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Robotech RPG Book Three: Zentraedi (Rp Series)

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This book is absoluty necesary if you are going to be a Game Masters. With the Deck Plans of all Zentraedi Ships and Cruisers, Stats of the most important Zentraedi Characters of Robotech, the Maps and Diagrams, with all this information you can give your players a complete description of Zentraedi Culture.

This book covers the Zentraedi in detail, so it is a great choice for anyone already running a Macross based RPG in the Palladium system. The detail especially for the big Zentaedi cruisers is very well done for nearly all covered ships except perhaps the scout ships. Adventures inside of Zentraedi ships will be greatly helped by this book.

The Zentraedi sources book, Book Three in the Robotech RPG series, is kind of light on the details. If you plan to have a game with only human characters you only need the first book which has the system and a good amount of data about the setting of the First Robotech War and aftermath. If you plan to have Zentraedi then this is a good book to have but ONLY for that reason. It has page after page of information on Zentraedi Battle Pods, spaceships, equipment, background on major characters, blank character sheets and so on. But unless you plan to have space battles between SDF-1 vs Zentraedi cruisers or maybe humans sneaking onto alien ships or, as I said, players playing Zentraedi roles don't bother with this book. There is only 48 pages.

Also it needed a better editor. For example, on page 39, the landing ship has three whole paragraphs describing it. Then the three paragraphs are repeated word for word. That's space that could have held something else.

This book covers alot of material that wasn't included in the first Robotech RPG book, such as the Zentraedi's massive spaceships, (with deck plans) some additional information on Zentraedi mecha, (and of the aliens in general) and some vehicles missed altogether. (Like the Recovery Pod) In addition, a slighty more robust Zentraedi creation guide is given, with character sheets and stats for NPCs. (Like Breetai) GM's who want to include more Zentraedi in their game should get this, otherwise look elsewhere.