The Way of War

Hi All, it's been a busy year and I haven't made much progress since my last post, but I'm plugging away at it and hope to be finished... soonish. I have yet to hear if anyone has played this game, but it does look like my site has been generating more traffic so I thought that I would say that I am still alive and the game is still alive. It will never die, unless I die before I can teach my boys how the zaniness all works.

Geeze I didn't realize that it had been so long since my last post. Mind you I've been on hiatus for a while there, the holidays didn't help much. You figure you'd have more time during the holidays, but the opposite is true. It also didn't help that I got my hands on a bunch of new games such as State of Decay, Underrail, Wastelanders 2, and Endless Space. Those games sure did consume a lot of my time, but somehow I managed to get all of the updates for The Easy Version 2.0.

There's not a lot of major changes, however, I've introduced a Ready Weapon Action Point cost with each gun and explosive weapon so that will change the values of a few things. I've also included rules for Animals, Non-Combatant Characters, Cybernetic Implants and Human/Animal Hybrids. There's a bunch of new skills that were covered in the previous version that are now included here. I've also thrown in some new weapons and a weapons list without picture for easier printing.

I'm hoping I can follow through a campaign book that'll emphasize the Human/Animal Hybrids, and Cybernetic Implants, that'll have a Burn Notice meets Dark Angel meets Ghost in the Shell kind of vibe. If you aren't familiar with those references go check them out.

The Campaign Book Zombie Apocalypse is now updated to the Easy Edition of the Way of War. If you've already purchased it you can download the new version from RPGNOW or from my website through Ecwid. If you haven't purchased it yet, then you know what you need to do.

The long awaited (for some) update to the rule book is out. There's a whole new combat system that makes the game flow much faster and the previous Attribute/Skill/Talent system has now been shortened to Stat/Talent system, as Stats have incorporated both Attributes and Skills together into a cohesive element.

Combat has now been shortened to two equations Accuracy and Damage

Accuracy

Character's Accuracy Stat (Gun, Throwing, Melee, Explosive) + Weapon Accuracy

Minus

Character's Dodge Stat + Dodge Modifiers (Cover, stance, etc)

Equals

Total Accuracy (You need to roll this number or less with a D20 to hit)

Damage

Character's Damage Stat (Gun, Melee, Explosive) + Weapon Damage (roll 1d6 to determine)

Minus

Character's Damage Resistance Stat + Armor

Equals Total Damage (what you minus from character hit points)

As you can see from my combat equations, no more percentages just simple adding and subtracting. Talents still play a big role, but not quite as large as it used to be. I had to get rid of Weapon Specialization, which is sad as it had become my favorite skill, but it was also making the game unwieldy. The new rule book as been added to Ecwid and RPGNow so wherever you bought the game from before (obviously RPG Now) just head back to that website to download the new version. For those of you still stuck on the free version, I'll be coming up with the update with the free version hopefully later today, but more than likely tomorrow.

Still a lot of stuff to add. Once I've finished updating the free stuff I'll update the two Campaign books and then hopefully start adding a lot of non-combat Skills that I pulled from the book. Version 1 of the Easy Edition is by far not the last update. Still more to come further down the road.

Enjoy!