Macross II: The Role-Playing Game
Macross II: The Role-Playing Game is a role-playing game published by Palladium Books in 1993. Based on the Macross II mecha OVA and manga series, the game is structured around Palladium's Megaversal damage system.
Development
Palladium Books was seeking to acquire more licenses in the early 1990s and did obtain a license for Macross II, allowing them to produce Macross II: The Role-playing Game and Macross II: Sourcebook One. Ianus Publications began to work for other companies as a design house, and thus developed three sourcebooks in 1994 for Palladium in their Macross II RPG. Palladium soon cancelled the new Macross II line when they decided that it would not match the success of Rifts.Main Game
The main RPG contains all the rules of the Megaverse system, and various options for creating characters, as well as special protocols for playing as the series' characters themselves. The 112-page book also contains technical data for many U.N. Spacy and Marduk combat vehicles. Further material is included with Sourcebook One: The UN Spacy.Deck Plans
In 1994, Palladium joined forces with Canadian role-playing game company Dream Pod 9 to produce a three-part Deck Plans supplement series. Each of the 64-page sourcebooks have schematics for all U.N. Spacy and Marduk warships. The books also introduced new rules for players who want to engage in ship-to-ship battles, with the warships now capable of using gun or missile volleys to attack targets. A campaign based around a Marduk Emulator is also included.While some of the mechanical information presented is translated directly from the Japanese source material, the Dream Pod 9 acknowledged that some of it is also "pure conjecture".