Micro Anthroform Drones, Robot Karate! Options

[Cray74]

So, since I'm away from my copy of Rigger 3, all I recall is that medium anthroform drones (body 2) are about human-sized. Can the micro-crawler chassis be equipped with arms to give me my Micro Robo Karate Drone?

(Note the two videos in the link, and the autonomy of the robots: remote controls supply simple commands that the robots must execute, in addition to maintaining their balance.)


2004 Robo-One Contestants

A Robo-One Contestant's Home Page

[Kagetenshi]

I don't remember how the size and weight would work, but barring problems with those, yes, you can stick arms on a Body 1 drone. That'd give you all of Strength 1, so it'll mostly just duke it out with other robos. I suppose if you really wanted to you could put some arms on a Body 0 drone, but with a strength of 0 there isn't much point :)

~J

[RangerJoe]

Strength 0 arms sort of make sense for the current state of the robo-duel art (if the videos are to be believed). A strength 0 body 0 robot could knock other strength 0 body 0 robots on their backs, get up, and repeat until one or the other falls off the table.

[Cray74]

[Ol' Scratch]

A Body 1 drone can have Mechanical Arms with a Strength up to 10 (but it'll cost you out the wazoo, assuming you had enough Load to support the improvements) while Body 0 drones are limited to Strength 0. This would allow it to lift up to anything weighing less than a kilogram if you go by a really generous reading of the rules (since that would be rounded down to 0 kg, which is the limit for Strength 0).

All of the robots I saw above look like Body 1 drones to me. Body 0 ones are tiny little buggers that weigh next to nothing, whereas Body 1 are about the size of a typical RC toy. So it wouldn't be any trouble latching a Mechanical Arm that could give a troll a run for his money in an arm-wrestling competition to one of those.

But yeah, there's no problem slapping an arm on a walker drone. There's no standard anthroform chassis, but it wouldn't be hard to put one together. Just look at the difference in values between a Body 1 Walker and a Body 2 Walker then create a Body 1 Anthroform from the Body 2 Anthroform chassis following the same guidelines.

Although the rules only hint at it, there shouldn't be any problem adding an Autosoft Interpretation System to the drone and giving it a custom Karate Autosoft either. :)

[Cray74]