I'm just started to rebuild my TNE collection after a regrettable sell-off a while back, and remembered some interesting material in "World Tamer's Handbook." Not only did that book give us great stats for blackpowder weapons, but it also introduced a neat campaign variation: the colony.
I seem to remember it being introduced as a multi-year contract the PCs could sign on to (kind of as a break from regular adventuring.) The PCs head up a from-scratch colony on one of the backside worlds and get to negotiate the pain of famine, civil insurrection, crime and shiploads of newly arrived penal colonists. Being GDW, these events are all handled with a merciless series of point-based charts that factor in botched leadership rolls and the like.
Has anyone given this a spin or pirated the charts for another game? I'm reminded of one guy who ran a TNE game using "Cadillacs and Dinosaurs" as a lost colony on a dinosuar-preserve world. Likewise, for anyone who has the book handy (hi there Liam), let me know what you think the strengths and weaknesses of the chart/system are.
P.S. Speaking of rebuilding my collection, I am absurdly happy to have recently won a near-mint copy of the Deluxe boxed set TNE: the "Mark I, Mod 1" version no less!
I seem to remember it being introduced as a multi-year contract the PCs could sign on to (kind of as a break from regular adventuring.) The PCs head up a from-scratch colony on one of the backside worlds and get to negotiate the pain of famine, civil insurrection, crime and shiploads of newly arrived penal colonists. Being GDW, these events are all handled with a merciless series of point-based charts that factor in botched leadership rolls and the like.
Has anyone given this a spin or pirated the charts for another game? I'm reminded of one guy who ran a TNE game using "Cadillacs and Dinosaurs" as a lost colony on a dinosuar-preserve world. Likewise, for anyone who has the book handy (hi there Liam), let me know what you think the strengths and weaknesses of the chart/system are.
P.S. Speaking of rebuilding my collection, I am absurdly happy to have recently won a near-mint copy of the Deluxe boxed set TNE: the "Mark I, Mod 1" version no less!
