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The contact build for today is the Autobot Headmaster: Hardhead. While most of the original Autobot Headmasters were scientists, Hardhead was a soldier . He's a bit gruff and doesn't like to sit around waiting for the brains to come up with their plans, while they could be fighting. It really did allow him to stand out from the others in the series. At least he's not as obnoxious as Warpath. This is unofficial, fan-made content using the Transformers Essence20 rpg by Renegade Games Studios HARDHEAD " It's either MY way - or NO way !" Hardhead is a soldier to his core. A soldier with a stubborn streak a megamile wide. He's stubborn to the point of rejecting outright any path but his own, any idea that goes against his natural instinct or inclination (namely fighting), and any advice he didn't come up with himself. He doesn't talk much, and when he does, it tends to be blunt and terse, if not outright rude. A soldier doesn't waste time on social ...

The subject for today's article is the Autobot Headmaster and Computer Programmer: Chromedome. While Brainstorm believes he is the smartest guy on the Headmaster team, that honor actually resides with Chromedome! When Fortress Maximus is not around, Chromedome tends to serve as the team's leader, with his calculating mind developing plans and strategies faster than anyone else. He's  so tactically savvy that he managed to get Arcee to be his romantic interest during the Japanese Headmaster series, taking her away from both Springer and Rodimus Prime (also kind of proving her place as a non-character in the series, just to serve as a romantic interest, rather than be her own person... [sarcasm] Yay, sexism ! [/sarcasm]). CHROMEDOME " A battle plan is only as good as its programmer ." Chromedome is a comparatively quiet academic. Originally a number-cruncher at Cybertron's Institute for Higher Programming working on ways to improve the processing power of the Tr...

The contact build today is the Autobot Targetmaster: Sureshot! This was the one Targetmaster toy I possessed from the G1 series, and he was still rather un-noteworthy besides the fact that he is supposed to be the absolute BEST SHOT of the Autobot army. And has the ego to prove it as often as needed. Besides that... yeah, not much of a character there. This is unofficial, fan-made content using the Transformers Essence20 rpg by Renegade Games Studios Please help support my friend Owen and his recovery from cancer . SURESHOT " Believing in yourself improves your aim better than target practice ." Sureshot is an ego that holds a gun. He's too skillful for his chestplate, too skillful for his chestplate. His shooting is great. And he's too much for Iacon and even Cybertron, Femax and Nebulon. And he's too skillful to take orders Or work with stupid stubbies. The big red guy can stuff it. He's a marksman—you know what that means— And he shoots his laser gun on the...

Today's Contact Build is the Targetmaster Pointblank. This character never really stood out to me, and reading his background and tech spec, now I know why. If you enjoy this content, please help support my friend Owen and his recovery from cancer. This is unofficial, fan-made content using the Transformers Essence20 rpg by Renegade Games Studios. POINTBLANK " Be brief of speech and long on action ." Pointblank would say that war is hell, if he wasn't a bot of very few words. Words make arguments, and arguments make wars, and he wants no more of those. That isn't to say he's a poor fighter. He just wants a quiet place to sit down with a good datatrack and a glass of frosty energon, without a Decepticon missile spoiling everything, and if he should find himself pounding the ever-loving lock washers out of the shooter of that missile, it isn't because he bears grudges or even out of regret for the waste of a good drink. No, it's just on general principle...

Renegade Games Studios just announced the preorder release of the Transformers One rpg sourcebook . https://renegadegamestudios.com/transformers-roleplaying-game-transformers-one-sourcebook I finally get to discuss this project, as I have been under an NDA for the last several months.  Only a week after I originally saw the film, I was contacted by Ben Heisler from Renegade Games Studios asking about my interest in doing some freelance writing for the TF rpg. I could not say "yes" fast enough. Transformers has always been my bag, since I discovered them. I was the perfect age and the absolute target demographic when they were released  in 1984. I was 7 years old and looking for a toy series to follow, as I was forbidden from following my original interest: Masters of the Universe. I had religiously-strict parents, the Satanic panic of the 80s was in full sing, and MOTU had magical and supernatural themes to it, making the show a "no-no" in terms of my being allowed ...

Our subject today is the Autobot Weapons Supervisor: Crosshairs Originally created as one of the original Targetmasters, Crosshairs did not feature prominently in any of the American cartoons, as the "Season Four" three-part episode that introduced the Headmasters and Targetmasters was the end of the G1 era of cartoons in the USA. And, as I've never seen the Japanese Headmaster series that continued the G1 continuity, I cannot say how he was featured there. He made occasional appearances in the Marvel G1 comic, as much as any character in what was becoming a massive roster, as each new toy wave was produced. But he never really stood out. Crosshairs really came into prominence with the Michael Bay films, where he was featured as the Autobot's master gunfighter. His robot form came complete with a metallic long coat to complete his bad-boy look.  This article is unofficial, fan-made content using the Transformers Essence20 rpg by Renegade Games Studios. If you enjoy th...