L5R Campaign Log Update

   The Borderlands of Twilight, Mist upon Tablets of Emerald. Alex, Michio, Shigure, Okari, Ninsei, and Kochige.

   While Alex, Kochige, and Okari let

On to the New Technology

   First up for today is chapter eight of the Advanced Battletech Rules – Exotic Systems.  This chapter covers the new technologies which are either presumed to be widely available or which may be purchased as special resources during game setup.

And more for today:

   Next up for today we have Ilthulsin the Outcast – a renegade horror from the underworld now accompanying the party in the Federation-Apocolypse game and yet another d20 point-buy example for Eclipse: The Codex Persona.

   Secondarily, here’s the next chapter in the Level Four Battletech Rules – Technical Improvements.

Champions Log Session 21: Wherefur Art Thou?

   By the time everyone else got back, the situation was approaching total meltdown. None of the

And Back to the General Warfare

   First up for tonight is Chapter Six of the Battletech Level Four Rules – the Battle Setup tables. I’ll try to get the next section of the Champions log up a little later on and the L5R log updates before friday.

Eclipse: The Codex Persona Web Expansion

   Well, the reconstructed Eclipse Web Expansion is ready for download, and just barely on schedule. This version has been updated with the basic 3.5 races and a few other race examples, as well as the Merchant L1-20 design example, the Errata and FAQ, and a few other items as well as the rules for no-experience points and no-levels play it originally contained.

Final Editing

   Final editing on the reconstructed Eclipse Web Supplement is taking longer than I thought it would: still, with any luck, it will be up sometime tomorrow.

Federation: Apocalypse. Campaign Log Session Four

   Well, it was off to the gravesite of Michelle Matthington, the Praetorian. Even if no one knew what her relationship to people going crazy was, she was one of their better clues at the moment: she had seemed to be defending

General News:

   Well, I’m almost done reconstructing the Eclipse web supplement, with any luck that should be up in the next day or so. I’ve also set up a private blog for the Federation-Apocalypse game at http://apocralypse.wordpress.com/ – unfortunately that’s currently limited to active players only.

Continued Warfare

   First up for today is Chapter Five of the Level Four Battletech Rules – the strategic tables for the Economy, Espionage, Explorations, Politics, Trade, and Alliance Benefits and Costs.

Our Items for Today:

   So far today it’s last weeks Champions Campaign Log Update (Below) and the next chapter of the Level Four Battletech Rules: the Turn Structure and Strategic Options. I’m reconstructing and re-editing the file on running Eclipse: The Codex Persona d20 games without using Experience Points: the original dates back to the playtest groups and the original updated version seems to have gone missing.

Champions Log Session 20: A Spirit of Mischief

   Whether fortunately or unfortunately, cleaning up after the battle with Tyrannon left the White Necromancer busy tracing spirits and performing banishments, the Chauffeur rushing people to the hospital and chasing the demons “Satan” had allowed to escape, and Ranko (as the only one well-enough known to be recognized) explaining to the Canadian authorities. That left The Hauntsman in charge back at the Orphanage – and Uncle Aldis had heard about “Satan”, and the demon attacks on the place, and had flown in to pick up his nieces and nephew.

Federation-Apocalypse: Life in Core III: – Law

   Law in core these days is pretty libertarian: humanity reached the conclusion that there wasn’t much point in trying to protect people from themselves long before the Manifold opened and made the entire discussion something of a moot point. The computers will

Up for today:

   First up for today is the next chapter of the Battletech Level Four rules: creating the starmap and setting up the initial player domains. Those 20-year-old files are proving more of a bother to convert than I’d hoped.

   If there’s time later on, I may try to get some other material up. There may not be time since – sadly – I have a funeral to attend: Clinton Walker used to be a regular player in the Shandar and Champions games, but recently passed away. He’ll be missed.

Character Picture

   Crossposted from my player blog, this is the picture that everyone was looking at Friday. This should give Brian an idea of just what my character (Monty Tabard) did for a living before he became aware of the Manifold.

Federation-Apocalypse: Life in Core II: – Wealth

   To continue with  the information on Core, and in response to some questions, here are various ways in which characters may be “paid” for their services.

   Wealth and Business covers

Federation-Apocalypse: Life in Core I – People and Economy

   The People: Most people born in the core – educated by

Battletech Rules, Continued

   For today, it’s the second chapter of the Level Four Battletech Rules – the basics on building and maintaining your military forces. I’ll try to get another chapter or two up tomorrow.

Battletech: The Sundered Sphere

   First up for today is the first chapter of the old Battletech Level Four rules – a strategic system for creating your own interstellar realm, technologies, and unique military forces in an attempt to reunite the Inner Sphere – or at least rise to dominate your neighbors. I’ll be posting the rest of the system over the next week or so: it has to be exhumed from the old files and reformatted…

Excessively Busy:

   Unfortunately, there really won’t be time today to get much of anything up. I’ll try to get up some more material tomorrow. In any case, the Legends of the Five Rings game will be tonight as usual.