KingHenryBlack:
but the "Time of War" ruleset is more than a little daunting to walk through.
It can be intimidating, but that's really only due to the poor layout of the book itself. The first character? That one can be rough, but by the time you've made the second, you'll have it downpat. I'll be the first person to admit that I'm not all that familiar with anything
but A Time of War (as it pertains to Battletech), but being spoon-fed precisely what you need to build a character step-by-step in the Life Stage Modules is about the simplest character generation I've ever encountered.
You just, you know, have to know where to find the info in the book, because the book layout is pretty awful. <.<