Fragments of War

After the war, thousands upon thousands of bipedal mechanized fighting vehicles (or “Bimechs”) were left scattered across the land. Many were brought back to the capital cities to be repaired or scrapped, but the majority of them were too damaged to be easily transported. With the war won, the victors simply left their mechanical refuse in the battlefields to rust and wither. 

Reclaiming the Scraps

Across the nations, in communities that had lost great numbers of working folk, these Bimechs replaced rudimentary tractors and mining equipment. Nobody knows who was the first to call them “Mectors”, but the name caught on and spread. The war ended over a century ago, and while the world still bears its scars, it has also healed. The capital cities still skirmish from time to time, but those fights rarely extend into the farmlands and mines of the common folk.

What is Mectors?

In Mectors, players take on the role of a farmer, miner, fisher, carpenter, or some other worker in a labor intensive field. Mector Owners come from all kinds of backgrounds. Some own a Mector that’s been in their family for generations. Others came across theirs recently, through purchase or luck. And a rare few have managed to piece their own together using scraps from decommissioned Mectors, but this is even harder than it sounds. No matter how they got it, they now have a powerful tool with a long history.

What's Included?

• The full rulebook laid out in individual pages (great for screens)
• The full rulebook laid out in side-by-side spreads (great for monitors)
  
• The full rulebook laid out as a printable booklet (great for printing)
  
• The character sheet as a PNG file
  
• The town sheet as a PNG file

Content Warning(s): war, tyrannical leaders, violence, accidental or intentional bodily harm, magical harm. 

Supplies Needed: one or more six-sided dice (more is better), pencils, and these rules 

Game Length: 2-3 hours 

Tales from the Heartland

Set 100 years before the events of Mectors, Minted in Blood puts players in the middle of the Trade Wars. Play as scrappy heroes fighting against the plutocratic PTC. (Currently in development!)

Set long, long after the events of both games, As the Crow Flies is a solo journaling game about a crow leaving the nest and exploring a world that humans left beyond ages ago. See how nature, magic, spirits, and the Earth Mother have changed since humanity's disappearance.

Set at the same time as As the Crow Flies, but very, very far away from the Old World. Very much in the style of Mectors, play farmers, hullscrappers, scouts, spiriturges, and traders on a generation ship in the void between stars. Deal with spirits, fix the ship when it's damaged, and sail ever farther into the cosmos in GSXX.

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This work is based on Charge RPG, product of Fari RPGs (https://farirpgs.com/), developed and authored by René-Pier Deshaies-Gélinas, and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

This work is also based on Blades in the Dark (found at http://www.bladesinthedark.com/), product of One Seven Design, developed and authored by John Harper, and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).