Micronauts d20

[Brutorz Bill]

I just picked up the new micronauts comic and it got me to thinking (dangerous I know), what about a d20 version of the Micronauts? The old Marvel Series was great. One could use the rules from Dragonstar, Star Wars and a plethora of other d20 books to fill in the gaps where needed. Baron Karza was always one of my favorite villians.

A different version of the Hornetroid can be found on my site :
http://www.angelfire.com/games/Alterniverse/dragonstar/dstar1.htm

 

[bolen]

I am afraid I just remember the toys, were there comics as well. I loved my toys as I remember you could rebuild them all into new robots. What was in the comic was it just stories of the toys?

 

[Brutorz Bill]

Yes indeed Mr. Bolen.. There was a comic book series done by Marvel. The series went waay beyond the toys, all kinds of cool stuff and ideas.
The new series is by Image so some of my old favorite characters (Bug) aren't in it due to licensing reasons. But good old Baron Karza is still around.
Later,
Brutorz Bill

 

[Aaron L]

There were toys? I just remember the comics (vaguely)

 

[Brutorz Bill]

Guess I'm showing my age, but yes indeed there were toys. Came out before the original Star Wars action figures, the comic series was loosely based upon them, but had all kinds of twists and turns.
I may have to dig out some of my old comics and see strange ideas I can work up for my campaign.

 

[plodnik]

Ah yes, the Michae; Golden artwork of the first ten issues of the Marvel series was just spectacular.

Great. Thanks Bill, now'll I'll have to dig out my back issues too.

How the heck would you do Biotron? or the Acroyears?

Gonna have to think ob this one a bit...

 

[bolen]

I think you are wrong, Micronauts came out after Star Wars not before. Star Wars introduced the "action figure" I think. I was six at the time so what would I know?

 

[Psychotic Dreamer]

I don't think Star Wars introduced the idea of Action Figures, but was one of the first movie-tie in marketing schemes and one of the most sucessful.

 

[bolen]

So who did then? (invent action figure) I know I had those little green army men. But all my other people were dolls (like GI Joe)

WHO IS A PERSON NOT A TEAM

 

[Psychotic Dreamer]

Well after a quick search on Google I found this site:

http://acweb.colum.edu/projects/display/figures/history.html

Technically the first action figures were the 12" tall GI Joes in the 60's. In 1972 a company called Mego released 8" tall action figures based on comic book characters. The Star Wars figures came out in 1977.

Dunno how accurate it is...