red_eagle123 Posted December 7, 2004 Report Share Posted December 7, 2004 In the Plot Seed document, there's a plot seed for Mechanon (submitted by Hermit) where Mechanon takes over an automated nuclear power plant and threatens to unleash hell on earth. Part of the description cites having the players fight their way through the power plant to Mechanon's lair fighting against the automated defenses. For some reason I'm picturing this as little mobile robotic units created by Mechanon from the existing defenses of the power plant. How would you write these up if you were going to use them? I'm curious to see what ideas for mechanized units such as these are out there. I suppose alternatively one could take ideas from Black Harlequin's toys write-up and use those. What other ideas exist for these types of opponants for PC's to face? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckg Posted December 7, 2004 Report Share Posted December 7, 2004 Re: Mechanized Robot Guards? Well, here's a look at what sort of robots-with-guns the US Army is looking at /today/. http://news.com.com/Army+to+deploy+robots+that+shoot/2100-7348_3-5473191.html?tag=nefd.top Here's a picture: http://www.rdecom.army.mil/rdemagazine/200309/images/itf_armed_robots02.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red_eagle123 Posted December 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2004 Re: Mechanized Robot Guards? Those would be almost exactly what I'd imagine Mechanon would come up with, great links Chuckg. How would you write those up tho? Movement 6", minimal PD/ED. Maybe a 2-3d6 RKA or 6-9d6 EB for the machine guns. AE explosive effects for the missile launchers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckg Posted December 7, 2004 Report Share Posted December 7, 2004 Re: Mechanized Robot Guards? Heck, just use the real-world weapons stats from Dark Champions, and assume they're using 7.62mm machine guns and 40mm grenade launchers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted December 7, 2004 Report Share Posted December 7, 2004 Re: Mechanized Robot Guards? Well, Mechanon's writeup from the Champions genre book includes the ability to Summon four 150-pt. robots out of nearby technology. These robots are described in a free .pdf which you can download from here. You could use those as a template for the robots devised by Mechanon, adding abilities as desired. You might also check out Chapter Four of the HERO System Bestiary, "Beasts Of Science Fiction And The Movies." The cybernetic Chromedog and the Hunter-Seeker Drone robot would make a good customizable start for Mech's defenses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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