Questions tagged [lancer-rpg]
For questions about Lancer, a mech combat TTRPG created by Tom Parkinson-Morgan and Miguel Lopez of Massif Press. It was crowdfunded on Kickstarter in early 2019, and was first released digitally in November of that year. Lancer is set in the far future, after humanity has spread to the stars; in it, players take the role of mech pilots. It combines rules-light narrative play, tactical mech combat, and modular, progression-based mech customization.
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What gets rolled twice due to Spotter I: Particularize?
The question is pretty simple, and doesn't need much context.
PARTICULARIZE
When an allied character adjacent to you attacks a target and consumes Lock On, they may roll twice and choose either ...
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Wait, are Heat-dealing builds an impractical choice outside of a boss rush campaign?
In Lancer, Heat damage is a powerful high-risk/high-reward tool against both players' and elite NPCs' mechs. Unlike regular damage, enough Heat not only turns an opposing mech into a powerful delayed-...
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In Lancer, where does the second "r" in "corpro-states" come from?
For some reason, in Lancer, "corporate states" are abbreviated as "corpro-states" instead of seemingly more natural "corpo-states".
Is the reason for that extra "r&...
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What effects can directly harm a pilot while they're in a mech?
The IPS-N Blackbeard's SEKHMET NHP explicitly says its control of the mech continues even if the pilot is killed or incapacitated. The HORUS Minotaur's Internal Metafold ability specifies that while ...
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Order of effects on enemy frame
A Shredder Orochi Drone, the core system from the HORUS Hydra frame, has the following ability:
As a reaction, you may force characters that start their turn adjacent to this drone or move adjacent ...
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In Lancer, what are valid targets for weapons that do not require line of sight?
Weapons with the seeking or arcing tags can target enemies to which you do not have line of sight. But if you don't have line of sight, how would you know where the enemy is? Obviously you can use the ...
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How does a line-pattern weapon interact with the Seeking tag?
If a Lancer weapon has both a line pattern and the Seeking tag, how does its attack work?
For example, suppose a pilot equips the Death's Head Railgun (which normally attacks in a 20 space line) and ...
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What is the Combat Drill's mean damage and self-heat when its extra damage is triggered?
The Combat Drill weapon in Lancer, located on page 155 of the free version, has an unusual (at least within Lancer's system) damage-determination property that has stymied my attempts to calculate its ...
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How do Patterns and Cover Interact?
I am having trouble finding a confirmation one way or another in relation to how cover does or doesn't affect Pattern attacks, and if it does, when and how. I suspect that it's actually spelled out ...
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Do you need to roll tech attack for all tech actions?
In the core rulebook p. 79, it reads:
TECH ATTACK: The statistic used to make tech attacks and to take most tech actions.
So from that, I understand that we have tech actions and some of them, ...
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How does the reaction from rank I of the Heavy Gunner talent, Covering Fire, work with area-of-effect attacks?
Rank I of the Heavy Gunner talent, Covering Fire, is described on page 97 of the Lancer Core Book First Edition PDF as follows (emphasis mine):
As a quick action, choose a character within line of ...
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How does the Overkill weapon tag interact with critical hits?
The Overkill weapon tag is defined on page 105 of the Lancer Core Book First Edition PDF as follows:
OVERKILL: When rolling for damage with this weapon, any damage dice that land on a 1 cause the ...
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Can you end up with fewer than 3 talents at License Level 1?
According to page 18 of the Lancer Core Book First Edition PDF, under "LL0" (emphasis mine):
LL0 characters start with the following:
A background, which provides bonuses on skill checks (...
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