#Mecha Gaming

[yodawgiheardyoulikemecha]

Hey! I remember those photos from the Mobile Frame Hangar forum!

Good to see you here!

Okay. Look. This post is probably only going to be for me, but I found a cache of old photos of a LEGO robut game I had played with my friend, that I then went on to photoshop with ridiculous SFX to try and make everything look cool, and my heart was so happy to remember this that I kinda cried. Anyway, friends are cool, LEGO is cool, robuts are cool, playing is cool. Every time I get to participate in any of those things is a blessing. Even when I lose. Which I did. Big time.

[yodawgiheardyoulikemecha]

Mobile Frame Zero - TCH01 Quad-Legged Unit

[bryanharryrombough]

Dream Pod 9 is releasing new high-quality PDFs of 22 1st edition Heavy Gear books, generated from the original electronic files.  All 22 books are available in a half-price bundle.

These are great rpg & wargaming products.  I have hardcopies of all of these titles, and this bundle is a great deal.  Highly recommend getting them if you’re into tabletop mecha gaming.

From Dream Pod 9′s press release:

Until now the older Heavy Gear ebooks available on DriveThruRPG have been scanned copies of the original printed books. Dream Pod 9 is happy to announce the release of high-quality electronic format ebooks for the Heavy Gear Classic Roleplaying & Tactical Game publications. The first 22 Revitalized titles are now live on DriveThruRPG for purchase and include the following.

The Heavy Gear Revitalized titles are made possible by the team of Michael Butt (Project Manager) and Brad Fischer (Roaring Mouse Graphics) who managed to converted the old Macintosh Pager Maker layout files and relay them out in modern Adobe format. A big thank you to Michael and Brad for taking on the months of work required to revitalize all the old Dream Pod 9 Heavy Gear products.

[console-pokeballs-rupees]

Mecha Pokemon by gifer_art on Instagram

[yodawgiheardyoulikemecha]

Well yeah, it's an rpg with levels and uses a d20 for task resolution.

The modifiers you get at low level just aren't going to have much influence on the outcome when using a die with as large a range of probability as a d20. You gotta get to a higher level to get the big bonuses and cool powers that will overcome or circumvent those shitty die rolls.

This is why D&D groups will sometimes start campaigns at higher levels, so they can have the cool characters with cool powers without having to go through the grind of levelling up their characters from first level. I remember it being a pretty common practice when I was playing a lot of D&D 3e/d20 games in the aughts.

lancer is a cruel tabletop roleplaying game

[viceandmature]

Hakkesshu Halloween

[yodawgiheardyoulikemecha]

[bryanharryrombough]

Another batch of high-quality PDFs of 1st & 2nd edition Heavy Gear books, hexmaps & counter sheets.  These are expensive, but currently available in a half-priced bundle.  A great deal if you’re a fan of mecha gaming - tabletop rpgs or wargames.

[the-pea-braned-warlock]

Holy shit that's cool as hell

Here is a Goblin mech miniature from Lancer that I have painted as a proof of concept before moving onto the other mechs.

[escapistsatellite]

Transformers Designs: Prime vs Universe

I just find these interesting.

[console-pokeballs-rupees]

realistic mecha hitmonlee/hitmonchan by ksuwabe on X

[ardentinwoe]

HORUS Pegasus

[yodawgiheardyoulikemecha]

Haven't really been following development of the Blitz RPG, but I do like the new art.

More Heavy Gear RPG 4th edition art! Gears are crashing the beach party and they ain’t interested in bingo!

[prokopetz]

It feels like there's been this very particular subset of the Pacific Rim fandom who were into it specifically for how its central conceit blurs the line between intimacy and codependency, but felt constrained by the fundamental optimism of the source material – like no matter how fucked up they made it, there was something basic and structural embedded in it that meant it could never be fucked up enough.

And then Armored Core VI came along.

[acquired-stardust]

Love&Destroy Playstation 1999

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader - Book Event Illustrations by Anastasiya Landasseln