palladium produced an excellent series of books that covered Macross, Southern Cross, Invid invasion, return of the masters Sentinels and Macross II. even if you are only a fan of the series and never intend to play the game, this collection is a must!

Southern Cross was always my favorite book of the series. Loved this game as a kid...while the ruleset was a bit unbalanced, the source material was awesome in the Palladdium books and I remember spending hours during my summers reading through them. Thans for the mermories!

Awesome overview!

While I mostly collected the books for their art since I was not a fan of how the Paladum's rules, when I did try to run a Macross saga game once (pre-rain of death, that is. Most of the few games I ran either after the rain of death, or during the Invid invsion) I'd try to run each game like an episode. Basically players that were not pilots would either patch the mechs up during a fight or run command or control. These games tended to be more role play then ROLL play so that everyone could shine. Then I would go back to fighting Invid since you were less contained playing a bunch of freedom fighters trying to take their planet back.

@RichardtheDungeonCrawler

6 ай бұрын

That's a good idea to run adventures like episodes. I tried to run large campaigns but shorter adventures probably would have been more successful.

My first RPG experience was with Robotech ll: The Sentinels, around year 99/2000. For months (or years) we didnt get how the non physical skills worked. Have in mind that my gaming group live in Argentina, so we had the extra hindrance of the language when we were 14-16 years old tennagers.

@RichardtheDungeonCrawler

5 ай бұрын

Good job figuring out the game. My group in middle school had no idea if we were playing the game correct. But we still had fun!

A Robotech RPG? I find it hard to believe that adventurers would get into those giant robots & succeed in getting them into a dungeon... then again, I am sure that powergamers would like to do that! (Joking. 😉 I know there's more to RPGs than dungeoncrawling.)

My favorite after DnD

I remember when I first heard there was a robotech role playing game, I called around until I found it, and actually had to take the bus to go buy it. It was the first time I had ever used the bus, and reading it on the ride was was oddly satisfying in a way I will never experience again.

@RichardtheDungeonCrawler

Ай бұрын

If there is a reason to ride a bus for the first time it would be Robotech. I had to use a light rail since only one comic book shop in downtown Sacramento carried Robotech RPG books.

1:17 it's fine. No less cool than an artist making collage. It's how stories evolve anyway.

Robotech was my first RPG setting and still my favorite. I still mess with it and now covert the Strange Machine Games Robotech RPG to Palladium.

Alas Paladium hands down some of the best background information but damm it was a clunky system but we played and enjoyed it, hell I used to know the MDC of the GAU-11 off the top of my head. But as newer systems came out the books became source material and we converted them across to systems like Mekton which hands down has one of the best Mecha build systems (down that path madness lies as I still have the spreadsheet I designed to build mecha version 5.8 was the last one) but was weak if you wanted to do anything not involving mecha. There is a new Robotech RPG which I've played one game of it's not bad you might want to give it a look

@RichardtheDungeonCrawler

6 ай бұрын

I know Palladium has great source information. I would read them alot just for fun. I saw the newer books but I have not read them. But I'll check them out.

I'm sad that I got rid of my collection. I had all of them and extra copies of the 3 settings book & a few random others.

@RichardtheDungeonCrawler

6 ай бұрын

That really sucks.

Would love your feedback on Mekton Zeta. I asked because you seem to be huge into mecha anime much like myself.

Minmay is an airhead

The Robotech RPG was my gateway into the hobby. Whereas most people started with D&D, I started with Marvel Superheroes and Robotech. I like the shirt, where did you get that?

@RichardtheDungeonCrawler

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. I got the shirt from Amazon. Search for "fighting 84 tee shirt

Sure send them along. I use to play ages ago, so it would be fun to see what you make of this game's combat system. I remember it was pretty fun, but I was never quite sure if I was playing it correctly. The more recent edition of the game is a bit better in that respect, but still something of a mess. Mekton was a vastly better game and had a mecha creation system, so that's where my group went. One thing I do remember was that the game could be quite the slugging match, unless the missiles came out! A swarm of missiles could do hundreds of MDC of damage and take out even the tough RDF mecha. The Zent's battlepods were easy to take out, but like you said, they came in swarms and 4d10/8d10 can add up pretty quickly if you're being engaged by a squad of 3 or more Zentraedi!