TMNT in After the Bomb 2nd edition
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2019 6:07 pm
Hello all: First time poster, long time Palladium games player.
So I cut my teeth (Palladium wise) on the old TMNT RPG, back in the mid 80s. Recently, my sons and I have gotten into the new TMNT TV show (that recently ended in 2017), and I was thinking about setting up a game for them.
I still have some of my old TMNT RPG books, but I read somewhere that at some point, Palladium was going to do a second edition of TMNT, but lost the license. But they wound up using the notes for TMNT 2nd edition to form the core of After the Bomb 2nd Edition.
I'm thinking about picking up the AtB 2nd edition and using that as a basis for this new game. To that end, had some questions:
1. It looks like AtB 2nd edition has pretty much all the animals from the old TMNT books, and I'm assuming the BIO E system, attribute modifiers and skill packages have all been updated to reflect the evolution of the Palladium System.
2. This presumably means the old TMNT products and character write ups need to be updated as well. For instance, I believe when TMNT was released, characters only got the melee attacks of their HtH, plus whatever they gained from HtH levelled bonuses and Boxing. Later on, it was HTH # Melee/Attacks plus 2. Yadda yadda.
2.a. Has there ever been updated write ups for the core TMNT characters? The boys want to play Michaelangelo and Leonardo. I can certainly update these, but was just curious if there was something 'semi official'.
3. Were the education packages kept largely intact, or are they different? The updated RIFTs Conversion Book 1 seems to suggest they weren't.
Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks!
So I cut my teeth (Palladium wise) on the old TMNT RPG, back in the mid 80s. Recently, my sons and I have gotten into the new TMNT TV show (that recently ended in 2017), and I was thinking about setting up a game for them.
I still have some of my old TMNT RPG books, but I read somewhere that at some point, Palladium was going to do a second edition of TMNT, but lost the license. But they wound up using the notes for TMNT 2nd edition to form the core of After the Bomb 2nd Edition.
I'm thinking about picking up the AtB 2nd edition and using that as a basis for this new game. To that end, had some questions:
1. It looks like AtB 2nd edition has pretty much all the animals from the old TMNT books, and I'm assuming the BIO E system, attribute modifiers and skill packages have all been updated to reflect the evolution of the Palladium System.
2. This presumably means the old TMNT products and character write ups need to be updated as well. For instance, I believe when TMNT was released, characters only got the melee attacks of their HtH, plus whatever they gained from HtH levelled bonuses and Boxing. Later on, it was HTH # Melee/Attacks plus 2. Yadda yadda.
2.a. Has there ever been updated write ups for the core TMNT characters? The boys want to play Michaelangelo and Leonardo. I can certainly update these, but was just curious if there was something 'semi official'.
3. Were the education packages kept largely intact, or are they different? The updated RIFTs Conversion Book 1 seems to suggest they weren't.
Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks!