Iron Maiden, Mecha Harlot, whatnot—it's a robot girl that seduces metal. While the hack-sphere already has the Mecha Hack, I bet they aren't ready for this!

There were several ideas in mind when I worked with this theme:

• The Iron Maiden: wardrobe, capture, closet and enclosure.
• The Magneto: repel, attract.
• The Metal Bender: command and manipulate metal.
• The Metal Whisperer: speak to metal, command metal.
• The Full Metal Alchemist: shape metal, be an armour person.
• Chow down on the that rock hard… well, rock: consume essence, steal power, grow metal armour & weapon.

It's sort of amazing how much you can relate to a simple, goofy idea. Each of these could be very well enveloped in any aesthetics, a whisperer Dwarf, a Metal Mage… Shame on me for wanting a Mecha Girl in my dungeon-crawling RPG, but the joke actually came from a comic strip:

Real man touches iron.

Real man touches iron.

Now, metal bending, but it also changes the property of metal. What if, instead of a steadfast material of cold brutality, it is soft, comfortable and inviting?

“I seduce the lock instead of picking it! Open up the hole!

I gave this class the nun theme through her starting items, trying to paint this class of robots in a juxtaposition of evil creatures trying their very best to not be evil, restrain their desires whatnot. But it is also a good excuse to give them a lot of strange metal items. But this gave rise to a underlying theme behind her abilities: exorcist. Since poltergeist activities often accompany plates and teapots moving around, what’s to not say pots and pans? In fact, this gives me an idea to ties this in with the other classes for this jam… A common theme of spiritual phenomena classes.

Robot hand fetish is a thing.

I believe that classes are a presentation of an aesthetic. Its features, in effect, guide the controlling player down a particular playstyle (their niche). And gets to feel like that role by virtue of decision-making that considers their capabilities. If you are a succubus, then be a succubus. If you are a parody of a succubus, then be that parody. A class that is designed too open to change and interpretation might lose the flavour. If you needed that new flavour? Don't fight the system, just make your own class. That is the beauty of an OSR hack—you shape the game you're playing in you shape.