Hi,
I have written most of a PC Windows-based MT character generator.
It will generate Army, Marine or Navy characters using the _advanced_ MT
rules. I'm hoping it's a bit more advanced than anything previously seen:
each 'random' event - assignments, resolution, etc. - you get to roll
the dice but you can also opt for automatic success or failure, 'high' rolls,
use of Brownie points, etc. On assignments, skill rolls, etc. you can ignore
the dice roll and just pick the option you want.
What I wanted to do was to upload this simple version to TML and, if people
like it I might do some more work on it. If GDW liked it, perhaps they'd like
to pay some nominal sum (I'd settle for a few thousand dollars or c. 40 pounds;
the latter would allow me to buy TNE & FF&S) :) to do a complete program
including all the basic character types and possibly the racial specialities
(as detailed in the Vilani/Vargr and Solomani/Aslan supplements). If they
sent me a free copy of the deluxe TNE (including the 1 mod 1 updated rule
books, of course) I might consider writing an equivalent program for TNE ;)
I don't know how many people out there use Windows on PCs but I'd be very
grateful if anyone who is interested, and downloads the program, could give
me some feed-back (directly rather than filling up TML) on errata, usefulness,
etc. The program is TCH.EXE (a self-extracting ZIP v2 file) and is found as
follows (thanks for the info James):
Host Symbolic:ftp.engrg.uwo.ca
Numeric:129.100.100.12
Alias:sunbane.engrg.uwo.ca
Directory:/pub/traveller/software
File:tch.exe
I must emphasise it is only an _alpha_ test program intended to get feedback.
However, any comments are appreciated. One last point, I could only fit
everything on the screen if run in 800x600 mode (16 or 256 colours). If this
really mucks things up for a lot of people I'll try to squeeze the next
version into 640x480.
TO CAT USERS/MEMBERS:
I did send off to join you guys and got two confirmatory messages back but
I can't remember where to mail or anything. If any of you are watching this
space, please contact me! Obviously this program may be more appropriate to
yourselves and I'd like to get in touch again.
If there's anyone from GDW out there, I'd appreciate your comments as well.
Are you looking for an equivalent TNE character generator?
See ya round,
Andy Lilly
Commander, PITS Team (Political Intelligence Team, Scout)
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