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We need a decent map of China we can add icons to. If anyone has a link, let me know. Robert | |||||
You need a Gmail account first, so if you don't have one you'll need to create one After that, follow these steps https://support.google.com/mymaps/answer/3024454?hl=en The Next Steps at the bottom goes through how to add icons Note when sharing you have to change it from private - best option is Anyone with the link, then anyone who has the url will be able to view it. Below is a link for a test one I just did with an icon added for an objective in Beijing. https://drive.google.com/open?...6Vjs&usp=sharing This message was last edited by the player at 18:50, Sun 24 July 2016. | |||||
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Zhukov that was damn near unwatchable. Where on Earth did you dig that up? | |||||
Thanks for the help Petrov. There's a test map under the map post. | |||||
Hello GM, The map is currently restricted. It needs to be set so that anyone with that link can view it. To get in the mood, if everyone hasn't seen the following movie I urge you to do so! It is called "The Beast" or "The Beast of War". It's about a Soviet tank crew that is lost and being hunted by Mujaheddin in the mountains of Afghanistan. Very talky for what I thought was going to be an action movie, but it was adapted (or all things) from a stage play. Released almost straight to video in 1988 and starring Jason Patric, George Dzundza and Stephen Baldwin. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094716/ "Out of commission, become a pillbox. Out of ammo, become a bunker. Out of time, become heroes." Tony This message was last edited by the player at 03:03, Thu 28 July 2016. | |||||
A few voluntary name guidelines for Russians and associated ethnicities. As a suggestion, Russian and Ukrainian PCs should really have a middle name, a "patronymic". As our PCs are related in a "professional" sense we would normally call each other by first name and patronymic (at least for Russians and "Russified" ethnicities). Ie. Evgeny Sergeyevich, Mikhail Vladimirovich, Vasilij Shalvovitch.
http://learningrussian.net/russiannames/ If our PCs were friends we would use first names (or especially) diminutives, eg. Mikhail = "Misha", Evgeny = "Zhenya", Vasiliy = "Vasya", Gennadiy = "Gena", etc. If we were close buddies we'd use affectionate nicknames. Eg. Mikhail = Misha = "Mishka", Vasiliy = Vasya = "Vaska". I believe Sonya would be "Sofyushka" if genuinely affectionate or "Sofka" if we wanted to be rude or insulting. http://www.oocities.org/graf_de_la_fer/names.html http://www.russian-language-fo...ssian-nicknames.html The suffix "-enko" indicate a Ukrainian name and also means "son of". (In a memorable passage in the book Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith, a friend of the protagonist, "Arkady Renko", explains that as this name is a suffix without a subject it can be interpreted as "son of no one".) While a name ending in "-enko" is usually Ukrainian (or of Ukrainian origin) not all Ukrainian names use this suffix. For example, my mother's family was from the western part of pre-Revolution Ukraine between Lviv and Kyiv, and their name was "Wyrcimaga". Other names in my family include Klochko and Mykhalyuk. The suffix "-vili" is very, very common for Georgians. Again, not all Georgians have it but when you see it it's a dead giveaway. Ukrainian (etc.) names also have patronymics. Georgians may or may not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patronymic I would urge players with Russian/Ukrainian PCs (male and female) to consider adding a patronymic. Georgians, it's up to you! This is not to pressure my fellow players in any way but in the spirit of embracing our Russian or Eastern European identities and making them seem authentic. Tony P.S. White my mother's family is Ukrainian, my father's family is Italian. Nevertheless, if I were to have a "Russified" name with patronymic it would probably be either Anton Antonovitch or Anton Ninoich (as I am named after my father, who goes by Nino but not Tony). | |||||
I had a friend in college who was Ukrainian so I just used his name. | |||||
There's nothing wrong with that! What is your character's father's name? That will be his patronymic. If he is ethnically Russian then the patronymic would follow that pattern (-ovitch, -evitch, -ich). If he is ethnically Ukrainian then it would be a similar pattern but spelled a little differently (-ovych, -yovych, ilich). At some point some players that are unit commanders going to probably want to come up with names for subordinates or other NPCs under our PCs' commands (assuming the GM doesn't do it for us). Following is a fairly good random name generator for a wide variety of ethnic groups: http://www.behindthename.com/random/ Tony This message was last edited by the player at 22:06, Sun 31 July 2016. | |||||
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Due to a death in the family this game is cancelled until further notice. | |||||
That is very sad to hear. You have my deepest sympathies. I guess there's not a lot we can do to help, but we can all certainly understand if you don't need something else to worry about in this time. Please take care of yourself and your family, we all wish you the best and thank you for giving us this opportunity. Tony | |||||
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I mean no disrespect for our GM here. To the others, would someone else want to run a 'pick-up' T-2000 game while we wait ?? That would allows us some time to get used to the system until our GM's return. It's been decades since I last did this. | |||||
If someone wanted to help out they could be made a co-GM (if the GM wishes). Unfortunately, I just can't take on another game! I'm running 5 myself already (including another Twilight 2000 game), with another as co-GM. Tony | |||||
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Very sorry for the late response! Certainly. As well, if it looks like this game is (unfortunately) kaput, players are welcome to join my game. I think it would be ok to submit the same characters. The setting is v2.2 British Columbia, circa 2001, and there is an amnesty for WP troops that many have taken up. Or else there are dropped PCs and NPCs available. The rules set is T2013 (again, background is v2.2). link to another game Tony | |||||
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Is too bad, tovarish. My own T2K game is on hiatus but everyone involved wants to restart in the medium-near future. Why don't you shoot me an RTJ with this PC so I keep you in mind! (See above.) Tony |
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