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Published: 2012-06-24 11:41:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 1561; Favourites: 42; Downloads: 16
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I was recently invited to join in sessions of a tabletop game called Mekton Zeta by a friend. The setting is UC based (it's basically the One Year War with Mars instead of a colony cluster as the bad guys). The GM is called the Sentinel in this setting and my mech is a high-speed, improved-armor version that has a beam machinegun and forearm gatling guns loaded with armor-piercing ammo.Word to the wise: if anyone ever invites you to play Mekton Zeta, make sure you have an afternoon free to design your mech. It's complicated. DX
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pretty neat brah. I was srsly missing ur mech designs.
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I don't do them often enough anymore. I suck. XD
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Trip was fine, but I haven't been able to start the mech yet. I've got make-up work from the week of college I missed.
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It'll be done eventually. I'll let you know when it's finished.
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XD aww... *hugs* there there.
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Well now I'm curious. How does this MS-designing mechanic work?
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I'll give you the basics of the process. The whole time though you need to be keeping track of item costs, how much space an item has available or takes up, and how many HP (called Kills) an item has.
First, you pick out your mech's limbs. All that's required is a torso, but you can buy heads, arms, hands, legs, wings, pods (basically extra limbs to give additional space), and tail/tentacles.
Second, you buy armor for the limbs.
Third, you buy weapons from six categories: beam gun, beam melee, autocannons (machineguns and such), solid melee, explosives, and shields. Each class of weapon has special traits that will increase or decrease the weapon's cost.
Fourth, you buy options like sensors, escape pods, firefighting gear, personal storage, etc.
Fifth, you buy thrusters. The cost goes up depending on how many Kills your mech has because 1/2 x # of Kills = Mekton weight. You can get Dom-style hover thrusters, hydro thrusters, ordinary rocket thrusters, or some fancy Gravity thrusters.
The last part of the process is picking out items like Funnels, Vernier Thrusters, special cockpit systems, and all kinds of crazy things that don't have a flat cost; they multiply the cost of your mech. I didn't go past the Vernier though; it took the rest of my points and most of the stuff in the last hundred pages was banned by house rules.
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Sometimes I do. PM me what you'd like and if I think it's something I can do I'll usually do it.
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I will do my best.
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Alright. Don't expect anything for at least eight days though. I'm flying out on a trip tomorrow morning.
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