The method used in Basic and Special Ops is essentially the same as Alex's. It's advantage is that instead of giving a ticket punching system of rules for advancement, it allows for role playing and human decession (and error).

The last time I GM'ed a military type game, when figuring decorations and advancements, I factored in the point that Garth made by adding a Reaction role by the CO.
What this means is that you may be Super Uber-Dude (tm) on a mission, but that unsat attitude and flack that your CO gets (and any other reaction mods the character has) WILL have an effect.

Robert

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, May 17, 2002 - 06:21 pm: Edit

STATUS as of 5pm, Friday, 17 May
Chapter 0: Done except for checking playtester list one last time.
Chapter 1: Done.
Chapter 2: Done.
Chapter 3: Done (except for art)
Chapter 4: need to reflow the text, put gray bars on charts, order art.
Chapter 5: Insert gray bars into charts.
Chapter 6: Medals vs reputation points decision made; see Alex.
Chapter 7: Done except for Art.
Chapter 8: Insert Deck Plans. Insert maps.
Chapter 9: Process reports.
Chapter 10: Did graphics, need to order art. A little room is available for variations, npcs, etc.

By Sean Bayan Schoonmaker (Schoon) on Saturday, May 18, 2002 - 02:30 pm: Edit

Sounds likr things are really beginning to come together.

[In best George Burns voice]: Excellent...

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, May 18, 2002 - 05:44 pm: Edit

STATUS as of 5pm, Saturday, 18 May
Chapter 0: Done except for checking playtester list one last time.
Chapter 1: Done.
Chapter 2: Done.
Chapter 3: Done (except for art)
Chapter 4: Done (except for art and gray bars)
Chapter 5: Done (except for gray bars)
Chapter 6: Done
Chapter 7: Done (except for art)
Chapter 8: Insert Deck Plans. Insert maps. Check verb tense in timeline.
Chapter 9: Done (except for art and a couple of questions I asked Gary and Aaron).
Chapter 10: Done (except for art and marking the security cameras)

General: Standardizing sub-heading formats. Notes from "The Blue Binder".

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, May 18, 2002 - 06:54 pm: Edit

STATUS as of 6pm, Saturday, 18 May
Chapter 0: Done except for checking playtester list one last time.
Chapter 1: Done.
Chapter 2: Done.
Chapter 3: Done (except for art)
Chapter 4: Done (except for art and gray bars)
Chapter 5: Done (except for gray bars)
Chapter 6: Done
Chapter 7: Done (except for art)
Chapter 8: Done except for Deck Plans. I inserted maps and checked the verb tense in the timeline.
Chapter 9: Done (except for art and a couple of questions I asked Gary and Aaron).
Chapter 10: Done (except for art and marking the security cameras)

General: Standardizing sub-heading formats. Notes from "The Blue Binder".

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Sunday, May 19, 2002 - 11:01 am: Edit

Sunday (Not a day I normally come to the office, but I've lost much of this week to family medical problems) I came down here and did the "notes from the blue binder" and put the gray bars in chapter 4 and 5. Which makes the current report:

STATUS as of 10am, Sunday, 19 May
Chapter 0: Done except for checking playtester list one last time.
Chapter 1: Done.
Chapter 2: Done.
Chapter 3: Done (except for art)
Chapter 4: Done (except for art)
Chapter 5: Done (except for art)
Chapter 6: Done
Chapter 7: Done (except for art)
Chapter 8: Done except for Deck Plans.
Chapter 9: Done (except for art and a couple of questions I asked Gary and Aaron).
Chapter 10: Done (except for art and marking the security cameras)

General: Standardizing sub-heading formats.

By Randy Buttram (Peregrine) on Sunday, May 19, 2002 - 07:56 pm: Edit

So close... so close...

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, May 20, 2002 - 10:07 am: Edit

Yes, close. What actually lacks doing is for me to:

1. Extract the deck plans from the program they are in, clean them up a little and insert them into pagemaker, then go get the text from Captain's Log and expand it.

2. Go find the maps from the F&E2K chartbook and insert them.

2B: Get those last questions from Gary and Aaron.

3. Standardize the sub-headings.

4. Final proofread.

5. Review by SJ.

6. Order missing art.

7. Have SJ check corrections and the final art.

8. Go to press.

My theory would be that:

Monday: won't get much done, family medical situation.

Tuesay: Last of 9, insert stuff into 8, print out a complete copy.

Wednesay-Thursday: Proofreading and standardization.

Friday: Express a copy to SJ

Then he will need 2d6 days to get back to us, at which point we will see how much he wants fixed. A little and we go ahead, a lot and it might wait until after Origins.

By Robert Merkamp (Rdm) on Monday, May 20, 2002 - 11:40 am: Edit

fingers crossed

By Randy Buttram (Peregrine) on Monday, May 20, 2002 - 01:28 pm: Edit

Wait for it... wait for it...

By Robert Merkamp (Rdm) on Monday, May 20, 2002 - 03:36 pm: Edit

Stay on target ....

By Christopher E. Fant (Cfant) on Monday, May 20, 2002 - 04:54 pm: Edit

You gonna keep that up till they roll it out the door?

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, May 20, 2002 - 05:56 pm: Edit

Update: I wasn't expecting to get much done today, but I got back from the family medical situation early enough that I got the Galaxy maps put into Chapter 8 (Leanna found them for me while I was gone) and the Orion Cartel map put into Chapter 7 (Petrick found that for me while I was gone).

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, May 20, 2002 - 06:14 pm: Edit

(Attn Gary) Ok, deck plans for 8, I have to have Gary translate them before I can do anything with them. I have sent him a note on what I need.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, May 20, 2002 - 06:14 pm: Edit

Aaron: URGENT! I need those final bits of Chapter 9 immediately.

By Randy Buttram (Peregrine) on Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 09:33 am: Edit

Cfant:

Yes.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 05:20 pm: Edit

STATUS as of 4pm, Tuesday, 21 May
Chapter 0: Done except for checking playtester list one last time.
Chapter 1: Done.
Chapter 2: Done.
Chapter 3: Done (except for art)
Chapter 4: Done (except for art)
Chapter 5: Done (except for art)
Chapter 6: Done
Chapter 7: Done (except for art)
Chapter 8: Done.
Chapter 9: Done (except for art and a couple of questions I askedAaron).
Chapter 10: Done (except for art and marking the security cameras)
Index: done.
Character Sheet: Not done.

General: Standardizing sub-heading formats.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 07:01 pm: Edit

I should mention that of the 176 pages of this book, 174 of them now exist in at least a draft form.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 07:34 pm: Edit

And the last two are just a re-do of the Gurps basic character record form.

By michael john campbell (Michaelcampbell) on Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 10:08 pm: Edit

Excellent.

By Randy Buttram (Peregrine) on Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 10:31 pm: Edit

Steady... steady...

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 11:37 pm: Edit

I need help on the character form. For GPD, what else should be on the form that is not on the two page version in basic set (pages 261-262). Rank? Empire/Race? Favors owed by other officers? Number of times you violated the prime directive? What?

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 11:38 pm: Edit

Would be nice if some of you guys would send some buzz to SJG and PYRAMID so they don't wonder why nobody is buzzing.

By Nick Blank (Nickb) on Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 03:22 am: Edit

There is always the deckplan preview thing I showed you Steve, if you are looking for something to buzz with. Of course, I have no idea who to buzz at SJG/PYRAMID.

By Alex Chobot (Alendrel) on Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 09:11 am: Edit

Unofrt I don't have a Pyramid subscripition.

Hrm, I don't really see much that would have to be added tot he stock character sheet. Race and the like are advantages/disadvantages, and as such go into that block. I don't want a seperate Rank line, as that would be wasted space for any group that's n ot using a military-type background for their game.