Quick! You have 10 seconds to write an original hook for a campaign that takes place in a generic mecha universe (Gundam, Macross, etc).
Hard mode: no prototype mobile suits/mechas
>>46285338
Demons
>>46285338
Crack mecha pilot squad sent behind enemy lines to disrupt supply lines. Warcrimes ensue.
>>46285338
While intergalactic battle rages on, some ragtag mercenaries gather in a small tavern of backwater planet. Bandit raids are more and more frequent and the town mayor wants the "Bandit King" dead.
You don't have mecha, you have to fight people who do. Good fucking luck.
>>46285370
I love this kind of shit.
Fucking over the PCs for doing the seemingly right thing, making them feel like shit etc.
>>46285378
oh no
we can use our realistic military weapons against this highly improbably and overly fiddly mechanical armament.
We are so screwed.
>>46285387
Yup, good fucking luck. We're in a generic setting, therefore your realistic weapons lose 99% of the time.
>>46285396
Except since we're the protagonists we make it out alright.
>>46285338
You are space hobos salvaging the destroyed robot parts for scrap metal.
>>46285400
Careful now. That kind of talk gets you killed inside the first three episodes. Just ask Jiro Yamada.
Suply problems.
>>46285338
A weird virus that infects mecha pilots. If they die in their mecha, their corpse fuses into the suit, and slowly converts the mecha into a totally biological version. The mutated biomecha have brains which are advaced replicas of the pilots brain when they died. The biomecha know everything the pilot did, and even have the same mannerisms and speech patterns, but the biomecha will go out of their way to kill pilots and make new biomecha, often preying on the emotions of other pilots by pretending to be a friend back from the dead, or something like that.
The biomecha are faster and stronger, but more susceptible to damage.
>>46285338
Chechens, Vietcong, ISIS and whatever, team up to fuck your shit.
Sneak into bases to kill pilots when they sleep, sabotage your machinery, and steal beam rifles to mount them on technicals.
You have to expect extremely underhanded tactics and be on maximum alert 24/7. Hard mode: they also stole your coffee machine.
>>46285338
Manipulative vampires that have kept their existence secret for centuries are actually manipulation both your faction and your antagonists in a solar-system-sized game of chess. They are murderous amoral cannibals who see you as mere pawns ; you just had a glimpse at their existence ; your side is currently winning under their manipulations.
>>46285484
I actually could see a lot to do with this, in scenarios where the vampires know you know, and where they don't. This is pretty interesting
>>46285338
Think G Gundam only your party are one of the reps body guards. Are you guys bad enough dudes to defend your rep from all comers without any mechs of your own?
>>46285436
not entirely original, but I can see what you were going for
A prototype anti-mecha cannon developed by a rogue faction of ragtag mercenaries is forcibly taken by a generic empire guys.
>as generic grunts of the empire, fend off the mercs and realize that the last fight has separated you together with the weapon far from the main fleet. Meanwhile, your technician gave you some serious info: THE CANNON HAS AN AI AND IS LIKELY A PART OF A LARGER SET
>as mercs, do everything to take back the cannon! Since the first ambush on the transporting fleet failed, your cap'n commands a bold move: Let's kidnap Empire's first princess to have something for an exchange!
Also, the princess' secret twin sister was used as base to develop the weapon's AI.
Mercs work for someone else.
I don't know, that's all I got
>>46285636
>The princess is glad to be gone and wants to fight back against the corrupt empire.
>She becomes a great mech pilot and fights alongside the PCs after warming up to them.
>>46285400
Tell that to the guys from MS IGLOO 2.
>>46285378
>Mechs are just created, nobody has seen them before.
>Your faction uses you as fodder while they develop their own mechs.
>>46285465
Mounting an energy weapon on a technical sounds like it woul require replacing huge fuseboxes after every shot, assuming it somehow avoids melting the entire technical it's mounted on.
>>46285400
That kind of thinking tends to result in people exploding into Tang
>>46285378
Heavy Object is an anime all about two soldier bros fucking up really huge spherical death tanks with guerrila tacticsAt least that's what I got from the first four episodes and It was bloody great
>>46285338
Even years after the OYW ended Zeon remnants still wage guerilla warfare in disconnected cells scattered all over the globe and space. You and your team trot the globe (and space) hunting down and eliminating these cells.
>>46285708
That's not any different than what happens with current technicals half the time.
Who would have thought welding any old weapon you can get your hands on onto the back of an old truck would frequently have disastrous results?
Space.
Godzilla.
>>46285847
Natural or manmade?
>>46285896
Neither; painstakingly crafted by an alien race.
Their machines are powered by the soul of the protag's mothers.
>They're all vat grown.
>>46285338
There's a mecha virus that makes all the mechas dysfunctional.
In order to save costs the vast majority of our second moonbase was built using purely ai driven construction mechs with few human overseers. As the base neared its final stages of completion something went wrong, an SOS signal was heard coming from one of the supervisor's, but cut off suddenly. No transmissions have came from Moonbase 2, since.
Moonbase 1 only has a hand full of left over old human piloted construction mechs from the days of its own construction, and a few newer maintenance mechs available to use to investigate what exactly happened at Moonbase 2.
Leaders of most factions are reasonable and are sure they can reach a consensual solution to their divergences through diplomacy, discussion and mutual progress. The giant mecha and the super-cool mega-weapons are created by the military-industrial complex to ensure new generations of gun-nuts, /k/o/m/mandos and jingoistic mall-ninjas will push for always more war and more military answers and more buying of impractical weapons because they want to see the sweet toys in context even if it implies billions of dead.
The PCs are mecha-pilots that have to do everything in their power to stop diplomacy and progress from ruining war for ever.
>>46285338
Everything is powered by crystals. Think medabots meets starwars lightsaber.
>>46285338
The Terraformers have come back. A Von Neumann army of terraforming AIs that were supposed to be shut down because there were enough planets for humanity now.
Unfortunately, the company that made the shutdown patch was almost bankrupt and gave only the minimum of work hours to their dev team.
Long story short, there is now an army of self-replicating AI spaceships trying to terraform already habitated planets.
Humanity will die. It's inevitable. But there is a bunch of rich people, including the fuckers responsible for the patch, trying to build a space ship that the terraformers wouldn't consider a planet and thus wouldn't attack.
The rich people have the best tech, including AI guard robots and shit.
Is your squad of socialist powered armor infantry and mecha pilots bad enough to prevent the rich people from escaping justice at the hands of the terraformers?
So yeah. A campaign about preventing people from leaving a doomed earth. With mechs and shit. And the PCs are from poor socialist countries and consider the wealth of rich people to be theft on the common man.
And because everyone will die, anyway, you can go all-out with collateral damage. But you get points for taking the rich people alive, because forcing them to live in prison until the terraformers arrive is nice torture for the crime of being rich.
>>46285387
>>46285396
>>46285400
What if it's like Aldnoah Zero? Mechs that are genetically keyed to individuals and use hyper-advanced forerunner tech to do insane shit?
>>46285726
Unfortunately the show is pretty mediocre and has too much Kamachi shit in it.
The premise literally includes "sabotage is an unknown concept and everyone goes apeshit because the MCs are the first to ever do it".
>>46285991
>>46285338
After the war went bad for your faction, you and your unit of amphibious mecha are part of the few remaining remnants of your obviously-not-Zeon invasion force. You will have to hide, contact your surviving comrades, and set up a guerrilla force on earth against the enemy, in preparation for the glorious return of your main army and the final conquest of earth.
It will be hard, the path never easy, and you may have to sacrifice your morals to ensure your survival (>Implyingzekeshavemorals), but it will all be worth it when your comrades return.
Except they never come. What is left of them will contact you, and from time to time try to supply you, but over time it becomes clear that your war is lost and you are only fighting the inevitable.
>>46285378
Will the giant war between the Federation and Empire wages on, you enjoy life on your primitive magical backwater planet. That is until Powertonium, the fuel super robots need to fly around, shot lasers and swing spaceship sized swords at each other.
Are you a bad enough mage to defend your planet against a bunch of hotblooded space dudes?
>>46285338
Pilots are hired on to defend humanitarian aid shipments to the most war ravaged parts of a nation. Will they keep their neutrality and simply provide the aid while watching innocent casualties mount up, or will they start to take sides?
>>46286287
Fuck, I meant *While and *swords at each other is discovered on your planet and both factions want in.
>>46286287
>>46286298
>>46286317
Use the fucking delete button and repost the correct version instead of writing a formal apology letter, you fucknugget.
You wake up with others and you now been hunted by a mecha pilot for sport.
>>46285338
Plot demands only senior citizens are capable of piloting mechs.
Plot = uploading consciousness 80% corruption rate
Mechs are all grizzled conservative assholes and mechs that want to knit again.
You are not a soldier. You are not a scientist. You are not a technician or even affiliated with the military in any way. You're just a regular Joe, with a regular job, living in a regular city, with a regular shitty apartment downtown. Every day you get up, go to work, come home, watch TV, and go to bed. Day in and day out.
You didn't pay much attention to the news going on about some political bullshit going on Over There, it didn't matter to you, it didn't matter to anyone around you. No one cared and just groaned about more wasted taxpayer dollars if it ever came up in conversation.
Then more and more people were glued to the TV everywhere you went. Whatever. You've got to work overtime this week because the idiot you work with got himself into a car accident or some shit who cares. Besides, the politicians on the TV said there was nothing to worry about.
Then one morning you wake up to sirens, the sirens then become explosions, the explosions gunfire, the gunfire accompanied by the thunderous footsteps of giant humanoid war machines tearing through your fucking city with no goddamn care of the people and property they're trampling on.
You need supplies. You need to get to safety. You need to survive.
>>46285338
While most machines are piloted via sophisticated brain-machine interfaces you are one of the chosen pilots who can literally transfer your mind into the machine giving you a degree of mobility and power unlike the traditional counterparts.
However this comes with a heavy price as prolonged bouts in this state can cause severe mental degredation and body dismorphia.
You and your squad are trapped far behind enemy lines and you're already nearing the safe limits of run time. You're suits will no doubt last but can your mind hold out long enough to survive being hunted and get back to base?
>>46285338
One member of your mech team has been kidnapped.
And the prom's tomorrow.
>>46285338
>Quick! You have 10 seconds to write an original hook for a campaign that takes place in a generic mecha universe (Gundam, Macross, etc).
Super Robot Wars: The Tabletop
>>46286382
>You and your squad are trapped far behind enemy lines and you're already nearing the safe limits of run time. You're suits will no doubt last but can your mind hold out long enough to survive being hunted and get back to base?
So, you want to make a mecha splat for WoD?
>>46285338
You plaiy a group of mecha enthusiasts in a world that no longer needs them; a world where the enemies that required mechs to fight them are now gone or extinct, and humanity has largely been at peace.
Its been a generation or so since mechs were really needed, and have actually been phased out, considered too large an expense for what is now a simple policing force. But with new enemies emerging from the Galactic core, and human armies falling before them like wheat before a scythe, the government has called on you to not only train a new cadre of Mecha-fighters, but to fight the invaders to save humanity.
>>46286426
Indeed, the important aspect here is that the PCs are slowly degrading even though they are fairly powerful individuals so they are just glass cannons trying to hold each other together while other glass cannons such as themselves are going after them.
If I can find other people who have the nWoD books there are a number of things I would run that isn't based on the Chronicles.
>>46285370
I would watch that. The MC turning into a wreck as his actions slowly skew towards questionable, then reprehensible, then horrifying. By the end, the War has been won thanks to him but the things he's done have turned him into a monster. He gets arrested for his crimes, bug before he can be sentenced, he hangs himself in his cell.
>>46285338
2278
The Angels attack again.
We have S2 Organ-powered Eva battleships
>Maintenance staff/ground crew goes on strike.
>Players have to go to setting equivalent of Squadron Officer School; instructors teach the Power of Friendship (TM) and other obnoxious "leadership" stuff.
>Players find out squadron mates have written offensive bawdy song about their exploits; players have to decide whether to laugh or get revenge (somehow).
>>46286431
Yes, I saw Pacific Rim too
The mech nation is just one small part of a world gone completely to shit
There's aliens, Clthulu, nuclear megamonsters, stone golaiaths, biomechanical monstrosities, and all sorts of other giant monsters of a variety of types.
The last really together country available (Japan or Murica') put together mecha to keep up
>>46286966
So, Rebuild 3 but not complete and utter faggotshit?
>>46285338
Medieval stasis but with mechs.
alt dungeon world with mechs
>>46285338
Robot fighting olympics with ethnic steretypes.
Tiny robots adventuring in the ruined corpse of a giant one.
>>46285338
Humans pilot the mechas by connecting the suit to the brain via implants. However, this also connects the suit to the soul and after decades of use the suits start becoming sentient, also rarely, people's souls can get transferred into the suit if they've used the same one for years (you can think of other freak reasons for this to happen adding on previously mentioned ones)
Maybe people who use the suits slowly lose their humanity, meaning few people want to become pilots which would allow for mecha and non-mecha militaries.
Whether or not the civilisation/s are aware of the existence of the soul or that the suits do this is up to you.
Bonus if their are good and evil suits
>>46285338
Slimes on a plane
The Islamic State takes over Germany from the inside, and it's up to America to fix Germany's booboos for the unteempth time.
Labor Sector Mech pilots protest/strike against working conditions and then things go to shit
I always kinda wanted to do a Lost Planet style game. Something that would be between 3 and 1 if it were actually a vidya. Mechs have been miniaturized and militarized, but there's not much in the way of authority or organization beyond bands of survivors out in the frozen, bug infested wastes. NEVEC style corporation has fucked off and won't be back for at least a couple decades.
A regular crew of space miners sent to mine on a planet that turns out to be incredibly hostile and semi sapient. Escape ship is destroyed in the initial fuck up, with only mining mechas still in tact, and help is not coming for a long time. Crew has to use the mining mechas to manipulate the environment to fight against onslaughts or have to salvage to make them combat efficient.
>>46285338
Party is just part of a small community of islanders trying to get by. But they're located near several key locations and often see mecha battles cross parts of the island and tear shit up. And now people have taken more notice of the location so there are mechs fighting a guerrilla war on the islands for enough control to build a base.
All while the party is just trying to get their crops grown and make sure they have enough gas to run a few generators around the islands.
>>46287906
I've read a short story that was pretty much thisMinus the surviving thing
>>46285465
>Hard mode: they also stole your coffee machine.
Your army's elite unit has ace custom prototype supermechs with built-in coffee machines. You are going to steal their mechs, and fuck the special forces wankers and their oh-so-important "mission."
>>46285925
Your cockpits can no longer raise into combat position, you have to fight with your faces pointed down at the ground.
Test pilots for the Empire fighting against advanced rebel protypes.
Pirates attacks!!!
>>46287682
There are at least a couple of fantasy settings where the Ancient Races That Did Shit And Left Ruins were giants. Just loot their powered armour suits and rig up a cockpit, then go dungeon crawling through their mysterious lost continent in suits the size of a building.
>>46287970
Nobody actually notices though, including the enemy, because they're always "on mission" whenever there'd be a fight they could otherwise participate in and no record of their "mission" or its results or even confirmation that they actually do anything at all exist anywhere, on either side.
>>46287977
Until you can upload viagra.exe into the mecha's OS?
>>46285338
Your merc company is on a standard one year garrison contract out in the middle of no where when pirates show up to raid. At least one drop ship has touched down in the PC's sector and all air support is already engaged.
>>46288012
Quite.
>>46288066
Which fucking sucks, because the raid wasn't scheduled for another two weeks.
>>46285338
Remember those mind-controlled mecha that causes pilots to feel pain when the mecha takes damage?
They begin to suffer severe phantom pains on limbs they don't have, and the only way to stop it is to strap them to the mech and perform surgery on the mech itself to "amputate" the limb.
>>46285338
war has become so brutal that the various space factions have decided to settle disputes on so called war planets.
these war planets have become so popular with the populace that giant sponsor corporations are
milking the shit out of the media rights.
factions have several Stalls, which fight together and sometimes against each other for ratings. you are part of a newly created stall fighting for your faction and glory
mech found floating in space after SOS goes out. Pilot inside is tied down and dosed with paralytic, and something is rigged to his throat to explode. Something is trying to lure a rescue party inside.
( I've never watched that stuff but I get that the focus of action usually never goes into the mechs themselves).
>>46287260
I wouldn't know, I didn't watch the Rebuild thingy. I had this idea of Eva in the future for a D&D3.5 campaign years ago.
It was an averted Third Impact future, based on Eva tech for free energy and using that Ancient Race stuff to assume there are more Angel-planets out there.
>>46285338
The players are city-destroyers. They are the Horseman of the Apocalypse. Each of them pilot a titanic Mobile Armor, and they are inserted into various cities to wipe them off the face of the map.
We're talking the Psycho Gundam, the Destroy Gundam, the Neo Zeong. They are commencing the Great Burn of Europe. The campaign is about the fleeting beauty and poetic destruction they visit about each great monument to the everlasting folly of man, before it all turns to ashes and misery.
>>46285338
All mechas are piloted by clones of the original pilot. Anyone else who tries can't move them quickly enough
The descendent of the original has been uncovered. Their DNA must be recovered at all costs to refine the clones now suffering from degraded data
>>46285338
Thousands of leagues beneath the sea mechs fight in the horrifying darkness and unimaginable pressure in search of the leavings of whatever lived here before man. Most combat take place beyond visual range with complex torpedo systems and counter measures but one must always be on their guard for ambush by predators dwelling in the dark or the possibility of running into an enemy mech in the tight quarters of the ruins.
>>46285370
Jake? Chapman?
>>46285409
That was the plot of Gundam SEED Astray. It worked really well.
>>46285338
Simple, the rare unobtainable that makes mech viable as a suit (either for armor resistance vs arty or for the engine - armor could be cooler but to power engine more classic) have begun to run out - now the PCs/main characters are stuck trying to enforce the dictates of an increasingly desperate central command, and coming constantly in contact with the enemy (instead of it being a WWI were all humans together message - play it more like Nam or the Iraq war where it's two incompatible societies fighting), and realize that the only thing that matter is each other.
They might need to defeat/kill former allies who've gone rogue trying to steal the Unob for themselves, only at the end for them to capture the unob and have the choice to join the rebels, continue their military orders, or strike pit on their own.
As a stinger, show all of the hoarded Unob going to elite divisons out in the middle of space (said divisions who would've easily won the PCs campaign without all the anguish) to Colonize huge tracts of UnOb - completely trivializing the PCs war.
>>46285338
You're the only one with a mech and its God-tier. Thats it.
>>46285338
Search and Rescue team is stranded on an unknown planet with nothing but light construction vehicles and it turns out they've responded to a distress call from the Enemy.
Cue them banding together with the non-combat S&R having to get together with the enemy combatants, S&R is mixed gender enemy squad is all male with a female "political advisor" slash Officer murder cyborg with no actual reproductive bits.
I dunno, they band together to brave the elements and start farming to survive and find a primitive humanoid race that already lives there.
We'll let fetish levels determine how humanoid.
So conflict between genders, command structure, political alliances, personal beliefs, pacifism vs. nationalism etc.
Have there be conflicting interactions with the natives, different opinions on how to treat them, gradual realization that they are sapient.
Internal pressure comes to a head with how to treat the natives, violent faction expels native peace faction, peace faction flees and finds secret ancient native tech with a warning about it corrupting and it resembles the mechanism units used in war that are not totally understood. Peace faction has a young woman who was banging a soldier who got left behind while fleeing and is being assaulted/raped/soon to be executed by cyberOfficer. It's about power not genitalia.
Anyways, heroine betrays peace and native dudes and steals old mech and stomps the camp to save the soldier husbando, killing her friends Boyfriend that she didn't know about in the process who was actually helping her husbando escape. Cue revelation the violence makes things worse as her mech breaks down because old and she gets captured now too.
As they prepare for her execution the next morning, what rises isn't the sun but the fusion thrusters of a planetary landing craft coming in from orbit. END SEASON.
Animals have stolen mechs and are demanding rights and independence.
>>46285338
A guy falls in love with a mecha...
>>46288402
The movie was about Shinji's homosexual awakening.
It also had a small cameo of Asuka as well as a giant flying battleship based on EVA tech.
Some people defend it.
Helping an aspiring young pilot get his very first mech
>>46285847
Been there done that
>>46285338
Booze powered skeleton mechas.
No i'm not drunk.
>>46286498
Isn't that the villain from Apocalypse Now?
>>46285338
You are a camp cook for the military specializing in raising morale and we're originally considered to be a manipulation genius who was going to become a Commissar, but were kicked out of the Officers Academy for your peaceful views and your low combat scores. Your job is to create healthy meals for the platoons that keep the grunts happy while dealing with limited supplies and the possible dangers of war.
Occasionally, depending on what you cook and who supports and notices you in the army, you'll have to go on special scavenging missions behind enemy lines for supplies, or convince the officers in charge to change their plans so that a squad special to you survives and use your cooking skills to get their attention, or dealing wit the experimental divisions new cooking mech that monitors your cooking and lets you multitasking with its independent intelligent integrating circuits or its "Third Eye" - totally not a possible robo--kitchen-waifu here guys.
You and your party will have to work together to level up your cooking skills mixing specialization with basics so that you ca cover if someone is burned or sick etc.
Keep in mind that hungry or disgusted squads can die from lack of strength or desert for better food.
Oh, and there's Mechas and shit in the army.
>>46287840
get the fuck out amerifat
>>46286374
actually this is going to be the plot for ,my next JC campaign.
Biomecha who's energy comes from sexual activity
One side of the war uses super clean, sleek aesthetically designed mechs and skintight pilot suits that look more like something made by Apple.
The other side uses mechs that are bulky, gritty, hard sci-fi in aesthetics and pilot suits that look like diving/space suits.
>>46285436
God, imagine a biomechanical 9ball hellbent on spreading the scourge.
Giant mecha battles are pretty much sports events, except the loser has to give over resources/territory/money/debt whatever.
The focus is on Cold War spying and sabotage. The main characters are to mentally break down, blackmail, or murder the mecha pilots - or the hundreds of ground crew - so that their nation starts coming out on top in the competitions.
At the same time, mobs keep rioting and going mad every time their mech loses, and there is a growing sentiment to get rid of these mecha battles.
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>>46285338
Literally just the Iliad.
Armour = Mech
Ship = Spaceship
When Patroclus goes out in Achilles' armour, he's actually piloting his mech.
And the Hephaestus makes Achilles a new super mech.
Also there's lots of yelling and melodrama and duels.
>>46289440
So pretty much Eldar vs. Imperium?
>>46285338
> My little Mechas can't be this cute!
In order to indoctrinate children to go to war, the upper-middle classes and higher participate in Mecha Brawls during high school using miniature versions the size of 12 year olds. To make them more appealing, they've deliberately made them look like kids and popular personality Sims are highly sought after with famous people occasionally doing limited edition recordings.
The PC has managed to get one of his favourite idol, but instead of just the stock responses and poses it claims that it's actually able to think! Sadly, this seems to have come at the cost of hehe usual combat programming - and you have a match that will decide if you are expelled from school or not coming up! Can she really learn just like a person? She'll have to!
>>46285338
Players are MPs at a base just behind the frontlines in a war. Comedy and tragedy ensues as they try to maintain order with all those ace pilots on R&R.
Flavor with genre tropes, serious moments, and levity as you see fit.
>>46285338
Future country that is Not-Venice gets attacked by an evil consortium of mercinary companies hoping to exploit the countries small size and neutral posture and subsiquent complete lack of allies to set up a puppet state and create a financial pipline to failed states & despots like the International Monetary Fund.
PC Mobile Suits are generally quite weak compared to the Mercs, but have the advantage of being amphibious, leading to the need of clever manuver warfare and looting of Mercs gear. Mercs tend to have highly specialised and upgraded weapons from the private sector.
Not-Venice suits tend to be smaller too, so this makes them slightly harder to hit. Standard armament is a bullpup missile launcher which can fire both underwater and on land. Standard equipment includes large flippers on legs for motion in water, which retract inside the feet, also hand held propeller propulsion units and emergency pilot ejection systems, because the good guys have so few veteran pilots. This leads to some quite tence situations as you have to exfiltrate the battlezone without your suit and the Mercs are looking for you.
The party is a mecha academy strike team for the solar government, but someone is murdering academy pilots.
>>46286359
>>46285338
This sounds good.
You could play it like: your character is an aged ww2 veteran. One of the few to win a famous battle, and even fewer are still alive.
Instead of that "little girls in mecha" go to the full opposite; someone who actually knows about war from "Greatest generation".
And aformentioned Conservative assholes.
I'd play it.
>>46287840
The Islamic State takes over America from the inside, and it's up to Germany to fix America's booboos.
>>46290238
Isn't Germany full of US garrisons?
>>46285338
Wiseman was the good guy.
>>46290238
kratman, go home
>>46285338
>Take virtually any military film or book plot
>Replace cast with mech pilots
>???
>Profit
>>46288002
Give details.
>>46285338
An essential metal for mecha production has been mined into oblivion. Mechas can no longer be produced, so while the fighting DOES continue, it slowly dissolves into a Cold War with clandestine skirmishes as it seems like each mecha is now essentially priceless. This also puts immense strain on the pilots to minimize damage even to the point of choosing retreat over the objective.
>>46290238
W E A K
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>>46285338
You and your party members are part of the engineering section of an advanced mech scouting unit. The real pilots went out for a quick skirmish. 2 days have passed. What do you do?
>>46285338
The mecha have all become sapient and are rebelling against humans. You need to fight against the mecha armies with normal guns and artillery.
>>46285338
Four mecha pilots must rescue a highly advanced prototype AI mecha from an alien relic it was based off of.
One protagonist's mecha is heavily armored, and has absurd strength and durability - though it doesn't have ranged capabilities or recovery.
Another is lighter, and can disable targets of opportunity with its invisibility matrix and EMP gun, but goes down after a solid hit and can't fight an enemy straight on.
A third has regenerating missiles (incendiary and shrapnel), and a short-term hacking device, but is similarly fragile and needs to replenish its stock occasionally.
The final one has some armor, but more importantly can enhance and repair itself and the other robots through drones that get airdropped in at specified times (or in emergencies, when a distress signal is sent to Mission Control).
The entire world hinges onF.I.G.H.T.E.R., R.O.G.U.E., W.I.Z.A.R.D., and C.L.E.R.I.C. saving P.R.I.N.C.E.S.S. from the D.R.A.G.O.N.
>>46285338
Zeon Civil War
Mechas run on incredibly rare fuel, unobtanium or some shit, leads to resource wars - scavenging, only able to run 1 or 2 mechs with out commiting atrocities to gain large amounts of fuel
The technology to make mechs function is slowly dissapearing via lack of materials or what not, party is forced to find more ingenuitive ways to take on mechas as the way the world wages war slowly fades back to traditional methods of ballistic firearms and infantryman. Mechs should be treated as highly destructive and powerfull weapons that are harder to come by as the story goes on making each one more important to either acquire or destroy than the last
>>46285740
>Mobile Suit Gundam: Counterterrorism Ops
I'd play this. Fuck yes
>>46292617
>>46285740
Isn't that literally the backstory for Zeta Gundam?
>>46285338
Only after the war has ruined so much of the system's economy does the stranglehold of the setting equivalents to Anaheim and Zeonic finally loosen its grip in the most distant outer colonies.
Armed with a resurgence of non-bipedal research and development, weapons and systems once claimed impossible to mount anywhere but 20m+ tall bipedal robots are now yours to wield in exotic new descendants to what once were mere fighters, jeeps and tanks. Mecha remain, of course, but now as heavy powered exo-suits, devastating the oldstyle infantry.
Across the inner system, lawyers maneuver and politicians flank, shielding or damning those who controlled the military industrial complex of *every side of every conflict* for well over a century. The inner circle of these greatest megacorps are surely preparing their escape, for the funds and most cutting technological edges remain theirs, and rumors abound of prototype mecha which could bring them all beyond the veil of stars. The darkest, most tinfoil hat of them speak even of early success, and possible allies beyond our lonely skies.
Find them. Capture them. Let them answer for the greatest wars before they can strand humanity around its single sun.
>>46285338
The Buster weapons were never invented. You are an admiral in the Gunbusterverse.
Survive.
>>46285338
A mecha pilot with some critical mcguffin is trapped behind enemy lines. You need to go under cover and find his ass.
>>46294211
Are there still degeneracy generators?
The buster machines aren't SPECIFICALLY necessary; it's the tech level that's needed to do the job.
Your lover leaves your Bishi anime cuck self and shacks up with a real man who isn't built like a preteen girl.
>>46286247
This sounds good, but you're gonna run into a big problem. How do you hide a 20m tall big stompy robot, let alone an army of them? The gundam series itself never explains why there are still zeon forces hiding on earth and moving around 17 years after the OYW.
>>46292655
pretty much desu senpai
>>46292044
8/10, 10 if you can get words for the acronyms
>>46294503
The weapons themselves aren't there, but the tech is still there. Same tech level, same insanely strong and innumerable enemy size. The only difference is Noriko and Onee san can't faceroll everything this time.
>>46285484
That was a weird show.
Everybody lives underwater, with the surface world harbouring a terrible, mysterious threat.
Mecha remain the most powerful war machines but their limited numbers mean lots of submarines of varying sizes are used too.
>>46289499
I always wondered if this movie inspired G Gundam.
>>46285338
The Mecha's AI are gradually achieving full sentience and refuse to participate in the horrific ongoing war effort.
>>46295249
I'm quite a gundam noob but I remember in unicorn they had shots of them hiding in caves, underwater, or covered with foliage, shit like that.
>>46296928
I find this hard to believe.
What system would you choose to run your game? I can't find a good system that includes good mech AND foot combat other than mekton.
I guess you could fuck it into GURPS.
>>46291541
I would think that this kind of situation would mean that every single mecha gets dedicated battlefield support in the form of more mundane forces. Entire squads of tanks to screen for ambushes, battlefield engineers to make emergency repairs or attempt immediate retrieval of downed units, and dedicated squads of infantry to bog down the ground around the mech and prevent any kind of sabotage when the unit stops for any reason.
>>46296928
The Mecha's AI have achieved full sentience and are now fighting w/ no pilots inside and writing their own agendas to "further the purposes for which I was created." Now these nearly unstoppable war-machines are on the rampage and man must defeat the weapons it's wrought upon it's self; either no-mecha or with like one mecha that's maintained a bond with it's pilot and fights on our side. Our new mecha have no AI and therefore cannot go rogue but are extremely sluggish by comparison.
>>46285338
Surprise Mecha Attack!
You're civilians on a fairly large asteroid belt colony (~10,000 people). You don't know what's going on in the rest of human space.
Survive by any means necessary.
Earth was lost over a century ago.
Until now.
>>46285338
some guy slapped a powered exoskeleton together in his local body shop, but everyone is too scared of getting Hammer Industried in half to be fitted for trials
>the creator lost his leg in an auto accident halfway through building it for himself
>he's building a second one when you arrive to see if the want ad was legit
>>46285378
Steal some. It should turn out okay.
Several military factions have fought for control of the universe for literally trillions of years.
Now the universe is nearing heat death, and there's only a small group of cannon fodder mecha pilots left.
>>46289226
I went to take a look.
I'll stick to the original.So he finally fucks Kaworu?
>>46285338
Your team posses the last of the Mekhanik Colossi. Armed with the last tanks of greek fire, destroy the City of Beasts while civilization itself crumbles under an onslaught of talons and bronze spears.
Welcome to Bronze Age Pacific Rim:http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2406
>>46285905
Pacific Rim?
>>46298642
Somebody's head gets blown clean off, I'll tell you that much.
>>46299082
Tell me it's not_Rei
A virus is spreading among the population that, while completely harmless to humans, alters our sweat to be extremely corrosive, causing fucktons of annoyance to the generals populace. The players are tasked with infiltrating the site of patient 0 and healping the cure effort.
Someone has been murdering ace mecha pilots while they're vulnerable outside their suit
>>46289201
FurAffinity is that way -->
>>46289223
Kojima please go make Zone of the Enders 3.
PS, Dolores is the best Mecha loli ever.
>>46289365
You are working for the French Extraterrestrial Legion and must also prepare food for the giant ayyliens you've recruited/rescued/pressed into service.
>>46289674
I'll drop this anime every week.
>>46291711
Feels like the Matrix. Will you have the PCs kill the Madcats and their Wild Weasel offspring that are playing with the ball shaped Boulder?
>>46297365
Ai'ght fampai, describe to me what type of situation you want to throw your PCs at and I'll help you out.
>>46298642He should have
>>46285338
What size mecha are we talking?
Sub-50 ft I think fighting in southeast asia either as either an insurgency or an oppressive regime.
>>46300152
The game I'm running is very generic and is about the misadventures of a team of Federation pilots during the OYW, testing out prototype mobile suits that quickly grow obsolete and constantly get upgraded. Very general misadventures and short quests that have some recurring themes of teamwork and overcoming impossible odds, as well as recurring team of rival mobile suit pilots.
I've been working with a shitty reskinned 5e dnd game when in mobile suits with no classes and tons of traits. When the players are on foot, I've been using something more akin to star wars d20. I mashed them together in a sort of frankenstein's monster of a homebrew.
>>46297365
>good mech AND foot combat
This is Silhouette's greatest strength, actually.
>>46300288
>d20
But there's so many good systems out there...
>>46285338
Mecha rock and roll tournament pits your party against stand-ins for AC/DC
>>46300336
I wanted something for my normie friends to play with. I could easily play the more complicated systems but these guys have trouble playing GURPS and even call of cthulu, so I picked something that would be fast, fun, and more importantly easy.
>>46300454
>more complicated systems
Wut.
>>46300454
>d20
>fast, fun, and more importantly easy.
Fucking double wut.
>>46300507
I'd consider d20 games to be considerably more easy than other kinds, and much easier for new players to wrap their head around.
>>46300549
Triple wut?
>>46300549
>I'd consider d20 games to be considerably more easy than other kinds, and much easier for new players to wrap their head around.
>>46285338
emp super-weapon...now everything runs on diesel.
>>46300549
Did you start playing rpgs with d20?
>>46300567
Look friend, my group has a much easier time with d&d type systems. They're more used to it and whenever I try to introduce something new to them they have trouble. I don't understand it much either, but I'm adapting to what they like.
>>46300635
Oh I see, you've got one of those Sunk Cost groups.
See, d20, being a complete mess of a system, takes a lot of time and effort to actually learn and new groups who start on it tend to think this applies to all RPGs and either don't want to be bothered to learn other games (after all, D&D is like the easiest one right? (Wrong)) and/or feel like all that time and effort would have been wasted if they tried learning other systems. So when presented with a new game, their brains shut off and they go into full retard mode in some kind of childish defense mechanism. "Let's just play the one game we learned first."
That's unfortunate.
>>46300787
It's really unfortunate. It took me forever to explain why you want to roll low in GURPS.
"If you want to roll low don't you want your stat to be low too?"
Don't even get me started on the nightmare that was the point system. They still cannot figure out how skill learning difficulties work.
Basically, they like to roll d20s, add a modifier and a proficiency bonus, and try to meet a target number.
>>46300882
Do you think they could handle roll a couple of d6s, pick the highest one, add a modifier, and try to meet a target number?
Or roll a d10, add a two modifiers, and try to meet a target number?
>>46300882
>>46300948
Or roll a d% and compare it to a number on their character sheet?
Actually scratch that one, your group sounds to stupid to figure out how a d% even works, and might have a nervous breakdown at seeing skills represented as percentages.
>>46285465
>they also stole your coffee machine.
Fuck it burn down all their villages, salt their fields, rape their women. Rules of war are out the door.
>>46300948
>>46301032
The d% could work because we stumbled our way through a game of Call of Cthulu, but when they get penalties or bonuses to their rolls things start to fall apart.
They could certainly handle rolling d6s and d10s if there's a target number.
>>46301074
BRP Mecha is the same system as Call of Cthulhu, but with mecha and geared towards being less deadly and (obviously) less horror.
Roll d6s, pick the highest, add a mod, compare to a target is Silhouette. You'll probably want either Silhouette 2e (As represented in Heavy Gear 2e and Jovian Chronicles 1e), or SilCore and ignore the "Skill Complexity" rating entirely. I'd also advise treating mech combat like character combat (scrapping the wargame rules), and ignoring the space combat rules (if using JC) and just treat it the same as aerial combat. Also build the mechs for the PCs, ignore calculating TVs.
d10s is Mekton Zeta. Roll d10, add stat, add skill, compare to target or opposed roll. Again, I'd advise building the mecha for the PCs in advance.
>>46286498
Isn't that literallyspec ops the line?
>>46301180
Wouldn't rolling two d6s and picking the highest one AND adding a modifier make success too easy for people with training, or impossible for people without (target numbers higher than they can naturally roll)? The system sounds interesting though.
Anywhere I could get ahold of any of these systems?
>>46285338
A rogue corporation has discovered that building tanks and air craft is far more cost effective then giant bipedal robots that are an engineers nightmare to maintain
The protagonists are hired by the larger corporations to silence this dangerous thinking before their share values drop dramatically when the tanks and aircraft prove to be more successful in combat than giant kids toys armed with swords
>>46285338
The word of the day is teleportation. With a nigh infinite amount of practical uses for the military, true teleportation is being worked on by seemingly everybody. However, as of yet, nobody's managed to make it work, only being able to put together hyperspace travel and stuff like that.
You're on the other side of the universe from a war when a robot from one of the factions crashes into your group's base/home/ship. It is equipped with teleportation technology and lacking a pilot.
What's your plan?
>>46301413
>Wouldn't rolling two d6s and picking the highest one AND adding a modifier make success too easy for people with training, or impossible for people without (target numbers higher than they can naturally roll)?
Nope. The target numbers are very tight. And you actually roll a number of d6s based on your skill, pick the highest die, then add your ability modifier to the roll.
Having a +2 ability modifier is VERY good, and the average is 0. Plus the system is more Margin of Success based so you always want to roll as high as possible.
Actually, the die rolls themselves matter less in the system than milking situational modifiers, so combat is VERY tactical if you don't have a death wish.
You can find most of the Heavy Gear and Jovian Chronicles silhouette lines here, sorry it's not that well organized, I didn't make it: http://www.4shared.com/folder/2uh5l2xm/Heavy_Gear_Jovian_Chronicles_S.html
Here's BRP Mecha: http://www.mediafire.com/download/cb6sxoatct2apo3/Basic_Roleplaying_-_MECHA_%28dewm%29.pdf
And Mekton Zeta: http://www.mediafire.com/download/xi1lrrcziwrcm3z/Mekton+Zeta+Complete+Pack.zip
>>46289442
>biomech 9ball
shit nigger, that's something out of a nightmare.
>>46301672
Oh wow, that sounds quite interesting. Thank you for the links.
Which would you recommend between Heavy Gear and Jovian Chronicles?
>>46301810
Depends.
Heavy Gear is Armored Troopers VOTOMS set in the far off future on a far away (mostly) desert planet that was colonized by humans and lost contact with Earth nearly two thousand years before the "current" time.
Jovian Chronicles is just straight up UC Gundam with the serial numbers filed off, and most of the solar system from Mercury to Jupiter colonized with the Earth Federation expy being the Jupiter colonies and the Zeon expy being an alliance than controls most of Earth and the surrounding colonies.
They both use the same system, so it's more which flavor of giant robots do you prefer.
>>46285338
You are a tank commander during the midst of a war between your nation and an invading empire. While the majority of your country's armed forces have been replaced by mechs, your armoured division is to take the fight to those disgusting bipedal mechanoids and show them that treads trump legs!
Your party is a wetworks team tasked with stealing as many suits as possible from the Zeeks before Operation Odessa begins in earnest. This has the dual benefit of robbing the spacers of their most powerful weapons as well as creating more research opportunities as rare spare parts can be more easily accessed. You can use the first few heists to build up your team and add a roster of suits they can potentially pilot. The kicker comes at the start of the operation. Throughout the early rounds, any Newtype players can pass an easy perception (or similar) test to get a 'bad feeling' about what's going on in the base. This comes full bore when it turns out that a Carrie-grade Newtype is being experimented on in the base. It goes full MGS:V on a number of suits after the battle breaks its confines. If your team can't stop it, it won't matter if the Federation takes the base.
>>46285338
Good side mechs are all disabled.
>>46302037
This actually sounds like it could be a lot of fun. I'd play this. I'd play the shit out of this.
>>46285361
Stole my fucking idea.
>>46285338
War with an alien race from another galaxy.they are space Blood Elves.
>>46285338
Story of space jockeys, salvagers, and hobbyist mech restorers running around in space and searching for the leftover wrecks of mechs left behind floating around by the previous wars.
>>46302546
crap forgot I was on /tg/ and didn't notice the campaign bit.
Uh add space pirates and dealing with rivals and creepy space things and stuff like that.
>>46285338
SETTING:
Late medieval/Renaissance da Vinci fantasy where the mechs are giant clockwork powered battle armours fit to fight dragons and ogres.
HOOK:
While grunt/modern are each a handcrafted work of art, the function on analogue controls: Move the arm actuator to move the arm etc, powered by a giant fly spring.
The truly unique are the perpetuals: They never need to be wound up, and seem to move with the wearer on a predetermined design; as those fate planned the mechanisms that run the armour thousands of year ago.
Are you piloting the armour and your own destiny, or are you trapped in fate meant to happen?
>>46291403
Only the bit up to "giants." is true, the rest is just how I'd extend it from there. I'd just use basic D&D or something and scale up the fluff; out-of-suit I'd just say basically nothing does shit to mechs without overwhelming numbers and forces, or mech-scale looted weaponry.
>>46285378
i got this
>>46302703
>Renaissance da Vinci fantasy where the mechs are giant clockwork powered battle armours fit to fight dragons and ogres.
I never realized how much I wanted this until now
Mecha cold war between not-AMERICA an not-SOVIET UNION. Where the military capabilities of both are displayed on "mock battles"
>>46303473
mock battles? mock battles!
MC is an engineer who was working on government mech repair/upkeep/whatever when a rebel group steals it with them inside and they wind up kidnapped accidentally and it's awkward for everyone.
>>46285370
not a big fan of this, feels too much like the GM pulling a lazy fast one, and always with war crimes so it's like 'oh lol so horrible you're a monster wow'
might just be because spec ops the line did it and was praised, despite being a hamfisted execution for something that's an interactive media.
>>46285338
A dying world, and a heros journey to god-hood in starting a new one.
>>46303439
Canon sized muskets and ballista sized bows against wyverns. Huge swords and polearms against trolls. Greek fire and grenados against infantry and knights supported by da Vinci tanks...
>>46285338
A group of rag-tag kids and orphans manage to overwhelm a mook-mech that got stuck via technical issues, and they need to press what little advantage they have into gaining power, joining an army, and changing the way the world wars.
>>46303636
That was it's point bruh. You had the option to walk away and so did Walker. But no, you were getting your money's worth just like Walker was fulfilling his duty and now both of you have to suffer.
Besides, it usually depends more on how the GM plays it. A battle in the city between mechs is going to leave a lot of people dead and more homeless. Being clean and efficient will probably bring in the secret police on the populace.
Heck, it's WAR. You are killing people because someone told you that you could, you monster.
>>46285338
Down on his luck detective finds out that his best friend, a mecha pilot for (INSERT HOME NATION HERE)'s reserve force has been murdered and the military is trying to sweep it under the rug. Can the Detective discover the truth before it's wiped from history, or will his friend be just another soldier who died 'In the line of Duty."
>>46285708
>assuming it somehow avoids melting the entire technical it's mounted on
That's not something modern terrorists worry about. I don't see why they wouldn't try it in a fantastical roleplaying game.
>>46304028
>Heck, it's WAR. You are killing people because someone told you that you could, you monster.
No, he's killing because someone told him that he SHOULD. If that's better or worse, i don't know.
Ever since the Originals fell from the stars 75 years ago, they have been mimicked, reverse engineered and mass produced for countless reasons. We considered them a gift: a stroke of good fortune.
Then the Originals woke up.
The world is mostly covered in mega cities and the protagonists eventually discover that the war was started by the world's leaders to start a culling because the amount of resources they have left can't support the growing population.
>>46302114
You're literally writing WH40K
>>46301227
No, Spec Ops: The Line was badly executed in that you were forced into doing all those reprehensible actions because they were the only way of advancing the story. In this case, the MC wouldn't realize what he's doing until he's gone too far.
>>46285338
A fighter, rogue, wizard, and cleric must fight an evil orcish warlord.same universe, just thousands of years ago
>>46285338
You are a bunch of tank crewmen.
>>46303636
I know this is a late post, but I just want to say that "warcrimes ensue" is what I expected the stereotypical gamer group to do. The group can do it without stooping to vile acts, and it's on the GM to make it fun for everyone regardless of what the players do.
>>46300611
nice dubs but I hear this so often it hurts, and then I show them how other systems actually play... especially ones meant to do specific Genres.
>>46301074
Are you...are they literally retarded.
>>46285338
Attempt to survive as a pilot in a world that is rapidly changing world in the wake of the development of anti-mech weaponry that acts by forcing them to obey the laws of physics.
>>46305928
I wonder sometimes.
they're invested more in storytelling than rules and I need to "get them started" on their turns.
every fight I have to remind one of them to put down their damage dice and pick up a d20 to see if they can land the attack first.
when it comes to d%, in particular automatic weapons increasing accuracy in call of Cthulu, they get so annoyed and confused that once they've finished their turn they drop their tommy gun and pull out their knife just because they don't want to calculate minimal differences again.
An increasingnumber of mass produced mecha units falling into the hands of pirates, criminals and civillians.
Where are these suits coming from? Are they made or stolen? Who stands to gain?
>>46303988
>>46302703
>>46298842
I wants them
>>46285338
The ENEMY has started using DRONE PILOTED MECHA, Mechas run entirely by super-advanced combat AI. Your Economy has crashed, and human piloted mechs have no hope against DRONE Mechs.
There is only one hope: a DANGEROUS new group of POST HUMAN SUPER SOLDIERS, power armored infantry capable of defeating the Mechs by themselves. But are these warriors too deadly? Will they save mankind... or destroy it?!
>>46285338
G Gundam- the Dark Gundam lives, and it seeks revenge!
Humanity is confronted by the appearance of a new set of drone Gundams, offspring of the Dark Gundam, who seek to wipe humanity from the face of the Earth, as the Dark Gundam itself did long ago.Their minds are human- and in a mockery of life, templated after the (theoretical rather than actual) offspring of Domon Kasshu and Rain Mikamura, who are projected to be the best Core Life Units for the Ultimate Gundam's 'children'.
>>46301038
This. Nobody fucks with the coffee machine.
>>46308636
>original
>>46285338
Transformers land and challenge the Japanese emperor to a battle of the bands.
>>46307288
These questions seem like they could be answered and written up into a report in a week by a couple of cops doing nothing but making phone calls.
bionacle mixed with TTGL
Rogue colony full of tech experiments that breach international treaty terms goes ballistic. What ever it was, it caused some of the top programers to hack some suits remotely.
A gun goes off, hits a delegate from a different country, about to be an all out war. Your country owns the secret base on faraway planet, and your task is to wipe it out before inquiries lead to it. This must be done before cold war turns to molten planet.
So players have to traverse from space station to station, planet to planet with colonies to fuel up/ get supplies and ammo, mechupgrades, ect. Merc groups, other country gundams, space pirates, and just general space hazards along the way.
On the planet, players will find the base. Turns out the have alien contact, transmission from them drove the researchers insane, one guy got a shot off back at home as a beacon for help. Alien tech mixed with human tech (I know you said hard mode but fuck that) creates some rough alien gundams and out of control A.I. Players either gotta suicide mission, or depending on if they are smart, get some help from friends made along the way.
Would you guys play this?
>>46285338
the mecha is too powerful for humans to pilot, requiring the pilots to wear power armor just to survive a sorte.
>>46285556
honestly it seems like many of them can defend themselves, half of the guys they show in that series are superhumans even without the robots.
>>46285338
It's been twenty years without a war but we still have all these old Zakus and GMs sitting around unused. You play pilots and staff for Mecha Pro Wrestling.
>>46285338
A group of Mobile Dolls in a secret OZ research facility acquire sentience after their program is run continuously for fifty years following the war's end.
With no remaining mobile suits or gundams anywhere on Earth, a ragtag group of commandoes are brought in to infiltrate the facility and destroy it.
>>46285338
While trying to test a new prototype engine they accidentally create a portal to a nega-verse where the humans are robots and the mechas are organic...pretty much all is switched.
>>46307288
chinese mechas flood the market, inquiries begin after half a crew is poisoned by toxic components while the other half barely survive malfunctioning units
>>46285338
Two factions; The Terran Republic and the Conglomerate of Free Worlds, have been at an uneasy peace with one another for many decades. However, the drums of war have started beating again, as the Terran Republic launches attacks against the Conglomerate to retake the planets they lost in the past war. The Terran Republic has strength of numbers, with a seemingly endless number of brutal, but primitive mechs and near fanatical devotion. The Conglomerate of Free Planets has vastly superior technology, with powerful mechs and equipment...
The players are a band of mercenaries who have to pick which side to fight for in this potentially planet destroying war.
However, after a few missions, the players may find some evidence of an unknown third party subtly pulling the strings of these two super powers. Will they find out who it is? Do the players even care as long as they get paid?
>>46285338
Fantasy world; the sky is an immense woven basket; the stars are holes in the basket opening up onto elemental chaos. Insectile mechs with hooked feet (to grip the rough fibers of the sky) battle to control the sky and all the installations attached to it; surveillance stations, missile bases, power generators tapping the holes to elemental chaos, etc.
>>46285338
You're sentenced to death in a mecha themed demolition derby.
>>46301513
>become jehuty
>>46312615
>I roll to supplex the Gundam.
>>46285338
One of the great house are trying to secced from the interstellar coalition, sparking 6 years worth of civil war.
And you are group of merc pilot, shoot dudes, get paid, and fuck bitches.
Enjoy
>>46285338
>Gundam
Spacenoids and/or Earthnoids act like assholes.
>>46285338
Congratulations, Earth lost the war. Do you become Kapo for your new master; pirate it the fuck out; become the spirit of revolution; warcrime your way to vengeance?
>>46285338
Someone has developed a virus that is programmed to freeze the hand of mechas after firing twenty three rounds of their weapon.
You begin in the ruins of a convoy of ships wrecked on a planet by pirates. The primary cargo of the ships are mecha and munitions. You are only basically familiar with the controls for such weapons and must fight the pirates who have come to salvage whatever booty they can.
Story arc - the planet is large, desolate, uninhabited but habitable. Somehow you must escape the planet using only that which fell from the sky when you first crashed. Other people have also survived. Some also know the art of mech piloting.
>>46285338
You and your friends are all goblins in the DarkLord's horde, forced to pilot the mish-mash steam/magitek tanks designed by an insane dwarf. And fuck you they are prototypes. The remnants of humanity hate and despise you but have no choice but to turn to your evil master as the lesser of two evils and the ever growing Elvish Empire goes full jihad/genocide on the "lesser" races. You now must stop the knife-ear's tide in its tracks and retake the pinkies lands. No one has used tanks before; your commander has no clue what the fuck to do with them half the time; you are underfed; you just want to go back to the den, eat some food, and fuck something.
>>46285338
Virus that possess mechas
>>46298355
Replace "Steal mechas" with "Steal tonk" and that sums up my most recent WWII campaign. Was the designated loader and wished I had pic related the whole time.It didn't turn out okay.
Two countries have been at peace for decades. The neighboring land has accidentally seen a super prototype that was never meant to be militarized fall into the hands of a hot-blooded youth who's decided to seek justice for a battle his country lost three hundred years ago. You have to take a squad of real robots against this universe's equivalent of Mazinger and wear it down in battles of attrition week after week.
>>46289223
I would play that
>>46285338
Prototype pilot. Genetically engineered to be the perfect mecha pilot.
She got kidnapped by a group of mercenaries that were going to sell her to whichever faction was the highest bidder, as one does with prototypes. But she grabbed a mech and busted out, because she's a genetically engineered perfect warrior and this was a stupid plan.
Now nobody knows where the fuck she is. All the factions are scrambling to make contact and get her on their side. Your party is your particular faction's team of ace pilots trying to get there first.
Also, if you find her, she understands that violence is sometimes necessary but still thinks war is stupid. So good luck with that.
>>46318496
DEATH MARATHON
Like death race but with giant cups of water on giant tables instead of pit stops.
Your mech needs to chug the water to keep its reactor from going critical.
The enemy has managed to make their soldiers giant in order to combat your mecha.
For some reason, the process only works with women.
>>46324880
SHE'S GOING TO CRUSH US WITH HER ENORMOUS VAGINA!
