# Loner: Mech Requiem tags: #game/rpg/loner-mech-requiem ![[Loner - Mech Requiem (cover).jpg|300]] **Loner: Mech Requiem** (the book itself goes by **Mech: Requiem**) is the mecha dial on **[[Loner]]** — a 2300s Earth fractured by proxy wars, fought from the cockpits of advanced mechs. Same tag-based chassis and Chance-vs-Risk oracle, now strapped into a war machine and told to go win a conflict that probably isn't yours. It was one of the earliest standalone Loner spins, and it shows just how far the tiny engine can stretch before it's hauling a walker. ## Setting The setting is a 2300s Earth ground down by proxy wars — great powers settling scores through the machines and the pilots who ride them, rather than in the headlines. The book sketches an outline of that world before moving fast into the parts that matter: characters, and then the mechs themselves. There's a dedicated mech-construction and customization layer, mech-specific rules on top of the base game rules, and a setting-information chapter to hang it all on, plus game scenarios and appendices. It's a war story where the protagonist is a pilot and the vehicle is half the character. ## Mechanics Underneath, it's still Loner — roll a Chance die against a Risk die for yes/no, read ties as "Yes, but…," tick the Twist Counter. What Mech Requiem adds is the mech layer: building and personalizing your machine, piloting it through combat that the tag system resolves, and carrying the consequences when the armor gives way. The mech rules bolt onto the core and give the fiction a body, so a session is less "ask the Oracle about the empty room" and more "ask the Oracle whether the gunship on the horizon is aiming at you." One of the more satisfying reminders that Loner's minimalism doesn't demand you play small. ## Editions A single 2024 supplement (released June 2024). *In the library.* ## References - [Mech: Requiem - DriveThruRPG](https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/484253/mech-requiem) - [Loner SRD (free full text) - Zotiquest Games](https://lonersrd.zotiquestgames.com/) - [Loner - Official Website](https://loner.zotiquestgames.com/)