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Batman Corps
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Dossta's comment on 2013-04-25 06:11 PM
For all the silliness, it is still incredibly cool. I would definitely use them if I were running the setting, perhaps as a foil for the PCs. You forgot to bold the "Holdings" section, and the Roque's Gallery is a little confusing (I don't understand all of the terms used), but otherwise, this is a great read. Thanks for the smile. Go to Comment
Batman Corps
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Dossta's comment on 2013-04-26 12:35 PM
With the extra stuff in the Rogue's Gallery, a GM now has enough to run a whole mini-campaign in the New Nuyork Arcoplex. I especially like your take on the Riddler, since it moves him from the territory of vaguely annoying camp to serious-but-fun threat. What Cosmic Era submissions would you suggest I go to for more information on parapsychics? Go to Comment
Batman Corps
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Dossta's comment on 2013-04-26 03:47 PM
Nvm, found a sub on the manifestation of parapsychic powers. I went ahead and linked it here, for future reference. Go to Comment
Batman Corps
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young0ne2's comment on 2013-05-01 08:10 AM
Only voted Go to Comment
Combat Mechanoids
Lifeforms  (Constructed)   (Any)
Scrasamax's comment on 2013-04-18 09:40 AM
Update: Cult of Done.

Doubled down on this one, Foronda is a play on Dr. Mindbender and the Combat Mechanoids are 1/3rd Cobra B.A.T. 1/3rd Terminator, and 1/3rd Super Battle Droid (Attack of the Clones) Go to Comment
Combat Mechanoids
Lifeforms  (Constructed)   (Any)
Scrasamax's comment on 2013-04-19 12:05 AM
The Mangler

The Mangler, the Crusher, the Shredder, there are a large variety of names given to scrapping and recycling robots. The Mangler, OCP's PM-9900 'Praying Mantis' is a very typical recycling robot. It was designed to handle refuse and to scrap damaged and discarded robots, androids and mechanoids. The original civilian model is equipped with large pincers and several cutting lasers and saws for dismembering robots to salvage their specific valuable components and separate them from the parts that can be sent to smelting. 

Like the LoaderBot, the Praying Mantis was given it's own military version. Rather than a stand and deliver sort of bot, it is generally equipped with camouflage and improved armor and sent out as a stalker. The machine is rather clever once given a predatory iOS upgrade and will ambush it's intended victims, seeking to immobilize and then quickly remove the head/cranium with it's cutting laser or saws.  Given the relatively high cost of the Praying Mantis and other recycling bots, few are used in this headhunter fashion.

Several have achieved sentience, another reason the modification is seldomly done.
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Combat Mechanoids
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Scrasamax's comment on 2013-04-19 12:02 AM
The LJ-1A LoaderBot
 The LJ-1A is a good representation of the universally common materials handling robot. It is roughly human shaped, and at 600 pounds, not outside human operating parameters. It was designed to handle heavy burdens with a degree of finesse for loading and unloading vehicles and handling materials inside factory modules and warehousing sectors. It is a very low end of robot tech machine, and has a very primitive cortex. 

None of these factors prevented the LJ-1A from being modified into a combat mechanoid. The body panels, made of commericial ferroplastic can be unbolted and removed, and replaced with composite armor panels made to fit the machine. The arms can be unbolted and 'gun arms' can be fitted onto the robot, to make it a walking gun turret. The resulting robot typically has a pair of infantry support weapons for arms, or twin barrel lighter weapons (or a mix such as an infantry support flamethrower and a double machine gun arm). It is an easy target, and requires constant direction by a human operator, effectively calling out attacks for the robot to target and engage with it's weapons. 

These are third and fourth line machines that only exist due to the number of loader bots in existence and that if pressed, a two man crew can strip an industrial model and rebuilt it into a combat model in 4 to 6 hours.
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30 Illuminati Minions
NPCs  (Major)   (Criminal/Espionage)
Scrasamax's comment on 2013-04-18 09:19 AM
Update: Big push and Cult of Done Go to Comment
30 Illuminati Minions
NPCs  (Major)   (Criminal/Espionage)
Scrasamax's comment on 2013-04-29 08:51 PM
I wrote it as a 30 because that was the initial point of inspiration, it was going to be a regular 30 and then I thought of the different tiers and how they worked in layers. Go to Comment
30 Illuminati Minions
NPCs  (Major)   (Criminal/Espionage)
Cheka Man's comment on 2013-04-20 03:12 PM
Pretty interesting. Go to Comment
30 Illuminati Minions
NPCs  (Major)   (Criminal/Espionage)
axlerowes's comment on 2013-04-29 08:32 PM

I have thought about this more...the list is pretty good as a list of NPCs at a breaking point, and they break for different reasons.  You could take this same list and use it as a list of souls to buy.  Your PCs could get a job as out sourced headhunters, they get  a list of people that have been ID'd as high risk or high value targets. They then have to go to work getting them sign away their souls.  


I think the format of the 30 actually hurts this one considerably as it relates to the Illuminate angle. . Why did you do this as a 30? Look at your entry for the general, it is more about the history than the man. Seriously why a 30?  The fun of reading conspiracy theory stuff is unraveling the elaborate conspiracy.   
I agree with Dossta.  But you got it done,
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30 Illuminati Minions
NPCs  (Major)   (Criminal/Espionage)
axlerowes's comment on 2013-04-29 08:32 PM
Only voted Go to Comment
30 Illuminati Minions
NPCs  (Major)   (Criminal/Espionage)
axlerowes's comment on 2013-04-29 09:00 PM
It is a good list, I like the characters. Have you used it in a game? Go to Comment
30 Illuminati Minions
NPCs  (Major)   (Criminal/Espionage)
valadaar's comment on 2013-04-22 11:06 AM
Wow, quite the work you have here Scras! I like 30's that tell a story and this one does. Many of the characters are quite memorable. Go to Comment
30 Illuminati Minions
NPCs  (Major)   (Criminal/Espionage)
Dossta's comment on 2013-04-29 12:50 PM
Not exactly sure how I feel about this one. It's long -- which is usually a good thing -- but in this case the length doesn't really strengthen the piece. The details for each NPC are very good, but I'm not sure you're being specific enough with this collection. Especially with the Betas, Gammas and Zetas. What you're basically showing me is that I can take any old NPC I want and make them an unwitting pawn of the hidden masters. Not sure I need so many examples in these echelons. The real meat of the piece is in the Alphas and Omegas -- the people "in the know". Go to Comment
Commercial Armor
Items  (Materials)   (Combat)
Strolen's comment on 2013-04-13 04:43 AM
The only part that confused me (and it is probably just me) is when you say armor defeating weapons are its weakness and then say "critical threshold effectively doubled". This, to me, reads that it is twice as hard for armor piercing bullets to get through it. It seems like you meant to say that the commercial armor max puncture threshold for piercing bullets is half of their max? Go to Comment
Commercial Armor
Items  (Materials)   (Combat)
Scrasamax's comment on 2013-04-13 07:29 AM
Armor penetrating or defeating Rounds are twice as effective against commercial armor is what I mean to say. Go to Comment
Commercial Armor
Items  (Materials)   (Combat)
Scrasamax's comment on 2013-04-13 03:41 PM
Sub and stubs like this are how I explore the Cosmic Era. The 100 word submission is purposely short to cut out the fluff, and that is what I am looking for as I write little thIngs like this. Go to Comment
Commercial Armor
Items  (Materials)   (Combat)
axlerowes's comment on 2013-04-13 01:39 PM
You could try this as 100 word sub, I think we should have a sci-fi minutia codex. Go to Comment
Armlet of Vallis Frigoria
Items  (Jewelry)   (Campaign Defining)
Strolen's comment on 2013-04-10 04:36 AM
I like the metagame portion of it. That is fun and something I have never used. The ability to overuse it is a fun leveling affect as well. Go to Comment
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