Welcome to the Menagerie

Hey there everyone! It's been a while, hasn't it? This update may come as much as a surprise for you as it did for me; when I first released Coldcore Coliseum I thought that it would be totally feature complete and static from that point forward. Despite that, I think that I wasn't quite ready to let go of it. So, here we are: the first major update to Coldcore Coliseum! It includes:

• A new manufacturer, the Menagerie Championship. This underground cabal of scientist-entertainers and bohemian gladiators is continually pushing the limits of possibility and practicality with their avant-garde chassis designs: 
  • The Cornicello, an adaptable and modular frame designed for prototyping Menagerie designs and providing an open-source base for its entrants,
  • The Jin-Chan, a walking server stack that harnesses arcane computational space to coordinate its team and guide their attacks,
  • The Milagro, a brawling luchador with an electromagnetic dynamo at its heart,
  • And the Nazar, a pint-sized powerhouse that uses a blinkspace manifold to store and redirect a constantly harassing hail of fire
  • Three new tags (Experimental, Kickstart, and Supercharge) that represent their high-powered but unstable designs.
  • And of course, 4 new core bonuses to go with it all

• Also, two new alt-frames made under the Menagerie's name:
  • The Clover, an alt-Horus Hydra that fills the battlefield with its disposable but deadly Blackthorn Polyp nanite assemblies.
  • The Maneki-Neko, an alt-Horus Kobold that creates armor and cover for its allies with the churning forge in its transmuted core.

There are also a few small updates to K/KCA:

• Bespoke Armaments is now split into 2 lists (Styles and Mods), picking one option from each to make certain combinations mutually exclusive.
• Signature Maneuvers now allows chosen systems to be used while Jammed and instead of granting a free use by destroying the system, adds +1 Difficulty to all checks and saves that that system imposes.
• The Zomorrodnegar's Falcon trait has been slightly modified to make it easier for it to use.

A quick note - these changes ARE NOT REFLECTED in the current Coldcore Coliseum v1.1 pdf. Similarly, the Menagerie is currently siloed out in to a separate pdf as well. This is anticipating a future update that will require even more to be added to the main pdf, which in turn will require me to redo a lot of formatting and possibly contend with a real pdf editor. In the meantime I wanted to get this material finished and released, and I hope you all enjoy it! As always, please send feedback (both for new material and old)! You can find me as @cicada_king on the PilotNET discord.

Until next time!