#In golden flame

[strixludica]

As a first-time GM who is currently running In Golden Flame for a group of first-time Lancer players:

Mechanically, I think the easier start is better for beginners than either of Kai's modules, which tend to swing a bit difficult from the start. The new Downtime activities can also help players gather reserves, power up, or follow their own threads with greater freedom than most other modules.

Narratively, the amount of lore can be made manageable by the fact that Calliope is a remote, unimportant location and that the Player characters are assumed to be very busy people who don't have time to study in depth the history of things and places that aren't releveant to them. My players are all people who came to Hell's Gate recently from other places in the Long Rim, so their lack of knowledge about the setting is diegetic. Whenever they have a question, I narrate the results of a quick OmniGoogle search and/or asking a nearby NPC; and if they want to know more we play a mini-scene of them trying to get more info, rolling on a trigger if necessary and applicable. So far this has served ur group pretty well.

Would your Lancer campaign be a good thing to run for someone who doesn't know the system or lore super well? It sounds like I might be GMing Lancer for a group of 3. I have spent some time playing around with pilot net and reading the mech creation rules.

I don't think it's a bad place to start. I'm not going to sell my campaign as the most beginner-friendly Lancer campaign out there - I think that might be Kai Tave's Operation Solstice Rain, although Kat's upcoming Shadow of the Wolf might be even better.

Calliope is a lore-rich setting with a lot of history and some of it is tied into the greater lore of Lancer, but you don't really need huge familiarity with either my setting's lore or the general lore of Lancer to be able to play it because it explains a lot to you.

You do start off at LL0, and the first mission is meant to be a sort of soft tutorial. You get to pick the first fight, and it will introduce you to some basic game concepts like enemy classes, templates, the action economy and movement. The second fight will teach you about sitreps, and that some fights will have a lynchpin enemy with a specific gimmick. The third fight will teach you about boss fights.

The second mission gives you two sets of two relatively difficult fights with a full repair between them, which gives them space to take bigger risks.

The third mission, which is the first mission at LL2 where they'll have access to non-starter frames, has an entire fight dedicated to just letting them get used to their new mechs. They can go absolutely wild and blow their core powers and even get their shit absolutely wrecked and there'll be a full repair right afterwards so they can just go absolutely ham on it.

[elliegoose]

your honor i desire this character from in golden flame's randomized table of suggested nhp backgrounds carnally

[zhjake]

Big Tank fight for IGF 🔥

[honeydewcorporation]

This RPV Demolisher (Named "Gregg G Rene") has hit every single one of his hammer swings against us this session. He isn't even supposed to be in the sitrep, this is terrifying.

[flowersnax]

THE TOWER represents sudden change and upheaval

[kiaryn-ledgem]

[taulupis]

Standard Bearer

The personal mech of Rebeka Blanche, callsign HUSSAR.

Standard Bearer is a Sagarmatha- one of the original Sagarmathas, in fact. Rebeka has been piloting it for 500 odd years now, from the first Liberator Brigades during the revolution, through burnout in the DOJ/HR, and finally in a little backwater system called Calliope. Standard Bearer is adorned with dozens, hundreds, of hand prints in blue- from the people she's saved, and those she fought alongside. She remembers every last print well enough to touch them up by hand, after a fight. Rebeka is played by my wonderful friend, @ace-disgrace-on-the-case. She kitbashed the mech, and we finished painting her together today. It's an honor to be her GM for this campaign <3

[cozzymandiart]

Lancer RPG commission of Big Red, a custom Everest (and very old COMP/CON unit) that's been built and rebuilt since the SecCom era, and its latest pilot Scarlet. Big Red has seen a lot of pilots die; will she be any different? Who's to say! This is the commissioner's character for @vexwerewolf's amazing In Golden Flame adventure.

[petterwass]

Really love this part of In Golden Flame

If you are piloting the one mech that mounts a fucking capital-ship grade railcannon on it you can just... Shoot down the orbital laser that's hangs over the entire mission like a menacing sword of damocles.

That's a thing you can just do. Just blapp it out of orbit.

I adore so much that the authors put that in as an option. Especially since at this point the PC's have just gotten to Level 2 and gotten hold of their unique mech chassis' instead of the generic starter ones.

So the person riding around in their brand new HA Barbarossa will feel like they're a huge badass after using their new cool mech to shoot down a orbital death laser.

Also, I love the Barbarossa so fucking much.

It's one of my favorite mechs

Just fucking look at it and it's anti-orbital platform railgun.

[strixludica]

Faith of the one: the world is broken and must be cleansed in flame to build it anew

Typical Human: ugh, another apocalypse cult? Get some original material.

My Egregorian character:

[additional-pylons]

Printloaf Tower: Over a month in the making*

This is a little fan project I made for the brilliant Lancer RPG adventure "In Golden Flame" by Vexwerewolf, which I consider to be genuinely the best TTRPG adventure I've read to this date. It's absolute garbage (max resolution 720p, any stutters are just baked in to the file. it explorted that way) for """immersion""" reasons, because video sharing is probably like that in the setting of Calliope.

I momentarily compared Jerry Masters from the adventure to Peppino Spaghetti from Pizza Tower, and it all went downhill from there. The project itself was animated in Scratch, the children's learn-to-code language, recorded on the QuickTime player for mac, and stitched together in iMovie (it sucks, never use it).

*ONLY because I forgot about it for like three weeks.

[vexwerewolf]

Imagine putting eight talent points and five license levels into your ram/grapple build and a boss character just hits you with this line

God I love Odin he's such a piece of shit

[elliegoose]

just realizing that one of my Signature Things™ as a lancer GM seems to be taking the big bad evil guys and making them women. i'm running a heavily modified version of In Golden Flame, and the cult leader in that was originally written as a guy, but now she's a woman. i've also turned the main villain of No Room for a Wallflower into a woman. this just happens in my games i guess

i'm the #1 supporter of women's wrongs and i've got to show it

[zhjake]

IGF Act II Farmrig design

[xeansicemane]

So there's a fun/dramatic incoming scene in my Lancer game, running through the In Golden Flame setting.

One of my players' characters, a UIB agent, has been AWOL for a whole chapter because they just learned a Terrible Secret about themselves - until fairly recently there was a couple years of memory missing that they found out was self-inflicted. Upon regaining that memory they immediately threw themselves into some deeply dangerous bullshit, leaving the team, the Hell's Gate Strategic Response Team, one pilot short.

In-narrative, the team was thankfully on good enough terms with hit omninet streaming sensation Ipswitch Delacy that they agreed to fill the open slot in the team comp.

So we're getting to the end of the chapter, the Big Dramatic Rescue of the aforementioned UIB agent is on the literal horizon, and we're basically queueing up a scene that amounts to "my friends, my loved ones, the team that accepted who I am have come to save me even if I've done terrible things. Also Markiplier is here?"

[flowersnax]

some highlights from when i figured out how people make those fake tweets and went hogwild yesterday