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[Firemage]

So i'm considering giving the TT-RPG a bout with my rp group. We're vets of many pen and paper rpgs, across 3 and a half editions of D&D, 2 of Exalted, a number of classic World of Darkness runs, BESM across 3 editions, and Star Wars across 2 editions. So i am no newbie to pen and paper.

But how does the lower is better gunnery/pilot system from the normal TT rules work out with the higher is better gunnery/pilot system in the rpg's more expansive rule kit?

-G

[Egomane]

Which edition of the Mechwarrior RPG are you playing?

I only have experience with the second edition, and there, the better you got, the higher the ranks you had in a skill, the lower were the final base value for success calculations, which translated perfectly to the tabletop

Edited by Egomane, 17 July 2014 - 11:50 PM.

[LoPanShui]

In AToW I think it's:

7 - Skill.

So a 4 Skill in AToW is 3 in Tabletop.

[Firemage]

LoPanShui, on 18 July 2014 - 05:49 AM, said:

In AToW I think it's:

7 - Skill.

So a 4 Skill in AToW is 3 in Tabletop.

Any idea where that rule lurks?

[Sears]

Page 40 in A time of War
If you go to the battletech forums there's a role paying section, one of the recent topics is the RPG to tabletop gunnery and piloting conversions