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Again why make a world war one tank when they can easily make on M1 Abrams.
Why make an M1 Abrams when you can order tons of them from Golden Age Weaponsmiths, get them cheap because they're outdated, pre-MDC technology, and then TW modify them to be on par with modern high-tech tanks for a ...

After watching this conversation go back and forth a bit more, I feel like I can kind of see what people are saying, so here's my take:

"Lazlo is dumb, and they have to be to make the Coalition look good otherwise people wouldn't stay in the Coalition"
We, the readers, know that the Coalition are ...

Out of the gate, one thing rubbing me wrong is I was hoping for more expansion on the Lazlo material seen in the Rifters, rather than overwriting that material.
The book does use and expand on the origin story, at least.

Speaking of the Rifters, does anyone know where to find the map that was ...

Yes I know that building the nonmagical base item/parts isn't part of the TW construction time, that's the point I was making in my previous post -- Even if a factory can't cut down on 'TW construction time', they can massively cut down on the prep time of obtaining/making the parts the TW starts ...

I'm pretty unfamiliar with Technowizards. I kind of skimmed through the class 30 years ago and never looked at it again.
I'm curious on the "hand made" aspect of the build process, as what they are building are still metal constructs virtually identical to technological counterparts. So, at what ...

I haven't seen the part of the RAW preview that discusses relations with the Three Galaxies, but there is this quote about TW from DB5, pg 92: "The Smithy: This planet is the ruling world of the Dwarven Guildsmasters. It is filled with factories and forges that create rune weapons and other magical ...

the RUE rules are pretty much entirely about creating new prototypes for ideas that usually don't exist yet.

I'm not sold that they should be used as or were ever intended to be rules for fine-tuning a functioning design and then producing 100 copies of it per month in a factory.
This.

As for ...

Now that you mention it, I'm unclear on why there's 'huge demand', but as for why anyone would want to be a TW metalhead at all... part of it Shark_Force identifies, there are magical attachments that can do things that tech just can't or can't as well. (But also magical attachments that do things ...

The techno-wizard construction rules in RUE state that a single techno-wizard, with at the most, one techno-wizard assistant, has to do almost all of the construction themselves. They can have a maximum of one "non-techno-wizard assistant" for every two experience levels of the primary techno ...

There was a bit in there about demanding that cyborgs have records to PROVE they didn't buy their stuff from a cyber-snatcher. That's stupid and I will ignore it.

Origins of Lazlo: I don't read the bit about the NEMA camp as having any real connection to Lazlo as a society. It's just a reason ...

I received my copy yesterday. I've just been discussing the book with my friends, and thought I'd see if there was talk of it on the forums.

Lazlo and RIFTS hold a special place in my heart -- I've played an OC hailing from there in an RP group for over a decade.

I went in with mixed expectations ...