Palladium Robotech RPG Book Overview/Review
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Let's take a look at the first three Robotech books by Palladium. We will go over the Core book then the Robotech Force Manual and finally the Zentraedi book. I will discuss how I purchased these books at the 1986 San Diego ComicCon.
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@bruced648 6 ай бұрын
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!
@oldschoolonline8871 2 ай бұрын
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!
@davidradich9342 Күн бұрын
OG player here. Played in 85, had high school friends worked at a comic book shop owned by Kevin Seimbeda and got in on the ground floor testplaying the first Robotech RPG.
@RichardtheDungeonCrawler Күн бұрын
@@davidradich9342 That's crazy and so cool. What city was the Comic Book shop in?
@davidradich9342 17 сағат бұрын
@@RichardtheDungeonCrawler The shop was in Westland, Michigan in a strip mall off Warren Rd and Merriman. It was called Readers Exchange. The Robotech suppliment "Ghost Ship" was written by the guy managing the place and we tested out the campaign in the back of the store before it was published. I think I went to Keven Seimbeda's warehouse where Palladium was being published out of a couple times. One of the guys I knew ended up working for Palladium for some time. Lost contact with them all long ago when I left Michigan for good. All my gaming stuff got stolen from my car when I was teaching in Detroit. But found pdf copies of all the books online and enjoyed the nostalgia reading through the books. Readers Exchange was a pretty awesome comic shop in the mid 80s, but it did what many businesses did. First, it downsized then moved to a smaller nook with cheaper rent in the same dying strip mall and closed its doors sometime in the late 90s I think. But in it's day it was actually quite a large store with a good selection of odd merchandise and quite a lot of bootleg anime coming in from Japan, which was the only way to get much of it back in the day. As for Palladium, I really enjoyed Heroes Unlimited, Robotech and the other modern games, but not a fan of the fantasy genre. Also Rifts left me cold, because our GM turned it into basically Dragon Ball Z the Role Playing Game with a bunch of cheat em up characters, while I was playing a normal guy, and I never liked Dragon Ball Z. Hate it in fact. But we all have our own tastes. Also played West End's Star Wars which I loved. Had a good GM for Star Wars which makes a huge difference. I did run two campaigns. One for the Palladium RPG but set in Rome and without the magic stuff. I was majoring in history at the time and ran a historically accurate campaign. Also did a campaign using various games (Ninjas and Superspies and Beyond the Supernatural), set in WW2 with lots of UFO lore thrown in. Kind of a proto-X files meeds Indiana Jones. That was fun. My biggest beef with the system was its mechanics in terms of how it treats firearms and the effectiveness of various calibers. In real life I carry a 9mm, and it more than does the job. But in the Palladium system a 9mm round only does 2d6 SDC. Horse shit. There is a reason cops and the FBI and the military use 9mm. Because for the most part it will drop a human effectively. But playing Robotech, a character with lots of SDC can just shrug being shot off with a 9mm or other comprable round without a sweat and it is frustrating knowing firearms very well to play with people who don't and deal with this inconsistency with reality. Yes, it is fantasy, but I kid you not, I had a character die when he pulled out his pistol and shot the bad guy point blank in the head rolling a critical strike and doing 11 SDC to him, and then the GM tallied up the damage Bad guy's head took more than 30, so on the next melee my character got his head lopped off with a sword. Sorry. You shoot a guy point blank in the head he is going down. But the GM was an idiot, that is almost 30 years ago. I vacation in Bangkok and live on a tropical island, he still shovels snow in Detroit...so it balances out.
@GeneElder.R27 2 ай бұрын
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 2 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.
@exequielfri1352 6 ай бұрын
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 6 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!
@ThomasMusings 6 ай бұрын
Awesome overview!
@TheRyujinLP 7 ай бұрын
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 7 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.
@tobefrnk 4 ай бұрын
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.
@BonusEggs4Sale 4 ай бұрын
1:17 it's fine. No less cool than an artist making collage. It's how stories evolve anyway.
@alankohn6709 7 ай бұрын
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 7 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.
@SimonAshworthWood 7 ай бұрын
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.)
@sketchasaurrex4087 7 ай бұрын
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 7 ай бұрын
That really sucks.
@brianc9374 3 ай бұрын
My favorite after DnD
@mattmaddogwheaton4724 6 ай бұрын
Would love your feedback on Mekton Zeta. I asked because you seem to be huge into mecha anime much like myself.
@cmmike8958 5 ай бұрын
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 5 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching. I got the shirt from Amazon. Search for "fighting 84 tee shirt
@sdfghjkjhgfdfghnbvbn 7 ай бұрын
Minmay is an airhead
@rcgunner7086 7 ай бұрын
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!