Best systems for mecha

[Michael Hopcroft]

Fighting the D20 monolith has not been easy, as many bew D20 products have been very tempting to me. Most notably the ones involving anime and mecha themes.

I have D20 Mecha on preorder, along with D20 Big Eyes, Small Mouth and Dream Pod 9's D20 Mecha Compendium .

Am I am idiot or what? I guess so. I have several companies I want to support and can't support them all at the level I'd like.

[Vondy]

The Jovian Chronicles setting from dream pod 9 is the best cinematic mecha system I've seen in a long time.

Their heavy gear system is just as good for grittier games.

[Evil Steve]

I'm a fan of Mekton Zeta. With it you can customized not only the mecha, but also its weapons.

Heavy Gear is good, but the survivability of the machines is a little too realistic for me (eg-short life span). Mekton seems to be a little more resiliant. This can, of course, be cured with giant frigging guns

[Bystander]

So far, Heavy Gear has been my mecha game of choice. I like the realism and it has a great vehicle creation system. They also cover all aspects of a mecha, not just how much armor it has and how many weapons it carries. My only complaint would be the books are a little on the expensive side, but I do believe that has changed in the last year or so.

[Peregrine]

Originally posted by Evil Steve
I'm a fan of Mekton Zeta. With it you can customized not only the mecha, but also its weapons.

Heavy Gear is good, but the survivability of the machines is a little too realistic for me (eg-short life span). Mekton seems to be a little more resiliant. This can, of course, be cured with giant frigging guns

Mekton Zeta also had the nicest rules for different-sized stuff. Their scaling rules are so good that I've often thought about adapting them to HERO.