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* AntiFrustrationFeatures: You will die. A lot. But character creation is quick and easy and combat is usually resolved very quickly.
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** You will die. A lot. But character creation is quick and easy and combat is usually resolved veryquickly.quickly.
** Revised Recon states that while it's possible the random rolls can make it so an inaccurate artillery strike can land right in the middle of the squad, that just up and announcing everyone dies due to some dice rolls beyond their power is hardly fun, and so a missed artillery strike roll that results in a TPK should be ignored, or dramatized to be so close that dirt rains on the party and shrapnel flies overhead.
** You will die. A lot. But character creation is quick and easy and combat is usually resolved very
** Revised Recon states that while it's possible the random rolls can make it so an inaccurate artillery strike can land right in the middle of the squad, that just up and announcing everyone dies due to some dice rolls beyond their power is hardly fun, and so a missed artillery strike roll that results in a TPK should be ignored, or dramatized to be so close that dirt rains on the party and shrapnel flies overhead.
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* ArmorIsUseless: Revised Recon describes the standard issue [=US=] flak vest as "Five pounds of useless, dead weight." It was heavy, uncomfortable to wear in the sweltering jungle, and couldn't stop rifle rounds anyways, so most soldiers didn't bother wearing it. As such, no rules are provided for body armour in the game.
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* UnconventionalAlignment: Recon features its own alignment chart relating to the player characters being [=U.S.=] soldiers in the Vietnam War. There's three general alignments: Idealistic (Roughly Neutral Good), Opportunistic (Roughly Neutral, with a note that the player is devoted to their teammates) and Malignant (Roughly Neutral Evil, but in a selfish pain-in-the-ass way.) Each alignment has one or two more focused derivative alignments: Idealistic-Pacifist (StupidGood), Opportunistic-Righteous (LawfulNeutral [[MyCountryRightOrWrong Ultra-Patriot]]), Opportunistic-Karmic (Neutral BloodKnight), and Malignant-Psychotic (Chaotic Evil)
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* UnconventionalAlignment: Recon features its own alignment chart relating to the player characters being [=U.S.=] soldiers in the Vietnam War. There's three general alignments: Idealistic (Roughly Neutral Good), Opportunistic (Roughly Neutral, with a note that the player is devoted to their teammates) and Malignant (Roughly Neutral Evil, but in a selfish pain-in-the-ass way.) Each alignment has one or two more focused derivative alignments: Idealistic-Pacifist (StupidGood), (ThouShaltNotKill), Opportunistic-Righteous (LawfulNeutral (Lawful Neutral [[MyCountryRightOrWrong Ultra-Patriot]]), Opportunistic-Karmic (Neutral BloodKnight), and Malignant-Psychotic (Chaotic Evil)
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A Tabletop RPG (straddling the line with wargames, particularly through the use of miniature) where the players control troops in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. Characters are encouraged to be made disposable and interchangeable, and the story is barebones, focusing instead on random encounters on the way to generic objectives.
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A Tabletop RPG TabletopRPG (straddling the line with wargames, {{Wargam|ing}}es, particularly through the use of miniature) where the players control troops in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. Characters are encouraged to be made disposable and interchangeable, and the story is barebones, focusing instead on random encounters on the way to generic objectives.
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The game saw four new expansions and adventure modules before being reworked into Recon Revised.
Characters have three attributes: strength, alertness and agility, each rolled on a percentage die. If the total is under 100 or any one score is below a thirty, the character is 4-F, unfit for duty and rerolled. The player buys skills in bundles of ten called Military Skill Programs. For instance, basic training contains ten skills: athletics, running, climbing, weapon proficiency pistol, W.P. assault rifle, W.P. grenade and hand to hand: military basic. With other skill trees based along the basic routes of Military, Espionage, Police and Rogue. You get two of these based on your class.
Skills and gear play a major role as compared to supernatural powers in other Palladium games.
Characters have three attributes: strength, alertness and agility, each rolled on a percentage die. If the total is under 100 or any one score is below a thirty, the character is 4-F, unfit for duty and rerolled. The player buys skills in bundles of ten called Military Skill Programs. For instance, basic training contains ten skills: athletics, running, climbing, weapon proficiency pistol, W.P. assault rifle, W.P. grenade and hand to hand: military basic. With other skill trees based along the basic routes of Military, Espionage, Police and Rogue. You get two of these based on your class.
Skills and gear play a major role as compared to supernatural powers in other Palladium games.
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The game saw Original Recon, written by Joe F. Martin and published by [=RPG=] Inc., got four new expansions and adventure modules before being reworked modules. Creator/PalladiumBooks bought the rights to the game and published Revised [=RECON=] in 1986. This version expanded character creation and added more role-playing elements, though still kept character creation quick and emphasized the game's lethality. This got an expansion in Advanced [=RECON=], and both were merged into Recon Revised.
Charactersone book and republished as Deluxe Revised [=RECON=] in 1999.
In the original Recon, characters have three attributes: strength, alertness and agility, each rolled on a percentage die. If the total is under 100 or any one score is below a thirty, the character is 4-F, unfit for duty and rerolled. The player buys skills in bundles of ten called Military Skill Programs. For instance, basic training contains ten skills: athletics, running, climbing, weapon proficiency pistol, W.P. assault rifle, W.P. grenade and hand to hand: military basic. With other skill trees based along the basic routes of Military, Espionage, Police and Rogue. You get two of these based on yourclass.
class. Palladium's [=RECON=] kept the three attributes, but added more Military Occupational Specialties as classes, provided rules for a secondary [=MOS=], and expanded the skills.
Skills and gear play a major role as compared to supernatural powers in other Palladiumgames.
games. Notably, despite being published by Palladium, the game does not use the Palladium System, though some similarities could be seen in how skills work.
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In the original Recon, characters have three attributes: strength, alertness and agility, each rolled on a percentage die. If the total is under 100 or any one score is below a thirty, the character is 4-F, unfit for duty and rerolled. The player buys skills in bundles of ten called Military Skill Programs. For instance, basic training contains ten skills: athletics, running, climbing, weapon proficiency pistol, W.P. assault rifle, W.P. grenade and hand to hand: military basic. With other skill trees based along the basic routes of Military, Espionage, Police and Rogue. You get two of these based on your
Skills and gear play a major role as compared to supernatural powers in other Palladium
* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: The Palladium printing changed the names of the power players if groups wanted to avoid the political issues of using the real Vietnam War, but they were up-front that their alternates were transparently thin covers. The Soviet Union became Big Red, the United States is now Stateside, and North and South Vietnam became People's 'Nam and Southern 'Nam.
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* UnconventionalAlignment: Recon features its own alignment chart relating to the player characters being [=U.S.=] soldiers in the Vietnam War. There's three general alignments: Idealistic (Roughly Neutral Good), Opportunistic (Roughly Neutral, with a note that the player is devoted to their teammates) and Malignant (Roughly Neutral Evil, but in a selfish pain-in-the-ass way.) Each alignment has one or two more focused derivative alignments: Idealistic-Pacifist, (StupidGood) Opportunistic-Righteous (LawfulNeutral [[MyCountryRightOrWrong Ultra-Patriot]]), Opportunistic-Karmic (Neutral BloodKnight), and Malignant-Psychotic (Chaotic Evil)
* WarGaming: Essentially, you control individual troops in a small-unit setting that most cross territory towards an objective and get ambushed or drawn into sidequests along the way.
* WarGaming: Essentially, you control individual troops in a small-unit setting that most cross territory towards an objective and get ambushed or drawn into sidequests along the way.
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* UnconventionalAlignment: Recon features its own alignment chart relating to the player characters being [=U.S.=] soldiers in the Vietnam War. There's three general alignments: Idealistic (Roughly Neutral Good), Opportunistic (Roughly Neutral, with a note that the player is devoted to their teammates) and Malignant (Roughly Neutral Evil, but in a selfish pain-in-the-ass way.) Each alignment has one or two more focused derivative alignments: Idealistic-Pacifist, (StupidGood) Idealistic-Pacifist (StupidGood), Opportunistic-Righteous (LawfulNeutral [[MyCountryRightOrWrong Ultra-Patriot]]), Opportunistic-Karmic (Neutral BloodKnight), and Malignant-Psychotic (Chaotic Evil)
* WarGaming: Essentially, you control individual troops in a small-unit setting that most cross territory towards an objective and get ambushed or drawn into sidequests along the way. The Palladium Printing allowed for more roleplaying, but still focused on the tactical combat.
* WarGaming: Essentially, you control individual troops in a small-unit setting that most cross territory towards an objective and get ambushed or drawn into sidequests along the way. The Palladium Printing allowed for more roleplaying, but still focused on the tactical combat.
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* UnconventionalAlignment: Recon features its own alignment chart relating to the player characters being [=U.S.=] soldiers in the Vietnam War. There's three general alignments: Idealistic (Roughly Neutral Good), Opportunistic (Roughly Neutral, with a note that the player is devoted to their teammates) and Malignant (Roughly Neutral Evil, but in a selfish pain-in-the-ass way.) Each alignment has one or two more focused derivative alignments: Idealistic-Pacifist, (StupidGood) Opportunistic-Righteous (LawfulNeutral [[MyCountryRightOrWrong Ultra-Patriot]]), Opportunistic-Karmic (Neutral BloodKnight), and Malignant-Psychotic (Chaotic Evil)
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* DeathIsCheap: Exceptionally so. Players may want to five or six pre-rolled characters lined up and ready to go.
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A Tabletop RPG (straddling the line with wargames, particularly through the use of miniature) where the players control troops in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. Characters are encouraged to be made disposable and interchangeable, and te the story is barebones, focusing instead on random encounters on the way to generic objectives.
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Characters have three attributes: strength, alertness and agility, each rolled on a percentage die. If the total is under 100 or any one score is below a thirty, the character is 4-F, unfit for duty and rerolled. The player buys skills in bundles of ten called Military Skill Programs. For instance, basic training contains ten skills: athletics, running, climbing, weapon proficiency pistol, w.p. assault rifle, w.p. grenade and hand to hand: military basic. With other skill trees based along the basic routes of Military, Espionage, Police and Rogue. You get two of these based on your class.
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Characters have three attributes: strength, alertness and agility, each rolled on a percentage die. If the total is under 100 or any one score is below a thirty, the character is 4-F, unfit for duty and rerolled. The player buys skills in bundles of ten called Military Skill Programs. For instance, basic training contains ten skills: athletics, running, climbing, weapon proficiency pistol, w.p. W.P. assault rifle, w.p.W.P. grenade and hand to hand: military basic. With other skill trees based along the basic routes of Military, Espionage, Police and Rogue. You get two of these based on your class.
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* WarGaming: Essentially, you control individual troops in a small-unit setting that most cross terriroty towards an objective and get ambushed or drawn into sidequests along the way.
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* WarGaming: Essentially, you control individual troops in a small-unit setting that most cross terriroty territory towards an objective and get ambushed or drawn into sidequests along the way.
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A Tabletop RPG (straddling the line with wargames, particularly through use of miniature) where the players control troops in the Vietnam War.UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. Characters are encouraged to be made disposable and interchangeable, and te story is barebones, focusing instead on random encounters on the way to generic objectives.
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* AntiFrustrationFeatures: You will die. A lot. But character creation is quick and easy and combat is usually resolved very quickly.
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* SplashDamage: A lot of heavy weapons have one, as well as artillery and airstrikes, naturally. A character who can tank a bullet or two from small arms will quickly die if mortars or machineguns are brought out.
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* TurnBasedCombat: But rounds go very quickly as does most combat.
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[[caption-width-right:350:This time, it's ''your'' fight to win or lose.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:This time, it's ''your'' fight to win or lose.]]
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A Tabletop RPG (straddling the line with wargames, particularly through use of miniature) where the players control troops in the Vietnam War. Characters are encouraged to be made disposable and interchangeable, and te story is barebones, focusing instead on random encounters on the way to generic objectives.
The game saw four new expansions and adventure modules before being reworked into Recon Revised.
Characters have three attributes: strength, alertness and agility, each rolled on a percentage die. If the total is under 100 or any one score is below a thirty, the character is 4-F, unfit for duty and rerolled. The player buys skills in bundles of ten called Military Skill Programs. For instance, basic training contains ten skills: athletics, running, climbing, weapon proficiency pistol, w.p. assault rifle, w.p. grenade and hand to hand: military basic. With other skill trees based along the basic routes of Military, Espionage, Police and Rogue. You get two of these based on your class.
Skills and gear play a major role as compared to supernatural powers in other Palladium games.
A community has arisen around adapting the rules of RECON to various wars historical and contemporary.
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!!RECON contains examples of:
* AnyoneCanDie: There's a ''reason'' you're not supposed to get attached to your characters.
* StraightForTheCommander: Usually your best option in any ambush scenario, the loss of a leader will demoralize the enemy, often to the point of disengaging entirely.
* WarGaming: Essentially, you control individual troops in a small-unit setting that most cross terriroty towards an objective and get ambushed or drawn into sidequests along the way.
A Tabletop RPG (straddling the line with wargames, particularly through use of miniature) where the players control troops in the Vietnam War. Characters are encouraged to be made disposable and interchangeable, and te story is barebones, focusing instead on random encounters on the way to generic objectives.
The game saw four new expansions and adventure modules before being reworked into Recon Revised.
Characters have three attributes: strength, alertness and agility, each rolled on a percentage die. If the total is under 100 or any one score is below a thirty, the character is 4-F, unfit for duty and rerolled. The player buys skills in bundles of ten called Military Skill Programs. For instance, basic training contains ten skills: athletics, running, climbing, weapon proficiency pistol, w.p. assault rifle, w.p. grenade and hand to hand: military basic. With other skill trees based along the basic routes of Military, Espionage, Police and Rogue. You get two of these based on your class.
Skills and gear play a major role as compared to supernatural powers in other Palladium games.
A community has arisen around adapting the rules of RECON to various wars historical and contemporary.
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!!RECON contains examples of:
* AnyoneCanDie: There's a ''reason'' you're not supposed to get attached to your characters.
* StraightForTheCommander: Usually your best option in any ambush scenario, the loss of a leader will demoralize the enemy, often to the point of disengaging entirely.
* WarGaming: Essentially, you control individual troops in a small-unit setting that most cross terriroty towards an objective and get ambushed or drawn into sidequests along the way.
