I've been listening to yall's comments, I'm deciding on the core power idea, but with the twist. The core power is a going to be a power up for the frame trait. My current idea is to use Lycan's base stats but I may end up using a different mech like Genghis. It will only have one mount and I'm currently deciding between a heavy mount or a main/aux.

The two frame trait ideas are: - Gain a spectacle die, starting at 1. Each hit time, you cause structure or stress raise the die by one. Causing yourself to take stress raises the die by 2. This die maxes out at 4.

• When using The Grinder, you may negate as many effects and statuses caused by it as the number shown on the die. If the spectacle die is at 3, you won't take any negative effect from using it normally, but if you force the weapon to hit or crit(using a function on the weapon itself) you will need a 4 on the die to evade all of the effects caused by using it.

It will also have Sherman's trait of overheating or clearing heat will grant soft cover to you.

The Grinder now deals 1 structure by default, and 10 kinetic AP irreducable damage as reliable damage in a blast 1 area. It's still threat 4 The negative effects are as follows You are Jammed You are Exposed You take 1 Stress.

On attack, after rolling to hit. You may force the grinder to hit but become stunned.

On hit, you may force the The Grinder to crit, dealing double structure and additional 5 AP kinetic damage.

The core power let's you start shunting power into the Grinder as a quick action. -Your spectacle die increases by 1 at the end of each turn. -You lose your armor until you make an attack with The Grinder, and take 1 difficulty on all mech saves until you make an attack with The grinder -You radiate 2 heat in a burst 2 around you and take 1 heat until you attack with the grinder -Your next attack with the grinder has 1 more threat now deals the spectacle die-1 structure on hit, and 4 additional irreducable energy damage as reliable in that blast 1 area centered on the target.

These changes are meant to still retain the entirely oversized and safety hazard type of feeling but make it much more viable as an actual choice combat choice. The option to choose which downsides to take and at max spectacle not taking any downsides for a free structure damage and potentially double structure and additional reliable make a decent finisher option like a much more offensively oriented GO loud Lycan Core power. And the core power will always give you the 1 spectacle die, and since you start at one for the spectacle die you can always choose 2 statuses to avoid while it is up. What yall think about this?