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    UFO Robot Grendizer (mecha teaser of the week)

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    Posted · Edited by MatteoN

    This is both impressive and long-due!

    Regarding the following:

    * roll 1d10 on the [diz] hit location table, or hit the saucer if the dizer is out of the spazer

    shouldn't you be rolling instead something like 1d8+12 (melee) or 1d5+15 (missile), so that you can only hit the head and the arms, since those are the only parts of the robot that are not inside the saucer?

    Glass Golem, need helps with stats new to BRP

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    Or he comes back as a smaller and smaller version due to the loss of mass? So he slowly shrinks down as the campaign goes on and he is put back together after damage?

    Well, maybe he can be recast with additional silicon to compensate for the lost shards, but when he gets shattered he runs the risk to lose the shard where his mind/soul is located (every time he's recast his soul changes location). So he cannot properly be killed, but might end up spending his eternal life as a grain of sand.

    Foreign Language BRP ?

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    Drakar och Demoner Expert (turning the d100 into a d20 and adding hit locations and stuff like that).

    There really was a "blood relationship" between DoD and the Kult and Mutant Chronicles RPGs, or just a loose kinship based on the three games using a roll-under mechanics and the d20?

    MS-06 Zaku II and RX-77 Guncannon (Mecha teasers of the week)

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    The reasons why they are posted here is to release them as somehow "fan made", as I cannot do them officially.

    I see. What about gathering them together in a pdf for the download section?

    There are two such descriptions in Mecha, and this will be all. I cannot fill a book with nonofficial stats and demand that no one bothers.

    That's a sensible idea, then. So, what mechas have you chosen for the book? The two you consider the most iconic, or two that illustrate the range of options the system offers?

    MS-06 Zaku II and RX-77 Guncannon (Mecha teasers of the week)

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    I doubt any of these designs will be in the Mecha Book. Not that he wouldn't want to, but Rosen would have to secure a lot of licenses to do something like that.

    You need a license to write the stat block of an existing character, even if you don't replicate existing material? Is the name that you cannot use without a license? If this is how thing are, maybe it would be possible to substitute the names with short descriptions like: "Primary configuration of a giant robot made up of three vehicles (able to combine into two other configurations fit for underground and underwater environments), able to fly due to its long cloak-like wings, and to fight with simple and double karate kicks, blades protruding from its forearms, two throwable axes that return to the thrower, and a powerful energy beam".

    Great Mazinger (Mecha teaser of the week)

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    Nope. Go Nagi's own Cutey Honey predated it, although she wasn't a giant robot.

    I agree. ;D

    I think there were some other transformables that went back earily, but they did so in limited ways. I think Getter Robo was the fist combiner mecha.

    I'm not authoritative on this (or any other) matter, but I'm quite sure I read Getter was the first transformable robot. Of course there were Tezuka's and Yokoyama's robots, but I'm not aware of any transformable robots in their work.

    Great Mazinger (Mecha teaser of the week)

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    I did pick up a dollar DVD with the English title "Redbirds." It features a trio of pilots whose assorted aircraft combine to form a fighting robot. They work for some United Nations good guy organization headed by a kindly old professor. In the episodes I have, they're up against alien invaders, this time humanoids with one to three horns on their heads (bigger and more horns apparently grant greater status). One of the bad guys looks like a cross between Adolph Hitler and a Texas Longhorn steer. Any idea what the original Japanese TV show was?

    If he's the bad guy, the series is Getter Robot G from 1975. I'm pretty sure Getter Robot was the first transformable robot.

    Great Mazinger (Mecha teaser of the week)

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    Not exactly absolutely canon.

    Thanks for the infos! I wasn't aware of these details, but probably the Demon Tribe agreeing to forming an alliance with the human Doctor Hell didn't make much sense... I understand that motion-picture animes seldom square(d?) with the regular series, though (just think of Nausicaa or Akira).

    Great Mazinger (Mecha teaser of the week)

    in Basic Roleplaying

    Posted · Edited by MatteoN

    Anything geeky is welcome here, I suppose.

    Read further down if you dare, then!

    Perhaps Guillermo Del Toro's last movie has something to do with your question?

    Well, yes, but it also has to do with the fond memories of the only (very short) campaign I played in Mekton, more than fifteen years ago. I and two friends played... kaijus that defended Earth from alien invaders (the invaders were hot chicks from Venus). Actually, our characters weren't exactly kaijus; they were human sized cyborgs that transformed into giant "mechanical monsters": MechaBalrog (with a second face on his chest ;)), MechaCthulhu (with extendable electrical tentacles - as it is well known, absolutely the worst weapon a mecha can have, but so cool!), and MechaTyranid. The invaders piloted cool, shiny Gundam-like mechas.

    That said, being a big fan of Guillermo del Toro, I am so sad for the apparent shipwreck of his project of filming At the Mountains of Madness. With Prometheus Ridley Scott has made a lousy (IMHO) movie, but the worse thing is that basing it on Lovecraft's novella he has also actively sabotaged what for me could have been a much more promising chapter in the history of contemporary fantastic cinema.

    I don't know much about Pacific Rim, but I am hopeful.

    If you stat the kaiju in such a way that the scale factor is compatible, yes. It all boils down to whether you consider Godzilla 100m or 200m tall (this would make it SIZ 30 or 60 in BRP Mecha) or smaller. In the 1998 movie, it is 100m long, the size of a ship, but it is killed by F18 missiles, which should have the same effect as fireworks on a being of that size. In BRP Mecha, the biggest thing an F-18 can launch - a Harpoon - does 1d10 damage. There is no way such a big creature could be killed by a few hits of something doing 1d10. Note also that in Shin Jeeg the Haniwa Genjin (SIZ Class 3) intercepts the Harpoon launched at it by the ship, so it considers itself vulnerable to them. That said, I think Godzilla is depicted as SIZ Class 30 in the movie, but behaves as SIZ Class 4 or 5.

    OTOH, if you take the Cthulhu stats from CoC and divide Damage Bonus, Armour and Hit Points by 10, you have an opponent which is about the same power level as a Mecha. However, Cthulhu can not be really destroyed...

    The second scenario included in the book will feature small Kaiju as opponents.

    Thank you very much for the thorough answer. I think that the "interfaceability" of mechas with the creatures of CoC and other BRP games might be a selling point: think, for example, of all the people that on rpg.net seem to dislike CthulhuTech (also) because of its system.

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