I'm assuming that you're the GM. If you only have 1 or 2 players, this type of campaign works pretty well. Stealth/Espionage type missions don't usually work with a large group.
One thing that you want to make sure of is that the players have a clear objective to meet. For example: Snake must infiltrate the base and destroy the Metal Gear prototype. From that one sentence, we know the first and last parts of the adventure scenario. In between those two events is where you have to populate what is basically a dungeon crawl.
An easy way to do it is look at D&D modules where the PCs have to sneak into a villain/monster's lair and get/destroy/rescue/kill something. Pick your setting (nuclear research facility/terrorist training camp/hostage-filled highschool), figure out your main bad guy and as yourself these two questions:
What does your villain want, and how does he try to get it?
From there, you can determine what kind of security measures to put where, BUT, make sure everything makes sense! Security cameras in the sewer and locked and trapped bathroom doors are a quick way to destroy your players' suspension of disbelief.
Hope this helps.
Common Objectives: Espionage objectives run the gamut, borrowing
from all genres. Today, the team might attempt to rescue a
VIP hostage, and tomorrow they might assassinate the same target.
Agents are pawns in a world-spanning chess game between
power players, often acting for random or nonsensical reasons
that are only sometimes explained at the climax.
• Destroy: Agent teams sometimes act as provocateurs, disrupting
or distracting enemy forces ahead of a larger action. This
sabotage takes many forms, though the most common are
physical (e.g. destroying a power plant or closing a supply line),
social (e.g. seducing an enemy VIP, or spreading a damning
rumor), and electronic (e.g. changing a nuclear launch code or
disrupting an enemy’s communications).
• Evade: Even good missions can go bad, and when they do,
escape is the spy’s first concern, his first duty to himself and to
the Agency. These objectives make for an exciting ending to any
long-term or botched mission.
• Infiltrate: Espionage teams are often outnumbered and outgunned,
making infiltration one of their favorite tactics.
• Neutralize: In the world of espionage, termination ops typically
unfold over days or weeks, as the team arranges for the target’s
death, and for everyone to believe it was a suicide or accident.
Sometimes, termination doesn’t even involve death; character
assassination, or the destruction of a person’s credibility through
propaganda, set-ups, and dirty politics, can neutralize a target
without a single bullet fired.
• Rescue: When the agents aren’t working to safeguard the
world, they’re often trying to keep valuable resources out of the
hands of those who would threaten it. Their rescue objectives
often center around a McGuffin — a person or object whose
relevance to the agents’ cause is at first unclear.
• Sting: Complex interpersonal power plays are mainstays in the
espionage genre, often fueled by one or both parties’ need to
trick the other into revealing critical secrets or sensitive data.
This might help.
Also, the story/setting of Metal Gear 2 (not Solid) is worth checking despite the title's age: there are many interesting locales and security setups that can assist you in developing a Metal Gear like adventure.
If you need them for any reason, especially a cameo, here are my takes on Naked Snake and Solid Snake.
My player are between 2 and 3 so its like you said just enough.
But my base scenario is that a rogue german special force unit a the head of a ten thousands men army took control of an island in the pacific to construct its own type of metal gear (a variant of REX) and one of my pplayer is a guy that was in that group long ago the other two are a robot and another dude and of course a cyrborg runnig every were.
the type of enviroment is a tropical jungle and swamp and if you have played MGS3, a lot of wild animal.
The thing i cant sort on my own is the gekko if you have see the MGS4 preview you know of what I talk about.
Thanks forthe help.
I was thinking making use of the biomorph rule to create it and just enable crit on it. because I want my player to be able to kill some.
But they will be no match for my cyborg of that I am sure.
How do you stats a 20mm Vulcan rotating machine gun?(For the REX)
A 20mm Vulcan? I'd go with 3d12 or 6d6 damage (assuming your .50cal/12.7mm deals 2d12 [or 4d6]). Use the minigun rules for autofire and burst fire. That would be a RAW interpretation.
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thanks your of great help
I don't see anything saying you need to pay, and the existence of online SRDs suggests you aren't supposed to pay for them.
PS:Im not writhing anymore on this tread.
METAL GEAR REX
The Metal Gear REX has near-impenetrable compound armor, a pair of Vulcan cannons, anti-tank missiles, and a free-electron laser, to protect itself from conventional forces. Its primary weapon, however, is a magnetic rail gun capable of delivering an untraceable nuclear warhead anywhere in the world, without the propellant trail or launch flare that gives away the launch position of a traditional ballistic missile. Because of its sealed, one-man cockpit and thick armor, its sensors are concentrated in a radome on the left side of its body (200 hp); this radome is very vulnerable to attack, and destroying it effectively blinds the REX, forcing the cockpit to open. In this state, the REX is vulnerable as its controls can be easily destroyed. (called shot with a -8 to hit ignore REX's hardness once the Cockpit is open.)
METAL GEAR REX (PL 8)
Size: Colossal Bonus Hit Points: 1200
Superstructure: Neovulcanium (eqv) Hardness: 20
Armor: Neovulcanium (eqv) Bonus to Defense: +10
Armor Penalty: -10 Reach: 15 ft
Strength Bonus: +32 Dexterity Penalty: -4
Speed: 25ft Purchase DC: 67
Standard Equipment Package:
Helmet: Used for medium Fortification
Helmet: T-95 Cavalcade Chain gun
Visor: Oracle Targeting System +2
Back: Cockpit
Left Arm: Class IV sensor system (radom)
Right Arm Slots x2: MG-4D Tactical Nuclear Rail Gun
Shoulders: M-87 talon Missile launcher
Shoulders: Extra ammo for T-95
Torso: Cockpit
Torso: Cockpit .
Torso: T-95 Cavalcade Chain gun
Torso: T-95 Cavalcade Chain gun
Belt: M-21 Comet Auto laser
Belt: Extra ammo For talon Missiles.
Left Leg: Life sport
Boots: Used for stability (=4 to resist bull rushes and trip attempts)
8 other slots used for structural enhancment.
Tactical Nuclear Rail Gun (Pl 7)
Damage: 30d8
Crit: 19-20
Type: Concussion/Fire
Range: 1000 ft
Rate: S
Magazine: 3 Int
Size: Huge
Weight: 300 Lbs
Purchase Dc: 45
Restriction: Mil (+3)
Slots: 2 .
Description: Thus weapon uses rail gun technology to deliver a tactical nuclear warhead. Anyone within the point of impact takes 30d8 points of damage as do anyone withing 1000 ft, Anyone out to 2000 feet past that take 15d8 damage. The Area is also hit with an electromagnetic pulse. Electronic machines must make a dc 30 fortitude save or Be rendered inoperable until a dc 20 repair check is made. Machines with anti shock or anti electricity countermeasures gain a +5 to this save. The area is also Blanketed with Hard radiation for several years. The level of which depends on weather the nuke was a clean bomb (In which case moderate radiation is produced for 5d10 years) or a dirty bomb (In which case Severe radiation is produced For 10d10 years)
ANd now please nourish me with your Praises Critigues or flames =D.
Imm cooking up the stats on Metal gear TX-55 the MG from the origonal Metal Gear.
Yar :D
second here's METAL GEAR REX MK.II
Hit point: 400
Size:Gargantuan
Speed: 50ft
Weight:70,000 lb
Superstructure:Neovulcanium
Armor:Neovulcanium
Equipement
Helmet: Two fire-linked Vulcan minigun
Visor: Pilot Cockpit w/pink Fuzzy dice
Cranium:-
Back:-M-55 Crud Rocket Launcher
-M-55 Spare rocket pack
Left arm:Lt-5 Longshot massdriver
Left hand:-
Right arm:Oracle targeting system MK.IV
Right hand:Class V Sensor system
Shoulders:-LT-5 Ammo Bay(x2)
Torso:Lx-20 Antishock Array
Typhoon 240 laser canon
Belt:Typhoon (second slot)
Leftleg:-
Rightleg:- Heavy fortification
Boots:-
This Rex is build for one thing: battlefield superiority
I've build it using various rule for starship
PS:your are right nodaisho
NAME (PL 7)
A TX-55 Metal Gear installed with the standard equipment package (see below) has a purchase DC of 41.
Size: Gargantuan Bonus Hit Points: 600
Superstructure: Duraalloy Hardness: 15
Armor: Duraalloy Bonus to Defense: +8
Armor Penalty: -8 Reach: 15ft
Strength Bonus: +24 Dexterity Penalty: -2
Speed: 20 ft Base Purchase DC: 59
Standard Equipment Package:
Helmit: Oracle targeting system mk I
Visor: Comm System
Back: Cocpit.
Left Arm: Structural Renforcement.
Left Hand: Structural Reenforcement
Back and Shoulder: Munitmen IV dual ICBM pod
Right Arm: Corona Microwave beam.
Right Hand: M-9 Barrage Chaingun.
Shoulder: Class II sensor system.
Torso x2: Cocpit
Belt: Life Suport.
Left Leg: Structural Renforcment
Right Leg: Structural Renforcement
Boots: USed for Light Fortification.
Munitmen IV dual ICBM pod
Damage: 100d6 fire 100d6 Concussion And 100d6 Non specific
Critical: N/A
Damage Type:
Range Increment: Effective range of 5'200 miles.
Rate of Fire: S
Magazine: 2
Size: Gargantuan
Weight: 1200 ibs
Purchase DC: 55
Restriction: Mil (+3)
Description: From the point of detonation everything within 300 square miles takes the listed damage. Electronic machines must make a dc 30 fortitude save or Be rendered inoperable untill a dc 20 repair check is made. Machines with antishock or anti electricity countermeasures gain a +5 to this save. Creature looking from a sage distance ath the flash muct roll a dc 17 Fortitude save or become blinded. an area of 500 square miles is also Blanketed with Hard radeation for several years. The level of which depends on weather the nuke was a clean bomb (In which case moderate RAdiation is prodused for 10d10 years) or a dirty bomb (In which case Severe radeation is produced For 20d10 years)
Enjoy
I think next i will do Metal gear ray.