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    Trek and Mecha

    In the Polyhedron section of Dungeon #95 (Nov-Dec 2002), there are rules for a d20 mecha game. Okay, ignoring the arguements of CODA vs d20, who has considered bringing the concept of mecha into their Trek game?
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    Somethings should never mix IMHO

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    Gotta go with Aslan on this one. "No sir. I don't like it." And I'm a mecha-junkie.

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    Hey, just a thought... no big deal.
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    Way back when... During my formative years of RPG'ing our Narrator used to throw Mecha and Time Travel into the plot... No matter what the genre.

    If we were dugeon crawling a time portal would open up and a Mecha step through... (Obviously in one of the big chambers)...

    If we were a Cyberpunk Road Crew a time portal would open up and a Mecha fly through in Mid strafe.

    During Trek, a warp imbalance sent the Psychotic Vulcan engineerinto over drive as he sent the ship into Transwarp and sent a crew of cadets 3000 years into the future, where the future Federation used mecha.

    During Call of Cthullu we would discover the only chance the planet had was to find a spell to travel into the future steal a mecha and bring it back to the 1920's to face off against Great Cthullu.

    the guy was obbsessed, but after those 4 games, and the dramatic ways we managed to work around NOT using or interacting with the Mecha we buggered off and I started to run the games.

    Needless to say that it put me off Time Travel and Mecha for a very... long... time...
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    Talking

    On the other hand, those anti-grav systems in Trek could help get around that nasty ground pressure issue that keeps mechs much bigger than powered armor from working in the real world...
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    Yeh, some sought of Away Team/Ground Forces powered armor would be cool though.
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    Call it weird but I have heard tell of a Japanese manga of Star Trek that had powered body armor type mecha suits for use on non-M-class planets.

    As for actual mecha I have used a scale slide to do it, and species of "machine" life turned ut to be mechanical bodies for a microscopic hive mind, each seven foot tall robot was actually a body for several million germ sized lifeforms working like a positronic brain. This was back in the FASA days and I used some of the blockier Battletech designs.

    but I am not sure if either of these ideas is what you are looking for.

    Feel free to ask, though.

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    No mecha in my campaign. Those things would be an engineering nightmare, overcomplicated, expensive, maintenance-intensive, and unstable. For the same price, you could get a whole troop of tanks. With real-world engineering and tactical concerns, I'd rather have a tank any day.
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    Originally posted by Sawyer II
    Hey, just a thought... no big deal.
    Hope we didn't sound like we were coming down on you. You're right, no big deal. It's just personal preference.
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    Heck a anti Borg personnel Powered armour.

    The Borg sure have advantages in hand to hand combat. Now a SF Marine... eh Security Officer could almost go head to head with a drone.
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    I admit that it doesn't seem very Trekkish, but Treknology is certainly up to the level of powered exo-armor and such.

    Of course, it's also up to major bio-enhancements, or bionics.

    I plan to explore this a bit with some non-Fed races in the campagin I'm building based on GURPS-PD.


    Originally posted by Sarge
    No mecha in my campaign. Those things would be an engineering nightmare, overcomplicated, expensive, maintenance-intensive, and unstable. For the same price, you could get a whole troop of tanks. With real-world engineering and tactical concerns, I'd rather have a tank any day.
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    I can just see a SF Marine go against a borg.. and loose. The borg could try to assimilate the MEch..
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