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Welcome, Ivory!

I'm naming character by callsign, since mechs and even pilot builds are meant to be a bit fast and furious. There's light story here, but I'm more focused on mechanics and fun combat racing action than narrative arcs (other than the progression of the racing season). I'd like to have at least four players before I set up a race event.

For the time being, we'll start with LL0 builds from the core rulebook. After a race or three, we'll discuss tweaks and make any rule changes before rebuilding and kicking off the next race event. Nice and laid back.

Hi there. Thanks for adding me.

I have to admit that my brain is still a bit full of bees when it comes to understanding how this take on the system works. It's interesting (!) and I'm very curious to see how it encourages different build ideas and all kinds of Wacky Races shenanigans, but at the same time it's still kinda hard for me to wrap my head around it all without practical experience.

Sorry for the delay, it's been a week. Practical experience is kinda what we're here for. If you have a build concept, maybe we can discuss it in a theorycrafting thread. I don't want to hijack things here right off the bat.

If you've got a build already, I can start setting up a one on one, or you vs. a swarm of NPCs? Thoughts?

We have a player 2!!

I'm still ruminating on the first scenario. I could do a three-for all & pilot a PC myself in PvP, or if you both would like to team up, I can set up some NPCs for you to race individually or as a 2v2 team. There's also an arena scenario I've been kicking around where you face waves of drones until you accomplish a particular objective. Thoughts?

Honestly I'm not particularly sure what I'd be happiest with given this whole thing is a bit unfamiliar, but I think I'd rather avoid opening with PvP if possible as it gives you the opportunity to ease us in with opposition who maybe aren't quite as smart/competitive as other people might be. Give us a chance to get our bearings before things get a bit more serious.

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One thing I've been wondering on the mechanics side of things is how Core Systems are handled in this ruleset. I ask because if they're just always refreshed at the start of every event then that can make for a pretty big advantage for certain frames. Everest, just for example, gets to Boost as a Free Action every turn for the whole scene, and naturally that's a fairly powerful effect in the context of a race.
This message was last edited by the player at 16:56, Sat 18 Mar 2023.

I'm trying to keep as many systems as possible RAW (so Comp/Con is still accurate), but I'll take another look. There is some discussion of an "adventuring day" in terms of mech resources dwindling. Worth revisiting. In the meantime, if you find something broken, break it! It's only one race. Then we tweak, rebalance, and rebuild!

That's a good point, scenario-wise. So, race or drone-waves? I may take some NPC mechs, they're simpler for me to run myself.

I suppose it's possible for a player to run a "team" of a few mechs themselves, but I don't want to stretch things too much, basically giving y'all multiple Pilots/PCs/Mechs to run.

Alright, I'm out. I can't get enough players to post, I'll have to re-evaluate how I go about testing this ruleset. I'm going to leave this game up a few more days, but I'm planning on other games in the future. Maybe something semi-GMless so I can play things along solo if nobody else is posting. See you all around, may your dice roll true.

Thanks for giving it a shot anyway, and better luck next time.