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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9282133" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dungeon/Polyhedron Issue 95/194: Nov/Dec 2002part 9/10Building a Mecha: They completely separate the mecha building system from the wealth one, both for fairness sake so a team can be built using the same point totals without random rolls, and because mecha are usually so expensive that you need the backing of the government or some secret society to afford them at all. (although the concept of a cyberpunk game with jury-rigged mecha fighting against The Man does have a certain appeal, but that would need some DM work.) Despite citing Iron Man as an influence earlier, they don’t include rules for human sized power suits, with mechs ranging from Large to Colossal size categories, each increasing the number of body slots you have available to add more gadgets, but also the cost of each thing you add. The number of points gets very large, with some individual options costing tens of thousands of build points, but that’s ok because you’re expected to have hundreds of thousands to spend by the time you hit 20th level. So i’m not sure how balanced everything is without playtesting, but there’s definitely more than enough granularity to do a lot of fine-tuning of the numbers if you were to play it and then tweak it based on how things tuned out. This continues the general design decision of going for a fairly high crunch approach, as far as is possible within their limited page count. It might actually be a mercy that they didn’t have more room then. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Running Mecha Crusade: After all that extra time in character creation figuring out what kind of mech you’re going to have, the extra rules for action scenes are surprisingly light, at a mere 6 pages. Combat works pretty much as normal, only with bigger numbers. Usually, damage will only affect the mecha until it’s destroyed, but on a critical hit the pilot might take some as well. Flying works differently in an atmosphere or space, so watch out for the tweaks to the manoeuvrability rules. If you have fast reactions you can shoot enemy missiles out of the air before they hit you, which is pleasingly dramatic. If more than one person is piloting the same mecha, you can get extra attack options as long as they’re each operating different weapons systems, or you can use the aid another action as usual to give +2 bonuses to movement and defence. If you want to go full Transformers, you might have a set of mechs designed to combine into a bigger, more awesome one. All of these rules are pretty simple and shouldn’t slow down the action any more than regular 3e, maybe even less because all the numbers are precalculated and you don’t need to worry about stacking buffs going on and off mid combat the way you would with high level D&D spellcasters. If you can have fun battles with regular 3e, you can almost definitely manage it with these extras.</blockquote>

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