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The cheapest option is to visit RPGnow and look for the printable minis. They have several lines of Sci-Fi and Robotic minis. You buy the PDF, print out the minis on decent cardstock and then cut and fold. You can get plastic stands at most model shops. They are light and portable, but damage easil...

Besides, the Dr. Who Mech o noids are named differently than the Palladium Mech a noids. No infringement. Uhm... what? I suppose I should clarify that I'm speaking thematically. Impervious to conventional weaponry? Check. Deformed mass of tissue piloting/wearing/living in a well-armed cyber body? C...

My take:

Are the Mechanoids(r) really Daleks renamed? Yeah, pretty much.
Is this a bad thing? Not in the least.

They both push the "Oh crap! An implacable cybernetic foe impervious to conventional weaponry runrunrun!" button.

Some players just refuse to imagine things. Some players absolutely insist on visual representations. They've been spoiled by too many sessions with a GM who has tons and tons and tons of little miniatures to use. Sheesh. But since I have to game with these guys, I have to adapt. What sorts of minia...

Sounds reasonable, but more for things like explosives and particle beams and rail guns and whatnot. For things like personal-scale energy weapons, I might limit it to x2 or something. My notion isn't that an SDC being should be able to survive a railgun burst (they most assuredly shouldn't), but a ...

I'm one of those who answered "Yeah, kinda" to the question "Hate the Mega-Damage system" in the old Rifts(R) Conversion Book. The MDC to SDC conversions there looked to be mostly-sufficient, but have there been any other, more up-to-date M->SDC-type conversions, and if so, which...