Great White Games/Pinnacle Entertainment Group

Willis · Seasoned Joined: 21 Aug 2003 Posts: 157

Hey guys. I have a player that is inspired by the robot hunter picture in the old wasted west book. He's gonna need powered armor to pull that off though. How would you guys recommend handling that?

Clint · Site Admin Joined: 13 May 2003 Posts: 16176

ValhallaGH · Legendary Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 4482

Use the power armor suits in the core rules. The NA used various Scout suits, the SA utilized a lot of Scout and Battle suits, and there were a couple models of Heavy suit (Grapesmasher, etc.).
Allow weapon mounts using weapons from the HOER setting book.
Energy weapons can pull from the suit batteries, but each "charge" is a minute of power - and the suit only carries 24 hours (1440 minutes) of power.

Fast and Fun, but I'm lazy like that.

I'm curious to see what others suggest.

Redtwin · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 12:05 am Post subject:

Hmm. I second using the core books power armour, but I've got my own spin on it.

The suits can be worn and used with minimal power consumption, but it's a very intensive and difficult process - you can walk reasonably well but anything beyond that is completely impossible. You cannot even defend yourself (Parry 2). Your suit stores enough power to run for X rounds of actual use, be they squashing a trog, hauling lumber, or dancing a jig. Flipping the suit on or off is a free action. Once out of power, you are trapped in a steel coffin unable to defend yourself (I just love 2 Parry) until you manage to scrabble out of it (Ag at -2) - and even then you're in jammies and unarmed because there isn't room in the suit for personal armour or small arms.

Suits can only be recharged using specialized equipment which is too bulky to be carted around easily. So when you go adventuring, there's a very real limit on how much your suit can do before you have to leave it in the car and go without.

The benefit of this is not having to track power consumption except when it matters, but still making power a precious resource not to be squandered.
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VonDan · Legendary Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 3252

See clint every one wants a good set of finished rules for power armor and Mechs.

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ValhallaGH · Legendary Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 4482

Redtwin · Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 1:39 am Post subject:

I love the classic feel of power armour as very powerful items with harsh time restrictions, but tracking per minute use to march from point A to B was pedantic. This is a middle ground which caps the number tracked to 20-30 instead of 1440. Do you really want to track numbers that high?
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Redtwin · Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:00 pm Post subject:

MagusRogue · Seasoned Joined: 04 Jan 2004 Posts: 341

Could do a middle ground, like tracking ammo for extras. Roll a die each scene/session/etc, if it comes up with a success, there's a jam or a small blurp in the system, and a raise means u run out of juice.
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