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Well shoot. According to the March 10. 2022 Weekly Update, there are no plans to release Mechanoids Space.

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I wonder if they are considering Horror Factor like an Insanity for which M.E. does give a bonus for.

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But you allow a char to have a former class before joining up, you are going to have to make some choices on how to handle the old class. This is because there are not any changing class rules within the RT2 text. Didn’t first edition have rules that the 1st OCC skills and levels freeze at their cu...

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Strange Machine Games also has a Robotech RPG, and are actively working on a second sourcebook.

There are also a number of “board games” being produced.

I rather liked the comics and I believe that Remix will be returning soon (was delayed due to pandemic restrictions).

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Palladium’s “Cutting Room Floor” clarification has this for “Power Punch” Power Punch: A haymaker thrown with everything the character has, his every last ounce of strength. A power punch ALWAYS counts as two melee actions (the blow lands on the second action). A power kick can also be done. For cha...

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This is great. I appreciate the amount of work that went into it. I'm looking forward to adapting it into my Robotech universe, in particular the Sentinels/Post-Sentinels era.

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I’ve never met him, but his fan work was inspiring to me. A sad loss.

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I can confirm that the SDF-3 in either form is not printed in the second edition.

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To my recollection, the 2nd edition did not get around to stating the Tokugawa in either form.

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It may have been a house rule, but I’ve been playing with Armor Piercing doing a critical strike/double damage on rolls of 18/19/20

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ok a bit of a nit The EP 20 and EU-11 gunpod bascialy do the same damage at the same range The EP 20 has a 60 round payload The EU-11 has a 28 round payload ... Is that some new stated because I go by the RPG, both with effectively unlimited (1000+) and the EU-11 has 50% longer range (6000ft Vs 400...

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I've got a colony in my game that was located an impractical distance form the UEEF supply lines, so they relied exclusively on SLMH and other alternative power sources. They adapted their own line of Alphas that used SLMH. I kept things simple and basically kept the performance the same as the non-...

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I was thinking about my June birthday and I thought 'hey, how about getting the Shadow Chronicles? ' Funny thing, it's not part of the catalog? Something going on? The catalog should direct customers to the weekly update if there is something going on, please. I'm sorry you have to find out this wa...

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Seto Kaiba wrote:
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Seto wrote:My suspicion has been that it's a human reproduction of the Inbit/Invid's laser weaponry.

Oh my gosh. They do sort of look like Invid plasma ejector nozzles.

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My late service upgrade to the Beta is that additional upgrade to the Alpha's systems that allow the Beta to "Fully Transform" while attached to an Alpha battloid. There is no reason I can see why the Beta Arms cannot be deployed when connected to an Alpha, granting the Alpha use of those ...

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Still twirling my thumbs waiting for mine. Oh hum.

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For my game, I recently adopted rolling on the Pilot skill for the mecha. A successful roll means that the transformation requires no action. A failed roll means that it takes one action to complete. The idea behind this is that a skilled pilot may be able to maneuver the mecha in ways that can assi...

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Looks amazing. Finally, I see how the Boom Gun joint works.

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You’re right, Warshield. Filling in the timeline is a big part of the “play value” for me. Coming up with my own answers that can fit in what has been established. The index cards and outlines I have are almost close to those “yarn string” crime detective maps. haHA! I’m sure I’m not the only one wh...

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Warshield, you’ll find that the UEEF Marine Book is a bit of a...debated mess. For reasons even I can’t fully explain, there are sections of it that are inconsistent with what was being established as the modern Robotech timeline. Some say the material was based more on the novels than in Harmony Go...

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Bandit 6000 BigBore Automated Sentry Gun in the Rifts Black Market sourcebook.

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The "Love It/Hate It" Robotech: Lancer's Rockers from Robotech 1st Edition.

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I just looked myself, and came up with two possibilities. One, there was a mistake and the paragraph is missing from the book, or two, while the text is a little poorly written, it would seem that the Energy Wizards are limited to the same selection mechanic, but get a number of bonuses due to their...

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Robotech: The Genesis Source Book has the type of stats you’re looking for rideable sized insects. Granted they were not intended to ride originally, and they’re MDC, but you could easily adapt. The listings include attributes and such. Robotech: Return of the Nasters has a giant ant. Not as detaile...

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I’ve done this in Robotech. For the onship stuff, I had a “Hey, I think there’s a secret on/about this ship/mission”. So, while on the ship, the PC’s would interact with NPCs and go about finding out the secret. Think like how Dana Sterling in Robotech devised the plan to sneak into the hospital. Ac...

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For me, I rewrote the spherians so the smooth form is non-combat, and then the spherian can “armor up” and there bodies transform into the more jagged version, realigning their crystal structure to be tougher, but with some minor trade offs. Similar to how heavier combat armor has penalties for huma...

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The forums where still available after the first loss of license.

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Maybe to be more helpful, the ideas you’re looking for might be easier to see if you really develop your factions of the story. Creating a rich identity for your take on the Children of Zor will lead you to what they want. For example, are they also low on Protoculture? If yes, they are then wanting...

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Looming at what you’re asking for help with, I’d suggest pointing your brainstorming in the direction of what really happened to Zor’s ship after leaving the Robotech Empire before it arrived on Earth. Remember, the Zentraedi question, “What happened to the crew?” When they get to Earth. We don’t kn...

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Guess this would explain the silence on Ghost Fleet. Sad.

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The anime, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust has elements that are Rifts-like.

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I went with delux as my purchase hardback because it had the additional material.

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Tiree wrote:The ranges do double or is it triple in space.

Doubled is implied through a number of sources. Although triple cold easily be integrated too if the GM desires.

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...and don't forget Mechanoids: SPACE pretty sure there's a giant pile of manuscripts on kevin's desk. i would love to see palladium actually catch up to all the stuff that is already in the pipeline, but right now, i'd say there's probably not much in the way of metaplot coming for quite some time....

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Given the diversity of aliens in Palladium's Aliens Unlimited RPG, you can definitely have life on a slush planet. You've aliens comprised of living rock to sentient humanoid plants.

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masslegion wrote:I guess what I'm really looking for is the original robotech.com ship comparion pics. For instance I don't have the Tristar image anymore

If you haven't noticed, Robotech.com is back online with the size comparison charts.

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Robotech.com is back online with episode notes and such (although the mecha index sometimes counters some RPG stats...typical haHA!)

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For those that like the idea of a transformable Condor, I justfound this fan animation of the mecha over on Robotech.com.

https://www.facebook.com/robotechinvasion/videos/1263923117007855/

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Here's another question that came to me since my original post. Outside of Invid, what do you challenge the players with? Thinking of possible renegade human units, then eventually bringing them into space for that layer of combat- possibly some Genesis Pit creatures gone wrong. Just curious what o...

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RT.com if you go to it via the Internet Archive in the Infopedia section before the site was radically revamped and pared down (so early 2015 at the latest) might also help. At least for episode summaries and saga timelines (IIRC the comics are not part of these timelines). robotech.com has been re...

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I'll hold judgment till the second issue. Comics are just so short. I've read issue one and I'm not sure what to think. Some motivations for characters that we've come to accept over these years seem to have changed, or evolved in this new retelling.

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@MrNarrator I think to run Robotech well you have to be familiar with the setting, at least depending on how "canon" you (and the players) want to keep things. As for running on Roll20 I can't help you there, I don't do the online gaming session thing. I have a question, what is RAW? Rule...

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I have a question, what is RAW? As for the Quick Creation models, I think they'd serve just fine, especially if you're trying to win over curious players to the system. As far as removing any percieved barriers to Palladium rule sets potential players might have. I played under a GM once for two dif...

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Yeah, sadly right now it's just a hopes and dreams project now with the fan base basically cobbling together what they can from the first edition books and home brewed stuff.

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Hello, I purchased the Masters Saga eBook and noticed that on my Kindle Voyage, occasional sentences at the top of a page will be "skipped" or the top half of the letters will be clipped after advancing a page. . If there's a graphic, at times that graphic won't be displayed at the top. I ...

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In my GM experience, a game is not GM's alone. You don't need the whole idea, just a solid defined part, because as we all know, the players help you "write" as it goes. With the amount of experience you have, you know this as well as any of us. Have you tried any of the online Story or Pl...

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In the first edition Robotech game, if a specific space speed wasn't listed, you could increase the listed speeds by 50% or 75%. I've recently interpreted that missile ranges could typically increase by 50% too in space based on texts found in other books for other missiles. (Not to sidetrack the to...

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While it's difficult to know the arrangement of the space inside the Crusaders (and the one image we have of the hanger doors open gives an appearance of wasted space) I would say you could look at the mecha compliments of the ARMD and the Daedalus of the Macross era, and the Garfish and come up wit...

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Yeah I'm hesitant to buy book 1 or 2 if I can't at least get 3 some day in an e-book, to find out how it ends, hate starting unfinishable stories. Selling the e-book might also create fans who then want a physical copy of the first 2. Anyone have any interesting cliffs regarding Glitter Boys and th...

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Musical could be extrapolated to pattern recognition. Could help with things like language, or cryptography.

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