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2017-04-11, 12:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Transformers D20 Game
Is there a Transformers D20 game?
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2017-04-11, 01:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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D20 Future has rules for Mecha. Those might be useful if there isn't a D20 Transformers.
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There is Mechamorphosis by Fantasy Flight Games. I found it enjoyable.
As for its own fluff, it is pretty much classic Transformers with the serial numbers filed off.Chairman emeritus for Zinc Saucier.
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2017-04-11, 02:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Mutants and Masterminds is d20, and always works well for high-action games where characters have divurgant powers and abilities.
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2017-04-11, 02:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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If you are willing to go outside d20 Mekton (I use Mekton Zeta) is good. Otherwise I recommend either d20 Future if you are familiar or Mutants and Masterminds for its flexibility and being relatively rules light.
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Giants and Graveyards: My collected 3.5 class fixes and more.
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You can play a Transformer by applying the Divine Minion template and any of the various "Body" feats (Adamantine Body, Mithral Body, Wooden Body, etc.) to a warforged character. Disclaimer: because of the requirements of Divine Minion, you're also required to pick a flaw and the Otherworldly feat.
If you apply all the above to both the playing characters and the main antagonists, it's possible to run a Transformer D20 game within 3.5e.Last edited by Uncle Pine; 2017-04-11 at 07:06 PM.
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Per the Magic of Eberron book, warforged keep their plating in all forms via wildshape (which the divine minion template makes use of those rules).
It should also be noted that the Otherworldly feat is a Faerun regional feat that has a region/race requirement for Deep Imaskari, Evermeet elves, and spirit folk.
But if you are going to be running or playing in a game where the divine minion template is going to be used in this manner, the feat's prerequisites could probably be waived.Chairman emeritus for Zinc Saucier.
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2017-04-12, 09:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Your alternate forms would include adamantine/mithral/wooden hawkbots, crocobots, constrictor snakebots, lionbots and so on instead of cars and trucks, but they are there. You can switch forms at-will, as a free action.
By RAW, you also heal whenever you change form, but that should probably be handwaved by the DM in one way or another.Extended signature here. Contains: 2 avatars, 3 quotes, a doggo and his friends.
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I actually meant healing, because:
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For the full list of alternate forms (and the template itself), see here. I could swear I had seen a deity with hippos as possible alternate form for his divine minions, but I can't seem to find that on the list.Extended signature here. Contains: 2 avatars, 3 quotes, a doggo and his friends.
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That's still great that a Transformer can actually heal.
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Thank you for the source. Too bad the feat doesn't let you turn into a hippo.
Warforged in general can heal mostly fine. Have one of them be a Crusader or a Cleric worshipping your CrystalDragonMecha Jesus of choice and you won't even have to roll a single Craft check!Extended signature here. Contains: 2 avatars, 3 quotes, a doggo and his friends.
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I have a few thoughts Id like to toss onto the pile.
I thought 2 ranks of Kn. Local got around this.
Dont warlocks have a spidershape invocation? If such a form is prefered.
Also,we need to puzzle out the next two steps. what classes best fit, and, autobot or decptacon?
Is their rules for divine minions from gods not in the article? If so, divine minion of Gond to wildshape into a toaster!
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In 3.0 it did. With the 3.5 update you have to actually be from the region to choose the regional feats. Rather inconvenient for all the Battle Jumpers out there unless they've got a very convincing backstory about how their level 1 character survived, to say nothing of being accepted by, a race of bloodthirsty apes that would as soon beat them, or eat them, as talk to them.
Sadly, it also kills the Otherworldly Warforged idea unless the DM either handwaves the regional requirement or counts Warforged in the Forgotten Realms as outsiders.
I think M&M, being designed as a supers/comic book style system, would probably be the best fit.
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Yes, according to PGtF you can now just choose one region and pick a regional feat from that region, which is what you do with Otherworldly if you're a warforged. Works pretty straightforwardly by RAW and in many tables I played in.
If your DM rules that you need to physically come from that region instead of just being raised as someone from that region (a possibly common occurrence if you think about other regional feats) you are an outsider: just say that you're from Faerun and now you live somewhere else, Ravenloft style.Extended signature here. Contains: 2 avatars, 3 quotes, a doggo and his friends.
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It does work by RAW if you ignore the race requirement. That regional feat has a prerequisite for Deep Imaskari, Evermeet elves, and spirit folk, none of which are warforged.
But like I has posted previously,
But if you are going to be running or playing in a game where the divine minion template is going to be used in this manner, the feat's prerequisites could probably be waived.
I have never played M&M before so I cannot say how good that system is. I have heard good things about it though and you could easily create a transformer type character. I am sure that it can be translated into a 3.5 game with a little work.
The Mechamorphosis book I had mentioned before also can be worked into a 3.5 game with little work.
So OP, is this for a transformer like character in a 3.5 game or were you looking for a straight Transformers game?Chairman emeritus for Zinc Saucier.
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