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Are there any decent games that include rules for giant mechs

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Are there any decent games that include rules for giant mechs - as characters or piloted vehicles - that are elegant and not disruptive to gameplay? Related, what are the best tabletop games in terms of vehicle use feeling naturalistic?
I'm looking to try and homebrew a Transformers RPG, but I'm too much of a dumbass to even think of trying to do it from scratch.
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>>49009113
GURPS Vehicles 3e.
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>>49009151
Full confession: I've never played GURPS, but from looking at it I get the impression that it'd get bloated as fuck really, really fast. Am I wrong about that?
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Mekton Zeta
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>>49009113
I know you're gone, OP, because you got trolled, but Chris Perron's mecha is a mecha system that I think seems to be what you want as its design is subractive. It's rule lite-ish and moves very quicky. Unlike, say, >>49009551
it's about actually maintaining the feel of mecha anime not about making mecha building a fun game of its own.

The PDF is too big for me to upload in this thread, BUT it should be in the PDF threads.

However, there's also at least two transformers systems that I know of. So I'll try to look for those.
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>>49010140
*Chris Perron's Mecha
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>>49010140
Huh. Thanks, man.
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>>49010140
>>49009113

Okay I've found one of them. I hope it's what you want or it's at least something you can work with.
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>>49010423
>>49010423
Oh shit. I misread the OP. Sorry, for some reason I thought you were wanting to run a Transformers game, not MAKE one. But yeah, this might be useful at least for seeing how somebody else did it.
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>>49010423
Looks neat, but more like a wargame than an RPG designed for campaigns. Thanks for tracking it down, though! You're good people.
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>>49010455
No problem, man. If there's a good TF RPG out there I'd be happy to use it; I'm just assuming what I'm looking for doesn't exist yet.
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>>49009113
Some anon who was running a transformers quest years ago did this. Don't know if there has been any updates.
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>>49009184
GURPS is a toolkit. Start from GURPS lite and add the rules you want, from the modules you want.

You don't even need to start with GURPS lite if you know what you're doing, and "know what you're doing" isn't some arcane secret. It's just having played a few games such that you know which rules you can get rid of.
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Quite a few have been made but according to most they never capture the feel of Transformers.
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>>49009113

Start with Transtectors. They seem to be an elegant solution to your problem.
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>>49010140
>>49010174
Its Chris Perrin's Mecha. I advise it too.

Here. https://www.sendspace.com/file/4f16ub
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>>49012613
Nothing ever will, it's powered by nostalgia and rose-colored glasses.
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