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Old November 27th, 2004, 06:40 PM
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I've searched my MT rules and can't find any rules for building robots anywhere. Is my collection larger than I can handle, or is it CT Book 8 that I should be looking in?
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Looked in my MT stuff (RM, PM, IE, RC, RSB). Can't see any Robot rules in there. I'd use Book 8 with the errata that's available (can't remember where I saw it though)
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There is a section on robots in the Imperium in the Referee's Companion but no building rules that I can find.
I'd just go with LBB8.
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There were no rules for robots - so you have to use book 8
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OK, I'll see if I can find Book 8 then. Thanks.
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See if you can pick up 101 robots from DGP. There are lots of very nice designs. There are robot rules in the early JTAS issues (reprint book 1 covering issues 1-12). That has building rules. It is similar but less complex than book 8

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Book 8 is in the CT Reprints: The Books. You might be able to pick on up on eBay, Amazon, or your FLGS. Plus you can go straight to the source: Far Future Enterprises

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Also, if you have Best of Dragon, there are robot rules in one of the older dragons, too. Different, but also good. (in fact, I prefer the dragon article rules to the Bk8 or JTAS ones...)
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Dear Folks -

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Originally posted by Cymew:
I've searched my MT rules and can't find any rules for building robots anywhere. Is my collection larger than I can handle, or is it CT Book 8 that I should be looking in?
Some of Book 8 came across to MT. For example, legs (table 7, "Contact-Based Suspension" and table 8, "Contact-Based Transmission").

This was then mixed in with stuff from Striker. However, not enough of Robots made the cut, and the differing rules systems were not cleaned up sufficiently.

When I create a robot, I use the Bk 8 rules, supplemented with elements of MT and 101 Robots.

And I use my own, cleaned-up version of the rule when designing legged robots. See:
Beowulf Down ==> Tavonni Repair Bays ==> House Rules ==> Reconciling Robots, Pt 1 (two articles; one has the explanation, the other just the tables).

I never finished Part 2; it was going to be a cleaned-up/enhanced version of the Bk 8 tables. Try Jeff Zeitlin's site - I think he's got my proposed errata somewhere there.

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This apparantly was a thornier issue than I had imagined. I have the Dragon Magazine archive, so maybe I should start there.
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