FBH robot wars system workshop

Basic and needing fleshing out, dice and specifics to be determined.

Tasks for anyone wanting to be involved Think up more mecha types Think up more attitudes

Human Stats

Attitude Your general personality, gives bonus. PCs grade people have 2, elite mooks 1.

Smug: You get a large, flat bonus until you fail at something, then you get a penalty

Hot Blooded: You gain an escalating bonus depending on how damaged and outpowered you are

Laid back: Gain a bonus after each successful role you make

Serious: Gain a bonus to everything that's less than other attitudes situational bonus

Plucky: Gain a bonus every time you fail to do something

Traumatized: You may damage yourself (mental stress) for a bonus

Intense: Pick a certain objective each battle (Defeat a particular opponent etc.) gain a bonus towards that objective, but a penalty to everything else

Person

This is the section about you as a person and your life outside a robot.

Born

Your basic stats
((Probably going to be replaced with more Exhackian ones))

Strong: How physically strong you are

Fast: How quick and dexterous you are

Tough: How good your endurance and resistance to damage is

Knowledge: How book learned you are

Planning: How good you are at making judgement calls

Noticing: How good you are at perceptual tasks and noticing

Personable: How good you are at talking to people

Conscious: How good you are at reading social atmospheres and self analysis

Dealing: How good you are at negotiation and instrumental dealing

Learned

Learned have two catagories, broad life skills (which give bonuses across multiple born stats) and special skills and aptitudes which give much higher bonuses in specific situations.

Life Skills

Infantry Training

Gain a +X bonus to rolls in combat

Commando training

Gain +Y bonus to rolls in combat. and anything involving sneaking

Idol

Gain +X bonus to social skills, and enjoy the benefits of fame, as well as its drawbacks

Squad Leader

Gain +X bonus to rolls involving squad leadership or tactics

Specific Skills

Trained by a Master

Once a session you automatically succeed at unopposed roll or gain +X automatic successes on an opposed one in a particular area

WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS

You can negate the normal requirements for materials when repairing or building something

Telepath

Somehow, you can determine the thoughts of others with a successful conscious roll

Bring a Sword to a Gun Fight

Gain X bonus to dodge and attack when you use a melee weapon against someone armed with a projectile weapon

Pilot

Pilot skills are bought with a seperate bucket of points from personal skills. However, most things about piloting a robot derive from your skills as a person.

Control

Your ability to control a robot with a high output, and the currency for maneuvers you have each round.

Aleph

How good a Newtype you are. Gives access to newtype maneuevers

Confidence

How comfortable you are with flying. High Confidence can be applied as a bonus to certain rolls, and makes exceptional rolls count more

Trickiness

Roll this to change maneuver based on what your enemy is doing

Recovery

Your ability to revive a damaged suit and repair temporary damage

Advantages and Disadvantages

Transhuman Template

Everyone gets one of these free. S-class transhumans are better

Robot Stats

Robot Level

This represents the ability of suits within a level of technology.

Inferior: Anfs, Mobile Workers, Zaku 1s and other vehicles that use mobile suit rules but are super duper bad for their tech level. Example: LEV

Requires Control 0

Grunt: Standard grunt suits for normals. Example: Zaku GM, Jeagen, Raptor

Requires Control

Upgrade: Better versions of standard Grunt Suits. Examples: Tieran high mobility type, ECOS Jeagan

Requires Control

Ace: A mook suit that's been upgraded for an ace. Examples: Red Zaku, Stark Jeagan

Requires Control

Superior: Not a Zaku, but also not a Gundam. A limited production run suit for elite units. Examples: Gouf, ReZeEL

Requires Control

Elite:

Requires Control

Master: Miniboss level suits, used by named characters. Examples: Delta

Supreme: Gundams and other end boss suits. Example: The original gundam, the psycho-gundam. Jehuty and Anubis

Archetype

Each robot has two archetypes, which may be the same. An archetype is its role, design philosophy or the like, and gives bonuses outside of the stats. All archetypes have a cardinal statistic, which allows someone with lower pilot skill to get more out of them.

Generalist

A all purpose type suit with no particular strong or weak points. No bonus, no penalties. It's cardinal statistic is balanced, gain +X effective control if you have all stats within 2 of one another

Armoured

A big tough suit

Fast

A sleek, fast suit

Light

A highly agile F-16 suit

Heavy Weapons

A suit the carries big guns

Sniper

A suit that carries a big sniper rifle

Close Combat

A suit designed for melee fighting

Psi

A suit designed specifically for an esper weapon

Stealth

ECM

Non-Giant Robot vehicles

Non-Giant robot vehicles such as mobile armour, smaller robots, tanks, gunships and jets have special rules

Technology

Level 1
First War
Level 2
Second war
Level 3
Modern
Level 4
Mid Season Uglies
Level 5
Advanced Prototypes