Editing User:Almafeta/Mech A RPG contest reviews (section)

==Chargen==

<b>Dreadful Tide:</b>  Dreadful Tide is pointgen, on a reasonable budget of 100 points.  The 'attributes' are Shadowrun-style dice pools that refresh every round:  Combat, Social, Technical, Movement.  (Shades of Instant Fuzion!)  Skills are the Target Numbers you must roll equal to or less on from dice you spend from those pools.  Pools range from 1 to 10, while Skills range from 1 to 9.  A nice full list of special abilities follows, including Unkillable (15 points).  A number of templates are included.

<b>Extinction:</b>  Chargen is point-build attributes (20 points among Prowess, Agility, Endurance, IQ, and Charm) and Palladium-style limited skill selection, as well as selecting a Code, Loyalty, and Quest.  Curiously, you also build a 'stronghold'.

<b>Guerilla Earth:</b>  Chargen is point-buy, spending 200 points among four percentile attributes (the classic Body/Grace/Mind/Spirit split).  Derived attributes include Anima (basically CoC-style sanity), Health (which, curiously, is based on Anima+Health/2), and Power (for espers).  Skills are (Mind+Dexterity/10) skill points, with each skill point (up to 5) adding 10% to a base to get your level of skill.  (Why not just have Mind+Dexterity skill points, up to +50%?)  Specializations are worth 15% per skill point, not 10%.  Cybernetics and psi are bought with points.  A decent number of templates are included.

<b>Mecha Wars:</b>  Odd combination of triangle-number and percentile system (all stats start at 10, cost to improve by 1 is equal to new attribute's tens digit).  With 800 (!) points to divide among 9 attributes, that's an average attribute of 47...  but you can just roll d% instead, which I strongly suggest.  You get INT*10 skill points, and 1 skill point buys +1 in a skill.

*4 points:  Guerilla Earth
*3 points:  Mecha Wars
*2 points:  Dreadful Tide
*1 point:  Extinction