101: Robots...worth it?

[ddamant]

Opinion: is 101 Robot Compendium (not supplement 8) worth picking up? Any copy available is a princely sum.

 

[LeperColony]

It isn't on one of the CDs?

 

[MichaelSTee]

No, it's a DGP product, and so not included on any FFE CD. (At least, not at this time.)

 

[Spinward Scout]

If you're talking about the one for $220 on ebay, I sure wouldn't pay that much for it. Unless you're a collector. DGP put out a lot of good work, tho.

Amazon lists one for about $100.

If you are looking for stats for robots, I'm sure someone on the forum or a Google search can help.

 

[BlackBat242]

$220? I need to sell my copy!

Just kidding - I don't sell any of my gaming materials.

But it cost me all of $6.95 at The Game Castle in Fullerton, CA in 1987.

 

[LeperColony]

But it cost me all of $6.95 at The Game Castle in Fullerton, CA in 1987.

Yeah, but that was probably a lot of money way back then...

 

[aramis]

No, it's a DGP product, and so not included on any FFE CD. (At least, not at this time.)

Not on any published CD yet.

 

[Timerover51]

Opinion: is 101 Robot Compendium (not supplement 8) worth picking up? Any copy available is a princely sum.

The real question to ask if whether you would use it enough to justify getting it at all. That is what I ask when buying books and gaming materials. Note, I have spent in excess of $200 on one book that I determined that I needed, and have used.

 

[aramis]

Opinion: is 101 Robot Compendium (not supplement 8) worth picking up? Any copy available is a princely sum.

It's not spectacular, but it's reasonably good - if you have Bk 8.

101 various robots built with bk 8. I've found little need for it, so, I'd say, "not at current prices"...

 

[whulorigan]

Not on any published CD yet.

Is that by any chance a hopeful hint of things to come in the near future . . .
(As in a DGP-deal is being tentatively worked out)?

 

[BlackBat242]

But it cost me all of $6.95 at The Game Castle in Fullerton, CA in 1987.

Yeah, but that was probably a lot of money way back then...

Less than either a large pizza or a pitcher of beer at the Round Table Pizza 2 doors away in the same strip-mall!

 

[Timerover51]

$220? I need to sell my copy!

Just kidding - I don't sell any of my gaming materials.

But it cost me all of $6.95 at The Game Castle in Fullerton, CA in 1987.

Hmm, in 1987, while on a trip to the UK, I found a one-volume edition of Yigael Yadin's Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands for 110 British Pounds. I bought it without any hesitation, and arranged to have it shipped back to the US so as not to be carrying it the rest of the trip. I have used it quite a lot since, although now on Abebooks it can be found considerably cheaper. It all depends on how much you value the information in what you are thinking of buying.

 

[maksimsmelchak]

101 Robots is one of the coolest books in the DGP arsenal, but...

It isn't really worth more than a hundred old Solomani credits unless you are a really die-hard collector.

I personally love it and the 101 vehicles... They are gritty and illustrated in a way that I wish more Traveller books were... And I think it is the only source for a K'kree robot...

Still, there is nothing particularly valuable to the OTU in it...

Fun, but not worth breaking the bank.

Shalom,
Maksim-Smelchak.

 

[Vargas]

IMHO you're better off designing your own using Book 8. (Or better yet, the rules from JTAS).

 

[kilemall]

Well I just found out I have a near pristine copy.

It's a nice book, has a lot of spiff ideas most notably between the lines, as in how your promote or design your robot for a market, or how they can go wrong.

But a $1 a robot? Eh, I dunno.

Inclined to sell it at the moment, if I can actually get these $100 prices.

 

[Whipsnade]

Opinion: is 101 Robot Compendium (not supplement 8) worth picking up?

At the current prices? Definitely not.

101 Robots is nice, but not in anyway definitive or a "must have". The designs can be cranked out with LBB:8 and rapidly cranked out with any of the LBB:8 spreadsheets found on the 'net. There is some nice fluff text but, again, it's just nice.

I found 101 Vehicles more useful because my players more often wanted detailed stats for vehicles and not robots. Robots were viewed most often as tools and you don't need stats for a pair of pliers.