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unangbangkay
Posts: 10 Arc User
Hi guys,
I love robotic heroes because CO's done such a great job with chunky, tech-based costume parts. That said, I'm a little bored with ubiquitous Iron Man and War Machine derivatives, so I've been trying to conceptualize a few robots with power sets outside the norm for tech-based heroes.
Here's what I've come up with:
"Alche-Mech (Pictured)"
Theme: "Robot Sorcerer"
Archetype: Grimoire
Travel: Lightning Arc
History:
A fortuitous accident involving a bubbling vat of witch's brew doused the experimental military drone ACM-X10 in mysterious mixture, infusing its coolant systems and chassis with potent potions. Seeing the potential in having a government-employed, magically empowered hero, without obligations to various eccentric wizarding circles, UNTIL and PRIMUS quickly programmed the drone with various crimefighting algorithms, equipped it with an enchanted hard-drive filled to capacity with scanned copies of tomes borrowed from the Magic Lantern bookstore, and commissioned it as Alche-Mech, Mecha of the Mystic Arts!
And a second hero, something a little more traditional, since I recently bought the Holo Armor and Invincible AT and wanted to use the whole package.
"[The] Light Fantastic" (just picture the the Holo Hex Armor with a Silver base, grey highlights, red glow points, and Yellow holofields, with the Mecha Jet Pack)
Theme: "Refugee from the Holodeck/Holographic Robo-hero"
Archetype: Invincible
Travel: Rainbow Flight
History:
A boring day at Lightwave Labs was touched by the fantastic when an entertainment program, the "Golden Age Archive" was accidentally installed in a prototype battle suit, one that used hard-light holo fields for defense instead of cumbersome armor. Unable to uninstall the stubborn program, exasperated Lightwave engineers opted to indulge its hyper-heroic righteousness, donating the unit to PRIMUS rather than suffer through another of its lectures on heroic ethics. Equipped with the ability to manifest numerous weapons out of thin air (and hard light), The Light Fantastic stands ready to bring shining punishment upon all evildoers!
What do you guys think? I've got more ideas just waiting for me to spend on a few character slots. Also I'm hoping Cryptic develop a plant/nature-based archetype so I can do my "Robot Druid" character that I thought up in DCUO (sorry, the Squall and Tempest don't cut the same way for me).
I love robotic heroes because CO's done such a great job with chunky, tech-based costume parts. That said, I'm a little bored with ubiquitous Iron Man and War Machine derivatives, so I've been trying to conceptualize a few robots with power sets outside the norm for tech-based heroes.
Here's what I've come up with:
"Alche-Mech (Pictured)"
Theme: "Robot Sorcerer"
Archetype: Grimoire
Travel: Lightning Arc
History:
A fortuitous accident involving a bubbling vat of witch's brew doused the experimental military drone ACM-X10 in mysterious mixture, infusing its coolant systems and chassis with potent potions. Seeing the potential in having a government-employed, magically empowered hero, without obligations to various eccentric wizarding circles, UNTIL and PRIMUS quickly programmed the drone with various crimefighting algorithms, equipped it with an enchanted hard-drive filled to capacity with scanned copies of tomes borrowed from the Magic Lantern bookstore, and commissioned it as Alche-Mech, Mecha of the Mystic Arts!
And a second hero, something a little more traditional, since I recently bought the Holo Armor and Invincible AT and wanted to use the whole package.
"[The] Light Fantastic" (just picture the the Holo Hex Armor with a Silver base, grey highlights, red glow points, and Yellow holofields, with the Mecha Jet Pack)
Theme: "Refugee from the Holodeck/Holographic Robo-hero"
Archetype: Invincible
Travel: Rainbow Flight
History:
A boring day at Lightwave Labs was touched by the fantastic when an entertainment program, the "Golden Age Archive" was accidentally installed in a prototype battle suit, one that used hard-light holo fields for defense instead of cumbersome armor. Unable to uninstall the stubborn program, exasperated Lightwave engineers opted to indulge its hyper-heroic righteousness, donating the unit to PRIMUS rather than suffer through another of its lectures on heroic ethics. Equipped with the ability to manifest numerous weapons out of thin air (and hard light), The Light Fantastic stands ready to bring shining punishment upon all evildoers!
What do you guys think? I've got more ideas just waiting for me to spend on a few character slots. Also I'm hoping Cryptic develop a plant/nature-based archetype so I can do my "Robot Druid" character that I thought up in DCUO (sorry, the Squall and Tempest don't cut the same way for me).
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I love cool robots! It's kind of a shame that most regular comics like to draw their robots like people. Except folks like Larroca on Invincible Iron Man. Those are REAL mech designs.
I too am a big fan of designing robots in this game, having three or four myself each with different bodies to transfer to.
I have a question about the glowing highlights, are those user definable? Can I for example, pick a portion of a costume piece, assign it the glow color and then have it glow? Or is it more rigid than that?
The Glow spot on a given costume piece is indicated on the color boxes with a highlighted border around that particular color segment.
and both of those robotic designs look awesome.
Here is my robotic 40th level Behemoth, Counter Weight. What you can't see is that he has the Juryrig backpack, making him a great, hulking hunchback.
Here is a robotic Grimoire, Technomancer.
The Legs and Arms were bought using Snake Gulch Dollars, of course.
A Prootwaddle is one of the weirder player-character races in "The Fantasy Trip", Steve Jackson's first published role-playing game.
My stuff at deviantart