Ops and Tactics

Monday, June 7, 2021

Coming out of LTS and making some changes

tl;dr WE BACK.

Expect the new space rules.

Friday, April 9, 2021

LTS Fixes

LTS FIX TIME!

Basically I updated every book cause it had either some formatting, spelling, or chart errors.

No rule changes whatsoever.

enjoy!

Monday, April 5, 2021

New Space rules!

Expletive Deleted wrote these rules and they're shaping up to be pretty good!

https://rentry.co/oatsspace

Still on LTS, though, but these may replace the default rules in Ops and Tactics

Saturday, April 3, 2021

These things took me entirely too long.

Alright! Here we go! I know it's been a bit of a long time but I'm here, finally, with a lot of changes and shifting and other fun things for you.

First things first I want to address the shifting of books

1. Armory is back. A lot of the extra gun stuff was moved to armory to make the core rulebook more palatable.

2. The Supply drops have, as expected, been merged into the primary books(Armory and Core), as they were getting numerous and they were mostly equipment.

3. The format was changed from a two page document to a 1 page document, as I'm pretty sure printing this game is well off the table.

With that, here are the changelogs

Core rulebook

6.41 to 6.42

Merged Cartrige holder and shotshell holder to "Ammunition Holder"

Complete Reformat of the book for easier reading and referencing

Moved a LOT of the guns from the core rulebook to the Armory, as well as some of the more focused rulesets like AR-15 building and gunsmithing.

Consolidated all of the SALT books into Core and Armory

Revised Two Weapon melee and ranged fighting so that if you have both it eliminates the AoO from ranged attacks in melee range while doing a two weapon fighting attack only, but only for normal AoOs, and not for no-miss shots

Reworded Danger sense to say "Roll twice take best result"

Clarified Improvised Proficiency to note that you need to be proficient with the weapon you're improvising

Moved all of the black powder weapons from Modern magika to Core

Reclarified Occupational skills and the bonuses to match with taking occupational skills first, not last

Noted that weapons are primarily closed bolt and removed them from the gun list.

Noted that AoOs come after the action that triggered them, unless otherwise noted

Added the karambit

Changed Grapple(Thanks Consript Gary!)

Changed Civilian MREs to 3 for 1 WP

Made Perception an Auto focused skill

Added Molle Dump pouch

Made some changes to suppressors. Instead of them decreasing the check, they increase the TN cost, and made other formatting correction

Added "Improvised kit" as a way to do things without a real kit.

Emergency services "Tech use" skill focus changed to drive

Changed "Straight barrel" to "Smootheboore barrel"

Changed "Short barrel rifle" to "Shortened Rifle Barrel"

Increased Black Market cost

Changed sling steady to remove it's functionality with a bipod.

Reduced the attack bonus for supermatch grade ammo to +4

Notated that the vertical grippod's +1 bonus only works when the bipod isn't deployed

Notated that all laser sights can not be used in conjunction with any other sight bonuses

Notated that the bipod can't recieve bonuses from slings or grips when the bipod is deployed

Changed Favored caliber to "Projectile Specialization" and "Ballistic specialization"

Notated that Personal Firearms Proficency grants proficency at using firearms but not for actually having the feat

Changed painkillers to give 3 doses per purchase

Changed painkillers to give 6 doses when crafted

Changed temp HP so that when it wears off you lose the amount of HP you gained

Changed painkillers so that when you take one while under it's effects it resets

Removed "Attacking through concealment" as it's redundant

Added decimal point to rope

Changed Contractor's field bag so that it can now hold medium objects

Changed crash rescue suit so that it protects against all areas

Added The fact that Charisma now can positively or negatively affect Wealth Point Rolls

Shifted Locks so that they can now fail open(unlimited tries) or fail closed(Broken after failure of a certain level/types)

Perception is now an auto-focused skill

Added Insulated gloves to the small eletronics kit

Added water purification tablets

Added a Mess kit

Added Nasopharyngeal airway and lube to standard first aid kit

Add Wire(200') to the small demolitions kit

Made an upgrade for armor that removes all the Molle at once from an armor, to allow LBE to be worn instead.

Notated that fall damage is bludgoning damage

Increased Unemployed skills to 2

Removed notion that offhand weapons only do half POW damage

Changed the wording in single action upgrade

Changed Club martial arts so that no penalty is taken when performing non-lethal attacks

Reduced Stun gun duration to 1d3 rounds

Reduced the taser duration to 1d4 rounds

Changed surplus to 30% ER

Changed Match grade to have a -5 Damage bonus

Modern Magika

6.31 to 6.23

Reduced the cost of distort from 5 sp to 1 sp, decreased the increase distortion from 2sp + 1 Sp to 1 sp + 1 SP and increased the cost of make invisible from 2sp +1sp to 2sp + 2 SP

Changed The lifespan and adulthood of elves

Necromancy Changes:

Changed the Metamagic feat cost of Necromancy to 1.25% from "Double" the cost

Changed Bestow Weakness base effect from 5 sp to 3 Sp

changed Bestow Vunerablity base effect from 5 sp to 3 Sp

Changed Bestow Fatiuge base effect from 3 sp to 2 Sp

Changed Increase to Exaust addon effect from 6 Sp to 4 SP

Changed the increase time for fatiuge base effect to 1 SP + 1 SP per round from 3SP +1 SP per round

Changed the increase time for vunerablity base effect to 1 SP + 1 SP per round from 2SP + 1 SP

Changed the increase time for weakness base effect to 1 SP + 1 SP per round from 2SP + 1 SP

Changed Bestow curse so that it grants a -4 to any 1 skill check from -2

Changed Life Drain's SP cost to 5 SP From 7 SP

Added Non-lethal damage to Vunerablity

Transmutation Changes:

Changed Destablize terrain base cost to 2 SP from 5 SP

Changed shift terrain base cost to 4 Sp From 7 SP

Changed grease terrain base cost to 2 SP from 4 SP

Changed glue terrain base cost to 2 SP from 6 SP

changed spike terrain base cost to 4 SP From 7 SP

changed cloud terrain base cost to 3 SP From 6 SP

Changed the notation for ingots so that they can be shaped however a character wishes, so as long as it is a single shape that fits in the size category it is.

Added Non-lethal to the potion selection

Removed nearly all of the cost reduction feats for magic and put the Magical Apprentice/Journeyman/Master feats in their place

Added Combine spell(Thanks CG)

Added Toggle spell(Thanks CG!)

Removed nearly all of the cost reduction feats for psionics and put the Psionic Squire/Knight/Champion feats in their place

Removed nearly all of the cost reduction feats for incantations and put the Recieter, speaker and orator feats in their place

Notated that using enchanted items is "manipulating an object"

Removed the "Damage" part from abjuration on doubling effects and dice damage

Added Canyon orcs, a incantation race!

Changed suspend water to have a 25' range

Changed gas manipulation to have a 25' range

changed solid manipulation to have a 25' range

Added 3 new feats for Psionics

Advanced Arms

6.20 to 6.21

Formatting and Spelling changes

Changed the Cost of Caseless magazines to the following values:

12 round .28 caseless to 1 WP for 10 mags

18 round .28 caseless to 1 WP for 5 mags

35 round .28 caseless to 1 WP for 3 mags

40 round .40 caseless to 1 WP for 10 mags

60 round .40 Caseless to 1 WP for 8 mags

120 round .40 caseless to 1 WP for 4 mags

5 round .20 HV caseless to 1 WP for 6 mags

Added The new feat "Coolant Specialization"

Gave the standard space suit a +4 Defense bonus

Reduced the standard space suit's armor penalty to a -5

changed standard spacesuit's weight to 45 lbs

Changed th Standard Space suit to allow for all medium and smaller weapons and all tiny and larger, with a an armor penalty

Changed the marine spacesuit to actaully allow a single mounted gun and explained how it works. Also fleshed out the rules for mounting.

Added the M15 Series handguns

Added the MX Series handguns

Added the M41A series caseless rifles

Added the M42A series caseless rifles

Added the M39 Series caseless SMG

Added the M56 Smartgun

Added the M43A caseless LMG

Added the vacuum Bubble

Added the M240 Incenrator Unit

Added Nutrient paste

Added EMP emitter

Notated that Infared is stopped by fire damage or plasma damage DR

Increased high cap M7 Series mags to 55 rounds

Added Courier Trade Goods

Armory

1.21

Recreated Armory

Changed the Cobray Stand alone launcher to "large" size

Changed "Straight barrel" to "Smoothebore barrel"

Changed Short barrel rifle to Shortened rifle barrel

Moved HK11E to GPMG

Moved FN MK 48 to GPMG

Added S&W Shield Plus

Added Ruger 9 Max

Changed the GPMG's category to 8th-9th category

Changed the LMG's category to 1st-7th category

Moved 9x23 steyr to 4th category

Removed the Tec-9m

As I said before, going LTS so I can work on some other projects for a change, so if there are errors please let me know and i'll take care of them!

ALSO! One of the players/long time contrubituters is writing and unfucking the shitty Space combat rules, and I'm going to collaborate with him to probably make those rules the standard rules, after we come out of LTS.

It's up and ready for download, so enjoy!

Thursday, April 1, 2021

Books are done.

Doing a final reading before release.

Is this a joke? You'll have to sit to find out.

Sunday, February 28, 2021

Alright so March 1st is probably really..uh..optimistic.

I've more or less finished the core three rulebooks at this point, but having to remake armory has been a serious undertaking that I did not realize how big this would be.

So yeah, not march first, but I promise you that i'm still working on this damn game.

Also! I want to take a break after this. I've been working on this game for a very long time, basically with no real break, and I want to put Ops and Tactics into LTS mode for a little while.

What this means is that I'll be correcting spelling, grammar, and rule contradiction errors in the game but I absolutely positively will not be adding or fixing anything for at LEAST two months.

And just so I can prove I've been working on this damn game, here are the current changelogs for core:

Core Rulebook

6.41 to 6.42