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Post by Chris Goodwin on Jun 9, 2021 23:29:49 GMT
So, everyone knows that there's not much I love more than Robot Warriors... and I've just had the opportunity to run it! Using 6th edition for characters, and largely my own document for the interface between the RW mecha construction and combat rules and 6th edition's.
RW's ground scale and size class work almost too well together with second-gen range modifiers.
Actual play report follows!
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Post by Chris Goodwin on Jun 9, 2021 23:32:47 GMT
This is an in-person game, run as COVID restrictions are being reduced. I'm running the game using the HERO System 6th edition for characters, and robot construction rules from Robot Warriors.
GM: Chris Goodwin
Players: John (playing Diego), Mark (playing Michelle), Frank (playing Scotty).
Session date: 5/23/2021
The characters all awaken in their mechs, inside a drop ship. They land in a rocky desert area somewhere in the American southwest. The Devourer of Worlds monster has just broken out of a cave. The players take defensive positions, moving under cover. Diego and Scotty get close enough to get hand to hand, while Michelle stays further off and snipes with her radar guided missiles. Most attacks aren't doing much, even the ones with Piercing, until Scotty uses his Decrystallizer (AVLD against force fields) and the monster has no force field.
After that they spend time learning about the orbitals, and the state of affairs in the galaxy. The Galactic Core Emperor likes collecting monsters; the orbitals' database lists well over a thousand unique individuals. The PCs try to get food and booze; the food so far is food paste with vegetable cubes, but they're able to get alcohol. They spend time trying to work with the food replicator; they figure out chocolate and will have coffee next session.
They have universal translators and can read the ship's written language, which is pictograms.
They've also discovered a materials replicator, and are able to get metals and an organic structural substance similar to wood. They've asked for personal weapons and a shuttle. The materials replicators have "catalogs" that include personal weapons and armor.
They have learned that the orbital station was sent to protect Earth from other entities. The ship and stations are all automated; they have a limited amount of "search and presentation" intelligence, approximately equivalent to a slightly smarter version of Google. They can ask a question and it will do its best to give a usable answer.
Most Earth governments are on high alert. They've been able to detect activity around the orbitals, but are not yet able to detect the drop ships. Several hours after the monster fight, news reports are starting to come out but information is limited.
The orbitals have a gym, a combat training facility, a hangar, and a mech simulator. After a bit of roleplaying, session ends.
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Post by Chris Goodwin on Jun 9, 2021 23:34:14 GMT
Session date: 6/6/2021
Players: John (playing Diego), Mark (playing Michelle), Frank (playing Scotty), Patrick (playing Connor).
The session begins with the drop ship preparing itself for launch, all on its own; the characters (Diego, Michelle, and Scotty) are given the option to board. They all do, with their mechs. The drop ship flies to another orbital, this one "not-moon-space-station" class. That turns out to be the large manufacturing facility; the characters' shuttle is loaded in, along with a new mech! They meet Connor Flanagan. He awakens in his mech as it is being loaded into the drop ship. The other characters give him the rundown on themselves being clones. They have also learned about "protein birds" and that the food replicators can produce chicken. They flew back to their orbital, then took the shuttle down to a town near Taos, New Mexico. They landed at a Wal-Mart near a highway interchange. They have hand scanners (communicators, etc.) provided by the orbital so that they can scan food, technology, etc. Connor calls his original first (thought it was a prank call), then his original's sister, to find out the date, so I give them a date (July something 2031). Michelle pickpockets someone (for the wallet and cash), then orders food and scans it; she also gets a tattoo.
They all spend time scanning food, cell phones, cars, etc. Connor scans a Mercedes, Michelle scans a steak dinner, etc. As they finish and board their shuttle, they get the alert that there's an attack at a NASCAR stadium in Roseville, CA. They travel there, boarding their drop ship en route and suiting up. They hit the ground to discover another drop ship landed and six unknown mechs attacking a monster truck rally (Alpha and Beta, Gamma and Delta, and Epsilon and Omega Eliminators from the Robot Warriors book). At one point, after one each AB and GD are down, Michelle gets on her mech's PA system and asks, "Are you entertained?" Resulting in cheers from the remaining crowd. Scotty gets knocked down as well, then the rest of the fight is pretty hard. The tactic that works best: gangfire with autofire weapons against enemies with high powered Force Fields on a Burnout roll means eventually enough hits will overload said Force Fields, leaving those mechs largely defenseless against weapons that are AVLD (Force Fields). Diego has activated his active camo (Darkness) and snuck into the enemy drop ship and disabled it, then used his autolasers to take down the EO mechs' force fields. Eventually the remaining AB and GD mechs are downed, and the EO mechs are utterly destroyed (reduced below -1x BODY).
They load Scotty's mech into the drop ship and begin field repairs on it (Damage Control was down) and hack into the enemy drop ship to steal it. They pick up the downed enemy mechs and take off for orbit before cops, military, and government start showing up.
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