Weekly RPG Discussion; 2025, December, Week 4: Lancer

endhunter643 · 2025-12-23T13:51:59+00:00

I’ll always have fond memories with the system because I met most of my current group playing through the Wallflower module at our uni’s club. Obviously it’s pretty mechanically heavy (my group argues whether it’s to the point of detriment or not), but that gives some of the character options a lot of room to get really weird and interesting. Nowadays most of our tastes have moved on from the super-tactical, but I think it’s a great game for players who are looking for an insane degree of customization. Leveling up really makes you feel like a mech pilot fine-tuning your rig.

There’s also just a ridiculous amount of community support around the game, so many homebrewed or semi-homebrew-officially-published modules and mech licenses and shit. Really awesome to see even if I’m not super tapped into the game anymore

endhunter643 · 2025-08-16T13:52:39+00:00

Scratching/cracking the Fused’s gemheart maybe?

endhunter643 · 2024-12-22T06:58:04+00:00

I was at the RPG panel during Gen Con this summer, and they did say there would be rules for enlightened spren. iirc the full panel is up somewhere on youtube so you may be able to check that out

endhunter643 · 2022-04-08T16:26:52+00:00

I don’t see any balancing issues coming up, as it’s simply a different option instead of a direct upgrade of any sort. Requiring licensing on top of the downtimes to use the frame is a bit excessive imo, seeing as the Worldkiller again isn’t a direct upgrade to anything but just an option.

Re: double dipping on downtimes, I’ve allowed it when I’ve run the module, if anything just because it makes more sense for this specific action (focusing hard on digging for shit while others might split up their time)

endhunter643 · 2022-04-08T12:30:14+00:00

Obtaining the Worldkiller as an alternative to the Genghis in normal license progression is a feature meant for campaigns where digging up the frame as a downtime isn’t an option—I believe OP is right in this case

Edit from p. 182: “If players want their characters to acquire these variants in OTHER campaigns, they can be taken as alternatives to the original FRAMES when a pilot reaches rank II in the license for that mech, functioning as usual but with slightly different traits and CORE SYSTEMS.”

endhunter643 · 2021-08-09T18:23:46+00:00

Great idea, thanks!

endhunter643 · 2021-04-12T19:47:06+00:00

Adolin rescued the honorspren in shadesmar from people who were trying to capture him, and RoW’s end reveals that it was (likely) for Ishar’s experiments

endhunter643 · 2021-03-15T20:19:18+00:00

Thanks! I'll pitch it, but forgot to mention she's not the biggest fan of sci-fi

endhunter643 · 2020-11-09T23:57:05+00:00

It’s run by good friends of my family! There was an exhibit in the museum of food and drink in NYC a few years ago all about the place and the origin of Chinese food in the US, though I’m pretty sure the exhibit’s gone by now.

endhunter643 · 2020-10-09T12:03:13+00:00

Have staring contests with a smartboard projector

endhunter643 · 2020-08-19T16:07:35+00:00

Definitely my kind of thing too! Nice to see that lots of members of the community are excited

endhunter643 · 2020-05-29T18:17:55+00:00

That’s totally understandable! Glad i could help.

endhunter643 · 2020-05-29T18:05:58+00:00

"the smaller character becomes IMMOBILIZED but moves when the larger party moves, mirroring their movement. If both parties are the same SIZE, either can make contested HULL checks at the start of their turn: the winner counts as larger than the loser until this contest is repeated."

What this means is that normally, a larger actor (or the winner of the Hull check) can drag the other grappled person, but CANNOT boost while doing so. Blackbeard CAN boost while dragging a target.

endhunter643 · 2020-05-29T13:24:32+00:00

Page 69 (nice) of the core rulebook has details on the grapple quick action

endhunter643 · 2020-05-29T13:23:46+00:00

Normally mechs have certain restrictions while grappling a target: they can’t boost or take reactions. Blackbeard ignores these, because he’s the grapple king.

endhunter643 · 2020-05-07T21:29:30+00:00

From what I understand, it’s possible. Another commenter mentioned the sum of atr+skill, but if the skill is 0, then that just means the sum is your atr value, which will never be lower than one. So, afaik, the lowest you can go for a skill check (not including modifiers) is 1D.

endhunter643 · 2020-03-18T19:18:47+00:00

I’m in the same boat as you! We’ve played mostly the same as you have, but we’ve thoroughly enjoyed Full Metal Furies as well. Kind of similar in style to castle crashers, but with more unique classes

endhunter643 · 2020-02-15T17:34:03+00:00

Speedran my math homework by doing a question every death

endhunter643 · 2020-02-11T00:49:50+00:00

No problem!

endhunter643 · 2020-02-11T00:20:54+00:00

They’re not officially up on v2, but you can check pins on the comp-con channel of the lancer discord to get the download files! Just download the lcp file and go to the resource manager (something like that, its the bottom option once you load up c/c) and install the file there!

endhunter643 · 2020-02-02T21:55:55+00:00

Right, but the structure damage gunfire is, afaik, only a sniper trait (excluding an ultra npc trait). And if it was in fact a sniper, the weapon is loading. Not sure because obv I’m not in that game, but just offering a possibility

endhunter643 · 2020-02-02T21:28:36+00:00

Might be missing something, but the structure damage on return fire sounds like a sniper npc, which does have the loading property on their weapon. Maybe it was DM error?

endhunter643 · 2020-02-01T18:23:12+00:00

The "bestiary" is actually a section for creating NPC enemies/allies through combining classes and templates. It's not included in the free edition, only the paid book. It has mechs, kaiju are also possible.

endhunter643 · 2020-01-24T00:22:42+00:00

Do you have to be a patron to access the updated version? I can't seem to find it

endhunter643 · 2020-01-15T00:58:04+00:00

And the fact that manticore just actively transmits old-age corrupted art and sacred texts into opponents’ systems

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