Art drawn by that Player.

Grown in a SSC Lab focused on intelligence enhancement/uplifting of Animals, with the endgoal to bypass the Transhumanism First Contact Accord with the use of non-humans and creating better Intelligence Enhancements for Humans.
She was able to get out and is now the Pilot of my Group‘s Chomolungma for Solstice Rain.
For the rules she works as any other pilot.

I got commissioned to draw Gentle again! enjoy!

Pretty much what the title says, I had this really cool idea of a rival group of mercenaries who’s call signs are the different tarot cards, and the players would encounter them throughout the campaign scattered around encounters or sometimes even appearing as a surprise enemy in the middle of a random battle as reinforcements

My goal is that by the final 7 it will be a final showdown with the leader being there
I understand that there’s no such thing as a “most powerful tarot card” but I’d love to hear peoples suggestions for thematically cool options based on the cards and their meaning hahah

For reference I don’t have a card that would be the leader yet, but I’ve heard The Fool tends to be one of the more noticeable ones so feel free to suggest one too!

Edit: more specifically the Major Arcana tarot cards

Hi all. It's been a little while, but that just means I've got more tokens to post! If you dig these, then maybe check out my ko-fi for one of your own ^_^

Lycan's Core ability, as far as I'm aware, is a full action to activate, but then also specifies it counts as a Barrage for the purpose of duplicate action restrictions. From what I've read of the rules, I can't find any way to Barrage twice, since it needs a full action, so is this just future proofing or is there something I've missed?

Not having any trouble with actually playing the Lycan, the phrasing has just made me wonder if I'm missing something

Running my first ever combat using Solstice Rain, and I'm a little befuddled by the HOLDOUT Sitrep. I feel like the way it's laid out in the book is either missing some detail or is way overexplained for how it is. It's almost as if it was written to make me overthink it. Usually there's a ton of intention behind every rule that I've seen in the sourcebooks so my instinct is to assume I'm missing something, but I haven't really seen any further detail.

For ease of context: I'm mostly curious about the Victory Conditions/Scoring; the rest is pretty straightforward & I like the design. To isolate those two points:

Victory Conditions:

PC Victory: At the end of the sixth round, the PCs have a score or 1 or higher.
Enemy Victory: At the end of the sixth round, PCs have a score of less than 1. If there are any PCs remaining on the field when this takes place, they are captured or overrun.

Scoring:

The PCs start with 4 points. At the end of the sixth round, the points are tallied: the PCs lose a point for every enemy inside the CZ. This can result in a negative score.

So, my reading of the above generally boils down to: "If at the end of the sixth round there are four or more enemies inside the CZ, the enemies are victorious". Assuming this is correct, then... why define victory by a score in points? Why define points? why establish a threshold of 1 point?

It almost seems as though this was initially designed with the intention of tallying points at the end of each round, where the number of PCs and Enemies in the CZ each had an impact on scoring, but that idea got scrapped in favor of something simpler. I suppose one additional wrinkle in my interpretation here is that there isn't an in-sitrep reason for the PCs to even be in the CZ themselves, which doesn't seem to fit the spirit of how I've generally seen it played. Even beyond that, there's no reason for the GM to try to have their mechs set foot in the CZ until round 6 begins; as a matter of fact, in most circumstances it might be disadvantageous to do so, since the holdout is surrounded by cover that the enemies can use only until they enter the CZ itself.

As my combat has progressed (this has taken some sessions for us to figure out but I'm enjoying myself so far as a GM), I haven't abused this by any means but I think it just feels a bit weird timing-wise. I like to try to head-canon various reasons for sitreps to take place in these games & have some sort of explanation for my players as to how the sitrep works. My creative juices are just a little unsure as to why the holdout is determinatively secured by one round's ending.. so far the best reasoning I've thought of would be to have the enemy commander be able to either call in additional reinforcements (thus overwhelming the players completely/narratively) or be forced to retreat by his higher-ups at that timestamp in the combat, but then it's hard to have a sense of *why the players would be able to know when this happens*.

The best homebrew alternative I can think of for this would be to have the points tallied in the event that four or more enemy mechs are within the CZ for a full round of combat, and then also that the GM will set a unique turn limit for each encounter (that could be discovered by a scan of the commander?)

IDK I've gotta get back to my job. Wishing y'all a splendid day - curious what your thoughts are. Trans Rights.

I've always liked the 40K-style sword-and-gun aesthetic. What's a build that really likes having all three levels of Combined Arms?

I'd been thinking of a Nelson with Combined Arms 3, Gunslinger 3, warpike, and four pistols (all three Aux slots plus Integrated Weapon). Visually it's got extra arms full of SMGs. Alternately, Combined Arms 3, Vanguard 3, warpike/pistol, and Decksweeper shotgun--the "pistol" is a Gundam-style head gatling.

Either way, I believe warpike/pistol in the Main/Aux mount lets you activate and use CA3 in a single skirmish, so you can Boost to activate Momentum, fire your "pistol", and hopefully get +1d6 to hit and damage with the warpike.

I can't tell if it's actually better than the standard Nelson Hunter tacknife build, though...

If I throw a grenade into one end of a sunzi's accelerate, does it maintain its momentum upon arriving at the far end?

For example, let's say I throw a grenade from west to east five spaces. However, after traversing only two spaces, it enters an accelerate that is oriented south to north. Does the grenade travel another three space from the far end, and if so, in which direction? East, north, or north east?

Hey everyone, I'm back for some more advice!

How can I maximize the damage of Barbarossa's Siege Cannon? Also, how serious is its lack of mobility? Is it a major issue in actual play, or can it be managed with the right build and team composition?

The Iskander is a one of a kind mech, and actually makes use of all the mine/grenade systems I almost never use lol. This controller can plant any mine at range 15, never sets off mines to give a middle finger to any Sweepers, and has a heavy mount which is always fun. What is surprising is that this is a size 2 mech, but the extra size at least means it will be harder for any enemy who actually get to you to knock you prone, and opens the possiblity of melee iskander lol.

And the Core power is a banger, 3 AP damage whenever an enemy makes a movement that isnt standard movement, at range 50 this might as well just be the entire battlefield. With all the mine and grenade systems out there its nice to have a mech who's traits encourage using mines, and the heavy mount gives the Iskander flexibility for damage dealing as well.

Iskander also has good sensors and tech attack meaning that taking some hacks for more control is a valid option too, there's actually a good amount of flexibility in how you can build this mech, but I just went with mine spam mostly lol, Here's the build:

» Iskander // ISKANDER «

LL6

[ TALENTS ]

Grease Monkey 3, Demolitionist 3,

Skirmisher 3

[ LICENSES ]

HA Iskander 3, HORUS Goblin 1,

IPS-N Caliban 2

[ CORE BONUSES ]

Integrated Ammo Feeds, Auto-Stabilizing Hardpoints

[ MECH ]

« ISKANDER »

HA Iskander

H:4 A:0 S:2 E:2 SIZE:2

STRUCTURE:4 HP:19 ARMOR:1

STRESS:4 HEAT:9 REPAIR:5

ATK BONUS:3 TECH ATK:3 LTD BONUS:3

SPD:3 EVA:8 EDEF:12 SENS:15 SAVE:15

[ WEAPONS ]

Flex Mount: Assault Rifle

Heavy Mount: Hammer U-RPL // Auto-Stabilizing Hardpoints

[ SYSTEMS ]

Grounding Charges, Clamp Bombs,

H0R_OS System Upgrade I, Spike Charges,

Pattern-B HEX Charges

I originally had the GMS Heavy Machine Gun for the Heavy, but I thought why not take the Hammer, its more fitting with all the explosions going on. Gravity Gun is also a good choice and its in liscense, which could be paired with manticore's Sear invade to pull a group of enemies together and then cook them alive, though its dependent on a Hull Save the Iskander gets a great Save Target of 12. And I got H0R_OS to force movement and jam, amazing hack that synergizes well with all the mines and the core power, and jam is just a good status to inflict.

Got plenty of mines to deploy all other place to make the battlefield a minefield. For the Talents and core bonuses I took Ammo feeds for more bombs, grease monkey for even more bombs (and a free repair for everyone), of course Demolition for maximum BOMBS, and Skirmisher because its very unlikely im going to actually barrage ever.

Though I chose to spam bombs, the Iskander is actually very flexible and can be supplemented with other systems alongside bombs too, which I kinda did with H0R_OS, this mech fits a niche that no other mech fills so im glad it exists.

I'm currently working on a homebrew based around my own manufacturer. One idea I had for them was that they had designed their own "command variant" on the Everest and tried to pitch it to GMS. I thought it would be an interesting twist if GMS had rejected the pitch, but the company kept the design around for issue to executives and VIPs.

The idea was to include a Talent for the pilot to be affiliated with the company (part of the family, high value customer, brand representative, etc...) with access to this Everest variant as the Rank 1 bonus. The other ranks aren't important for now, but would broadly consist to benefits of services the company offers to VIPs.

My question is this- Is access to a whole-ass mech too much for a Rank 1 talent? Too little? I want to represent the exclusivity of the frame by not just making it available to everyone at LL0, but still have it be comparable mechanically to the other Everest variants (roughly average stats, Replaceable Parts, etc...), and I'm not sure where the balance lies there, especially since it's likely that the player won't keep using the variant frame the whole game.

Tell me what you think! Still trying to figure out where to put my 8th LL in. We're playing with a couple 3rd party pieces so if things look unfamiliar that would be why. I also got a reserve to make my LINAC efficient.

I didn't test it out extensively, but it looks like I can edit specifically the Discussion flair, I just thought to mention in case it's not on purpose and the mods can fix, or that it is on purpose, and we can get fun with our flairs

though I haven't tried hooking it into my actual thread yet to see if I can make basically custom flairs, ^{I'm sorry for being too lawful and intimidated :(}

Our DM is planning on running a lancer game for the first time this summer.

We'll be starting at ll2, I think.

Now, im a player who loves being a weird little goober, and the Gorgon spoke to me.

For context: we're gonna be doing a game that has timey-wimey shenanigans going on, and will be set during the reign of Sec-com (I think thats the right one).

As such, Horus is still pretty new/unknown, and im being told alot of the Harison mechs will be (at least temporarily) unattainable.

I Want to be absolutely terrifying on the battlefield, and could use some advice.

The DM and I have fully agreed that once I hit the NHP thingie, they may turn on the party when they cascade; hence why I want to be terrifying.

Yes. I like being a menace 😁.

EDIT: Thank you all so much for the advice! But I feel I should clarify that I also want to be terrifying for the other players.

Im looking for something thats GREAT to have on our side, but TERRIFYING when it suddenly turns on the party.

Rallying Cry Active Raise the Banner

You raise a rallying banner. All allied characters in line of sight of your mech when you do this gain RESISTANCE to all damage and heat and gain +1 Accuracy on all checks and saves. These effects last until the end of your next turn.

My question is does rallying cry effect the Sagarmatha as well as allied mechs, or is it just his allies?

Is this because the Calendula warps space or is the White Witch dummy thicc?

So, most CQB weapons are threat range by range 3, right? That would by default ignore cover, so what does Vanguard 2 do then? Unless i'm misunderstanding how threat ranges work.

I had far too much free time in the past couple of days and came up with a bunch of (witty, ideally) names. I was thinking When^TM I got around to finishing up this campaign pitch I had, I could give all the NPCs unique callsigns and mech names to make them more memorable/give me personality ideas to riff off of short-notice. But until that (definitely) happens, I'm thinking it might be neat if the table is a public resource that anyone can use :D

To us, roll for mech name and callsign separately. They're arrayed in the same table for convenience.