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  1. CoryHolmes
    Damn skippy I'm gonna buy the book! I've gotten every single Robotech RPG book ever printed; Imma not gonna tap out now!
  2. CoryHolmes
    No, I ran into money troubles 🥺 Between the banks dicking me around and the timing, I just couldn't get anything from the Kickstarter campaign.
  3. CoryHolmes
    It's here! It's here! After my experience with the BioLloyd, I knew it'd be in a billion pieces. But these are teeny tiny little pieces! But it looks like something my cudgel-like hands could work with 😁
  4. CoryHolmes
    I haven't seen this trailer. I refuse to watch this trailer. I want nothing to do with this trailer. Gimme dat Nathan Fillion fanfilm every day of the week and TWICE on Sundays!
  5. CoryHolmes
    Ironically, the Houses of the Landsraad are just as dependent on those specialized humans as their predecessors were on the Thinking Machines. Nothing has really changed, just the surface details. I really missed all the political intrigue from the first half of the book and Miniseries. I really, really enjoyed watching Paul and Irulian interact, setting the stage for the end of the novel. (yes, I know that's miniseries only, Irulian deserved better than she got in the book).
  6. CoryHolmes
    Just saw it in the theatre today. Overall a solid 7/10. The casting was top-notch, with the exception of Lady Jessica. Paul was suitably uncool, but ripe for development. Duncan Idaho is awesome, natch. Duke Leto's beard is so epic it deserves it's own credit at the end. I'm strangely disappointed with the Harkkonen, tbh. The mini-series Baron is my high-watermark and so far this Baron is just... I 'unno, kinda there, I guess? And Bautista wasn't very good, either. The soundtrack was strangely unmemorable, which is odd for Hans Zimmer. Flight in Man of Steel was awesome, but this is just so very lacking. Arakeen was kinda lacking as well. The shield wall was supposed to be a ring of mountains that protected against the deep deserts, and not an actual wall. Same thing with the city, I was expecting more favella and less actual city I suppose. The stillsuits are interesting and look good. Same with the crys-knives. The settings are gorgeous, though I didn't ever get a sense of heat from the desert. It's supposed to be hot and dry, and yet none of the characters looked to be in a hot or dry environment.
  7. CoryHolmes
    Yeah, the idea is to see all these generations of fighters working together. Showing enemies would be a bit excessive, I think. And your second idea is fabulous as well! NGL, one of my favourite PB scenario books was Return of the Masters. It just made so much sense and it was a fun thought to examine just what the Masters could do if power supply wasn't a concern.
  8. CoryHolmes
    Dune 2: The Battle for Arrakis. "Warning, wormsign."
  9. CoryHolmes
    Ah, a solid choice! Mine would be a depiction of mecha from all 3 eras fighting together. A beaten-up VF-1 patched together, a Hovertank missing bits from an arm guard, and a Cyclone zipping around between them.
  10. CoryHolmes
    That's what I really wanted out of it. Picard flexing his leadership skills and bringing a bunch of disparate people together and making them into a crew. With perhaps one, maaaaybe two Shakespearean speeches to motivate them. Instead I got a half-assed rip-off of Mass Effect. Yuck.
  11. CoryHolmes
    I've decided what I artwork I want in the book. What's your choice?
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  13. CoryHolmes
    I'm still incredibly salty over that. I would've bought every single mini they produced, but PB just had to frakk it all up. I've refused to buy any other PB product since. Scummy douchbags, the lot of them!
  14. CoryHolmes
    Yeah, what he said!
  15. CoryHolmes
    Much like Silverbolt and the under-jet chunk of robot...
  16. CoryHolmes
    Yeah, what Seto said. To add my own $0.02CAD, Palladium's games had much more background and worldbuilding material, even if they had to invent some of it. One of the things I really appreciate about the 2nd Ed game is the breakdown it gave to the various Zentradi castes: Run-of-the-mill Warrior caste? Very little development, 'alpha-male' mentality, and only expected to live a few weeks to months in combat conditions. The Warlord caste, like Khyron and Azonia? A bit more developed, a bit better thinkers, but easily swayed by powerful emotions like teenagers and adolescents. High Command, like Breetai? Exceedingly well-developed, trained, educated, and expected to lead their fleets for decades or more. One of the passages that really stuck with me was in the Reconstruction-Era, where the Zentradi are having difficulty assimilating. "In the end, the Zentradi on Earth have a difficult road ahead of them. The strongest will persevere and find some measure of peace and co-existence on this strange planet of humans. The weak, the bitter, and the violent will return to their warrior ways and become rebels, hunted by humans and assimilated Zentradi alike. Ultimately, these rebels will meet the same end as generations of their race, to die and be forgotten on the vast fields of war." There's similar worldbuilding for the Masters book, going into the various nation-states of the fractured Earth and how they all have to work together to supply the ASC. Some with men, some with material, and some with money. It's entirely possible to have a squad with members from otherwise competing nation-states. I didn't see anything like that in SMGs version, instead it seemed more of a "here's how to play, make your own story" kind of deal.
  17. CoryHolmes
    Yup. Little things like that really added to the world without taking pages of dialog.
  18. CoryHolmes
    😁 I just hope it's a fun game that adds more to the setting. The Macross Era had some future characters writing essays about the events, one from Nova Satori. I always enjoyed that part of the Jack McKinney novels, too.
  19. CoryHolmes
    I'm willing to pay more for a GOOD Punch/Counterpunch toy. The $100 Price tag for James/Bond doesn't exactly instill a great amount of hope for me.
  20. CoryHolmes
    I'm not like that, though. I want good engineering solutions to the transformers question. Like the Dinobots, for example. Ever since MP-08 introduced the 'tail folds into the boots' gimmick, most if not all 3P and Masterpiece dinos went that route. It was great the first time, but I want something new and original. Same thing with the upcoming James/Bond from X-Transbots. Punch is my absolute favourite transformer and I want to better engineering than just "flip visor, twist shoulder pads, bend knees the other way".
  21. CoryHolmes
    After seeing those new 3P combiners with no extra parts, the hands and feet and whatnot are contained within the limbs, I refuse to even consider anything else. Most Menasor's are the worst, with the limbs basically being shin and arm pads.
  22. CoryHolmes
    The mini rules are a distillation of the last 30ish years of Palladium's system. It helps that the system was originally meant to ape Battletech. But the PnP version isn't very quick or clean at all. Combat takes forever, and the rules for non-combat activity aren't that great. But I've been playing with them since TMNT & Other Strangeness came out, so I'm used to them for better or worse.
  23. CoryHolmes
    PB or SMG mechanics? I think I'm just so used to PB that it seems natural.
  24. CoryHolmes
    Hah! Fortunately I enjoyed the books for both the game AND the line-art 😁
  25. CoryHolmes
    Ugh, Kickstarter Got turned off it from my last experience, also Robotech-related, but some of the bonuses they're offering are almost too good to pass up
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