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RPGs for battletech (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/335733

For a long time I've tried to get a good RPG setting going for BT. I know there's an already written RPG for the game but tbh I don't really like it. For a while, I thought about making a bare-bones RPG myself that used the same base mechanics scaled down, but I found it was just too crunchy and slow. Now, I'm thinking that since the game will get very crunchy and simulated once it steps into mech combat, it can probably be narrative and story-based for the out-of-mech sequences. Since my favourite RPG is hands-down Blades in the Dark, lately, I've been thinking of writing a Forged in the Dark system game for battletech.

This is getting pretty niche so I'm not sure if I'll find enough people who play BT and know FitD well, but I'm curious if anyone in here knows of an existing FitD build, or other more narrative-focused RPG, that would be easier to adapt to BT.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can warmly recommend Mechwarrior Destiny. Very narrative, rules-light and cinematic. Features from FitD can be implemented without troubles (I've seen Actual plays doing it.)

I myself never played S&V, but I suspect it's pretty star-wars-y. Coriolis is surprisingly hard-scifi.

But really take a look at destiny.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, amusingly someone just posted an unrelated thread about it on the BT community so I got the one-two hit. I'll see what I can find tonight

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Let me know what you think.