![]() This is Truth in Television, of course just about all people do try to follow some sort of standard, and even outright sociopaths can tell (at least intellectually) the difference between right and wrong. Someone who doesn't observe any standards may cross the Moral Event Horizon and become a Complete Monster. See also Shades of Conflict for the many variations that may occur when people with different levels of standards collide. Contrast with It's Not About the Request, where someone refuses to do something not because of a moral standard, but because of something about how or who asked or told them to do it. Conversely, someone's standards may be consistent but at odds with genuine morality, leading to Curious Qualms of Conscience. If someone's standards are applied inconsistently, it's a Double Standard. If someone judges other people's actions but assumes their own must be good by definition, they have Moral Myopia. See What the Hell, Hero? when someone calls out a person's actions for violating their own standards. Even people you wouldn't think of as having standards still tend to believe in something.Ĭompare Conscience Makes You Go Back, Sudden Principled Stand. The point of this trope is that no matter how high or low anyone thinks the line is, they all believe that there is a line, and that those who cross it are in the wrong. ![]() ![]() The standard is often moral or ethical, but could also be regarding culture, or True Art, or good taste, or good manners, or what constitutes a good meal, or even the boundaries around a fandom - basically, anything that a person or group is willing to treat as Serious Business. ![]() Or they get disgusted at those who do cross that line. These characters find that when they're in a situation where they would cross a certain line, they don't do it. However, it can be considered to be a meta-source because it collates canonical production data, with educated guesswork filling in for some blanks.Whether someone is a weirdo, villain, pervert, jerkass, geek, or just way too nice, deviant from the customs of "normal" society - one often finds that those things can only go so far. Whereas RATs in various official sourcebooks are invariably inaccurate because of the limitations of the 2d6 roll resolution they have to be based on, and also because of being concerned with balancing for the scenario at hand over "historical" accuracy, Hann's Assignment & Rarity Tables are concerned with availability only, irrespective of gameplay issues such as game balance, and are d1000-based which allows for a much finer representation of relative commonness.īattleTech producer Catalyst Game Labs was sufficiently impressed by the work to invite Hann into the MUL Team to create and maintain the official Master Unit List for BattleTech.īeing entirely fan-made, the document itself is not canonical. Being the result of such meticulous research, it is generally held in high esteem among the BattleTech fanbase as the ultimate, and most accurate, set of RATs. Since its first publication via the BattleTech Forum, the document has constantly been checked, updated and improved with input from a broad range of other contributors via the forum. Quirks information was provided in earlier versions, but much of that information was included in the BattleMech Manual (which Hann developed), making the section obsolete. In addition, the document provides a faction availability listing and other secondary information. ![]() Provided for download ( here) as a free PDF document, the Random Assignment & Rarity Tables are highly detailed Random Assignment Tables (RATs) for BattleMechs and vehicles in (primarily) the late Succession Wars era, with ongoing work to produce tables for other eras. ![]()
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