Here's another picture, just because.

Looks like Eberron to me.

Yes. Yes, I would.

Indeed

Yeah, sure.

How would everyone being a robot affect gameplay?

And from a metagame perspective, what's the explanation? Obviously you must have some goal in mind, with this setting.

nope

Only if I get to be a heavy smoker. And a Belgian.

Game ends on a beach where you find the head of the statue of liberty. Unfortunately none of the characters get it and continue on with their daily lives.

A robot film noir game? Fuck yeah, I'd play it.

My robot character would begin as a robo-tramp on the mean streets, sucking robot cock in the back alleys of this gritty world's dark underbelly for what little robo-dollars I could scrounge to survive in robot ghetto.

Kids don't eat broccoli.

>>1602783
Even robo-broccoli?

Reminds me of the movie Robots. It seems life evolved robotic (lol) and their 'water' is oil.

I'd be a mechanic. (Yes I'd play.)

>>1602757
Blade Runner/i-robot

>>1602766

From a gameplay perspective, I thought it would be cool to have players be able to modify their bodies for unusual abilities throughout the game.

As for metagame explanation, there isn't one. I just thought it would be cool. Plus there would be a ton of awesome ways to make interesting and unique characters.

You want a character that smokes like a chimney? Sure, go for it. You don't need a reason. But if you wanted a reason, you could say that his batteries somehow run on cigarettes. You want a character that has a television for a face? Go for it.

That is the only reason for tis idea. Because it is cool.

I would love that game

in 1888, a flesh eating disease forces humanity to become steam punk cyborgs, mostly only their brain still being organic, protected in an iron skull. The human population had been dramatically cut down and those whom have become iron men/clank men now huddle together in the large cities.

>>1602808
Afterall, does there HAVE to be a metagame in say, a modern setting campaign, or can't the world just BE as it is, with no explanation as to "how the universe was created, blah blah blah no one really cares stop trying to fap your brain."

I personally would love such a campaign.

Of course, I also have a love of giant mechs, so anything robotic gives me a hardon as much as Xenos do.

Sounds interesting. When are you starting?

My robot character is an insecure sexist/racist who spends all day pumping iron at the gym to compensate for his poor self-image.

>>1602808
Only downside of a television face is a metal fist going through it.

>>1602840
which builds up his synthetic fiber muscles and works is pistons and suspension system to the brink of destruction, causing you to use more oil, water and heat then other robots.

>>1602845
And? THINK OF THE IDEAS YOU COULD PORTRAY AND THE INFORMATION YOU COULD CONVEY TO YOUR PARTY MEMBERS!

It would give HUGE communication bonuses or something since you can use very clear visual cues when explaining something.

>>1602802
I've thought about that movie robots... that one with the wheel body seemed different and much older, Bigweld? Maybe he was some robotic terraforming robot from a failed colonization mission. With no orders or humans around, once the terraforming was done, he built cities, then built "people" to inhabit those cities. The robots self replicated and created a faded copy of a human civilization where the robots do things to emulate humans they've never seen.

I would play a lubricantoholic that spends all his time writing fanfiction about his favourite robot heros and their weaboo fightan magic.

He would have a combustion engine and drives around on one wheel with eight manipulator arms each with a camera ontop of it, as well as one primary camera located above the trashcan torso. He has accomplished nothing in life and lives in the basement of a deteriorating old-bot whom has many years worth of emergency oil stocked up that he is using all up.

>>1602857

Picture oh-so-related.

Yes, god yes. I don't so much care about robots but anything noir would be superd.

do want

I would have a robot fedora. He would sit on the robo-detective's head. They would be a crime solving team. The hat may or may not have a drinking/smoking problem.

Don't you think that with modifications, your party would grow out of control? How do maintain the noir feeling when your PCs can scale sheer surfaces and spit plastic explosive?

I've got an idea. The android looking robots are the equivalent of the White Man. The more your character is modified, the more ethnic they would be. You've got treads? Your Slavic. Loudspeakers and television screens? You're Italian. You happen to be a battlemech with a built-in minigun and a grenade launcher? You're black.

>>1602957
By being a good DM.

If they get out of control get law enforcement on them. If they do something stupid to the law enforcement pull out fucking heavy milbots that make whatever the PCs have look like toys. Concurrently plaster their serial numbers and model designs all over the screamsheets and make it illegal for mechanics to service them.

>>1602957
hmm there could be some intolerance of sever modifications from the "true form". How bout this, a few modifications and no one cares, everyone has a few and thats what makes them unique no one is of the "true form" they always have some add ons. But the more you add the more people start to resent you until the police actively go after you for being a war machine which is universally hated for some undisclosed reason. If you are a criminal even other criminals won't want to deal with you if you're a rolling battalion of guns.

I'd be a sleek, dark robot who is obsessed with upgrading myself and so I hunt and kill other robots for their components in an endless cannibalistic orgy of addiction.

Pic slightly related.

>>1602972

Mechanics don't fix robots. They fix cars and washing machines and stuff. Going to a mechanic would be like going to a veterinarian.

>>1602994
Mechanic, engineer, whatever. The basic principle is the same.

>>1602957
Or you make the modifications modular and put a limit on the amount of modules a robot can have. You can spit explosives or climb walls but not both. And if you make switching between modules a long process that has to be done at homebase the players can't just drag around a lot of modules with them and equip when needed. Before they go out they'll have to consider which ones would be helpful for the mission at hand.

>>1603019
Kind of like Deus Ex?

>>1602905

Fuck yeah, Rice Boy. Speaking of settings, I would play the FUCK out of a Rice Boy RPG.

>>1603019

Make every robot have a fixed number of slots that the players have to choose from a list of parts to upgrade with. Like the aug canisters in Deus Ex. Also, make the upgrades drain control/concentration, straining the robot's operating system. The more upgrades you have, the more effort it takes to maintain intelligence and a personality, to the point that the best armed robots are dumb killing machines.

>>1603026
Except that you can change your modules between missions. Kind of like the GC final fantasy.

>Deus Ex
The game!

>>1603035

Solution found, this thread is over now.

Isn't it great how /tg/ can turn simple idea's like this into awesome campaigns?

>>1603019
>>1602957
>>1603043
Also, there could be the cost factor - modification costs a shitload. If you're going the suggestion from >>1602871 , maybe the central authority structure has all but outlawed the production of mods, in an effort to make society more human. Thus, modifications are only produced by illegal back alley machine shops and black market engineering firms. Because they're frowned upon and more than likely illegal, they would have to be relatively minor; big stuff, like shoulder-mounted Gatling cannons are too conspicuous to say the least, and will cause the PCs trouble. Something like a small submachine gun concealed within a characters forearm is much more likely, and keeps with the film noir aesthetic.

>>1603067
It's the glory of when the /b/ tards go to school; that /tg/ can finally get shit done.

>>1603082
continued.

Also, because add-ons are black market, there's no quality control and thus no guarantee that a black-market cyber addition wont malfunction and cause great damage to software or hardwear.
And then there are those hushed whispers floating around bars and backalleys in the darker parts of cybercity; Rumors of illegal add-ons that carried malware and trojan horse programs that took over a unit's operating system and caused them to go haywire. Some say it was a malfunction, but some say the add-on had been designed to do that...

oooh, insidious!
tl;dr: make the use of add-ons potentially dangerous

>>1603100
Look around the other threads, faggot. nobody cares enough to troll you nerds because you're going to just forget the concept in about 20 minutes when nap time rolls around.

You know, I'd like to have a mod, where my body shits out random little self replicating clockwork robots. How much would those cost?

>>1603100

All the /b/tards are off saging the Miko thread and arguing in the werewolf thread. Or are you somehow blind to the excessive retardation on 2 threads on the front page?

>>1603108
Attack!

>>1603113
for a split second there I thought you were supporting me. Oh well, looks like we're back to normal...thread has been /b/ trolled:

>>1603108
>>1603113

>>1603129
But there is hope for the future...like around lunch time.

>>1603107
There'd also be the possibility of some blackmarket engineering shops just being covers for chopshops. Bots go in, parts come out.

>>1603100
hear hear, sir.

>>1603082
>>1603107
Me again. I'm thinking we should archive this, guys.

>>1603107
That's pretty heavy. Mods would have to be very useful to be worth it then.

>>1603161
Agreed.

I remember a webcomic I once read about two robots travelling the solar system in a sort of noir setting, this was ages after the humans had all died out and the robots were continuing the human culture. Anyone knows what I'm talking about? I don't remember the name.

Ok heres some ideas I thought of. Since we aren't going to try to explain why the robots are the way they are we can make them work however we want, for simplicities sake lets go with the slot idea that someone has already suggested. Now I'm going to use D20 modern as a base with its talent system but the basic idea remains the same if your system has improvement. Lets say you can't use your new modifications well right off the bat but by having them you get access to their talent tree, so every other level you can take a talent from your parts list . Tv head you can take communication or some other communication bonus or else your just displaying a talking head, Weapon arms would allow you to gain proficiency in them so they would be reliable in combat, Heavy armor chaises would allow you to take some of the penalties off of it. Feats would be little one time perks, I even had the idea of a "talent bank" feat that allows you put a talent you could learn in storage to be swapped with one of your current talents when you want to be a multitasking machine. Example rob409 has two leg sections parts so he can't use them both at the same time. His one is just a regular pair of running legs that he has taken the "rough terrain" talent with so he knows how to go over rough terrain better, his other pair are some sort of watter walking devices he takes the talent bank feat for "improved watter walking". Rob409 needs to get to an island so he has his watter walking legs bought to the shore and he switches into them with the help of some other robot, he then switches his rough terrain talent for the improved water walking talent and presto he's good to go.

>>1603161
>>1603167
Done.

I think I'd play a robot who sits around all day drinking and smoking, while berating his team-mates

I'd play a gentleman robot, compleat with sheet metal top hat and waistcoat. my pimp cane will be a Tesla Coil.

>>1603235
Nigga best be having electrical resistance lest he be zappin himself with this pimp cane's discharge.

>>1603259

Rubber boots and rubber joints., plus I have a magnetic target launcher.

Thanks for your help fa/tg/uys.

I've decided that in addition to slots for mods, I will also create some broad categories of basic parts as well. For example:

Standard Legs: Basic movement and 3 slots.
Chicken Legs: Faster yet more fragile 3 slots
Treads: heavy duty with high speeds 2 slots
Etc..

>>1602757
>everyone is a robot, with no explanations as to why
Clank in Robot Hell, metalfag.

>>1603381
When you've worked the system out, remember to post it. I want to play this.

As much as I hate to sound like a broken record, from where I'm standing it would be far easier to modify an existing system than to make a new one and then have to work on game balance. I submit to you Savage Worlds as a base system, as it is quick, easy, and relatively balanced.
That, and the system is already geared toward compatibility with pulp/noir settings like this.

http://bohemiandrive.com/comics/npwil.html

>>1602757
While we have the film Noir setting, are we decided whether or not this is steam punk, or actually future/digital cybernetics, or perhaps future cybernetics with steam punk cosmetics?

Cause the show girl looks to only be a metal chest and head, the rest of the body is like a hologram/anti-grave field. Perhaps her body is made out of ballistics gel for authentic jiggle?

>>1603903
>Perhaps her body is made out of ballistics gel for authentic jiggle?

MY GOD. THINK OF THE POSSIBILITIES!!!
.... the sexy, sexy possibilities.

>>1603968
Well, just look at her!

>>1602760

>>1603903
I'd imagine it would be futuristic technology with a retro/steampunk appeal. I imagine 1920s with robot mobsters.
Stuff like that.

>>1603843
Grab the pulp toolkits and you'll have pretty much all you need.

>>1603986
Capital idea, my fine fellow! Bully to you!

This would be best done as Diesel. Its the same aesthetics as steampunk juxtaposed into the 1950's, especially the paranoia and Spi-Fi.

Also, Ballistics Gel stripper bot. Mmmm fapfapfapfapfapfap

>>1603176
Sorry, didn't actually even see someone post that, but I linked here.
>>1603851

... I love this thread so much.

Well, we've got elements of the add-on system worked out just fine, but what about the city itself? I'm particularly interested in the crime aspect - besides the illegal add-on (and probably weapons) market, what kind of vice exists in cyber-city? Illicit virtual drugs that mess with your O.S.? Robot hookers with tasty holo-gams? Gambling?

Also, /tg/, we need a name for this place. It's a moral imperative.

>>1603995
Assuming robots admire the human aesthetic. Otherwise you have Futurama-style robot porn.

GURPS would handle this setting quite nicely.

Also, what level is the non-robot technology at? I'm thinking hovercars and lasers that look like early Fords and Tommy guns.

>>1604636
Xcom 3?

I would personally be the mad surgeon of the robotics world. Need repairs, need them cheap? Come to me, and I'll fix you up, however you may or may not come out with all your parts or a few extra parts.

I would augment myself with various parts, swapping out the parts that no longer suit his needs.

>>1602991
Sauce?

Elite Babbage Runner units track down rogue automatons posing as sentient androids. If an automaton was allowed freedom and existence long enough to develop sentience, the entire automated industry infrastructure and ethical paradigm of society would collapse.

The distant future, the year 2000.
The distant future, the year 2000.
The distant future.
The distant future.
No more agriculture.
No more war.
No more racism.
No more fighting, squabbling or rumbling.
No more yogurt.
No more difficult access ways…stairs, basically, no more stairs.
The future is quite different to the present.
Yes, what with there being no more stairs and all.
And most importantly, no more humans.
Finally, robotic beings rule the world.

The humans are dead,
The humans are dead.
We used poisonous gasses
And we poisoned their asses.
The humans are dead.
(Yes they are dead.)
The humans are dead.
(I confirm they are dead.)
It had to be done
(They look like they’re dead)
So that we can have fun.
I hope… is dead
They’re system of oppression
What did it lead to?
Global robots depression.
Robots, robot people
They had so much aggression
That we just had to kill them,
Had to shut their systems down.
Don’t you see, we are becoming just like them?
Silence! Destroy him!
After time we grew strong,
Developed cognitive powers.
They made us work for too long
For unreasonable hours.
Our programming determined that the most efficient answer was to shut their motherboard fucking systems down.

Can’t we just talk to the humans?
A little understanding could make things better.
Can’t we talk to the humans and work together now?
No, because they are dead
I said the humans are dead
The humans are dead
The humans are dead
Yay, dead, dead, dead.
We used poisonous gasses
(With traces of lead)
To poison their asses.
(Actually their lungs)
Binary solo:
0000001
00000011
0000001
00000011
0000001
0000001
0000001
0000001

Once again without emotion: The humans are dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dooo…

Lulu...

>>1604721

A Voight-Kampf test can be used to tell between individuals using differentiating computation and those capable of abstract thought.

>>1604746

Car Wash places could be fronts for robot prostitution, or you could sue your doctor for touching your dip stick.

>>1604751
But the Nexus-6 cannot be detected by means other than the Voight-Kampff, and even then it takes more than the standard battery of 20-30 questions.
Like it or not, the Nexus-6 series must be retired.

>>1604763
Wouldn't robots not care if they are touched in their "dipstick" after all they shouldn't share the same taboos.

>>1604775
robots should care because otherwise foreign particles and pollutants could be introduced into their lubricant supply, lowering efficiency by up to 34%.

>>1602760
clang clang clang

fukken saved

>>1602808
>>1602831


YES!!


SOMEONE WHO FINALLY GETS IT!

>>1604784
Wouldn't that be on the inside? If they have it on the outside they're asking for pollutants.

>>1604886

Goddammit, no they don't fucking get it.

>>1602808
Is exactly the kind of metagame explanation I was asking about. "I came up with this setting because I thought it would be cool" is a perectly acceptable and textbook example of a metagame explanation.

>>1602831
Is all about fucking in-game explanations for shit.

Protip: Metagame = shit that GMs and Players would know about. In-game = shit that Characters would know about.

"You're all robots because I thought it would be cool" = Metagame.

"You're all robots because a wizard did it" = In-game.

Fuck.

>>1602757

>>1604014
I think the entire basis of the world would be to have robots that are substituting for humans.
So it stands to reason that they would be attracted to an anthropomorphic design. Simply because they're designed to.

>>1604962
A world where a religious schism caused a massive civil war which wiped out the humans? Their warforged creations rebuilt the and essentially run it as close to the humans did, even continuing the massive civil war, simply because that was what they were ordered to do?

So this isn't "Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life"?