MechaCon will be running OVA at CoastCon in Biloxi. Check out the Facebook announcement below.

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What is MechaCon all about? Well... Anime. That's the short answer. Really, while MechaCon is an anime convention, we've been adopted over the years by several other fandoms who attend, cosplay, run panels, and influence guest choices. MechaCon is smaller by far than a large event like SDCC, but th...

Hi, I'm the Director of Operations for MechaCon, as well as being the story editor for the MechaCon GEARE universe and writer of the Jett and Zee story, G.E.A.R.E. , and I can confirm that we are in the process of planning a special OVA campaign that will span at least the next 3-4 years, starting i...

Thanks for posting that. It does give some good insight into what you were trying to achieve and where your approach came from. I think knowing that thought process will help me when I'm wondering what you had in mind with a specific ability.

Unfortunately, I didn't discover OVA until after the 2nd book was out and I saw it at a friend's house (he got his from the kickstarter), but I'd like to read that. Is it still available somewhere?

Okay, so I think what I'm going to do is have the players build characters with Base 0, and then either give them 20-25 points to build a mech or spacecraft, or let them choose from the "standard issue" military models I'll build. I am doing this because, while mech/spacecraft combat will ...

Thanks! That's what I was getting from the book, but it seemed to easy to be true. I'm finding that a lot in this system. Like, I kept looking for stats, thinking SURELY I was just missing them. NOBODY could make an RPG without that core mechanic, could they? And yet, here it is, and it doesn't suff...

On another related topic, if two attacks are unrelated in any way, say in the case of a martial arts expert who also carries a pistol, should you have two separate attack abilities? Most of the characters in the book have only one "attack" but multiple variations within a suite, but they a...

Thanks for the response. That's what I thought, but with some of the point totals for the sample characters in the book, I wasn't sure I was reading it right. My only "problem" with OVA so far seems to be that due to my experience with other systems, I keep thinking "it can't be that ...

Man, that is a seriously impressive amount of work, and some really cool concepts. I'm also dealing with a setting where characters will be using pre-existing "standard issue" mechs, and this is a really great set of examples. A couple questions, if I may. What do "Environmental Confi...

I realize this is an older thread, but I have a question pertaining to creating attacks that I can't find explicitly stated in the book. How does Attack count against your point total? If I create an attack at level 3, my DX with that attack is now x4, but do those 3 levels count as 3 points just as...

Sorry, I've been adulting. Thanks for the response. That ability does help a lot. I may change it up a bit to make it fit the dual-character situation, but it definitely helps with the direction. I might work up the characters this weekend and post it here and see if anyone can help me improve it fr...

That's very helpful, and gave me some ideas I hadn't considered, but I'm not clear ababoutow I would split the cost of the Vehicle (mecha) ability between the two characters, unless I built it using the vehicle forms first and then used the "Fusion" ability to combine them into the main fo...

I've been digging through the forums, and I've found several places where this is partially addressed or alluded to, but I can't seem to find anything definitive. Basically, what I have are two characters, one pilot, one engineer, who jointly pilot a single mech which will not function at all unless...

The answer to this question was my main reason for registering. Any update on this as a possibility?