There is an experience system, but I must admit it doesn't really explain how to use your points.

From discussions with the GM before you can use the points to add additional technologies to yourself, upgrade existing weapons, or add new weapons. It's unclear if you can use it to approve stats though.

Since the game is meant to I think largley emulate G1 keep in mind that there is relatively little change in skill over millions of years of these characters though. Thus it is somewhat true to source I think.

Oh and we are allowed to get Minicons if we find them...

This is what it says in the rules on pg 70:

Points
The points allotted to a character at character
creation are the average between the Robot.Mode’s
scores in Skill and Courage, rounded up. Points are
used to buy Weapons, Technological upgrades, and
admittance into Subgroups. Points can also be spent
to increase Statistics, with 1 point equalling 0.5 of a
Stat in one Mode. A character may choose to have no
Subgroup, and spend all their points in Technology,
or have no Weapon and extra Technology, or they
may choose to have none of these and increase their
Stats, and so on and so forth.

pg 83 discusses how to gain extra points and has a cut off of 10 points that can ever be achieved. I feel this is limiting, and I am brainstorming ways to make advancement better.

Right now I'm allowing weapons to be changed out between episodes for free so I'm thinking that you can increase stats and weapon values in specific ways, but I haven't finalized anything yet.

What I'm thinking is that you can upgrade a stat by spending the value of the stat in points +1 so a Strength of 5 can be increase to 6 if you spend 6 points that you've earned through episodes. I'm also thinking about "feats" but not sure what to actually call this, but it would give bonuses to certain attacks or maneuvers.
This message was last edited by the GM at 16:57, Thu 01 Apr 2021.

Also if you look at some weapons they give you modifiers to hit. Like the air-air, air-ground and ground-ground missles all give you an auto success when used against the proper target.

I don't like auto success, it might be instead a minus to the roll vs specific targets instead. Auto damage, in my experience, causes some players to rely on that attack exclusively.

In theory auto hit missiles will run out of ammo fairly quickly.  If you require them to be purchased with points after every use they won't be used very heavily.

Conversely, the game makes blaster shots seem more limited than the old cartoon did, at least in theory. Having terrible accuracy aside.

It's not an auto hit, I think the way it works is say I go to shoot the missle in my jet mode which has a Firepower of 7 I roll 7d10 looking for 7's or less to count as a sucess, the air to X missle just giving me an extra one, then someone rolls there endurance with an additional die if they have defence and there success's negate mine so if I have 4 and they have 2 then I hit and do damage. Atleast thats what I was thinking it would be, as it makes a little more sense in my head to do it like that.

And then every crit, which is to say when you roll the number of the skill on the die, counts as 2 success's so there is a chance that someone with a lower skill can beat a person with a higher skill, or just defend themselves.

Well I was going to sleep tonight, but I get paranoid when I am home alone and as I was coming back to my room from the bathroom I heard a noise that spooked me and ran to my room. In the process of doing that I took the turn into my room a little wide and slammed definitely my little toe and probably the one next to it into the door frame. I heard a pop and am pretty sure I just broke my little toe, I am in a surprising amount of pain now and am wide awake.

Ouch! Get some help!

It's 2 in the morning where I am, I should be fine it's just the pinky toe. It hurts but thats why man invented pain killers, I really blame myself for being an adult male whose hyperactive brain still gets the better of him and makes him so paranoid his 6'3" frame has to run to his room like a child.

waiting for game (re)start!

Let's get this done!

You can configure the die roller so it is secret for everyone since you seem to want that :)

Generally better to do them secret when you have any sort of competition between people who can read each other's rolls.

In reply to Drumfire (msg # 330):

Done. When it comes to direct combat, then rolls shouldn't be secret to help the other players bounce off those numbers and keep the flow of combat moving. I'll put together a generic combat post in the Campaign Background thread for easy reference.

Which is now done
This message was last edited by the GM at 10:03, Sun 04 Apr 2021.

I'm your Autobot warrior that's as much concerned about the beauty of the planet as he is winning the war.

In reply to Downdraft (msg # 333):

So your Beachcomber?

Beachcomber?

He was a G1 autobot that turned into a beach buggy that had 'a hard time reconciling his love of peace and freedom for all creatures with the need to combat those who threaten it.' as per the wiki. Not a bad thing just reminded me of him.

I just read the wiki.  I'm less liable to retreat from the battle, and if I find something to help, I'm more likely to mention it.

However, I'll do what I can to divert the battle away from any abject beauty it's endangering.

Welcome to the crew!

At this point, it may be easier to go in blindfolded?

Also, welcome!

Thank you all for the welcomes!

I was told I missed episode 1, so I'll wait for the GM to say that I can post in the Autobot HQ.

Plus the Decepticons are already at a disadvantage of 1 so sorry you have to sit out this one. We can do a solo thread if you would like to flesh out your character a little.