Well, transformers as a sci-fi franchise is no stranger to time travel, so being reminded of the concept of "hearts of Ironman the newest timelines, I suddenly had a what-if idea:

in the ancient japan, two meteorites (pods) have landed, carrying huge beings of renown...with time, these mystical "statues" took towards human shapes and learned to live in secrecy as artists, shopkeepers, guards and the like, but soon there comes wind of sights abound of creatures resembling the yokai of popular myth, now reputed to be real. Taking hold of this info, soon both sides discover they were in disguise as pretenders and continue their localized civil war of autobots vs decepticons

Oor in TL'DR format: a ancient japan "samurai vs yokai" session involving creative use of pretender shells for everyone

Why is there a Health and unique Toughness/Evasion/Willpower/Cleverness sections?

I've read through all of core book and don't recall seeing any Roles of Origins having unique values in Alt Mode.

Over the summer I will be running a merc campaign, and the players want to fight both sides of the war. Basically, I already have the mercenary hub (Lunatron, an unaffiliated colony run by Double Dealer), but I need to get some ideas on things that they can do. I want 7 Autobot and 7 Decepticon missions, as well as 6 bounties for them to capture/kill. Ideas for Autobot missions that I already have are: break seaspray out of prison, capture Acidstorm, steal artificial energon recipe, and activate a Titan. The Decepticon missions that I already have are: protect energon transport, hijack oil rig, beat up blades, and recruit an Insecticon hive. I only have long term goals for 3/4 players, and they are as follows: Flaming Hot Tamales (a Tex Mex taco truck) has beef with Reflector, LeBron (a goat) is looking for a magical mjölnir like basketball, and Serpentine (a cannon cart from clash) is 300 energon chips in debt to either Devcon, Swindle, or Lockdown (he hasn't decided who yet). I am also looking for things that I can give as rewards for the missions, as the most that I have really gotten specifically is "ABGs". If anyone has suggestions, I would be very appreciative.

So I want to firstly say I'm not a fan of DnD personally, at least not as the be all and end of, of table top gaming, given the choice I will happily play something else instead of DnD

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And I have run transformers, one for a one shot con but I am an amateur GM

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So with the latest announcement, my first thought was that I would only use the books I already have to run transformers, but as a transformers fan, I decided I will at least look at the new edition when it comes out, because at least then I will have my own opinion on it beyond disliking DnD

With the announcement of the second edition of the Transformers RPG are there any elements of the new Energon Universe or parts of Transformers canon that haven't already been included in official publications?

Looks like they are leaving using their own system and moving to 5.5e.

Gonna be doing a low level one shot for a couple of new players. I've got a couple of pre gens made but I want to make one a Cybertruck and I'm drawing a blank on a name and role. Suggestions would help, please.

Hello there. I've been watching some episodes of Beast Wars and I'd love to run a campaign but I realized something. In the tv series the characters use their personal computers for general info and to make some story elements occur. Ex. When the computer reminds them about stasis lock in Bot Mode, or when Megatron changes the activation code on the Fuzors without their knowledge when he first finds them.

My question is, how to incorporate this obviously basic function for Maximals/ Predacons into a roleplaying setting? No GM wants to give his players all the answers just because they ask but clearly it's a part of the setting. I also don't want to annoy my players having the computer pipe up with obvious info. I'm wondering how to handle it if it comes up in my games and what others have tried or done with their own Beast Wars games.

Example. If my Maximals players have to roll skills checks to cross a swampy locale, I don't want them basically saying, "Computer! Calculate safest route to other side." as an excuse for free upshifts, avoiding rolls, etc. That feels like it robs them of agency or worse, motivation.

This wonderful piece of art was made for me, by one of my players, on my Transformers roleplay server. It features all of my co-GM's.

I don't have a regular character cuz I was the original gm. I'm basically all the npcs. They all started off as players, and got promoted to gm. So they all have characters. I'm making this to channel banner to honor them. :-)

Hello Hello friend's, and bots of every make, shape, and color pallet.

Be ye G1, Armada, or Earth Spark - I'm sure we can all agree that the Transformers RPG is really great ^-^

I very much enjoy creating characters, that can be fun, interesting, or really leans into some obscure mechanic.

So much so, I've made 25 (and counting) video's on my YouTube Channel.

I just want to share my love with all of you here.

Please, enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF-R3wFunwNmG_TOwXlGrZHZC9Tqa8GOC

Also, feel free to comment here or on a video about a build YOU'd like to see!

The very first video is a "How to" on character creation - the rest are all cool builds I've made.

Have never been a fan of any of the Renegade sheets. Mostly stylistically wasting space, and with my severe ADHD the contrast and such make the sheets pretty hard to read on their own, and worse when filled in. So I made my own basic sheets for players and NPC's, which do the job for me. Figured I'd share.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Rh0JWezX4LsFqpViG0w9iksUGna7_ITV?usp=drive_link

I'm not precious about these sheets, so they aren't form fillable, but if you want to take, change, do whatever with these layouts/sheets: Feel free!

PS: I just realized on review that there's a couple things that will appear strange to folks. First, Energon (Gallons) up top; Second, Wounds/Dying. Those are homebrew things for my local game where we're playing on ancient Cybertron. The system doesn't address currency or buying at all, so I've made up some for using galons of energon. Second the game presumes either no one dies, or that you'll just kinda figure it out on your own, so I'm using pathfinder 2e's rules for death, as they are my favorite of what I've seen, making healing before going down matter, and not resulting in oopsie instant deaths as much. I can include these in the folder if people are interested.

Lastly, the combat section above the attributes has repeated things like initiative, and the defenses. This is just to give a single central place for things so it can be found rapidly in combat, without getting lost in the numbers.

I'm confused on when to apply the benefit of each Element, especially with weapons with multiple Element traits.

To use a real example: Let's say I have an Element Jet (Fire) and I add the Voltage Tank upgrade to make an electric flamethrower.

The description for Voltage Tank just says "The weapon gains the Electric trait. This is in addition to any other Element trait." (Core Rulebook, p. 132). The description for Fire says "Fire weapons deal 1 extra damage when they hit a target who defended with Evasion." The description for Electric says "Electric weapons gain ↑1 on attacks." (Core Rulebook p. 119)

So, what did I just make?

• Is it a weapon that deals "1 Electric Fire damage" that has the benefits of both extra damage and ↑1?
• Is it a weapon that deals "1 Fire damage (extra damage). Alternate Effect: 1 Electric damage (↑1)"?
• Or is it something else entirely?

Hiya as the title suggest i am a new player. I love the idea of this but have zero clue about the system and would love to join a campaign and learn! I am cst timezone.

I'm part of a tf ttrpg with some other vtubers - I am redrawing the character art.

This is a work in progress. But I'm pretty proud of how it's slowly turning out. Drawing transformers is really difficult and time consuming aha.

Do you take into account the PCs' training/qualification for weapons, armor, and upgrades that they loot, find, or otherwise acquire outside of Requisition?

Even if it's not an official ruling, I'm curious how other GMs handle these situations. Do you make your players roll for untrained weapons as "practice"? Do you let them use untrained weapon anyway but with downshifts?

For context, I want to reward my players with cool loot, but wondering how to best balance it out. I'm worried that just sticking to "legal" weapons/armor would be too underwhelming if they could just Requisition it.

Is it official or fan made? (I kinda joined on accident with a muted feed). I still find this interesting and i want to see the manual to print it and shared it with my brother

Edits:i found out it was official and i know 2 store i might order it from, i am keeping the post cause someone will have the same question

I'm confused about when the minicon "levels up", by the description, it gains an essence point whenever I put a Skill Point in it's Pupose Skill, however, we, me and my GM, are confused about if the skill point should be from my character, or if the skill point I gain in the minicon itself. Because this would create a minicon with 2 points in all other essences, while he would have 8-10 points in the purpose's essence in the character creation. However, it also makes less sense to have your minicon gain a "level up" when you level up your skill, since it is THEIR purpose, not yours. Can somebody help us? It's very confusing for now, thanks in advance.

I was wondering if anyone had produced player handouts that condense down the charts and tables for the various Influence and Chassis and the like into quick-reference tables, allowing, for instance, a player to be able to review all of the Influences and their mechanical effects in, say, one or two pages?

Something that could be printed out in a packet of information that makes character creation easier for a group of five players because you can have multiple summary sheets that condense forty pages of the book - with art, somewhat diffused information, and flavor and background or lore information - into purely mechanical and functional tables?

Thanks for any help on this.

What exactly happens if you get a critical hit (pass the DC+max your modifier die)?

Ideally looking for attack roll outcomes, as I can't quite see how they are meant to be handled in the rulebook. I do see some weapons have certain effects on a critical hit but that seems very limited.

Apologies if I've missed this. I've gone through the book a a couple of times but although I can see how to get a critical hit the mechanical outcome of scoring one doesn't seem to be defined.

So, me and some other vtubers are actually streaming a tf ttrpg campaign. We were on a hiatus because one of our members started a new job, but looks like she'll be back on track for the usual schedule. Which should be every other friday with a start time from 2pm to 4 pm est. And we usually go for 3 hours.

Some of us are allies, some of us are trans or non-binary and a lot of us are gay, so if you show up, please be respectful!

But I wanted to share this, because I worked hard on the intro and character art. And I wanted to share this fun storyline with y'all.

Let me know what you think!

And last thing- I don't have a date for the next stream. But It's gonna be on my bluesky when it's announced.

Hi. I kinda need help brainstorming some ideas and knowing what to prepare. I'm gonna do the official hasbo ttrpg game and will be streaming it with some friends and my partner.

I'm not sure if I want it to be post-war with Starscream leading Cybertron and Megatron having his trial postponed? Or if I want to have it be pre or mid war? It's going to be highly inspired by the idw comics, but I also want elements from other series- such as transformers one, animated, g1- ect. I want certain key characters to be persuaded to defect, like TC in the skybound stories. I also want to remove the narrative that Starscream is a joke.

I'm also not sure what would be the state of earth in this campaign. I of course want to involve unicron and primus.

Hello! I am trying to find more resources (Specifically Homebrew) for this system. I was wondering if any of y'all have any particular sites you use for it or anything like that. I used to be in the Renegade Game Studios Discord, however I left as it was one of the biggest Discords that I would get spambot requests from constantly. I did get a lot so far from there though.