Have you ever run a Transformers game Veeky Forums? What system is best for it?
Have you ever run a Transformers game Veeky Forums? What system is best for it?
Asher Green
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Justin Morris
I ran three transformer games. The first and second games used a crack system my friends and I came up with based off of the Tech Specs the toys used to come with. This worked somewhat, but only because we were mainly playing it for shits and giggles. Basically it was a d10 whitewolf TF game.
The second was Mechamorphosis, which is a really thin d20 supplemental. It really didn't make a whole lot of sense in terms of scale relating to character's powers. We just ditched it after a bit.
Christian Rodriguez
Yeah, I tried Mechamorphosis as well. Can't recommend it.
Carson Bailey
Never run it but I've seen notes for using WoD for Beast Wars and WEG Star Wars for G1. There's also one called Battlechangers or something like that.
Aside from that there are a homebrews around. I worked on one back in the day.
Gabriel Nguyen
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Julian Perez
I've got some other PDFs but my internet is too shit to upload them.
As an aside, FunPub's Beast Wars Uprising continuity can make for an interesting campaign setting. The pose pdfs are free at the Transformers Collector's Club web site.
Bentley Myers
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Bentley Rodriguez
>You all meet in a sunken alien warship underneath the ocean.
Jacob Parker
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Tyler Ward
Wasn't someone converting Mekton Zeta to a giant TF game or something?
Anthony Lopez
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Jack Myers
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Andrew James
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Juan Jackson
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Gabriel Butler
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Christian Torres
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Carson Torres
This is the one I played two campaigns in. Had a great time.
Hudson Kelly
Here are some other homebrew TF RPGs.
Jackson Reed
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Camden Brown
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Nathaniel Bennett
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Henry Wilson
IIRC vorked did this.
Michael Carter
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Justin Sullivan
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Xavier Martinez
God do I know Veeky Forums abhors this but I ran a transformers game in the Cypher System (That's Numenera/Strange) once. To great success.
The specific limits and allowance the systems runs but gives it a very 80's cartoon feeling.
Yes there was one home-rule to make it work. Everyone got an additional function that reflected what they transformed into. Modeled it on the Were-wolf description/function, but changed the stats to make sense.
How cyphers and Artifacts feel and function was a homerun prefect fit into capturing the feel of the setting.
Ryan Adams
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Chase Young
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Asher Murphy
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Christian Ortiz
What system are these from? They look good, but are certainly not related to the post/game you are linking too.
Austin Fisher
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Luis Wilson
It's vorked grimlock's hack of Dark heresy 1e. I'll try to upload it later.
Julian Turner
A game that's too big to post here, I'll have to upload it somewhere else.
Lucas Taylor
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Colton Phillips
It has potential, although I'd much prefer one of the later variants as a system, like DH2.
Especially as Infamy/Influence/Whatever fits perfectly as Rank on the tech specs.
Lucas Ward
Did some playtesting on a friend's homebrew with a Cannonball run style race across Cybertron during its expansionist Golden Age.
Matthew Fisher
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Justin Watson
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Carter Martinez
Fuck, I was hoping this was something else.
Ayden Bell
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Levi Wright
We doing a Mosaic thread now?
Luke Cooper
It keeps the thread alive.
Nathaniel Stewart
Try Battle Century G. Just merge the pilot and the mecha sheets, and you're good to go!
Cameron Cook
I toyed with a few different systems, both crunchy and rules light.
>Fate
This is the system I had the most success with. I tinkered around with it, and added some elements from the crunchier rule sets.
>Ubiquity
A stripped down die pool game similar to WoD. It has some streamlined mechanics for dealing with characters of varying sizes.
>Basic Roleplaying
Again a system where size matters. There is a set of superhero rules which proved to be useful.
>Mutants and Masterminds
This system looked like it would give me the most options, while still being manageable.
>Supersystem
An indie superhero wargame. I've always had a fondness for it, and wanted to turn it into a full fledged rpg one day. Kind of a stripped down version of Champions.
>Abberant
White Wolf's superhero system. Had some kind of energy mechanic. Seemed like an interesting way to make a "energon matters" style of game.
Camden Lee
Cartoon Action Hour has its own "totally not Transformers" splatbook
James Clark
I ended up making a few NPCS with Fate, and then work and school got in the way.
>Starscream
>High concept: Decepticon air commander
>Trouble: Vainglorious Bastard
>Aspects
>More than meets the eye: F-16 fighter jet
>Treacherous first lieutenant
>Backstabbing opportunist
>I do transform with a sense of style
>Skills
>+4 Athletics (Speed)
>+3 Drive (Pilot), Deceive
>+2 Physique, Shoot, Fight
>+1 Lore, Notice, Rapport, Provoke
>Stunts
>Vehicle: Airborne, Ranged Weapons, Speedster
>Stress
>Physical 4
>Mental 3
Jonathan Gomez
>Megatron
>High concept: ruthless leader of the Decepticons.
>Trouble: blinded by ambition
>Aspects:
>more than meets the eye: cybertonion fighter
>All hail Megatron
>Might Makes Right
>Tainted by the Blood of Unicron
>Skills
>+5 Shoot
>+4 Physique, Fight
>+3 Athletics (Speed), Rapport, Will
>+2 Deceive, Drive (Pilot), Provoke, Contacts
>+1 Investigate, Notice, Resources, Lore
>Stunts
>Vehicle: Airborne, Ranged Weapon
>Humanoid: Heavy Close Combat Weapon x1, Heavy Ranged Weapon x2
>Stress
>Physical 5
>Mental 5
Nolan Martinez
S'cool. I love dumping this shit.
Angel Garcia
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Christopher Martinez
I don't suppose you could post a link to a PDF of this? I've wanted to snag a copy for ages, but I can't find it anywhere.
Austin Nguyen
Have some fun fan fiction about a bunch of Raptorbots. Neat dynamic that feels properly toyetic.
Jeremiah Brooks
/co/'s /tfg/ will probably have it.
It's licensed so it's official fiction :^)
Raptorgirls are 2cute
Oliver Sanchez
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Mason Sanchez
I used savage worlds with the super powers companion. Everyone gets "transform" as a free power, and they upgrade the different forms independently of each other with xp.
Nolan Jones
Thanks for the tip. If only there was a /tfg/ thread actually up over in /co/... huh, maybe in /toy/...
John Cox
Seconding BCG. Its pretty good, tight and crunchy system for mecha stuff. Transformers fits right into it.
Hunter Bennett
>a crack system my friends and I came up with based off of the Tech Specs the toys used to come with
... Chris?
Joshua Jones
/toy/'s doesn't have pirated material. /co/ used to have one 24/7 but I think they spammed a lot of porn, which led to deletions, which led to an exodus back to tumblr.
Charles Sanchez
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Christopher King
Got any more of these?
Always wondered what Plasma Foxes looked like after hearing about them in the animated movie.
Had the Insecticons alt form be the humanoid shape not the insect one. They were pulling a Mimic disguising themselves as their Cybertronian prey. Some eventually got 'domesticated' enough to function as jannisaries for the Golden Age's expansion.
At least better behaved than Sharkticons.
Samuel Cook
Sure, but they're fan-made
Benjamin White
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Adam Rodriguez
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Ayden Anderson
Artist is ZacWiliam
Jackson Howard
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Angel Phillips
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Brayden Gomez
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Oliver Reed
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Jordan Anderson
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Jason White
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Parker Hall
Last one I've got.
Logan Lee
Uh... technically? Nahh.
Adam Jenkins
Thank you for this exploration of the spark enriched fan fauna of Cybertron. A lot of these ideas can be repurposed for Engine Heart or someone's Zero Dawn homebrew.
The time taken and attribution to ZacWiliam is appreciated, user.
Caleb Anderson
You're welcome, famigo.