Creating Micronized Zentraedi

[Flakpanzer]

Hi folks,

Working on a Shadow Chronicles campaign right now, and one of the characters wants to play a Micronized Zentraedi character.

My question is, do you create the character per the rules in the Macross book, and then micronize their stats, or do you create them straight out of the Shadow Chronicles book (which has the option of random rolls for background that include Zentraedi) without any stat modifiers?

Also, are there versions of Zentraedi battlepods that have cockpits designed for micronized zentraedi?

Thanks.

[drewkitty ~..~]

Depending on the background.
If they were created by PC cloning chambers aboard Zent ships, then they would be created as the Zent's in the macross book (stats & skills). Then they'd be micronized.

However, there are no guidelines nor rules about zent's learning new skills from the humans. Nor, as of yet, are there any rules about chars changing classes with in RT 2nd ed canon.

If trying to stay as close to the published rules, I would go ether with the changing OCC rules in RT 1st ed (must be at least L3 to be able to change OCC & all the old OCC skills are frozen while progressing in the new class.) or the changing OCC rules in the PF High Seas book (which have exp. table penalties for not choosing OCC's not similar to the old OCC.)

There is also in RT 1st ed some rules about what skills can be learned by zents from contact with humans. This is more like the character crossover skills (from importing a char from another setting to rifts) in the RCB1 & RCB1r. Where they get a list of skills with limitations to skill selection.

If they are procreated or cloned in modified cloning chambers (that program the personalities not to be fighters from the get go), then just use the Shadow Chronicles char creation rules.
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When I created zent chars that were "Zentraedi" before they were "RDF" from the 1st ed RT books I made the char L 3-L5 before changing their OCC to a RDF OCC. Keeping all the zent skills but frozen. Ending up with a L1 Mercenary char that was a L4 Zent Officer.

[jedi078]

I made UEDF/UEEF MOS packages for Zentraedi who've joined the UEDF/UEEF. So what I did is have the player make a Zent character per the Macross book, and make sure they pick an MOS close to what they are going to have in the UEDF.

What I do then is have the UEDF MOS start at level one, and it levels up in accordance to the exp table associated with that MOS.
So a Female Warrior Elite who is a Q-Rau pilot is at level 5 (and has 17,000 exp) when she is micronized and is trained to be a veriteh pilot. So she has 2 exp listings now. One for her Zent OCC/MOS/OCC Related/Secondary skills, and another for her VT pilot MOS.

Zent Warrier elite exp: 17,000
VT Piot MOS exp: 0,000

When the character earns 500 exp it is added to both exp listings.

[ShadowLogan]

Hi folks,

Working on a Shadow Chronicles campaign right now, and one of the characters wants to play a Micronized Zentraedi character.

My question is, do you create the character per the rules in the Macross book, and then micronize their stats, or do you create them straight out of the Shadow Chronicles book (which has the option of random rolls for background that include Zentraedi) without any stat modifiers?

Also, are there versions of Zentraedi battlepods that have cockpits designed for battlepods?

Thanks.

G.M.'s call really.

The use of the TMS SB likely will create a more varied Zentreadi as far as attributes go compared to TSC MB. May also want to check NG SB to.

What you could do is simply have the person roll attributes from Zentreadi in TMS SB, but use the OCCs from TSC w/o implementing an OCC change (just make sure the TSC OCC fits the RCC) for simplicity. Otherwise as pointed out they would need a few levels in their original class, and could make them more XPed overall since those skills don't disappear.

I'm not sure I understand the last question about "battlepods that have cockpits designed for battlepods". AFAIK there are no shell type mecha (like "Strike Force" did with the FPA upgrade in 1E).

[Flakpanzer]

Thanks for the response, folks.

Brain got ahead of typing on that last question. I meant battlepods designed for micronized Zentraedi - edited original post.

[sirkermittsg]

there are no battlepods that the zent had for micronized zentraedi.

the biroid interceptor in Shadow Chronicles would be the UEEF designed mecha for micronized Zentraedi.

there are several mecha for micronized zentraedi in the sentinals book from 1E robotech....

outside of thouse references there are player created documents such as the one Jefffar used in his games.

personaly, I can come up with lots of uses for the extra space....starting with a reinforced pilots compartment....

[Tiree]

Personally I just avoid it as much as I can. Without changing the rules and everything that is fundamentally Palladium Robotech, playing anything other than human is a bit off.

[drewkitty ~..~]

there are no battlepods that the zent had for micronized zentraedi.
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There is an example of a regult battle pod converted for micronien use in the TV show.
The "Spies" ride back to the fleet.

Yep, GM's would have to stat it out for their games, but it is within the current RT canon.