Errata for Robots?

[Infojunky]

Was sitting down to use Robots last night and there are some issues with it.

A half meter long tread unit weighs one ton?

Dexterity is all about which manipulator installed?

I should have made a list, The book is fine except for the details.

So any help?

 

[Infojunky]

I take it no then....

 

[GypsyComet]

Sometimes you get to read it, and sometimes you get to write it...

 

[Zens]

I take it no then....

Mongoose doesn't seem particularly supportive of errata, even those they've released.

I posted in the Legend forum asking about Lankhmar Unleashed errata and whether the current print contained corrections. Like here, no answer was ever posted.

I had found evidence of the LU errata having been released, but it's not actually available on the site as far as I can tell. It seems its just being passed around like contraband. Doesn't really leave me feeling reassured about support, so I didn't bother picking up the book.

 

[Lord High Munchkin]

I see the (unrelated), other German 'Robots" book has been finally translated:

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/112590/Traveller-ROBOTS

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

Dexterity is all about which manipulator installed?

Precision or power grip. Or were you talking about limbs/wheels for being mobile?

 

[dragoner]

I see the (unrelated), other German 'Robots" book has been finally translated:

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/112590/Traveller-ROBOTS

Wow, that is nice.

 

[SSWarlock]

I see the (unrelated), other German 'Robots" book has been finally translated:

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/112590/Traveller-ROBOTS

Is this different from the U.S. version? If so, any idea how?

 

[dragoner]

Just bought it, seems completely different.

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

It's a 3rd-party supplement for Mongoose Traveller. I'll get it if it is printed in the future.

 

[Infojunky]

Dexterity is all about which manipulator installed?

Precision or power grip. Or were you talking about limbs/wheels for being mobile?

In general figuring out what a particular bots Dexterity stat is. The only place it is addressed is in the Manipulator section.

 

[Colin]

It looks like, in this case, Dexterity for robots depends mostly on the quality/type of the manipulator.

Biological Frame gets a roll for Dex
Gyroscope can increase dex by 2
Advanced Reflexes (software) can also increase Dex

And rocket-fists are goofy.

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

Yes, other parts of a robot add +/- DMs for DEX.

 

[Infojunky]

Ok I will go look again.... I might just be being Lazy....

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

Ok I will go look again.... I might just be being Lazy....

It's mentioned mostly in the narrative fluff parts of the robot construction, rather than in building part charts.

 

[Infojunky]

Cool.

And I think I have figured out where to fix the obviously broken parts from, the original Robots rules from jTas... With a little bit of compare and contrast it looks fine....

Though right now it is starting to look like a simple idea is turning into a project....

 

[Lord High Munchkin]

On first look through the newly translated German 'Robots' book looks like an updated version of CT Robots, with more examples and a bit more logical "flow"... all updated to MGT.

I have not gone through it to any great depth though.

 

[Infojunky]

Hum.... Need more than that, remember CT's Robots was written by the DGP crowd and was the Harbinger of Errata to come....

 

[dragoner]

There were the robot articles in JTAS before that, as well as Research Station Gamma, iirc.

Whatever the origin, this new robots is a typical German product: high quality, but at a premium price; the example robots are nice, however. I'd like to see more work by these guys.

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

Was sitting down to use Robots last night and there are some issues with it.

A half meter long tread unit weighs one ton?

I read through the book again. Then looked at other Traveller books (past and present) on tracked robots (and even tracked vehicles). The construction rules are very vague and/or conflicting when it comes to designing tracked movement.

For the track weight mentioned in Robots, I'd expect a robot 20-30 feet long or high. But that is more of a vehicle to me. I could not find a guide rule for robots that are human size, that use tracked motion, that made sense, from any Traveller book. I guess we are to just hand-wave tracked technology like the writers did.