Hi all, I ran a pretty interesting post-apoc mecha game yesterday influenced a bit by Appleseed. I modeled mechs as templates to be overlaid onto the character pilots. LANDMATE MECHA Characteristics: Agile +1 Armor 2 Flight +1 Life Support 2 Sensors +1 Strong +3 Size -2 (12' tall) Weapon System Opt...

If it's only heroes allowed, then Shou and Karis tie for my favorite. If we expanded the roster to all sample characters, then I'd go with Acacia and Saspar. Victorian Goth Devil May Cry? Hells yes! Hello Sadinotna, I'm sorry about the OVA villains. As a matter of fact, the forum's poll function on...

Example: Invulnerability: This power is not to be confused with Armor, although it is a complimentary power. Each rank of this power comletely ignores any "normal" damage of it's rank or lower. Normal being, but not limited to, conventional 21st century weaponry (up to and including nucle...

Hello everyone. Since I just saw Transformers at the local movie theater, it's natural for me to ask this question here: Transformers were originally devised by the Takara corporation in Japan, and are also hugely popular over there (with several of the robots having different names than in the Amer...

In fact I had thought about making use of the Power Move ability for Lina. I just couldn't get my mind made up that quickly on whether to use Power Move or Arcane Magic. I figured that the various big spells could always be Arcane Magic mimicking a Power Move. I could try to adapt/convert the magic ...

Just because it should fit right into this thread, and because someone just mentioned Lina Inverse from Slayers in another tread: Here is, as an example of the conversion BESM (2e) to OVA, Lina Inverse in the OVA system. I based this right on the officially approved Slayers stats in the BESM book, &...

I chose Karis because she's very much a futuristic Lina from Slayers: out to prove something, but not always taken seriously due to being perceived as too young (due to small chest size). Also, she's hot-headed like Lina, and is sensitive about her (lack of) chest. ~_^ And let's face it, having a r...

Hello. At the Celtic Con in Nuertingen, Germany, I am going to run my next convention demo of OVA on September 8th. This has now been officially confirmed, and you can see my announced game session on the con's website among the various other announced games: http://www.celticcon.de/ For those inter...

Too bad. Indeed I liked The Starstone Treasure and ran at least the first 50% of it at a convention. The only trouble I had with it was that my players instantly foresaw that the genetically altered agents belonged to Zurkrieg's organization, and that one of my player-characters was a Tokyo policema...

I just realized that this could make a neat idea for a poll here on the forum. So, do you have a favorite from among the characters introduced in the OVA book? Any of the heroes or villains in there? In the poll above, I listed only the heroes. If you want to, you can state your reasons for liking (...

It's a good thing I didn't announce a release date for OVA and then push it back nearly a whole year in monthly increments or anything. :shock: But thanks for the vote of support. :D As a related question: Are you planning to put out more short adventure PDFs, like the Starstone Treasure? You could...

I'm not disappointed. It's much better for game writers to take their time. I know that from my own projects, some of which - like movie scripts - basically went through several rounds of rewrites. Saying that a book is not finished yet or will still take a while to be really completed is, IMHO, muc...

The subject line kind of says it all. I've wanted to ask Clay whether he could let us know when, approximately, OVA Mecha and OVA Fantasy could be released. Any dates? I haven't seen any real, hard news about them on the Wise Turtle website. So far, I only know the titles. I guess that these two sup...

That's all right. Thank you, TBP. I am usually so bad with game math and numbers all around that I wanted to make sure I got the calculation right this time. :wink: As a GM, I wouldn't have a problem with the ruling that some of the Endurance becomes temporarily unavailable. That's a good ruling, in...

I think that text box will help the game and lessen the problem of players using Endurance for Drama Dice too much. But this leads to another question: Suppose I have a character with a total of 40 Endurance (the default score). That character burns up 30 Endurance for a Miracle, then goes to a comb...