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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 d...

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Anybody playing there or nearby?

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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.

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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 Kick...

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Over 700K now

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We are over the line.

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Pledged

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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 whil...

Jefffar

In his younger years he was in a cover band.

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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. The...

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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 military f...

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 does...

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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 ti...

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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 Emp...

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

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

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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 ca...

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I think it's time for a cool down.

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The movement of the muzzle may be related to the reloading system as well. Teh transformation systems of the VHT require a moving barrel, so might as well make that part of the reloading cycle instead of trying to move the feed mechanism to match the barrel.

Jefffar

Railguns recoil, but do so considerably less than a gas expansion gun of similar power

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If the Zentraedi are not fertile, why the gender segregation? Just render the organs non-functional (trivially done with Master's tech) and remove the biological cause for those distracting urges. Yeah the Quandros wouldn't be so enjoyable to look at, but if you're going to the effort of making the ...

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Complete - as a dimension book.

Piecemeal - shows up in just about any setting I feel the urge to

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One of the great debates in game design is how much realism or simulation you want to have in your game. I've played games with detailed rules for radar, and, as long as it's fitting the spirit of the game you are trying to play, they can be a great enhancement to the game. On the other hand, if you...

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I used the rules back in the early days. Be prepared to have fights decided by the first hit as the target is more or less disabled and then it becomes a matter of doing enough damage to finish them off. The rules are also not built to cope with inhuman levels of toughness, so you'll have to make so...

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The Southern Cross Book for Strange Machine Games is about done too, so looks like this generation of the RPG will miss out.

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The question has been answered and there's no need to poke at what is a sore spot for the many people who fiancially or emmotionally invested in the project.

Jefffar

For simplicity I assume the missiles fly out in the order selected by the operator

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As a GM, I tend to just pull what feels right for the character.

As a Player, I struggle to resist that same urge. This results in me playing a lot of robots and borgs and similar characters that allow you to buy your attributes.

Jefffar

It makes it hard to play up the Ninjas angle so much, but not impossible

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Well for years I thought that Ninjas and Superspies plus the Megaversal update of Recon could come together in the atmosphere of the GWOT quite nicely.

Jefffar

Lots of nostalgic feelings beeing expressed here

Jefffar

I'd say the second edition still has that room, but didn't spend nearly as much time and effort on fleshing out things in that room for us to play with.

BTW I'd you read the random encounters section of Shadow Chronicles ... well how do you say it's the EBSIS without saying it's the EBSIS?

Jefffar

That said, I'm fascinated how the argument for giant robots gets 200+ years of technological advancement, but it relies on other vehicles of war being left behind and instead argued at current technical levels. So, let's boil it down to this. What are some believable scenarios in which a giant robo...

Jefffar

Except for all those infantry support tanks that were made between 1915 and 1945. You can amke a tank that supports the infantry by rolling alongside it or you can make a tank that supports the infantry by ranging far and wide. Both are supporting the infantry The same is true of the giant robots. M...

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The thing about having tanks ripping up your enemy's rear area, though, is the panic it causes. That's the main advantage of having tanks/armor acting separately from the main force. Except they didn't. They sent infantry up with their tanks, loaded into halftracks, riding in 'kangaroo' converted t...

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From a military perspective, until you get up to real strategic level systems (Strategic Bombers, SSBNs, Carrier battle Groups) all those armoured vehicles, artillery, missiles, planes, helicopters, etc are just there to help the infantry do their job (seize and hold ground). They do it by either he...

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I've gone into detail on the forums in the past as to why in any realistic scenario a robot is a far less effective AFV than a tank. But Rifts has Giant Robots and they have them for a reason (they are freakin' cool) so we have to deal with how they are presented in universe and, quite frankly, thei...

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