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I'm not in a position to respond more comprehensively, but I just wanted to be clear that I personally do not view challenging others on their view point as a contradiction to my stated aim - by challenging opposing views, those views will either be found deficient or weak or they will come back eve...

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Seto you make a lot of symantical arguments, but on the whole you have not in any comprehensive way addressed Gryphins last post. Let me be direct for a moment... the definition of autonomous operation is important to the substance of the debate. The type of operations we're talking about in our hy...

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If the pilot can compensate for the transformation sequence then the back seater certainly can. The pilot's primary controls (the stick and throttle) don't move relative to the seat during transformation... the rest of the cockpit shifts. If the back seater is using something other than the stick a...

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One thing that is still confusing to me in all this discussion: The equating of the VQ-6X, which is a variable aerospace veritech drone, with a non-variable aerospace fighter QF-3000? The technology, programming, and engineering it would take (which saw outside help leading up to 2044 from Haydonite...

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I was looking at that image of 1990's tech... Okay??! It's a flight seat with dual monitors in a cabinet - simply switch to a HUD/Multi-Windowed view of the same data, and if required by the GM, a set of flight controls (which are removed in seat #2 for the VEF-1) for the drone(s). Personally it bot...

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Which points to both seeds and spores existing, not one or the other. It points to an unresolved contradiction actually. its really only a contradiction if people make assumptions about the FOL that aren't implied in the show. simple assumptions like: Alien plants have to evolve just like earth one...

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Sgt Anjay wrote:Which points to both seeds and spores existing, not one or the other.

It points to an unresolved contradiction actually.

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Well I will respond by saying that there isn't anything that says that it can't be done either! 'cept the evidence from the New Generation... but we've harped on that more than enough already. Naturally, since your GM's game setting differs considerably from the official Robotech setting, most (if ...

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Unless there's actually some new material in it, I just can't justify it to myself... how about for the fact many of these books are 25 years old.... and the supply is shrinking every so slowly... only 150,000 copies of the 1st edition Robotech RPG book 1 exist... w/o pirating pdf's its not easy to...

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... And he has very loyal base of players who pretty much take whatever he dishes at them because brutal or not, it's fun and you feel like what you just did made an impact on the game world, even if you only serve as a reminder of what not to do (like the guy who stuck his head into a door that fo...

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Would they ever even 'do' something like that - I have a sinking suspicion that they aren't allowed to publish those materials due to their agreements with HG? And even if they could, I don't think it K.S. would ever do it... (total assumption on my part) - But more importantly.... adding stuff for ...

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First I want to thank my GM - Jedi078 for posting. Second, while I understand the perspective that it isn't possible, I have consistently noticed the argument against the VEF-1 (or VE-1E ... which I will get to in a moment) can't or don't control Ghost UAV's - That argument seems to have been that '...

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It does not say air/spacecraft 'carrier' - just air/spacecraft (as in a VEF-1) That is not implied that is your conjecture. It could be aircraft as in the AWACS aircraft (which is quite large) and the only space craft in the series are more or less starships. You can have all the conjecture you lik...

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If they're discussing having UAV wingmen now in RL, with control interfaces for two seater fighter aircraft, it is the height of ridiculousness to presume in the sci-fi world of Robotechnology that the same interface is some how not feasible in the Macross Era of (1999) 2009 to 2014... Not really s...

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If they're discussing having UAV wingmen now in RL, with control interfaces for two seater fighter aircraft, it is the height of ridiculousness to presume in the sci-fi world of Robotechnology that the same interface is some how not feasible in the Macross Era of (1999) 2009 to 2014... As other post...

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KSN you do realize the Alpha Drones are canon since we see them in the series itself right? Just because they haven't been put into an RPG doesn't make it untrue Actually I wasn't - I never saw an Alpha (Veritech) Drone at any point during the Robotech "Macross Saga". It's only Canon for ...

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Yet there is no actual demonstration of what you say to be true....well not until the mid 2050's of Macross as even in Robotech it took a large computer system in it's own room to operate 3 Alpha drones. Not sure how you explain how it gets fit into a VF. Now if you had said it could be put into a ...

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While not the best analogy, it's probably the easiest to wrap around is that RT could be viewed as a distant Alternate Universe to SDF:Macross that married into the family (due to other shows being combined with SDF:M to make RT). Perhaps the most accurate way to put it would be to say that Robotec...

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While not the best analogy, it's probably the easiest to wrap around is that RT could be viewed as a distant Alternate Universe to SDF:Macross that married into the family (due to other shows being combined with SDF:M to make RT). Perhaps the most accurate way to put it would be to say that Robotec...

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Honestly? I think you are overthinking it LOL - probably, but the opponent views cause me to look at what I might want to do in game and reassess my premise. And of course if I'm questioned by GM(s) I have had all of your guys' help hammering out the concepts so I'm not 'making it up as I go'... Li...

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Honestly? I think you are overthinking it LOL - probably, but the opponent views cause me to look at what I might want to do in game and reassess my premise. And of course if I'm questioned by GM(s) I have had all of your guys' help hammering out the concepts so I'm not 'making it up as I go'... Li...

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Hmm... this is a series of questions with little in the way of easy answers. I'll have a stab at it regardless. 0. Macross has two versions of the VF-1 designed for recon, AEW, ELINT, and AWACS roles. The model that appears in the original series is the VEFR-1 "Funny Chinese", while a dif...

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1. I don't know what the head is supposed to be in SDF:M, but the 2E RPG has a VF-1D head not a VF-1J head. Which makes sense as the VEF-1 is based on the VF-1D frame and not the VF-1J. Head Desigh: -A, single laser top mounted with a rectangular/trapezoidal "Visor" -D, two lasers, one on...

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1 - Probably jusst so that there is less confusion as the VE-1 is actually a bit different. Honestly I didn't think the VEF-1 images were quite the same as the V|E-1 but that could just be me. 2 - I'd rule you could use the Cat's Eye Recon stats for AWACS, keep in mind it the Cat's Eye IS a dedicat...

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Okay so the Macross version is the VE-1 Elintseeker Veritech, and Robotech version is VEF-1. So a couple of questions come up (but I may have more as the thread progresses): First, is there a licensing/publishing issue that anyone might have a thought on as to why no VE-1 style images/ line art are ...

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Well... I'll skip the almost obligatory commentary on Palladium's over-optimistic release date estimates, and just say that it's nice that someone out there still intends to support RT. +1 To that statement. We sooo need more source books! While I don't know how all this publication stuff works - I...

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I'm sorry but a simple 'yes' would not suffice. I enjoyed the added detail since I do not own a copy of that book.

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Strike Bonuses for built-in weapons are limited to bonuses the pilot may have from the skills Weapon Systems and/or W.P. Heavy Mega-Damage Weapons (applies to rail guns and missile launchers, as well).

I like this rule (I don't own a RUE copy just the RTTSC book and source books)

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At the end of the day seems like a 'house rule' would be needed - and Some GM's will go one way with it, and others will go the other way. For myself, though I'm no GM, would opt to allow the bonus because I concur with Gryphon's reasoning, and because it makes for a more heroic experience for the p...

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As far as the books are concerned, in MOST cases PP only applies to hand to Hand combat and personal melee weapons. It also applies to mecha hand to hand combat. It does NOT apply to modern weapons or mecha ranged weapons. That is only covered by weapon proficiencies, targeting bonuses and/or the w...

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I appreciate the clarification... and yes while I check to see if a RT book has been released, or perhaps search through Murmurs of the Megaverse thread for info on RT publications etc., I am basically a newb around the forums. But recently I decided it was high time I try to get back into an RT gam...

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Well to be clear, I'm asking about Palladium's official rules (unaltered)?

So is it 'shouldn't' or 'doesn't' apply according to palladium system rules?

Particularly where it concerns Mecha Female Power Armor?

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Interesting and a bit sad... Anyway, I do have an additional Zent FPA question that came up (appologies in advance given how rusty I am with the Palladium system) So here it is: Do you add the PP Attribute Bonus (if over 16) to the ranged and missile strikes modifier table on the RTTSC Character She...

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Isn't the RT:Macross Saga Source book only secondary material according to HG? So if there is a 'boomerang' like with the VF-1 (which is why I initially felt it valid to opine that any energetic reaction could be used and be called Reflex without it necessitating the application of Protoculture), is...

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Do you even read your own sources? The name reflex was derived from a mistranslation in the scripts (provided by Tatsunoko Productions) of "reaction," the shortened euphemistic term for thermonuclear reaction in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross . [1] Coincidentally , Genesis Climber Mo...

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Reflex technology, being a intentional/unintentional translation of 'reaction' associated with the taboo nuclear topic in Japanese society; as well as the fact that it was considered unacceptable to the 'good guys' to be using nuclear weapons - were instead termed 'reactive' weapons, hence 'Reflex'...

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The Moronic Zentradie refer to Kissing and sex as Protoculture... note the Destroid Monster Khyron rides like a horse is out of Protoculture... Steal a Protoculture Chamber, and Re-power his fortress with a Protoculture Matrix... so taking the dialog of the Zentradie to mean much more than a bunch ...

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Something to think about - thanks. But is it just me, or doesn't it seem like a minature reflex furnace (particularly one using whatever amount of protoculture) might last quite a bit longer? While I was pondering on this I did some hunting around and found this neat article: http://www.guardian.co...

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This will really help in setup and planning - again thnx!

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Thank you that was insightful...

The only interest in fuel ranges has to do with situations in a scenario where either voluntarily or involuntarily the PC flying a FPA would be away from a easily accessible fuel supply. That was the only reason.

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Something to think about - thanks. But is it just me, or doesn't it seem like a minature reflex furnace (particularly one using whatever amount of protoculture) might last quite a bit longer? While I was pondering on this I did some hunting around and found this neat article: http://www.guardian.co....

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The same reason that Tome Grotesque and Beyond Arcanum has been on it for the last 7 years. The same reason Land of the Damned 3 has been on it for the last 10. The same reason Mechanoids Space has been on it since the online store was created. What that particular reason IS no one around here know...

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Does anyone disagree that the base atmospheric flight stat for the Zentradi FPA should be considered "at sea level"? And there for based on a GM ruling could be faster at higher altitudes in proportion to the VF-1's speed/ altitude increase? Thanks. I think that is a reasonable assumption...

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I'll give you an example of how THAT works. Jason Marker completed the Marines script in summer of 09. Kevin had told us so. We waited. And waited. And waited. And waited. It wasn't until shortly after the open house of 2010 that someone, who had attended, came on here and informed us that it had b...

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I really appreciate the reply... Going with that presumption, I find it interesting that while the new RT: Macross Saga Source Book is very detailed regarding atmospheric flight stats for the VF-1, it is 'mum' as regards space flight speeds (non-orbital booster). Yet the Zentradi FPA provides a spac...

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First, I did try to search if this had come up on the forum archieve or an Erata thread... but despite the search I didn't locate anything to answer this question: For the new RTTSC: Macross Saga source book, the statistic listed for atmospheric flight - is that correct? In looking back at the 'orig...

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While this letter is old (just read it for the first time) it is appreciated to help the casual fan gain some more insight as to how the publishing process works for the Robotech IP. My on question though would be that if we do not see a particular book - such as a Zentradi or UEEF Marines Source bo...

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I am soooo down for this.... Zentradi FPA - FTW!

I will be buying so many of these...... therefore please make LOTS of Battlepods and Invid Scouts

Gj on getting the license expanded!!!

Can't Wait!

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Thanks for the feed back guys.... I will do that.

Cheers!

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Coming back to RPGs after 17 years, and in rolling up a character for RTTSC GM has no restriction on skill selection of physical Skills. So my question: does any GM have thoughts on how the duplicate subskills in acrobatics and gymnastics are handled (ie Backflip, Sense of Balance)? My theory stands...

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