Way back in the day, decades ago, there was an RPG called "Recon" that several of us used to play. It was put out by Palladium, as I recall. It was pretty simple in that everything worked on percentages, using percentage dice. At one point I wrote a BASIC program for it that rolled the dice for you and then did the table lookups that you were after, which made it even simpler and sped up the play. I also wrote another BASIC program to "roll up" characters off of basic user input into what sort of character they were after.
There were no "do-overs" or second chances. Once your character got to zero, he or she was permanently dead. We had a "Roll of Honor" on account of that, like the "Wall" at CIA HQ, but with names and data attached to the dead.
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There were no "do-overs" or second chances. Once your character got to zero, he or she was permanently dead. We had a "Roll of Honor" on account of that, like the "Wall" at CIA HQ, but with names and data attached to the dead.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’