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An interesting point was brought up in the What rpg system would you use for a 60+ session fantasy campaign? thread earlier this week...

A lot of what @StrollofTurtle posted is also what I feel and love about BattleTech. I will post my own rpg for this soon and...

longtime Battltech fan here, these are my thoughts on the RPGs... OK, Mechwarrior first edition -this is better thought of as a...

We more or less came to the same conclusion. That the DrSt mechanic was really meant only to be busted out when all of the characters...

I don't know where you found that... but as a kid who bought the Jade Falcon book the day it came out because it was green with a...

Indeed! I also think "how to make a setting and choice of characters matter" = beyond stats, skills and tasks. like... actually have...

How to make combat fun is an interesting topic, might be worth a thread of it’s own.

Science fantasy is fantasy, so yes.

I had been talking about this with a bunch of friends lately. I have decided I will never play D&D ever again. And nothing like it...

Hmm, taking a standard, say piloting roll of 5+ being a clean/full success (83.3% success), and flipping it around to figure out the...

I’ve actually never played any PbTA games, but the concept seems interesting! I’d be curious to hear how it ends up working.

I find it a little strange that the piloting and gunnery skills would have any effect outside of a mech. I like the PbtA idea and would...

Personally I would bite the PCC go with Option B and the full PbtA method. Having to shift not just a single target number but a range...

While it may be less frequent, chases, or RP-based mech challenges could still happen. Gunnery too, like say a Robin Hood type tourney...