Forums of the Megaverse®

xunk16

This is an unexpectedly fulfilled and productive life. May he rest free to travel the stars he offered so many of us.

xunk16

the shanty town around Macross City feels really weird to me though. It's not unreasonable, but it certainly clashes with what we know of the anti-UN war era. Macross should be this gleaming place that receives all the budget to the detriment of the rest of the world being turned into shanty towns ...

xunk16

I doubt a lot of this: -1st in the show we don't know how common "micronian" aliens are or who the Zentreadi are actually fighting -2nd in the show when human-size is established Exedore does make recommendations based on their ancient legends (which state "to keep our hands off any ...

xunk16

[...] having the pilot in a force feedback harness in the chest, with the suit reading the movement of the pilot's limbs and then replicating that [...] still makes it a powered armor, compared to the airplane like controls of other mecha. the skills of piloting the smaller "ironman" like...

xunk16

ShadowLogan wrote:Toy Fair Promo Video on Youtube (2 parts)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r2SZhAvDx8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r2SZhAvDx8

The first of these links should have been : https://youtu.be/4uFOLQJ2PIk

xunk16

Nope. To my knowledge they just fudged it. We still use 1st ed for these classes. At least in the way of finding the closest corresponding chart from 2e. I think there is one unit with which this is just too jarring and we still keep the old one, possibly the CDU? I'm not sure... This was another pl...

xunk16

i see two issues with this.. first, the Sentinels art for it has explicitly human style arm design, matching that of the art for several of the destroids slated to appear in the sentinels show. [...] Exedor talks about a conflict where the zentreadi fought their creators, which might be a recountin...

xunk16

You know... That might be a better idea than the "early prototype" fluff I had written for our own game. At the very least, a giant variant could have inspired the other. (Because I hardly see dissident Zentraedi having the option to remain giant micronize on their own. And because I don't...

xunk16

Signed and shared. Fresh copies would be nice.

xunk16

I didn't get into the Tactics line, but I thought there where supposed to be rules to convert between Tactics Game Mechanical Stat Blocks and the RPG Game Mechanical Stat Blocks? Or was that planned for a later supplement? There are rules to make a Miniature with stats loosely related to a characte...

xunk16

Serpent's Head was one where I explored the idea of the SDF-3 time traveling to become the SDF-1, it got stupid and crazy. But to keep the topic at hand I have been tinkering with an SRW-like crossover. Ancient past: Voltron earns its legend using some people from Earth, before it disappears and th...

xunk16

The DEFAULT for when someone tells you they have a Sibling is for them to be a biological sibling. I wouldn't say the DEFAULT to be the same for everyone on every subjects. At the time the show was first on the air, I would tend to concede you that point. But personal experience would also push me ...

xunk16

The Masters did have cloning technology but I'm don't think it was present on Zentraedi ships. If it was, the technology on the Masters' ship wouldn't have been a surprise. It also seemed mostly for regrowing lost limbs given the presence of just body parts in the liquid. Full bodies seemed rare, m...

xunk16

I've just taken novel #19 because the few comics I flipped hadn't clear enough references. What is seen in the comics I can't say. I've never been into comics really, so it's possible something is being presented out of context. Still do they actually describe the micronization process that way as ...

xunk16

I don't remember any of that in the novels, or artificial wombs . Although artificial wombs do make sense. Rapid grow them and they don't go through puberty and get curious. You also don't have to rely on the females getting pregnant when they could be fighting. I do remember that the Invid were mo...

xunk16

As for why Breetai still wears the headpiece, that is a good question. One that could mean the reason is genetic in origin (that is left in place for some reason) and not the result of injury (as in the Novels/GN). Dissolve/forming/shrinking. whatever. A person changes sizes in it. Two bodies only ...

xunk16

If the Zentraedi are not fertile, why the gender segregation? Just render the organs non-functional (trivially done with Master's tech) and remove the biological cause for those distracting urges. Yeah the Quandros wouldn't be so enjoyable to look at, but if you're going to the effort of making the...

xunk16

I've played games with detailed rules for radar, and, as long as it's fitting the spirit of the game you are trying to play, they can be a great enhancement to the game. On the other hand, if you want a fast and simple game, those sorts of rules can easily get in the way. Exactly why I hadn't thoug...

xunk16

So... It would seems there is not much in the sense of rules and explanations for "how to operate radar and what it can and cannot do" in Palladium's library. See RADAR/LRMs for reference. Of course we have radar ranges, but that is mostly it. One is then more or less required to assume RF...

xunk16

They should all be guided... I also came up with rules for firing at multiple targets with one volley like we see in the show I agree they should all be guided, but it shouldn't take a "house rule" to fix something like this that they should have easily gotten right (and did get right in ...

xunk16

As far as I know, you'd have to defend a parallel evolution for the concept of plane-to-bipedal mecha transformation. And it will be near impossible to defend for something "just like" Macross. You might have some chance if the rights of the franchise you try to plagiarize aren't enforced ...

xunk16

and i can say that i know that there was a book series in development at the time it got cancelled, Ghost Fleet, which certainly would have been having some interesting stuff. i've had conversations with the author at the time helping him resolve some continuity issues and from the sounds of things...

xunk16

Well, let's just say it like this : my group decided to merge both editions and did go back to the comics and novel for better comprehension of the timeline, which included to create some missing ships and mecha from scratch. Since the game started, we not only did have to use the 1st ed for things ...

xunk16

Well, if we look at the way the HTH skill was back in 1E, it was a lot clearer or murkier than in 2E depending on your POV. What changed is that the leveled text hasn't been fully updated to reflect additional maneuvers added into the system for 2E that wasn't an issue in 1E (this is true even in R...

xunk16

So, this is probably not entirely a new question, but I can't even find back the sources I had found the last time I searched the forum for this. My group and I have yet to give up and just house rule the thing, but some part of me feels that maybe we've just made some dumb mistakes and are only now...

xunk16

Maybe an adjustment, -2 if not used with both hands. Though it seems odd to me that the Masters would make a weapon that would be troublesome to use. honestly i've generally ignored the penalty in general, on the assumption that they would have designed the Bioroid to handle the weapon and compensa...

xunk16

Honestly, it's such a confusing mess of a skill that I've just gotten rid of it in my game. What's confusing about it? It really is a silly and convoluted skill when W.P.s are already a thing. But hey, that's Palladium Games for you. Weapon Proficiencies cover hand-held weapons. Weapon Systems cove...

xunk16

(is this from the final approved product or a draft?) Technically a [final] draft, but it probably won't change at this time since they are already editing for picture placement and language errors. So it's more to the "to the printer" than "let's talk about this" stage. Sadly, ...

xunk16

Based on the comments here, our gaming group finally ruled something out as to how Weapon Systems should be used. Which includes stuff that might or might not have been intended by Palladium. Weapon Systems Skill will be the only skill usable to shoot through a computer interface when there is absol...

xunk16

Both exists as PDFs, and they were at the very least available in the last death throbs of the Palladium's license.
(Our Gm made a major investment in the very last week the game was available. Yeah, we came very late to the party.)
I don't know for the 2E, as we tracked only physical books instead.

xunk16

Except RT in the released form back in '85 wasn't technically a straight dub of the 3 separate series in any shape or form (yeah I know the production history). They didn't just change names for the dub, they altered them to work together as a single cohesive story that would make them distinct. To...

xunk16

The "bubble" thing only really shows up once in the Robotech once, and that's during abnormal operation of the SDF-1's fold system. So... let's not count End of the Circle here. (Which is fuzzy in my memory and into which the bubble part was less direct.) Once for Macross Island, yes... T...

xunk16

Subspace, being akin to Hyperspace. As in NOT Real Space. Spacefolding in Robotech is NOT Star Trek -style warp and people claiming otherwise aren't paying attention to what is established in the Tv series. I don't care what Tommy Yune wrote in AotSC as its irrelevant/not canon. Ships in Robotech m...

xunk16

Even the Sylphid is based on 3x direct dialogue statements implying it is a VF, now given apparent HG bias against that arc they chose to ignore the possibilities presented by the dialogue in favor of OSM purism (I would also suspect some legal aspects are involved here). Most probable, since the t...

xunk16

(Really, it's criminal incompetence that nobody in-universe thought to just mount a battery of Zentradi gun turrets on the moon and take potshots at hives from there... well beyond the range of Invid reprisals.) ⋅ Can they really have shot that far with just recycled Zentraedi weaponry? A...

xunk16

However, as the only hive shown to have those defenses is Reflex Point it seems unlikely that they would've run up against it before. Especially given that their countermeasure for that was retconned to be alien technology they did not fully understand rather than something they developed themselve...

xunk16

While Janice's origin story has changed due to Harmony Gold losing the rights to Megazone 23 Part 1, her presentation as a unique creation has not... so I don't think she's a valid example. Why would Megazone23 be an issue? I thought she was created for the Sentinels series, I don't remember her be...

xunk16

The most likely reason is that no one actually uses slings or archery in the RT story, so likely they thought the skill wouldn't be needed in 2E (note its in 1E RT RPG for the NG/Sent era). It likely should have been added in with the Praxians in Marines due to their inventory. Well, maybe they con...

xunk16

Ok... So, our resident Mexican Pilot is dead near a cuban POW camp and currently building his next character. Which obviously leads to some questions and not so glorious discoveries about the books themselves. Namely, that the core book of Robotech, even in its glorious special edition... is not a c...

xunk16

Seems like the way to go, yes. The Melee type pairing are only useful when the multiple parts of a fight would not be able to intermingle too much though, IMO. If you risk having a player wanting to save his friend in the other initiative bunch over there, chaos will ensue fast enough. In these case...

xunk16

The EBSIS is around so everyone can carry on with the Cold-War. Yup... that's why it was such an awful choice. "Evil Russians" was already a largely played-out trope by the time the RPG went to print, having been almost literally beaten to death the previous year by Rocky IV and losing a ...

xunk16

For an ordinary civilian, becoming something like a Valkyrie pilot is a three year training program so it's justified that a character with no experience wouldn't be able to just pick it up in a few days or weeks. It has been marginally more common for stories to include retired soldiers, who I gue...

xunk16

As a retired soldier, one would assume he retains the military Pilot skill. Assuming one doesn't change OCC that would be a valid assumption (and the skill would improve). Where things get a bit dicey is when one changes OCC in the Palladium system and which change rules are in play (2E RT and M2 d...

xunk16

I think you are forgetting that in the Palladium Skill set, to operate a specific Mecha effectively is actually two skills. In Macross II RAW, yes... in the RT2e ruleset that OP is using to update his game? Not so much. RT2e's Pilot skills explicitly include all fundamentals of the craft (incl. wea...

xunk16

I could totally see them being made as sort of early cloning efforts, engineered workers. Which when they were made a military got turned into giants as a force multiplier and terror tactic. That would have made much more sense. Once you already have a high gravity / heavy labour work force, if you...

xunk16

What is this holy grail (teaching option) and where can I find it? Heroes Unlimited Main RPG (pg48) and Rifts Ultimate Edition's Rogue Scholar OCC (pg93 Ability #1), other examples exists IIRC but I'm not going to look for them. Rifts (as RT/M2) uses the OCC system, but its wanting for more details...

xunk16

So even if the character acquired the implants (which as GM you can control), they would typically need 2 level ups that grant skills to use them effectively (though megaversally there is the teaching option that gets around this). What is this holy grail (teaching option) and where can I find it? ...

xunk16

Jefffar wrote:My large pile of material for the EBSIS came about in a similar manner. It all started with the PCs deciding to steal a helicopter...

Now that's a story I'd want to hear. XD
I imagine the game information for this would be as unavailable as much of the fanmade material?

xunk16

Re: prototype sub-carrier The 1E RPG does sort of work with the premise that nations where not absorbed into the UEDC/UEG, but rather the UEDC/UEG was some type of organization like the UN or NATO (not the best analogy) that had a political body and a military force(s) dedicated to defense of Earth...

xunk16

While I agree the scope of WWII is much smaller than any of the RT Wars, that really is irrelevant. I agree it wasn't part of a series of war stories, but that doesn't mean you can't have stories w/n said series that would not be considered war stories. Oh, it's very relevant... there are no safe h...

Search found 159 matches