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From: dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Dave Van Domelen)
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Subject: RoboMACs: New Rules for smaller Robos
Date: 10 Mar 1995 21:00:27 GMT
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1.4.6 Optional: Size Rules

     As structured, the game assumes two basic sizes: Human and Robo.  However,
some campaigns may wish to use Robos or Powersuits that are somewhere between
those sizes, and have the mechanics reflect this.  These optional rules will
allow you to do this, but they are not use in the sample campaign in the
Sourcebook half of the book.  The RoboMACs 2163 gameworld takes the more
fantastic viewpoint that all Robos are on about the same scale, even if they
vary wildly in size.
     This section will deal with MiniRobos and MicroRobos, the two common
scales between building-size standard Robos and human size.  The rules can be
easily extrapolated upwards to deal with Robos much larger than normal,
although new wound levels will have to be invented for such huge Robos.
     Both MiniRobos and MicroRobos are dealt with by shifting damage levels to
the "left" with respect to the wound chart given in Section 1.4.1.  Both the
wounds possessed by the Robo and the damage done are shifted to the left,
making the Robo more fragile and weaker.  Normally, MiniRobos and MicroRobos
remain immune to Flesh wounds and take only cosmetic damage from Bone wounds,
so only count the number of wounds in the Metal category and above.  Overflow
damage (see section 1.4.2) is treated as normal, but overflow to Wrecked 
obviously happens much sooner.
     A MiniRobo is about half as large as a normal Robo, anywhere from 5 meters
(17 feet) to 8 meters (27 feet) in size as a rule, although they can also
reflect full-sized Robos that are older models, and therefore weaker and more
fragile.  They suffer one shift to the left in wounds and damage, so an attack
by a MiniRobo that would ordinarily do a Metal wound instead inflicts only a
Bone wound.
     MicroRobos are anywhere from 2 meters (6 feet) to 5 meters tall in
general, although they could be smaller if the technology is very advanced.
Piloted MicroRobos are generally called Powersuits, Battlesuits or Hardsuits,
since the limbs of the pilot often extend into the limbs of the Robo.
MicroRobos take two columns to the left and have only Metal and Structure
wounds in general (unless they're some odd organic system which can be damaged
as easily as flesh and bone).
     Neither MiniRobos nor MicroRobos are particularly harder to hit in combat
than normal sized Robos, but they do benefit strongly from being fast.  If
using the optional Defensive Modifier rules (section 2.2.2) they can read the 
"Armored and Fast" line as "Fast" in place of the regular "Fast" line, making 
them harder to hit...but only if they have Trait Fast.
     Some genres have very small Robos dishing out ludicrous amounts of 
firepower, and these rules simulate that by giving an extra bonus for taking 
Trait Weapons.  Trait Weapons gives MiniRobos and MicroRobos one less shift to 
the left on damage done, restoring MiniRobos to full power and giving
MicroRobos the punch of a Mini.  Weapons +1 or higher removes all penalty to 
damage done by these smaller Robos.  Thus, you could see a man-sized Robo 
lugging around a portable nuclear missile launcher or the like.  Very 
dangerous, but very easy to kill off.
     To simulate small Robos that are very tough, simply assign them a larger 
size class and define them as small...if it's supposed to have full-size Robo 
wounds and damage but is only 2 meters tall, it's not really a MicroRobo.
     Finally, in Section 3.2.1 where NPC attack charts are given, choose a 
MiniRobo or MicroRobo's line based on its firepower, and simply give it less 
wounds than are typical of that class.  MicroRobos can also use the Warmonger 
line in Section 3.2.2.