Lancer implements “wound”-like rules for when a mech suffers damage or strains their reactor. However, if a mech is unlucky, these “wounds” can cause them to lose a turn, take double damage, or destroy them outright. While many players in the Lancer community find these consequences acceptable, this system has prompted others to develop more […]
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(Part of my Modular Objectives series. Prototype Pattern Groups includes the latest version of these rules.) Command can’t get a visual on the objective — you’re going in blind. You know what to do once you find it. Triangulate models situations where the PCs Search for an objective purposefully hidden from them. It is a
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(Part of my Modular Objectives series. Prototype Pattern Groups includes the latest version of these rules.) Folks are depending on this medicine shipment. The corpo who owns it won’t give it up without a fight. Transport models a situation when the PCs attempt to move an object valuable to their enemies across a dangerous location.
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(Part of my Modular Objectives series. Prototype Pattern Groups includes the latest version of these rules.) The opposing force possesses materiel we don’t want them to have. Seize the assets by force. Seize models situations when the PCs attempt to wrest control of strategic objects or locations through sustained application of force. It may be
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(Part of my Modular Objectives series. Prototype Pattern Groups includes the latest version of these rules.) The surface-to-orbit cannon is charging, but only if its batteries remain intact. Keep the enemy away! Fortify models situations when the PCs attempt to retain control of strategic objects or locations despite mounting hostile pressure. It can be used
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(Part of my Modular Objectives series. Prototype Pattern Groups includes the latest version of these rules.) Sending you the target coordinates; hit them fast and hard, and we’ll be home in time for dinner. Blitz models situations when the PCs attempt to quickly secure or destroy multiple targets. It is a flexible, low-complexity sitrep that
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Lancer’s sitreps make large strides towards objective-based gameplay in a TTRPG genre often geared towards “killing the other team more efficiently.” However, they often struggle to anchor themselves in the fiction: What do “control zones” and “victory points” mean in a diegetic sense, and how come a character can earn points just by standing in
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