So funny story. I might have feature creep issues. 

So now presenting, three weeks later than planned and only 140 pages longer than originally anticipated:

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TODESTRIEB

In this Rules Supplement for Massif Press' Lancer ttrpg, you can find:

1. Rules for Mechsploitation stories in Lancer (including bespoke pilot play rules, for Hounds that fight for their Remembrance as they teeter between Nirvana and Oblivion, and featuring 4 different Handler Types (The Manager, the Misanthrope, the Nihilist and the Ideologue) with 30+ advancements and plays, and 8 different Hound Types (the Hero, the Rebel, the Volunteer, the Artist, the Soldier, the Professional, the Hollow and the Creature).
2. The Horrors of War (tm) - rules to experience the desperation of strained or severed supply lines in the Mech War, as well as rules for Reckoning with what you may be forced to do, once there is nothing left but to Stare into the Abyss.
3. A Field Guide for the Setting of my novel "How I Learned to love the Void" and the power blocs, politics and tech of the year HE12106.

Furthermore featuring, to showcase and supplement the above: 3 New SitReps (Incursion, Raid and Ambush), 6 new Mech Licenses specifically for Hounds, featuring 7 different Handler Systems and 9 new Core Boni across three SEU manufacturers), 3 new NPC Templates (Turret, Rebel and Feral) and 7 new NPC classes (including the Angel, a build-your-own Kaiju NPC class for all your Pacific Rim or Evangelion Lancer needs), 5 new pilot Talents (some of which you can 'earn' after going to war and Staring into the Abyss) and 3 Sample Combats (to showcase all of the new rules, with maps ready to go).

And for good measure: wonderful Art from Z621 and Strega Wolf, and KETTENHUND, my short story submission for the first Mechsploitation Discord server writing contest.

All of these subsystems are (mostly) fully modular to be mixed and matched at your convinience - don't want to leave your Hounds a long enough leash for them to lope off and cause mischief at the frontlines? No problem! Just want the misery of mech based trench warfare without mechsploiting anyone? why?  You can! Just want to pit your normal non-sad queer mech pilots against a Kaiju? No trouble at all! 

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Next Steps: The Ruleset is currently available at a discount, while I work out all of the balancing kinks I'm sure y'all will yell at me about. Beyond the obvious (ironing out the numbers) there are a number of things I did not include in this book (largely because I wanted to get done at some point):

• A Rebel Handler (and a subsystem for getting rescued  captured)
• Way more options for the Angel (especially a giant robot variant)
• A lot more Handler & Hound advancements (currently they've only got a bit over 30 each)
• Some actual Narratives that employ these rules (I have Plans)

If you have questions, need rulings or if you want to yell at me over numbers or formatting errors, you can find me on the Lancer Discord server, if you want one of the above to happen quicker, it's very easy to direct my game design focus by voting over on my Patreon ;)