Description
Lancer is a tabletop role playing game centered on shared narratives,customizable mechs, and the pilots who crew them.
Set many thousands of years from the present day, Lancer imagines a futurewhere a survivor humanity has spread to the stars after weathering terribleecological collapse on Earth – the end of the Anthropocene as a consequenceof unrestrained consumption and poor stewardship.
With a survival imperative motivated by this cultural history,humanity’s organizing body, Union, seeks to manage the galaxy to ensurewe’ll never again be faced with extinction. They are not perfect in thisendeavor; the narrative present of Lancer imagines a future whereUnion’s central body has been gripped by popular revolution, and the newgoverning body seeks to rectify the crimes of the old.
Lancer features a mix of gritty, mud-and-lasers military science fiction andmythic science fantasy. In the setting, conscript pilots mix ranks with flyingaces, mercenary guns-for-hire brawl with secretive corporate agents, andrelativistic paladins cross thermal lances with causality-breaking, unknowablebeings.
Players of Lancer adopt the roles of mech pilots – comrades together in agalaxy of danger and hope. Some groups will fight for Union, working to rectifythe crimes of previous administrations. Others, for a corpro-state, working toadvance private interests while lining their pockets. Yet others will fight forgroups acting in opposition to those in power, or for themselves.
Lancer offers deep mech customization, a wide range of player backgrounds,and a system and setting with room for any story you and your group want totell. It’s best with a group of 3–5 players, and can be used to run aone-shot session or persistent campaign.
Lancer is a tabletop roleplaying game that prioritizes four pillarsof play:
- Rules-light, fluid, narrative play while outside of the mech.
- Tactical mech combat that promotes creative tactics, teamwork and explosivemoments of action.
- Modular, progression-based mech customization where narrative, setting, andcharacter is imbued in the gear, systems, and equipment your characterchooses.
- A play loop that encourages narrative advancement.
- Lancer offers deep, modular mech customization, a wide range of playerbackgrounds to prompt storytelling, and a system and setting with room for anynarrative you and your group want to tell. It’s best with a group of 3–5players, and can be used to run a one-shot session or persistent campaign.
Product Details
Product Code: 39153417Barcode: 9781506743158
Brand: Massif Press
Categories: All Games, Best Sellers, Dudley's Christmas Gift Recommendations, Puzzles for Mother's Day!, Sale Games
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