Transmechs - where'd this come from?

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Re: Transmechs - where'd this come from?

« Reply #15 on: June 26, 2009, 09:24:31 PM »

Hmmm, right now RPGNow is having a sale on Transformer type stuff, including the Transmechs.

Still not interested, but picked it up anyway.

The Auld Grump, completist, and it was on sale....


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« Reply #16 on: June 27, 2009, 12:23:34 AM »

I've just bought a copy, it's pure genius.
I'll have to tell other people about it...


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Re: Transmechs - where'd this come from?

« Reply #17 on: June 27, 2009, 03:01:14 AM »

Quote from: TheAuldGrump on June 26, 2009, 09:24:31 PM

Hmmm, right now RPGNow is having a sale on Transformer type stuff, including the Transmechs.

Still not interested, but picked it up anyway.

The Auld Grump, completist, and it was on sale....

Well, look at it this way -- it does have official Crafty stats for laser weapons. Plus shenanigans involving the Deep Space Communications Complex outside of Canberra.


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Re: Transmechs - where'd this come from?

« Reply #18 on: June 27, 2009, 04:03:13 AM »

Quote from: TheAuldGrump on June 26, 2009, 09:24:31 PM

Hmmm, right now RPGNow is having a sale on Transformer type stuff, including the Transmechs.

Still not interested, but picked it up anyway.

The Auld Grump, completist, and it was on sale....

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Re: Transmechs - where'd this come from?

« Reply #19 on: June 27, 2009, 11:06:25 AM »

Quote from: Mister Andersen on June 27, 2009, 03:01:14 AM

Well, look at it this way -- it does have official Crafty stats for laser weapons. Plus shenanigans involving the Deep Space Communications Complex outside of Canberra.

Tanforming robots, hmmm. Lasers, phah!

But that last phrase was what made go wandering on my mind, liked what pictures it created there and made me buy it!

Too bad you cannot autograph pdfs, tho'.

Well done you guy!

It's 25 pages really worth their salt and ours!


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Re: Transmechs - where'd this come from?

« Reply #20 on: July 01, 2009, 05:57:38 PM »

I have a question about the alternate modes.

The rep/net worth alt modes have an "X" instead of a number for the required spark rating.
Is it 10 or an error?


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Re: Transmechs - where'd this come from?

« Reply #21 on: July 01, 2009, 06:43:25 PM »

Tomorrow i will print it so i can read it properly (cant help it, can read more than a page in the screen), but i have one question after looking quickly trought it...

Briareos??


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Re: Transmechs - where'd this come from?

« Reply #22 on: July 01, 2009, 09:27:56 PM »

Quote from: Psion

Let me get you started:
http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=459197

An entry from page nine of the thread:

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By the way, I picked up Transmechs this weekend. I don't know Spycraft, but after reading through the splat, I'm probally going to pick it up. The rules seem very solid, and the sample character statblocks are so much smaller and easier to use than standard D20 Modern it's amazing.
On its own, it's a pretty good rendition of Transformers, covering everything from pretenders to gestalts. I'm not sure about the relative power level of a human character vs a Transmech character in Spycraft, but it looks like the system is set so its balanced more like the Justice Leauge comics/toons, where Batman is everybit as effective as (and gets as much screentime as) Superman, despite the vast disparity in powerlevel rather than the zero-sum 'everybody of the same level/CR must have the same raw power level' of D20 Modern.


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Re: Transmechs - where'd this come from?

« Reply #23 on: July 02, 2009, 01:09:24 AM »

Quote from: Aragathor on July 01, 2009, 05:57:38 PM

I have a question about the alternate modes.

The rep/net worth alt modes have an "X" instead of a number for the required spark rating.
Is it 10 or an error?

It's "10" - if we had forgot the number, we would have listed it as "XX"


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Re: Transmechs - where'd this come from?

« Reply #25 on: July 06, 2009, 06:38:12 PM »

Or, the other extreme:

I like the expressions on their faces during the transformation sequence. (And incidentally, those specs in the manual actually are for a Gremlin.

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Re: Transmechs - where'd this come from?

« Reply #26 on: July 13, 2009, 02:20:29 AM »

I have not actually purchased Transmechs yet, at least in part because I've received mixed reactions from my Spycraft group (meaning they might not be interested in using the book....*sigh*).

That said, I've been hearing the Transformers theme in my head since the book came out, but with the lyrics "Transformers - Robot Superspies"

...Just saying Grin

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Re: Transmechs - where'd this come from?

« Reply #27 on: July 13, 2009, 03:14:45 AM »

What sort of missions do you normally send them on / genres do they play?


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Re: Transmechs - where'd this come from?

« Reply #28 on: July 13, 2009, 10:37:27 AM »

Quote from: Mister Andersen on July 13, 2009, 03:14:45 AM

What sort of missions do you normally send them on / genres do they play?

Offhand I would suggest the shootier side of espionage, and would be taking wheelman to the next level. Cheesy


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Re: Transmechs - where'd this come from?

« Reply #29 on: July 13, 2009, 01:35:28 PM »

Quote from: Aldus Vertten on July 01, 2009, 06:43:25 PM

Briareos??

The Titan? or the Bioroid from Appleseed?

I don't know if the Hecatonchires system can be covered by anything short of massive powergaming.


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