(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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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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