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How does Bridlewood even HAVE movies? Like, they're shown to be at pre-industrial tech levels, using muscle-power and clever use of gears and ropes to replicate some lost tech. I'd expect them to have something like kamishibai or puppet shows instead. ---Dave

Let's just say, I'm not cancelling my preorder for Renegade MLP TTRPG. Transformers was a near miss, if a miss nonetheless. MLP could be so bad it hits an entirely different target for me.... ---Dave

Either their My Little Pony game will show more care in tailoring it to fit, or it'll be a glorious trainwreck of MLP40K. ---Dave

Yeah, Boimler is definitely interested in some women. But not the ones back on the farm...and while he can be kind of oblivious when focused on something else, he's not always in a monomaniacal state and he spent years with them before joining Starfleet. So, something is up. If it's just that...

Yeah, it took me a while to figure out how to properly get everything in place on that mold. Specifically, not until I was reviewing Ironhide did I discover I'd transformed Ratchet incorrectly. ---Dave

Oh, if anyone wants the file I put together before giving up on the game, here it is. ---Dave

I think they put the system together before getting any licenses and then made it work for the licenses. As a giant robots in a secret war on Earth game, it has some problems resulting from insufficient editing and playtesting, but as specifically a Transformers game it does not work. It does...

After sleeping on it, I've decided I'm done with this game. At best, you can play a generic background Autobot, and only in a formal "you are in an army and are issued equipment" version of things. The total lack of signature gear is where their attempt to shoehorn Transformers into their...

The romance subplot Boimler programmed into Crisis Point II does cast the season opener in a new light. Particularly, how he didn't just rebuff the flirting of the hotties on the raisin farm, he did a complete no-sell. Didn't even acknowledge the flirting. Yeah, he was preoccupied with the...

Ugh, the equipment rules are totally Crunchy Soldier Game stuff. You need to requisition anything that isn't standard, and your role (class) determines what sort of things you can requisition. Signature weapons like Blaster's Electrodisruptor are impossible, because they have to be checked out...

It's possible that one of their other licensed games is easier to learn from, like Power Rangers or GIJoe. Or they'll work harder to make the rules easy to learn for their MLP game using the same system. Purely internal playtesting may work fine if all you need to do is refine mechanics, but...

(I might put together such a guide, if only because it'll take me only a little more time to make up Channel in this system than if I tried making him without preparing the guide first.)

The more I read this book, the more I'm sure it was never actually playtested properly. Oh, the system seems to work, if clunkily. But I don't think they had anyone try to learn the game from the rulebook. Or make up their own characters. I'd need to spend a significant amount of time making...

Initiative is a trained-use skill under the Speed set. So, if you don't spend a Speed skill point on it, you roll 1d20 twice and take the worse result. If your Speed is only 1, you have to choose between moving and attacking. Only at Speed 3 or higher do you get to use "Free" actions in...

So, either buy 1 rank or 3 ranks of a skill at chargen, the second rank is the worst return on investment. (The fifth is the best, but you're unlikely to manage a skill at 5 during chargen.) ---Dave

Here's the result of 200 rolls in a spreadsheet, because I could set that up in a couple minutes and I'd have to dig out my math books to figure out how to do it analytically (exact results should be 1.5 for one rank of skill and 2.625 for two ranks). So...kinda wonky and I'm not sure it's an...

Okay, the game definitely suffers from "You know the rules already, right?" syndrome. The actual mechanics are spread out and hard to find (and the index is utterly useless for the purpose), which usually happens when the writers have been using the system for a while. "Essence 20" is...

I ordered it ages ago and it finally arrived in the mail this week. It looks like they're taking most of the deep history from IDW's first continuity (but a tiny bit from the Ruckley version), trying to fold in most of the G1 cartoon, and bits and pieces from Prime/RiD and Cyberverse, so that...

I agree that the sudden escalation of that one plot point was a bit too abrupt. It'd have been nice if there'd been a smaller example of it in a previous episode, as foreshadowing that it might actually verge into the fantastic rather than just being the more common mundane version. ---Dave

Nope, wave 6 (Galvatron and Shockwave) only just showed up here last month. None of my regular sighters have seen even that much. ---Dave