One of the things I liked about the Heavy Gear table top game was that the roll mechanic was to roll N dice and pick the highest. where N was your skill level.

One of the things I liked about the Heavy Gear table top game was that the roll mechanic was to roll N dice and pick the highest. where N was your skill level. Now this did make the game somewhat brutal. but there was a lot less of the absurd high skill wiffing you see as in a D & D type system. The other neat thing Heavy Gear did was they had none of this ablative armor bullshit like you see in Battletech. The armor ether works and you get no damage or it gets penetrated and you get full damage.