Mecha Crusade questions

[Dareoon Dalandrove]

In the Mecha Crusade rules from Dungeon/Polyhedron the feat for Mecha operations says, “characters without this feat suffer a minus 4 penalty on Pilot checks and to any skill which armor penalty would apply. Ok but where is the armor penalty? Do I add up what the total equipment bonus from the mech? So if a character were piloting the sample mech Relient-12 with a plus 6 for equipment bonus then a character without this feat would have a –10 to skill checks?

Also there isn’t anything for having mechs with multiple legs any suggestions?

 

[HellHound]

No, just the flat -4 penalty.

"-4 penalty on Pilot checks and to any skill which armor penalty would apply"

So, that -4 penalty is applied to all skills that have armor check penalties and to Pilot checks.

IMO

 

[LrdApoc]

A big point to remember is that the mecha in Mecha Crusade are treated in many ways like armor. Since the pilot who attempts to climb in a mecha gets the mecha's Strength bonus, those untrained suffer a -4 in addition. This is similar to the rule for wearing armor you are not proficient in for standard dnd.

 

[Dareoon Dalandrove]

ok that explains the addtional benefits for advanced mech operation. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that a mech is heavy armor.

 

[Ranger REG]

Of course, you don't need heavy armor proficiency feat, just the Mecha Operation feat.