John Q. Mayhem
Explorer
Iron Kingdoms has its steamjacks, but those are more in the giant robot catagory. It also brings us the dreaded Iron Lich, a brain-in-a-jar with style!
Best Fantasy Mecha rules?
Aeric
Explorer
I have all three books, but I've only read through d20 Mecha. D20 Mecha is like the old Mekton Zeta construction system--it provides only the base mechanics for everything. If you have an idea in your head of what you want your mecha to be like, this is a great system. You can build pretty much anything you can imagine with it.
On the other hand, if you're looking for something a bit more specific at the cost of unlimited flexibility, Doomstriders and DragonMech might be the way to go.
I have mecha in my own campaign (which will be run next year). They are necromantic constructs, huge undead made from the corpses of titans. These undead are armored and have a chest cavity where the controller sits. They're more like enormous ride-along flesh golems than true mecha, but the latter will be created as a way to combat these constructs.
The next generation will see mecha replace the mounted knight as the elite noble warrior.
On the other hand, if you're looking for something a bit more specific at the cost of unlimited flexibility, Doomstriders and DragonMech might be the way to go.
I have mecha in my own campaign (which will be run next year). They are necromantic constructs, huge undead made from the corpses of titans. These undead are armored and have a chest cavity where the controller sits. They're more like enormous ride-along flesh golems than true mecha, but the latter will be created as a way to combat these constructs.
The next generation will see mecha replace the mounted knight as the elite noble warrior.
mhacdebhandia
Explorer
My friend and I were batting some world-construction ideas back and forth between us for a mecha-heavy goblin nation - heavily inspired by the presence of a steam-powered goblin-piloted mecha in Labyrinth, yes.
We found the d20 Mecha SRD very useful.
We found the d20 Mecha SRD very useful.
VoiceOfReason?
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Krieg said:By contracting the work out.
I thought it was only natural that whitewolf got to do the Ravenloft setting-woulda been a stroke of pure genious with better timing (way back in the day
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JoeGKushner
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Dragon Mech has a lot going for it.
Doom Striders could've been a contender as it looks good but actually creating something runs into lots of little problems here and there.
Mech d20 by Guardians of Order and the excellent resource, d20 Mecha Compendium, have seen some use in my campaign. I used the smaller suits like Iron Man armor to help the weaker characters survive a few encounters that they shouldn't have but didn't get into the bigger mecha.
Doom Striders could've been a contender as it looks good but actually creating something runs into lots of little problems here and there.
Mech d20 by Guardians of Order and the excellent resource, d20 Mecha Compendium, have seen some use in my campaign. I used the smaller suits like Iron Man armor to help the weaker characters survive a few encounters that they shouldn't have but didn't get into the bigger mecha.
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