Robot game recommendations?

[ShadowSandbag]

Does anyone have any recommendations for games where your character pilots a giant robot, gundam style? I've had a hankering to play something like that but don't know if there are any good games out there.

[Pauly]

Does anyone have any recommendations for games where your character pilots a giant robot, gundam style? I've had a hankering to play something like that but don't know if there are any good games out there.

I haven’t played it, but a few years back some friends were planning on using this
http://www.lulu.com/shop/keith-foste...-21791825.html

For a zoids based RPG. They seemed enthused about the project.

[ngilop]

while it is not huge robots Heavy Gear by Dream Pod 9 is more mecha than mech.


There is Battle Century G also Battle Century G

Mekton Zeta

Bliss Stage

Giant Guardian Generation

I dislike most of these games, except for Heavy gear. But its the only anime-ish RPG I have ever found to be decent, let alone good. If you want something that is more Gundam is then I heavily suggest Meton Zeta. It was specifically made to portray Gundama nd other 90s mecha cartoons.

[Erloas]

I haven't actually tried it (but I think I own the book?) but A Time of War is the BattleTech RPG. There is a quickstart set of rule free https://bg.battletech.com/download/QSR_ATimeOfWar.pdf

Of course that is primarily set outside of the 'Mechs, because once you get into the 'Mechs you're then in the base game. Of course there are many optional rules to make the game more complex and fit into a campaign setting if you want to go that route rather than just playing it as a straight war-game. Salvage, repairs, interstellar travel, pilot advancement, non-standard environments (ice, heat, dust storms, low gravity, etc), and more than I could really hope to remember.

[HaiAnhJumi]

Can you recommend a game that is related to space?

[Knaight]

This sounds more like mechs than robots, so Remnants. It's a solid game, and one of very few that's not drowning in crunch - for whatever reason vehicles in general tend to draw out excessive amounts of it*, with mechs being particularly bad.

If you decide to scrap the pilot entirely and just go full robot, Engine Hearts is the main system specialized for that. I'd probably just use a generic though.


*GURPS Vehicles is infamous for this, but it's one of many examples.

[Hunter Noventa]

while it is not huge robots Heavy Gear by Dream Pod 9 is more mecha than mech.


There is Battle Century G also Battle Century G

Mekton Zeta

Bliss Stage

Giant Guardian Generation

I dislike most of these games, except for Heavy gear. But its the only anime-ish RPG I have ever found to be decent, let alone good. If you want something that is more Gundam is then I heavily suggest Meton Zeta. It was specifically made to portray Gundama nd other 90s mecha cartoons.

Battle Century G is basically an updated Giant Guardian Generation with original art and tweaked rulesets. I'm actually acquainted with the creator of it and it's very much meant to emulate the Super Robot Wars games as much as anything else. Sadly my group has yet to have a chance to play it.

[LordEntrails]

I was always partial to Battletech/Mechwarrior. It allows you to play both as the pilot (or other class) and get into the small unit combat side of it, either with generic mechs or mechs customized by the character.

There is lots of fiction and products to go with it, so it can be pretty immersive.

[calvinn]

War robots, Waframe, Binary Domain

[ImNotTrevor]

There's a Warframe TRPG?

[Drascin]

I've had success using Mutants&Masterminds for my mecha campaigns.

Note, this is assuming you want proper mecha, Gundam at one end of the scale and, like, Getter Robo on the other end, and such, not Battletech walking tanks. M&M assumes entirely too much mobility and versatility for that.

[Hunter Noventa]

One other alternative for giant robots is RIFTS/Palladium, but well, friends don't let friends play Palladium games.

[angille]

I hadn't yet found one that meshed with my play and GM style. so... now I'm working on one. it uses the same engine as Smallville and Marvel Heroic Roleplay, combining elements of both to create an environment matching the common genre clichés – where you should experience the seamless switching between the soap opera style drama scenes and the over-the-top action of mecha battles.

it's, uh, still in playtesting. but the overall core should be solid, given its pedigree.

[Tvtyrant]

Does anyone have any recommendations for games where your character pilots a giant robot, gundam style? I've had a hankering to play something like that but don't know if there are any good games out there.

D&D 4E does a remarkably good job for robot games. Encounter powers need to be manually reloaded, dailies are the super attacks that only get seen once per episode. It deals well with the "all combat is in melee range" trope robot shows always use.