#lancer is great

[the-princeps]

Lancer review (kinda)

So most of you will have heard of lancer, it's a ttrpg made by Miguel Lopez and Tom Bloom. It's great, I adore it. Now Lancer is a combat-heavy (a grid is a necessity), primarily digital ttrpg, if that's not your jam, lancer won't be. Lancer has COMPCON, a site that helps with making characters, managing things, looking stuff up etc.

Visual design: So the visual design is stunning and has a strong identity. I don't have any images linked here but you should take a look at the images of the mechs, they are stunning and immediately show who they are, you can see that it's a fast combat mech, an odd pirate ttrpg or just a wall.

The illustrations are gorgeous and there's a lot of them.

Mechanical design:

Lancer has a robust design, for example: The hp-esque's, there's heat, structure and hp, heat is a intuitive risk vs reward system that let's you push beyond your limits, it's lovely but not particularly eventful. The hp and structure interaction however is fascinating, you see whenever your mech reaches 0hp you don't die, instead you lose 1 structure, when at 0 structure you die, whenever the structure is damaged you gain some detriments. This design allows both the GM and player to easily gain an overview how damaged characters are by how much structure they have.

Then there are the mounts, mounts are where the mech equips it's weapons, kinda like battletech (though only in that way). This limitation on the weapons you are carrying overcomes the option bloat that appears in the higher levels of many ttrpgs, without removing meaningful choice in both character creation and combat, I would almost go as far as to say it adds more meaningful choice, because it allows the creators to push the amount of stuff you can have, without bloating the options (in a fight) too much.

My mechanical gripes are small, but are there primarily it's stuns and scanning. I'll start with stuns, it's the same problem as always, stunning takes you out of the game, stunning a boss is annoying for the GM and is annoying and stunning a player means they'll be playing checkers in the background for the rest of the battle (or maybe just 1 or 2 rounds, which is more likely).

Lore design:

The lore is great, but it is necessary for the game. It is near enough impossible to play in any pre-existing setting with lancer, because you can't really port NHP's, Horus or so many other things into another setting as is and if you don't port them as is then things will be weird.

The lore in the book is also presented somewhat oddly, it gives you an overviews of the whole organisation, rather than the info the GM actually needs about the setting, but it's a small gripe.

Post Scriptum: Lancer's player rules are also just straight up free to look at on compcon, all of them. It's great, go read it, right now. Do it, right now.

[hellspawnmotel]

whatever *tezuka-styles your deltarune cast*

[lynxgriffin]

Eldritchrune - Meeting Lancer

Story Setup Eldritchrune Masterpost

It turns out the way to avoid getting eaten by the Eldritch horrors is cartoon logic! And Lancer is well-versed in that! That, and just being an adorable little bouncy pumpkin who absolutely belongs in a less scary universe.

[ydotome]

[izu]

laishuro to me is borzoi and great Pyrenees coded

like this

[peachesfrompluto]

Think twice before messing with this mercenary! 🗡️❤️‍🔥

[midbyte]

Falling down the lancer rabbit hole again with a girl who took fucked up catgirl hrt

[shadefish]

March Of Robots Lancer Edition

Day 6

Trench Fighter Caliban

oooo cool links you wanna click on to support me

[xiii-e]

HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT FRAGGING YOUR SUPERIORS????????? YOU SHOULD!!!!!!!!! DONT TELL YOUR SUPERIORS I SAID THIS THEY ACTIVELY FUND MY UNGRATEFUL CELL!!!!!!!!!! YOU SHOULD STILL FRAG THEM THOUGH!!!!!!!!! IN MINECRAFT!!!!!!!!!!!!! SMELL YA LATER ALLIGATOR NOT !!!!! BASTARD !!

[ECHO.EXE RUNNING]

XIII▸ wh

XIII▸ who are you? I don't have access to frag weapons to begin with I-

XIII▸ wait what's minecraft???

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[ferronickel]

Looking Glasses is now two years old! Especially with recent events, the cast could use a break, so they're back at the lake, this time in the autumn with spooky stories and roasted marshmallows.

What a year, huh? I may not have been able to put out as many pages as I would have liked, but I'm thrilled with the progress I've made. I'm managing my RSI much better and I've built myself a drawing schedule that leaves me plenty of time to relax. We also crossed the point in the comic that was worrying me from the start, and I want to thank everyone who has stuck around since then. I say this a lot, but I really couldn't make this comic without you.

I'm so excited to show you what I have in store for next year. I think you'll enjoy what I've got planned for the end of Part 3 and the start of Part 4.

-Ferronickel

[ghostlysage]

vacancy in the stars

hi folks! i know its been awhile since ive come to this platform, but i hope you all have been well! life has been taking a lot of twisty turnsies and i havent drawn a lot. however, i will share some of my personal favorites <3333

to all of you out there seeing this right now, you are amazing. you got this 💗

[rhynerd]

Welcome! It is time for a new episode of Vex's @that-house's Mechs and Memes, where I take a lancer mech meme by Vex that-house and voice it in the style of LoadingReadyRun's character of Dave's Spokesman.

Today we are upping the (reactor) crimes by visiting an old creation of Harrison Armory: The Enkidu

If you're the sort to read the whole post before listening to the audio, then you'll find out something in advance: April Fools, I took some audio from Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, and tried to make this sound like a fake ad that'd play in the episode's scheduled break, adding some radio crackle and a bit of an earlier part of the show to make it sound more like it was an old recording somebody made at home.

But I also did record something in the official Dave's Spokesman style:

I also did a little, more normal voicing of the last line because it's the bit that keeps popping in my brain randomly enough to help inspire me to make this april fools joke today:

Happy April Fools! I hope you've enjoyed this!

[hyperlinkblocked1997]

great uncle "the pyrus"

[butcherihardlyknowher]

she’s very special to me

[s3znl-gr3znl]

If ur mech has a snatched waist, huge boobs, and "birthing hips," you failed at designing a mech. That's just a tall metal woman, you idiot. And you've done her no favors by improperly distributing weight and armor for your horny aesthetic. You'll have no one to blame but yourself when she doesn't survive first contact.

[sovenasark]

So, I started building foam terrain today...