Dusting Off Old Character Sheets

And doing it from memory.

To provide the players who weren't obsessive about doing research about the military and geopolitics at the time Twilight: 2000 was first released I made something of a Mary Sue in the form of 2LT Thomas MacTavish.

There's material advantage to being an officer and rolling well to get the Ranger: Infantryman branch/specialty.

Being an officer means you get double the starting loot.

Being a Ranger means you get more starting skills and pay less to improve them.

So, 2nd Lieutenant MacTavish is a Ranger.

This makes for interesting times with translating characters.

The Ranger template as translated from GURPS 3e to 4e is 191 points and intended for a 225 to 250 point campaign.

Twilight: 2000 was a gamble for stats, gamble for class, gamble for starting wealth game where such niceties as character equivalence and balance didn't come up.

Normally, a T2K character would be 150 points and Rangers or Green Berets simply wouldn't be allowed because of costs; but this is a translation.

From memory.  I can't find the character sheet from the ancient days of 1985.

I did find a drawing I did!

I think I can make an informed decision about the character from this.

He's come a long way from Kalisz, Poland in just a few short months since July 18, 2000 when the 5th ID was wiped out.

We probably weren't keeping track of the dates properly, though OpOrd Omega is dated September 28, 2000 with a departure from Bremerhaven, Germany on November 15, 2000 with arrival in Norfolk, Virginia on or about November 25, 2000.

A month to get from Norfolk to Port Lavaca, Texas is probably sufficient.

The span from July 18 to November 15 probably wasn't enough for all the hi-jinx we did.

MacTavish (and the rest of the crew) definitely aligned with MilGov.  I don't recall how they got to Texas, but the reason we were there was because the Red Star - Lone Star module was released right after the Going Home module...

The processing through Norfolk probably should have earned MacTavish a promotion.  Everyone else too.  I can retcon the reason for being in Texas as a mission to secure the oil production that's going on down there from both a Soviet/Cuban detachment and CivGov.

I wonder how many points this will end up being when I'm done.