with physical media and is not possible in the heat of the moment.
Page 104, Using Computers
Add a line: A computer must be of a TL equal to or greater than that of the software in order to be able to run it, regardless of available Bandwidth.
Page 117, Shields
Change Melee 0 to Melee 1.
Page 123, Grenades
Missed attacks with grenades will generally result in nothing interesting happening unless there are dangerous or amusing targets nearby, at the discretion of the referee.
Chapter Six: Vehicles
Page 134, Vehicle Collisions
Damage passengers characters ignores any personal armour.
Chapter Seven: Spacecraft Operations
Page 145, Encounters
Second paragraph, change ‘roll D66 twice’ to just ‘roll D66’.
Page 146, Space Encounters Table
Make the following encounters bold:
02, 11, 21, 23, 24, 51, 56, 61, 71, 75, 93
Page 150, Sensor Target table
Swap column data (not column headings!) for Visual and Active Radar/Lidar – basically, active radar becomes better than visual.
Chapter Eight: Space Combat
Page 162, Close Range Combat
Dogfighting does not cost an action - it is automatic if two hostile vessels wish to interact at a close enough range. Thrust expenditure may be done once engaged, but is otherwise done at the usual time.
Escaping from a Dogfight is as simple as expending enough Thrust to move beyond Close Range.
Chapter Eleven: Trade
Page 207: Passage and Freight Costs Table
Freight payment is per ton.
Page 208, Mail
Mail deliveries are priced as a flat-rate, and the payment does not scale with distance.
Effects
There's a forum post here, please discuss options for Effects in that post, feel free to comment here saying you have done.
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?50293-Effects
I'm keen to fix this to a 2 week development cycle, though possibly longer if work/family life get in the way.
Cheers,
MBM
Now that MGT2 v1.1.1 is finished and off to FG, I'm starting on the next iteration of the v1.1.X branch. As with v1.1.0 and v1.1.0a and now v1.1.1. the primary focus is to add extra support for items found in Book 2, Central Supply Catalogue.
I've asked for an update on the expected release date for CSC, however at best we still have space for another ruleset update.
[Fixed] NPC Armour Drag & Drop. You can now drag armour onto the NPC sheet that then populates the armour section
[Fixed] Full Auto Ammo use. A weapon with auto/3 that allows up to 3 attacks will use 3 ammo per attack
[Fixed] Adding Psionic Talents. You can now once again Drag Psionic Talents onto the Psionics Section (now in the Skills Tab)
[Updated] Core Rulebook Errata. Been sent errata for the Core Rulebook (includes Impossible Difficulty, and another few pages - both Core rulebook and player reference will get this)
[Updated] Armour skills. Automate the skill checks if a character is wearing Armour without the skill, for example, a Traveller with no Vacc Suit skill who is in a suit that requires Vacc Suit 2 would have DM-3 to all his checks, if they had Vacc Suit 0, they would be DM-2 (-1 DM for every point missing)
[New] Effects system. Add an effects system, supported are Fire, Fatigued and Unconcious. (Fatigued moved to the effects system from the Actions Tab)
[New] Weapon Traits. Bulky and Very Bulky Traits now supported, negative DM's will be applied based on the Travellers STR against 9 (Bulky) or 12 (Very Bulky)
[New] Weapon Traits. Dangerous and Very Dangerous Traits now supported, if the weapon attack effect is less/equal too -5 (Dangerous) or -3 (Very Dangerous) the weapon explodes
[Updated] Skill Roll Results Effect. Is now shown separately from the main text, making it easier to pick it out
[New] Modifier Window. You can drag the above Results Effect into the Modifier window and it that will be the Modifier for the next roll
[Updated] NPCs. Have now imported the Core Rulebook NPC's as NPC's. The rulebook reference manual section will also be updated
[Updated] Skills/Equipment. Clicking the 'Edit' button will now show an Add button, clicking these adds an empty record
[Updated] NPC Skills. If you drag over a specialist skill, ie Athletics (dexterity) it will be set at 1 and the base skill will be added if it's not already at 0
[Updated] NPC Skills. Specialist Skills will not allow the Base Skill to increase above 0 if using Drag and Drop
[Updated] NPC Skills. Specialist Skills will now increase it you drag an existing specialist skill (of the exact same match), just like non-specialist skills
[Updated] Weapon Traits. The tooltips for the Weapon Traits fields gives a basic description of the traits listed
[Fixed] Ammo Damages. Fixed the error when double click/drag the Ammo Damage
[Updated] Weapon Ammo List. The + will not be shown if the weapons isn't a slug weapon, or the Ammo List for that weapon is empty
[Updated] Weapon Ammo List. The + will not be opened unless the + button is clicked, then it will open or close depending on if the list is shown etc
Core Rulebook errata (going into the Players ref if applicable)
Chapter One: Traveller Creation
Page 15, Education Events Table
If drafted, enter the new career next term, but do not graduate. This (and similar effects) can cause a Traveller to be drafted more than once.
Page 16, Commission
Travellers can always roll for advancement, whatever the outcome of a commission roll.
Page 45-46, Benefits
Change any reference of the Old or Outdated Ships table to the Spacecraft Quirks table on page 164.
Chapter Two: Skills and Tasks
Page 58, Task Difficulty table
Add an Impossible difficulty at the end of the table, Target Number 16+
Page 67, Medic
Change time frame for First Aid from 1D minutes to 1D rounds
Chapter Three: Combat
Page 70, Combat Timing
Travellers may freely delay their action until later in the turn. The initiative roll simply indicates the first opportunity to act.
Page 74, Damage Effects
When characteristics have been eroded by damage, their DMs should be recalculated and the impaired DM is used until the damage is healed.
Page 74, Grappling
Change second sentence of last paragraph to: To grapple an enemy, the Traveller makes an opposed Melee (unarmed) check, using either their STR or DEX DM, against their target.
Page 75, Grappling
After ‘inflict damage equal to…’ say ‘This damage ignores any armour.
Page 75, Auto and Aiming
Attacks using the Auto trait Auto lose any benefits gained from aiming.
Page 75, Radiation
Change ‘anyone close to the firer, target and the line of fire in-between the two’ to simply ‘the target’
Chapter Four: Encounters and Dangers
Page 76, Falling
Armour does not protect against damage sustained from falling.
Chapter Five: Equipment
Page 94, Skill penalties
In second paragraph, change DM-2 to DM-1 and DM-4 to DM-2. Also state that not having the skill at all inflicts the usual DM-3 unskilled penalty instead.
Page 96, Self-Sealing
Only repairs minor damage - getting shot or stabbed is about the limit of the self-sealing capability to manage.
Page 106, Intellect Program
Intellect 3, TL 14, missingprice is Cr200000.
Page 101, Wafer Jacks
The Intelligence Interface does not use any Bandwidth, so all available Bandwidth may be used for Expert software. Swapping out software is done with physical media and is not possible in the heat of the moment.
Page 104, Using Computers
Add a line: A computer must be of a TL equal to or greater than that of the software in order to be able to run it, regardless of available Bandwidth.
Page 117, Shields
Change Melee 0 to Melee 1.
Page 123, Grenades
Missed attacks with grenades will generally result in nothing interesting happening unless there are dangerous or amusing targets nearby, at the discretion of the referee.
Chapter Six: Vehicles
Page 134, Vehicle Collisions
Damage passengers characters ignores any personal armour.
Chapter Seven: Spacecraft Operations
Page 145, Encounters
Second paragraph, change ‘roll D66 twice’ to just ‘roll D66’.
Page 146, Space Encounters Table
Make the following encounters bold:
02, 11, 21, 23, 24, 51, 56, 61, 71, 75, 93
Page 150, Sensor Target table
Swap column data (not column headings!) for Visual and Active Radar/Lidar – basically, active radar becomes better than visual.
Chapter Eight: Space Combat
Page 162, Close Range Combat
Dogfighting does not cost an action - it is automatic if two hostile vessels wish to interact at a close enough range. Thrust expenditure may be done once engaged, but is otherwise done at the usual time.
Escaping from a Dogfight is as simple as expending enough Thrust to move beyond Close Range.
Chapter Eleven: Trade
Page 207: Passage and Freight Costs Table
Freight payment is per ton.
Page 208, Mail
Mail deliveries are priced as a flat-rate, and the payment does not scale with distance.
Effects
There's a forum post here, please discuss options for Effects in that post, feel free to comment here saying you have done.
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?50293-Effects
I'm keen to fix this to a 2 week development cycle, though possibly longer if work/family life get in the way.
Cheers,
MBM