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[Danghen Woolf]

So I have been creating mechwarriors for my MegaMek games for a while and using the 3rd Edition lifepaths to create feasible backgrounds. Has anyone else done this? Since the character generation rules for MW:RPG are so convoluted, especially in A Time of War, I randomly roll the origin for LP1 and then generate a plausible path based on the options available. I roll the events as instructed and apply those before moving to the next LP stage. There are actually few paths that create valid mechwarriors without pencil-whipping the rolls or tables. For example one of my pilots had this as a generated path:

Seo-Young Hwang "Jasmine"

Circinus Federation

LP1: Farm
Event: Most successful farm on the planet

LP2: High School
Event: Local sports hero

LP3-1: Military Enlistment
Event: Training stand out

LP3-2: AIT (Mechwarrior)
Event: None

LP4-1: Tour of Duty - Inner Sphere
Event: Promotion

LP4-2: Tour of Duty - Inner Sphere
Event: Raiding Missions

LP4-3: Tour of Duty - Inner Sphere
Event: Raiding Missions
Event: Promotion

Rolled skills on generation were:

PS: 3
GS: 2
Small Arms: 5
Tactics: +1
Leadership: +2

Melee Specialist
Iron Man

I have left out all of the bonuses and other effects of the events but here is the personnel file I created to go along with the rolls.

Originally from the Circinus Federation,Seo-Toung, was raised in a farming combine on Zorn's Keep. Her family was quite wealthy and controlled majority shares in many of the surrounding farms as well as holding the titles to some of the processing and shipping facilities on the planet. Her parents were not the rich aristocratic nobles so common in the Inner Sphere and ingraned a work ethic into their children from a young age and even participating in the day-to-day operations of the farms themselves. This ethic combined with her natural physical aptitude led Seo-Young to persue several sports in school and earned more accolades for the family and even early acceptance into military service. Once enlisted her natural aptitude shined again and she was selected for advanced training with the Black Warriors.
Her first garrison mission was rather uneventful but when given the task of working with some raw recruits she excelled and was rewarded with an early promotion to Lieutenant. This showed she was ready to lead other mechwarriors and she was immediately tasked with tracking and destroying several raiding pirate bands operating in Circinus space. One notable mission included "Jasmine" battering a pirate Warhammer with its own arm. While comical, it was not known at the time that the pilot of the Warhammer was the leader of the pirate raiding unit. Several more successful missions resulted in another promotion to Captain and her own company of Black Warriors. Her successful time in service and increasing noteriety made her a target for several "career" officers who made it their mission not only to discredit her but completely undermine her command.
Once the conspiracy was found and revealed to the command, another officer assisted in setting all of the records straight but even that was not enough. She asked for a discharge from her service, was given an ancient Shootist battlemech as a reward for her time as a Black Warrior and left the Circinus Federation to seek a life as a mercenary, forming the ...

Edit: Add name, callsign, and origin...

Edited by Danghen Woolf, 29 October 2015 - 05:07 PM.

[SnagaDance]

Excellent translation from those random rolls towards a believable character I say!

[Danghen Woolf]

SnagaDance, on 27 October 2015 - 11:28 AM, said:

Excellent translation from those random rolls towards a believable character I say!

Thanks, I have been working a few others but the time it takes sometimes to translate them all into believable "fictional" characters can get away from me. If anyone wants to step up I can post some and we can turn it into a collective mechwarrior generator, haha. Might help some GMs.

[Danghen Woolf]

Second character...

Domingo Rousseau "Raptor"

Draconis Combine

LP1: Street
Event: Hotwiring hovercars paid the bills

LP2: Street
Event: Powerful underworld mentor

LP3: Yakuza
Event: DCMS scouts discover natural aptitude (Ghost Regiment)

LP3: Tour of Duty - Inner Sphere
Event: Captured

PS: 3
GS: 1
Tactics: +1
Leadership: +1

Melee Specialist
Natural Aptitude: Piloting

Living on the streets in the Draconis Combine is a life few would ever survive but the natural skills that Domingo was born with carried him not only through the toughest places on Tok Do but also managed to get him noticed by a benevolent man with connections to the Yakuza. While the jobs were not always pleasant, nor were they always illegal his kyodai always taught him that to survive is trust in ones self above all else. He was accepted by few of the members of the group due to his name but once he had proven his loyalty they gradually warmed up to him fully brining him into the organization after the death of his kyodai.
Several years after the old man's passing he was working directly for the Yakuza and holding a steady job in one of the many facilities owned by Alshain Weapons running one of the loadermechs on the testing grounds. An unfortunate incident with one of the mechwarriors accidentally finding a knife in his throat gave him an opportunity to pilot a 'mech on an exercise. What he did not know was that the leader of the exercise was working with the DCMS to find new pilots for on of the Ghost Regiments that had been formed a few years before.
Domingo's natural aptitude and tenacity allowed him to be recruited and after training put him on a mission running rebel and bandits to ground. When a lucky shot from a soldier's SRM penetrated his armor and detonated an ammo bin he was forced to eject from his 'mech and was captured. Even though he managed to escape his disgrace at having been disabled and captured by infantry left a burning brand on his record that would ensure that he would never be in the DCMS again nor would his former Yakuza brothers accept him.
He took what savings he had left, called in a few favors and headed to Outreach to see if even he could find a unit there to call home.

Any experts please feel free to chime in, I have never been keen on the DC...

Edit: Add callsign...

Edited by Danghen Woolf, 29 October 2015 - 05:07 PM.