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zerombr wrote:I'd rather it all be gadgets and stuff, not magic. Myself

gaby wrote:IS it O.K for Hardware Unlimited not only have Tech but also Magic items and Weapons?

ryokoryu wrote:Hardware genius type Medical Genius. This character is able to create medical gadgets in addition to being a medical doctor (gets all the skills in the medical program, chemistry, chemistry analytical, electrical engineering, computer operation and programming, field surgeon) Gadgets include serum dispensers, nano-kits for repairing stabilizing and maybe medical nano-grenades (Toss one out and everything in 10 feet gets a dose) Makes implants, bionics, cyborg conversions.
Looking several times I can't find a power armor building table. I end up having to take stuff in the robot section and say it is smaller than that or works differently than that. I have to make a guess as to where the SDC in a power armor should be instead of giant robot vehicle levels. the weapons and such are also set up for giant-sized robot vehicles.
Robot vehicles and AI robots are built under the same system and it feels clunky. they need to be separated and expanded as often I am trying to find the things I need to build something similar to another palladium systems PA and just can't by the tables and listings in the book. I would love this book because the hardware stuff really is too big for the small section in the main book it got.
A specifically giant robot vehicle hardware variant, alternatively mechanical genius should have a variation option for them since it misses the piloting and combat skills required piloting robot vehicles, specifically RCE variations and robot combat basic. The robot combat elite should be a universal variation similar to the universal variations of the other hardware characters (such as the universal weapons skills of the weapons genius) same bonuses no matter what they design their robot vehicle to do.

Stone Gargoyle wrote:

ryokoryu wrote:Hardware genius type Medical Genius. This character is able to create medical gadgets in addition to being a medical doctor (gets all the skills in the medical program, chemistry, chemistry analytical, electrical engineering, computer operation and programming, field surgeon) Gadgets include serum dispensers, nano-kits for repairing stabilizing and maybe medical nano-grenades (Toss one out and everything in 10 feet gets a dose) Makes implants, bionics, cyborg conversions.
Looking several times I can't find a power armor building table. I end up having to take stuff in the robot section and say it is smaller than that or works differently than that. I have to make a guess as to where the SDC in a power armor should be instead of giant robot vehicle levels. the weapons and such are also set up for giant-sized robot vehicles.
Robot vehicles and AI robots are built under the same system and it feels clunky. they need to be separated and expanded as often I am trying to find the things I need to build something similar to another palladium systems PA and just can't by the tables and listings in the book. I would love this book because the hardware stuff really is too big for the small section in the main book it got.
A specifically giant robot vehicle hardware variant, alternatively mechanical genius should have a variation option for them since it misses the piloting and combat skills required piloting robot vehicles, specifically RCE variations and robot combat basic. The robot combat elite should be a universal variation similar to the universal variations of the other hardware characters (such as the universal weapons skills of the weapons genius) same bonuses no matter what they design their robot vehicle to do.

This has already been done in more detail:
https://wiki.thedeificnmi.com/index.php ... cal_Genius

ryokoryu wrote:Needs a bionics variant, eugenics is not what I had in mind.

ryokoryu wrote:In addition, genetics is less hardware more belonging biology, not so much making medical gadgets. I think it would deserve a new classification, still in the genius category but hardware is more devices. This is why medical nanobots and the bionics. anyway what about the idea for a more mech oriented variant of mechanical genius with a robot combat elite ability thing.

Stone Gargoyle wrote:

ryokoryu wrote:Needs a bionics variant, eugenics is not what I had in mind.

You mean something like this: https://wiki.thedeificnmi.com/index.php ... ics_Genius

ryokoryu wrote:In addition, genetics is less hardware more belonging biology, not so much making medical gadgets. I think it would deserve a new classification, still in the genius category but hardware is more devices. This is why medical nanobots and the bionics. anyway what about the idea for a more mech oriented variant of mechanical genius with a robot combat elite ability thing.

Perhaps this: https://wiki.thedeificnmi.com/index.php ... ics_Genius
Or this: https://wiki.thedeificnmi.com/index.php ... :_CyberDoc

dataweaver wrote:I remember one of the Powers Unlimited having HU counterparts to Rifts' Juicers and Crazies. While I wouldn't want to go that far in Hardware Unlimited, I could perhaps see it covering super-drugs and brain implants (the latter being less "Rifts Crazies OCC" and more "Rifts Sourcebook 3: Mindwerks". And I would want to get the Eugenics in here, too: ideally, Eugenics and super-drugs would be more of a "Wetware Unlimited" supplement; but Heroes Unlimited is currently on life support; so I'm going to feel lucky if we ever get even Hardware Unlimited. As such, I'm more inclined to want to pack as much into it as can be managed.

Grammarsalad wrote:Can anybody direct me to any updates regarding Hardware Unlimited? Any indication that this book will or will not be released? I feel like this book could really be a great addition (and not just for HU, but also N&S).

NMI wrote:

Grammarsalad wrote:Can anybody direct me to any updates regarding Hardware Unlimited? Any indication that this book will or will not be released? I feel like this book could really be a great addition (and not just for HU, but also N&S).

There are no updates to direct you to.

dataweaver wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2024 11:34 am As a fan of Robotech, I'd love to see the rules for Vehicles, Robots, and Power Armor standardized in a way that allows for transformation designs. This might, for instance, involve a standard Size Table that all vehicles, robots, and power armor reference (not unlike the Sizes for Mutant Animals found in TMNT/AtB), instead of the current kludgey system where robot vehicles have one set of stats and vehicles have another, even though both are supposedly “sports cars” (to pick one example).

I'd also be inclined to say that limbs, wheels, etc. come standard with your choice of a form, and only need to be purchased separately if you deviate from a standard form (such as starting with a big rig but trading out the wheels for walker-legs).