zeth wrote:If you got agile and you jump in a landmate, do you add your agile to it or just use the landmates?

I ran it with adding the Landmate's Agility and the character's together.

I use the "Lose 10 health and get -1" on your rolls for some games when I run OVA to get a bit of extra grit. What's driving my current exploration is the fact that whittling away certain Qualities/Abilities felt very dramatic and concrete. I was surprised to see tactile tactical game play...

Well the thing is it sounds good on paper but results in a lot of book work mid battle. Constantly recalculating your abilities. I don't think that would be a problem. The "constant" bit is definitely subjective and malleable. If it would need to be 20 points before taking an ability hit ...

Good Lord, I hated that in PDQ your qualities (abilities) take damage instead of damage coming from a separate pool of Health with a passion. I want easily to decipher HP bars! That is why I ditched PDQ and plan to run Ninja Burger with OVA. That's okay. Keep on keepin' on. I'm looking for a way to...

The rolled up Attack ability worked out great. During the play test I could look at a character sheet for a player and I didn't have to do any processing to figure out which subsystem I was looking at. Great streamlining.

I've been inspired by the PDQ system and how it handles damage. In PDQ your qualities (abilities) take damage instead of damage coming from a separate pool of points. So if you take a point of damage you can reduce your Sword Fighting quality by 1 rank. Working the general concept into OVA, I'm thin...

Clay, I've got a quick question. Will the Weapon ability exist under the revised rules or will it be replaced by the more encompassing Attack ? I'm statting up a Veritech for a project I'm working on ( http://platonicsolid.blogspot.com/2009/06/mecha-game-requirements.html ) and would like to be as f...

That's very cool. When I was a kid I found a baby snapping turtle (Maybe 2" across) on the road near my grandpap's farm. He was so weary that when I picked him up he didn't fight. So I took him home and put him into an aquarium. By the next summer he was the size of a dinner saucer and outgrew ...

Joe_Mello wrote:So uh, do we have a planned street date for the new edition?

Good question. I see it cropping up more and more the latest over at RPG.net

I'm officially following the OVA blog on mine.

I know what you mean. I usually ask people what they want their character to be like, what they want them to do. What makes their character stand out? And then I interactively work with them to make their character. Now, that's tough to do with 5 people at the table. But I found that if I devote an ...

Well, the idea is that if it's NOT a whole lot, you should not be using scale anyway. It's to represent things that are outside of each others league. If we were talking about +2 bonuses, you might as well keep that car as a +5 Quick. I also want to keep it simple. 5 is easy to remember because it'...

I'll have to take another look at the Vehicle ability. How you're describing how to handle the vehicles is exactly how I did it with Guges Landmates. Worked beautifully. I'm thinking about adding just a bit of grit to how I handle mecha. The plan right now is to break Health and Endurance down into ...

Hi all, I'm seriously running a Robotech game with OVA. The issue comes down to handling the scale of Mecha. I've had great success running an Appleseed-esque game with powersuits and Landmates. But those operate on a smaller scale that easily overlaps with personal scale effects. I'm thinking about...

Is there an ETA on the reboot?

I know what it's like to work on a book. I've been doing it for over a year myself.