[Locked] Halo Mythic: Fan-Made Roleplaying Game

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The most damage ever dealt with an improvised weapon, or, How I killed a starship with a piece of steel cable.
So, the campaign was Operation Nightlight, a foot-in-the-door recon mission launched by a prowler to Harvest, 72 hours before Admiral Cole's fleet was expected to arrive. I was playing the Smart AI Raziel, staying onboard the ship(which worked with how I couldn't get to the campaign location but appeared through skype calls; I was on the comms.)
Anyway, the Prowler, UNSC Hannover Fist, avoided detection by hiding in the remains of the Tiara, the link between the space elevators from Contact Harvest. It was basically a big cloud of metal debris, plus the cables from the seven elevators, which were still roughly intact and still thousands of miles long. All in all, it was a perfect place to hide the prowler, because even if scans picked up the ship, it would look like one more big chunk of metal among thousands.
Sixty hours into the mission, literally everything has gone wrong. The team is being pursued by a high ranking SpecOps Elite, codenamed "Long Knife", and he's obviously trying to capture the party; he's called in backup in the form of a Covenant Corvette that's providing overwatch to keep the prowler from Evacing the players, and a Scarab to help chase them down. Internal strife is setting in as one of the players is starting to demonstrate strength that shouldn't have been possible(having successfully wrestled with an Elite) and another has been revealed to be an ONI agent placed to monitor them. The players themselves are getting desperate, and Raziel hears the emergency beacon activated, a signal that it's time to try something, anything, to get them off Harvest.
Raziel signals the team to get as far away from the Scarab and Corvette as possible, and sends a few signals.
A fragment of Raziel is beamed down into the remaining JOTUN systems by maser; the few fragments of the DCS AI Mack are useless at doing anything, but they give Raziel the programs and instructions it needs. A full size JOTUN is maneuvered under the barrel of Harvest's still buried Mass Driver, lifting it up and aiming it carefully. The shell is fired on a ballistic trajectory, and when it lands it strikes the Covenant Corvette, stripping its shields.
Meanwhile, Raziel is busy. The Prowler's emergency thrusters are stripped off by EVA teams, and mounted to the nearest of the seven space elevator cables. I do a quick bit of calculation with some careful estimation, and fire the emergency thrusters.
They're powerful enough to deorbit the cable. Thousands of miles of thick, heavy steel cable, falling into Harvest at terminal velocity, punching through the atmosphere and crashing right onto the shieldless Covenant Corvette.
Forty two kiloton kinetic yield. The blast annihilates the Corvette and destroys the Scarab and anything else within a few kilometers.
And that's how I killed a Covenant spaceship with some steel cable.

Kalawaki wrote:

Man I still remember the first thread on /tg/ about this. The game has evolved so much since those earlier builds.

What would Junter's stats look like in more recent builds?

Labmonkey wrote:

I am a little confused about this. I've been on Reddit only a few times, and don't understand this exactly. Is this a book? That's also a roleplay game where you use the pages? I would love an explanation. Well, whatever it is, it looks awesome!
Keep it up! Hopefully I'll figure it out!

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A tabletop role-playing game, pen-and-paper role-playing game, or table-talk role-playing game is a form of role-playing game (RPG) in which the participants describe their characters' actions through speech. Participants determine the actions of their characters based on their characterization, and the actions succeed or fail according to a formal system of rules and guidelines. Within the rules, players have the freedom to improvise; their choices shape the direction and outcome of the game.
Unlike other types of role-playing game, tabletop RPGs are often conducted like radio drama: only the spoken component of a role is acted. This acting is not always literal, and players do not always speak exclusively in-character. Instead, players act out their role by deciding and describing what actions their characters will take within the rules of the game. In most games, a specially designated player called the game master (GM) also known as DM (dungeon master) creates a setting in which each player plays the role of a single character. The GM describes the game world and its inhabitants; the other players describe the intended actions of their characters, and the GM describes the outcomes. Some outcomes are determined by the game system, and some are chosen by the GM.
The terms pen-and-paper and tabletop are generally only used to distinguish this format of RPG from other formats, since neither pen and paper nor a table are strictly necessary.

Labmonkey wrote:

I am a little confused about this. I've been on Reddit only a few times, and don't understand this exactly. Is this a book? That's also a roleplay game where you use the pages? I would love an explanation. Well, whatever it is, it looks awesome!
Keep it up! Hopefully I'll figure it out!

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WHAT IS HALO MYTHIC?
Halo Mythic is my attempt to be the most all-inclusive Halo Tabletop RPG possible. The system is built off of a D100 System, BRP, which has been heavily customized and completely altered for over two years, turning it into a standalone system where opposed rolls and equipment play a massive part into how everything flows. Halo Mythic uses this system, coined as 100DOS, as its core for a more balanceable and understandable system. This system mainly runs on D10, D100, and Percentile, giving a simplified rolling mechanic that shouldn’t take too much time to master.
Halo Mythic attempts to bring anything and everything from all of the games, books, comics, graphic novels, background stories, shorts, and terminals. If it was mentioned, we’re working toward building on it. We’re going live with the system fully, now, after 3 years of work and rebuilding. I’m doing so in order to get the most amount of opinions, critiques, ideas, suggestions, and fixes as possible, for a stable release.

What does all-inclusive mean? Every weapon, every vehicle, every race, every combat role. If we have a possibility of using or creating it, we’ll try our best. This means that when playing, you have tools to be anything you want, do anything you want, and become anything you want. If you survive, that is.

Preview versions are versions between “Releases,” which are stable system milestones. Each version released is a more stable variant than the last, almost always adding new content and balances. Each Preview has a changelist and a fixlist that is built upon by my work and the assistance of the fans of Halo and my small team of helpers. Preview 19 has just recently released, adding in the building blocks of ship combat (a lot of placeholders and unfinished content, the system is viewable to allow assistance to improve it), Covenant and Human rank and order system, and survival rules.

We have a subreddit, too. We use the subreddit in order to collect opinions and fixes for the system. Suggestions are important to us. Remember that. Your opinion truly does matter. I’ve put 3 years of my heart and soul into this, and without everyone who helps, reads, and plays it, it’d all be for nothing. Thank you all for even giving it a look through. Thank you so much.

Subreddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HaloMythic/

The sidebar of the subreddit contains the Download, Character sheet, Changelist, and suggestions. I hope you all can share your suggestions and ideas here, too. It would mean a lot to me.

I don’t feel proper linking to direct downloads within this post, unless a moderator tells me it is fine. For now, everything is in the sidebar and the sticky post.
What do you all think?