Re: Re: POLITICIANS AND OTHERS IN GAMING

LASERLIGHT!

OOOH, HOW RIGHT  YOU ARE ABOUT PAIN IN THE ASS DEVELOPEMENT!

AND how right you are about personalizing those little	lead, pewter,
and plastic lumps! 

some folks still  use the  complete  system, and  the time  consuming
developement as layed out in the  book.

LOL, others (me too!) as we have gotten older, have used  anumber of
other things, including just  picking out the  parts of the profile to
match the  desired NPC role and then assigning	a physcical description
.   

and it works for us-for 32 years? since  1974.

but what  ever the paperwork involved in developement, when it comes
down to  the tabletop  figiht,	the verbal short hand  physical
description does  get usd, along   with  some sort of  qualifier;

For OERJAN, who seems lost here;

during the  attack on the   NAC advanced  spaceport,  troops from
CAL-TEX  grunts  were confronted by an NAC naval construction rating
driving a MARK	XXX bulldozer.this rating, although repeatedly hit by
CAL-TEX weaposn  fire,	used his  dozer to push 3   light tanks off the
edge of the mountain road, and then  rammed a fuel cell , flooding the
area with explose fuel, before	expiring. subsequent  detonation of the
fuel forced  the surviving CAL-TEX troopers to run for their lives to
avoid the  firestorm.

the NPC profile  for the  NAC rating  indiicated that he was above
average height, in his	mid 30s,  short  tempered, prone to taking
idiotic risks, and acustom to commanding  others in  civilian life.
when something comes up, no matter how unpleasant,  his motto is, "A
MAN'S GOTTA DO WHAT A MAN'S GOTTA DO!" pS ; he is also a bit of a jerk! 

OR

there is a HUGE MOTHER OF A BULLDOZER  clanking out of the  woods on
your flank, driven by an NAC rating who LOOKS JUST LIKE  JOHN WAYNE in
the FIGHTING SEABEES . . . .