>The PCs are pilots of specialized craft that allows them

>>50077910
Spooky. Make it segue into cyborg uplifts and dissociative body disorder and then have fun with that. One shot the first session, make the rest the tun on the head shit.

Might be fun as a mini-campaign with the right group.

>>50078029

Yeah, to hit the point home you'd have people who would be totally healthy but would otherwise be disabled in other means such as loosing the use of your legs after taking severe damage.

While you can still move parts of your craft that would associate with your legs, your actual legs are useless as if you became a parapalegic.

What sort of survival scenarios could you have in space aside from floating around and making checks against insanity.

Maybe you are stuck in a debris field and have to occasionally dodge flying bits of ships and asteroids while trying to remain hidden?

Pull a Wrath of Khan and navigate through some kind of cosmic weather that fucks with your sensors?

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>>50077910
This is the exact plot of a "romance" I read with the vehicle being an AI anthropomorphic female A-10.

yes it brrt'd when they fucked

>>50078255

You got links for that?

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They sort of did this in the later Armored Core games, but never really fleshed it out.

Sounds interesting.

>>50078314

I always thought they just typed away on keyboards really fast like ML gamers

>>50078314
My absolute comrade right here. I'm actually making a little story/text minigame with the AMS as a piloting option.

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>>50078270
http://a-10writer.tumblr.com/

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This fucking thread holy shit. I had an idea similar to this for a short story, but I never thought about translating this to traditional games. Would it work for an RPG?

>>50078502

I don't see why it wouldn't. As a one shot it's not really nescessary to make rules for the mechs because they are a narrative framework for the situation although considering you're doing a survival in space proper and not, say, a space station you'd have to come up with rules and stuff for dealing with the environment.

A derelict of a super ship with corridors sized for mechs or places like >>50078178

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>>50078716
A one-shot would be fun and all, but I've got far too much time on my hands for that.

Say I was interested in wrapping a campaign around this concept. Seeing as I live under a rock and am only aware of d20 systems like D&D and Pathfinder, can you think of a system that'd fit the concept of a military setting featuring man-sized surrogate bodies (like mentally controlled terminators)?

It strikes me as a possibility that I could just use pathfinder's sci-fi rules for an easier time and just re-skin stuff, but I'm curious.

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A campaign featuring warframe-esque transference mechanics is next on my list, thanks OP.

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>>50078255
>>50078388
>recoloured shark girls

>>50078822
I'm was not aware that pathfinder was fielding a full sci-fi setting. How drastically different are the rules for it compared to the base game?

That said, having two different sets of stats for "you" and your mech would be needed but for one shots just treating the character as the mech (since they are already in them) would be easiest I think, EP would work for this since it naturally has the split between "you" and your "body"

>>50078822
GURPS dawg. Hit up the General thread for more specific details. We're a helpful bunch

>>50077910
That thing looks like a derpy manta ray from behind.

>>50078838

Now I'm kind of horrified because there's the one expansion with the Corpus guy and one of the cut scenes shows a frame being chopped up and disassembled in front of a bunch of buyers.

I guess that means the "pilot" was still in it?

>>50078958
Aren't they remote controlled? I don't play the game but I know that much.

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>>50078958
>>50079037
They are indeed remote controlled. Warframes themselves are essentially meat robots, soulless vessels for the tenno to pour their consciousness into when they need to deal out some frontier justice.

They're also delightfully edgy.