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Jefffar

I know a few Discord communities with Palladium or SMG versions running.

Jefffar

Seem fine to me.

But serously, yes it has been noticed and directed to the appropriate parties.

Jefffar

Tanks are a broad term to indicate tracked combat vehicles. As such 'walking tanks" does fit Destroids. And like tanks, they each have different function. Some are more capable of close combat than others.

Tanks is a very specific term that is often used broadly by those not familiar with the ...

Jefffar

We had a postal service strike, it's over now but a lot of shippers in the US are still not sending to Canada.

Jefffar

Still can't order from Canada, first year in a long time I haven't ordered.

Jefffar

Well a Zentraedi even without a mecha is basically a light mecha still. If you are building a combat force, that's a heck of an advandadge.

But again it seems to be more about their ability as labourers rather than soldiers as the origional reason for the size. High G world or not.

Jefffar

Sketchy websites are bad, and promoting their use would be a violation of Forum Rules.

Fortunately legal copies of Rifter 19 are currently available on DriveThru RPG. Here's a link to the product page. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/61112/the-rifter-19 If you hurry you can stillg et it ...

Jefffar

This is getting Daffy.

Jefffar

Okay, so some here are trying to define the laser sword as a very short ranged, ranged weapon while others are saying it should be a melee weapon.

Jefffar

Is a bow or crossbow eligible for enchantment?

Jefffar

It's sucha niche case that it may be suitible for a PC or an extra special NPC, but you couldn't mass produce robots that could make and energize wards or circles.

Jefffar

Cool.

I had made so much house rule and house stat content for N&S and HU back in the day I was ready to pitch it to Kevin as the foundation of a Recon: Modern Combat book back in the 90s, but ended up not. So I am quite curious to see where you go with it.

Jefffar

I see the Battloids as Mechanized Infantry, not Armor.

I have to wonder though if modern classifications might be off for this. What if the way modern armies develop their mecha roles doesn't translate easily to Robotech (or other scifi/anime mecha) but might work better under "outdated ...

Jefffar

I see the Battloids as Mechanized Infantry, not Armor.

Jefffar

Front heavy can be a useful trait in a weapon that generates a lot of recoil either due to its high power, it's high rate of fire, or both. It help keeps the barrel alligned with the target instead of having it flip up into the air.

Jefffar

How are you getting psionics and the shadow warlock powers?

Depending on how you read the Sea Inqusitor OCC rules it lets you stack a Master Psionic class.

Treating the Shadow Warlock as a Warlock lets you take it as a Demigod's magic power option, so you get incantations up to your level and ...

Jefffar

Pardon me if this gets too metaphysical, but one of the limits I've always thought about resurrection is the dead have to agree to come back.

Juicers, we are told repeatedly, have willing traded their natural lifespan for a few brief years as a superhuman. I think this agreement interferes with the ...

Jefffar

Talking about the game from Strange Machine which I believe RSCF was referring to.

Jefffar

Rabid Southern Cross Fan wrote: Mon Apr 29, 2024 11:56 amThey repeated the outright lie that the Logan's guns are underpowered

The Logan has one of the nastiest mecha mounted guns in the game. It basically ignores the armour of any mecha sized target.

Jefffar

More like something about the specifics of her voice allows her to affect the brain directly. If she's singing her usual repertoire feelings of joy, hope and love are created. If she's screaming at you to just die.... Brain hemorrhage.

Jefffar

IIRC in the last book of the Sentinels Minmay used the Voice (capitalized in the novel) to like fry the brain of some dude who'd fallen into a protoculture vat and turned into a half human half Invid tentacle beast.

Jefffar

If you spend time with the novels (yeah, I know) there is something peculiar about Minmei. Her voice takes on an almost supernatural quality by the end of the Sentinals arc.

So while music may have caused a disruption amoung the Zentraedi, only Minmei could have so utterly devastated them like she ...

Jefffar

Anybody playing there or nearby?

Jefffar

I may be wrong but I beleive the first time the Recycle skill appeared was in the Mutants in Orbit book along with a number of other skills devoted to the basics of making sure a comunity dependant on getting the maximum use of every molecue could function.

Jefffar

We have a Fugitoid!

Jefffar

Glitterboy2098 has more or less summed this up. Between changes in the leadership at Palladium, that this product is leaning into the core skills of the Palladium Books team and that this is a remastered special edition rather than a completely new product, this is as close to a sure thing as a ...

Jefffar

Over 700K now

Jefffar

We are over the line.

Jefffar

Pledged

Jefffar

If you use perception rules, I'd say it makes detecting/recogmizing/locating the gunfire one dificulty category higher.

Jefffar

Yeah.

Back in the 90s and early 2000s, before Palladium figured out how to properly account for those things, I routinely had to pay extra COD for my Palladium stuff. So I was actually unsurprised and went ahead and paid figuring it was the shipping company in England screwing up.

Jefffar

The Armies of the Southern Cross are a large global force active in all corners of the Earth as well as space.

The cap on their size is more or less based on how many humans and zentraedi you think are left.

The ASC aren't the reservists, they are the force protecting Earth and the solar system ...

Jefffar

In his younger years he was in a cover band.

Jefffar

There already was a CS civil war, but only one side wanted to fight it so Prosek declared it a mistake and moved on - see WB22 and the Coalition Wars series for details.

But, Prosek is unlikely to forgive or forget and is waiting for a chance to finish the secessionists off.

Jefffar

I think technically the term you are looking for is chassis or frame rather than skeleton.

This is also not an alien concept to Robotech, in the Macross era we have the -04 series of destroids with a common basic chassis and of course the Regults have multiple different equipment kits and roles ...

Jefffar

It is the slippery slope.

It is staring ito the abyss so long it stares back at you.

It is the road paved with good intentions.

Jefffar

In a lot of games I play, using stealth is a wise choice.

Not that it always gets chosen, just that it's a good idea.

Jefffar

This is the sort of situation natural 1 tables are built for.

Jefffar

Walk back the timeline a few years.

Tolkien still stands.
The CS predominantly uses it's old style gear, only elite units use the newer stuff.
The 4 Horsemen still stalk Africa (and beyond).

Make the wilderness truly dangerous, but not mega damage dangerous as mega damage outside of major ...

Jefffar

The Rifts novels has it detach as well IIRC.

Jefffar

I think it's in some of the 'in character' text in Recon.

Jefffar

How many CS MLRS systems does it take to equal the capacity of the AC-29?

How many CS MLRS systems can be purchased for the cost of one AC-29?

How many targets the CS cares about are out of the range of the nearest CS MLRS?

I think if you review the answers to those questions you'll find the CS ...

Jefffar

I think the DHTs are primarily a transport force (though a few have some considerable fire support capability) that works in conjunction with ground units on an as needed basis.

I also treat them as very rare and expensive, with only Chi-Town itself having more than a handful available at any one ...

Jefffar

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

oohh.. i like that one. especially combined with my own headcanon that "the sentinels" had remnant fleets ala BSG, fighting a guerilla war against the Masters Empire ...

Jefffar

Please try again, I've been advised there has been a fix made.

Jefffar

What is the name of the account you are trying to register on Lazlo?

Jefffar

taalismn wrote:
Jefffar wrote:Maybe they all copy Janice's programming...

And they all can sing?
Dear god, it's an all-new version of 'Sound Force'!

Hey now, the correct Robotech parallel is Lancerd Rockers

Jefffar

Maybe they all copy Janice's programming...

Jefffar

I'd assume we'd see the real world trends in aircraft of the period infkuencing whatever was being made for Robotech.

So go back a decade or two you'd likely see Generation 4.5 / Generation 5 fighters as inspiration.

Now, you'll probably see something stealthy, fast, with extremly good networking ...

Jefffar

I think it's time for a cool down.

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