Summary: <p>Your nice hosts return to Roboston in a first for the program, revisiting and expanding upon on a previous Nice Games Jam game! Ellen conjures some frightening scenarios, Stephen and Mark work the numbers, and everybody loves conditional formatting.</p> <ul> <li> See the original rules in the show notes for <a href="/episode/192" hreflang="en">Roboston! (Live at 2D Con 2020)</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZK6pg2vj_Arc3TxAFsbEEva47aDGdDRjXNdbeUXcwfU/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Check out our cool spreadsheet of game cards and notes!</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/893900/Astral_Gunners/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Astral Gunners is available in Early Access, go get it!</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://www.random.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">random.org</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/273699/weird-alchemy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Weird Alchemy</a> - <a href="/publication/board-game-geek" hreflang="en">Board Game Geek</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bagger 288</a> - <a href="/publication/wikipedia-1" hreflang="en">Wikipedia</a> </li> </ul> Prompt Create a game where you are working together to construct a robot, but each player has a secret task they are trying to get the robot to complete along the way. Game type Tabletop game Player count 3 - 8 Materials <p>Deck of Robot Parts</p> <p>Deck of Player Roles</p> <p>Deck of Objectives</p> <p>6-sided die</p> Rules <h3>Patch Notes!</h3> <p>New Roles:</p> <ul> <li> <strong>Turtle</strong>: have more DEF than any other value AND complete the objective.</li> <li> <strong>Generalist</strong>: All stats within 5 points of each other AND complete the objective.</li> <li> <strong>Specialist</strong>: One stat is 7 points greater than the next highest stat AND complete the objective.</li> </ul> <p>New Objectives:</p> <ul> <li> <strong>GIANT MUTANT TREE ATTACK</strong> - It's 'leafing' downtown a total mess!<br> Stats required to beat: Off: 21, Def: 16, Int: 8</li> <li> <strong>ALIEN INVASION</strong> - They're slimy and they have the wrong number of eyes.<br> Stats required: Off: 13, Def: 21, Int: 16</li> <li> <strong>BAGGER 288</strong> - This mining robot has gained sentience and is scooping up the suburbs!<br> Stats needed: Off:13, Def: 13, Int: 23</li> <li> <strong>WEAPONIZED WIND TURBINE</strong> - Green, scary energy!<br> Stats needed: Off 15, Def 15, Int 15</li> </ul> <p>In this episode we tried for a longer game by increasing the number of robot parts to 2 Body Parts, 2 Head Parts and 8 Limb Parts.</p> <p>To create the part stats, we gave them a random number between -3 and 5 of Offense, Defense and Intelligence. Feel free to make your own!</p>
