[Cranstonvm]

Curious I am.

[Medicineman]

Curious I am.

Its called Rifts, is from Palladium Books and from the late '80s (IIRC )
 I've got especially  the NGR Splatbook in Mind

with a Multitude of Dances
Medicineman

[All4BigGuns]

Ahh...Rifts. Quite possibly one of the most awesome RPGs, IMO.

[Black]

What about cthulutech?

[GiraffeShaman]

There's also a Robotech variant of Rifts, if you have an urge to be Roy Fokker. One of the best games I've ever played. (Ah it turns out Robotech predates Rifts and had the MDC damage first. I had no idea, as I had played RIFTS before Robotech) But basically you get to play a squadron of pilots of giant robots that turn into xwing type fighters. Good times.

Looks like a newer version of the game was out in 2008. I may check it out.

[The Doomed One]

Browsing the mecha tag on drivethru rpg i came up with a few candidates.

BRP Mecha, Chris Perrin's Mecha, and Mecha Vs. Kaiju Campaign Setting (True 20). The first two I have heard of, the third seems to be precisely what you are looking for.

As a side note, there is a lot of weird stuff in the Mecha tag.

[Crimsondude]

Steve Kenson's been pushing Mechas vs. Kaiju on Facebook.

[All4BigGuns]

Steve Kenson's been pushing Mechas vs. Kaiju on Facebook.

Isn't Kenson they guy who wrote the Kellan Colt novels?

[Crimsondude]

Yes.

He's also one of the heads of Green Ronin.

[All4BigGuns]

Yes.

He's also one of the heads of Green Ronin.

I rather enjoyed that trilogy of novels. Kellan was kinda cool I thought.

Green Ronin, you say? I wonder if he's one of the ones who has a hand in the game based on the Ice and Fire books.

[Crimsondude]

He's credited with Design and Development of the QSR (http://grfiles.game-host.org/gr_files/SiF_Fastplay.pdf), so I'm guessing ... Yes.

He's also the mastermind (so to speak) behind Mutants and Masterminds and the DC RPG.

Steve has influenced Shadowrun enormously, and had basically succeeded Nigel Findley as the go-to writer before FASA folded and SR books stopped being written by single authors.

[FastJack]

RPG? This thing is the closest thing to BattleTech I've seen yet. Let's think wargames, people...

[PeterSmith]

RPG? This thing is the closest thing to BattleTech I've seen yet. Let's think wargames, people...

Primary combat is wrong for BattleTech. The ranged weapons should be used more than the hand-to-hand. BattleTech isn't Big-O.

[Medicineman]

What about cthulutech?

Yeah, OK ,that fits even better

HokaHey
Medicineman

[Crimsondude]

RPG? This thing is the closest thing to BattleTech I've seen yet. Let's think wargames, people...

Good point. There were at least three times I was watching and I thought, "I want to play Battletech again."