Battle Century G

I want it. Got any PDFs?

>>53335639
http://gimmicklabs.blogspot.com/p/downloads.html

The author gives away the SRD for the game for free. Otherwise if you want a PDF of the full book it's not TOO difficult to find via google, I'd rather avoid posting the link I found directly since lately I've noticed a lot of links on /tg/ have been getting DMCA'd.

>>53335639
>>53335659
Plus it's made by just one guy who put a lot of love and effort into a game, and in the end he made a legitimately good, quality product.

It's worth supporting.

What kinds of campaigns have you seen run with it?

Can it handle Organic Mecha? I have a bit of a joke I want to pull on my players.

>>53335915
>What kinds of campaigns have you seen run with it?
I've seen people run everything from Evangelion, to UC Gundam, to Super Robot Wars. It's pretty versatile despite some shortcomings. I'm personally probably going to use it fairly soon for a campaign set in the IBO universe post-season 2's ending.

>Can it handle Organic Mecha?
Absolutely. It even has some special powers/upgrades for organic mecha.

>>53335958
Cool, let's see how well I can make it handle high school hijinks with a Giant around.

>>53335630
So, it's more for Gundam Wing than for 'normal timeline' Gundam? It does 'military' only when each character has their own special mecha?
(I know, I'm oversimplifying Gundam to the extreme, and probably getting it wrong, I just hope I'm conveying the difference in 'military' games.)

>>53336181
Name one 'normal timeline' Gundam where the MC doesn't have a special snowflake prototype or something similar.
>and probably getting it wrong
Completely wrong.


Basically it does Gundam perfectly fine, what it doesn't do very well is VOTOMS where Chirico will go through a dozen different machines before the series ends and blows up half of them, or Mechwarrior where PCs will probably buy and sell dozens of mechs before the campaign's end.

>>53336259
Said much better, thank you.

>>53336259
>>53336259
>Name one 'normal timeline' Gundam where the MC doesn't have a special snowflake prototype or something similar.

If all medias count, then there's Rise from the Ashes where you're only goes on bunch of GMs, Zeonic Front where you're only goes in and out of mass produced MSes, and Revival of Zeon where the Mains only use a GMified (i.e. mass produced/dumbed down) version of the Special Snowflake.

>>53337089
Its the exceptions that prove the rule.

You could still do Rise and Revival though since the main characters are still using the same or similar machines throughout the story, even if they're not "special snowflakes" by Gundam standards.

Zeonic Front is a good example of the kind of campaign BCG isn't so great at though. I mean it COULD do it, but it'd be jumping through a lot of hoops.

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Bumpo

Still looking for some good resources, or at least a decent guide for making custom weapon systems.

>>53335630
Man I wish I could play this just to play a hot-blooded character and ham it up to 11

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>>53339965
The rules even highly encourage it.

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So how would one make something like the AV System in IBO work?
In a setting where pilot-connected control systems are the standard I can see it just being fluff, but when it's not as common (like in IBO) and having or not having the plugs can make a huge difference in combat capability, how would you make that matter in BCG?
The easiest way I can think of is just leaving it a fluff thing as to why the PCs are more awesome than NPCs, and basically giving AV equipped opponents higher stats than ones without.

>>53340128
That seems like the best idea and its also the simplest one. Plus it allows for wiggle room when building NPCs and also also for a wham moment when you have a super strong enemy that doesn't have one.

Is the 'Z' supplement worth picking up?
(I'm assuming the SRD only includes stuff from 'G')

>>53343240
If you want to run off-kilter stuff like Eva or even Escaflowne, absolutely.