Mecha Hack: Hot Dropzone
The Mecha Hack | Campaign
$15.00
/ Session
Details
Weekly / Tuesday - 10:00 PM (UTC)
3-5 Hour duration
0 / 5 Seats filled
Requirements
Experience required: Beginner
Age: 18+
About the adventure
Power up, weapons check, we're dropping hot in ten! There's civvies in the ruins and we'll lose our bonus if they get hurt! The Mecha Hack is a variant of the famous Black Hack, a light, roll-under d20 RPG. In this game you will play pilots in mecha suits in various missions for country, coin, or whatever you fancy. We'll create player characters and establish the world. The default setting of Lodestar Alpha (factions are alien-human cyborgs, scrappy rebels, and knightly aristocrats) is good enough, but perhaps you may want to change something of it -- we can talk it out all together. I'll also prepare pregens for everyone. The game will be mission based, with an overarching evolving storyline that will leave plenty of room to pursue party interests. Some basic assumptions: the party is reasonably good and have a reason to stick together; despite different military ranks, everyone has an OOC equal say.
5.0
(10)
2 years on StartPlaying
109 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Storytelling, Sets the Mood
Additional details
How to prepare
Please read the Mecha Hack, it's short and sweet. Please create a Discord and Roll20 account. Create a character or adopt a pregen. We'll use voice but not camera.
What I provide
I'll make a roll20 game with macros and pregens. I'll post evocative images, play music and (sparingly) sound effects. I'll use maps sometimes but not always, as it's a pretty viable theatre of the mind game.
Gameplay details
I'll send a doc with some elements which are important to me, such as table manners and etiquette. I'll also ask everyone privately for their lines and veils.
Content warnings
Safety tools used
• Lines and Veils
How will character creation work
We'll use a standard array included in the Mission Manual expansion book. You can create a character before the first session, and I'll take a look and green light it. Characters will likely begin as fairly neutral nobodies and you can take it from there. I'll also make pregens for you to draw inspiration from, or adopt. You only need the basic Mecha Hack book, it's 7 dollars at https://absolutetabletop.itch.io/the-mecha-hack -- but the Mission Manual adds new pilot types, items, weapons, and mecha frames too.
Players can expect
Combat / Tactics
High
Roleplay
Medium
Puzzles
Low
Experience level
Beginner
Platforms used
• Roll20
• Discord