Dear Santa,

[jrients]

All I want for Christmas is a robot design sequence that's fun and simple and somewhat silly. Basically, something with the same feel as LBB2 starship design. The robot rules in the back of Books 0-8 reprint don't suit me at all, so I really need your help.

I've been very good this year,

Jeff

 

[mike wightman]

Take a look at the rules in the JTAS reprints, they may be more to your liking. They are much simpler than LBB8.

 

[Fritz_Brown]

And, take a look at the LBB vehicle design rules being discussed elsewhere on this board (The Fleet, maybe? Edit: Should have looked - it's right here in Imperial Research Station - duh. end edit). Just do a search for "LBB vehicle design" in the board search function. (And, I agree, the LBB8 robot rules are broken.

)

 

[Merxiless]

Merxiless Silly Robot Design System (MSRDS):

It's a start, I am sure there are some robotic scientists out there working at CMU that can add more to this. The following is in the public domain hereinafter.

Motive power:

1 Wheels
2 Tracks
3 Legs
4 None

Sensors system:

1 Audio
2 Video
3 Temeperature
4 Tactile

Control System:

1 Minimal
2 Complex
3 Very Complex
4 Dumb AI
5 Smart AI
6 Cyborg

Devices

1 Arms
2 Tentacles

Cost:
Varies by tech level

At TL 7 Mcr 1
Reduce it by half or more per tech level after that.

Anyone else, feel free to add to this, at will.