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Which is fine, since the whole subject is discussion here has to do with a PB gameline. And this particular tangent was about whether or not supernatural elements are necessary or appropriate in a mecha-centered game. To that end, my feeling is that psychic powers are certainly appropriate ; but the...

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…and now I just found an old fan project that does most of what I'm looking for, and could easily be massaged to do the rest. In fact, a lot of the ideas that I've described throughout this thread actually make an appearance there, such as revising the Robot Creation rules into a form more compatibl...

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The point is that those pre-Cataclysm psychics are being transplanted to Rifts Earth. See Conversion Book 1 for some guidelines as to what happens when someone who came from a low-PPE environment ends up on Rifts Earth.

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So, I have this question for everyone. Is there anyone else out there that likes the idea of using most of what Dead Reign has without using the zombies part of it? To some, I am sure that this defeats the point and purpose of the game, sure. But really, what do you get when you take away the zombi...

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We actually have an example to work off of: Rifts Japan. The “future-tech” parts of that book are explained by the fact that three cities got rifted through time from the coming of the Rifts to the recent past.

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Pretty much. And not just Archie-style supercomputers; Archie itself might be part of this, albeit without the mental issues brought on by centuries of isolation. Think the Golden Age of Humanity, but about a generation (20 years) after the Rifts didn't come. But it probably should still have the Ki...

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That's okay. A Palladium (transforming) mecha setting would be a perfect opportunity to elaborate on things that have previously been one-off things. As for RockJock's suggestion: I do like the idea of the Kittani being involved by showing up on a world and boosting its tech for their own ends. I'd ...

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Yes; that's essential if you're going to make a transforming robot design. However, it doesn't address the main issue I brought up: setting up the various frames in such a way that size can be factored out.

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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 fo...

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It's not Robotech; but Macross Frontier included a transforming version of the MAC II; which suggests the possibility that non-transforming mechanics designs can be rebuilt as veritechs. If we port that notion into Robotech, one possibility would be to do a “have your cake and eat it, too” solution ...

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Returning to this after four years: The other thing lacking in Phase World is transforming mecha. So let's keep that as a central part of the pitch. Call it a Rifts Dimension Book of you'd like; but I'm picturing a Space Opera setting that focuses primarily on technology (specifically of the metals...

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Perhaps, instead of Systems Failure, a better match for this general idea would be Splicers.

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For what it's worth, I was never arguing that the DoZ would use the same mecha as the RT Masters or the Zentreadi. For what it's worth, I'd also consider reusing the Marduk mecha from Macross II as DoZ designs, equating the Marduk with a faction of former Tirolians who went their own way. A possible...

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Since they're the Disciples of Zor, I'd say that there's a good chance that they're Tirolian.

But as you say, we don't know. Another possibility is that “Disciples of Zor” is what the Robotech Masters call the Sentinels.

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In the original Macross franchise, the Protoculture wasn't a fuel; it was a galactic empire. And in fact, the SDF-1 was originally a Protoculture ship. I believe that at one point in the series, Hikaru came across another Protoculture ship. Since Robotech has Zor replace the Protoculture as the expl...

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After being reminded of Revell's Robotech Defenders toy line, I'm thinking of expanding my “crossover” setting to also include a version of Fang of the Sun Dougram, transplanting the plot from the colony planet Deloyer to Earth in the years between Khyron's defeat and the rise of the Armies of the S...

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As well, there's synergy to be had concerning Shadow Chronicles' Haydonites and Orguss's Mu. They even have not dissimilar appearances and attitudes. I might even go so far as to say that the Mu are the Haydonites. Enough time would have to pass since Shadow Chronicles to see the building of a space...

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Robotech Defenders consisted of 17 non-transforming mecha from Fang of the Sun Dougram, 2 from Super Dimension Century Orguss, and one from Super Dimension Fortress Macross; and a set of “Changers” from Super Dimension Fortress Macross (11 models, though two of them were the two modes of the SDF-1,...

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Actually, Orguss was never supposed to be the second series of Robotech. It was the second series of Studio Nue's Super Dimension “trilogy” of Fortress Macross, Century Orguss, and Cavalry Southern Cross, which is where this rumor originated. But first, there's a reason I have “trilogy” in quotes: i...

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What that series would be, I can't say. I hear that Gundam Wing had a lot of transforming mecha; though I haven't actually seen it myself, so it's just hearsay. Define "lot of", while GW does have transforming mecha (Wing Gundam, Wing-Zero Gundam, Epyon Gundam, Tarus, and maybe one of the...

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Just a thought experiment, but if Robotech was to get a future installment that falls in line with the original show (ie another generation with a 10+ year time gap), what kind of aesthetic and general capabilities do you think it would have? A couple of quick rules. 1. No "advanced variant of...

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“Super Dimension” was in the title of three series, all made by Studio Nue: Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Super Dimension Century Orguss, and Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross. The three are considered a trilogy of sorts, though not in the conventional sense.

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I have two preferences: the first involves “crossovers” with the anime franchises that Robotech was based on: From Macross, I expand the Expeditionary Force from “the SDF-3” to many SDFs: something resembling Macross DYRL, Macross Plus, Macross 7, Macross Frontier, and Macross Delta are part of the ...

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One of the examples of the exams Stage Magician write-up was a catburglar, which makes it a perfect match for Catwoman. Note that's effectively a hero these days.

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First: I never advocated creating four new settings: if you take another look at what I did say, you'll see that I was describing “breaking it up” among 5 existing settings: AU, AtB, BtS, HU, and N&S. Yes, I know that in its current form AU is a pair of supplements for HU; it doesn't have to be,...

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The ones set in the past (Civil War, Victorian, 1920's or '30's or '40's or even '50's and '60's) would probably be better sellers than modern era, and I would personally love it. The problem is, and you hinted at this, the market is kind of saturated. The people who want these games already have t...

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I can see this as a decent setting. Kind of a GI Joe meets James Bond meets basic action movie. Just not sure how much demand there is compared to superheroes, fantasy and Rifts so with a small company like PB this just seems like a setting that won't sell much and will get very little support/supp...

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KS has said that when he retires, he's going to give creative control to (I'm sorry, I forget his name) that new guy he's now partners with. The guy that's been doing savage RIFTS. I understand that this guy is part of the reason they aren't announcing new projects except when a manuscript is appro...

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Something else I wouldn't mind seeing would be to break Heroes Unlimited up into several games. We kinda sorta have something like that already, with After the Bomb and Ninjas & Superspies being “HU-adjacent”; but I could see, for example: 1. Reworking Ninjas & Superspies as a broader “actio...

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Heroes Unlimiited is a game that should always be expanding and evolving, so while I agree that the concepts should be expanded and improve, those things can be done as new books adding to the existing game. It does not need a new edition to grow and add new concepts. If it did, we would need a new...

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On the “only one category for super abilities”, I agree in the sense that we only need one category for Special Training — with subcategories for different kinds. In particular, while I agree that Experiments and Mutants aren't substantially different in the end and differ only in terms of how they ...

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One reason I'm suggesting taking training, tech, and mysticism out of the core book is page count. 2e ended up being huge , in no small part because it had to cover so much besides just Super Abilities. 14 pages for Bionics, 23 pages for Hardware, 14 pages for Magic plus 5 pages for its mechanics an...

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Frankly, while I'm glad that HU had such a diverse set of Power Categories, I find it somewhat ironic that only two of them primarily feature characters with honest to goodness Super Abilities (Experiments and Mutants), and only two of the others include Super Abilities as options (Aliens and Magic)...

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Armageddon Unlimited covers divine and infernal power sources: demon hunters, heroic hellions, several new options for Mystically Bestowed powers, and some new Enchanted Weapon and Enchanted Object options. Frankly, it would have been a good place to introduce Priests as a Power Category, treating t...

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5th edition has "Dungeons & Dragons in a beige banner across the top of the book. 4th has "Dungeons & Dragons" in a "medallion" at hte top of the book. The 4th & 5th ed books I have are so I can figure out how to convert back to 3rd or 2nd ed...if I ever find a ...

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Don't forget that the Regess was creating cyborgs.

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Sorry; I meant “Power Categories”.

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…which, in Heroes Unlimited, are called Power Frameworks.

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Grammarsalad wrote:Am I seeing non-superpower related stuff in powers unlimited 2? Ok, I didn't know that wss a thing. I naively assumed it was just superpowers and so never got it. Maybe I should reconsider...

Powers Unlimited 2 is primarily a book that introduces more Power Frameworks.

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Maybe it's because I'm getting old (I'm 50); but for some reason, I just can't get into Discord. And I have reservations about Facebook and its policies that make me disinclined too get involved there, either. Oh well.

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That's unfortunate; because it means that I'm not able to post stats where palladium books has the ability to Monitor and edit them; nor am I able to post them in a forum where the palladium books fan base is most active and most able to provide constructive criticism for them.

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I was figuring that the “try again” would be a sort of race of mechanical symbiotes: my initial thought was that they would be pure AIs in the same way that the Machine People are; but instead of existing in humanoid bodies, they would be more like mechanical octopi, and a bit on the small side, at ...

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In the Mecha setting that I'm working on in my head, the creators of the machine people don't just quietly slink away and die after the machine people reject their genocidal orders; they end up going to another dimension and trying again.

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It is their message board, and as such they have the right to ban anyone they want for any reason they want, or even for no reason at all.

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Well… part of it isn't “do I have to?” but rather “can I?” Siembieda has a reputation for being… fiercely protective of his IP.

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I don't think HU needs an overhaul. It certainly doesn't need a point buy system. I would rather have point-buy for skill selection. I've grown to hate the OCC system, and HU's skill program system is only a marginal improvement. I get where you're coming from; though if I were to introduce a “trai...

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I don't think HU needs an overhaul. It certainly doesn't need a point buy system. They just need to streamline it and get all the Rifter material into the relevant categories and make everything easier to find and read. For one thing, I don't think you are going to find someone willing to put in th...

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A lot of this is dead. I just tried following the link for the Additional Special Training Categories. First, the url is wrong: it still references forums.palladium-megaverse.com instead of palladiumbooks.com/forums. And second, once I corrected the url, I was taken to a five-post thread talking abo...

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Can't imagine this hasn't been locked already... but, here we go: "Tomorrow: Warfare has simply advanced to the point where unarmored humans are useless on the battlefield. Mega-damage weaponry is ubiquitous on the modern battlefield, expert systems, black box technology and true AI has made n...

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If there are aliens of drastically smaller size than humans, I could see the minis having “pixie power-armor” for their pilots (similar to the flight suits featured in Macross Frontier, but scaled for beings roughly six inches tall, and with insect-like wings instead of airfoils) as well as their ro...

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