Mecha & Dragons

Currently hyperfocused on Mecha and TTRPG content. Profile images temporary, unless they're not.

[thetruederaj]

Hey, you! Yeah, you!

Do you like mecha? I certainly hope you do, based on the tags I'm gonna be slapping on this.

Do you like TTRPGs?! I- pff- this is Tumblr. Higher than average chance that you do.

Do you want a TTRPG designed for mecha?!

Well, I have a couple choices for you!

Is this an ad?!

No, but it is my pin, and I'll update it as I find more mecha rpgs that I can reccomend with confidence, which generally means 'I found a podcast that shows how it works'.

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Lancer - Free to start for players, DM-facing stuff is relatively inexpensive. Roleplaying is streamlined, but the combat has about as much crunch as a game of modern Yu-Gi-Oh. Which is to say, a whole lot. I like Tablestory's Zero.Blue.Orion story for a listenable podcast, but they are very much playing an early version of the game, back when the rules were still being refined.

The Mecha Hack - Very inexpensive, all currently-released supplements total up to about half the cost of a D&D PHB. Published by Absolute Tabletop, The Mecha Hack is a roll-under system based on The Black Hack, which is based on, iirc, second edition D&D. It's rules-light all around, and with it being roll-under, the players will know the result of their rolls right away, based on a difficulty modifier given by the DM. So if you have a player who's cursed with low rolls, this might be their system. If you wanna give this a listen in podcast format, the Ing Brothers over at Silhouette Zero have done a fantastic little two-episode oneshot. We love SilZero on this blog.

Aether Nexus - So, you've given The Mecha Hack a listen and you're like "DUDE. The system sounds great and all, but my players are really attached to the fantasy genre. Do you have anything closer to like D&D or Escaflowne in flavor?

AETHER NEXUS. Brand spanking new, it's kickstarter is technically still going as of the time of this writing. But, it's also published by Absolute Tabletop, and has already reached all of it's stretch goals. Aether Nexus functions both as a standalone game, and as an expansion of The Mecha Hack. It includes a bunch of new pilots and mechs fit for the fantasy genre, and, I mean, just go look at the art of the Magus and the Dragoon. They're so good!

Beam Saber - (I'll be honest, I don't know too much about this one. I started listening to one podcast about it a while back, but since the overarching plot of that one didn't hold my interest, the mechanics have slid from my brain in the intervening months.) To be updated!

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I'm sure there are a bunch of other mecha systems out there, but these are the ones I'm familiar with the rules for, and can wholeheartedly reccomend, with examples for people to verify the gameplay style.

Honorable mention to Lost Among the Starlit Wreckage, which is a singleplayer or two-player storytelling game based around the concept of being stuck in your mech at the end of your story, trying to survive until you can be rescued.

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

Clip of Lucy Dacus on the Las Culturistas podcast.

[smaiart]

SURPRIIIISE!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Absolutely thrilled to be working with the lovely people at bytten once again on Cassette Beasts 2002!! 💙

Wishlist on Steam!

Cassette Beasts 2002 on Steam

Record, battle, and fuse with 250+ beasts as you adventure alongside diverse companions in this monster-collecting RPG. Set in London in 200

[zybilna]

One thing that makes me kinda sad is seeing people who feel like TTRPGs just aren't for them because they bounced off of some element that is clearly just a symptom of them trying out D&D5e. Like people who have had a hard time with learning the rules would probably do well with any system where the rule formatting and play culture around learning them aren't a mess. One friend of mine didn't like waiting a long time for turns to come up in combat, not even knowing that many games don't even use a turn-based structure.

A lot of D&D5e defenders on here like to claim that asking someone to learn a new system is "gatekeeping" somehow, but I'd argue that acting like one game is emblematic of the entire medium to the exclusion of people who don't click with that one game is way more meaningfully a form of gatekeeping, even if it's fully unintentional.

I strongly believe that not all RPGs are gonna appeal to everyone, but there is an RPG out there for everyone, and I just hope that people who haven't clicked with the most common option to be introduced to can find something that works for them.

[vulpes-nothus]

You're right and you should say it.

Hasbro is fucking lying.

Their game does one very specific thing in an extremely specific way, and are exploiting unpaid game designers to sell the illusion otherwise.

There are other games. Hasbro is just gatekeeping the entire medium.

[thetruederaj]

So I started watching Zoids Fuzors, for reasons.

For some background, Zoids Fuzors is *bad.* Like, pulled off of Toonami (in the US) halfway through it's run *BAD.* The voice acting in the first episode alone caused me to have a two hour crashout.

Here's the thing. 'Reasons' means I have to finish it.

And in my desperation, I found one thing to latch onto.

The *Potential.*

You see, Fuzors is the only entry in the Zoids franchise where two (or more) pilots can have their mechs combine, and that opens some doors for storytelling.

This has some *obscene* potential that the suits at Toonami in '03 would *never* tap into.

Fujoshis. Himejoshis. Fanfiction writers and OC Creators. It's time to liberate this pearl of a concept from the tomb of 'Worst Entry in an Otherwise Usually Pretty Good Mech Franchise'.

[punkitt-is-here]

currently thinking about how funny it would be to have a group of those kinky mechsploitation lesbian pilots with the fucked up handler hound dynamics and throw one (1 ☝️) super robot shonen girl in there who's completely unaffected

[punkitt-is-here]

had to draw them

[thetruederaj]

Here, take a shotgun blast of Zoids New Century Zero screenshots from my rewatch (and research) so far.

Shoutouts to Mary Champ for the best 'reading you for filth' face I've seen in a while.

[must-be-mythtaken]

listen I love Pokemon but this person is SO right

[rdmaaron]

Super Robot Wars Y presents a dystopian alternate reality in which Char Aznable learns the error of his ways and grows as a person.

[sexiestpodcastcharacter]

Sexiest Podcast Character 2024 — Unscripted Undefeated Bracket — Round 6−1

Who is sexier?

Trish Una

Husky

Voting ended onJun 24, 2025

Propaganda

Trish Una (Riley Hopkins and Their Amazing Friends: Interstitial Infinity):

Ok genuinely I'm gonna need some razzle dazzle for the Deal Great Harm queen, the beautiful mind, the arm through a little blonde boy with bad vibes, thumbs down, bad motherfucker l, head full of rocks heart full of emotions Trish Una

She's been left by everyone she cares about- are you going to leave her too?

trish una is capable of such violence it's beautiful. listen to those clips again i beseech you

Mod Note: This is only the Trish Una from the podcast Riley Hopkins And Their Amazing Friends. Do not vote on the basis of any other Trish Una.

Husky (Hope's Hearth):

not only is she a giant polar bear woman, she has a Russian accent, is MASSIVE, fat, has huge tits, threatens people, and has a high rank in Sexy

Audio asking so-so-niceys for your vote against Pickman.

Art of Trish Una courtesy of @charaznablescanontoyota.

Art of Husky by @lotsadeer.

Additional propaganda below the cut:

Trish Una (Riley Hopkins and Their Amazing Friends: Interstitial Infinity):

Trish Una, from the universe of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, ensures that the hits start coming and they don't stop coming. Trush Ina, from JJBA, fights Rachel from Animorphs and wins. T. Una Sandwich, from Jimmy John's Brash Accumulation, is best friends with Shadow the Hedgehog and she's also my dad. T-Minus Uno, from Chipotle,

She is emotionally compromised and definitely not turning into her father

Trish "is it stands" Una is the type of motherfuckers you need to see to be believed. Trish & Carrie toxic Yuri. Trish the fucking Spirit of justice. Trish is the real one.

Please vote for my close friend Trish Una or else you leave without saying goodbye to her

TRISH "THE MONEY" UNA

This is propaganda for all the female characters. Voters please remember how pretty all women are and factor that into every single vote you make. Thank you.

#is that fucking shadow the hedgehog

yes! he's one of the main party members! listen to intersitital infinity on riley hopkins and their amazing friends!

Trish Una is a girl who is certain she knows what's going on. She shishkebobed Simon from Infinity Train. She is best friends with Shadow the Hedgehog, Mob from Mob Psycho, Alphonse Elric, and technically Shoka Sakurane.

Please vote for Trish she is so so sexy

Trish Una could take over a position of leadership in a preestablished location but could Virtue have a emotionally fraught conversation with carrie white?

vote for trish una, girl who went to another universe, found out she was fictional / a tertiary character at best in her own story, and decided the proper coping method was to punch a guy to shreds

vote for trish una, girl who looked at carrie from the movie carrie and said "i could fix her"

vote for trish una, girl who fought a bear and won

vote for trish una, girl who put a part of herself into a machine in an attempt to control it and inextricably(?) linked the machine to her soul

vote for trish una, girl who might be the devil

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Husky (Hope's Hearth):

She can crush a watermelon with her thighs. Or your head. Whatever you prefer.

She's a SPACE PIRATE on the Gilted Rose and uses her massive paws to solve problems. Husky WILL go through you. There is no stopping her.

Also did you know she's so big, a honey badger person can stand on her tits like a shelf?

She committed a successful honey heist and stole from a fascist empire. She helped save an eldritch god's girlfriend from demons who had taken over his library castle. She threatened to kill her boss, who she thought had been dead, because he was being a coward.

She's fat and powerful and deserves this.

did I mention she's a lesbian

A giant polar bear woman

This is propaganda for all the female characters. Voters please remember how pretty all women are and factor that into every single vote you make. Thank you.

Did I mention Husky is also a wizard, with stats in Sexy, Battle, and Wizard? Guess which stat is her highest

VOTE FOR MY HOT BEAR GIRLFRIEND

VOTE FOR SPANKS' INCREDIBLY HOT BEAR GIRLFRIEND

Spanks: THAT'S MY EXTREMELY HOT POLY GIRLFRIEND WHO I WOULD GLADLY MARRY IF SHE WAS COOL WITH IT babe did you bang a centipede and also a bird thing that's hot

Husky: We discuss marriage later, Пупсик.

We need everyone to vote for Husky

I would like to submit that Husky is a giant polar bear woman who is perpetually being climbed by a slightly smaller, but equally butch honey badger woman. And we all know honey badgers don't give a fuck. I'm just saying!

VOTE! FOR! THE! LESBIAN! BEAR!

Vote for a woman who can be sexy in multiple ways. She's a space pirate, she's a femme, she's a lesbian polar bear alien, she's fat. Vote for Husky!

Being able to pick up a man by his scruff and threaten him in a low voice without using your gun is sexy.

Audio message to Sammy Sinclair.

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[yourpalminsk]

Apologies if this joke has been made already, but it's all I've been able to think for a while now since the show introduced the GFreD.

[trans-ralsei]

silly comment on izuma, languages and what it suggests about its history and worldbuilding in alternate UC 0084

so we all know the working language in Izuma is largely Japanese (well, this is a Japanese anime, with in-universe news media largely reflective of 2025 Japan and an internet that is reflective of 2025 Japan)

English is also notably the primary user interface language (it’s very Khara I think)

But other languages do feature — namely Thai, Bahasa, German and Korean and Mandarin.

They mostly serve to help us establish the setting — of a multi-cultural Izuma flourishing in a neutral Side 6, largely unscathed by the war. But the languages are established in a hierarchy of sorts:

We don't see any other language other than English or Japanese in road signs or place names. There's a region where English placenames are predominant — think Aldwych, Knightsbridge and Carrington, and a region where Japanese placenames are dominant: Nenokuni, Ifuya, Ishizone.

This sort of indicates that the original builders of Izuma were likely both English and Japanese, which is why the working language of the banchi are these two languages, indicated by arrival cards and import documents:

Languages other than English and Japanese are all indicative of an immigrant culture. It's in the streets that Nyaan walks in Nenokuni — we see the most linguistic diversity in that setting, which ep1 establishes are 'slums built by immigrants'.

But it's also growing in signs and adverts, an indication that immigrants do have economic power in Izuma:

There are also French road signs, which might indicate that Izuma also has a French section? but we haven't seen that yet. (Izuma's spaceport also uses French.)

The show establishes the refugee/resident divide through language. Highbury, Machu's posh school for debutantes, uses Japanese predominantly and is very monolingual:

Nyaan, an immigrant, writes in English. Her calendar is somehow French and Thai. Her books are however in Japanese and English, and Nyaan also has a university entrance exam prep book in Japanese:

Izuma is a microcosm of metropolitan Japan — if I remember clearly they wanted to establish how Side 6 went unscathed by humanity's conflicts. It's also indicative of how immigration has changed metropolitan Japan to some degree, but I'm not that familiar with Japan to provide commentary at 3am in the morning, so that'll be for another time (or never).

What does that mean in-universe? My guess is that Izuma and Side 6’s banchis were established as joint Anglo-French-Japanese colonies, but when the One-Year War happened, the colony drop occurred and wrecking much of Earth, other cultures proceeded to emigrate into Side 6, changing Izuma in the process (as it builds and rebuilds to accommodate people displaced by war).

Or maybe the curtains are blue. I don't know lol

[sigmadraconissys]

She really is a Mechaposting Tumblr sexy women

I mean the mech dysphoria

The muzzle

The look in general.

The empty stare

The personality entirely focused on her mech.

My cyber newtype can't possibly be that cute

[thetruederaj]

Seriously. The instant I realized what her deal is, I knew that Tumblr was very likely about to go *rabid* for her, and I could not *wait.*

Big fan of all of the death-flag carrying cyber newtypes that Gundam churns out, but this girl seems like she'll be the first one to embrace that arc with open arms, at a dead sprint.

And while I, like usual, will be rooting for her, and I will be sad when she dies, the death flags are just too massive from instant one for me to get truly invested. XD

[rookiesbustle]

i really want a vpet that won't die if you don't take care of it which is maybe missing the point of a vpet but i have so little energy and i want a little digital friend

[thetruederaj]

A lot of Digimon vpets have a 'Fridge' option that lets you put your little buddy on ice for a bit. Try the Digital Monster X1 or X2. The X3 never got a stateside release, so will be super expensive.

I believe all of the Digimon Pendulum models have the fridge option as well.

You can google the Digitama Hatchery to double check the features of most modern models of the Digimon Vpets!

Oh, and the 20th anniversary vpet, notably, does not have a fridge option, but does come with like 15-20 eggs to choose from, that you can unlock over time.

[charaznablespeteevee]

started watching this show. what if my big chunky gundam suddenly transformed and grew long hair and I had a meltdown about how no one was supposed to see this yet and then I immediately started changing my pronouns from ore and boku to watashi haha what then

[thetruederaj]

Hang on. Hang on. I've got the other images for this somewh-

Not a week goes by when I don't think about what almost was. I missed that switch to watashi, though, so apparently the writers were thinking about it, too!

Love that catch.

And, spoilers, they're not gonna stop thinking about it.

[tieria-erde]

not enough people on gay tumblr know about how fucking funny gundam names are

[tieria-erde]

[image description: several screenshots of character page titles from the Gundam wiki. they read, in order: “Allelujah Haptism”, “Revive Revival”, “Char Aznable (Redirected from Quattro Bajeena)”, “Full Frontal”, “Anew Returner”, “Cancer Kafka”, “Chad Chadan”, “Edoru Inertia”, “Denim”, “Gabby Hazard”, “Descartes Shaman”, and “Grave Violento”. /end ID]

let’s discuss

[aroacegundamalex]

You forgot Jamitov Hymen /j

[s-mackattack]

South Burning, Job John, Quack Salver, Bork Cry and who could forget Bernie’s totally not evil boss, Colonel Killing.

[why-its-kai]

Ribbons Almark, Hiling(Healing) Care, Bring Stabity(Stability I assume is what they meant but it’s made even more hilarious by that spelling tbh), Gym Ghingham, Gavane Goonny, Meme Midgard, Sweatson Stero

[katie5000]

Paptimus Scirocco, Bask Om, M'Quve (that’s it, that’s his whole name), Michelo Chariot, Mashymre Cello, Chara Soon

[hibiscus-ships]

With regard to Quattro Bajeena specifically: several spelling variations did make their way into official content. Some were more forgiving than others. 🌺

[deceased-ufo]

previous tags:

My favorite names are Kacricon Cacooler, Marker Clan, and Agrippa Maintainer. Also, the Zaku pilot trio from the first episode of MSG are named Denim (mentioned above,) Gene, and Slender.

The notes have way more examples.

[deceased-ufo]

I was reminded of this post a few days ago, because of this reddit post:

source

[charaznablespeteevee]

[wormtoxin]

Shit man, this mech war is fucked. I just saw a doll shoulder its rifle and say "reality warp: black hole star" or some similar shit, and every mech around it cratered, radiated a ring of pure energy, and disappeared. The camera didn't even go onto it, that's how common shit like this is. My ass is firing anti-personnel rounds and buckshot. I think I just heard "nanomachines: skewer" two groups over. I gotta get the fuck outta here.