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First, the impressions,

Well, I've recently got my books for the Robotech RPG and would like to post my comments. Some of it is good, some of it not-so-much, rest of it may fall under the personal attack category, sadly. Anyway, on to the good and the bad.

The Good:

• Character creation feels more satisfying. The stat templates avoids the all-too-often, for me anyway, scenarios where all I can get are 13's or less for my stats rolls. The special aptitude bonuses provided in the quick character creation helps the character to feel, statistically speaking, a bit more like an individual and less cookie-cutter.

• The OCCs all now function on the MOS system, the single good thing that came out of the old Southern Cross book.

• Cyclones aren't a munchkin's best fiend as much as the used to be, with almost as much MDC as an Alpha.

• Mecha designs are closer to the way they are depicted in the series.

• The Southern Cross's gear didn't get dumped into the RPG-only EBSIS.

• There are even a couple designs I've not seen elsewhere: Bioroid Interceptor, Invid Overlord and probably a couple others.

• It's Robotech.

The Bad:

• I'm considered overly biased when I say prefer the Logan and Ajax over the Alpha and Beta. So why in the name of God does it imply that the ASC is the least advanced technologically? Frak you, Yune. Frak you.

• The weapons in all three books are inconsistent and nearly all the guns are under-powered. But this in truth a problem in nearly all of PB's works. It's not so bad in a setting where anyone can pick up a rocket launcher and honestly expect to have a chance against a giant robot. However, I don't remember too many instances of that in Robotech.

• Why are Bioroids the worst in overall stats of all enemy mecha? Is this just more bias against the Masters Saga from HG and Yune or are they really supposed to be that weak (which I seem to remember the actual series suggesting differently)?

• With the stats as they are now, only the Cyclone and Hovertanks have a reason to transform, everything else should just stay in fighter mode. And I have problems with that, so barring a LOT of errata or just picking up stakes and using Mekton Z, anytime I play an aerospace Veritech pilot, I'll just conveniently forget that I can transform...

• Missiles are way too unbalanced compared to other weapons, the only reason to not use missiles in an attack, is if I'm out of missiles. I think I'll stick to my house rules on Macross Missile Massacres (missile strike bonus + 1 strike bonus for ever 2 missiles over 10, and any number of missiles can be dodged).

• What is with the Zentraedi micronization rules? I don't care if they are micronized, I can't think of ONE good reason why even the strongest Zentraedi would barely be any stronger than an above average human. And no, the rules as they are don't give any sort of bonus for having and augmented strength of 15 (half of 30), not even carry weight. Heck, I can't find any augmented bonus for anything less than 24. And PE is even scarier...

The errata.

Now I'm curious if anyone else besides have started on stat corrections. I'm working right now on fixing the weapon damages for mecha (right now no mecha weapon is going to do less damage than 6D6 MD, and human-scale weapons will not go above 5d6 MD, and even then the 5d6ers would be tripod mounted, power armors can have up to 1d4x10), with reworking the MECTs to give people a reason to transform out of fighter mode. I may post the corrections (not full stats for hopefully obvious reasons), unless told not to. So anyone else doing something like this?

PS. I used to post these boards as Dairugger XV, but I stopped because I stopped being interested in Robotech in favor of Super Robot shows, and now I can't remember my Ezboards account password...