Macross II: Sourcebook One

Macross II: The Role Playing Game

by Kevin Siembieda

Book by Siembieda, Kevin

Genres: Role Playing Games

64 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1993

About the author

Kevin Siembieda (born April 2, 1956) is an American artist, writer, designer, and publisher of role-playing games, as well as being the founder and president of Palladium Books.

Palladium Books, founded in southeast Michigan, claims to be the first to implement a role-playing system intended to work for all genres and to introduce the perfect-bound trade paperback format to the RPG industry.

Some of the role-playing games Siembieda helped produce include Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness (1985), Robotech RPG (1986), After The Bomb (1986), and Rifts (1990).

Siembieda is also an artist, best known for occasionally illustrating Palladium Books' products. In 1978, he started the now-defunct Megaton Publications in Detroit, publishing a digest style title called A+ Plus and several other titles. He also contributed art and cartography to several early Judges Guild products (for both their Traveller and Dungeons & Dragons lines).

Reviews

[Little Timmy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very nice source book for Robotech. Nicely laid out entries and art. Recommended

[Taddow · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a sourcebook for the Macross II RPG that focuses on additional mecha and vehicles (both Earth and Marduk) that are seen in the movie but don't really have a prominent role (other than the Metal Siren which I was very excited to see the rules for and it does not disappoint). You also get some additional O.C.C.s for both the Earth and Marduk forces. Roughly half of the book is dedicated to Earth Destroids...uh...Mechanized Robot Infantry and their pilots, which was the main reason (and the Metal Siren) that I purchased this book in the first place. Like the majority of Palladium's books, it reads like a technical manual with little fluff. Additionally, there were several typos, unclear (wrong at times I'm sure) stats and inconsistencies that I found annoying. I'm sure there is probably an errata out by now (hopefully), but since I since I no longer play this game, I'm in no rush to find one.