(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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Lancer Objectives are weird. When the goal is to Escort or Extract an Objective from the battlefield, the Objective is neither a “Character” (like a piloted mech or bus) nor an “Object” (like a wagon full of rocks), but a “secret third thing” that is treated as neither. Nominally, this is because Lancer has a
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