CHIR◈N: AGE OF skirmish

Chiron is a tabletop strategy game created by Devin Larson. Based on the concepts of mech battles and a dieselpunk future, this game brings you into the cockpit of your very own freelance fighter. The year is 2300; the planet has been scorched and broken by mankind, civil war has befallen our species and ripped us into factions, each desperately fighting for control of land and resources. Whatever your history is, whether a mercenary fighting for money or someone simply born into a faction’s military, it is your responsibility to fight for your faction, for honor, or personal glory…

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Chiron update

In the latest update we may have fixed any issue with repair, leap, and armor. To start off, the Combat phase as been renamed to action round. With that, you now have two options with it, either make it an aggressive round or passive round. As you may have guessed, on your aggressive round you can only make actions that harm enemies health or stats. As for the passive round you cannot make attacks but rather make actions like repair, leap, drop items. We also changed the rules for some of these actions. Repair for instance, now can be done multiple times on the same round, as long as you gained the skill multiple times. As for armor, there was a scaling issue that we never thought about. It was the reason no one chose armor. Now armor is scaled in a way that makes it more appealing. We also got rid of frames having a limit on what armor they can have. It just complicated things. I believe right now all frames are a little sketchy on pricing. We keep noticing inconsistencies due to over editing and possibly not exporting all of them to the new system. Just a possible error on our part that we may need to fix. Stay tuned for updates! After December we plan on getting all legal forms ready. After that we may start hiring artists to do art for the book. If you are an artist or know an artist that can do well with a very basic sketch style for cheap and fast, please contact us!

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Had an amazing four person free for all. We had two new players as well! A player tried to break healing but ended up getting killed by two players. Before that they were able to kill of someone in two rounds before dying. The person they killed off had a very well off machine, only follow was having low health. They were able to hit anything they shot at though.

The victor ended up having a Retumbo and napalm launcher. Giving them the ability to knock people into their fire and slammed into buildings. As well as the leap skill. We ended up changing the main phase completely, due to leap and repair. However, that is for the next post.

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Chiron is up and running again and we need all of your help to have a massive free for all and team battle. First we will run a 4,500 point free for all to have everyone accustomed to the map and playstyle. If we have enough time after that then we will host a team of three battle with 12,000 points that the team must distribute.

If you are in the 217 area and want to try a new game, here it is! Chiron is aimed towards beginner tabletop player and is open for anyone to come test play!

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That was not a fun hour. I burnt myself on hot glue at least 8 times. And I think it's safe to safe I'm not the best at making terrain. But it's presentable!

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So much more terrain needs made.

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I have two of these going with me for midwest :) it's going to be some fun games.

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I have been running a lot of test play games recently and came across a couple things. There might need to be more movement parts that add more tricks to vehicles. I might want to make some movement parts have better tricks instead. Currently hydraulic legs allow you to move 90 feet on your first movement round and allows you to get on buildings. It seems to be the best option and really the only option.  What I’ll most likely do is just raise the price on them. That tends to fix some over powered things. In fact there seems to be some scaling issues that can only be solved by adding to mechanics and weapons. most parts seem to be around the same range and not that drastic. Everything seems to boil down to “you shoot then I shoot”. And this does not make a fluid game. It rarely happens in games with five or more people, but I did run into the issue of people only rolling for attack and then the other player rolling for attack. The weapons and tools I added last time completely changed it, but there are still some issues that need solved. At the time 1v1 is VERY boring for some classes. I taught someone how to play the game with a 1v1 match recently and it seemed a little boring. I had a napalm launcher and an assault rifle and she was a sniper. We both had the same movement speed as well. I was trying to use the napalm to corner her in a small area so i could shoot around a corner without worrying about her getting closer (napalm launchers throw down a circle of fire for 5 rounds). Buuuuut! She had a specter frame and those ignore small terrain, which fire is. So she was able to glide right over the fire and we seemed to just be taking turns rolling 1d20 since no one had movement advantage.  Is it situational and our builds fault? or was it the books fault in not giving enough mechanics and game play options to make it more dynamic?

I’m going to beat myself up and say the books fault.

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Since I wont be able to 3d print minis in time for midwest I’m just going to make paper cut outs. Not as fun, but it’s something to play with.

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half-a-robot said: Why do these have textures? I’d expect the symbols to be something you paint on the side of a mech, and would look simple, yet unique. Like the guild symbols for Ravnica in MTG In the book they will be just a solid color. They are colored for key chains and aesthetic reasons. More or less just for fun.

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Both of these faction emblems need a little more work but I’m happy how far they are going.

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What’s been going on lately

I’ve been freaking out, that’s what. I don’t have my minis yet and I was really looking forward to having them at anime midwest. We aren’t having an official demo or anything, in fact we are just playing it on our downtime. But I was really hoping to impress people with how much effort we are throwing into this. Also the book isn’t formatted OR grammatically checked. So that stresses me out beyond repair. I lost my main graphic artist since she broke her computer, and I’m horrible at formatting and grammar. On the brighter said, Testudo Gaming gained a new member and a new project! Alice Shepherd is her name! She is working on a project called Phsychoscape but might change its name. It’s a very early project but has a lot of potential! It’s a Skill & feat based rpg and has some really unique concepts going for it. It’s an early game so I can’t say much else. 

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ahhhh the collective. My favorite faction :)

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Some rough sketches of emblems for factions.

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Taking them into photoshop and making them now!

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Some rough sketches of emblems for factions.

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Does anyone know someone that I could get a consignment for miniature terrain done?  It has to have a 1 inch hex grid on it. I also have really strange sizes. Such as every inch being 10 feet.

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Chiron, how do you pronounce that?

/ˈkaɪrən/;Exactly like the old mythological god. The upsidown e with the n makes the same sound as “on”. kai-ron is how most of our players say it!

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We are all currently working on cover ideas for the book. This doesn’t fit the rest of the style of the book but I couldn’t just get rid of it. I love the idea of throwing a call back to old dystopian books such as fahrenheit 451. But sadly the rest of the book looks like an old DOS print and that might be what we stick with. Hopefully in the future we will switch to an old torn up book style so we can use this. I’ll be posting more great cover ideas later. After I post a couple more I want to see what the fans think the cover should be. I want to know what you all would like to see. In fact. I'm going to ask right now. What do you want to see on a Chiron book cover?