Jacob Blackmon Blogs

Today's contact build if the last of the Autobots from the original 1984 release: Windcharger! Of all the original Autobot toys, Windcharger had to be one of the worst. His transformation was infantile-simple, and his robot mode was incredibly uninteresting. Despite this, he was a great character in the setting. Unlike many other Autobots, Windcharger possessed a superpower: a could control magnetic forces using his arms like poles of an electromagnet. This was something we saw him use to great effect and in lots of creative was during the original G1 animated series. Less so during the Marvel comics, where he barely appeared. Unfortunately, as his toy was incredibly unpopular, Windcharger was one of the confirmed deaths -- seen next to a dead Wheeljack -- during the Autobot City battle in the '86 Transformers Movie. WINDCHARGER “ Quick action equals quick victory .” Of all the Ark's crew who crash-landed on Earth, Windcharger is unquestionably the fastest on the ground, at...

Today's Essence20 Contact build features the Autobot mechanical engineer: Wheeljack ! While billed as the resident mechanical engineer of the Autobot faction, he's more like their mad science weapons designer. He spends less time on fixing things around the Ark, leaving that to the likes of Hoist and other engineers, while Jack is busy in his lab trying to build his newest toy that is designed to help end the war... only for said device to ultimately blow up in the face of whomever is brave enough to use it. He's even gone so far as to augment himself with advanced weapons and a few technological surprises, including jet fuel in his arms allowing him to launch himself into the sky like a rocket, and shoulder-mounted magnetic gyro-inhibitor shells designed to hinder the mental and movement faculties of Decepticons struck by their blasts. And that's just the normal kind of thing he goes into the field using... I also find it interesting that, according to his original tec...

Here is my Timeline Template I use to write all of my Earth-based rpg campaign timelines. I've used this for numerous campaigns, including my own Super Powered Legends series, Marvel, DC, and GIJoe/Transformers. Is this timeline a bit western-world biased? Yes. I'm a white dude who grew up with public education. I'm doing the best I can here. But the great thing is you can copy and paste this template for yourselves and alter it according to your own campaign and add other events from world history. Now, when I use this template, I follow several guidelines: * Fictional events of your campaign's world history are not given any special notations. * For any actual world history events, I underline the event , as to separate it from the fictional history of the world being created. * When writing events that are happening in a currently-active campaign, I tend to  write them using a red color font , to note they are important to the current setting. Enjoy building your tim...