Magic and Tech: Development

Two weeks ago, my dad had passed away and the future for this project now looks bleak. I will do what I can but more of my time is being spent trying to pick up where my left off and I have had little time in touching this project. My own play tests are now on hold indefinitely until things stabilize and I am able to spend more time tackling this project.

That is all I have to say for now.

V0.07 will be in about a months time as I expand the mission creation rules, add in the vehicle;e morale chart, run some rough playtests on a small scale and begin to put together the TO&E chart. This last bit will take perhaps the longest to do as this will cover so many branches of service and so many other choices. In the mean time, please tell me if any of my links have been working and what you like, don’t like about the ruleset so far?

This was made 6 years ago. This cemented the idea to redo an old story world I had came up with many, many years ago and it was a total mess. I have revisited that world and have made it better and I hope I can share this world with you through story and in miniature form. Hopefully I will have BETA V0.06 done by next Friday. Until then, have a good week.

It is with regret that I must inform you all that V0.06 BETA rules for Magic and Tech will be delayed until at best next Friday as life has gotten bust and I had not the time to work on my rules as much as I wanted.

But with that, how about some pics that helped inspire me to create this project.

As of now, I have no idea just how far I want to go with infantry and powered suits. It is without a doubt that there will be some units that will have a frame; no doubt about it but should I go with full-on powered exo-suits? That is the question.

Another thing I am hopeful to add are Mechanicus to the game. Both humanoid and walker/ multi-legged “spider” types. But such a thing maybe years down the road as I am having a hard enough issue trying to figure out how to raise funds to make the combat witches and infantry but that is another topic for another time. Until then, see ya all next week. I hope.

Here it is! Beta Version 0.05 for Magic and Tech is now up!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sxEndijhUS7qp3gkCrKC2u6z0jVazJ2K/view?usp=sharing

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jmmlfb2a6hkljn0/Magic%20and%20Tech%20V0.05.pdf?dl=0

I am hoping that the next update in two weeks will cover the beginning of the vehicle rules and a completed chart of magic spells for combat witches be finished. Until next time.

Infantry will be key for the game. Infantry as of now operate in their fire teams or a whole squad, pending upon national or branch doctrines. Still, the theme of a game is a fantasy setting with a near sci-fi twist so imagine elves but in modern combat gear. That is the sort of picture one can gather with Magic and Tech.

As one might of gathered, a lot of my inspiration comes from manga/ anime artists. Whether this will be the style going forward is unknown. The true goal is to create minis where there will be a male and female bodies in various poses with options for a number of races for heads and tail parts. Whether they be made out of metal or plastic depends on how things go.

As for how they operate in the game; infantry vs infantry can be a drawn out process with movement and terrain modifiers adding or subtracting to a base shooting score using a D10 times the weapons Rate of Fire. I wonder if I should make it very less attractive to fire ATGMs inside of a building by auto-pinning the whole team or anyone in the wall facing? Play testing should be most interesting.

V0.05 of the rules will be uploaded this Friday so catch ya then.

I wasn’t sure I’d get V0.04 which covers everything up to shooting done in time with the week I’ve had. Long story short, I’ve been caring for a sick cat whom died yesterday and this is why this project page has been silent all week.

Still, a promise is a promise and I’ve said I’d be ready with the rules once the spring clean challenge was over as not to interfere with them. Now that is over, now is the time to upload the latest rules.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wuozlnz0i66p7kk/Magic%20and%20Tech%20rules%20V0.04.pdf?dl=0

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DDRlTvFX89C-FBKo6kK14XOX31PVsSJD/view?usp=sharing

In two weeks, I’ll cover the rules out to close combat and add in the necessary templates and markers and such so anyone interested can really help me playlets the rules. See you then.