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I need to add mechas to my setting, however, I cannot find a thing on them, its a modern version of pathfinder with the tech guide added in, Mostly because I took one look at shadowrun and had to prevent myself from putting a hole in the nearest object out of sheer annoyance.
Anyways, if anyone knows of any sources, it would be helpful if you could link me to them.
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Mostly because I took one look at shadowrun and had to prevent myself from putting a hole in the nearest object out of sheer annoyance.
What's wrong with Shadowrun?
Iron Golems with seats for controllers. Oma-like gigantic beasts that carry passengers. The possibilties are out there with a little work.
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Mostly because I took one look at shadowrun and had to prevent myself from putting a hole in the nearest object out of sheer annoyance.What's wrong with Shadowrun?
Yeah, Shadowrun is great!
It is not free, but the Iron Kingdoms setting (D20) had rules for steamjacks (mechas). It would be a lot of work to convert the stats to Pathfinder, though, so you are probably better off using constructs, like the others suggested. With the rules from Ultimate Magic, you can even create construct armor!
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Mostly the amount of sheer stupid ideas, the only name I can remeber is deckers and that was all it took for me to quit reading, generally, it was way too cheesy for my tastes. Plus, my stress levels lately have been through the roof lately, these ideas and all are great, but my math is horrible. I barely can multiply and I cannot do division. I highly doubt I could convert something without screwing up horribly. Normally my players are great about making sure I don't miscaluclate, so its all good.
With the rules from Ultimate Magic, you can even create construct armor!
Yea, this was the first thing I thought when I saw those rules . Should work fine for mechas.
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Have you tried looking outside the PF third party products?
There's plenty of material for d20 Future, which may only need minimal conversion.
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Your players sound like jerks.
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Your players sound like jerks.
Agreed, but that doesn't help the OP with his problem.
Erm, my players would just call me lazy and then demand I get more creative.
There is nothing wrong with being lazy. You can always reskin an iron golem and replace its poison breath with laser guns or power drills.
You can find the D20 Future SRD HERE.
Your players sound like jerks.Agreed, but that doesn't help the OP with his problem.
True, but everybody already suggested everything I would do in his place =)
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Awesome, I just wish they were free. Simply put, my players are extremely picky and I am flat broke.
No reason they shouldn't chip in toward the group's enjoyment.
It's not the GM's job to finance the whole game. Everybody should bring something, maybe give the host a free pass for providing a venue, the GM brings the adventure (bought or homecrafted), someone else could bring snacks, or cough up for the flipmat, or dry-erase pens that run out?If they won't put $2 in the pot, to get the rules for the mech they expect to pilot, then maybe they should remain infantry, or maybe, a red smear on the feet of those that do?
Generally they regard anything third party as trash, I don't quite know why, but I am guessing that it may have to do with dreamscarred press.
I haven't finished reading or playtesting Dreamscarred's psionic material, but they're generally regarded as one of the quality publishers to beat.
And don't forget, until 2009, Paizo were a 'third-party publisher', too.
Still are, if you consider the 'core' product to be D&D ver.3.5.
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The only reason why I say that is because every time I bring up psionics at the table, everyone shuts up really fast and no one says anything for a half hour outside of what is needed. Generally if a player chips in a considerable amount more than the group, like my incredibly awesome friend who coded up a random character generator for our new players, they get a custom magic intelligent item. More mature players who I have seen actually keep the less mature players from murdering the king/orphans/a small village of gnomes get to play evil characters. I had one situation were a player who now thankfully has sobered up on this, made a stupid wizard with the spell school of void, he was a teifling and generally made remarks about disturbing things (cannibalism, kidnapping, things too mature for me to say in the forums) always causing the party to get in trouble with the local law, one of the mature players simply had mr wizard given a special mark of judgement, allowing him to pretty much do whatever he wishes non disruptively, disruptive behavior results in him being unable to preform said action.
The wizard was supposed to be chaotic neutral
the one who stopped him was neutral evil.
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Right, now that we have gargantuan robots for this modern scifi setting, my players have manged to find something else to complain about:
The lack of magic.
I simply chose to exclude magic from the setting, mostly cause humans are now obsessed with science and all the other races are nearly unseen, aside from kasathas, lashauntas and androids.
They now want magic.
My idea is lovecraftian style. Simply put, magic and humans do not mix well, causing utter chaos.
I did manage to intergrate the sorcerer with the nanite bloodline easily, but now I need a lovecraftian SRD.
There are rules for Taint in Unearthed Arcana (3.5). It includes a caster variant (tainted sorcerer) which can be used as a model for a form of magic that corrupts.
Short Version: Taint results in a penalty to Constitution and Wisdom; Each time you cast a spell, you must succeed at a Fortitude save (DC 10 + Spell level) or increase your taint. Accumulating taint deforms your body, until you eventually die and rise as an undead creature.
You could easily adapt this mechanic to be used with the Pathfinder Rules for Sanity and Madness.
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Also, I found the nanite bloodline to be actually useful
Pretty much, the nanite bloodline is now an entire class itself.
You aren't really a caster, you more or less manipulate the nanites to do what you need, like short circuit a lock or cause the giant robot to collapse or the spaceships neuclear reactor to explode.
The only catch is the casting stat.
You use consitution for casting.
Every spell you cast damages your consitution. The better the spell is, the more likley you are to kill yourself