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I think the specialty tables for pillar of the community on page 18 may be mixed up as the arbiter, being the legal specialist, does not have advocate as a skill that they can obtain without advanced education, while the agitators specialty skill list seems more in tune with a lawyer. The...

I agree that I would like a book that relates to the citizen and scholar careers (scholars in particular could benefit from improved event and mishap tables and further specialization). For citizens perhaps a method of creating civilian specialists might be in order, or an expanded role for the...

The way I see it the CG is an interesting read, but it is not without its issues. The main problem I have had with Uri Kurlianchik's traveller books is that he doesn't seem to let the core book inform the structure of a lot of the mechanical aspects. The ideas in robot were not especially bad I...

Personally I think several of the books mentioned could be repaired with errata (robots for example isn't a problem book because of what it lacks content wise, it causes problems because of unclear rules and and issues with game mechanics). The CSC might be a good candidate for a second edition...

It is interesting that Cybernetics has hacking rules too (Book 9: Robot introduced a couple of variations of rules for hacking as well). At this point other than core rules stuff I think there are 4 books that deal with computer hacking in some section (Agent, Scoundrel, Robot and Cybernetics)

It really was not my intent to make this a compatibility argument; mainly I just wanted to compare notes with other people. There are a couple of things that I forgot to consider in my construction: since the construction process is geared towards PC robots first, I think the author assumes that...

I want to state for the record that the book gets no hate from me, I started the thread to see if maybe my creation methods were flawed. (At the moment they appear to be correct). I would like to state that Mr. Kurlianchik does say that it is a guide book, not a rule book (though in that sense I...

Lest it be thought that my only thoughts about Book 9 are gripes about generation costs, I thought I would share my thoughts on the book as a whole. The generation system, weird pricing aside, is really good, and with the exception from a few ambiguities really simple. The second chapter is...

Well for the repair robot I made only about a third of its cost was hardware. Most physical parts for robots of standard types are in the 100-5000 credit range. The parts that determine Strength and Dex for human or smaller sized robots are really cheap, because both are determined by the...

There is also a vislight chameleon suitin the MT core

That there is no mention whatsoever of the robots given as examples in the main book, it a little weird. The difficulty I am finding is that the software that makes a robot even semi autonomous is really expensive compared to most of the hardware. Giving the Robots treatment to the autodoc for...

Is anyone else finding that the costs in the new robot creation rules are high? I tried to approximate the stat and skill level of the repair robot from the main rule book and it wound up being almost 2.5 times the original cost,and I left almost no room for upgrades (I mean I didn't even give...

I just purchased Robots and after going through the book a few times I have a question There appear to be two different medical scanners that can be built into a robot: one is a gadget and one is a sensory input, they both do about the same thing but take different amounts of time to scan a...

Actually it is explicitly stated in both books that there are two ways to begin a career; either you roll qualification as normal, or you meet the previous service qualification. For Mercenary that means that if you have two terms in the millitary you do not have to roll for qualification in a...