Simple On Foot GM

Summary

The simplified On-Foot GM style uses the character's combat stats and a simple 2d6 roll for

Rolling

+roll 2d6+<mod>

+roll 2d6+4

Representation

It is recognized that the following may not be an accurate representation of a character based on their pilot stats, and is only used as a guideline for a quick translation. See below for how these stats get used and translated to modifiers.


Stat Name	Effects
Targeting	The Targeting stat represents a person's ability of Awareness and Hand-Eye Coordination. This is used for defending against melee attacks, or shooting at long distances.
Piloting	The Piloting stat represents a person's ability to move Quickly and make Athletic maneuvers such as hitting people in close range or parkour.
Intuition	The Intuition stat represents a person's ability to judge a situation and predict opponents. This is used for defending against ranged attacks, and using one's Insight for tactics and Knowledge.
Skill	The Skill stat represents a person's ability to use their Strength and Skilled Hand Motions. This is used for using brute force, as well as picking locks, manipulating small objects, and generally using one's body to solve a problem.

Deriving Modifiers

At the start of a scene, each person selects their character's modifiers in each stat. +3, +2, +1, and +0. For a quick translation, use your highest stats on your +pstats in that order. If you feel a better translation is needed, or you have a stat that is the same, just pick whichever you want to represent most.

Setting a Target Number

In order to set the 'difficulty' of a task, this is a simple chart. Note that '2' is missing, as we expect people to be skilled at what they do, and a '2' always succeeds.


Target Number (TN)	Difficulty	Ex: Tar	Ex: Pil	Ex: Int	Ex: Skl
3-5	Easy	Shooting someone point-blank	Punching a training dummy	Answering a highschool level question	Opening a jar of pickles
6-8	Middling	Shooting someone semi-aware and moving	Punching a random person in the streets	Answering a college-level question	Bodycheck someone in hockey
9-10	Difficult	Shooting someone bobbing and weaving	Punching a trained soldier	Answering a professional-level question	Forcing open a door
11-12	Really Difficult	Shooting someone behind very solid cover	Punching a Gundam Fighter	Answering a doctorate-level question	Wrestling an alligator

Challenge Successes & Health

A challenge has a certain amount of 'successes' it needs to remove a 'dot' of progress. A simple challenge will only have 1 dot of progress. But if you need something to be a 'multi-round task', you can give it multiple 'dots' or 'hp'.

The big thing to keep in mind here is the following:

If the number of Successes is not reached within a round, the progress resets (to represent momentum upon a task)
Overage on successes per round does not contribute to Dot / HP progress (to scale something into guaranteed multi-rounds)

Examples

A door

Challenge: Door (SKL 7) - 2 successes, 1 HP This door needs 2 people to succeed in a round to make progress on getting down this door.

Named Soldier

Challenge: Johny Trevor (TAR or PIL 8) - 4 successes, 2 HP 'Johny Trevor' will last at least 2 rounds, and needs 4 people to hit a middling-to-difficult check to 'deal with them'.

Each round, depending on when Johny's turn is, Johny rolls a 2d6+2 or similar, to see how much damage they do to the team facing them.

Hacking A Digital Lock

Challenge: Digital Lock (INT 12) - 1 successes, 1 HP A critical lock that gets in the way of their retreat! If they fail to meet this challenge, you can either make it 'take longer, and the heroes all take 1 HP of damage' or add some other complication.

Running an On-Foot GM Scene

Starting things off

At the start of an encounter, each person gets <Rounds> amount of HP (or stamina, or whatever you wish to use to refer to this as), and decides their +3, +2, +1, and +0 modifiers.

For larger scenes, it is recommended to use <3>. With the lack of an on-game object system to put a description on, each player will keep track of this number themselves. Otherwise, create a google document with edit rights, where everyone can keep track of it together. This represents the ability to be up and moving.

Running an Encounter

Try to give everyone something to do. If they run out of successes to deal with in a round, allow them to do things that lower the Target Number of an upcoming roll.

When doing a search through an area, set target numbers to search for clues on multiple things, like a Computer, a Cabinet, etc. If they don't succeed your Target Number, it is okay to say they don't find anything in that room. If it's an important clue, give them another go next round.

When doing a combat round, consider creating 2 enemies to split amongst. Set their TNs to hit to 7 or 8, and set the successes to 'everyone, half, rounded down, minus 1'. So for instance, if you have 9 players, set your TN at 7, and require 4 successes to overcome the opponent. If they fail to overcome the encounter in that 'round', roll 2d6+2 and declare if they are defending against a Melee or Ranged attack. It the players responding fail, they lose an HP.

When doing a boss battle, use the above rule of thumb. But set the encounter's <HP> to 3 if the boss goes first, or 4 if the players go first.

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