Changes to Power Armor Rules

[SITZKRIEG!]

Is this a specific change for this one armor in Junker's Delight or is this more of a general rules change in the recent Tech Revolution book?

https://www.aonsrd.com/PoweredArmor.aspx?ItemName=Salvage%20Chassis

" A character who is proficient in heavy armor is considered proficient with a salvage chassis. A character with proficiency in powered armor from some other source—such as a feat or class feature—gains an additional benefit while wearing a salvage chassis;"

My group hasn't played in over a year at this point so I haven't really been keeping up with the more recent rule books and adventures. I went to the wiki to see what was new and found that blurb under the new level 2 powered armor. I personally like the idea of powered armor being possible at the lowest levels (instead of the current 5th level entry gate for PCs) with an added benefit/cherry on the top for those officially trained in it. I'm a bit biased though because I'm a fan of power armor characters in scifi RPGs (and even scifa like this on!) but it never was a possible starting loadout except with a GM handwave. I'd even be fine with a further nerfed version if folks are worried about game balance (like a bonus to strength up to the max listed instead of autogranting the max) for these hybrid heavy/powered armors.

Is there a pic in the book to show what this looks like officially? I've got some ideas floating around from other popular scifi properties like mega-armored 40k orks but was curious to see what other possible counts as might work.

[Wesrolter]

I think its specific to that set of armour rather then Power armour in general. No mention that I have seen in Tech Revolution and from the wording on the site, it sounds like it is a special property of that armour

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Wesrolter wrote:

I think its specific to that set of armour rather then Power armour in general. No mention that I have seen in Tech Revolution and from the wording on the site, it sounds like it is a special property of that armour

Thanks for the reply. I was hoping it was maybe a prelude to a general change but I'll take a low level starting gear capable power armor any way I can!

Do they have a pic of it? Is it against the rules of this forum to post pics from books? I'm curious if it's a sort of 40k ork contraption or something completely different.

[Xenocrat]

A goblin NPC wearing a salvage chassis is illustrated in the adventure - the gear itself is not.

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Xenocrat wrote:

A goblin NPC wearing a salvage chassis is illustrated in the adventure - the gear itself is not.

Thanks! Is it the goblin from the Roll20 marketplace entry for Junker's under their sample images? Third from the left/start.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.d20.io/marketplace/1939458/08GG1iyB2Dq8AQdVb MynAQ/med.jpg

https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/bundle/12045/starfinder-adventure-jun kers-delight

That's smaller than I was expecting but in a good way since I hoped to use it for a medium sized creature as a counts as.

edit: it looks like the forum software doesn't allow links so it inserted a space in the word junk that you'd have to remove to get the working link.

[Xenocrat]

That's the one.

[Leon Aquilla]

The salvage chassis is given a deliberate exception because rules as written it is impossible for you to be able to use that armorset in the level span of the adventure.

There is art of the goblin wearing it.

Obviously there's nothing preventing you from adopting this rule across all powered armor sets, but consider game balance carefully before you do.

You know you won't:

Most people don't.

[SITZKRIEG!]

I'm not complaining but it didn't stop them way back in a Society adventure I think when they came out with a different gobbo powered armor. Regardless, I'm glad it's here and available for low level powered armor character builds.

I wouldn't personally adopt the rule across all powered armor sets but rather only low level ones under the level gate of the feat (of which there are only a few). I wouldn't be opposed to a rule for others but I don't necessarily think it is needed.